Other than the floating rocks these are some pretty good effects!

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So, do we know if the salt water renders them completely inert, or will they start growing again the next time they’re wet, once they’ve dried out? #Monsterdon

Me at work this year: "That's what they said about the wheel when someone first thought of it."

Also I am obviously like ten minutes behind somehow 😢

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Not enough group hugs in #Monsterdon imo

Oh gwarsh!

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@raindrops_and_roses Special effects #monsterdon

Well that puts a capstone on another #monsterdon . Thanks everyone for joining - and watch for falling rocks!

Cheers to @Taweret and everyone else for a great evneing.

It's a good thing these are freshwater rocks

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so the moral of this movie.. is... dont make dams... because the saltwater lakes serve as a buffer against unexpected runaway rock crystal growths #monsterdon

#monsterdon dang I was really routing for the magic space rocks

This ending, who said TV had no impact on the movies?

freeze frame as they all jump in the air, smiling...

#monsterdon

I get the impression that some of the rocks are floating off..
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They were falling over before the water, so I don't know how you can tell it's working. #Monsterdon

@amyfou This is America, we'll go with the traditional solution - a lawsuit!

#Monsterdon

@rberlim Shhhh. (I'm on team rock.)
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IT BURNS! IT BURNS! I'M MELTING!

#Monsterdon

@jonny Rushing toward that easy-sounding simple solution! #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@ramsey

Roger Roger.

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@allanb well good for him!

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RIP tiny buildings #Monsterdon

@Vanalope And Gremlins #monsterdon #monolithmonsters

@jonny yes please

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won't the water flood the city too?
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#monsterdon if the dam blows up that means that Ceaser's Legion won right? I never played that ending to New Vegas

Holy crap, this IS the Hill Valley back lot set used in Back to the Future. Paul just looked it up.

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#monsterdon We give explosion a 5/10. Satisfying aftermath but not visually impacting

Release the stock footage!

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I don't think they should be marking up that wall art with Sharpies #monsterdon

“You forgot to say ‘over.’ Over.” #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I realize it's the 1950s but surely the federal government should be involved by now. More actively than some random department of the interior geologist.

This scene needs some Herzog narration.

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Friendly reminder to stay hydrated! #monsterdon

Aaaand now this unrelated shot of a waterfall. #Monsterdon

Go ahead, Godzilla. Destroy the dam. Give the people what they want.

#Monsterdon

sequel for this movie is that a bunch of developers see the rocks as a bunch of cheap building materials and build a bunch of buildings out of it and then it turns out that they are telepathic and can grow through the internet and does all the things that this movie shoulda done #monsterdon

Hopefully the salt beats the moist.

#Monsterdon

Wait until you see the whites of their eyes

They are rocks

Black rocks

The whites of the completely black rocks' eyes

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon the lack of 3-letter agency is this movie is shocking

Sure, keep waiting for permission #monsterdon

"You may make a rupture, draw a line of flight, yet there is still a danger that you will reencounter organizations that restratify everything, formations that restore power to a signifier, attributions that reconstitute a subject—anything you like, from Oedipal resurgences to fascist concretions." —Deleuze and Guattari on The Monolith Monsters.

#Monsterdon

I honestly love how this film's monster is just...crystals. Not sentient or intelligent crystals. Not even sent here or engineered by some adversary.

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You're right it's absolutely ridiculous, that's what they said about the wheel when they first thought about it. It's also what this is about giant monoliths marching across the desert crushing everything in their path but here we are today!

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“The governor still can’t be reached. He’s in his car somewhere.”

Things we don’t even think about these days.

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@Taweret #Monsterdon #AlienMSR

So this is how they came up with stone washed jeans.

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@jonny The audience has already forgotten all about that, too. #Monsterdon

looks through telescope at falling rock pillars

Yup, stilllll rocks.

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#Monsterdon the orchestra is using this scene to warm up

hey man nice shot
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Appreciate the distant rumbling while they were chatting in town #monsterdon

@paco Isn't it spelled DYN-O-MITE? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon YES blow the dam

@srol "I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day..." #monsterdon

Wait, they all live and work in the desert with questionable dirt roads, and they drive CARS? How did they live without giant SUVs? #monsterdon

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My mom had a 1954 chevy coupe when we were kids and it wasn't a convertable but the seats worked just like that.

"If it's dull and statistical. I've written about it."
A newspaper man in a town so dull he knows the distance between everything and around town. He has memorized so many useless facts about town because nothing ever happens.
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon snack tip!

Feta and goat cheese quesadilla is not that great, very dry.

Anyone have any water?

With the very high reproductive rate and the availability of the agent (water) the world is screwed no matter what they do, right? One little piece of monolith remaining would engulf the planet fast. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Now that's a car I recognize... there's one like it in my neighbors driveway!

#Monsterdon

The soundtrack is still carrying this movie, respect

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@paco #Monsterdon 100/100. No notes.

@sean no lie one of my greatest live tv calls ever, no lie

"oh my GODS this guy needs to explode" [POW] "OH MY GODS HE EXPLODED"

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Do not confuse those dynamite boxes w Blue Diamond almonds!

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In the musical version, the monoliths have a really catchy villain song right about now #Monsterdon

#monsterdon All or nothing on the explosion. That will determine if this is a good or a crappy ending

#Monsterdon Chekov's salt mine

whatever happened to all the stuff they said about cleavage and silicon and whatnot its like they just totally forgot about the first half of the movie as soon as they discovered water #monsterdon

Careful with that dynamite! Don't be an Arzt!

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#Monsterdon chekov's salt mine

I don't like it when movies like this do Dumb Science #monsterdon

#Monsterdon the subtitles are like a second and a half ahead of the movie it's driving me nuts

I also love this because isn't California literally doing this soon with a bunch of dams? #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957

"And I'll call you Pee Two" "Absolutely not."

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Super looking forward to these dam explosion fx

@bunnyhero this plan looks like it will blow up in their faces #Monsterdon

I keep thinking that police station looks like a great roadside cafe that has the best pie in town.

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I was not expecting to hear my employers name in this movie...

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#Monsterdon *headdesk* they didn't both replicating the solution and seem so confused

Also, I'm legit enjoying the movie. I grew up in the general area spoofed by the fake town, and that makes it extra fun for me. #Monsterdon

Finally! We get to blow some shit up!
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon
First guy with a wheel: I'm calling this a wheel
Everyone, according to this movie: that's ridiculous

@Taweret Wheel. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Mmmm salty rock candy #Monsterdon

@ramsey Eh it didn't really stick out to me, a lot of people pronounce "saline" differently

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Monolith Monsters you deserve to be in a much better movie. You are too cool for this 50s flick.
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"It's like another laboratory experiment Kathy. In science there are no guarantees"

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Nice process shots overall. Too bad they're wasted on this film.

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Weirdly sedate music all of a sudden. Did they use up all the brass on the opening theme? #Monsterdon

@SRLevine they should have brought in the biologists smdh at these geologists with their unbuffered salines #monsterdon

My timeline is now #monsterdon movie and preparations for an upcoming fascist US government... Wait, always has been?

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This looks like the hoover dam you guys

@SRLevine I just know there's a Mongo DB or some other IT joke lurking here. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@SnoopJ I thought it was just desert but idk

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Omg and I also said from the fucking very beginning that this is full of commentary on the federal government, populism etc lmaooooo #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957

Riveting box-carrying scenes.

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Nice composite work #monsterdon

Dam it, Janet.

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Guess this was before fast food and everything was over-saturated with salt. Modern Americans wouldn't even be phased by these rocks. #monsterdon