@Lazarou @Taweret he like

took over a chocolate factory for some reason?

it was all very confusing

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@Lazarou I think humanity is safe *until* Kim dies. then all bets are off #monsterdon

That was my 1st #Monsterdon and it was fun!

@blogdiva @Taweret@octodon.social I hope the 2070s bring that all back, actually in Space this time!

#monsterdon

Tell me that wasn't a high point of Canadian cinema #monsterdon

I got a bit distracted when a friend called but when the robot started walking I could not stop laughing. It's just a box with a guy in it! #Monsterdon

@bookandswordblog idk about tubi but the 1936 original is on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/ClaCinOnl_ThingsToCome

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

wikipedia says Anne-Marie Martin (who starred as Kim) had previously auditioned for the role of Princess Leia #monsterdon

@Lazarou Yeah, Kim seemed really into him for about two minutes #monsterdon

@Zerofactorial his dad, dying of radiation, got further than he did #monsterdon

Jason was Luke with half the charisma at best #monsterdon

I... wha... huh

I would feel better if I at least knew what the titular shape was

Or if I had some of those space drugs

But thanks @Taweret for a super weird and longer than usual #Monsterdon

@Lazarou He doesn't deserve it. He didn't even hook up with anyone #monsterdon

@amyfou

IMDB sez Linda V. Carter, so alas probably not.

#Monsterdon

And the end credits music soars ... or plonks, or something. Tubi cut the credits off short anyway.

To think I made it through this back in the theatrical release.

#Monsterdon

What about. . . like a bajillion things?!!! What happened to the kids? Where will you get the important drugs now? Will Kim and Nikki ever have a conversation?! #Monsterdon

god palance being bonked by that big styrofoam beam gets funnier every time you see it :D

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

🦖#Monsterdon 🦖

Thank you yet again
@Taweret for hosting our regular Sunday feature.

🎞️ And to the Real Time Film Analysis Squad, despite our current collective desire to be finished off by Omus' Deadly Disco Ball, we did survive another one. And with some excellent commentary! Thank you!

🦖 Hey, let's vote for a movie with a serious monster next time.

P.S. Will @cheribaker ever return???

Whelp. #TheShapeOfThingsToCome1979 was certainly a movie that I've now watched. #Monsterdon

Well!
That was much better than I was expecting!

My #1 takeaway: the money that Lucas spent adding hokey CGI dinosaurs & Jabba the hut to eps. 4-6 would have been much better spent adding a cape to Jack Palance in all of his earlier movies

Many thanks to @Taweret & the gang for another fun #monsterdon!

@funkula It's a good thing that none of the robots on Delta-3 had the teleportation thing that Sparks—a robot from Delta 3—had. That would have been rough. #monsterdon

We can very easily get behind the robots and take their knees out with our long pokey sticks, or stand them off, or... choose to get within grabby stabby distance and get thrown down.

#monsterdon

@gnomon GET A ROPE. #monsterdon #theshapeofthingstocome

To new membies and the greater fedi, if you can see this you are about to see a bunch of #monsterdon posts and they aren't even about a good movie this time. Plz mute the hashtag if u don't care to see them :) https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon

And Mankind's search for meaning continues... #Monsterdon

And that's why you don't chew on load-bearing scenery, kids

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@Taweret@octodon.social They were cramming five knock-off Star Trek episodes into this, something had to give.

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Welp, no, we're just gonna leave that existential crisis for humanity flapping in the breeze, not even acknowledge it.

This is the highest-budget "what the hell?" movie we've watched on #Monsterdon I reckon. Loved the sets, the costumes, the music. The screenwriting… was technically present.

See y'all next week!

So ends another #Monsterdon. As always, our thanks to @Taweret for hosting, and to all the posters and lurkers. And remember, #Monsterdoners: What the hell was that all about?

And they lived happily ever after... until they ran out of the special drug and everyone died.

#monsterdon

You couldn't be more generic star wars with disco music than this.
#monsterdon

The great oil-slick of space

#monsterdon

[They find a field full of dead children.] Annnnnnd, scene!
#monsterdon

Well, no more RADIC-Q-2 but what's on that cargo ship. That gives humanity time to tidy up the place before handing off to the next species.

#monsterdon

Hobbit adventure music

#monsterdon

question answered, the whole point of the movie was to get medication to like 5 orphans on earth one time #monsterdon

wow, genuinely good explosion. nice reserving of your entire budget for your final sequence, movie. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

The planet Delta-3 evolved so hard that it EXPLODED

#Monsterdon

Finally they got the triumphant music at the right time

#Monsterdon

Executive office chairs IN SPAAAAAACE #monsterdon #theshapeofthingstocome

Gotta admit, it's refreshing to see a movie from the 70s where there's a woman in charge. Everybody can see that Rick, or Brent, or whatever his name is, is just eye candy. #Monsterdon

@Taweret I heard Radic-Q-3 is gonna be even better #monsterdon

Really unironically digging this miniature work though

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

is "Nikki secure yourself to the robot!" the bechdel test pass? #monsterdon

The red button that lays down the bass line. It is now too late #monsterdon

I thought this streak didn't have enough fuel to leave the planet.
#Monsterdon

And then Jack Palance starts to sing a rendition of "Hurt".

