GARRET MORRIS!
that's the name of the Chocolate Chip Charlie actor.
he was in Saturday Night Live but more importantly,
CAR WASH!!!
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#Monsterdon The least realistic part of this movie so far is the far-right militia taking up arms against an evil corporation.
omg, this movie has :
Dannie Aiello from "Don The Right Thing" fame
Paul Sorvino, who to all Gen Xers, he's just Mira's dad
PATRICK O'NEAL!!! that's Tatum's dad; ex-fater-in-law of John McEnroe and the Boomers' heartthrob in Paper Moon and Love Story
i feel like i should know who Michael Moriarty but can't recall where i've seen that name
#monsterdon their heads get hollowed out by the stuff? Now now that's what I call empty calories
was 10 years old when i first saw Garret Morris in this MASTERPIECE of Black cinema.
yes... saw it when it first came out.
yes... am that old.
shut up!
Car Wash (1976)
https://youtu.be/eB0aROCl530
#TheStuff had Minions before it was cool
btw, this movie's music has little parodies of John Williams; especially Close Encounter of the Third Kind & ET
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LMAO the workers at the cocaine stuff factory are all dressed in yellow. they're like the minions but in reverse
cocaine!
Cocaine!!
COCAINE!!!
and Coca-Cola product placement. in this bargain bin movie because, reasons!
every guy in this movie is an off-brand Justin Bateman and now this teenage kid with the intense eyebrows is an off-brand Tony Manero. also the designated little kid looks like a pre-teen Jerry Seinfeld.
OMGLOL so this is not only a metaphor for junk food, but with that lady with the Bart Simpson voice and these off-brand Justin Batemans in a yatch off Water Street in the East River, this movie is absolutely about
cocaine!
Cocaine!!
COCAINE!!!
#Monsterdon what we do pirate radio broadcast and everyone is like "yeah thats true. we better radically alter our behavior" and then they blow up the ice cream company that was super popular one day before?
#Monsterdon However, it is very realistic for the far-right militia commander to think that the corporate ice cream people were communists based on no evidence.
we still took photographs on film and there was nothing like a "smart phone" in sight
oh... so the coal mines are now cocaine & meth labs
someone should look into Joe Manchin's personal checking accounts
btw: i didn't move back to NYC (was born here but raised in Puerto Rico) until 1986.
this is totally the NYC i remember
OMG "The Stuff" turns people into fondant husks
the least believable thing in this movie is that the cop didn't shoot the Doberman
who the hell eats a blobby thing pulsating in the snow?!?!
mercenaries arrive in Georgia... IN TAXIS
that's the 2nd least believable thing in this movie. taxis anywhere in 1985 United States, outside of NYC.
this scene with Chocolate Chip Charlie (aka Famous Amos) should read Upstate; but am gonna bet it's either totally Staten Island or the outskirts of Queens/Long Island.
there's part of "New York City" that have no business being called NYC, they're so out in the boondocks of Long Island.
Victoria's Secret was not a mainstream thing yet. it was only New York City's version of Frederick's of Hollywood for Wall Street hooker.
am not even joking.
NYC lingerie stores couldn't exists back in the day without Wall Street corporate accounts.
I'm calling it now, the Stuff is Slurm.
#Monsterdon lol at "I will permit this colored man to speak"
Surreal gore in which Captain Chocolate Chip explodes in a pile of evil ice cream.
Weird battle scene where unsafe wires battle a puddle of pudding.
LMAO Paul Sorvino reminding me of somebody...
#Monsterdon there's something slightly freudian about the pools of white liquid flooding everywhere and the colonel ordering his men to "don't let any of it touch you."
LMAO the FBI/FDA whatever the thing this guy is has gone totally #ACAB
not a stalking computer in sight in that pickup truck
The keys of the truck I had to hotwire are under the floor board. #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon I was gonna ask how the stuff got in the pillow and then later expanded to wall covering volume, and these are only a few of the many questions I have about this this movie.
Starting my #Monsterdon thread for The Stuff (1985)... I guess its about ice cream from space that causes problems somehow.
Monsterdon is the thing where we all watch a monster movie every week and riff on it. You might want to mute the tag if monster movies aren't your thing.
