The Stuff has two very believable messages:
1) Corporations will sell you literal poison if they think they can get away with it and you shouldn't trust them further than you can spit a brick
and
2) People will literally put anything in their mouths. Anything.
I do think more movies should end with corporate executives being devoured from the inside by the excesses of their own malfeasance. #Monsterdon
The Stuff is a movie about how many actors clearly not from the south you can get to attempt a southern accent, and the results are fascinating and beautiful #monsterdon
I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my Stuff. #Monsterdon
AH! no wonder the overalls and mashmallowy alien. Ghostbusters came out in 1984.
btw the IranContra scandal was still raging, hence the crazy USMIL dictator wannabe living in a castle in the middle of Long Island
One of the biggest ad campaigns of the early/mid 80's. It ran for years. #monsterdon
I'd like The Stuff a lot more if it didn't have that fuckin' militia colonel in it, but otherwise it's pretty good. #Monsterdon
See, this is what happens when you don't eat a balanced meal. #Monsterdon
#monsterdon I feel like there are a bunch of 80s movies where a kid knocks over a bunch of stuff in a supermarket, but I can't think of any others.
Maybe the real Stuff was all the corporate greed we slopped along the way
UNDERGROUND STUFF #Monsterdon
wasn't gonna watch because we already watched it, but i think i was undergoing chemo, so don't remember much; just that itβs very much about #nyc 1980s Wall Street yuppie scum cocaine culture.
Remember, the first thing you should do with any new thing you find is put it directly into your mouth. #Monsterdon
That movie was about 65% dumb shit, 2% good one liners, and 37% Really Bad
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT CHARLIE THE COMMIE NEGRO!
#Monsterdon #TheStuff1985 ah yes the creepy right-wing militia will save us
#Monsterdon #TheStuff1985 "Everybody has to eat shaving cream once in a while." like it's some great philosophical statement
love this character
OMG they just gave DeLorean a shout out. am not even 5 minutes into this movie.
Just starting right off with the "everyone in this movie is going to be really fucking stupid"
well I'm going to have to call it a night, tell me if the ferrets replicate and devour the prehistoric earth
What a breath of fresh air after Star Odyssey though!
they make them eat the stuff they sold but wouldnt eat? thatβs pure snd unadulterated #nyc gangsta shit.
The latest release from Nepotism Films.
#Monsterdon #TheStuff1985 i do have a fondness for this film. it takes its premise and just rolls with it, sometimes to some Very Awkward Places
CHARLIE NOOOOOOOOO
I am not #Monsterdon ing because the entire premise around #TheStuff1985 activates my gag reflex.
Instead, I'm in the "I regret having this idea" stage of making my own magnets for a whiteboard calendar I bought.
(And the only reason I bought the calendar is because there was a goose on it and I wanted to write "it is a beautiful month and you are a horrible goose" on it, so you can see scope creep is a real issue for me.)
#Monsterdon Our current theory is that the entire movie is just ad-libbed. No actual script.
I kind of love the recurring motif of this woman cracking her joints. #Monsterdon
The Stuff is a substance that fell to Earth, presumably from outer space. Do not taunt The Stuff. #Monsterdon
"Snack foods attempted to murder us in the night. Ice machine was good, though, and great AC. Three stars."
The FX shots in this ar ejust fantastic. Everything about this is charming
The Stuffβs attempted murder by white goo represents an agentic form of nature in the other-than-human and in this essay I will oh fuck heβs on the ceiling #monsterdon #TheStuff1985
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the product placement in this movie while theyβre supposed to be satirizing product placements in movies is a bit too meta
the eyebrows on these kids are very intense
"Aw, no one is as dumb as I appear to be." β Mo Rutherford
this feels like the production values of an episode of Xena:Warrior Princess
@SnoopJ "Our new models will be less addictive and more safe for users"
Is this actually how this movie is going to end?
G U S H I N G
Heroic music for the white paramilitaries, I am uncomfortable...
Racist sex pest right-wing militia conspiracy guy? Too on the nose #monsterdon #TheStuff1985
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Other substances used as The Stuff:
Tofutti, yogurt, and whipped cream were used when people ate it.
For visual effect, mashed potato flakes and polyurethane foam were used depending on the effect desired.
We got a great big convoy, Stuffin' through the night
How did curly-hair guy manage to wear a yellow jumpsuit/coverall in such a sexy way?
white suburbia is already scary enough. don't need The Stuff to make the point.
I thought this was for sure a pickup line #monsterdon
I do like the idea of a deadly ice cream truck. Stephen King is jealous :D #Monsterdon
This is a zombie movie with extra steps #monsterdon
Does that car even hold $20 worth of gas in 1989 money?
