So why... are these creatures any more dangerous than any other creature that might harm humans? Why wouldn't their growth rate be bounded in the same way as any other species, by the duration of the gestation period and the rate at which they can metabolize? These things aren't any scarier than razor clams or ankle-nibbling ducks.
@ramsey the KRAYken
red flags that are somehow also green flags: smiling and flirting with you while describing the death of her prior husband and the attendant trauma #monsterdon
I wanna be in a Radio Shack. :(
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#monsterdon A civilian is dead and your cover story is going to be routine bomb tests?
You might want to re-think that.
Are y'all watching The Monster that Challenged The World? I watched it a week or so ago. The monster is pretty good, but it doesn't exactly challenge the world. More like it bothers a small town.
This is my new fave monster after Son of Godzilla #monsterdon
YES! YES! YES! LIVE ACTED MONSTER NO COSTUME JUST A BUG #monsterdon
Itβs an inflated trash bag, over. #Monsterdon
Steven Spielberg: Okay you know that movie The Monster that Challenged the World? It's like that, but with a big shark.
#monsterdon Every single coroner in fiction eats in his lab and doesn't understand why anyone thinks that's unusual.
Yeah, all that could cause a stroke is ANGER or FEAR.
technical bechdel pass in the child handoff what the fuck #monsterdon
That's some pretty great horrified reaction there.
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"Meanwhile, in the secret laboratory next door, scientists are hard at work on new fruitcake rations"
There better not be any dogs involved with this media. #Monsterdon
For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about The Monster That Challenged The World (1957) but not the second, Wrong Frogs feature, because there isn't one this week.
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@apLundell Hah I was going to make a joke about all the many many smokers accidentally blowing the survivors of the monster attack up, right until all the guns started going off and I was like "guess it's not the gas feed for the lab?"
Ah well. At least we got something *approaching* a denouement. Anyway, as always, one last task:
Was THE MONSTER THAT CHALLENGED THE WORLD (1957) the WORST #Monsterdon movie of the year?
"We're definitely not traumatized by that entire experience!"
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So glad we have underwater scenes to really kick this movie into overdrive.../s
We're not exactly challenging the world here.
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Monster's lair's gonna be an ancient aztec cenote
Mostly they come out and bite... mostly
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Man, nothing good will come to you if your job occupation is something ominous like "gatekeeper"
OOOHHHHH THE KID'S GONNA TOUCH THE KNOB
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Chekov's Knob
Someone get this man a Document Room! #monsterdon
Just blow up the whole valley, nuke it from orbit, you know you're going to anyway
This kid is making Speedy Gonzalez look like positive representation. #Monsterdon
Wait, are they popping over to Mexico for supper? Talk about a different era.
This scene on the power of these creatures and the plan to keep them out of the canal system gives me #MonsterdonBingo. I'm counting "Sympathy for the Monster" because of the sympathy I've seen on the feed for this Gorgo type scenario.
#monsterdon "How's Connie?"
"She's fine. It's been a whole day since her husband was tragically torn to shreds by a monster.."
This guy sure came to his complete theory rather quickly....I suspect he's in league with the snail!
STOP SAYING CRAY-KIN
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We learn secretary #2's tragic backstory, her husband died doing something some years ago. She tells the Navy Commander he's easy to talk too, allowing the audience to check the "tepid love story" on their bingo card.
(if they didn't already check that box for the romantic swimmers)
Maybe... just maybe... if we made the water MORE radioactive...
"I've got a reading of some numbers that totally mean things."
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It's "highly radioactive" well then I wouldn't want to be pointing at it and standing less than a meter away, but what do I know, my radiation worker certification lapsed a couple of years ago.
Katie is referring to the monster goo by a term which I shall not repeat on this here PG-13 rated internet
"Commander, did you find out what killed all those men?"
"No, I've been in the car park helping a little girl find a ladybug"
"Is that sarcasm?"
It's ok, the Commander just hates adults, not children.
