apparently humanity will be totally into fringe edging and toggle buttons #Monsterdon

Hey! What' do you know? Boom today! Ivanova would be so happy.

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This soundtrack is really superb. The brass in particular is delightful

#Monsterdon

I like that they terraformed the moon to have clouds and blue sky. It wasn't to cut costs, for sure
#monsterdon

Love those terminals. Also love how they kept the logos on them. Probably had to hand them back over to IT after the shoot. #monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Computer, let's play Global Thermonuclear War. #Monsterdon

ohhhh nepotism #monsterdon

#Monsterdon They have Honeywells in the future apparently.

Good thing they left all the old people on Earth. #Monsterdon

Jumping into #monsterdon just a little late but i am here for this aesthetic.

those horns were very Close Encounters of the First Kind. when was that movie made again? like 5 years later?

#Monsterdon

nice to know honeywell still exists after the robot wars #monsterdon

Honeywell survived apocalypse. Impressive.

#monsterdon

Love that bouncy hair as she evacuates the Moon

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@Lazarou All Hail #FriendComputer !

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome1979

"What's the problem, Kim?"

They started playing the tuba on the soundtrack, Ken, it's ridiculous. #Monsterdon

Your uh lungs are showing buddy #monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Robot says NO

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

The LOMEX computer core looks like the interrogation droid that interrogated Princess Leah.

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@ottaross https://archive.org/details/TheShapeOfThingsToCome19791_20160204

#Monsterdon

master computer, play Despacito

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Quick, someone load Missile Command so we can shoot that ship down! #Monsterdon

@ottaross It's on the Internet Archive and various streaming sites, I can post a link shortly

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Yes. This is what the future is supposed to look like.

#monsterdon

That poor robot has such a hard time with human buttons...

#monsterdon

This drive is powered by cobalt? Oh no.

#Monsterdon

@moira brought his own space onsies too! #monsterdon

changing all my dating app bios to "my responsibility is to the moon council" #monsterdon

We got two Buck Rogers alums and one Space 1999 Doctor in this one. That's one of them trying to hail that space ship. #monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Nice office overlooking EPCOT Center #Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Still trying to grasp exactly what they spent the most money on. Looks like clothes

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon #CoffeeWatch The senator would be more amiable with some COFFEE, sir.

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN TESTED, WE DON'T EVEN KNOW IF IT WILL FLY

#Monsterdon

this is a LOT, i don't even know which thing to comment on first! #monsterdon

It's funny I mentioned Battlestar Galactica earlier because this is giving a lot of the same aesthetics as the original series. #Monsterdon

spirograph radar? #monsterdon

Oh god, you left Space: 1999 for _this_? YOU FOOL

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

STG this opening set looks like they just paid Glen Larson fifty bucks to borrow one of his Buck Rogers or Battlestar Galactica sets.

#Monsterdon

Boy Star Wars really wrecked scifi/fantasy movie exposition for a while, huh

I counted one spelling error and one grammar error in the opening crawl

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The obligatory post-Star Wars big honkin’ spaceship flyby #monsterdon

Theme tune has promise, can't deny that

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So how much of this production was people who also worked with Glen Larson on Buck Rogers? #monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

💡 TURN DOWN YOUR LIGHTS 💡

(where applicable)

#Monsterdon #MST3k

Is anyone else counting the minutes until #DoctorWho is back?

#Monsterdon ?

@LuciaG
That Kim and Nikki conversation needs to happen!
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@berniethewordsmith So... https://youtu.be/hgzCrjkcm0Y?si=mY5xJJcbZUtbAkbs ? #monsterdon

@georgieboy Has anyone set up a definitive bracket for all the #monsterdon selections? I would love to argue about that

I kind of lost the plot near the end but that's ok, so did the actors and screenwriters.

Overall, not as good as last week's but still miles better than racist tree.

#monsterdon

@moira Okay, my point is I would watch The Stuff again #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Jack Palance wanted to be Muad'Dib from #Dune, but instead became Dennis Hopper from #Speed. 🤷‍♂️

@Zerofactorial nah it rears up and attacks people that qualifies

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@moira The Stuff is a dessert #monsterdon

#Monsterdon

A movie-making question: Why use an H. G. Wells title? It's not like they used anything from the book, and the title isn't famous like War of the Worlds is.

What's the incentive? They could have called it Star Streak and not paid Wells's estate anything. It was still under copyright in 1979, right?

@Zerofactorial eh the stuff is a monster

it rears up and attacks people that counts

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@moira Well The Stuff didn't really have a bona fide monster in it and that turned out halfway decent #monsterdon

#Monsterdon I'm pretty sure the moral of this story is: don't initiate a planetary destruction sequence until you are off the planet.