#monsterdon "Oh shit."
Most relatable line in the whole film. In all of cinema, maybe.
"Look I just found this slop coming out of the ground better eat it"
See, it works, this is about AI
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"My main inspiration was the consumerism and corporate greed found in our country and the damaging products that were being sold. I was constantly reading in the newspapers about various goods and materials being recalled because they were harming people."
- Larry Cohen, Director
#monsterdon Donβt for the love of god find shit outside, touch it, and then... eat it. JESUS ON A POGO STICK. This is how we get Patient Zero and failure of Quarantine! Oh, whatever, gobble that crap up you dunces! ;)
lol "unleash the ferrets"
Ha ha - that was a mess of a movie β much of it was ad libed, and the wrap up didn't make much sense. Somehow they had many prominent name actors involved.
Must have been made during a very dry spell in the movie industry, or someone called in a lot of favours.
Just right for a #monsterdon feature though.
LMAO the arab-looking guy getting some stuff contraband? so this movie *is* about cocaine and the IranContra scandal.
Wow, I wasnβt expecting a post-credits scene in a 1980s movie.
@brooke I think as a movie it's just Good, Actually.
Decidedly a product of 1985, to be sure, but yea I just think it's a good movie.
And so they fucked off into a parody of a John Phillips Sousa march.
That was a lot of fun, fam. Some neat special effects, an incoherent script, bad accents, and a stern anti consumerism message. What's not to love?
Anyway, the Owlbear is done. Take care of each other. Be kind, spread love, play indie games.
Be excellent, and goodnight.
But where's my extended mix of the ad song? :<
Is anyone else craving some stuff right about now? Or just me?
Keep eating until you can't eat no Mo`
#Monsterdon #TheStuff
Here is where the story becomes unbelievable people wouldn't stop selling or eating it. #monsterdon
this film is full of shoutouts to the horror of 2026 America, lol
lol - 10% tip. Sorvino isn't playing along. He's just hamming it up. lol
I'm getting concerned that this Real Estate is not actually going to Transact
"There is no match for the american boy, he's never lost a war"
"What about 'Nam, sir"
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Our precious bodily fluids
Modern movies will annoyingly have conspiracy lunatics be right about aliens or monsters or what not.
Well The Stuff has a lunatic fringe militia be, not right, but annoyingly close enough to right to be manipulated by the "hero".
#Monsterdon #TheStuff
btw, the music and that looking down at the stuff from the rocks is totally a shout out to Close Encounter of the Third Kind
sheβs wearing kitten heel slingbacks like any self-respecting new york fashionista would.
And this is why you don't play in enclosed areas, kids
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OK, time for the ANSWER!
Which was NOT used to represent The Stuff? Your answers were:
0% Marshmallow fluff
22% Fire-extinguishing foam
56% HΓ€agen DΓ€zs ice-cream
22% Blended fish bones
The CORRECT ANSWER is Marshmallow fluff, not used. In some scenes, a foam made of blended fish bones was used. It stank so much that, as soon as the shots were done, the actors ran to a river in order to wash off the stench.
this is why we need to destroy anything called Face Hugging or Face Hugger⦠or #HuggingFace
#Monsterdon #TheStuff1985 I mean this is basically just Slurm
#monsterdon I saw the best minds of my generation: Once again, for newer folks Wendy's I think it was had a whole big "Where's the beef" ad campaign in the mid 80's that absolutely devoured everyone's attention for a good several months. People were just running around saying "Where's the beef" for no reason and we all laughed and it was awful, just awful.
the "Where's the Stuff" was a nod to that and I think featured the same lady?
edit: Younger folks, I guess newer works as well
This is why I don't trust water beds.
#Monsterdon #TheStuff
Weβve secretly replaced the fine coffee they normally serve with The Stuff. #Monsterdon
The Stuff has some great concepts and the writing isn't terrible, but the cadence of these actors is awful -- stop interrupting each other! #Monsterdon
#monsterdon I really like the serving bowl.
Just because we're eating The Stuff, doesn't mean we can't be civilized.
I love movies that are clearly satires but I have no fucking clue what they're satirizing? Advertising? Food that looks like cum? #monsterdon
Special Agent Frank Herbert, FBI Arakis Office #Monsterdon
#monsterdon I want you to go to Washington DC and find Special Agent Frank Herbert, and see if you can get movie rights for his books.
I do love the upward flow effects :D #Monsterdon
The kids playing brothers in the film are brothers IRL. Scott(younger) and Brian. #monsterdon
