Not the best, but far from the worst! Kudos to the set designers and SFX folks for doing their best with what they had.
Thanks, as always, @Taweret
@ottaross Gah! I was trying to name that tune. TY. #Monsterdon
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#Monsterdon THE BEGINNING
@hollie I enjoyed this one more than the last two.
We've landed on an unexpected and uncharted asteroid in space. We have never seen anything like it ever. We found our guy. Let's leave and investigate absolutely nothing about this completely new and unanticipated phenomenon.
#monsterdon
@amyfou sometimes it's okay to be smol? #JustGuessing #Monsterdon
@apLundell Bunched up in ways that are *entirely* new to jock strap science. #Monsterdon
Huh.
Gotta respect the optimism with which they set up the sequel, I guess...
Thanks for watching, everyone! Thanks @Taweret for hosting! have a great week & see y'all next Sunday!
@fluffy Didn't it though? Like, it seemed to me that if it hadn't grown with him, it would have had to be the size of the tiny people's heads or something like that
So as a double feature, we could watch the movie in reverse #monsterdon
@apLundell holy crap, now I have to think about that, and it sounds like a great way to just turn into a tube of biscuits that eventually explodes in hot Solarite Heat Beam That Inexplicably Accelerates Time. #Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet
If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:
#monsterdon Thank you @Taweret@octodon.social for organizing this evening! Thank you @cheribaker for the bingo card!
And thank you, dear viewer, for watching.
Winners don't do drugs! (But Frank Chapman obviously does.)
The moral of the story is that Hollywood has to rediscover the idea of space kibble, the audiences love it #monsterdon
I don't know what I just watched but I have learned one thing: I need to get some popcorn chicken stat
Thanks @Taweret for hosting and everyone for posting, as always!
@ranjit oh youβre so right what was I thinking
#monsterdon
Even with this, a nondescript pebble that I picked up, they will never believe me
(good on them for not making the pebble grow with him btw)
Are they gonna Gullver's Travels this whole thing?
#Monsterdon
@Louisa fair point well argued
@gnomon I am not a doctor #monsterdon
@SnoopJ the movie was terrible, but I don't hate the worldbuilding underneath it #monsterdon
#monsterdon is only the beginning is only the beginning is only the-
LOOK OUT THEY'RE RESTARTING THE FILM SAVE YOURSELVES
only THE BEGINNING ... well, we made it through a massive amount of tense technobabble and wooden acting to make it to this point.
"only the beginning...only the beginning...only the beginning" - now we know where Chicago got their idea for that song #monsterdon
Wow. A lot of things happened in that movie. Just one thing happening after another.. I guess... Anyway. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting. I gotta find a KFC or I'm gonna go nuts. #Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet
And so they fucked off back to only the beginning only the beginning only the beginning #monsterdon
#Monsterdon ONLY THE BEGINNing
Phantom Planet is The Wizard of Oz if L. Frank Baum was a depressed NASA accountant. #monsterdon
Haha, ending with "the beginning" is cute #monsterdon
He inflated back
#Monsterdon
mm, overall, not as bad as last week, but whatever better movie these special effects were stolen from must be awful salty about it. #monsterdon
I know how ratios work and that pebble in his palm is way too big.
#monsterdon
#monsterdon _above the rear screen display_ "AFT VIEWER" no that is not Aft that is Rayton
In conclusion, midriffs.
Only the beginning................. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon π¨βπ π©βπ π βοΈπͺ π±
And the music swells, as the Narrator (tm) returns to tell us that there's gonna be a sequel.
Again with the "adorable little face"! C'mon
So ends another #Monsterdon. Our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and to everyone who posted or lurked today. And remember #Monsterdoners: I can't work under these conditions.
Monty Pythonβesque Ending #Monsterdon
#monsterdon SHIT! Now we're back at THE BEGINNING
Bye space nug #monsterdon
#Monsterdon THE BEGINNING
The announcer sounds drunk. #Monsterdon
We close on the reverse version of the stars from Buck Rogers.
i mean at least he figured out he needs to let everyone think he agrees it was a dream #monsterdon
BYE BYE CHICKEN TENDIE!
