@jsadow @Mikal @lytta But the patriarchy stuff and the fake romance did stink up the story, imo. This film just didn't have anything, Flora was trying her best to do something with her part but it just wasn't working #monsterdon
Wait are we on a second movie?
If the footage didn't wind up on the cutting room floor, which it probably did, given the cuts the director left, some pensive thought by the actors just before they were asked to "go on" would have helped sell the story a bit. If this cut into the time budget, they could have deleted a bunch of standing around scenes, and/or walked faster.
Overall, given the era, it was certainly worth the Young America Horror Club seal of approval. I look forward to seeing more of their picks.
my mom's town center was built up around the time this movie was made. it's the second oldest town in Puerto Rico and it's downtown is a mix of 15th C and 1950s building and this movie is making me feel a way.
i miss home.
we do not have aztec mummys though.
it will probably be entertaining to watch the commentary on the optional second mummy movie which i am not myself watching... is this one from earlier in the series? later? weirdly unrelated?
@combatwombat @athena_rising Movie runtime: 63 minutes. Watchable footage: 3 minutes.
Great job, crew. Let's pack this one in. #Monsterdon
@diazona honestly, the robot OR the mummy probably could have made a better Robot vs Mummy movie. #monsterdon
So the running time was 63 minutes, but really this was a thirteen minute long feature #monsterdon
Wait. That young woman is not his daughter but his girlfriend?
@diazona a drunk potato. #monsterdon
The pyramid books are back.
@jsadow @Mikal @lytta I gave The Phantom Planet two stars, this one is half that only because I'm being generous #monsterdon
"This fellow is extremely dangerous" as you turn your back to him
#Monsterdon π€ :AztecCalendar: π¨βπ¬ πΊοΈ π±
Thank you, #Monsterdonians for another fun Sunday evening. Thanks @Taweret for hosting, @cheribaker for bingo, @JoeWynne for trivia and everyone for the silliness!
@jchaven No flashbacks yet
"Is this a message for you?"
so all these mexican cops have old-timey new york city accents?
Not gonna stick around for the Curse.
But I'm guessing based on Robot, that I've already seen all the important (ha!) bits through the flashbacks.
'Night all!
@CactuarJoe and held together with a ketchup-based sauce. #monsterdon
I'll be back!
@AlsoPaisleyCat Ahhhh! Makes sense!
Coral Gables, Fla. my neck of the woods.
Paul Nagel you better do better
π€ much fun, thanks @Taweret bye everyone :) #Monsterdon
Were finding out right now...
#Monsterdon #TheCurseOfTheAztecMummy #DoubleFeature
FINE. YOU THINK YOUR FILTHY CARDBOARD ROBOT CAN BEAT ME?!
#monsterdon #TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy #TheCurseOfTheAztecMummy
@AlsoPaisleyCat Oh my gosh, really?! I totally missed that!
@athena_rising Relieved maybe
@athena_rising You missed literally the only new footage in the movie.
How you feel about that is up to you.
@diazona @hollie Time to make a #Monsterdon fan film. ;-)
#Monsterdon
#TheRobotVsTheAxtecMummy
Lessons for Screenwriters: Masterclass in Session....1. If you have a plot for a 'short' but the execs. give you a 90', one word: 'flashbacks.' 2. If you don't have a believable character use make-up to approximate an A-lister or two. 3. Make sure to add in yaoi-fight scene and fade to smoke for cover.
This fight would be better if they were inside a wrestling ring #monsterdon
@rallias nah i only downloaded the one movie, that was enough for me π #monsterdon
I really identified with the Aztec mummy. Not so much with the robot. It was unfair billing. The mummy had way more scenes.
Also, that was not a robot. I know, because I took Chem 11a from that guy.
@hollie Oh I'm down for that
@springdiesel Well, to be fair so would we, if we wore courderoy! #Monsterdon
@lytta It is the Miracle of #Monsterdon
@lytta Ready for part 2?
What did the robot do to the watchman, spray habanero sauce on his serape? #monsterdon
every time i watch what for me is the worst #monsterdon movie yet, i think it can't get any worse. i am always wrong
Dubbing was quite good. Not the voice actors, but the timing and accuracy of lip-syncing. seen/heard worse #Monsterdon
@RufusJCooter @Taweret I mean it felt like they spent about 62 minutes on exposition
I can't believe how casually each flashback or exposition added days/weeks/months/years to this movie's timelineβ we know that, *at minimum*, this family lived their normal lives for 5 years while they knew the temporary location of an undead monster
AND that he would never truly rest until he got those artifacts back. Those kids must be teenagers by the end
I mean the robot probably just wanted the breastplate for purposes? #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon well so much for the robot!
