well the movie didn't so much end as it stopped

ty for joining, everyone!!

#monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting, wrangling, and herding all us misanthropes into the funtime corral!

Tonight we had all kinds of stuff in lieu of a coherent plot, including:
- Space Chem Trails!
- Snazzzy Jack Palance purple cape!
- Sparks, the pilot robot that can teleport for some unknown reason.
- Star Streak!
- Spectrum Drive!
- Pew Pews in the credit music!

#TheShapeOfThingsToCome

[EXPLOSION] "Now the Omus is on YOU!" #monsterdon

I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if 2 people and a bunch of robots suddenly cried out in pain, and then... nothing. #monsterdon

Why is the smoke rolling up off the entire planet? #monsterdon #theshapeofthingstocome

The planet is smoking into space!

I’m fecken ded.

#Monsterdon

dont we still need moon drugs tho?

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So the conclusion of this movie is going to be the destruction of Delta-3, the only source of RADIC-Q-2.

…are they going to move human civilization back to Earth in the last 5 minutes of this movie?

#Monsterdon

Not understanding why the planet is self-destructing

#monsterdon

"I AM YOUR CREATOR!!!"

They're just dancing around you Jack, try harder

#monsterdon

oh, Nikki was totally Jungle Fevering with Derrick... am okay with that. #Monsterdon

wait! they're gonna die is a comic accident? #Monsterdon

Ohh stealthy robot attack. Why doesn't anyone have shooting weapons?
#monsterdon

Why don't these robots have guns?

#monsterdon

I am so hoping that at some point, in the climax battle of this movie, someone has the chance to say "Now the Omus is on you!" #monsterdon

Blondie is the most incredible crime scene investigator ever, step aside Columbo

#monsterdon

To be fair, that *was* an annoying noise

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Killed the poor guy with a Tinnitus Simulator :/ #Monsterdon

"Let me give you one last lesson in the power of Science"

Puts on a plastic helmet while the disco lights make the Professor lose his mind

This is Science Manifest!

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Oh no, Cabal is bringing out the pickle jar hat! Not the pickle jar hat!!

Idiot gave his robot army independent thought....

#monsterdon

i wonder what the sick orphans they abandoned are up to?

#monsterdon

still waiting for Doctor's radiation sickness to kick in, chernobyl style...

#Monsterdon #TheShapeofThingstoCome

Rather than destroy their landing craft, he's going to steal it, even though he already has spaceships.

This is exactly why supervillains always fail.

#monsterdon

I think it's hologram transmission has a horizontal sync problem. It keeps spinning!
#monsterdon

the smiling and rotating are really working against the vibe i think you're going for

#monsterdon

Incredible how every planet looks like Canada in Spring

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wow, this time warp sequence is exactly like 2001 #monsterdon

got bored during #monsterdon and drew a thin giraffe

"We're going to break up!"

I knew she wanted to date the robot.

#monsterdon

Jason has fucked up again.

Time for dad to come off his death bed and deal with the special effects outside....JASON!

#monsterdon

As #monsterdon teaches us, the spaceships of the future require lots of counting to pilot them.

Oh good, I'm glad Blondie is leading the Butlerian Jihad, she has the gravitas to lead Humanity on Delta 3

#monsterdon

#monsterdon _monsters stagger through a dry corn field kicking up just enormous clouds of dust_

God that poor film crew, they must have been sneezing out their entire lungs

EDIT: monsters, robots, whatever, same difference. Actors stumbling around in plastic suits instead of rubber suits, whatevs

the future is one of Brutalist pastels #Monsterdon

This movie has the *weirdest* ideas about when triumphant music is appropriate. #Monsterdon

Spectrum drive is quite disappointing. It only make the ship rolls sideways.
#Monsterdon

that is the slowest spectrum drive EVAR! #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Does anyone want to hazard a guess as to why there is a visible reaction matter plume when this saucer is taking off, but there was none when it was setting down? Bueller?

"Give the kids some drugs! I'm going home now, fuck you guys!" #Monsterdon

Planet of the Ghillie Suit Urchins (1979)

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

We got a car, we lost a car. Okey doke.

#Monsterdon

They were so cheap , they couldn't even show the jeep breaking-down?

#monsterdon

the best thing that could happen in this movie would be for anything to happen in it #monsterdon

those kitchen counters are so late 1950s #Monsterdon

Are there going to 'mutants' in this thing? They all went mad for the 'mutants' in those days, didn't they?

Or has 'Charlie' just lost his mind in the woods?

#monsterdon

meanwhile, somewhere in Canada ...

#monsterdon

"Let's check up on an old friend of mine. The colours on the wall are beautiful....maaaannn.....the robot wars....."

