“You can’t do that—it’s privately owned!” sigh #Monsterdon

@plaidtron3000 Which subtext are you referring to? Genuinely interested in your take.

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@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

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#Monsterdon Morris Dam in Azusa, CA, ladies and gentlemen!

@raindrops_and_roses @socketwench It's okay, he's been cancelled #monsterdon

So… blow up the dam, release the water, kill the monoliths, and fuck off into the salty desert flash flood? #Monsterdon

That damn dam is damned.

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Who forgot the detonator? Bill!!! #monsterdon

uh oh, that's ACME dynamite

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"You can't blow that dam up, it's private property!"

EMINENT DOMAIN BITCH

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What happened to all the kids who're supposed to be showing up on bikes? It's been like hours #monsterdon

The special effects are actually well done, albeit kind of underwhelming because…rocks #Monsterdon

Good thing there's a salt mine nearby.

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love this "you can see them from here!" shot

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The rocks are coming to Main Street.
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Not gonna lie, that's a great matte job. #monsterdon #monolithmonsters

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"You can't do that, the dam is *privately owned*!"

The citrus growers are gonna be big mad

I know, let’s send the kids (Boys AND Girls) out on their bikes with salt shakers.

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that's a lot of dam explosives

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#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

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SAVE LA!

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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.

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Sounds like it’s time to bust a dam and pay out the farmers. #monsterdon

Dave is really quite aggressive when he's explaining things, isn't he?

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BLOW UP THE DAM.

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#Monsterdon Those poor rock aliens came all the way to Earth just to be a-salted.

They’ve already established that this desert was filled with salt because it used to be covered in ocean. #Monsterdon

@trixter gotta get the Golgafrinchan meeting minutes, i'm sure those'll tell us. #WrongNovel #monsterdon

the climax simply can't be fencing the rocks in with some salt #monsterdon

Can you kill a monolith by staking it with a sharpened stick? #monsterdon

I'm confused… isn't the landing site of the meteor a salt bed? Why did the rocks grow, then…?

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Great! Salt water stops it. So it will just destroy the Americas.

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I'm sad I cant even criticize people holding petrified dogs and licking space rocks. 100% believable.

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#Monsterdon So the secret to destroying the rock monsters is SALT?

Like, the MINERAL salt???

This movie must be stopped.

Sizzling hot fajiiiitas!

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@Taweret it's an intra-saline conflict

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The way they’re pronouncing “saline” 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?

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"but that's what they said about the Wheel when it was first thought of"

Were you there?

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#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?

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Is that a rock in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

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Whew, it's getting hot in here.

Miss Barrett for the win.

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she has been de-negrofied. hallellujah!

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ACAB (all cops are bismuth) #Monsterdon

"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.
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"...we should mix all the chemicals together!"
"Aren't you a journalist?"

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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, who’s 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

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Govt stopping ppl who defy emergency orders....

Hahahahahahaha!

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Wow, a platen press? That's a blast from the past!

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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.

#AndromedaStrain

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@Newpa_Hasai hah yeah I caught that too

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Aww, it's like one of those grow a crystal kits! Just large enough to go through your house.

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The Hard Rock Cafe invites you to the cafe at the end of the universe!
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Oh no the rocks are squishing the buildings while this guy takes notes

Eddie Munster?

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uh, maybe move away from the falling death rocks idk

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Reminder that anything is a dildo if you're brave enough.

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I'm surprised the cars still work... didn't they still have asbestos in this era?

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#Monsterdon Dave's chemical coffee might kill us all!
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#Monsterdon okay I finally saw the rock-hard dog. i laughed

DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM DOOM

GO NOW

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She needs to be de-rocked!

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even this movie can run Doom! #monsterdon

Oh no not the miniature matchstick houses!!! #Monsterdon

The good ol' days when people read newspapers.

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"I just told that ACAB MFer that I would do it - but ain't gonna."

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#Monsterdon Look at Junior Disaster Capitalist Paperboy over here.

Kids these days, saying "screw you, pay me" #Monsterdon

"Kids nowadays have to get paid for everything." Hustle culture run amok, etc., etc. #Monsterdon

That's right, NATIONALIZE those children! #Monsterdon

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Just wait until these rocks get to silicon valley!

legacy media saved the day this time

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The day is saved thanks to... a Paperboy!
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#Monsterdon So is the stone dog a real rock hound?

George Webb
"Painless"
Dentist

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the rocks also being able to drink electricity rules. i want this movie to be remade now that we have like.. computers and the internet and stuff #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon a movie about rocks *would* bring in the CHiPs

Ginny had a rocky day but she's weathered through. #Monsterdon

They've found the water table!

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Holy schist!

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"Cigarette?" "No thanks."

I'd rather die the fast way, by rock. #Monsterdon

Hendricks' formula? For Rock & Roll? Start with Purple Haze then...... 😉

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She's got ROCK HAND!
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"monochloro acetic acid"

It's a thing, but I'm not sure it's a thing we should be putting into people...

(also it's not very common, trichloro is much more common)

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Lol, who remembers the old Aladdin animated TV series?

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_of_a_Doubt

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lol @ 'portable unit'

(it's late)

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@Lazarou @gnomon But it would cost $250,000

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rocks rocks rocks

a monolith of rocks

society won't under

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