@Taweret it was fun, cheap but well put together. #Monsterdon

i think the moral of this story is be normal instead of a jerk

#monsterdon

Yeah, again, most of that film happened not because the doctor could see into other spectrums of light, but because he was *an asshole.* #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I like how the cops follow him into the tent and do absolutely nothing. They even let the creepy preacher convince him to pluck out his eyes.

Very accurate portrayal.

Ooooh! I see where this is going. #Monsterdon

A chopper seems like a bit much, especially for the 60s.

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

I love how in this room of adult vice absolutely no one looks happy

Should have stuck with the LSD

#Monsterdon

So the effect is only sorta cumulative. You could stop any time and get better. #Monsterdon

God. I loved Old Vegas. I stayed at the Sands in '88 and got a prime rib and lobster dinner with salad, mashed potatos and a coffee for $8.99. #monsterdon

That's right, he's going to rip off the Mormons!

#Monsterdon

rickles better watch out. x has super-window-pushing powers

#monsterdon

"Patients kept coming to me with accurate diagnosis and I came here to stop it!"

#Monsterdon

Damn it, Jim, you’re a doctor not a carny. #Monsterdon

Like cats, old ladies know when it's their time...

#Monsterdon

The inside of that lady is a medical textbook diagram

#Monsterdon

Sci-fi movies forgot how to have chemistry stuff just randomly arranged on screen. It's a shame.

Cute monkey actor eyedrops. Hope they treated the animals okay in this one, based on what I know is coming from the graphic novel adaptation (which I think was just… the entire events of the movie)

#Monsterdon

Next at the cool kids table, the carnies are discussing Doc X (aka Mentallo) while smoking five million cigarettes simultaneously. Then Doc X shows up and they try to temp him into using his powers to either do or fight crime. Hawaiian Shirt Man explains that if he had Mentallo's power he'd use them to stare at naked ladies.

Doc X instead decides to use his powers for Money, and once he gets Money, to open his eyes, which is ominous.

#monsterdon

“I see veins, organs, the blood rushing through your heart and toward-“
“I GET THE IDEA”
#Monsterdon

We proceed with the trick where he reads the notes people wrote through the blindfold. One heckler dude calls him a fake and so he doxes him by reading him name and social security number from stuff in his wallet.

This makes the audience clap, because doxxing was fun before the internet existed I guess.

#monsterdon

I did not expext a PII breach! #monsterdon

“Soon I’ll be able to see what no man has ever seen…”

“When to shut up?”

#Monsterdon

"Doctor, we could stop him?"

"No"

Texas doctor I guess...

#Monsterdon

"He's been using the Drug again"

Oh definitely let him into surgery then, fuck Best Practice or what have you

Did he just slice that other doctor's hand and take over the operation?
That's some white male privilege there!

#Monsterdon

Wouldn't he see all the way through them? Not naked? #monsterdon

I'm a junkie for wacky eye drops!
#monsterdon

Helloooooooooo Nurse!

😩

#monsterdon

“Headache?”

“No thanks, already have one.”

#Monsterdon

Modern day reboot called “CT: The Man with the Computed Tomography Eyes”

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

If jazz could shrug

#Monsterdon

@Taweret
"What's the worst that can happen?"
"You could go blind. Or insane. Or blind and insane."
"Yeah, but to be able to read a pile of papers with moving each one aside as I finish it? It's worth the risk."
#monsterdon

It would just be too much to expect anyone to, I don't know, test his vision?

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

In the next scene the Lovely Assistant is playing a tape recording of the eyeball experiment to a board that has to approve research proposals or something, and they think X-ray vision is lame so they don't approve it.

Meanwhile Doc X is recovering from the experiment with bandaids over his eyes, and after he recovers he is nominally going back to his regular job.

Or is he...?

