The Phantom Planet
Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Whoah, those Solarite roaring sound effects sound a _lot_ like TIE fighters! Did Lucasfilm borrow some sound design ideas from this film??

edit: and those laser blast sound effects sound like lightsaber hits! I really wonder whether the parallels were deliberate or if they were just drawing on the same library of stock sound effects.

Paco Hope #resist
Paco Hope #resist
paco@infosec.exchange

This is like some anti-bechdel shit right here. Despite the zillion things that they might talk about (first contact with an alien species, how to get him home, etc) these two named bros can't think of anything to talk about except a couple of girls and who gets to sleep with which one. #monsterdon

AmyFou πŸ•ŠοΈ
AmyFou πŸ•ŠοΈ
amyfou@lingo.lol

#Monsterdon πŸ‘¨β€πŸš€ πŸ‘©β€πŸš€ πŸš€ β˜„οΈπŸͺ 😱

Your airtanks contain humongo-air, from your home world. We can use that to embiggen you and send you home so I can woo Liana, who does not like me at all.

Yet.

^^ the plot at this point apparently

Wyatt H Knott
Wyatt H Knott
whknott

I was going to ask if we'd crossed the line from homoerotic to gay porn, but this is just the most baggy unsexy duel ever?

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allanb

That I bar must have taken hours to make. A masterpiece in prop design.

AmyFou πŸ•ŠοΈ
AmyFou πŸ•ŠοΈ
amyfou@lingo.lol

#Monsterdon πŸ‘¨β€πŸš€ πŸ‘©β€πŸš€ πŸš€ β˜„οΈπŸͺ 😱

Apparently these asteroid dwellers lack button-making technology.

Or maybe button-hole-making-technology?

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Back at the moon base we see the ejected rocket on space and send another spaceship, crewed by different astronaut boys, to intercept it. Amusingly, they receive instructions via teletype.

We get a sequence where one of the rockets parks by another and one astronaut (they didn't send both of them this time), space walks over to the original rocket, entering I guess by opening the airlock door with an unseen clothes hanger.

Cactuar Joe
Cactuar Joe
CactuarJoe@retro.pizza

You know how people sometimes make fun of Star Trek for not inventing the circuit breaker? These guys never invented the TETHER

STOP THROWING MEN INTO SPACE D:< #Monsterdon

Paco Hope #resist
Paco Hope #resist
paco@infosec.exchange

hang on: you attack somebody, you get found guilty, then you become a citizen and get two hot chicks to compete over who gets to be your wife? I do not understand "their ways".

#monsterdon

Louisa
Louisa
Louisa@mastodon.xyz

It's a shame because this movie actually cares about sound! At least someone scored it customized for the action happening

#Monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Okay, some weird stuff happened. I think the sleepy astronaut shrunk and now is naked, and then the dudes in scrubs wrestled him. He is now brought to a trial for which they gave him a suit but won't tell him the charges. He explains he's a space explorer and the dudes trialing him are like "yeah we know you're from space. we're not speaking your language but we can understand each other because... um... because."

Bluedepth

You don’t need to get your dates that way. You could order them a drink. You could just smile at them…

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Aight we go to a cute looking moon base where some army dudes in 1960s looking army dress uniforms are puttering around radios and talking about what the audience already knows... that the rocket dudes found a planet and crashed into it. On the radio, their boss yells at them because that story sounds made up, which makes them mad. Meanwhile, the girls actually operating the radios look worried by this conversation.

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

Are these mystery asteroids occupied by orcas by any chance? Space orcas don't wear salmon on their heads and attack yachts, they take out the Earth spacecraft.