ah yes, the suburbs, where random ladies do often pop out of bushes with pots full of food. #monsterdon

i think if we are rooting for the monster as per usual then we are rooting for patriarchy???? #monsterdon

"Back to my home in the bushes..." #monsterdon #thestepfordwives1975

Screenplay by William Goldman.

You know. "The Princess Bride." "Magic." That Goldman.

#Monsterdon

i'm worried about that little dog #monsterdon

Haunted piano score, that old feminine stereotype #monsterdon

“I’m Carol Van Sant, you may have heard of my son Gus” #monsterdon

Whoops, close encounter of the Betty Crocker kind #Monsterdon

I also don't drink during except except beer
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Coffee is... rejected?!

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#monsterdon Notice the camera that isn't afraid to eat some scenery itself. Just pan on the wooden floors. Hardwood. Flooring.

It's CT after all. #monsterdon

I am watching #TheStepfordWives1975 with my #Monsterdon family. So you might want to mute some hashtags for the next 90 minutes OR you could follow along. ;)

#monsterdon d9nt even have to lock your doors? Buddy, you should lock your doors

Of course their new place is Stepford is a frigging mansion. With that woody station wagon representing their socio economic level.

#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives1975

yeah, something indeed. #monsterdon

Wow what a piece of crap car that is, brings back memories of all crappy, overpowered stinky cars of the 70s

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Thanks to the holidays I’m joining my second #monsterdon .

Ooh, screenplay by William Goldman! (You may know another little film he did, _The Princess Bride_?)

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Great 70s cinematography btw #monsterdon

Welcome to Stepford Village, where Republicanism is in the air! #Monsterdon

Stepford Cops: particularly bastards

#monsterdon #TheStepfordWives1975

#monsterdon Screams in 1975, just like me. #GenX #1975 1975 GOD DAMN IT. :)

Ahhh…the 1970s station wagon. Nothing quite like it.
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So far this has the vibe of an extravagantly produced educational video I might have watched in elementary school

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70s acoustic guitar mood music! #Monsterdon

Very much TV show level art here
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massive nostalgia for the roads and vehicles of this era, and this kind of music. I'll get over it quickly but it's very endearing.

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I guess the realdoll is one way to try to sure urban decay

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i swear if the monster in this one is white flight instead of Gamera or Gorgo... #monsterdon

Bold Helvetica, classy as fuck

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so is the real monster in tonight's #monsterdon (#TheStepfordWives1975) going to be gender- and heteronormativity?

Homer and Marge scenario #monsterdon #thestepfordwives

That woody wagon is hekkin glorious #Monsterdon

Is that some foreshadowing I see? *GASP* I haven't seen this before but I have heard of it... and sorta know the plot. I think? Maybe?
#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives

I dislike "dad" already

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A manequin! Definitely not thematic foreshadowing.

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"What are you doing, Mommy?"

"Hang on a minute, kids, I gotta take a picture of that foreshadowing over there."

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Seatbelts? Airbags? What are those? #monsterdon

A little foreshadowing there.
#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives

that thing about how American horror films always take place in the country or the suburbs and never in a city

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The real horror is the 70s fashion. The rest is just filler. #monsterdon

She looks how I feel #Monsterdon

“Here we go” indeed! #monsterdon #thestepfordwives

Dude walkin round town with a sex doll, like you do. #monsterdon

they wanted Danny DeVito for the guy-on-the-corner role but his agent couldn't agree to terms

#monsterdon #TheStepfordWives1975

@strangefour ikr it's so weird having actual indicators of quality

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Oh man, those bikes do NOT look secure. #Monsterdon

I'm not going to lie, I would a car like one that they're driving, except matte black, electric, and modern standards.

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based on "a" novel by Ira Levinson. just one of them, we're not going to tell you which one. might be Stepford Wives, might not be. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon oh yeah, 1970s station wagons

Oh will you look at the time. #Monsterdon

I'm already confused

#monsterdon
#TheStepfordWives

Ok NOW start the movie 😅😅😅

#monsterdon #StepfordWives1975

now THAT is some wallpaper. #monsterdon

Yay #monsterdon

#MonsterdonAlert

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GO GO GO!!!!

#Monsterdon it begins

don johnson could tell the miami vice people he'd played a cop because of this; philip michael thomas could tell them it was because of the wizard of speed and time. what a pedigree.

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I went looking for queer readings of #TheStepfordWives1975. What I got was a robot trained on the words of real people giving me *its* inane queer reading 😐😐😐

#tormentNexus #monsterdon

dude, your pong is broken

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showing the technology in these things is _almost always a mistake_. particularly in the made-for-tv variety.

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the only people outside that window are the eep-eeps from Mars

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this one is MUCH dumber

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world's creepiest pizza hut

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Question is whether he's gonna get dead before he can talk.

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I do like "She's not programmed for flexibility." I do like that he's trying to come out and talk about what they all did however many years ago because he has regrets and is kinda desperate to fess up.

Still a monster, of course. But.

