I'd have burned that former human child tbh, the Aliens have her now.

Very cunningly they've used our children as a lure.

#monsterdon

that 3/4 turn of the face, pressed to a body, to emote distress. so classic.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#monsterdon Oh no, did Ginny get petrified too? Or is she just shell-shocked like Newt uhh I mean that other little girl from Them! (1954) last week?

"Just like Ben, their bodies have turned to stone."

Ah OK so not trauma, or at least not just mental trauma.

EDIT: ah, no, the adults were petrified, the little girl is only mentally traumatized.

that shack is not a love one

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon 🎵 we built this city
we built this city
we built this city
on rocks and salt 🎵

They're not going too far out of their way with the special effects here

"Just pile a bunch of rocks around and let the viewer fill in the gaps themselves."

#monsterdon

Dude, just release your wild conspiracy theories on the airwaves, it'll be the future....

#monsterdon

lol, I bet the rock was whispering to the child "water, give me water" or something

#monsterdon

ohgawdnoshegonnawashdamonstah

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#monsterdon "Where did you say she was taking the kids?"

...

"Out to the desert?"

...

"Aren't you afraid they're going to roast out there??"

("No I hate kids, that is actually the goal, now if you'll pardon me I have quite a to-do list here before we get to the roasting")

that's some 50s parenting

"just run out into the desert kids, don't bother with water or consider the Sun!"

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon

"Now don't touch anything you don't recognize."

"Don't worry -- we will! We'll touch ALL THE THINGS! BYE!"

#monsterdon Dude you're just going to let your buddy drop face-first like that?! Jeez, rude

Quick Lady! Drive away now!

#monsterdon

Uh oh - Ben is a rock monster!

#monsterdon

Big 'nanotech' feel to this monster....in which case I don't see how Humanity gets out of this one

#monsterdon

Is this geologist #2? They all look the same...

#monsterdon

Later, that verysame day...

#monsterdon

Now you will see Folgers Crystals of Death!! #monsterdon

GEOLOGY TALK

Is there a Geology version of the Bechdel Test?

#monsterdon

That is pretty glorious B&W in this flick. Wonder if this is a remastered print, or the originals have just been well treated?

#monsterdon

Suspenseful water drinking!!! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon #SuddenStringSection has appeared. All hail the mystery batch of cellists and violinists.

Ahhh, let's play "Spot anybody who isn't White" in this town

#monsterdon

This opening credits font is pretty great. Funny to think someone must've hand-lettered all those names with that jaggy font. Talent!

#monsterdon

METEORS!

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

We're away! #Monsterdon is on!

"From time immemorial… bits and pieces of the universe slamming into Earth…" sounds ominous.

Earth with no clouds, how 50s!

#monsterdon

Side story vaguely tangetial to tonight's #monsterdon

When my daugher was about 5, I got a call from daycare that she was doing something really concerning, and that I needed to come see.

When I got there, she was laying against the wall, acting oddly and saying "I'm stoned!"

It took me a very short time to realize "Honey, do you mean stoned like a statue? Like in Gargoyles?"

Because we'd been watching Gargoyles.

She shouted "Yes!" and got up to run off and play.

#monolithmonsters

@Crazypedia I'm pretty sure that breathing in Monolith Dust is pretty bad for your lungs. #Monsterdon

@Lazarou @Crazypedia The movie's over! That's how you know it's okay. Nothing else will happen.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

@kcarr2015 Also everyone's going to die of thirst and famine now that San Angelo's dam is gone #monsterdon

@diazona @Taweret@octodon.social classic of the genre! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon and now we’re set! That was silly! But thank you @Taweret@octodon.social for the fun!

Also this crossover will necessary feature 20 future Erins who help blow up the dam as part of unrelated mission to steal some 1950s guitar amps and change history, and a bunch of Pterodactyl knights show up to stop them but then end up battling the rocks, some of which will be kaiju in this adaptation. At least one stolen stomper will battle the giant rock kaijus.

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

so the rock likes water, but hates salt, but is okay with the sodium in the human body, but also silicon is involved for some reason cause... meteorites ig???

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon the same sequence of rocks getting stiffies and falling over. Over and over.

no way the rocks are actually Tiberium and this movie is in the command and conquer universe #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Thank you @Taweret for organizing this Mock the Rocks, and all the rocking commenters as well!

I wanted to make a Saline Solution joke (the joke being that the solution was saline)

But I saw some other folks beat me to it.

Not gonna lie, I'm a little salty about it.

#monsterdon #monolithmonsters

@diazona Makes so much more sense in the context of the story than "magic spikey things grow".

#Monsterdon

Ya know, I think it's a lot more complicated to blow up that dam and not flood the town then they made it seem...

#monsterdon #themonolithmonsters

not every story has to be about something else but most stories are about something period #monsterdon

BOOM! WOOSH! RUMBLE! FIZZ!

