#Monsterdon is a weekly fediverse community event (Sundays @ 9 PM ET) where a bunch of folks watch a monster/SF movie of some description in sync with each other and post about it. Partial list of past movies: https://wiki.neuromatch.social/Monsterdon#Movie_List
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I did not watch last week's movie so it's very nice of them to show all the effects set pieces from it at the top of this movie
ā maiden turned into steam engine
dialogue is occurring
technically it was a Bechdel pass, though? so that'sā¦ something.
there's plenty of runtime left for the male gaze
Yea, about that. You gonna have any Hercules in your Hercules movie?
Retrieve my seven thunderbolds of exposition, Hercules!
okay I would say that it's kind of fast for him to find one of Zeus's thunderbolts, but there ARE seven of them, so I guess we need to be in a rush here
maybe having it just randomly show up the second he gets to Earth is a little under-cooked, though.
okay the dripping blood onto the skeleton is a pretty cool set piece
The Slime People
love getting flash-banged with a retro computer startup flashing screen every time Hercules throws a punch
[rotoscoping continues]
This is a real paint-by-numbers affair, huh?
pew
pew pew
Real "Quantity has a quality all its own"-ass movie we got going here, with how undercooked every single bit of action is so far
okay why would the moon falling kill the gods tho
you've explicitly *shown* us they live way up in space???
the LAST daughter of [whatever]?
um, well, that kinda takes the drama out of the earlier prediction that Urania would be the next sacrifice, if she was literally the only choice
it's fine, Hercules punched the monster of pure energy and it exploded
also, a thunderbolt was located. apparently.
I mean like, I do get it, you defeat a monster, you get a bolt
but the bolt is where the monster died isn't it?
maybe Zeus is just gonna reach down and grab it
this Zeus isn't very convincing. very patriarchal and actually-concerned, and not even the slightest bit "I will fuck anything with a consciousness and several things without"
SnoopJ
bug // june
Laurel Stvan
Funky Bob