#monsterdon

sometimes there's music, sometimes awkward silence, sometimes the music is zany, sometimes dramatic

#monsterdon

@jonny he had an edible 30 mins ago #monsterdon

i guess in Canadian EEOC, the Black Trini isn't the first to die. it's the brunette with the naturally wavy hair #Monsterdon

Oh this movie is Canadian, that explains a lot #monsterdon

Nikki's toast #Monsterdon

someone's playing space invaders on that monitor

thought we wouldn't notice

but we did

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

#monsterdon This power plant looks a _lot_ like the one from the final showdown sequence in Blacula. Except for the staggering killer robots.

@paco @davesdogmaggie This movie could use a werewolf robot and a vampire robot

#Monsterdon

Wait. Isn’t this the same location as in Blacula? #Monsterdon

Oh man, the robot army are not exactly Cylons, are they?

"Everything is falling neatly into place"

Who wrote this script, seriously?

#monsterdon

I'd *hope* that the Starstreak is better than a Delta III!

#monsterdon

#monsterdon what if star trek but really long, and we launched it like a ballista payload

Look, that clarktech teleporting AI thing is a spy, not a pet

#monsterdon

Here's a fun idea, what if the three of us started an interstellar war?

#monsterdon

@moira kill it, kill it #monsterdon

Ohhhh, Jason is his son.

Is this "Bring your child to work day" or something?

What utopia has nepo babies, ay?

ANSWER ME HG WELLS!

#monsterdon

The same generation that invented TV dinners thought that in the future we would all dress like TV dinners. #monsterdon

Politely humoring the robot as it breaks all laws of physics #monsterdon

Why don't robots ever get capes? #Monsterdon

isn't that guy with the beard in the band Chicago? #Monsterdon

@jonny Evidently the shape of things to come is a sphere

#Monsterdon

dressed like a medieval super villain while sitting a big ominous desk surrounded by robots

that's how im trying to be

#monsterdon

"John, we don't seem to be able to agree on anything"

Romance subplot

#monsterdon

@ricci prophetic after all! #monsterdon

Palance seems like the kind of guy who would have been in at least one star trek episode, but confirmed he did not 🖖 #monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

dog did we learn nothing from the great robot wars #monsterdon

#monsterdon Oh man, so many mylar costumes! Can you even imagine how sweaty those things must have been after the first thirty seconds of standing under cinema lighting?? Those poor humans. Those poor sweaty, sweaty humans.

Meanwhile on conservative talks shows:"Did DEI lead to this out of control ship crashing into our moon city?" #Monsterdon

The PALANACE

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PALANCE! #Monsterdon

Flexseal! Is there nothing it can't fix? #monsterdon #theshapeofthingstocome

I hope there is a 'Master Computer Jive Muthafucka'

#monsterdon

oh! we have a brunette in the control room that looks like she could tan #Monsterdon

"Look at the weight distribution on that cargo ship"

Actually, in the microgravity of lunar orbit, it's more helpful to look at the mass distri-"

[gets crushed by runaway cargo ship]

#monsterdon

When my computer asks me for a password, I just wave dismissively and say "Cut the formalities. This is important." and it just gives me access.

#monsterdon

"lomax confirms" is the "god willing" of this universe isn't it

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Ceci n'est pas une drill #monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

The buttons on that console were not designed with robot claws in mind #monsterdon

The Star Streak Project is dead. Nobody will be running naked in front of the stars. #Monsterdon

A new Washington near the surface of the Moon... made by #Canada
#monsterdon

"NEW Washington....on the Moon!"

#monsterdon

"Ugh, I hate when the change the clocks....."

#monsterdon

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So, in tonight's #monsterdon, why did Charlie, who was living on Earth, and secretly taking care of a bunch of kids, die?

He'd been dead for quite a while, but they treated it like it was urgent. Like whatever killed him might still be around.

@Lazarou The moon is already ruled by a big computer anyway.

#monsterdon

@kcarr2015 He was the Kwisatz Hammyact #monsterdon

@moira @Zerofactorial it's a dessert AND a monster! #monsterdon

@ottaross They looked pretty stoned tbh so maybe #monsterdon

okay everybody let's have some proper MONSTER in next week's movie okay

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@Lazarou @Taweret I couldn't tell how they knew the dead person was even Charlie Montgomery without even rifling through his pockets or anything #monsterdon

i want to find out that harlan ellison threw that beam so hard at somebody while filming the starlost that it didn't land until it hit palance right on the noggin

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@Elleaster Proclaim #monsterdon to all your friends via a rotating hologram of you in a jumpsuit!