I looked up this KLM Scheveningen legs poster and it was probably a real travel poster like this 1954 one:
WWII stock footage has become almost soothing, a sure sign that i'm about to see something that makes no sense but definitely has a ton of guys enunciate like they're trying to chew the dictionary stuck between their teeth. #monsterdon
GO GO GO GO
@jivens @klu9 @JoeWynne @paco Yes, it's been 3 years (https://monsterdon-replay.gerlach.dev/the-giant-claw). Long enough to forget about Dr. Noymanns Electronic Analyzer.
I think the spunk monster had already been pretty much cooked (steamed) by the time the guns showed up.
@ottaross *starts throwing office stationary, belt and shoes.....still no axe
Another fantastic dive into 50's creature cinema! Thanks again to @Taweret for hosting and to the #Monsterdon mollusks for all your concerning emissions. π€ I'm going to go find an axe to ignore.
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Damnit, Gail is too pretty to die!
I give "The Monster That Challenged the World" 3 out of 5 vials of radioactive snail juice. It was not really *good* but it had boats in it, and side characters being weird and I didn't really hate it.
Despite the title the monsters did not really challenge the world (being very vulnerable to pointy sticks) but were exploded anyway by capricious humans. At least it's safe to go swimming now.
"You can go swimming for about 20-30 years and then it becomes a toxic zone you'd want to avoid, because Sandy...'Man is the real monster' "
ABRUPT ENDING
I hope the sequel is about a big mutant ladybug π
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ITS ON THE GODDAMN WALL
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throwing random beakers?!
*monster chews through the door* heeeeere's Johnny!
poor bnuuys
"First we crack the shell! then we crack the nuts inside!"
Look the obvious solution is call the French and gather up a shit ton of garlic and butter.
I like how these old movies do have music as an accent but there's a lot of silence in the soundtrack.
I laughed out loud when the snail got the old guy.
I'm sorry, I really am enjoying this, and I love the monster and all, but it's a fucking 12 foot snail. If it sneaks up on you, that's kinda your fault. #Monsterdon
Good thing that cop car didn't crash, driving around in that inky darkness like that.
"Do we have a car in that area?"
"Sure. Nobody inside it, but the car's right there."
Kids will unleash the wackiest horrors from the deep
They should have at least put a note on the knob that said "Don't touch! Makes monsters happen!"
Well that was the adult's fault for not guarding that weird egg better...
NOT THE KNOB
Sandy is a fine little actress, she's got multiple lines, she's hitting her cues, good job kiddo
BUNNIES!!@
Mom mom I know mom no mom that was Thomas Jefferson mom no that's the formula for New Coke mom mom I know mom
I like to think this discussion around canal patrol logistics takes place in a world where every other monster movie scenario is happening at the exact same time, and the US Navy has to stretch its resources between protecting the canal from cow-eating snails, fending off a Kaiju attack and searching for multiple werewolves, vampires and frankensteins.
βIf the canal moves, shoot it.β #Monsterdon
See lads, Twillinger didn't go off his nut with the rejection and it all worked out for him in the end.
Patience and Respect
This operator reminds me of Annie Potts playing Janine in Ghostbusters.
The mating dance of the giant 50s sedans.
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"If these creatures should hatch, they could threaten the world with sequels."
βFrom the instant theyβre born theyβre hungryβ
You mean like most young creatures everywhere?
#monsterdon "You believe there's more than one of these creatures?"
Well, yeah. That's how animals work.
mollusc sex party
EW NO NOT ITS EYE
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"I couldn't help him! I mean, I didn't really try. Or want to. But let's assume I couldn't."
so is the bug's motivation just that it's like in the salton sea and needs some water to drink and it can only get it by sucking it out of people's skin #monsterdon
Monster is cute? That's a big check. #monsterdon
"The Navy could probably win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to try."
"How rough does it usually get?"
"Depends what you're into."
"What?"
"What?"
"I'm not bad. I'm just written that way."
We'd better run a check test, as opposed to those other tests where we don't check stuff.
"Just treat me like a piece of furniture. A chesterfield. A naughty, naughty chesterfield."
This is a different ladybug you lying bastard!
Are we going to have the cliche "little girl and a monster" scene?
All we have to do now is identify the Marine who secreted it. #Monsterdon
We're doing SCIENCE!
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please never say "eager beaver" ever again
Ok, whose turn is it to make the "military intelligence" is an oxymoron quip?