Alright it is twenty minutes until #MONSTERDON, which means if you don't want to see a bunch of nerds watching a monster movie you should set up a filter!
Folks, this week on #Monsterdon, the weekly monster movie watch party, we've got an HG Wells classic. Yes it's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH (1977), which actually looks like a decent production. The costumes look solid and the MUTTONCHOPS definitely look period-accurate. Good god.
Folks, it is an hour until #MONSTERDON, the weekly monster movie watch party.
This week we're watching KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS (1977), which features William Shatner and about 5,000 spiders. If either of those things is a problem for you, I heartily recommend filtering this hashtag, which can be done in your Preferences.
This week on #Monsterdon, it's KINGDOM OF THE SPIDER (1977) starring William Shatner! It's gonna be like The Giant Spider Invasion but with better spiders and Captain Kirk gnawing on the scenery for an hour and a half :D
It's 8pm Eastern which means there's only one hour left until #MONSTERDON, your weekly monster movie watch party. If you don't want your timeline full of toots about a goofy old flick, set up a filter while you can.
This week we're watching LOGAN'S RUN (1976), a sci fi thing about a dystopia that kills you at 30. Jack Weinberg, dictator?
This Sunday at 9pm eastern witness the return of #MONSTERDON, the weekly monster movie watch party! This week's movie is LOGAN'S RUN (1976), which Roger Ebert apparently called a "vast, silly extravaganza." Sounds right up our street.
Further proof that "AI" is not really a thing (as if such proof is necessary)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is streaming on YouTube, it's a legit stream from Shout! Factory.
YT drops ads into the stream, essentially at random, in the middle of scenes. Which is stupid and makes the stream fairly unwatchable.
MST3K was originally a cable TV show and has commercial breaks built into it -- the original bumpers are still in the show. The show also features a flashing light signal that the characters in the show recognize as "commercial sign." It literally signals some of the commercial breaks.
A twelve year old could identify the commercial break points in all 10 seasons of the show in an afternoon.
Instead, YT dropped three random commercial breaks in the middle of scenes in a half hour. As much as I love MST3K, I can't watch that. Total #enshittification. Doesn't help YT, the advertisers or Shout!
If Google had an actual AI that worked, you would think they would apply it here. Seems pretty simple, and surely other old TV shows are streaming on YT as well.
In ONE HOUR #MONSTERDON returns! Every Sunday at 9pm EST we watch a monster movie and toot about it! If that sounds annoying, prepare to filter the hashtag.
This week we're watching THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (1979)! Jack Palance is in this? Is Palance to TSoTtC as Plummer was to Starcrash? Only time will tell!
I'm super looking forward to #Monsterdon tonight, The Shape of Things to Come is exactly my favorite kind of cheese. People in form-fitting spandex and injection-molded clear plastic bubble helmets waving around "Death Rays" that are in fact squirt guns painted in metallic colors :D
If we're super lucky, they'll actually have an art director with some vision, like Starcrash did. That movie sucks on toast but man those sets and costumes were amazing. :D
Don’t know if there is much interest in costuming on Mastodon yet, but these are our costumes from the recent Costume Con 42. Tom Servo and Pearl Forrester from #mst3k.
Tom Servo was over 9 feet tall, and I was using a camera and virtual glasses to see where I was going. #costuming#cosplay
So this week on #MONSTERDON, your weekly monster movie watch party, we'll be seeing THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME (1979). It looks very Space Mutiny, very Starcrash. I'm looking forward to it :D
Folks in a little under an hour your dash will be overtaken by a flood of movie-related commentary that we like to call #MONSTERDON, your weekly monster movie watch-along party. If that sounds irritating I suggest setting up a block for the hashtag in your Preferences page.
I like to think all the movies that start with IT! belong to the same storyline. It Came From Space is obviously followed by It's in the Air, then It's in the Bag, and then, lastly, It's in the Water. #Monsterdon#MST3k
Looks like this week's #Monsterdon will be It Came From Outer Space (1953), a classic sci fi yarn about a spaceship that crashes in a dude's back yard and then starts bodysnatching folks! No pods, by the looks of things, but maybe the aliens will turn out to be giant okra or something :D
OKAY I LET THE EVENING GET AWAY FROM ME but it is --yeesh- FIFTEEN MINUTES until #MONSTERDON which this week is PROJECT MOON BASE (1953) WHY AM I YELLING I DON'T KNOW JUST GO WITH IT
Like, I've been watching bad movies most of my life. I've seen bad endings and I've seen weird endings. I've seen endings that made no sense and I've seen endings that were just stupid. But I can't remember seeing an ending that was that creepy, misogynistic, and dismissive all in one go.
Like, that wasn't just a turd of an ending. They built up to that ending. They left it there for a week to mature before they threw it at us. #Monsterdon