It is currently ONE HOUR until #MONSTERDON the weekly monster movie watch party!
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he cast Ultima on the bear
#Monsterdoni'm still laughing oh my god
that was amazing
that was almost as good as mime cop, I need a gif of the bear spontaneously exploding in a nuclear flash
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i'm still laughing oh my god
that was amazing
that was almost as good as mime cop, I need a gif of the bear spontaneously exploding in a nuclear flash
#MonsterdonAnd in the best traditions of #Monsterdon the film simply stops at this stage
Closing plot threads? Who needs it. Monster's dead, shut it down.
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And in the best traditions of #Monsterdon the film simply stops at this stage
Closing plot threads? Who needs it. Monster's dead, shut it down.
Listen, I've seen a lot of monsters spontaneously explode for literally no reason
But none have been QUITE that funny
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Listen, I've seen a lot of monsters spontaneously explode for literally no reason
But none have been QUITE that funny
#MonsterdonWow I laughed so hard I made myself dizzy, that awesome
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This plot has no through-line. Like, there's no story being told here, it's just a series of events that happen one after the other. #Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe To be honest, that is generally how slasher films work. They don't really have a story to tell, just relentless gore and bad decision making.
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@CactuarJoe To be honest, that is generally how slasher films work. They don't really have a story to tell, just relentless gore and bad decision making.
@xansteel I'll give you that there's a lot of bland, unambitious films in the slasher genre.
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Wow I laughed so hard I made myself dizzy, that awesome
#MonsterdonShower Thoughts about Grizzly (1974): It is WILD how much that film is about NOTHING.
Like, going into it you think, ah, a giant bear. Man versus nature, the inability of man to control the natural world?
Nope. The film explicitly kills off both the guy who wanted to research the bear and the guy who wanted to kill it. The protagonist never has to make a choice either way, his hand is forced after the bear breaks the chopper.
Is the film's constant violence against women intended as a metaphor? Is the film maybe about the vulnerability of the weak?
Nope. Halfway through the movie drops the theme and starts killing men, too. Hell, the only people that survive an attack are a hunter and a child, there's no underlying theme either way.
Grizzly had MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES to at least pay lip service to some sort of idea and went... Nah. Events are more or less random, deaths are completely without purpose. People just die, it means nothing. Wild. #Monsterdon
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Shower Thoughts about Grizzly (1974): It is WILD how much that film is about NOTHING.
Like, going into it you think, ah, a giant bear. Man versus nature, the inability of man to control the natural world?
Nope. The film explicitly kills off both the guy who wanted to research the bear and the guy who wanted to kill it. The protagonist never has to make a choice either way, his hand is forced after the bear breaks the chopper.
Is the film's constant violence against women intended as a metaphor? Is the film maybe about the vulnerability of the weak?
Nope. Halfway through the movie drops the theme and starts killing men, too. Hell, the only people that survive an attack are a hunter and a child, there's no underlying theme either way.
Grizzly had MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES to at least pay lip service to some sort of idea and went... Nah. Events are more or less random, deaths are completely without purpose. People just die, it means nothing. Wild. #Monsterdon
The other thing about Grizzly (1974) that surprises me is how little resolution there is. Not just in the main plot, though, in ANYTHING about the film.
The female lead is introduced in a scene suggesting her father may be committing some sort of fraud with his resort. Never followed up on. Hell the *female lead herself* randomly vanishes from the film in the last fifteen minutes! "No honey, you can't come with me" and she never appears again.
The naturalist suggests he can catch the bear, showing off his experimental tranquilizer bullets. In his confrontation with the bear, the first thing that happens is he loses his gun.
The politician is introduced, he bickers with everyone, suggests he's being pressured by someone, aaaaaand -- you guessed it! -- vanishes from the film without any resolution.
We never even find out if the fucking KID survived! Was there a single secondary plot thread that actually DID get resolved? I'm not sure! #Monsterdon
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The other thing about Grizzly (1974) that surprises me is how little resolution there is. Not just in the main plot, though, in ANYTHING about the film.
The female lead is introduced in a scene suggesting her father may be committing some sort of fraud with his resort. Never followed up on. Hell the *female lead herself* randomly vanishes from the film in the last fifteen minutes! "No honey, you can't come with me" and she never appears again.
The naturalist suggests he can catch the bear, showing off his experimental tranquilizer bullets. In his confrontation with the bear, the first thing that happens is he loses his gun.
The politician is introduced, he bickers with everyone, suggests he's being pressured by someone, aaaaaand -- you guessed it! -- vanishes from the film without any resolution.
We never even find out if the fucking KID survived! Was there a single secondary plot thread that actually DID get resolved? I'm not sure! #Monsterdon
@CactuarJoe Maybe the true message is Man’s impotence in the face of the random violence of Nature. All any human can do is just be dragged along from moment to moment, untethered from meaning or plot. 🧐
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@CactuarJoe Maybe the true message is Man’s impotence in the face of the random violence of Nature. All any human can do is just be dragged along from moment to moment, untethered from meaning or plot. 🧐
@trixter I suppose that is the one potential theme that would allow the director to do *absolutely nothing* and still claim a purpose for his film
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