The Stepford Wives
GeePawHill
GeePawHill
GeePawHill

Dear , love y'all, even tho I don't participate. Did you know that William Goldman, author and screenwriter of _The Princess Bride_, wrote the script for "The Stepford Wives"?

It's true. And, in the book _The Princess Bride_, he is in LA doing re-writes for "The Stepford Wives" when he first orders S. Morgenstern's classic for his ten-year-old son.

(You would only know this if you'd read the novel, which, frankly, you should do, as it is richer and more amazing than the movie.)

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

AND THAT'S A WRECK

This was indeed an accidentally good film, we done did it again. Nobody fucks off into the sea, the monsters won and walk among us. I laughed, I cried, it was better than Cats (2019) and also Invasion of the Body Snatchers (several versions INCLUDING the 1978 version with Donald Sutherland).

This one is going to stick with me, I think.

Thank you @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting! Thank you @Cherizilla for the bingo cards! Thank you everyone for a memorable evening.

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

No sudden end this week. Very un-monsterdon like.

Gotta say, it could've used an Aztec mummy in the second act though.

Matt Jordan
Matt Jordan
muhkayoh

β€œI lost my virginity to a trustworthy chemist” is how I’m starting all of my party conversations from now on.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

"I think we ought to take a sample of the water ourselves, and take that sample to a trustworthy chemist." Erin Brockovich confirmed!!

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

"Ed has always hankered after a heated swimming pool. And now he's going to get it!"

Ed's going to get a crash course in mildew management, pool chemistry maintenance, and chlorine breakdown rates as a function of weather and solar exposure is what Ed's going to get

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

oh herk, crystallized instant coffee and a 1l brown glass jar of Coffee Mate

_There_ is the horror genre coming in strong

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Oh no did we accidentally pick another movie that is Good, Actuallyβ„’? THE HORROR

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

I don't know if it's just movies in the 70s in general or this movie in particular, but there's a real dearth of male characters who are not complete sleazeballs.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

"I like to watch women doing little domestic chores."

Yes, I think about ten pitchforks ought to do the trick, as long as we can get a full barrel of tar heated up to fluid temperature before the feathers arrive

Kooker
Kooker
Keiraleesharonart

I would watch a whole movie about these ladies running off together and establishing themselves back New York

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

She brought the fireplace poker? This is suburban USA, surely there was an array of handgun choices available, no?

Bluedepth

We've got another segfault. Wrong Java was installed. JRE 1.7a obviously.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

Genuinely chilling interaction in the kitchen with Bobbie there. Didn't even need the musical cues. 😬

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

"Once I get enough samples I aim to feed them all into a computer, and program it" LLM SCRAPER BRO, GET IM

Kooker
Kooker
Keiraleesharonart

So far the two non-Stepford women are sparkling conversationalists and a lot of fun. The men are drips and creeps. This is a super effective set-up for this movie

Bluedepth

The Stepford Wives were designed by Siemens Nixdorf. They have an OBD2 port, just under the apron flap. You should see them empathize with an ATM with an empty cash cassette. It's a tear-jerker.

Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide
Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide
Infoseepage

I wonder how long the husband has known about the whole "new and improved robo-wife" thing? Because he's done a pretty good job of keeping his wife from outright leaving Stepford.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

"Well I'm not surprised, you're obviously a very bright woman."

And with just one subtle conversational beat between the characters that statement tilts from an expression of respect to a thinly veiled threat.

Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide
Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide
Infoseepage

I've just been handed a slip of paper that says Donnie Darko is an old movie and nobody young has actually seen it.

Okay, she's married to Sam Elliott, the guy with the mustache from Big Lebowski. You have seen Big Lebowski right? Please tell me people still watch TBL.

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

_Walter protesting_ "There is a dog under the kitchen table!"

sir that is a small horse or possibly a llama, that creature is enormous and woolly

wohali
wohali
wohali@octodon.social

"I like to watch women doing little domestic chores"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA :possum:

#monsterdon

nev
nev
nev@bananachips.club

okay, that was fantastic.

I've seen so, so many movies & TV episodes made since then that have tried to be even vaguely feminist, even had women writers/directors/etc., and failed MISERABLY. How the fuck did a bunch of guys effortlessly pull it off in fucking 1975.

I mean it's hardly subtle, but not everything has to be, you know?

#Monsterdon

So many dynamos
So many dynamos
Zerofactorial@noc.social

The moral of the story is you can't wait for a family of color to move into your neighborhood and magically solve your entrenched social problems. That's not how real estate works #monsterdon

Matt Jordan
Matt Jordan
muhkayoh

β€œBecause we canβ€œ is pretty much the justification for a lot of what’s going on these days.

Bluedepth

Try the LACK OF BLINKING. Not even an approximation using a fast fourier transform or anything! Even trying! Just wide eyed, Belladonna enhanced emptyheaded polyester models.

Bluedepth

Loved the stratified cigarette smoke that lazily collected along the ceiling line. Like a jazz club... "You want to breathe, get on the floor!”

Bluedepth

Now we know where Peanuts parents got the wah wah wah sounds. These guys have all the vocal stylings of the Hoover Tank Vac stuffed in the closet.

nhgeek
nhgeek
nhgeek

Take a picture, buddy, your robot copy will be more accurate.

[empty]
[empty]
allanb

Real nondigital photography, that involved actual work and equipment

Bluedepth

The town that Zoloft made. Everyone is on SSRI's, the good stuff, the good silenced chidlren barely awake Prince Valium style kiddos of the 70’s. You want something to cry about? I'll give you something to cry about!

nhgeek
nhgeek
nhgeek

1970s casserole... they should be playing horror music just for that

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
gnomon

@k8eb is currently speculating whether prosthetic chest hair was involved in that neighbour-meeting scene.

Ross of Ottawa
Ross of Ottawa
ottaross

And we start with a very typical new york street scene, and an awesome old imitation wood-finish stationwagon.

Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide
Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide
Infoseepage

@lytta @jonny @ricci I think it would be really funny framing if you had some (fictionally disguised) future Boston-Dynamics/Real Doll corporate merger and they came out with customizable models for both sexes. The humans don't actually get replaced, they get supplanted and the whole thing explores what needs a variety of people can and cannot get from a robot and everyone trying to figure out what real people are good for along the way.

Matt Jordan
Matt Jordan
muhkayoh

If all of the women are traded for young, attractive robots, how will we ever discover the true purpose of the post menopausal woman? Checkmate, incels.