This movies is brought to you by the letter “i”, as in EYE STARE DIRECTLY INTO YOUR SOUL
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My dear sir, the human eye cannot see 10% of the wavelength spectrum. Because the spectrum is INFINITE.

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Do you have any idea what I'm trying to do Dr. Fairfax? Yes, it's to see your panties. #monsterdon

#monsterdon The nerve cells enjoy hula girls and nice women that FETCH THE !@#$% COFFEE!!!

Xavier. Real, subtle movie.

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Light, mansplained

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@nhgeek We here on the feed have no doubt

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This is shadow-play speech is his first draft of a song he wants to sell to The Doors

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"That's light"

Tastes great, less filling. #Monsterdon

A guy in his 50s(?) with 20/20 vision complaining that he wants to see better? Is this our hero?

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nothing has ever gone wrong when a scientist announced they're closing in on the gods

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Oh ok eyesight of the gods. No main character ever went wrong due to hubris, not ever.

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Wow, these are some CHOICES being made in the opening credits.

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"you only have one pair of eyes" raises the question: Why not experiment on ONE eye for xray vision? You know, in case something went wrong.

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#monsterdon The eyeball bokeh is mid ;)

Only a doctor can get luxury eye exams so frequently. #Monsterdon

...This is gonna be another one of those "you only use 10% of your brain" bullshit fests isn't it 9_9 #Monsterdon

his scribbles on that PT record are not acting, that's actual doctor handwriting.

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FUN FACT: The fear of eye trauma is called "being a normal human being who has eyes"!

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My eye doctor has never massaged my eyes. Weird!
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Ray Milland looks like Jimmy Stewart drowned

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Don Freaking Rickles! #monsterdon

Hypno spiral and wind for the titles, oh yeah

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We begin well. Hypnotized already! #Monsterdon

Wait, Alta Vista or Buena Vista?

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Oh the eye is going on a journey...I once saw a French cartoon like this about a severed hand....

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Don Rickles!
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#monsterdon I'm coming along! LOL! Wheee!

Were the credits supposed to start before this?

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Man, hypnotoad last week and hypno Z. Arkoff this week. #Monsterdon

Still a better use of "X" than #Twitter

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Okay, Mr Corman. Your oculaphilia is noted. Can we watch the movie now?
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The Emoji Movie, if the emoji is 👁️

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Poke poke #monsterdon

...Okay, we get it. Eyeball. Can we move on now? #Monsterdon

(some eyeballs were harmed in the making of this movie)

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Eye see what you did there.

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Sure, laugh at the freeze-frame, you think it's easy to train an eyeball to stand still for this long?

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We have lion!

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Eye eye eye. #Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

It's time to See Right Through You! Hit PLAY now! Go! Go! Go!

Nice lion's-eye opening.

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The movie also went too hard with the glasses, another thing the comic corrected.

Like, in the casino, James takes more eye-drops because the effect is "wearing off"

BRO YOU ARE LITERALLY WEARING EFFECT DAMPENERS JUST TAKE THEM OFF INSTEAD

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(checks imdb) he really didn't do this often; this movie may be the only real iinstance

(well okay, he *does* have a Twilight Zone episode, though RS roped a whole *lot* of comedians in for that...)

(and of course pretty much everything in the last 30 years is voicework for Toy Story)

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For those of you scrolling through your timeline, you're about to hit a big mass of Monsterdon postings about X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963).

Should you not wish to read through them, here's how to filter them out, at least on the web browser:
1) right click on the gears & open in a new tab
2) choose "Filters" then "Add New Filter"
3) give the filter a title, check all boxes under contexts, choose hide completely and put "#Monsterdon" in the keyword box.
4) Click on "Save New Filter"

... and you're done.

Me and my elder things noticed you from across the universe, and we really don't like your vibe.

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@SnoopJ
DEFINITELY a dramatic pause on the eyeball at the beginning. 😆
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@Configures He's really an excellent surgeon then! Maybe he should've gone into bare handed surgery instead 😝
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#xthemanwiththexrayeyes asks, Hey kids, wouldn't it be fun if you could see through things?

Well, turns out you can do some cool stuff, but the power makes you crazy. Practically the first thing you do is kill your best friend. Then a carnie takes over your movie and you go along with it until the one person who respects you shows up -- and you're on the run again. Meanwhile the things you see are horrible and you can stop seeing but you don't really want to stop because you keep taking the drug that only makes it worse.

Anyway, in the end you're driven to gouge out the pain, but as we know from the final line that famously was cut, nothing can end your suffering.

Yikes. Quite the #Monsterdon !

Thanks everyone again, and thanks, @Taweret for hosting.

@moira and, like, at least 5 minutes of the extended time would involve full-frontal nudity. #Monsterdon

if I say that this movies feels like there should be a longer and weird European comic version of it that is way more interesting if you can put up with the self-indulgence does that make sense?

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I left Tubi playing while getting a drink after the ending of tonight’s #Monsterdon movie and came back to it playing “4-D Man” which I can only assume is also some 60s sci-fi schlock so maybe we’ll watch it next week?

Did he pluck out his eyes or did they dissolve? I thought they just dissolved, but this is my first
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"He can't lose"

Okay but YES HE CAN.

This is a filmmaking mistake IMO, they should show him losing a few hands, but still coming out ahead overall.

With perfect knowledge of the deck, in a one-on-one scenario with the dealer, there will be unwinnable hands. It's not that kind of game.

