Hoo boy. At least it was short. Stick to the Crab Monsters Corman. That was WAY more fun. Thanks @Taweret for hosting. Have a great week Beautiful Mutants. #Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes
Good shock ending. Good acting. Compelling. Good work, Monsterdon. Till we meet again... see ya around.. heh heh heh
@Configures@mindly.social Laying off the drugs would have been a good thing... Or maybe even just some level of harm reduction. #Monsterdon.
"Hey boss. We got all dis extra whacked out color footage. Whatcha wan us do with it?"
"I dunno. Just put it behind the credits."
Good establishing for the carnival sequence. A liiiitle too much.
The Preacher asks people if they want to come forward to be saved, and Doc X shows up. The Preacher is like "Do you want to be Saved?" and Doc X is like "No, I see all things. In the center of the universe there is a Great Eye that sees us all!"
The preacher decides that this guy sees the Devil and Sin, and because of the book of Matthew he should pluck out his eyes, which he does. Then credits.
WUT.
typical #monsterdon ending LOL
Ow. But as abrupt as that ending was, it worked.
@Newpa_Hasai π
It was a bit X-files there for a bit (black oil)
#monsterdon
Whoops, well, maybe laying off the drops would've been a less extreme step #Monsterdon
wtf they really went there... #monsterdon
@EricKHoward seriously
How the hell did she find him?
#monsterdon
That was an intense, and intensely stupid ending.
#monsterdon
unlucky guy. why couldn't have have wandered into a Thelemic #magick coven instead?? oh lovely now he's talking about Azathoth, this will go well #Monsterdon
Starting to suspect this ainβt how x rays work at all
#Monsterdon
Wanted for murder and he stumbles into a tent full of people whose entire worldview is built around awe for people who can see the unseen! What are the odds?
ugh, in case the last set of contacts wasn't bad enough. ouch.
"Are you a sinner?" "We saw Sinners last night, does that count?"
He was about one inch short of just pulling that whole tent down on them...
#monsterdon Did this preacher not notice that an injured man just staggered into his tent?
So when improving your vision, remember that your eyes are quite small, and that if you lower (UGH LENGTHEN) the wavelengths you can see, you become more and more diffraction limited. And we can see X's vision has really awful dispersion.
"The effect is cumulative"
That seems good. Good, right?
Anyway, James seems like he's jonesing for some more eye drops.
My eyes hurt just watching stagger from scene to scene, tripping his balls off...
βI have abandoned my child!!!β
Is he about to go to a Pentecostal revival?
He's about to stumble into the cult he accidentally started but they aren't going to know who he is
He's not the first man in a suit to stumble away from his wrecked boat of a car, squinting in the desert.
i'm going to be so disappointed if he doesn't do an oedipus
Hop the freight! Become the XRay Hobo! Do it man!
Drivng while blind . Agh. #Monsterdon
He should be able to close his eyes and walk, but no, heβs got them open.
#Monsterdon
I really hoped #VicFontaine would show up in this casino, then maybe this plot could go someplace interesting.
Pre-Pinto, no explodium in cars. #monsterdon
@OldRustBucket I guess to be fair it's only like 30-ish miles away
Unless you want to get to any of the interesting parts of California
The next part of this movie is Doc X in a car driving away on his own while cursed with supernatural vision, while the highway patrol chases him with a helicopter. Eventually, he runs out of zigzags and crashes his car, but survives and stumbles away.
It'll buff out. #monsterdon
#Monsterdon and #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes
That;s a 60's car crash. He's not walking away from that one, in reality...
He lost control because he saw a uranium deposit out in the desert. Next he's gonna steal a steam shovel and make a crooked deal with a dishonest mining foreman. #Monsterdon
@Newpa_Hasai There used to be road signs saying that speeding was monitored by helicopter back in the day. #Monsterdon
He's lucky not to have worse injuries with cars of that era
pew pew pew laser eyes would be handy now
@saucerlost IMO it's unclear if any of these things are true
If he goes through the tunnel, he can make it to Toon Town!
Oh, poor chickens #monsterdon
When he said "only one place" I thought Fort Knox. #Monsterdon
Dude. Pull over this isn't gonna end well can't you...er....see that? #Monsterdon
OK, those early-60s bias-belted tires did NOT survive that.