THE END

What a salty take of a #Monsterdon feature!

Thank you for bringing us together to enjoy The Silicon Log Driver's Waltz, Extended Edition @Taweret it was fun!

Are inanimate rock formations "monsters"?

#monsterdon

I enjoyed this one. It had it all: great VFX, decent-enough phlebotinum for the era, a solid score, and coffee!

See you next week #Monsterdon nation 👋

#Monsterdon dam

#Monsterdon Our heroes hard at work, looking good to find a solution!
#TheMonolithMonsters

@amyfou it totally makes me wanna fire up a game of New Vegas #Monsterdon

anyway i like this one because it's just ... even if the science is typical 1950s batty, it's all about "oh shit here's a really bad problem and we're gonna science the shit out of it and fix it."

#monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

I believe fucking off into a salty flood is close enough to fucking off into the sea for #Monsterdon purposes.

well, most of the rocks seem to be intact but whatever I guess

ty for joining, everyone!

#monsterdon

seeing a lot of phallus's melting into the desert.....the acid has kicked in....

#monsterdon

The falling monoliths are pretty satisfying.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Oh, these were FRESHWATER rocks!! Everything makes sense now!

No, no it doesn’t.

Oh thank goodness we got the update as to where the Governor is!

#monsterdon

Better to ask forgiveness than permission. Blow that sucker!

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Release the floodwaters against the meteor monsters! Is a thing I can’t believe I typed.

Salt mine is gone. Back to 100% unemployment.

#Monsterdon

Oh I think I figured out how they do the rock growing and falling effect. Shoving a rod up in the precut rock segments then pulling it back out. Something like that.
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon The Ents would approve.

RELEASE THE ORCHESTRA!

#monsterdon

#monsterdon "The governor still can't be reached, he's in an airport somewhere."

This reverence for private property and government authority in the face of a life-ending event is getting awfully close to being intense parody

wait, is everybody in this movie named Dave? #Monsterdon

The Governor is bugging out

#monsterdon

We're gonna kill the rocks... with stock footage! Of Niagara Falls!

#monsterdon

"There are no guarantees in science."

Wow. Unexpectedly nuanced.

#Monsterdon

Ok so 1) the Monolith advance is actually kinda cool!
2) the captions said dramatic music, but all I heard was 10 hour asmr monolith sounds :blobhaj_headphones:

#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

Dam(n), that'll be a big explosion!

#monsterdon

about dam time!

#monsterdon

yayy, we're going to blow up a dam!

#monsterdon

@bunnyhero The noises the monoliths make are creepy 👀 #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

#Monsterdon “In science, there are no guarantees.” Oh, just call out my grant proposals, why don’t ya.

Gosh the effects in this movie look good. They're simple, but effective.

I like this movie.

#Monsterdon

that's a nice shot with the monoliths approaching the town

#monsterdon

Luckily he's a demolitions expert #monsterdon

Big fan of plans that use explosives and damns.

#monsterdon

If San Angelo begins to look like a petrified forest, that'll be good for tourism, right? #monsterdon

@ottaross yeah the 50s were a wild time for gelatinous food crimes #Monsterdon

He's drawing all over that picture y'know....

#monsterdon

@ramsey I think you mean "sayline".

#Monsterdon

This is just rock-on-rock violence. #Monsterdon

At least they're not trying to shoot the rocks.

#Monsterdon

brb
(adding salt to my shopping list) #monsterdon

#Monsterdon
Kid in an iron lung -- I guess that would've been a scary recent memory with all the Polio outbreaks.

We're so lucky to live in a time when Polio isn't much of a threat.

Because of the *vaccine*.

"It's ridiculous. But that's what they said about the wheel when someone first thought of it."

I'm sorry, what? When did someone look at the wheel and say it was ridiculous? #monsterdon

Once again Salt will save Humanity

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon As a science teacher, I am appalled at the lack of safety equipment - no mask, no gloves, no safety googles, no fume hood.

...How do YOU know what someone said about the wheel, Dave? #Monsterdon

"that's what they said about the wheel."
did they? were you there?
#monsterdon

Have they tried horse de-wormer? It's been known to work miracles. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

"I tried all of Dr Hendrick's bagel recipe - i tried flour, I tried salt, i tried water, I even tried yeast, nothing worked!"

"What if we try them in combination? Two, three at a time, even all at once?"

#monsterdon

Sorry, I'm just slowly adding more water to this rock until it kills me. #Monsterdon

haha a hand-press

#monsterdon

Oh no, the rocks are getting boulder #Monsterdon

Balsa wood barns are just not made the way they used to be.

#Monsterdon

Say what you want about this movie, but the video game adaptation was a lot of fun. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters

oooo, they're rebuilding what they have destroyed, some very alien shenanigans

#monsterdon

Oh shit my hand's gone ps1 graphics! #Monsterdon