My werewolf hopes and dreams being demolished along with this neighborhood #Monsterdon

Let's just get this out of the way:

The Owlbear did not vote for this.

The Owlbear voted for giant grasshoppers trying to get a decent hot dog.

This one is on y'all, fam.

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

You chromakeyed the sky? You monsters.
#monsterdon

Attention: You must leave the bronx.
#monsterdon

ORION IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THIS MOVIE.
#monsterdon

And thus ends another #monsterdon

I'm left feeling conflicted.

- Racist Native American depiction.
- Boring plot and pacing.
- Derivative score.
- ACAB - especially corporate renta-ones
- Pointless and EWW love interest subplot.

- But such good doggoes!

Till the next time my good tootalong friends.

Thanks for bringing levity to a dark world.

And thank you so much, as always, to @Taweret for hosting.

#wolfen1981

The always a bigger fish take and how little technology does compared with the natural world worked quite well in the late 19th century, but struggles with the late 20th. (Like, that's part of why the wolfen had to be able to fly or something. Maybe the novel works better?)

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

thanks @Taweret for hosting, @ryan for the @miru stream, @JoeWynne for trivia, @cherizilla for the bingo, and all of you for suffering with me

#Monsterdon

Of all the movies we’ve watched for #Monsterdon, this was one of the best in terms of acting, script, and story. I think I need to give it another watch when I’m not distracted by my social media feed.

As always, thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @cherizilla for the bingo card, @JoeWynne for the drink recipe and trivia, @ryan for the live stream, @paco for data analysis at https://gallery.don.monster, @combatwombat for the replay, and all of you for making it awesome!

#Monsterdon

@apLundell #Monsterdon makes you think about the survey? Yes, it does.

@faoluin

No one appreciate the value of wolfen!

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

oh lort. the 'hero' can go native and still save the day. and free the wolfen. and get the lady. it just made me burp bile.

#monsterdon #wolfen1981

Whitley Striber: not good movies, but surprisingly high production values and are very weird.

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

@randy_s more cowbell at least

#Monsterdon

pretty good movie. spends too much time huffing its own farts and doing racism, and has 2 ending sequences more than is necessary, but otherwise pretty good!

#Monsterdon

Deciding humanity is in the wrong, Different Headband puts down his gun and uses a shovel to smash the rich guy's model architecture project. This convinces the wolves that he's cool so they howl.

Then more cops show up and shoot guns at the air, and the wolves run back to the wolf dimension.

#monsterdon

#monsterdon if Chris walken were in this he'd be having a probin'-time dance party with the wolves. #wolfen #communion

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#monsterdon

That was NOT a ground floor office. How did those wolves jump in there? Did they fly?

#monsterdon

You could tell the one wolfen was an art department guy that had to make the model

#Monsterdon

I guess we have to fine the wolfen now

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Wolfen love smashing architectural models! #monsterdon

such good boys

#monsterdon

He can't do Land Back but he's offering Gun Down. #Monsterdon

30 stories up, in midtown Manhattan, wolves through the windows.

Sure. Why the fuck not.

#Monsterdon

It's the wolf bartender, just coming on shift.

#monsterdon

There sure has been a lot of echoey montage at the end of this thing.

#monsterdon

this film is WAAAAY too long

#Monsterdon

when is Mitchell going to meet the aliens and do some hand jive with them

#monsterdon

So the rich guy and police boss are part of those unneeded by society? #Monsterdon

@diazona Darn. I missed that. It was mostly just the wolf hunting smells and sounds

#Monsterdon

WOLFENED #Monsterdon

Different Headband starts putting together the plot threads of the movie and seems to be thinking that the evil rich guy's real estate project was involved in awakening the monster.

Then Natalie and Boss Cop Stock Character throw a wolf skin at him and say that they found the wolf skin at the terrorist shoppe and the wolf murders were terrorists all along. Then they walk outside and see the real wolf monster, which again looks like a normal wolf.

#monsterdon

Ground breaking ceremony? 🤨
Groundbreaking. 😐
#monsterdon

Just jingle some keys or something

#Monsterdon

DOGGO ALERT

#Monsterdon

So much money was spent on this yawnfest.

#monsterdon

Is Albert Finney holding incense or dried pasta? #Monsterdon 🐺 #Wolfen

#monsterdon

When you do a ground-breaking ceremony, do you get to keep the silver shovel in your office from then on? Like a trophy?

Hm, I should spray paint one of my hard hats shiny reflective chrome.

#monsterdon

That should have been the end of the movie in the bar scene.

