Wait, did they just film these monolith models falling over once from a bunch of different angles and just use it over and over again?
#Monsterdon
This movie was 1950βs click bait.
How do we get people to watch our movie?
Put monster in the title!
But there are no monsters.
It doesnβt matter, my the time they figure that out itβll be too late.
Thank you @Taweret for hosting! And @ryan for the live stream! Another fun #Monsterdon in the books!
#Monsterdon Sure blow the dam while y'all are hanging out jawing in the water flow path.
They really should try first to negotiate with the leader of the monoliths to come to a peaceful solution #monsterdon
That's Enough Movie For Now. #Monsterdon
Wait, is this a real denouement? In a Monsterdon movie?
Abrupt ending as per usual. So satisfying!
@rebeld So, not necessarily. There may be a rock between the salt and the underlying water preventing the salinity from penetrating.
aww even the end titles are made of monoliths!
@raindrops_and_roses They weren't on an A-movie budget #monsterdon
@raindrops_and_roses The alien rocks grow when they come into contact with water, so they were using the groundwater to grow
So if the meteor had just landed in an ocean it would have been a non issue.
Water is nothing but unflavored coffee!
With the salt water, does this qualify as the monster effing off into the sea? #monsterdon
Fin!
Wow, a whole minute dedicated to denouement. Truly the rarest of #Monsterdon occurrences
#Monsterdon nobody, NOBODY studies geology thinking they'll one day become superheroes and save the world. We're not talking enough about how wildly unequipped these people are to deal with any of this. They were just trying to avoid doing math and interacting with other human beings.
#monsterdon And thus the power of white science defeats the black menace from spac-
Wait what the fuck. Who make this movie, the KKK?
#Monsterdon π πΏ βοΈ π π΅ π±
But what's gonna happen to all that citrus?
@CactuarJoe that's how he ends up in the Ouran Host Club. #monsterdon
@aprilfollies How many innocent people perished? #monsterdon
Kaboom! There goes the dam.
#Monsterdon
Little did they know that while they'd stop the siliconitrophes, all the salt attracted the salt vampires #Monsterdon
Stock waterfall footage! Generally nice miniature work, though.
#Monsterdon I did a science project on crystal growth from a supersaturated solution that looked just like this. #TrueStory
Governor trying to figure to be pro-dam or anti-dam #monsterdon
#Monsterdon In 2024, what percentage of US governors would let you blow up an expensive privately owned dam to save the world from evil multiplying rocks? #TheMonolithMonsters
Dave's got big Andy Griffith energy #monsterdon
#Monsterdon Timbeeeeeerrrrrr!
Evil Rocks Fall and Break in the Desert ASMR
I'm so curious what effect they used for the falling rocks #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957
The line must be drawn here! This far, no feldspar! #Monsterdon
They're just crumbling there. Menacingly!
Not sure if this plan is gonna work at all. Also the Governor has gone missing. Too bad thereβs less than 7 minutes left.
#Monsterdon βIf itβs dull and statistical, Iβve written about it.β Oh now theyβre calling out my papers too.
*extremely Lionel Richie voice* π΅ Say-line, say me πΆ #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters
"If it's dull or statistical, I've written about it"
I wish the journalist had a bigger role in this movie, he's great.
Itβs great that the rocks fall in slow motion. Gives Dave more time to blow up the dam.
βYou canβt do thatβitβs privately owned!β sigh #Monsterdon
@Lazarou @paco I think there was a Gary Larson cartoon with Neanderthals? pointing and laughing at a wheel. #Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters
#Monsterdon Project Saline Solution is the solution!
Also, rocks fall.
I'm curious about the writers, and if the subtext in this film is intentional
#Monsterdon Morris Dam in Azusa, CA, ladies and gentlemen!
@raindrops_and_roses @socketwench It's okay, he's been cancelled #monsterdon
That damn dam is damned.
