Scarab (Sarah)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.miyaku.media/@miru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>miru</span></a></span> Oh wow, I missed the start of the movie on first showing, and couldn't really hear the music for the commentary track, but now hearing the opening credits, I HAD THAT OPENING SONG on a thin film I could play on a record player -- I think I got it for subscribing to Starlog magazine, back in the 1980s! <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/FirstMenInTheMoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstMenInTheMoon</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Monsterdon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Monsterdon</span></a></p>
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@miru There it is, in the commentary by Harryhausen, Cook, and Dalton, one of them referred directly to the "genocide" in the movie. #FirstMenInTheMoon #Monsterdon
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@YsengrinWolf @Taweret I was surprised by how much from this got riffed on in Flash Gordon (1980)
Thanks to @Taweret for hosting tonight's stop-motion taste of the 60s. Cavorite, exploding greenhouses, attack geese, a con man and the woman he abuses, a mad-but-not-violent scientist, Se;lenites and Mooncows.
And the space faring Cavorite-adorned proto-steampunk dodecahedron. (I know it's not a dodecahedron, I just like saying that)
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@diazona Wow, well done
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Thanks for the fun, @Taweret!
This was my favorite Monsterdon so far! It's so good we collectively invest our Sunday nights in these...uh....cultural gems...or something....anyway it's good is the thing
@_L1vY_ _huh_
that hits differently after the ending
s'funny I always feel like I've got less to say after an actually pretty good movie
anyway good job team and thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting
And so our movie ends as all stories do where two men land on a planet full of bug people.
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Oh huh. Technically the humans in this movie fucked off into the sea after leaving the moon didn't they?
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@ramsey good point well made
every (individually) named character, then.
Keeping score ... no coffee (though morning brandies were common), and no smoking (that I noticed).
Thank you @Taweret and the #Monsterdon crew!
It has been decades since I saw this one, and it was a very fun session. Some great riffing.
I propose Mouse on the Moon as a palate cleanser for next week!
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I'd like to think that the Selenites listened to the radio broadcasts of The War of the Worlds and thought, hey we can pretend we all died, they'll totally buy it, and we'll just go off to another planet.
The scientist guy agrees and helps them with Cavorite.
It would've been nice not to hate _everybody_ in this movie, honestly.
Other than that it was pretty good!
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@miru I like the geopolitical commentary by Ray Harryhausen, FX artist Randy Cook, and film historian Tony Dalton in your encore presentation of #FirstMenInTheMoon #Monsterdon Sweet how Harryhausen says he'd wanted to do an H.G. Wells movie for years.