it's finally happening. Reptilian (1999). Caught a bit of @wohali's music before the Ultraman pre-show. Watch the @miru stream here: https://miru.miyaku.media/ #Monsterdon 🧵
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Gathering snacks:
- white cheddar cheese popcorn
- one of my favourite local craft beers, Burdock's Tuesday Saison
I was a little worried about the CGI, based on the trailer, but it is FANTASTIC. #Monsterdon
These opening credits are winning my heart.
Any movie that opens by giving me a face full of greebles on a giant spaceship is okay in my book
His name's Bud. He's wearing a backwards cap and plaid. It's the 90's all right.
Also, "paparazzi" is plural. The singular is "paparazzo".
By the way, hand-drawn illustrations are still the norm in taxonomy papers for many taxa (at least, the ones that concern me) so in that regard the movie is pretty accurate
actually laughing out loud at "Do you want a story or not, Dr. Campbell? I'm a photojournalist! I take photographs!"
But I'm A Scientist!
hell yeah alien death ray
this CGI is bad even for 1999. it's like TV CGI from 1999. It's perfect
I love the aliens
Holly's only occasionally British accent is throwing me off
oooh, this dino model is BAD. It looks like it's from Nintendo 64 or something, idk I never had a console
i love the janky-ass "UNDA" logo
@nev
"UNDA? "
"Yeah, UNDA DEEZ NUTS!"
#monsterdon #yonggary1999 #reptilian1999
y'all I think everyone who didn't vote for Reptilian owes us all an apology because this is way more fun than a lot of the stuff we've watched this year
@nev I have been voting for this week after week since the beginning.
See, that fun shot couldn't have happened without an elevated highway. Take that, urbanists.
so many people get all worked up about unrealistic military etiquette, lingo, guns and gunfire, etc., in movies and i get to be blissfully ignorant because i am canadian
honestly this computer translation is exactly the same level as John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness so I can't fault it any
The Hellraiser? Don't get my hopes up ⬛
the only reason this movie looks any good at all is because it was made back when it was still easier and cheaper to film some things practically
the jetpacks aldkjfa;ldkfjal;dskf
this script is 100% clichés. still not the worst monsterdon script we've experienced
Wait. Dino is friend? Since when? Is it because they took out his forehead macguffin?
Oh now that's some EXCELLENT miniature destruction!!
Temu John Lithgow is an alien in disguise calling it
Is that…a giant…crab?
It's a…uhhhh…the fuck is that?
Whatever it is, I love it. It's like an ankylosaur crossed with an eurypterid.
Honestly, I wish they'd gone with this design for the main kaiju, it's so much more fun and original than "basically giant dinosaur".
the guy's little whip things are just making me more confident it's got Chelicerata in its ancestry somewhere