how much of this vegas still exists? any of it?

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Vegas signs just get more colourful
#monsterdon

This guy's what we have instead of a National Health, or guarantied health-insurance.

#monsterdon

Being able to see the dealer's hole card might give you an advantage

#monsterdon
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not a bad idea except for the part where if you actual win in a casino they throw you out

#Monsterdon

They got to Vegas in time for Pride. #Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

"Would you come with me?"

"I'm a smart woman.....but yes"

#Monsterdon

If this movie was stupider, the guy with the X-Ray vision would be driving the getaway car instead of the Lovely Assistant.

#monsterdon

Next up: Ocean's X

#monsterdon

The whole film is riding on Milland's ability to over-act. #monsterdon

Canada!
#monsterdon

"Flesh dissolved in acids of light" Yeah, losing it there Doc X.

#Monsterdon #ManWithXRayEyes

er... it didn't take THAT much money to cross the border, pal. #monsterdon

Escaping from Don Rickles seems oddly legit

#monsterdon

@hollie Somehow I doubt that would stop the cats

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon He could have easily serviced today's customers and slipped out at night.

You won't get away!

He gets away.

#monsterdon

Don Rickles is bringing the correct amount of extortionate pimp energy to this role.

#Monsterdon

so weird:

Don Rickles has actual range as an actor.

#Monsterdon

Lovely Assistant has found out about Doc X and came to the secret hideout to see him, posing as a patient. He doesn't recognize her at first because his X-Ray vision is on all the time.

She wants to lovingly remove his glasses, but he explains that things are worse with the glasses off because he sees all the people everywhere and he wants to see darkness. She has some kind of plan to get him treatment.

#monsterdon

"Sbrake ervice"?

#Monsterdon

Who knew that the underlying health problem for so many people was being full of medical illustrations?

#Monsterdon

Glad he's not driving

#monsterdon
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"I'd give anything to have dark"

That would be a nightmare though, sounds like the Russian Sleep Experiment

#Monsterdon

Okay honestly? Being able to see through my own eyelids would be the No. 1 reason I wouldn't do this if it were offered.

Also because I'd just end up using it for silly reasons, like explaining to the cats why they can't be hungry because I can see their stomachs are FULL

#Monsterdon
#TheManWithTheXRayEyes

Poor Eliza Doolittle!

#Monsterdon

"I'd give anything to have dark"

Wow, real strong chocolate preferences there.

#Monsterdon

I’d give anything to stop doing these experiments on myself. #Monsterdon

This premise does seem better suited for a teen sex comdey. Something like Zapped. This is getting a bit heavy. #monsterdon

"I'd give anything to have dark!"

Well maybe stop putting the xray drops in your eyes?

#monsterdon

he should dabble in geology #Monsterdon

look i know he's gonna oedipus this shit. he should just do it already

#monsterdon

It works!

It WORKS!

Congratulations, doctor. This will be your undoing.

#Monsterdon

Eventually he's going to see a lady who looks like her head fell in the cheese dip back in 1957

#monsterdon

i knew who i was looking _five_, take _that_, digits!

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

i come and peace to see you jim

see you jim

see you jim

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Not buying it. Not every medical condition leaves visible lesions #monsterdon

Healer, can you see what's wrong with my child? A doctor went rogue during her heart surgery

#monsterdon

i mostly feel bad for all these folks who clearly don't have access to decent medical care

#monsterdon

Can he see the crazy? #monsterdon

I hope this ends with him becoming some kind of 'X-Ray Messiah' and the Feds having to kill him....

#Monsterdon

@Taweret The pacing is better than usual!

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#Monsterdon Poor doc, his vision keeps getting more and more sensitive to other wavelengths, so he keeps designing more powerful dark glasses.

Sucks to be him.

And Don Rickles! He was born to play this sleazeball.

@Taweret That's quite an endorsement of the whole #Monsterdon experience!

"Other times I can barely penetrate a man's skin..."

kinky Dr X...

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon "I told you never to set foot in here!"

Into this room where I left the door wide open!

x-ray eyes, maybe, but not eyes in the back of his head

#monsterdon

"Madam, your chest would fit into Grey's Anatomy" but it's not a pickup line.

#Monsterdon

Why is he continuing to take more drops?? #Monsterdon

in one week's time, he'll be dead, that's my prediction.

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

❌ X-TRIVIA

During the Tonight Show on June 23, 1972, guest host Don Rickles welcomed Ray Milland.

