#monsterdon 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.
So, how is the wall transparent, and what's keeping the solarite from tunneling through a normal one?
That feeling when you go to see the gravity plate duel and no one dies :cate: :cate: :cate:
#monsterdon RUBBER SUIT MONSTER
hey, we got a monster!
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
Rayton technology is all built upon the principles of the theremin. #monsterdon
@Taweret basic technology in spaaaaaaaaaaaace
you say you love her yet you're flirting with the earthman while he's in bed with an exposed chest... i dont buy it...
why is your siren a theramin?
This movie is really good at not explaining things and wants you to know it. I don't know why. There's not time to explain. Just go with it.
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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
"What about my size?"
"You're big enough for me, don't worry."
βI donβt know if I like youβ¦ or women.β And that was when Chapman found his truth. #Monsterdon
One of these days Iβll watch #Monsterdon with yall
Liara sucks, Team Zetha all the way
Liara is a very pushy twit, ain't she? #ThePhantomPlanet1961 π #Monsterdon
Alright now everybody fuck already. #monsterdon
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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That I bar must have taken hours to make. A masterpiece in prop design.
The opposite of tug of war
#monsterdon
@floatybirb Everything in this movie is very scientific.
"You don't talk. I like you." REDALERT
you'd think these people could have at least kept the technology for sheets or sleeping bags or something. #monsterdon
You know our mattress technology is lightyears beyond yours...
Alien pick-up lines for smol astronauts: "I'm going to take a walk."
#Monsterdon π¨βπ π©βπ π βοΈπͺ π±
Apparently these asteroid dwellers lack button-making technology.
Or maybe button-hole-making-technology?
The non-vocal alien wife-material chick hasn't got much of a chance⦠or does she?
That rocket was too big for you anyway!
Chalk on a stone tablet for calculations? Not even an abacus? (or better for the era, a sliderule, a sheet of paper, and a bit of computer time for the numeric solutions)
His astronaut friend is just floating in space trying to stay optimistic #monsterdon
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.
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
Did they just parallel park a rocket? I'm pretty sure that's not how anything works. #Monsterdon
yeah let's still not use tethers. you probably won't go floating off into the nightmare void
So "Zetha" is the brunette who never gets to speak. Played by Dolores Faith. All they ever do is "introduce" her. #monsterdon
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Breadfruit???? Why not synthesize a nice chocolate ganauche?
I'm getting a strong whiff of "Work Will Set You Free"
He got all that information from a spot on a screen?
Oh and there's a tea ceremony.
Maybe it's just these four people on the whole of the Moon?
Disposing of the rocket was an interesting move on the part of the Ratonians #monsterdon.
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".
"And don't call me Shirley, I mean Frankchapman!" #Monsterdon #PhantomPlanet
"Between the two it's difficult to make a choice."
Sounds like a bride auction. For. Science.
"I think it's the equivalent of your 'hot dogs and mustard' , by pure chance...."
I can't take much more of this bizarre anti-Science they explain everything with
or Shirley, you may call me Shirley #monsterdon
Never give up! Never leave a man behind! Never live a life without dogma!
OMG! It's turned into a pro-capitalism film.
Uggh this asteroid has millennials too #monsterdon
Guilty, now you are free o_O
Wait⦠why smol now? #monsterdon
It's a shame because this movie actually cares about sound! At least someone scored it customized for the action happening
that's the whole trial? i mean points for not dragging out the movie, but like... #monsterdon
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."
βThis is no time for explanationsβ he said, explaining. #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon You donβt need to get your dates that way. You could order them a drink. You could just smile at themβ¦
Was waiting for when the women were gonna show up. #monsterdon
ooooh our peroxide ΓΌbermensch is nekkid after being tinyfied!
Sounds keeps cutting out a lot, for me anyway
HELP HE'S GOT A BONER #monsterdon
Ug, another patriarchal society....
the phantom planet that turns you into a twink instantly
damn just how eepy is this mfer #monsterdon
i guess from the little dudes' point of view, this is a kaiju movie
Has tiny alien never seen glass?
Does the audience know about Shrinkage? He was in the pool! #monsterdon
Ah, the original shaky cam is found
NOW we are getting somewhere!
I'm OK with gravity here on the asteroid. But wasn't that the space suit that failed and caused him to fall unconscious in the LAST scene?
Oh. Nevermind.
You need plot to do a flashback
#monsterdon
Man, Frank's really graceful, huh? *faceplant* #Monsterdon
Oh no! He's recording his last space will on Soundwave! This adventure has been cursed by Decepticon sabotage.
#Monsterdon #PhantomPlanet
@allanb Even that is kind of stretching the definition of "thing" and "happened"
@RobynGoodfellow can you hear me monsterdon
Is it just me, or does the Phantom Planet look like Arrokoth?
@Taweret That would be disturbingly close to a plot
#Monsterdon man, cruelly slow.
wait. are there gonna later find that guy alive and well on the phantom planet?
Don't mind us - using the special space gravity to walk on the wings.
you don't need to tether yourself to the ship or anything. you can just kinda lean on it
you probably won't go spinning off into the nightmare void
like im just vibing on the 50s b movie scifi aesthetic but idk what's going on
I wonder what the Phantom Planet is doing right now
"Hey don't rub it in, rub it out!"
They're Lost....lost...in....in...space!!!!
"You could go nuts out here"
Your co-pilot already has, chief. #Monsterdon
Why aren't these guys smoking Kents yet? #monsterdon
Soft focus please
#monsterdon
"All right, all right, don't get your knickers in a knot"
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.
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.
A capable base! Run by capable men! Oh and also these women who are here also. #Monsterdon
"This mysterious planet seems to come and go at such speeds, we can't track it"
Uh, that's no planet....