okay, if some dude already had made a down payment before he asked me to move i would eviscerate him. i know it's the 70s lady, but you can do better. #monsterdon

If everybody's a member, then it doesn't sound very exclusive. #monsterdon

sanka

plugola

#monsterdon

did her husband knock her up out of wedlock and thats why theyre married

#monsterdon

"What do you think you'll miss most about New York?" "Literally everything."

#monsterdon #TheStepfordWives1975

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and a nice big jar of coffeemate non-dairy creamer on the table

I haven't seen this before, but already I am worried about that little dog being used as a tragic plot device

#monsterdon

"Yes, I am a Normal Human. I carried a hot cast-iron pan through a field and did not burn my hands because potholders in the '70s were wishful thinking, because I am a Normal Human." #Monsterdon

That is a lot of house for just four people.

#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives1975

Beware of strangers bearing casseroles #Monsterdon

@apLundell@octodon.social @Taweret@octodon.social Also Q the Feathered Serpent

#monsterdon

We have come to trad wife town. Oh no.
#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives

"I'm not allowed to drink anything on the job lady. `Cept beer."
Thematic statement of intent? or just a one-liner?
#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives

Gen X'ers are having PTSD flashbacks of the old station wagons with no seatbelts. #Monsterdon

Aggressively Helvetica titles.

#Monsterdon #StepfordWives

Doggy!

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🤵 👰 💍 😱 🤵 🤖 😬

Nice 70s station wagon, fake wood paneling, lady in brown bandana and hoop earrings: verisimilitude A+ (except for my spelling)

#Monsterdon "i'm rooting for the mannequins"

mm, back when glove compartments could hold entire SLR cameras. #monsterdon

That's a solid Brady Bunch wagon #monsterdon

#Monsterdon lady with a camera and a hair kerchief and a a denim jacket?

yeah it's the 70s

a mannequin? being carried around by some random man??? is this a """metaphor""" i see before me? #monsterdon

This is pretty hardcore 1970s
#monsterdon

I legit miss fake wood paneled station wagons.

#monsterdon

New York was a different place in the 70s... random sex doll just walking down the street?

#Monsterdon

I thought the sound dropped out

#monsterdon

Never go to a second location. NEVER GO TO A SECOND LOCATION

#monsterdon #TheStepfordWives1975

much art, very film

#monsterdon

Thos movie looks more serious than the average on #monsterdon

Don't leave the city. Okay, I got that down
#monsterdon

I expect to see a lot of hair in this #monsterdon

#monsterdon time

Something a little different tonight on #Monsterdon

Join us by following the hashtag to see how Project 1975 turned out!

Or filter the hashtag if you daren't find out the consequences of women scorned

Tonight on #monsterdon 🤖 👫

As always, I'll be a bit spammy for a bit.

What's up with this residential phone from 1975? What are those buttons for?

#Monsterdon

so since they retconned the robotification with pills, shouldn't Stepfordification be reversible now?
eta: doesn't explain the beeping though

#Monsterdon #RevengeOfTheStepfordWives

yeah it's kind of comfortingly bad but still too much of this for one night, I'm afraid I'm out

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon
I could almost forgive the murder, but their taste in women's clothes was awful!

thinking about the fact that they went through the trouble of dognapping the dog in advance so it would have time to adjust to robot!Joanna and be perfectly fine, like super top tier humane treatment of the dog, while simultaneously straight up murdering all the women

i mean obviously that's partly because we the audience hate to see a dog die more than a human, but

#monsterdon

@moira i'm sort of coming to that conclusion too, and if you're out i'm gonna bail too, 4 hour total runtime on some shit that i hate is too much time i think lol #monsterdon

The Stepford Wives, brought to you by Nikon.

#Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

👩 THE STEPFORD REVIEWS 🤖

Why we miss Roger Ebert

Ebert's review of The Stepford Wives, first paragraph 1/1/1975

"If television affects the way we think, dress and behave — and, heaven help us, I’m afraid it does — then someday we may all be a nation of those perfect plastic robots on TV. The ones who look human (well, humanoid), but who’ve fashioned a utopia out of this vale of tears by selecting and using the correct cosmetics, kitchen aids, toiletries and garbage bags. That may come someday. In the meantime, there are “The Stepford Wives.”

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-stepford-wives-1975

"You've got water in your water. ... I wouldn't want to drink too much of it."

#Monsterdon

"Hi, I used to be Joanna Ingles. You deflowered me twelve years ago. Would you check my water?"

😂

#Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe Now there's an idea: the Stepford Theme Park, where they arbitrarily kidnap unfortunate tourists and turn them into robots to work the exhibits

okay maybe the concept needs some workshopping but there's something there

#Monsterdon

@diazona @Taweret I know all about volunteer efforts. I work in open source software. 😁

The MKV file is even better, btw, if you have a connection that will handle a 4+ GB file.

#Monsterdon

have just learned that brian de palma wanted to direct this movie but william goldman said no way bro ​:wail:​

#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives

@CactuarJoe @paco aw why'd you have to go and ruin a perfectly reasonable #Monsterdon experience with reality

(j/k)

btw thank you @Taweret and #monsterdon for occasionally tricking me into watching classics of cinema/pop culture.

(i'm really not a watcher of stuff these days, monsterdon movies are pretty much the only thing I watched in 2024)

@paco Man, that's exactly what makes The Stepford Wives so creepy for me -- I have known *dozens* of dudes who would be 100% into that process. The real villains of this movie actually exist. :/ #Monsterdon

@Taweret Super depressing. I didn't think a movie not about toxic radiation poisoning of the environment could be such a downer #monsterdon

I still wanna know if the robots know they're robots

#monsterdon #TheStepfordWives1975

The moral of #TheStepfordWives is that if these men could have sex robots powered by ChatGPT, they would.

