damn just how eepy is this mfer #monsterdon

i guess from the little dudes' point of view, this is a kaiju movie

#monsterdon

Has tiny alien never seen glass?

#Monsterdon

Does the audience know about Shrinkage? He was in the pool! #monsterdon

Ah, the original shaky cam is found

#monsterdon

NOW we are getting somewhere!

#monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon

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"

#Monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow can you hear me monsterdon

#monsterdon

Is it just me, or does the Phantom Planet look like Arrokoth?

#Monsterdon

@Taweret That would be disturbingly close to a plot

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon man, cruelly slow.

wait. are there gonna later find that guy alive and well on the phantom planet?

#monsterdon

"Chapman, I'm not dead, I think there's a way......"

"Frank's DEAD!"

#monsterdon

*ping* *zap*

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

Don't mind us - using the special space gravity to walk on the wings.

#monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

like im just vibing on the 50s b movie scifi aesthetic but idk what's going on

#monsterdon

I wonder what the Phantom Planet is doing right now

#Monsterdon

"Hey don't rub it in, rub it out!"

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

not a terrible 50s effect of the asteroids coming at the ship

effort was made

#monsterdon

They're Lost....lost...in....in...space!!!!

#monsterdon

"You could go nuts out here"

Your co-pilot already has, chief. #Monsterdon

Why aren't these guys smoking Kents yet? #monsterdon

the way he gazed at his colleague while saying the thing about focusing on the good and the beautiful

#monsterdon

Soft focus please
#monsterdon

"All right, all right, don't get your knickers in a knot"

#monsterdon

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.

#monsterdon #thePhantomPlanet

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.

#monsterdon

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....

#Monsterdon

no wait, they they are, taking Moon messages!

#monsterdon

why oh why did we turn right into it?

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon so many unremembered names

They aren't feeling the Gs mostly, *interesting* (this is correct for gravity)

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

Whooo! Excellent control panel porn!

#monsterdon

those are some heavily upholstered outfits, I'll give you that

#monsterdon

#monsterdon "We are 21,000 miles from base"

Miles? Really? Still? Out the airlock with these two immediately, please.

#monsterdon *spaceship interior* Oh I _do_ love a good control panel.

@ohmu @moira @Taweret

Look for posts tomorrow with the hashtag #MonsterdonAlert. One will be a poll for the next movie to watch. Vote on the movie you want to watch.

When the poll ends prepare for watching on Sunday at 9PM ET. Most of the time the movie is free on Tubi, The Internet Archive, or Youtube.

On Sunday monitor the hashtag #Monsterdon and post snarky comments about the movie using this hashtag.

@ohmu @moira

movies are every Sunday night at the same time, its always a movie available on a free streaming site like tubi or pluto

follow the hashtag #MonsterdonAlert for news and updates and polls (every monday we have a poll to determine that week's movie) and follow the hashtag #monsterdon for the actual event

#Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

@cazabon Yeah, I was watching along with the Monsterdon watch party. Was expecting more of Richard Kiel than just being in a monster suit.

I’m pretty sure this was one of the inspirations for Amazon Women On The Moon.

#Monsterdon

@Infoseepage I was just thinking "that body doesn't have hydrostatic equilibrium", it's not a planet by the common definition of one

#monsterdon

@Infoseepage

SPACE

NUGGET

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

I was really hoping the twist would be that Zetha was actually from Earth, and she was unable to speak due to childhood trauma from being captured by the Rhetonians, but alas, it was just more, "I loved you since I first saw you" bullshit.

#Monsterdon

@apLundell Make sure you know what you're buying. The one in the picture's smaller than a slice of bread I think #monsterdon

@floatybirb (nods, leans forward) go on

#monsterdon

@amyfou They had to be small so that they could steer their little asteroid secretly toward the moon and also so that Frank Chapman could feel emasculated.

#Monsterdon

Audio only monster dawn reporting in I was out of service the whole time was that planet populated exclusively by slide whistles? #monsterdon

@whknott @amyfou clearly history shows we'd hold out for the star war

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

@apLundell Tempurlithic beds are a scam. #Monsterdon

@apLundell There are _several_ mods to add mattresses to stone dwarven beds in Skyrim, so I'm gonna go with "no."

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

🦖 #MONSTERDON GOODBYE!🎞️

Thank you @Taweret for hosting this cringey scifi showdown!

🚀 and thanks @cheribaker for the Bingo card! My fave: "Lust overcomes common sense".