@cs I fear the couples are not chosen for their chemistry. Frank Chapman has the chemistry of breadfruit for instance #monsterdon
#Monsterdon and the flying nose trimmer makes for the moon!
okay, today's lesson folks is to use your tethers when you space walk! #monsterdon
Chapman will never be allowed to fly again. #Monsterdon
Yeah, that's the planet in your aft. #Monsterdon
Oh right, that would require a woman to have agency.
#Monsterdon #PhantomPlanet
He seems to be alright, except for his delusions.
#Monsterdon
@moira #monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet
I approve of this alternate ending.
@apLundell
That would have been stimulating
"...and all I have to remember them is this kidney stone"
@jammerb ixnay on the ocketpay eckingchey we don't need to see that #Monsterdon
Wow that ending I mean beginning blew my mind.
I've made first contact ever with two new alien species. I nearly married an alien woman and became king of their planet. But I have nothing in particular to say about these things. It's not among the first things I'll say to the first Earth people I meet. #monsterdon
So, those plates are just sitting around there as killing fields? #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon sure yeah just dump the expensive life support backpacks on the ground
I kinda expected Zetha to smuggle herself in Chapman's pocket, but she's not expanding yet, so maybe not?
#Monsterdon #PhantomPlanet
Wow. Chapman will have ONE chance to get his head into the helmet when he embiggens, better not get it wrong! #Monsterdon
@jchaven whoa this is bizarre
Their spaceship explodes at launch, it's all an op to preserve their secrets
If Zeetha really loved him, she'd have hidden in his pocket. #Monsterdon
okay Frank had better align himself correclty, otherwise there'd be some weird explaining to do with why he's got both arms in the same armhole
@apLundell Great big body, itty bitty skivvies.
#Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet
"What you need is rest."
We've got a nice place where you're gonna get aaaaaall that rest. And a nice, white jacket. #Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe otto pilot did it better #wrongMovie #Monsterdon
"Zetha, where is she"
buddy I have been asking myself that question every scene she's not in since she entered the story
Alright a decent ending. π
#monsterdon OH SURE, Frankchapman expands in exactly the right way to refill his suit as he grows rather than getting completely stuck in one of the pant legs
There it is, that is where my suspension of disbelief is shattered. The Raytonian size-changing drug fantasies of Frankchapman are less believable than where my socks end up after a spin through the laundry dryer.
@plaidtron3000 I mean why not at this point
"Frank, you're a lucky guy. Crappy captain though" #monsterdon
I also need every bit of thrust for my takeoff.
and the salvia trip has concluded...
#Monsterdon#ThePhantomPlanet
WTF?! Is this an "it was all a dream" ending?
The rock grew in size too??
Thank goodness, I forgot the whole movie already so good to see it again
#monsterdon
@Taweret if only we would be that lucky
#Monsterdon it was all a dream?!?!?!/s
Wow. So like nothing the Raythons have done has made me like them.
#Monsterdon
Zeta has the prettiest purple eyes (color version on tubi) and now I'm wondering if they are her real eye color or she wore colored contacts for the film #monsterdon
"and you were there, and you were there..."
I'm going to throw something if it turns out "it was all a dream"
Did his ass reinflate first?
#Monsterdon #PhantomPlanet
βRemember my loveβ that consisted of being in the same room as you and being mansplained at once or twice #Monsterdon
they really are gonna recap this whole movie. wow. #monsterdon
I guess he had to give back his Rayton clothes before they stuck him back in the suit #monsterdon
Aaaand Frank's head rises slowly in the space suit, we say good bye and good night to Ray Ton. #Monsterdon
"And he grew three sizes that day" #Monsterdon #thephantomplanet
Why were there elephant sounds? #Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet
or: she tries to stow away in the spacesuit with him, the air makes them both big and they get crushed
She has never been able to speak her whole life. And suddenly she can speak. And she doesn't just sit and babble constantly? #monsterdon
oh great it's the fucking Robot Monster ending