#monsterdon the stuff continues to support the theory that all horror movies are a conspiracy to sell strawberry jello and whipped cream
wow.
whomever scored this movie totally has a vendetta out on John Williams
John Williams also scored the original Superman which is what they're cosplaying for the closing credits.
Bargain basement DeLorean allegedly didn't do cocaine either. he just traficked it in his cars, LOL
#Monsterdon oh wait we actually expect the cops to arrest the CEOs after that? That was an unexpected development.
Also, the Very Southern Male Secretary is now smuggling stuff and I guess selling it to sleazy weirdos in a warehouse. And so ends the film, I guess?
...Back alley Stuff dealers. Okay, THAT I buy. #Monsterdon
DATSUN trucker hat, check.
Chunky Blackwater/Academii paper coronel, check
questionably patriotic mercenaries, check
wanton use of machine gun,
CHECK!
#monsterdon they brought the kid to a military raid?
#Monsterdon I'm not quite sure how the evil space ice cream mind control works. I guess the people who eat it just get addicted to it but still have free will and gradually it sort of compels them to follow its will subconsciously?
"...what if someone reports the truck stolen?"
"Do you see the burning motel behind us? I think it'll be fine."
i just realized who the Jeffrey Epstein looking guy looks like:
John DeLorean
this movie is totally about cocaine
ABE VIGODA and CLARA "WHERE'S THE BEEF" PELLER! #monsterdon
I love how suburban mom still has to put dinner in a fancy serving bowl. We're not slobs. #monsterdon
ewwwwwwwwwwww
Little Jerry Seinfeld is bashing the fash Stuff and sticking it to the alien man... with a stick.
#Monsterdon I'm super unclear if the Evil Ice Cream needs to be kept in the refrigerator or not. Like the Viewpoint Kids family does, but not FDA Glasses guy?
Also, FDA glasses guy is being attacked by his dog, who vomits the evil ice cream. This is another good reason to not feed your dog ice cream. The first good reason is that it might kill them. The second good reason is that it *might* be evil ice cream from space.
#monsterdon wow, this kid is really resolved to take out the whole stock single-handedly
#monsterdon prime parenting from the 1980's
#Monsterdon Alright, our opening is super weird... we have like an old dude at an oil mine or something and he sees some bubbling snow and then decides to eat it. That might not be the best thing to do to things you see bubbling from the ground.
Fortunately (?) instead of being toxic it is delicious and he wants to sell it.
ACK! AM RUNNING LATE!!!!
okay, the guy who played Mo apparently also played Hitler in a movie called Hitler Meets Christ. i am not at all sure what to do with that information. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon Dear writers, you have packed this thing so heavy with metaphors that Iβm shocked it didnβt implode.
β¦ okay, it was funny.
I think I wanna be an industrial spy when I grow up now. #Monsterdon
Thanks for another great #monsterdon everyone!!!!
#Monsterdon Well that was a movie. It seems to be pro far right militia and pro paranoid conspiracy theories, but also making fun of both of those things? And also being anti consumerist, sort of?
While aspects of it have aged extremely poorly, it was at least fun and watchable, even if it only made sense about 30% of the time.
Charlie no. CHARLIE NO! CHARLIE π
MOVIE NOOOOOO!!!
It sucks the best character dies like this, but HOLY SHIT is his death the most memorable part of this movie. That effect is super upsetting.
#Monsterdon #TheStuff
#Monsterdon More realism as the Bastards plan to distribute watered-down Stuff for profit, but donβt want to taste it themselves.
good job everybody and thank you for hosting as always @Taweret ! ^_^ #monsterdon
ty for joining, everyone!!!
LMAO
btw Famous Amos was totally famous for his Hawaiianas as much as his cookies.
what's the name of this actor playing Chocolate Chip Charlie?
So they got .... ahem ... their _just desserts_ π₯
#Monsterdon having defeated the evil ice cream, that I guess was from Hell and not from Space, the evil CEO (who has realistically escaped any culpability from marketing the poison zombie ice cream) is now planning to sell the evil ice cream, but like... mixed with normal ice cream.
The Very Southern Male Secretary decide to punish him and the other Evil CEO by force feeding them the ice cream at gunpoint. Ironic, I guess.