#monsterdon

@Taweret if you did just one eye, you could use an eyepatch to switch your X-ray vision on and off, like the idea about pirates using an eyepatch to preserve night vision

#Monsterdon

"It works! It works! Now I can see when people are missing buttons under their ties!" #monsterdon

#monsterdon Nothing quite like a scream of agony throwing to an Expedia advertisement. Yes, me too program, me too.

We call this the FAFO tape

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Sam! Take me to a Sorority House! I MUST HELP THEM ALL! (lol)

@hollie Can you imagine if this was made in the 1980s?
#monsterdon

"Then who's going to try it? Some student, some intern?"

"Yes, or better yet some convicted murderer!"

Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to: grad students!

(I'm kidding, I'm kidding, please don't hit me)

#monsterdon

#monsterdon We have a problem with basic radiation, physics, and logic. The x-ray eyes don’t emit X-Rays, surely. Because that's the path to #MeltySpock and none of us want that, again. But okay, perhaps just leave the X-Ray emitter just running and you use your fancy eyes for that? Senior Shitzfurbrains.

A doctor willing to risk his life in self-experimentation is a genuinely fun kind of mad scientist.

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

"Ah yes, the cool taste of healthy doctor cigarettes"

#monsterdon

Call with mom started late and I sort of intentionally went over time because eye exams are fine, but poking eyes and tearing them out isn't something I can watch shudders

Enjoy monsterdon though, folks that don't have my squick factor around this!

#Monsterdon

poor monkey, this is why we have CGI now

#Monsterdon

Having boiled our eyeball in kool-aid, we now advance to a middle aged white guy getting an eye exam from a different middle age white guy. Both of them are doctors.

He passes, but he's disappointed that he doesn't have x-ray vision and can't see the rest of the visual spectrum, so he's going to experiment on himself. The eye doctor warns him that he is trampling into the domain of the gods, which is probably not how most eye exams are supposed to go.

#monsterdon

Condescending sexism alert.

#monsterdon

Admit it, he's doing for the nudes #monsterdon

Those are scotch eyes #monsterdon

Wasn't sure if the video was working there for a minute. That eyeball really stuck with us for a while.

#monsterdon

yep, that there's an eyeball

#Monsterdon

I eked out a #MonsterdonBingo, but I feel like I'm stretching it with "Dramatic pause"

#Monsterdon

If you can believe it, the crash in the movie is MORE believeable than the crash in the comic.

He is ejected from a CONVERTIBLE at the same speed in the comic, and walks off.

Goofy. The man should be chunky road paste in that scenario.

#Monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON Goodbye!

❤️ Thank you @Taweret for hosting this homage to ocular overreach! One of Corman's best (low bar, admittedly).

🅱️ and thanks @Cherizilla for the Bingo card! "Coffee is Served" worked well this time!

🎪 And to all the members of the Real Time Film Analysis Squad: Thank you for livening up this watch party so wonderfully! My fave references were Star Trek, Jonny Carson, There Will Be Blood, and others that I forgot in the tootstorm.

#monsterdon

CORRECTION: the deity he saw was probably Azathoth...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azathoth

if i had x-ray vision eye drops i would use them only for good. never evil

#monsterdon

@jammerb @bservies Follow #MonsterdonAlert if you want to know what movies are coming and even vote on movie selection too ^_^

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

#monsterdon And that's what happens when you get awesome cosmic powers and rapidly deteriorating eyesight that needs a montage to cover…

They missed their chance to have him see dino bones on his drive
#Monsterdon

@WhiteCatTamer

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

that was better than i expected it would be! thanks @Taweret for hosting!

#monsterdon

@saucerlost "X, outside Vegas, his eyes plucked"

#MonsterDon

huh, first #monsterdon in a while i haven't wanted to rewrite into a better film. so good job, i guess. (^_^)

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

Well, thank you #monsterdon for plucking this gem out and sharing it with everyone. I had a great time.

...HIS EYES UNCOVERED!

