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   Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:09 JST Ben Zanin

   To all #monsterdon ians courting chaos by successfully navigating the clock change and then resolving to do a #WrongFrogs by watching the 1992 version tonight, we salute you

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:03 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon These bounty hunters aren't actually accomplishing anything at all, are they? Like, not just that they are incompetent, but, like: narratively. Do they serve a purpose other than letting all the actors take turns wearing those bounty hunter costumes?

     Maybe I'm just being impatient, and they will actually turn out to have a point. But we're 2/3 of the way through the movie already...

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:04 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon Did Brad's homemade firework just kill the Critter that ate it? I can't tell if that was supposed to be a humorous "that's a spicy meatball!" moment or an actual Critter murder

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:04 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon (The black levels are a bit crushed in this DVD version. I kind of wish I'd been able to track down a Blu-Ray version.)

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:04 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon "Have another drink, Harv. I'm just going to leave the bottle here. Don't bother me."

     this bartender would never get his Smart Serve renewed, he is terrible

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.
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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:05 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon MONSTER CHOMP

     Coworker-harassing patrol cop gets... needle-gunned in the kneecap and then dragged under his car to be eaten? I think?

     (Did that actor play Neelix in Voyager? He looked a lot like Neelix.)

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:05 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon I have never seen a cellar with one of those angled double doors over a staircase in real life. I _am_ constantly surprised that none of my coworkers in California have basements at all. Are those cellars actually a real, common thing someplace, or were they only ever a fixture in movies?

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:05 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon MONSTER CHOMP×2

     Farmer Brown is attacked by two volleyball sized critters that apparently spit needles and move kind of like possums? Honestly he sounds pretty calm for someone leaking that much blood out of bite wounds that apparent size. Probably in shock.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:05 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon Tires squealing on gravel..? Sure OK why not

     Aw, Steve gets chompulated out of nowhere! Poor Billy Zane. Also poor traumatized April, who is going to have to pay for that ruined pitchfork out of her allowance.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:06 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon April, you dragged Steve into the barn to maul him. At least drag him out of _earshot_ of the house, for pete's sake.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:06 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon If I was piloting a stolen spacecraft through atmospheric reentry I would simply neither fire retrorockets nor allow increasing friction during the descent to generate incredible heat, it would be easy for me

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:06 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon That Critter foley conversation sounded a lot like sped-up Jawa speech.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:06 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon DoesTheCowDie.com (spoiler: yes)

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:07 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon _extremely Muppet Show voice_

     CRITTERS
     FROM
     SPAAAAAAACE

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:07 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon Chemex coffee maker spotted! Hand-blown version with the two-piece wooden collar and leather lanyard with the wood bead, not the version with the handle. Same as the one that appeared in Interstellar!

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:07 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon That cast iron skillet from which breakfast was being served came PERILOUSLY close to that kid's face.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:07 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon oh gosh, Billy Zane was never that young

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:08 JST Ben Zanin

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     Get your timed mute buttons ready, #monsterdon kicks off in five minutes! (It's 1h26m long.)

     Or grab your disc or find a stream, snag a snack, and get ready to shit-talk some terrific 80s trash!!

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:08 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon IS A GO

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:08 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon Our DVD version just had _four_ New Line Cinema announcements before the "Shoho Films" intro card.

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:08 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon "Send the prisoners through detox and immunization, then bring them aboard." excellent idea _stares at Dulles Airport_

     oh my gosh these rubber suits

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 10:58:09 JST Ben Zanin

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     I, however, shall be watching Critters (1986) tonight in honour of DEMOCRACY because that's what we filthy nerds voted to do and because I have never seen it

     #monsterdon

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 11:19:13 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon I really appreciate that the Critters are basically just tumbleweeds that can curse

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.
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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 11:19:13 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon The way the screenplay centers the kid Brad's perspective feels remniscent of Invaders From Mars (1953/1986).

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 11:19:14 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon Notch another Critter for Brad, so far that's one that he has killed with a firework and one by accidentally shooting a ceiling fan that dropped and smooshed his quarry.

     DON'T SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE BRAD FOR HECKSAKE

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 11:19:14 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon _Brad turns down his father's offer to take the shotgun with him_ "Nah, it would only slow me down."

     .oO("This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not NEED it. We will not USE it.")

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 11:19:14 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon DoTheChickensDie.com (I hope they don't)

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 11:19:14 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon _montage sequence of Critters knocking everything off tables and tearing up bedding_ oh so they're just cats

     ...

     ...

     ...just like Godzilla!!

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     Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 11:19:15 JST Ben Zanin

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     #monsterdon Oh those needle darts are _sedative_ now?!

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     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 (ramencatholic@mindly.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Mar-2025 11:20:01 JST RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈

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     @gnomon and #SplendaDaddy thinks the hill they keep showing is the same one from Invaders. #Monsterdon