Maybe trying to show someone turned to stone wasn't the easiest thing to do in a black and white movie guys. Just shoving a rock shard in there chest would have looked better on camera.
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters
Oh thank the gods, no more political ads during #Monsterdon for a while.
Rock me once... don't get rocked again.
Another child scared to catatonia? It's THEM all over again!
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters
#Monsterdon they're mad about the decades of rock collecting geologists
Oh no, the kids in this one horse town are getting stoned! I told you we needed a skate park. #Monsterdon
Jenny has seen some shit, obviously.
Looks like Jenny was shocked into a stony silence by all that obsidian.
Oh, looks like it managed not to drown by drinking up all the water and becoming a big boy rock. #monsterdon
if this house is a'rockin, don't come a'knockin ( from @RobynGoodfellow lol )
oh no, the kid is stoned!
#Monsterdon βBen is so hard, Iβve had a hell of an afternoon. Manβ¦ I never thought Iβd be so bowlegged! Ben is one amazing hot date!β
#Monsterdon I suspect something bad happened to Ginny, but I wouldnβt want to take her for granite.
Looks like my kid's bedroom #monsterdon
For a movie made in the 50s, I'm not seeing many people smoking cigarettes.
Dang, look at all those rocks!
#Monsterdon
The rocks are changing. So these are metamorphic rocks.
Spoiler alert: the attractive couple will survive.
Rocks killing people? That's just jumping to conclusions and being geologist against minerals.
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters
no thoughts, only rock #monsterdon
a man died, and this dude's gotta hit on the blond. READ the ROOM, PAL
IS THERE A ROMANTIC SUBPLOT HERE, I AM NOT SURE
Ok, we get it, they're about to knock boots or what have you....
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A pocket ROCKet
#monsterdon
#Monsterdon It's the trouble with tribble rocks.
#Monsterdon The rock is multiplying, which is a lot more biological than I associate with your average igneous.
uhh I like how people are fast to blame it on the rocks on this movie!
#monsterdon
#Monsterdon That rock is alive, man, don't stare. Run!
have we licked him to find out if he's become a pillar of salt? #Monsterdon #monolithmonsters1957
"You'd have the public in a horrible panic that some disease is running loose." Is that not what's happening? #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon The newspaper guy should have something to print! βLocal geologist becomes rock star!β
maybe the rock was searching for something
Aw if only the reporter in the movie was as good as we are as coming up with rock puns
okay i need to get snacks, nothing better happen while i'm gone #Monsterdon
Welded? But he's meat and bones. #monsterdon
"You'd have the whole town in a panic!"
Yeah, make sure you don't tell anyone there's a problem, that'd keep 'em safe. #Monsterdon
That's not a rock. It's a rock mooonster!
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters
Do people usually riot over.... autopsies??
There ya go. That's the 1950s. Kids with no seatbelts in the car, flying at full speed over the level crossing, with factory dumping waste into the environment. We need to get back to our roots... #monsterdon
The SImpsooons~~~
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters
uh oh. the rock is mad now
Ginny can't mind her business *and* infects the town with space rock madness, 2/10 child #monsterdon
@aprilfollies Godzilla is unfailingly chaste, however #monsterdon
We interrupt this rock movie for an annoyingly perceptive child
Kids love washing rocks. You can't stop them. Name a more classic combination than kids and washing rocks.
Little girl: "I like Mr Miller"
Teacher: "Well why don't YOU marry him, then, you little trollop."
Simpson residence
Nah, they just like to fuck Jenny.
The orchestra turned on that little girl so fast #Monsterdon
oh no kid picked up the dramatic music object
Ben got in a fight with a pile of rocks. And lost.
Ben why ya just standing there? Ben? Whut?
#Monsterdon #MonolithMonsters
What is going ON with this score? It's ALL over the place.
#Monsterdon π πΏ βοΈ π π΅ π±
The lizards are nice but somehow they've turned into the birds and the bees?
"Okay, explode." #monsterdon
"Lizards don't get married!"
Not since the laws got repealed, no. #Monsterdon
That car... something something Who You Gonna Call?
Eaten by rocks hungry for geologist meat
why would you not catch him? you were right there
Dude you gotta be more careful around statues
#Monsterdon We see the other geologist, who is not currently buried in a pile of obsidian, discover⦠his friend is very seriously stoned.
ok i can't tell these guys apart #monsterdon
Ben got stoned.
Ben got STONED last night #Monsterdon
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#monsterdon the clearly labeled props in the lab always kill me in these movies idk why
@Lazarou Two different types of rocks have to talk to each other about something other than the third type of rock?
#monsterdon this guy's gonna win the science fair for sure
Now it's on fire?
Chemical fire, quick! Smother it!
#Monsterdon
thank god there's like a 5 minute montage of this guy driving around and drinking water to skip through, i'm almost back up to speed already #monsterdon
wow it really is a pet rock it's growing and everything #monsterdon
#Monsterdon Oh no, not DISTILLED WATER
Somehow, they managed to attempt a jump scare with a rock. #Monsterdon
oh shit. he fed the rock after midnight
ominous zoom in on the rock
wait so the whole ocean just fucked off? #monsterdon
yup, it's rock #Monsterdon
As a geologist, this is the dumbest rock conversation I have ever heard.
And I had a student once on a quiz that said the rock sample was "definitely sedentary"
Go be a journalist ya wannabe
#Monsterdon
@aprilfollies It was only a matter of time until we got here TBH
Ah, these two gents clearly took Conversational Exposition along with their geology and journalism courses in college.
First I'll hit it with this hammer. Then I'll get a gun and shoot it. Because that's how we science in the 1950s. #monsterdon
"Lava, maybe?" "No, it's a solid."
Maybe there's some geologicaly-specific use of that term but it sounds like he asked if the guy was holding lava.
black foreigns found in the desert sure don't belong⦠neither your gringo ass, yet here you are
Everyone keeps fondling the rock. (oh, he smashed it, that can't be good)
#Monsterdon
The self-determination theory of geographical development. #Monsterdon
(Seriously tho' I did go out to Glass Butte once just to see if I could find anything and actually did find a bunch of volcanic glass that looks like this stuff just... out on the road)
sussy strata
#Monsterdon No, a lot of people go to Bakersfield; not weird at all. Oh, you mean the rock!
"Lava? No it's a solid"
Why do they call it Department of Interior when theyβre always outside? #Monsterdon
It's a rock, sir.
I can't wait for improper coffee preparation and storage to nearly destroy the world.
YOU WILL BE HORRIFIED.
"...hydrate me, Seymour!"
Weβre almost 6 minutes into the film, and the only dialog weβve heard is the narratorβs. #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon this music is writing checks the action is not cashing
More seriously, that bit with the window is very "we're in the mountains and don't have A/C" I think?
Samuel Clemens!? #Monsterdon
This movie loves its ominous water
poor fool is already letting the rocks lull him into a false sense of security
Oh noes! Obsidian of doom!
Ah yes, now the man from the Department of the Interior... is on the INTERIOR, where he belongs. π€