#Monsterdon How do ranks work in secret right wing militias? Like the pudgy guy is called "the Colonel". Does this mean that the militia is battalion strength, with enough personnel to merit a rank of colonel? Or was like, the guy's great great grandfather a famous confederate colonel and the modern militia people decided that that made he could be a colonel too?
I hope Denise Crosby is far away from that goo pit
"...they've created Stuff to sap and impurify all our precious bodily fluids"
"We go to a large town." proceeds to go to a castle in the middle of nowhere
#Monsterdon #TheStuff
the true horror story is Little Jerry Seinfeld trapped in that container truck
#Monsterdon This is the first 80s movie I've seen to embrace the philosophy of ACAB.
#Monsterdon The scene where the zombie guy was attacking Advertising Lady and then got run over by the truck and brutally deflated was pretty metal.
this kid is the hero we need
#Monsterdon Doing some Investigating, Advertising Lady and Extremely Southern Male Secretary discover that the evil space ice cream is just being pumped out of the ground. Extremely Southern Male Secretary has put on a yellow jumpsuit, which makes Advertising Lady very horny.
GODDAMMIT CHILDS TORCH IT
WHOA the practical effects in this scene are incredible. did they make an upside-down set for that!?!??!? #monsterdon
Tonight on YouTube: More tricks with elephant toothpaste! #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon While trying to do an espionage, Viewpoint Kid hides in a tanker truck that gets sealed, and will probably be filled with ice cream.
Advertising Lady and her Male Secretary forget about their adopted child and go to a motel. After a retro commercial the Male Secretary is attacked by a pillow full of evil ice cream, which tries to strangle him. Advertising Lady attacks it with fire.
New character, Flannel Shirt Guy appears, then is smothered in evil ice cream.
#Monsterdon I admit it, Iβm one of the people that are easily mind-controlled by ice cream.
That crawling up the wall shot must have been most of the effects budget. It's actually pretty well done. #Monsterdon #TheStuff
#monsterdon don't rip on it. Let me set your face on fire!
OMG #TheStuff even got to the Wendy's "Where's the Beef" lady! #Monsterdon
It's the Where's the Beef lady!
Another 80s flashback!
This movie has the "Where's the Beef lady" It's now literally impossible for any other movie we watch to be more 80's #Monsterdon #TheStuff
#Monsterdon The Evil Space Ice Cream Hive Mind or whatever it is have realized that Viewpoint Kid is a main character, and decide to flood the airplane he's in with a hose that pumps ice cream. Fortunately he escapes.
Also, Advertising Lady introduces Extremely Awkward Southern Guy as her "Male Secretary" which I am pretty sure is 80s speak for fuckboy. Anyway, they tour an Evil Factory full of Bubbling Evil Ice Cream.
I can see why this is a cult classic, this is is like THEY LIVE levels of Commentary honestly.
#Monsterdon Almost every scene with Viewpoint Kid has something Extremely 80s going on that would be chalked up to nostalgia bait if it was being made in the 21st century.
@jonny Looks like heme #monsterdon
#Monsterdon Unsettling scene where the family chases Viewpoint Kid because he won't eat the evil space ice cream. Then they give him a pint to eat but don't verify that he is eating it, because the evil space ice cream hive mind or whatever it is is quite incompetent in its villainy.
He flushes it down the toilet instead, and we discover that Viewpoint Kid's family has an EXTREMELY METAL poster in their bathroom. Fucking classy.
Suddenly a fight scene out of They Live!
Hello Garrett Morris. Why are you dressed like Monkey D. Luffy?
#Monsterdon #TheStuff
Wait, if theyβre all eating, whoβs playing Zaxxon?
Isn't there like chocolate The Stuff and maple The Stuff and....? Or is it all The Stuff flavored The Stuff? #monsterdon
#monsterdon he punched his face off!!
Danny Aiello looks like a very thin and butchy Divine in male drag with those eyebrows.
#Monsterdon
Black People in this movie so far:
* the hapless child who Viewpoint Kid tries to steal ice cream from
* the mother of the hapless child who is appropriately appalled at this ice cream stealing
* captain chocolate chip, dispossessed ice cream mogul.