@floatybirb lmao thanks for this, I already missed that it was supposed to be 1980 #monsterdon

The dialogue: "We are under 11 Gs of acceleration"

The acting:

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I'm fascinated by these flight suits. The vibe is sort of hippie buckskin, but also sorta bondage, but also sorta HR Geiger. #Monsterdon

These asteroids are making me hungry for granola, or maybe popcorn chicken. #monsterdon

How much to remove my name from the credits, Mac? #monsterdon

Oooo, a cute little Moon city

Bet there isn't a single woman in it

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@rallias And the credits roll after the crash! That was a really short #Monsterdon. #ThePhantomPlanet

that font makes me want popcorn #food #monsterdon

These astronauts are amazing! They can plot a 3D path through space using nothing more than a dot on circle. #monsterdon

#SpacePopcorn #Monsterdon

Obligatory mst3k riff :mst3k_silhouettes: Looks like grandpa tried using the microwave again...

On preview: My only regret is not fixing popcorn chicken for this.

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"...sir, we have popcorn shrimp incoming!"

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Much more believable rocket interior this week #Monsterdon

A planetoid 21k miles away from the moon... I feel like that'd take the moon out of orbit...

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Are these guys human driftwood with weird suits or alien driftwood with human heads

(don't answer that, I want to believe)

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Awesome special effects so far.

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The Phantom Planet looks like my cereal.

It's really hard to accidentally crash into things in the asteroid belt, it's not like in Star Wars. Space is stupidly big

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PULL HARDER DAMMIT #monsterdon

Popcorn cluster in space #monsterdon

Semi rezzed up capitol is a creepy start #Monsterdon

Well at least a much more believable space ship than last week's. #monsterdon

The God-given genius of science, which at a later date would be ripped away for unappreciative lack of use

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Very, very phallic ship #monsterdon

hoopla version is colourized

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"... and our beeper blinkers are still beeping and blinking. Over and out." #monsterdon

The dreaded outside acceleration force!

#Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

Aah technobabble. Is there any better filler? #Monsterdon

Spaceships were great back then. #monsterdon

Ecliptic mentioned! Another good omen.

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Oh, it's biblical science... my least favorite kind

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Hey they have an actual spaceship this time. #monsterdon

These late 50s-early 60s movies love the idea of penetrating space

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A+ effort for the control panel!

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The all-analogue space ship
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See, that's how you do a UI
not a touch screen in sight

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You know it's Serious SciFi when the costumes include TUBING

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#ThePhantomPlanet

okay well our spaceship isn't made from sheet metal from home Depot so already an improvement over the last movie

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#Monsterdon 12-1-24 Phantom Planet

now that's a 60s rocket if ive ever seen one

I like how they put SPACE in front of everyday words

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I don't remember March 16, 1980, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have looked like this.

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

I remember 1980 much differently. #Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

I'm rooting for the driftwood

oh wait that's people huh... never mind

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Star Wars used scrolling text

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"Could they be giants? Or could the opposite be true?"

So in other words, they _might_ be giants...

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"March 6th 1980"

Only in For All Mankind dudes, not our Timeline...

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7... 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1 #Monsterdon is away

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

#Monsterdon deep and plunging caverns. It’s not creepy. Really!

Is that popcorn in space?
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#Monsterdon 👨‍🚀 👩‍🚀 🚀 ☄️🪐 😱

And there's the A-bomb right outta the gate good lord

#Monsterdon waah waah Charlie Brown waah!

So it begins
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#monsterdon kicks off in one minute! Get your timed mute buttons ready or get ready to blast off to THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961)

@Taweret @ohmu yeah, this!

you can also search the #monsterdon tag and any modern version of mastodon will update as toots come in, if you don't want to follow the hashtag directly.

Jaws (1975) : Tentacles (1977) :: Forbidden Planet (1956) : Phantom Planet (1961)

As is typical for me, the most popular film of the four is the only one I haven't seen.

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@moira @Taweret

Hey. Um. [Shuffles feet]
How do I plug into this #Monsterdon thing?

OK #Monsterdon
What I need, after that, #ThePhantomPlanet , is a rest.

Shock, Delirium, Hallucination; cure: rest.

Modern life: chronic illness, mental illness, permanent injury; cure: suck it up, butter-cup. If you ain't contributin' you ain't worth liv'n.

@hollie That would be one, very weird, very disjointed movie, and it would be amazing!

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For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about Phantom Planet (1961).

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@ramsey It'd be fun if all the Monsterdonians got together and made a movie that had all the corrected elements of all the past movies we've watched...

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I'm guessing the pitch to the studio / investors leaned heavily into "Gulliver's Travels In Space" ... and according to Wikipedia, some of the sets, props, and FX were originally from the TV series Men Into Space

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@Infoseepage Oh! I see it now! It is (say this in distant narrator echo voice) "Pink Sliiime in Spaaaace!" Nuggets.
Got it. No wonder the science is weird and not good for you. ;)
#Monsterdon ThePhantomPlanet

@davesdogmaggie or maybe it did and was just overwhelmed, i mean

just look at this movie

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Did you know there are asteroids so large that they're rounded? In fact, they're among the first asteroids to have ever been discovered. Some of them, like Ceres were thought to be planets, then asteroids and now are generally classified as "dwarf planets" which include objects large enough to be round, but not big enough to either capture or eject all the rest of the detritus in the neighborhood.

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Did anyone get a bingo? I don't participate but am curious about why I didn't see any bingo toots #monsterdon

@paco @ranjit @anne I think her rival might have had the smarts to come up with that scheme maybe, not her #monsterdon

@moira @rberlim Requisite. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon coda: I was watching on YouTube and when Phantom Planet finished ~the algorithm~ started autoplaying The Mummy (1999) before I could pause it. [shruggy man emoji]

This was only a few minutes longer running time than last week's #monsterdon pick

@davesdogmaggie @rberlim how about loose canons?

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@diazona @jsadow@c18.masto.host @hollie oh yeah

absolute real talk right there

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

@georgieboy So he can't be interrupted #monsterdon

THE BEGINNING.

OMFG. 😂
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Mics visible in the upper left of the spaceship! #Monsterdon

I don't get it. Why he couldn't leave but he did anyway?
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#Monsterdon I am SCREAMING LMAO

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

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#Monsterdon THE BEGINNING

@hollie I enjoyed this one more than the last two.

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@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!

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@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

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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:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

The moral of the story is that Hollywood has to rediscover the idea of space kibble, the audiences love it #monsterdon

@ranjit oh you’re so right what was I thinking
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Are they gonna Gullver's Travels this whole thing?
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@Louisa fair point well argued

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

@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.

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"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

ONLY THE BEGINNING, ONLY THE BEGINNING, ONLY THE...

Oh, please no! Make it stop!

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The Beginning

fuckin

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#Monsterdon ONLY THE BEGINNing

And so they fucked off back to only the beginning only the beginning only the beginning #monsterdon