🚀 and @randy_s for filling in with the cocktail. Tang in the recipe...genius!

And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: Nothing got by you yet again. Great commentary!

@floatybirb YOU. Take over the writer's room. Now!

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

@ottaross wasn't... is that ... was that a comic strip?

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

@paco The gravity is a little odd here, but not so much that it warrants any kind of scientific research.

#Monsterdon

@Lazarou In this universe the Air Force does seem to send spaceships out at the drop of a hat so yeah, they might as well

#Monsterdon

This is the beginning of the end. #monsterdon

@rberlim They don’t have tethers. You think they give af about loose canisters? #Monsterdon

@jsadow Oh my gosh I loved the women wrestlers, that was SO much fun - I thought tonight's movie was way more boring and misogynistic (if I hear "her adorable little face" one more time, lol....)

#monsterdon
#ThePhantomPlanet

@Newpa_Hasai They just came from the Fyre Festival on their sun satellite #monsterdon

@hollie Like in the last one the moon women all die and the wrestling women never fight the mummy and they were both arguably even more misogynistic than this movie.

#Monsterdon

My mind is a polluted wasteland now. #Monsterdon

@FirstFish But even if the rockets had to be crewed to make them politically viable, what were those crewed ships supposed to do?

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

@jsadow @Lazarou Yeah that seems about right

#Monsterdon

@ottaross Gah! I was trying to name that tune. TY. #Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

"He's all right . . . he's in a state of shock."

Uh, that's not how shock works.

#Monsterdon

I don't think it's safe to leave those backpacks with oxygen canisters loose on the cabin while they takeoff.
#Monsterdon

Well that was a less than abrupt ending. What’s goin’ on here?
#Monsterdon

Alternative theory: if Blond Hero had embiggened in a way that got him stuck in the suit really awkwardly, THAT would’ve been good evidence for Lilliputian aliens! Better than random pebble in his pocket #Monsterdon

Fun sets and goofy fights! Thanks, everyone. Another enjoyable #Monsterdon in the can.

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!

#Monsterdon

since VLC auto replays from the beginning (the beginning), i can confirm that the babble at the start actually makes (some) sense once you know what the movie is about #monsterdon

Every time that dude put his space suit on, he passed out. To me, it seems more likely there's something wrong with the air supply in that suit, than he really met some space liliput people and fought aliens.
#monsterdon

@Lazarou @diazona Maybe the sequel would just be him dreaming that everyone calls him Frankchapman and won't stop and then he goes mad.

#Monsterdon

Imagine being a tiny six-inch guy in a full sized spacesuit, and then suddenly growing to fit it.

That's terrifying. There's so many ways that could go wrong. #Monsterdon

And they all eff off back to earth

THE END

Oh wait...THE BEGINNING?

I hope not!

Anyways cool effects, advanced smol people, a big flaming injustice and inspiration for more than one Star Trek episode yet to be produced!

Thanks @Taweret for another rockin' #Monsterdon !

@anne maybe it's the kind of rock that adsorbs oxygen, so when it got big fluffy earth oxygen it puffed up just a little bit

#monsterdon

Thanks @tawaret for another #monsterdon night yall

Well, of all the movies we've watched on #monsterdon this year, this was certainly one of them.

Thanks to @Taweret for once again guiding this ship of democracy onto the rocks, as is her wont. I wouldn't have it any other way, mind you.

#Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

ONLY THE BEGINNING

#monsterdon

Is only the beginning? Is only?
#Monsterdon #PhantomPlanet

ONLY THE BEGINNING

What in tarnation…

That was one of the movies of all time. I wish it had done less, but at least there was Dolores Faith.

#Monsterdon

Is this going to turn out to have been an @AdaraAstin reading all along? Tiny women on giant spaceman?

#monsterdon

ONLY THE BEGINNING
OnLy ThE bEgInNiNg
only the beginning

#Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet #thebeginning

His proof is a wad of used chewing gum #Monsterdon

"THE BEGINNING" I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE #Monsterdon #thephantomplanet

only the beginning only the beginning only the beginning

#monsterdon

Only the beginning................. #monsterdon

THE BEGINNING

oh god it's starting over D: #Monsterdon

He’s got thrust to spare. #Monsterdon

@Lazarou Just when we thought we might be done with this story....

#Monsterdon

Turns out the real monster is the Bohr nucleaic model.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon "I know we're gonna make it"

Listen. You don't have a good track record...