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   jonny (jonny@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:32:15 JST jonny

   Root post for #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:32:13 JST jonny (good kind)

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     absolutely incredible endorsement. so bad it inspired some of the best sci-fi ever written out of spite #monsterdon #OctaviaButler

     edit: excuse me that's speculative fiction

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 10:32:14 JST jonny (good kind)

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     Alright, movie from 1954, im expecting like half a dozen transfers and cuts. Anyone already scouted out the good one? #monsterdon

     edit: the default search result from archive.org seems good enough https://archive.org/details/devil-girl-from-mars-1954

     Infoseepage repeated this.
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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:25 JST jonny (good kind)

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     wait actually she says this in her opening expository dialogue so fast you probably missed it. she is here for two reasons, to get a man, and also to test the metal that her ship is made of, and explicitly says that it being too unstable is an option and if so they will just send more spaceships. so in the text of the movie the sacrificed man actually didn't destroy the thing at all, it just self destructed. so the movie is actually entirely about the relationship between the escaped from prison guy and the paired woman character, about how even if you overcome overwhelming odds, the forces of the universe will come and rip the thing you love away from you for no purpose #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:26 JST jonny (good kind)

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     me to children:

     #monsterdon #bestOfMonsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:27 JST jonny (good kind)

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     fan editing this movie and there sure are a lot of non devil girl scenes in here that literally nobody asked for #Monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:27 JST jonny (good kind)

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     just sending the first 22 minutes of the movie straight to the trash bin, nothing in there worth saving #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:28 JST jonny (good kind)

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     THIS MOVIE silently engages with the problem of gender throughout, where the motivation for the devil girl from mars is having killed all men in a "war of the sexes" which is NEVER MENTIONED AGAIN. the men then display a range of behaviors that provide the SILENT backstory to the war of the sexes - criminality, sealion scientist, being hella annoying, etc. THE ENDING is a very literal tragedy for women, where through sheer bluster and dumb luck men overpower even the hyperintelligent, hyperadvanced women from mars, and then proceed to ignore the deep trauma experienced by the woman standing not feet away from them #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:29 JST jonny (good kind)

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     i genuinely have no idea who the men are, as far as i'm concerned there's the scientist guy and the rest of them are all the escaped criminal guy #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:29 JST jonny (good kind)

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     oh so he just figured it out like immediately #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:30 JST jonny (good kind)

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     the devil girl from mars has done absolutely zero reaching out to the earth women. like if you just killed all men presumably you would have some tips and tricks or dire warnings or idk maybe ANYTHING AT ALL to say to the earth women #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:31 JST jonny (good kind)

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     again the villain in the movie is just gender. #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:31 JST jonny (good kind)

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     TIMESTAMP TO CLIP I WILL SPARE NO ONE #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:32 JST jonny (good kind)

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     man adapt your freaking tactics. she is a superhuman alien from a planet and she just finished wiping out all men in a battle of the sexes. maybe read the room a little and don't try and do hero man stuff #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:33 JST jonny (good kind)

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     she has been doing a The Bachelorette with them this whole time and all the other guys fucking blew their shot #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:34 JST jonny (good kind)

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     they made sure to give this kid a big ice cream cone of lidocaine before they shot his scenes #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:34 JST jonny (good kind)

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     i love how she is just fucking stunting on them for no reason, she could have just mind controlled all of them immediately and taken one and just chilled while the spaceship healed but she wanted to show this collection of like 5 scottish guys in particular how cool she is #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:35 JST jonny (good kind)

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     when the movie ends i'm going to make a "devil girl from mars but it's only the devil girl" fan edit #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:36 JST jonny (good kind)

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     scientists believe so many things that we can't perceive with our own senses, in fact almost every thing is something we can't perceive with our senses #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:36 JST jonny (good kind)

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     science is basically seeing a normal looking room and being like "damn you must really have like a perpetual motion nuclear reactor thing" #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:37 JST jonny (good kind)