Ending was 74% as abrupt as the Gargoyles one we watched a while back. #monsterdon

Pretty ambitious film. Thanks #monsterdon pals. #mondayactionmovie tomorrow at 8 P ET has one of the all time worst.....Take care. See ya soon.

Too bad he can't appreciate the beautiful landscape he's careening through.

#Monsterdon

Well, that would be a classic abrupt ending.

#monsterdon

He sees Cthulhu! #monsterdon

"I see minerals all over the place. That's a coal seam! There's gold in that hill. That hill over there is very gneiss!"

#monsterdon

X-ray meets lead foot.

#Monsterdon

Closed course. Professional driver. Do not attempt.

#Monsterdon

Should he even be driving with those eyes?

I guess we're about to find out...

#Monsterdon

Oh sure, leave the lady behind. She was just a boat anchor, man! #monsterdon

Yeah. You could really clean up at 21. #monsterdon

I think he's about to Find Out.

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

Bingo!

#Monsterdon

The dealer’s not the one who gets worried. It’s the pit boss who gets worried and will kick you out.

#Monsterdon

"Man with big weird glasses seems to know the cards, sure we'll let this happen..."

#Monsterdon

@nazokiyoubinbou this is pretty familiar behavior to people with use disorders.

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

"I had to take the drug again, the effect was wearing down"

I thought that was what you wanted, and need the money for!

#monsterdon

Yeah going into a casino with those crazy dark glasses doesn't look sus at all #Monsterdon

lol, driving to Vegas is the Plan is it?

Oh boy, Lady Doctor picked a winner here...

#Monsterdon

*Has vision better than can even be imagined. His eyes literally see frequencies we can't see.*

*It is represented as super limited tunnel vision with colors split and blurred.*

Oookkkkaaayyyyy...

We definitely have transitioned into Dalek vision at this point.

#Monsterdon

What a fickle Rickles

#Monsterdon

"Get out of my sight" means a lot in his case

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

"As long as I get my share! So that I can keep buying these ties! Ties that are affront to Man and to God!"

#Monsterdon

I'm not joining #monsterdon tonight because I have watched too much tv lately but here is my copy

Once again the real villain here is America's 'for profit' healthcare system, but then we all knew that, didn't we?

#Monsterdon

The old lady told all her friends that Doc X is a magic healer, even though he denies this, and so now the lobby is full of people wanting diagnoses. One by one they pay Hawaiian Shirt Man and then Doc X stares into the anatomy paintings inside them to give them a diagnosis. Insert joke about US healthcare system here.

#monsterdon

dude you still went to med school and practiced medicine you could fucking talk to these folks

#monsterdon

The writing is really good so far, and the performances are supporting its quality. Even this guy flirting with his… funder? is like an interesting interaction, and thankfully not a skeevy one.

Yea, well, we'll get there. It's a 60s flick, after all.

#Monsterdon

"We had one rule. Don't come in here."

Well, that lasted about ten minutes.

#monsterdon

Okay, a doctor lying about cancer because its terminal is as best I know on-brand for this era.

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

As usual a woman's pain is dismissed by a doctor.
#monsterdon

Hawaiian Shirt Man has donned a suit and figured out some way Doc X can use his eyeball powers to make money. They set up an apartment as a hideout for Doc X and Doc X forbids Hawaiian Shirt Man from entering the inner rooms of them for some reason.

Inside, Doc X practices using his power to stare through the ceiling but he stares into the Sun and starts screaming because the sun is bright. So he puts his glasses back on.

#monsterdon

he's just lying in bed, dropping LSD and having a bad time....

#Monsterdon

If only Don Rickles was the one with x-ray vision. This would be a completely different movie.

#Monsterdon

"Never enter my forbidden rooms!"

Oh please, do you know People at all?

#Monsterdon

Never enter these rooms under any circumstances!
*looks down*
I can't take seeing you naked.

#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes

@moira He can see.... bitcoin.
#monsterdon