#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes
I'm not sure how the frenzied driving addresses his "oh the lights are so bright" issue.
As everyone can see his Sith Lord X-Ray eyes and the cops are here, Doc X throws piles of money at people as a distraction and then gets into a car and drives away. But of course he doesn't have his glasses so he sees through everything while's driving and almost crashes into a farm truck and then decides to break every road law at once.
In the olden days they prolly just punched him in the face repeatedly.
You know how Frogs was really just people slipping on things and dying while frogs looked on?
This movie is "a dude who HAPPENS to have X-ray vision makes a series of bad decisions which he probably would have made anyway, which ruin his life." #Monsterdon
the funniest part is all he has to do is say he's psychic, knows all sees all, and act like he believes it and then he's just a kook who got lucky
Quoth @k8eb: "why are you stealing a car? You can't see! It's daylight, ya got lizard eyes, _you're not looking at the road_..!"
@bunnyhero As he continually remembers to demonstrate
"We should get out of here before the mpb assasinates you." #monsterdon
this movie really is about drugs huh. he's literally a drunk driver right now (but worse)
This is exactly how you get skeletophilia
@yatsu ugh yeah, not like today where they can do it all digitally #monsterdon
Make it rain!
This Riddick prequel is lit
Jim. Aren't you supposed to be on the lamb? Hiding out? Laying low?
Not pissing of everyone in proximity?
Heβs becoming Data.
Cool eyeballs, tho #Monsterdon
#Monsterdon
#XtheManWithTheXrayEyes
Uh-oh. Vegas doesn't take kindly to card readers, not even the kind who count cards based on math.
X The Man Who Pissed Off the Mafia Needlessly
@Taweret _Intensely_
Lesson 1 of Grift Club
Don't explain the scam to the mark while it is happening
He's gonna get chucked out of this place like the man he threw out the window earlier. #Monsterdon
He doesnβt just see the wires and tubes inside the neon? #Monsterdon
This does feel like an overly padded version of a solid Twilight Zone episode.
Yeah, I don't think slots work that way #monsterdon
this dealer does not give a FUCK
#monsterdon No way. There's no way you could predict the payout of a slot machine.
They don't keep that kind of internal state. That would be both stupid and illegal.
Thinking about how some people wear nappies (diapers) while working those slot machines, rather than get off the chair.
Truly a city of dreams
Previously he said the effects of the X drops were cumulative, now they are "wearing down"?
okay so i guess.... it's cumulative but he can't control it and it goes in and out, so he takes the drops when he needs it to 'turn on' at a specific time
time for another "dose" so i can "see" things!
*pulls out dropper of LSD*
And now the doc is an expert in slot machine design.
Don Corleone would like a word, sir.
#MonsterDon
@diazona Itβs not the number from the sample Social Security cards included in wallets sold at Woolworthβs (which was also a real personβs number)
oh yeah, bingo!
#monsterdon Oh boy, vegas.
In movies, they never do this well. They just use their super-power to win constantly. Which is suspicious as heck.
Let's see if this guy is smart enough to just win one or two long-shots.
@moira I was just thinking that... #Monsterdon #LasVegas
This movie needed some jazz flute!
You're listening to the smooth jazz sound of The Man with X-ray eyes radio #monsterdon
He went to Vegas, not SLC? He could have given the next White Horse Prophecy! He's got the Urim & Thummim!
#Monsterdon #TheManWithTheXRayEyes #mormon #deepcutreference
Does he have fine control over the visions or doesnβt he? Only our screenwriter knows for sure. And the glasses should mark him as a shyster. #Monsterdon
Some of the best casinos are actually VFWs
In the getaway car, Doc X and the Lovely Assistant decide to elope and/or do crimes. Doc X realizes that there's a place in the desert with lots of money that he could get, and then we get blurry pictures of Las Vegas, so this is now a heist movie.
"This is what Vegas looks like while on drugs"
BINGO!
Music by Roger Gormans cat walking on a pipe organ.
Jazzy optical effects montage!
and then he goes into the casino from Casino and Don Rickles is the pit boss AAAHHHHHH