I wonder if sees right through desert cliffs and runs into them like Wile E. Coyote

#MonsterDon

Always a chicken truck. There’s always a chicken truck.

#Monsterdon

Love screeching tires on dirt roads. Always my favorite.
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I wonder what they stuck in his eyes? Before contacts, what did they use?
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❌ Low Budget Film School 🎥

👀 Look for Dr. Xavier's escape car coming up, an ice-blue Lincoln Continental with whitewall tires and hubcaps. After he wrecks in a ditch, he escapes a clunker painted blue with no whitewalls or hubcaps.

No reason for Corman to have to pay for a car to be destroyed! 💸

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Did he leave his friend? #monsterdon What a gentleman.

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Sir, you are driving terribly, even for Vegas.

The drops do seem to affect his brain quite a lot. #monsterdon

He can see their cards, rather than the table bracing? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon "I want to make sure you won honestly."

"What do you care?!?"

What a strange thing to say to casino security.

Maybe when you’re ahead like that, you shouldn’t let them know you can see the cards, dude.

#Monsterdon

"Diane, you're on your own!" #Monsterdon

bitch do NOT be driving a car right now

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe I think those are a customization option in Cyberpunk 2077.

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Way to keep a low profile, genius #monsterdon

oh my god, he has Mary Sue eyes

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What a move! I fell in love with him right there! #Monsterdon

Whee! Nice contacts!

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If he closed his eyelids, no one would see his eyes.
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@SeanAloysiusOBrien Evidently he also has X-Ray Timeline Manipulation

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“It seems today, that all ya see, is skeletons and skeletons and skeletons…”

#monsterdon

Those contacts look unbelievably uncomfortable. #Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

And the dealer makes a call to the mob. #monsterdon

Now _those_ are some cool contacts. I'll give the film that.

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Five card charlie! #monsterdon

The man with the cataract glasses is sure to be a subtle winner. #Monsterdon

Yeah, if anyone else had discovered this x-ray vision drug they'd be rich and famous and have everything

This guy's losing everything because he's an *asshole* #Monsterdon

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Explaining his magical powers to everyone.. the cackling will begin soon..

ok the addictive behaviors are getting more clearly telegraphed. i'm starting to think this movie might be about more than just hubris

#monsterdon

[horny beach music plays]

#Monsterdon

Listen to Diane Jim.

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In fact, in old Fremont Street you can still find games like this where they let you hold your cards. The fancy big casinos don't let you do that.
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he's not very smart is he

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First hubris... then greed... then comes the fall. Greek in its arc, isn't it.

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@apLundell I'm deliberately not opening the door to considering unrealistic plot points

That way lies madness

#Monsterdon

Ah, okay, here's the (first?) sexploitation scene.

I was just about to say that it's nice that this woman (acts like she) enjoys the flirtation.

But anyway, here's the undiluted leering horniness.

#Monsterdon

He's so going to be sleeping with the fishes #Monsterdon

Go on, try to cash out. #Monsterdon

now you leave and never come back

possibly to all of nevada

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Vegas. Like ya do.

#Monsterdon

“Blackjack pays 1 1/2 times.”

Here ended the lesson.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Why does Don Rickles have a home if he's in a traveling carnival?

Oh wait, I was wrong, this is not a heist movie. Instead we're going to use our X-Ray powers to get all the money from the slot machines but seeing how they work. And then playing gambling card games and seeing what cards everyone has so we can win easily. Which is a neat trick.

#monsterdon

"I'm very good at Blackjack."

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What is eel balancing? 🤔 #Monsterdon

They couldn't get a shot of the slot machine hitting a jackpot, is what I'm learning here

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Is he sitting next to Louis Jordan?

I keep expecting Don to break out singing, "I got a horse right here, his name is Paul Revere, and the man says the horse can do!"

#Monsterdon

Of course they just happened to stumble across a slot machine that was about to have a huge payout within like a minute

That's not unlikely at all

#Monsterdon

Be careful Diane, you're in danger of being shoved out a window!

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...Yeah, okay, so you're gonna try to play the tables at a FIXED CASINO

Bad Decisions CUBED #Monsterdon

DON'T HIT THE SAME CASINO TWICE you amateur!! #Monsterdon

@lysdexic You forgot to capitalize the D

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Vegas blinky lights! Check!

Oh c'mon, when will we see walking skeletons?
#monsterdon

so now he knows how slot machines work, and more importantly, how _fixed_ slot machines work

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Wait, so if he doesn't take the drug the effects wear off... has he tried just stopping‽
#monsterdon

And he's putting more in his eyes!? #monsterdon

#monsterdon is this the first time they let Corman have color filmstock or something?

@moira The Golden Nugget is still around. It's one of my favourites! If you ever get a chance to go to Vegas, go down to old Fremont Street, where the Golden Nugget, the Four Queens, and the really old ones are. It's a really neat and different experience.

#monsterdon

You know, the being able to see a huge spectrum of light and through stuff is just a side effect.

The actual effect of the drops is to make him more pretentious.

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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️
WatchVibe™️

Medical illustrations inside bodies ⬆️
Excitement over Vegas arrival⬆️
Realization that he will probably
get caught ⬇️

#XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

This sequence of dramatic neon casino lighting in Vegas is, uh, going on for a little while there, eh?

#monsterdon

What's he need all that money for? He could go up to Wisconsin and live with the frogs for dead cheap #monsterdon

you don't squeeze your eyes shut when you put in eye drops

#Monsterdon

another snort #Monsterdon

Whaaat??? That’s not a casino, it’s waaaayyyy too brightly lit.
#Monsterdon

lmao why is he TAKING MORE

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@WhiteCatTamer Sounds better, honestly

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He lost his ability to drive a car--vision difficulty.

Foxy cigarette sales bunnies
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@YsengrinWolf I would like some acid that makes everything look extra gay. #Monsterdon

If he wins too much and gets his bones broken by goons, he can tell the doctor exactly which ones 👍 #monsterdon

Compounding bad decisions, that's the doctor's super power, not the eye thing. Bad Decisions²

#Monsterdon

Very inconspicuous.

#Monsterdon

And we're going to the world's smallest Las Vegas casino!

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"This is what Vegas looks like while on drugs"

#Monsterdon

@moira

I'm guessing the casinos are still there

#Monsterdon

vegas was different in the 60s

#monsterdon

Get to the card hustle already!
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Rain Man vs. Dr. X.. with Jazz!!

oh but i bet we'll get to see people being naked in vegas

#monsterdon

Eyes of the Gods, meet the money of the Pharoes

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Vegas baby!!
#monsterdon

And now ... driving the Las Vegas strip on acid!

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"Bras without underwires..." #monsterdon

dude, ifyou start winning too much at a casino, you're gonna be in Actual Trouble. murder ain't got nothing on the Vegas Casino Mafia.

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oh no he's just going to cheat at gambling. booooring

#monsterdon

can't believe it took him this long to think of robbing banks #monsterdon

Imaginging an Abbott and Costello parody of this where Costello plays the carnival barker and Abbott is Dr. X.
#Monsterdon

Welp, he's talking about Vegas.
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Pacing is tight. We're already past "oh yea, the bandages".

I wonder if we'll get any insomnia in this. I don't think the comic touched on that, but that's one of the things that really stuck out to me about the implications of the premise.

#Monsterdon

oh christ it's vegas

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did this just turn into a heist movie

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Dr. Diane gets to drive - I approve #monsterdon

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Aha--Rickles the protection racket boss.

This is like a bad TV pilot, but good grief it's boring! Can we please go back to the naked actors?

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We're going to Vegas baby!

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#Monsterdon We' re going to Vegas, baby!