They discussed Millands amazing career. Milland specifically said that the movie #XTheManWithTheXRayEyes was "terrible", but that Rickles' acting in it was good.

"I only look, and tell what I see. Except for just now when I lied about what I saw."

#monsterdon

Why does she look like an anatomy painting inside?
#monsterdon

Just tiredness, and age, and nothing... good line.

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"it'll be gone soon because you're going to die"

#monsterdon

"What did he see?"

Well, let's find out. But first, a series of wacky mad vision scientist adventures, beginning with a nice, healthy cigarette.

#Monsterdon

No wonder she's in pain, she's got a textbook illustration of a circulatory system inside her. #Monsterdon

oh great he's got the pencil drawing filter installed

nothing will be accurate now

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@moira The whole terrifying seeing-too-much thing is just a metaphor for realizing he's gay once he can see through everyone's clothing.

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

I know Corman is well known for stinkers, but this movie … might be good? Or at least not terrible. And maybe a decent scifi story?

It started slow, but honestly Don Rickles has really injected energy and menace to the movie that I really didn’t expect. #monsterdon

Is Xavier unable to sleep due to constantly seeing the sun?

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

"Are you hungry? I brought you someone."

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

oh, it's serious now:
We can see studs and joists.

#Monsterdon

@allanb no but there's that too lol

#Monsterdon

How does he get any sleep with being able to see through his eyelids #Monsterdon

@moira @trixter #monsterdon

Rickles is also in Casino, iirc.

"i want to be able to open my eyes and see normally he says" while taking the rest of the magic vision drugs that fucked up his eyes

#monsterdon

...possibly radiation exposure, who can say

#Monsterdon

This is honestly a lot more Don Rickles than I expected.

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

Honestly, this character Rickles is playing is sleazy but also not too bad. He's an honest swindler.

#Monsterdon

He can diagnose maybe, but not heal with his eyes

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@JoeWynne just imagining the ludicrous 90s cgi Zemeckis would use in a remake #monsterdon

rickles trying to get him to start a cult

well

honestly not wrong about the money part

#monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Imagine if doctors could take cleric levels

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

Wow, that's a helluva widow's peak. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon
"You've got the power to see inside!"

"Shut-up!"

That's dialog for you.

honestly he could have just been a bit quieter and gone around diagnosing people with "i'm a doctor" and like 50% of people would have listened to him

#monsterdon

dude, a) stop moving the lady with the broken ribs, b) actual medial care is coming, why would you strap some planks to her leg when she's gonna be in an abulance in like 3 minutes.

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

@allanb lol no "discrete" wasn't in the movie, I just felt like it was an obvious pun opportunity

#Monsterdon

I wish I saw the world as a series of Aphex Twin album covers

#Monsterdon

Don Rickles' Holographic Skull!

#Monsterdon #ManWithXRayEyes

Ha ha! At least Don Rickles’s character is telling the truth!

#Monsterdon

Don Rickles is scheming to use Ray Milland to help steal Nazi gold
#Monsterdon

Okay, but an amazing ability that he can only use as a trick feels almost like a Twilight Zone bit.

#Monsterdon #XtheManWithTheXrayEyes

So, now he's just using his powers to be a dick?

#Monsterdon

He'd be a guy who's STANDING RIGHT BEHIND YOU!
#Monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

@Lazarou Johnny Carson! The Great Carnak? #Monsterdon

@allanb tired of Discrete Girls, are we?

#Monsterdon

"I never think. I eat."

A wise woman

#monsterdon

"I never think. I eat." words to live by #monsterdon

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Cool eyeball

Certainly a way to make a first impression on the viewer. Can this movie pay it off?

#Monsterdon

"I never think. I eat." My new personal slogan. #monsterdon

As a fellow Big Face Haver, I want those sunglasses

#monsterdon
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" #Monsterdon : the effects seem to be cumulative"

@Louisa He wants to stay busy?

#monsterdon

#monsterdon Bingo!

i believe mr mentallo wants not to be arrested.

#monsterdon #XTheManWithTheXrayEyes

Don Rickles is the most dynamic part of the movie so far, tbh. #monsterdon

Ain't no damn way that dude is 27 years old.. this mofo is already 40! #monsterdon

Not only X-Ray eyes, he has eagle eyes! Reading a driver's license in a distant pocket.

#Monsterdon #ManWithXRayEyes