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   Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:22:55 JST Rob Ricci

   Root post for #Monsterdon: LASERBLAST!

   (If you don't want to see me, and others, posting for two hours about kid from the 70s finding an alien laser, and, well, blasting, with it, mute the hashtag, this thread, or me)

   The trailer for this movie seems to fit the title exactly: it mostly consists of Laser Blasts, plus a couple shots of E.T.-ripoff aliens[*] . However, I am suspicious: knowing the trailers for #Monsterdon -tier movies, I bet they put every single special effect that they could afford to film in the trailer, and the movie consists of 2 minutes of action and 83 minutes of characters I couldn't care less about saying things I don't want to hear.

   So: go on this journey with me and let's find out together!

   * Wait, this movie came out four years BEFORE E.T., which raises the fascinating possibility that Spielberg ripped of his alien design FROM THIS THING, HWAT?

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:22:52 JST Rob Ricci

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     Yes, this is just what I was looking for in a movie called LASERBLAST, stoned cops writing tickets, yes

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:22:53 JST Rob Ricci

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     Wow this is the most exciting nothing I've seen since last Sunday

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:22:53 JST Rob Ricci

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     Another movie so low-budget they couldn't afford a shirt for the lead actor

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:22:54 JST Rob Ricci

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     Oh, the movie was all a dream

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:15 JST Rob Ricci

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     I bet there's a fandom wiki where people have decoded the entire syntax and vocabulary of this alien language

     And if not, it's up to me

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:15 JST Rob Ricci

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     Sometimes this movie shows me actors that I think it has shown me before and I guess this is what it means by having "characters"?

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:16 JST Rob Ricci

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     They make a good couple cause of the unbuttoned shirts

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:17 JST Rob Ricci

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     So, uh, I guess this movie has some characters in it? Maybe?

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:18 JST Rob Ricci

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     Well, we're getting our money's worth of LASERBLASTING now!

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:18 JST Rob Ricci

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     $11.15! What is he buying? Two eggs?

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:19 JST Rob Ricci

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     You know if he had successfully zapped the cameraperson, like he was trying to do, he could have saved us all a lot of pain

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:20 JST Rob Ricci

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     If you just watched movies, you'd get the impression that no internal combustion engine started, ever

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:20 JST Rob Ricci

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     YAY THE TITULAR LASER BLAST

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:32:21 JST Rob Ricci

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     Whoever these guys in the blue convertible are, I hope we get their theme song frequently

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:38 JST Rob Ricci

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     "Can I get dressed now, Doctor"

     Billy, you aren't fooling anyone, you were not going to get dressed

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:38 JST Rob Ricci

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     I was hoping that in a movie called LASTERBLAST I was going to get some chances to deploy Mooninite gifs

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:39 JST Rob Ricci

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     devilgirl.jpg: "My God Billy it's bigger!"

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:40 JST Rob Ricci

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     Wait is the guy in the suit the director? why is he giving stage directions?

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:41 JST Rob Ricci

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     This synth knows DRAMA, baby

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:41 JST Rob Ricci

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     The tamale is also laced with fentanyl

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:42 JST Rob Ricci

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     "you jerks stay here imma get my laser"

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:43 JST Rob Ricci

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     "Watcha thinkin about, Billy?"

     "Oh, you know, just laser stuff"

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:43 JST Rob Ricci

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     Will there, at any point, be anything in this movie that has any significance for things that happen at any other point in this movie?

     #Monsterdon

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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 10:49:44 JST Rob Ricci

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     This scene is likely our best opportunity for a Bechdel pass in this movie, oddly enough

     #Monsterdon