My current video game is "Detroit Become Human" which is basically the inverse of this movie. Stepford Wives discover the ability to rebel against their programming. Super good. Amazing cinematography, voice acting, and storytelling in that game.
#monsterdon

hmm the more I think about it the more I would actually love to see The Stepford Spiders

Make it happen Hollywood

#Monsterdon #TeamSpider

All this tense Long Island cinematography has me wanting to watch The Amityville Horror now (I don't see it available on free streaming but it looks like there's a rip on archive.org?) #monsterdon

@akamran @MindTGap ooh that was a good one, might be worth trying to go back and rewatch that part when you can

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I don't think the men realize their daughters are going to die.

Okay, well, now that I'm *totally* skeeved out, it's time to do something engaging before I go to bed so I don't dream of Disney animatronic engineers who offer to convert my loved ones to soulless automatons 😬 #Monsterdon

But like, this is not my first watch and I would really like a remake that is pretty much the same, except that in the end she burns the mansion down, liberates Bobbi and Charmaine and all the men die. I like to delude myself like that. #monsterdon

I’m not on their side but I do like that the story ends with the bad guys getting away with it. It makes it more frightening. #Monsterdon

@ColesStreetPothole @trixter Kinda feels like it don't it?
I really need to see Get Out. I loved Nope.
#Monsterdon

as usual thanks @Taweret@octodon.social for hosting & everyone for posting, ring dings for all who want them!

until next sunday, until next year ​:BlobCat_Heart:​

#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives

@lytta @Infoseepage @ricci the serious version of it is the one i want to see and is what i thought they did until the last second #monsterdon

Oh no. I was still hoping she might escape. That was creepy AF.

"The Stepford Wives"

#Monsterdon

alternatively, i would also accept a pulpy fan edit of rescuing the original bobbie and whipping a grenade into the Council of Men Headquarters #monsterdon

Welp. Maybe Valerie Solanis was right after all, goodnight everybody! #monsterdon

And that’s a wrap. Good night, #monsterdon !

So far, Bobby is my favorite character.

#Monsterdon

Many thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @ryan for the stream, and everyone else on #Monsterdon for being your witty selves. I'm going to try to not have nightmares now!!

Well… I don’t know what to say. Where’s that abrupt ending we’ve come to know and love? Ah, well….next time!
#monsterdon

@ottaross There was just a smidge of wrestling women #monsterdon

@nev what are the odds that they can't get the skin colour right because their process was only trained on white folks #monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🤵 👰 💍 😱 🤵 🤖 😬

I need an Old English Sheepdog denoument to go along with the rest of this, unless she was gonna just be friends with Dis also.

Thank you @Taweret for hosting, @JoeWynne for the trivia, and @Cherizilla for the bingo!

Most of all, thanks #Monsterdonians for the fun!

Don't Stepford yourselves, friends, and we'll see you next week (🤞)

Such a great movie! Thanks @Taweret for organizing, as always #monsterdon

Well, that one's in the can. Thanks to @Taweret for hosting

#Monsterdon #StepfordWives

Now go read the book. It’s scarier. I thought so anyway. #Monsterdon

@strangefour RUUUUUUUN

#monsterdon #TheStepfordWives1975

#Monsterdon Ok, I'm going to watch some nice, wholesome monster movie with kidnapped children and a knife headed dinosaur.

Oh my god fuck you movie stop panning #monsterdon

I haven't seen it, but it sounds like Don't Worry Darling (2022) might be somewhat of a spiritual sequel to Stepford. Been on my watch list for a while.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10731256/?ref_=tt_mv_close

#monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

👩 THE STEPFORD TRIVIAS 🤖

The Good News: The see-through nightgown Katherine Ross wears, reveals "large bare breasts".

The Bad News: They are prosthetics to make them look much bigger - as an enhancement for her loving hubby.

#TheStepfordWives #TheStepfordWives1975

Huh. this was Mary Stuart Masterson's acting debut as one of the kids #monsterdon

70s movies loved wind instruments. #Monsterdon

Diz saying "It's nothing like you imagine" sounds like my supervisor saying "I'm not mansplaining" #monsterdon

Thanks to everyone who makes #monsterdon great ! See you next time.

And now the credits play over a long, long photo montage of a man I'd like to punch until my fists are bloody <3 #Monsterdon

oof. it's been a while, but i don't remember the 2004 remake being this good. #monsterdon

But, but, but, but, but, but, but, what!?!?
#monsterdon

lmao the black family really did move to town, good luck guys

does one really need to wear one's big floppy hat in the supermarket?

that's a can of that spray starch thing she's picking up at the end isn't it

#Monsterdon

So no more Grand Union. They only shop at Waldbaums now. Because Whole Foods didn’t yet exist. #Monsterdon

Please tell me this is the good ending where the girls got rid of all the guys and are just being really sarcastically polite to each other afterwards for the bit 😭
#monsterdon

And she f'd off into the camera

#monsterdon
#TheStepfordWives

@strangefour honestly thought that was not going to be real, that it was going to be some sort of, I dunno, fakeout?

#monsterdon #TheStepfordWives1975

Ring Ding sales plummet #monsterdon

#monsterdon Sure, Fine, Whatever. LOL.

Yeah it's a really unsatisfying conclusion but that's the horror of it. "Because we can"

#monsterdon

Why?

Because we can.

Sounds prophetic.
#Monsterdon

Everyone sing together, it's a small Stepford, after all!

#Monsterdon #TheStepfordWives

now that's a sad way to end it.
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon ...this is what Meta/FB is going to look like soon, huh.