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Sparks! Shut down all the trash compactors on the detention level! All the trash compactors on the detention level!! #monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Sparks, make the other robots play Despacito

#monsterdon

HOW DO YOU LIKE SPINNING NOW, YELLOW MAN!!!

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

"merrick and the others are dead" wow they don't even get names when they die #monsterdon

AGAIN with the waiting for the elevator, jeez #Monsterdon

Oh I guess Jack himself is number three.
"SHUT IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!" yes please that sound and flashing is too much.
#Monsterdon #ShapeOfThingsToCome

Me when I turn the feedback on my synth too high

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Uh oh he pressed the Terraform button, HashiCorp is gonna get him now

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

I mean ... they were wearing red shirts.

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Destroy Delta-3 and go live on the moon?

But the whole plot was that the moon can't survive without the drugs from Delta-3.

#monsterdon

"I will destroy Delta 3"

The whole planet? Seems a little excessive

And what, you're coming back pretending to be the Professor?

What is this?

#monsterdon

Did they just let that explosive ship sail on to New New New New Washington or did I miss the heroic shooting it down?
#Monsterdon

This shot would be cool if it didn't look so dumb through Jack's silly helmet.
#Monsterdon #ShapeOfThingsToCome

Why are these dudes running into walls? 😂 #monsterdon

Omus is back from his potty break, I guess? #Monsterdon

"Omus could be anywhere! The tunnels! The staff quarters! Anywhere!"

Unrelatedly, our spaceship is blasting off without us!

So now we have TWO mysteries!!!

#monsterdon

THRILL, as our heroes WAIT FOR AN ELEVATOR! #Monsterdon

Ohhh, it was to lure the Hairspray Team while he nicked their ride.

Of course.

#monsterdon

Lady just got in an elevator with her own stunt double.
#Monsterdon #ShapeOfThingsToCome

The cape actually came in handy! Well played, Omus

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Ooh, that saucy little synth sting. Where have YOU been all movie?

#Monsterdon

lol, surprise reveal of what's under the cape........

...but WHY though? Why leave the body there with your favourite cape

#monsterdon

the robot is having a crisis
#monsterdon

I get that the dude was dying already, but that kind of makes his death less tragic. He refused medication that could have healed him, and Omus shortened his life by only a few days.

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

"D3R765? How dare you refer to me by my deadname!" - Sparks

#monsterdon #theshapeofthingstocome

well, that's one way around portraying the radiation sickness... O_O

#Monsterdon #TheShapeofThingstoCome

deploying an LRAD in an enclosed space is not that cool of a futuristic weapon #monsterdon

[flatly] oh noooo he died before we could do literally anything with the plot that established that he was succumbing to radiation poisoning

#Monsterdon

Palance invented a machine that makes you orgasm to death? #Monsterdon

is he gonna put that on his-- HE PUT IT ON HIS HEAD this movie is amazing, no notes. #monsterdon

so did he bring the cape to delta 3 or have it made there or

#monsterdon

Oh yeah, we're gettin' a BIG ol' slice of Jack Palance here. This is great, he's leaving dental records on the sets :D #Monsterdon

"My old mentor"

Surely they're, at minimum, the same age

#Monsterdon

This, a RADIC-Q-2 factory that clearly runs on multiple large diesel engines. #monsterdon #theshapeofthingstocome

Omus has a cape!

#monsterdon

"Wait until you see what I've accomplished. Here on Delta-3 there are no weird kids in ghillie suits."

#monsterdon

How many of us could resist the temptation to flash our genitals in the sky hologram machine?

#monsterdon

doctor cabal? this is about some fucking _trade federation_ bullshit? really?

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

That shield is a snow disk sled

#monsterdon

I HAVE MANY IMPRESSIVE THINGS TO SHOW YOU IN MY CITADEL. I MEAN MY PENIS. I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU MY PENIS. #monsterdon #theshapeofthingstocome

"I'm getting an intense gravitational pull on my readout." Sparks has some mad innuendo.

#monsterdon

"John this could be daaaangerous"

Love this lady's acting

#monsterdon

"...I'm trapped in a microwave. That's why I keep spinning like this. Help!"

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

"I... Am... Omus! Emperor of... Of... Can someone help me here I can't stop this lazy susan and I'm getting sick!" #Monsterdon

The Evilest man in Canada!

#monsterdon

RELEASE THE POLLEN!

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Have you tried running around the robots while they wave their arms at you

#Monsterdon

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net No, you see, all rocky planets are Earthlike outside our solar system.

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

#Monsterdon Why would the robots need to give hand signals to each other?

How did we lose a war to these shitty bots? #Monsterdon

No laser guns, no light sabers, CATTLE PRODS.
Y'all.
#Monsterdon

They're wearing opposite uniforms.

#monsterdon