Who forgot the detonator? Bill!!! #monsterdon
uh oh, that's ACME dynamite
The special effects are actually well done, albeit kind of underwhelming becauseβ¦rocks #Monsterdon
Good thing there's a salt mine nearby.
love this "you can see them from here!" shot
The rocks are coming to Main Street.
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters
Not gonna lie, that's a great matte job. #monsterdon #monolithmonsters
#Monsterdon π πΏ βοΈ π π΅ π±
"You can't do that, the dam is *privately owned*!"
The citrus growers are gonna be big mad
I know, letβs send the kids (Boys AND Girls) out on their bikes with salt shakers.
that's a lot of dam explosives
#Monsterdon Dynamite the dam! What a great idea! There are positively no possible catastrophic consequences that can come from this cunning plan!
PRIVATE PROPERTY TRUMPS THE APOCALYPSE
What's really bothering me is that while the doctors say saline solution people in research labs don't usually use "saline" we usually use phosphate buffer saline (PBS). And that's what's really wrong with this movie.
Sounds like itβs time to bust a dam and pay out the farmers. #monsterdon
Dave is really quite aggressive when he's explaining things, isn't he?
BLOW UP THE DAM.
#Monsterdon Those poor rock aliens came all the way to Earth just to be a-salted.
Theyβve already established that this desert was filled with salt because it used to be covered in ocean. #Monsterdon
Can you kill a monolith by staking it with a sharpened stick? #monsterdon
the climax simply can't be fencing the rocks in with some salt #monsterdon
I'm confused⦠isn't the landing site of the meteor a salt bed? Why did the rocks grow, then�
Great! Salt water stops it. So it will just destroy the Americas.
I'm sad I cant even criticize people holding petrified dogs and licking space rocks. 100% believable.
#Monsterdon So the secret to destroying the rock monsters is SALT?
Like, the MINERAL salt???
This movie must be stopped.
@Taweret it's an intra-saline conflict
The way theyβre pronouncing βsalineβ is bothering me. Is it just me? #Monsterdon
wow the say line solution works! #monsterdon
...I don't think we have any historical records on the critical response to inventing the wheel?
#Monsterdon so if these self-reproducing rocks run on water and silicon the worst case is probably letting them get to the ocean (which covers 2/3 of our planet's surface)
that's what they said about the whale?
![[empty]](/media/avatars/287224a269fbaefbc7e94920b207f9dca8b6e0415d818373c9f1528359b6a0e8.jpg){kind=small}
Is that a rock in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
ACAB (all cops are bismuth) #Monsterdon
"...we should mix all the chemicals together!"
"Aren't you a journalist?"
"Maybe we should try the formula that worked to stop the rocks all at once!"
YA THINK!? That's why it's a formula ya morons.
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters
man getting news out to a town by one guy hand cranking a printing press and bribing kids to hand out the papers one by one. this is like affinity group zine distro levels of civic preparedness #monsterdon
I want to see what's going on with the monoliths, not these townsfolk #monsterdon
i... uh... didn't the doc say that his solution was all the ingredients at once? why were we trying them one at a time??? #monsterdon
#Monsterdon "kids nowadays have to get paid for everything" AS THEY SHOULD, SIR
#Monsterdon Newspaper man earlier: what's the use of a newspaper here?
Newspaper man now: let's deliver a message everywhere!
#Monsterdon Ok, whoβs the wise guy who ordered water on the rocks?
Seeing "an unexplainable force of destruction in the form of a great path of expanding rocks" on an official poster is bound to raise some questions
Wow, a platen press? That's a blast from the past!
#Monsterdon #TheMonolithMonsters
Glucose... Acid...
Of course when he gets to the basic solution, it'll flash and he'll have a seizure and he won't notice.
Aww, it's like one of those grow a crystal kits! Just large enough to go through your house.
The Hard Rock Cafe invites you to the cafe at the end of the universe!
#Monsterdon
#Monsterdon π πΏ βοΈ π π΅ π±
Oh no the rocks are squishing the buildings while this guy takes notes
Eddie Munster?
uh, maybe move away from the falling death rocks idk