so the dog got away right?

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::MASH theme plays::
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Was that TOS tricorder a vintage pager?
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Oh, okay they're bumping off everyone in the scene. At least it's equal-opportunity slaughter, and not some anti-chauffeur thing.

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Wait. The annoying people die right away? 😀
#Monsterdon

So the werewolf isn't hungry. He's just stirring shit up?

#monsterdon

Good 80s hair Albert Finney
#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Brought to you by fridge. Got something you need chilly? Try fridge.
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✅ Eat the Rich

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Am I just inattentive or is their presence at the replica windmill just complete "the location scout found this awesome spot"?
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Sorry, movie, it still counts as killing the black guy first even if you make him look red #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

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I want this werewolf to go into a Spencer's and comment on how all the posters look normal

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This must have been the year that basic digital effects came out. #monsterdon

@Newpa_Hasai #monsterdon

maybe the dog will transform into a human.

Executive producer Alan King? #Monsterdon

Dog's supposed to be on a leash, assholes -_- #Monsterdon

This movie starts with a US city that is not Chicago. A headband guy and a bird kisser are hanging out on top of a pillar supporting a bridge. Nearby I guess, an abandoned slum is being demolished while a mayor does a photo op in a hard hat. Then we get a title.

Elsewhere we have a generically attractive woman doing cocaine in a rich guy's car as it drives over a bridge. Then the headband guy throws a bottle at the car.

No idea what all these things have to do with each other.

#monsterdon

Well, based on a novel, this movie, AND recognizable actors. Lah di dah, we've moved up a notch on #monsterdon.

Oh wait, this IS based on Whitley Strieber's novel? Oh shit, Communion Wolves! #Monsterdon

This is going to change my view of Edward James Olmos forever, isn't it?

#Monsterdon

@jonny #monsterdon

Also Gregory Hines is in it. (tho not yet)

@klu9

Just ask RFK Jr!

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

I forget how prevalent cocaine was in the 80s.
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she's really WOLFEN that down!

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Here for the monster-vision

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Shot in PurpleVision.

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You posterized the flashback?
You monsters.
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Okay

Who blew up the movie

#Monsterdon

It feels weird seeing a movie with high production values

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

How did the humans get up there? That seems like a LOT of trouble. #monsterdon

We paid for this WHOOOOLE establishing shot and by god we're gonna use it.
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Okay - #monsterdon is rolling it appears.

Get your snacks ready. We have a nice rhubarb crumble and a hot drink.

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#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

I think the werewolf orgy is supposed to be sexy and scary, but it's just goofy. #Monsterdon

Too wrapped up in the movie while watching, but lots of stuff happened, so bingo!

#MonsterdonBingo #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Suddenly Prague

#Monsterdon #Monsterdon2 #Howling2

God, I don't want to listen to Meat Slabthrob screaming at us the whole damn movie.
#monsterdon #doublefeature #TheHowling2

Severed weapon hand motif repeated!

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#HowlingII1985

@SnoopJ did the book do the same racist stuff though?

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i don't know if i'll watch this whole movie but i just. need something not based on something by whitley strieber. in my eyes and ears.

#monsterdon

So, I read the book all those many years ago. It was much better than the movie, and iirc… it contained wolf erotica.

#Monsterdon

hopeful for some bog standard bad werewolf movie to cleanse me now

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@CactuarJoe hm... lemme see.

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another rough one #Monsterdon. There was probably a story or something there. Lots of #MonsterdonBingo spaces. #EatTheRich in the establishing shots was my favorite and things just went down hill from there.

#Wulfen1981

Come on now, they’re spirit wolves. A legend. Myth. Of course they can scale a skyscraper. Weren’t you paying attention?

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@moira fekken strengths and materials and shear forces! #monsterdon

Abrupt ending implies that there was something to end, right?

Thanks as always @Taweret for hosting and everybody for posting! Off to the almost-surely-more-entertaining double feature....

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So it was neither of the nude guys. Huh. #Monsterdon

And so the Wolfen were once again free to eat hobos and the downtrodden, as nature intended. Wherever there's a hobo drinking bathtub gin out of a shoe, they'll be there. Just like god intended.