We need a flashback sequel to this that's just Edward and Flora's sassy little girl telling her side of the story
"And I KNEW she was lying about those slippers, l KNEW Mommy was out with the mummy again, but does anyone listen to me? NO"
Wow, that was dumb, but I did enjoy the final fight sequence.
I have many questions. Some are about this movie, but most of those don't need answered.
I'm not even going to write a new outro toot for tonight's movie, enjoy this flashback instead
AWRIGHT POPOCA!!!
@ranjit No more mummies vs. whatever for #Monsterdon. There's way too little versus going on.
I have seen better written (and acted) Twisted Sister music videos than this movie
#monsterdon
@Newpa_Hasai The pyramid collapses in the next one -- this #Monsterdon selection #TheRobotVsTheAztecMummy actually came before #TheWrestlingWomenVsTheAztecMummy -- unless it happened in this movie also and I wasn't paying enough attention.
@moira @CactuarJoe The producer was probably inspired by Heart of Darkness #monsterdon #conrad
Huh. I'm no filmmaker, or professional film critic, or whatever, but I feel like if your movie's runtime is 65 minutes, and you spend 30+ minutes on exposition... maybe that's more an episode of a TV show, than a movie?
Dah well. Thanks everyone for watching along! thanks @Taweret for hosting! Have a great week & see you next Sunday!
The movie does look better in the original black and white versus the AI enhanced color
They've known where the breastplate and bracelet are for five years. Why didn't someone just photograph the symbols in order to decipher it?
#Monsterdon #RobotVsAztecMummy
@ranjit Oh, right. They did, but it was just a very brief hint that they escaped into the night.
they were dancing together for a second there #Monsterdon
#monsterdon Somebody invite the mummy to mastodon
I think you could extract out just the 5 minutes with the graveyard guard and the robot and preserve 100% of my enjoyment of that movie #monsterdon
I lost track of the motivations here, but with two minutes left to the movie the mummy and the robot are finally in the same room. #Monsterdon
The robot must have caused a hilarious electricity bill or why else its appearance was so short? #Monsterdon
Cutting off someone's head and stealing some uranium to build a human-robot to defeat the guardian mummy might seem like the obvious way to get at the map on the breastplate that will lead you to an ancient treasure, but I think I've come up with a simpler plan : Photograph the map.
I liked the Young America Horror Club recommendation at the end. I will always remember those poignant words at the end.
"Stop all this violence and killing. Go back and take these with you to guard like you did before, when you started all of this violence and killing."
"MWUAAAAGGGGHHH!"
It's like Lennon met McCartney.
@CactuarJoe YES. 43:44 of previous film.
Thatβs not a versus. Theyβre just leaning on each other.. Ok and yelling #Monsterdon
So do we have an actual count of how much of that movie was flashback? It was like 35 minutes of a 63 minute film, yeah? #Monsterdon
I mean... _wow_.
Well we all joined the Young America Horror Club tonight. Congrats.
10 minutes until #Monsterdon #TheCurseOfTheAztecMummy #DoubleFeature
Ok... Mummy defeats robot. Is this just going to be a thing?
Mummy vs Bugs Bunny
Mummy and the war against Florida
Mummy and the shame of gingivitis
I mean, these things practically write themselves.
Could have done with a longer fight at the end and much less recap of the previous films
@Violinknitter or writing. #Monsterdon
Okay, the original is "whale on" https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-of-whale-wail-wale
@starkraving666 Just think only an hour to go! #Monsterdon
Goatee guy has big Elon energy #monsterdon
@Louisa lobster sticks to magnet, mummy beats up robot
welp
thanks friends lol #monsterdon
Well. Glad that's over. It came not a moment too soon.
That robot was not a kneejerk #Monsterdon
what we need now is a Commando Cody to cleanse our BRAINS
Mummy for the win!
Robot and mummy sitting in a cemetery
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Mummy makes short work of robot!
Robot was just proto Big Daddy.
@blogdiva That's the flan! --dad #Monsterdon
...and it's done. Oookay #monsterdon