Oh dear, the subtitles I got for this one seem to be done by AI. Unreadable.

#Monsterdon #PhantomPlanet

#monsterdon "space is almost too quiet"
-a true conversationalist

Is that guy going to make speeches all voyage?

#Monsterdon

Everyone seems a lot more depressed than I'm used to in these pulpy retro scifi flicks #monsterdon

They sent a poet.

#monsterdon

My heart pounds like a sledgehammer. Yawn. #monsterdon

effects are not bad by the standards of b movies from that era actually

we've seen so much worse

#monsterdon

❌ "pornography studio"

✅ "recording reproduction unit"

#Monsterdon

Oh boy, here it comes. The Line™ #Monsterdon

"I'll take a crack at anything once."

🤔

#Monsterdon

Lmao what is that a doorway for ants? #monsterdon

Shouldn't someone be making coffee in that control room? #Monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

Strange pride flags they have on their jackets #monsterdon

Meanwhile, colonel stick up his ass #monsterdon

"Interplanetary sound" gets a credit? I guess they're not going for scientific accuracy in this one then #monsterdon

They're penetrating space, they have a recording reproduction unit, what's next, is the phantom planet a giant baby?

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon woah! Ladies! Those perms! You poor poor girls! All that time…

I like how they budgeted for switchboard operators in this 1980 future #monsterdon

Hey I recognize that surface!

But not those structures 🤔

#Monsterdon

ALL theories of space. ALL. #Monsterdon

Hair in lower screen
#monsterdon

that is NOT big enough to be a planet

i am absolutely saying

pluto looks at that and goes

"nah. not a planet."

AND PLUTO IS RIGHT

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

@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:

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

@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.

#monsterdon

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...

#Monsterdon

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

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

#Monsterdon

Awesome special effects so far.

#Monsterdon

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

#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

#Monsterdon

Very, very phallic ship #monsterdon

hoopla version is colourized

#monsterdon

"... 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.

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

Hey they have an actual spaceship this time. #monsterdon

A+ effort for the control panel!

#monsterdon

The all-analogue space ship
#monsterdon

See, that's how you do a UI
not a touch screen in sight

#Monsterdon

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

#monsterdon
#ThePhantomPlanet

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

#Monsterdon

#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

#monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon

Star Wars used scrolling text

#monsterdon

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

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

#Monsterdon

"March 6th 1980"

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

#monsterdon

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?
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon 👨‍🚀 👩‍🚀 🚀 ☄️🪐 😱

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

#Monsterdon waah waah Charlie Brown waah!

So it begins
#monsterdon

@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.

@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.

#Monsterdon

@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!

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon

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

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

@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...

#Monsterdon

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

#Monsterdon #PhantomPlanet

@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

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

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.

#monsterdon

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

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

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

#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?

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

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

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

absolute real talk right there

#monsterdon #ThePhantomPlanet

@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

@georgieboy So he can't be interrupted #monsterdon

THE BEGINNING.

OMFG. 😂
#Monsterdon

@moira things were resolved, no fucking off into the Sea....a rarity
#monsterdon

Mics visible in the upper left of the spaceship! #Monsterdon

I don't get it. Why he couldn't leave but he did anyway?
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon I am SCREAMING LMAO