Jesus fucking christ.

#Monsterdon

That was awful. Just a complete potato of a story.
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#monsterdon if you're cornered by a wolf: you need to make yourself look big, maintain eye contact, and visually promise to cancel the real estate project they don't like

and they fucked off into THE FREEZE FRAME OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, good night!

#Monsterdon

Wow! What a surprise, turns out the enemy is man. Who’d a thunk?

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well some of that was well shot and had neat effects

too bad it was really boring

ty for joining, everyone!

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This is what it sounds like when doves yawn #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

I kind of half expected Dewey to shift into a wolf there at the end.

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Wolfens are smart enough to understand property deals but *not* smart enough to realize a homicide detective can't cancel one by breaking dioramas?

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Terrorists. It's always terrorists. Especially when it's an inside job. By puppies. #Monsterdon

Once again, the real villain was the real estate development. #Monsterdon

awoo! is this done

#Monsterdon

He didn't kill you because you weren't armed! No sport!

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#Wolfen1981

AWOOOOOO

#Monsterdon

It's a symbolic demolition of their mutual foe, capitalism. #Monsterdon

Awooo!

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#Wolfen1981

#monsterdon "Dewey, I just heard your inner dialog"

#monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Head is off the body.. YES.

Showing the naked gold torso statue falling off the table was a very important visual that the director/editor felt was necessary to keep in the film.

#Monsterdon

So are these wolfen just doggos? That the people could have shot if they had any interest in self-preservation? (I mean, not that I'm complaining that they didn't)

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

How can the the Wolfen afford that apartment?

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#Wolfen1981

Airwolfen! #monsterdon

Is this a Jim Butcher story? #Monsterdon

OH COME THE FUCK ON #Monsterdon

#monsterdon #Wolfen1981

You guys are now talking about exploding cars and I just want to say that my mom and dad owned a Ford Pinto for about 5 years..

@cd0 I have to assume you're talking about the humans 😁

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Dewey's boss really lost his head when the going got tough.

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#Wolfen1981

They can't talk but the wolfens' eyes clearly said "put your hands up"

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Was that a Ford Pinto?? You just shoot vaguely in that direction and it explodes?

#monsterdon

If they make it up in the elevator, it's over because they have the high ground, ani(mal)kin

#Monsterdon

Most realistic thing in this movie so far, graze a 70's car with a bullet and it explodes more dramatically than the Hidenburg #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

All I could think about for this entire exterior scene

#Monsterdon

hell yeah decapitation

and explodium car

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He didn't check the back seat!

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#Wolfen1981

@Taweret i know right? (plot)

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This music is giving me Wrath of Khan vibes #monsterdon

@allanb I thought there was a moment of human-like intelligence when the wolf was on the bridge with the graffiti and guys welding, and it was smartly dodging from side to side to avoid being seen

I mean maybe calling that human-like intelligence is a stretch but it seemed way closer than anything else up to that point in the movie

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Is this the Wolfen ambassador coming to demand trade treaty?

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You could just get in the car, right?

#Monsterdon #Wulfen1981

You know what I think? I think this movie has been systematically draining the denouements from the other #Monsterdon movies. The ending of Wolfen is gonna last forever.

This ending scene actually takes place in the Mutara Nebula #Monsterdon

So are these Klingon wolves?

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

wolf council meeting

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some of this is well shot

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Okay, so Gotterdammerung group read too much of the Eddas or something for a wolf-related end of the world?

#Monsterdon #Wolfen1981

*having gotten distracted by wikipedia* oh my god did the wolf molt?

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Oh wait. 17 more minutes.

I thought that mirror scene was the end which would have really sucked but JFC this ain’t Tolkien. Let’s resolve already.

#Monsterdon

oh my god a SLOW version of Horner's danger theme?!

ffs

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Is this just a meditation on urban renewal? #Monsterdon

He turns it on and it starts playing the Close Encounters theme. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon #Wolfen1981

Wolfen are basically coyotes that inhabit the slums of NYC.