#Monsterdon

I kind of want a 80's cultural insensitivity megamix monster that's born when a voodoo guy performs a ritual on a native burial ground during the Chinese year of the dragon and becomes a hopping zombie werewolf

#Monsterdon

Is this guy a shaman/CPA dual class? #Monsterdon

“In their eyes, you are the savage.”

#Monsterdon

listen up white boy

#Monsterdon

you tell him eddie

#Monsterdon

I've seen this Xfiles episode

#monsterdon

are we really supposed to believe this dude is the first guy to walk into this bar stunned and bloody?

#monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Well the footage is from 1968 so the news might have access

#Monsterdon

Pubbies!

#Monsterdon

Did the wolf throw Whittington down on Dewey?

#Monsterdon

Khan!!!

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

After 50 years of screen time, we finally see the wolf when he attacks the coroner-sniper from behind. It looks like a normal wolf.

#monsterdon

@yatsu okay I for one am still hoping this main guy dies

#monsterdon

Nobody thinks about the head

#Monsterdon

Finally wolf

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

ohhh puppyyyyyyy :blobfoxfloofcute:

#Monsterdon

@ricci I’m not complaining.

#Monsterdon

He's a coroner, and a sniper! Standard job description.

#monsterdon

@saucerlost To be fair, New York City doesn’t look like this anymore.

#Monsterdon

Wait a minute. That wasn't a real thermal camera is it? Just some awful video processing effect like they used in the first ghostbusters?
#Monsterdon

@ottaross it has telescopic wolf-o-vision... alas for us #Monsterdon 🐺 #Wolfen

History of the World: Part I came out the same year as this. And was a lot funnier.
#monsterdon

This one.

[Holds up wolf photo]

I want this on a T-shirt

#Monsterdon

"starts up perfectly on a weak push into a stable idle and then turned off" is so lazy when you could just "toggle the choke" #monsterdon

Different Headband visit's Natalie in her ridiculously fancy flat so the audience can have a romance arc that isn't nude moonlight wrestling. The monster follows them when I wasn't paying attention but I don't think it does anything.

#monsterdon

oh come on that was good, y'all

#monsterdon

"We had sloppy ASMR sex. I left before things got complicated."

#Monsterdon

He likes me! He really likes me!

#monsterdon

This movie might make almost as much sense if you watch every other scene; there's a lot of duplicated information.

#monsterdon

Storming into a woman's room with a snub-nosed revolver drawn, half-drunk and smelly

MITCHELL

#Monsterdon

do not fuckin' shove a romance sub-plot in here right now, i will riot.

#monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow mopeds in the US are generally capped at 30mph and have terrible acceleration

#Monsterdon

Finney dreaming of nekkid Olmos

#monsterdon

y'all got any more of those horizontal windmill replicas?

#Monsterdon

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#Monsterdon

Yeah leave it to an early 80s movie to have more animal abuse than the past 20 #monsterdon's combined.
#monsterdon

middle name is "AndThe"

#monsterdon

Millimicrons????
Deep dish???
#monsterdon

All this wolf-o-vision is probably the reason the Steadicam operator got his own credit at the start of the movie.

#monsterdon

"heat vision" excuse me WHAT wolves do not have that

#Monsterdon

"we need a script for this scene"
"got it." *opens the encyclopedia for wolf*

#monsterdon

After more investigation we are now suspecting hot shapeshifters, so Different Headband watches Original Headband go to beach, take off his clothes, draw some paw prints on the ground, then lap a puddle and go howl at the moon. But then Original Headband spots Different Headband and challenges him to a naked wrestling match.

#monsterdon

I just want him to be like "No I was just fuckin' with you man, what the hell"

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Oh no the author's thinly disguised fetish #Monsterdon

That's some serious frolicking music.

#monsterdon

Oh yeah, werewolf transformation time. Let's see that special effects budget! #Monsterdon

@cd0 There is no spoon.

#monsterdon

oh my god is this movie going to REALLY commit to the racism now. fucking hell

#monsterdon

Which werewolf murder investigator are you? #monsterdon

It could be a corgi. #monsterdon

@wohali #monsterdon

who's "WE"? I'ma go raid the kitchen.

What are you, double-parked or something?

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#monsterdon

"Survival of the shiftiest"

Hrm...

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

This is the most naked corpses with convenient object censorship I have seen in a movie.

#monsterdon

♫ People ♪

♫ Who eat peeeeeople ♪

♫ Are the haaaaappiest people ♪

#Monsterdon

@wohali wtf! #monsterdon

this movie is made unimaginably worse by the introduction of this guy and everything he says #monsterdon

@nev You mean like the baristas in Friends who had a loft in the Village? 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ #Monsterdon 🐺 #Wolfen

In the 80s one point of contact was enough apparently?
#monsterdon