Not a big deal.

Anyway, making it rain!

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@mariellequinton His optometrist friend WANTED them to wait and check for side effects and all that, but NOOOOO. #Monsterdon #TheManWithTheXRayEyes

@Lazarou @ottaross I think she was rational only compared to Dr. X #monsterdon

If I was an actor, I'd be terrified to let the make-up guy put stuff on my eyes like we saw in this film.

Sorry, I just don't trust my vision to whoever Roger Corman hired to do prosthetics.

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"In his non-fiction book Danse Macabre, Stephen King claims there were rumors the ending originally went further, with Milland crying out "I can still see" after gouging out his eyes.[6] Corman has denied the existence of that ending but expressed enjoyment with the idea, saying "Now it's interesting. Stephen King saw the picture and wrote a different ending, and I thought, 'His ending is better than mine.'""

-wikipedia

anyway good job team and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting ^_^

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@lytta It wasn’t an enjoyable movie but it was enjoyable with #Monsterdon. And it was a mess but a different kind of mess than the typical Monsterdon movie. Definitely an interesting watch!

Murder is such a strong word. I'm thinking he'd probably be looking at manslaughter at most, but ianal #monsterdon

#monsterdon Ray Milland as Steven Colbert as the weird lady from Event Horizon (1997)

I had to go back and look. They did properly reverse the card so that we saw it the way he would see it. It went by too fast at the time.
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After tonight's #Monsterdon , I'm going to cleanse my palate with some quality cinema:
Trancers 4: Jack of Swords

https://tubitv.com/es-mx/movies/491331/trancers-4-jack-of-swords

@Louisa me if i saw someone with all black eyes IRL and didn't think it was contacts: damn i didn't know you could get THAT high

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@Louisa my inner cult leader was screaming the same thing at the TV. #Monsterdon

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I bet that preacher is not going to be right for a long time. As for me, I am going to go put on some safety goggles. I wear these now. Thanks #Monsterdon !

Thanks for hosting, @Taweret !

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Well I have to say, I actually enjoyed the story. #Monsterdon

In all seriousness, this was a much better movie than I was expecting, and went fascinating places with its premise.

Our mad scientist doesn't create a monster, just destroys himself from hubris. Okay, there's some inconsistencies in how the eye drops/vision is working, but given Xavier's fallible nature, I'll chalk them up to him *not fully understanding* what he's doing.

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Just thinking through the Bechdel test criteria… I guess the closest we came was the two belly dancers in the coffee room after the circus closed. But they were only talking about our protagonist so I guess that was a fail.

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this concludes my #monsterdon thread for some movie where a dude had X ray vision and then he did crimes and pulled his eyes out.

thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

So, that was actually a good movie.

As always, thanks, @Taweret for hosting, @Cherizilla for #MonsterdonBingo, and all of you for joining in and making it fun!

Cheers!

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Fourth Dimension Man is acting like someone who didn't back up their data.

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Well, at least that bit of silliness was lean. Thank you for the company, friends!

(Wouldn't have minded seeing Dr Xavier try to survive with plucked out eyes, tho 🤔)

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I'm guessing the crayola vein eyes earlier were also contacts.

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@davesdogmaggie *groan*

👏 👏 👏

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@kris_of_pnictogen "We don't need eyes where we're going!" -- Event Horizon #Monsterdon #TheManWithTheXRayEyes

But yeah if you want an honest title for that movie it's "X: The Jerk with X-Ray Eyes" #Monsterdon

here's some important eye advice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbegaT5CDfM

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Thank you all for a lovely 2/3s of a film! I'll try not to be tardy next time lol

Thanks @Taweret

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His suit took more damage than his body in that crash. Did the drug also give airbags?

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#Monsterdon and #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes
Thanks for hosting, @Taweret .. it was better than I feared, for sure. I actually felt emotions a couple of times..

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Tent preacher: And whom do you love?
Congregation: The lord!
Me, with auditory processing issues right behind them: Bo Diddley?

@bunnyhero TBH I felt like even having end credits is way more resolution than we usually get

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So is that little rant at the end supposed to be him seeing a cosmic horror, staring at the Sun, or just going insane from the weird chemicals and X-ray vision?

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On the bright side, I guess the monkey got their revenge #monsterdon

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Well, he ain't doing research on that anymore.
THE END.
The credits are well worth sitting through.

@wrog The helicopter PA said "California Highway Patrol" - he must have blindly traveled some distance.

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You win this time American International. But I'll be back! #Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

Nope, that was a wrap.

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Well.

Okay.

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so the eyedrops turn his vision into rainbows... is this gaydar? #monsterdon

The cinematography in the fleeing car sequence is fantastic!

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…just had a thought.
Why does he bother turning his head to look at things now?
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@hollie Yeah, or I wouldn't have minded some wanton screaming and running around

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Eww!

And thus ends another #monsterdon

Poor decisions, creepy healthcare pimps, throw away (literally) friendships, and Chechov's diety.

Thanks folks, and thank you @Taweret for hosting!

@JigmeDatse Yeah, but it wasn't quite as gory as I was afraid it was about to get. Actually a bit unrealistically clean and quick plucking. #Monsterdon #TheManWithTheXRayEyes Too bad he didn't just listen to his eye doctor friend sooner (before defenestrating him!) and lay off the drugs!

@bk1e 🤦

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Those classic Butler Glouner effects. We'd know 'em anywhere

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