Filed under: DUUUUHHHH.

Best part of #Monsterdon is we watch it with the kiddo (4th grade) who we discovered liked older horror and scifi when I tried Them! out on her like 7 months ago because it was one of my childhood favorites. Kiddo makes the best comments and asks very relevant questions.

The movie made a lot of missteps, but at least it lost the dopey Sparks Shakespearean bit after about five minutes #monsterdon

Noooooooo.... plex refuses to play past 1:28.

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon is MST3.0, but with Cosmic Slop FunkMinistress Liza rocking at the com.

#FreeYoAssAndYoMindWillFollow

Every Sunday night, 8PM CDT. Be there or be squared.

Cc: @blogdiva

anyway good job team and thanks to @Taweret for hosting as always

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@violetmadder I watched it on Tubitv. Ads were annoying, but other things were more annoying #monsterdon

@diazona @Elleaster I guess the robots were sort of the monsters (except for Sparks, whose teleporting ability gave us no payoff) #monsterdon

@Taweret idk, the air was pretty staticy

end up with some pretty brutal static cling and who needs that

better to live on the moon i guess

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

#Monsterdon

In an move that uncharacteristically covered a plot hole, they said that they're traveling to Earth (to presumably deliver the life-saving drugs).

Either that or they're getting that sweet seven years out of date Earth technology.

@Elleaster hooray! 🎉

I would say it's weirder than usual but I don't actually think that's true... Although usually there is an actual monster.

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I wish they'd just filmed the story of the Great Robot War instead. Oh well, that's for another visionary I guess #monsterdon

@violetmadder Every #Monsterdon movie is available on at least one streaming site (usually Tubi) and often more. And I think with maybe one or two exceptions that I've seen, they are all also on the Internet Archive, but sometimes they're not the easiest to find. Usually a couple people will post links to the IA page or other downloadable versions during the week with the #Monsterdon hashtag, so if you check the hashtag on, say, Friday, you'll probably find a source for it.

@Louisa plex is a goddamn liar xD

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@apLundell OK I wasn't expecting to be right about those orphan skeletons.

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Plex tells me that movies related to The Shape of Things to Come (1979) include War of the Worlds (2005), The Time Machine (1960), and Madame Web (2024)

#Monsterdon

@bunnyhero Yeah, no #monsterdon

I love the typo in the opening scroll #monsterdon Does anyone have the link to the 1979 film on https://tubitv.com/ I can just find the 1936 film there and on plex I can't hear sound.

@combatwombat YES!
I mean oh no Jack!
I was trying to find that gif and the internet failed me.
#Monsterdon #ShapeOfThingsToCome

@blogdiva but the happy music so it's all okay

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Omus died with a Starstreak in his pants #monsterdon

@kstatz12 Then #monsterdon will be your bag, baby

Oh, confusing editing. Maybe they did?! #monsterdon

So how'd those space orphans end up anyway? Thanks again everyone! And thanks @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week everyone. Watch out for flying pieces of set. #monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@combatwombat YES THIS

THIS is absolutely our blowout

#monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@apLundell There was one extra spaceship that I guess was supposed to be full of drugs

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The end...?
#Monsterdon #ShapeOfThingsToCome

*points at Jack Palance* I'll have what he's having. #Monsterdon

Why didn't they take Niki with them? Should be plenty of room with Cabell gone #monsterdon

I think it would have helped to read the book first.

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If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie event. See the post at the top of this thread for more info.

#Monsterdon I hope my hair looks that good during my next crisis.

well, they sure did blow up Jack Palance #monsterdon

At least the boom mike guy did his job. I never saw a boom mike in any shots. Good job my boy! #monsterdon #theshapeofthingstocome

Tubi transitioned me immediately into the cold open of the film Starcrash and dang, I wanna watch this now #Monsterdon

Ty yall for another fun time #monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

@jonny Soundtrack ending with a mashup of disco, marching band, and Star Wars ripoff? #Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

Good ending theme, though :3 #Monsterdon

Damn though at least they saved some money for a banger of an end credits song

#Monsterdon #TheShapeOfThingsToCome

mike beer. if that's not the guy who ran the whole show... #monsterdon

Well atleast they got away with one last shipment of space drugs before that planet blew up. Congrats heroes?
#Monsterdon #ShapeOfThingsToCome

Time to go figure out the hook of that Starscream/Bluestreak fic. Goodnight, #monsterdon !

Thanks @Taweret for hosting #Monsterdon.

well that was certainly an ending of some kind #monsterdon

@lytta Like McHale's Navy #monsterdon