tuning in a few minutes late, i am extremely pleased to see slick talking 50's wiseguys #monsterdon
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last week i asked for a movie that made me go "what the fuck is going on for real" and wow this movie is certainly delivering #monsterdon
ok what is so special about this one woman, why can't the hypnotist with all his mega riches find some other woman who likes being channeled into her sea creature past to murder everyone with #monsterdon
it's an important methodological limitation that casting someone's immortal soul into a hemideity/cryptid requires the constant high partial pressure of water and spirits that can only be found near a haunted ocean #monsterdon
fuck yeah baby blast the newsreel montage into my veins, this is how information propagates #monsterdon
there are so many threads they are keeping in the air - the dog, the ocean, the steam, the academic rivalry... you can't just add a love triangle into the middle of all that #monsterdon
ancient sea monsters just hate seeing it when people make out!!!! #monsterdon
so listen i am expecting nothing less than the other hypnotist having figured out how to summon kaiju and for this to turn into a full on kaiju movie #monsterdon
they did the love triangle entirely in subtext and now we are expected to care about the woman being in love with the other hypnotist. if elizabeth's soul was instead like intent on being free then maybe they could motivate the sea creature murders as being just a wild expression of a repressed soul, but making her just be in love with the other hypnotist is such a waste #monsterdon
i can only recognize three men in this movie: the evil hypnotist by the oil in his hair, the good hypnotist by the bulge in his eyes, and the rich plutocrat by the tooth in his mustache. every other man is a total blur, and there are anywhere between 2 and 9 of them #monsterdon
SHOWING UP ON THE BEACH TO SHOW DOWN WITH MY LOVER AND THIS DOG IN MY TOP HAT #MONSTERDON
IS the dog the woman!?!? is she split between three life paths. beyond the madonna/whore complex, there is the sea hag/dog/passive love object triplex #monsterdon
adding to the steam, dog, and ocean unexplained subplots, there is the "why are their eyes like that" subplot, with the woman's doll eyelashes and the good doctor's bulged eyes. #monsterdon
FUCK whoever did the rich guy's mustache
MARRY whoever did the sea monster's kelp hair
KILL whoever did the woman's eye makeup
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i'm barely aware of what's going on in this movie because it's almost 100% headcanon for me, so the last 7 minutes where they try and close up shop are going to be a wild ride #monsterdon
why would you make a whole movie premised on the fact that all women used to be murderous sea monsters and then do NOTHING WITH THAT #monsterdon