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     TIMESTAMP for the martian woman being confused by the scottish child #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:38 JST jonny (good kind)

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     what is the sound effect of the robot's face gun? was that like a seal call????? #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:38 JST jonny (good kind)

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     jesus christ these robot disintegration composite shots are GREAT #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:39 JST jonny (good kind)

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     that "you fool" has been sampled in so many dj sets and hip hop tracks #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:40 JST jonny (good kind)

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     good lord, there's a freaking ufo out there!!!!! #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:40 JST jonny (good kind)

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     if i was in this movie it would last 5 seconds because my ass wants to get abducted and being abducted by extremely hot latex suit devil girl is just about the best case scenario #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:41 JST jonny (good kind)

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     WHY ARE THEY TALKING ABOUT ANYTHING BUT THE MARTIAN DEVIL GIRL #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:42 JST jonny (good kind)

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     earthlings: this will be a turning point in human civilization
     martians: we came to fuck one of your guys
     #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:42 JST jonny (good kind)

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     what would a martian dominatrix use as like a derogatory term for earthlings and why does my mind want her to call them all 'honkies' #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:43 JST jonny (good kind)

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     trying to put myself in the mindset of a 1950's guy where basically every flying object is an unidentified flying object to justify how they keep acting like everything is normal #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:43 JST jonny (good kind)

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     the parameters of what an extraterrestrial lifeform must be capable of has dramatically changed since the 1950's, where then it was plausible for spaceships to be just like normal rocket craft made by species that can make trivial miscalculations and end up in scotland, but now it wouldn't read at all outside of a comedy for an alien to make a mistake like that because we understand that aliens would have to develop technology well outside our understanding of basic physics to travel to earth #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:44 JST jonny (good kind)

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     i could do with like 20 or 30 more shots of the escaped convict guy jumping out from behind curtains and stuff #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:45 JST jonny (good kind)

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     who cares about that freaking UFO there's a guy that should be subject to the violence of the state!!!!! #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:45 JST jonny (good kind)

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     why did they land the UFO and then no UFO things happened and why is anyone talking about anything but the UFO #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:46 JST jonny (good kind)

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     YES YES YES INCREDIBLE SAUCER A+ EVERYTHING #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:47 JST jonny (good kind)

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     okayyyyyyeeee are all the principles assembled and adequately characterizeddddddd because we are burning devil girl daylight #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:47 JST jonny (good kind)

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     why are they eating out of a trophy you would get for winning the ancient grecian olympics #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:48 JST jonny (good kind)

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     i was warned that the music in this punches way above the weight class and like, wow. perfectly situationally responsive with that bassoon or oboe slinky thing for the wood carrying guy #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:49 JST jonny (good kind)

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     that's another first scene #BechdelPass, two women talking about space and a devil girl #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:49 JST jonny (good kind)

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     sincerely any movie whose protagonist is escaped from prison or sheltering a prison escapee instantly rises like 100 points in my book #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:50 JST jonny (good kind)

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     sounds like we found the perfect movie #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:51 JST jonny (good kind)

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     now here we go, some actual trivia: https://beladraculalugosi.wordpress.com/category/john-c-mather/

     linked to from https://scifist.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/devil-girl-from-mars/ in describing how wikipedia and other sources list the movie as coming from a stage play, but actually it was written and produced in 10 days when they wrapped filming another project early and still had paid time lmao

     edit: this scifist wordpress blogpost is actually extremely good, definitely worth a read

     #monsterdon #monsterdonTrivia

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:51 JST jonny (good kind)

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     incredible how despite all the search engines being totally broken, the original design of the web still works: documents linking between each other are undefeated for durable information discoverability

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:52 JST jonny (good kind)

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     man that does not count as trivia, wikia. #monsterdon

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     jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 14:03:53 JST jonny (good kind)

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     one must imagine devil girls as hungry and overheated

     #monsterdon