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Iiiiii'm not sure I'm up for another one of these even if it is clearly very different

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that cop definitely wants a Stepford Wife, that spunky new friend should be careful #Monsterdon #RevengeOfTheStepfordWives

I'm halfway watching the revenge of the stepford wives via @ryan 's stream: https://miru.miyaku.media/ but after all this talk about what a good remake would look like i'm super stuck on that, but this is like way more of a #monsterdon movie in the sense that i am constantly wondering like "what the fuck are they doing" and "what the fuck is this"

@bk1e Haven't seen it, but Jessie Buckley is so great in just everything. Loved her in a film called Beast.

Alex Garland also did the whole robot creator using his robots for sex thing in Ex Machina.

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....honestly just reading the summary of Revenge of the Stepford Wives on wikipedia confused me in multiple ways so like, good luck y'all

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I think "Men" (2022) is creepy and cringey in some of the same ways as The Stepford Wives, and it also has a strong Wicker Man vibe. It's pretty graphic though, both in terms of gore and nudity.

#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives

@moira @diazona @forestine @ryan omg if @ryan has already set up the stream i'm in passively. i sorta do have to see how this one goes #monsterdon

parkinson's isn't usually treated with thyroid medicine

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@jsadow @lytta the non-robotic housewives that we see are all protagonists, while the robotic housewives are neutral or victims of male oppression. Considering the role of patriarchy in the creation of the suburban housewife archetype that the film is using as a direct statement I struggle to map that either to mockery or satire. It’s straight up pointing out that male gaze and patriarchy are responsible for the archetype. #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @diazona @moira all you need is a few thousand additions to the dictionary database list 😭

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@lytta @diazona @moira It was too hard to provide them with a college education #monsterdon

i'm going to look up revenge of the stepford wives so i know what tonight's second-movie-watchers are getting into

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@diazona Exactly, right? Knowing they're robots presupposes _knowing_ anything, so both questions can be answered at once.

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@diazona @forestine @ryan I just came in REAL late, how far into this are we? actually 46 minutes?

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@diazona @moira they don't even know the word "archaic" 😭

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Her: "I bet he's thinking about other women."

Him: "Damn. I ordered the boob upgrade but why did I decline this month's special Junk-in-the-Trunk for 50% off?"

#monsterdon #TheStepfordWives

@blue @catzilla oh my fucking christ @lytta the 2004 remake does the swapped version in a way that is worse than i could have imagined if i tried #monsterdon

Aw I was paying too much attention to the feed to get Bingo 😢

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@moira I am also curious but I think at some level they must know, because Bobby pulled the knife out of her stomach way to nonchalantly for someone who believes she's human

Though I guess that could mean either that she knows she's a robot, or that her neural system isn't sophisticated enough to actually *know* anything at all

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@Infoseepage I’ve read them. Well not Sliver, but Boys from Brazil and Rosemary’s Baby. I’m going to have to see what else I’ve read of his. #Monsterdon

@forestine @ryan afterparty? TIL

#Monsterdon #TeamSpider

one of you is not a robot

#Monsterdon #TeamSpider

As someone who has swung wildly between gender conformity (to their gender assigned at birth) to non-conformity (looking as much as they could as the opposite gender without medical intervention) this movie played with my head in ways I have to say I do not like.

As in I'm not sure how happy I'm going to be getting dressed this week no matter *what* I wear or how I end up looking. And I'm really, really happy there is likely to be fewer people around work than usual.

Movie messed with me more than I realized while it was playing...

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@crazypedia@officemarx.party 🤖 🖨️

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Oh, my bad. I was thinking LI all this time and not CT #monsterdon

@paco this is the more fun sequel actually. all the replaced women gaining awareness, and rebelling and dealing with both sexism and issues of identity around 'oh i'm not me i'm a replacement for someone who is dead' (which is a favorite fiction trope of mine so i'm biased)

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@akamran @MindTGap yeah fair

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@ryan is there a hashtag for Spiderman -- I mean the Revenge of the Stepford Wives afterparty? anyone else watching? #Monsterdon

@jonny @Infoseepage @ricci now if you want a more progressive version of the same horror movie, you have a town of diverse couples (including same gender couples) and then flip a coin during the writing process for which member of the couple gets replaced. equal opportunity shitty spouses >_<

of course that doesn't resonate in the exact same way re: sexism, but

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@ramsey Yeah, that's how it goes. We can try to be a bit more proactive in the future about advertising a good downloadable version, which should help with that problem, but it's a volunteer effort.

The "official" source is usually Tubi or some other free ad-supported streaming site. @Taweret will mention at least one good streaming option in her posts during the preceding week.

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@jonny @Infoseepage @ricci tbh i would also find a serious 'swap binary gender, maintain heteronormativity' version in modern day to be trite and annoying. i'd accept it maybe from the 80s to early 90s at the latest.

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Okay. Things just got interesting when Joanna told Claude she'd help him if he could convince his wife and the other women to find time for her.

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