I don't listen to indie music so I dunno if this is legit, I just thought it was kinda fun.
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Grizzly (1976) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, August 31, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/515867/grizzly
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap769z_7KjU
- uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for those tubi and youtube links
- dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x95jiba
- archive: https://archive.org/details/grizzly_202207
- someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm89571
...about a park ranger's attempts to halt the wild rampage of an 18 ft (5.5 m) tall, 2,000 lb (910 kg) man-eating grizzly bear that terrorizes a National Forest, having developed a taste for human flesh. However, a drunken hunting party complicates matters.
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Critical reception for Grizzly in 1976 was extremely negative, with most critics criticizing the film for being too similar to Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws. Vincent Canby, from the New York Times, criticized the film's poor plotting, cinematography and editing. He wrote, "Grizzly, which opened yesterday at the Rivoli and other theaters, is such a blatant imitation of Jaws that one has to admire the depth of the flattery it represents, though not the lack of talent involved."[4] Donald Guarisco from AllMovie gave the film a negative review, criticizing the film's script, cheap gore, and overuse of clichés, and saying, "This energetic but clumsy horror effort is too contrived and poorly realized to be worthwhile for most viewers."[5] Film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film two out of four stars, calling it an "OK rip-off of Jaws".[6]Despite the negative reviews, Grizzly was the top grossing independent film of 1976, earning nearly $38 million worldwide...
C'mon, museums in developing nations still have good stuff, don't shame em.
Aw yeah, if you already know your rolls and breakfalls, Aikido is a great thing to check out. At lower levels, the "attacks" are basically two-person katas, usually involving escaping from grabs. At upper levels they do have something called randori but even then it's all very structured. Aikido gets made fun of sometimes for not having a "live" adversary who's actively trying to beat you. I've read there are some dojos that do competitive Aikido, but I think that's rare.
When someone asks you questions, it's also an opportunity to ask them questions back, to find out if you're heading for an environment you don't wanna be in.
- THEM: Is work/life balance important to you?
- YOU: So, obviously my family's important to me. I always do my job, though. What kind of expectations to you have here?
- THEM: Well.... (look at each other nervously. look up at the cameras monitoring them.) We're expected to make work a priority...
In the martial arts, Tai Chi is the obvious answer.
Consider Aikido. It's generally more like choreographed exercises. A lot of dojos are very understanding of physical constraints. Check with your doctor, it might be good way to gently test your limits. Plus, it's important to know how to fall safely.
They were bringing coconuts to England because the swallows weren't big enough to do so.
This cartoon deserves a Pulitzer.
Evil Genie: "Granted." It starts to rain. It never stops.
This isn't really my area, but afaik....
- the French bankrupted themselves for a number of reasons, one of which was indeed the global Ango-French War (which resulted in the creation of the USA) and the earlier Seven Years War. This wasn't the only cause of the French Revolution.
- the American and French Revolutions were both products of "the Englightenment" which took part in Europe. To their credit, several of the American leaders saw the value in it and adopted those ideas, but America was pretty much a backwater at that time. Of course American independence was a topic of discussion, much in the same way that the war in Ukraine is today. No doubt some people were "inspired by" the distant foreign war, as an example of ideas that had developed locally.
- I think the 1648 treaties of Westphalia are generally considered the beginning of modern nation states. I think it'd be tough to argue that German and Italian nationalism were "implanted" by the French Revolution.
I had a brilliant concluding paragraph but I accidentally deleted it. Something about how this period of history has many relevant lessons about balancing domestic vs international policy, updating antiquated systems of economic and representation systems, and the interplay between popular movements and individual leaders. But this is, after all, a shitposting community, so no great loss.
a lot of the ideas from the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.
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Since the French Revolution have rise to the idea of the modern nation state and Napoleon, we'd not have a lot of countries.
At first I was like: wtf? Then I remembered we're in the shitposting community
There are a bunch of watch parties on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling. Usually, people all watch the movie at the same time and make brief comments (bc Mastodon is like Twitter, see?)
- Here on lemmy I post an announcement every Friday on !bmoviebonanza@lemmy.world about the next "Monsterdon" watch party on Mastodon.
- see this calendar of Mastodon watch parties (WARNING: includes Bluesky, which has chosen the path of enshittification. Also, some of these watch parties may be dormant.)
edit: but yeah, it'd be cool to have a watch party here, where we could do "longer form" takes on things.
Swamp Thing (1982) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- NOTE: we are watching the 1982 version, there are a couple others so BEWARE
- tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/100006447/swamp-thing
- uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for that tubi link
- dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9ad4xy
- archive: https://archive.org/details/swamp-thing
- someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm46509
...written and directed by Wes Craven, based on the DC Comics character of the same name created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. It tells the story of scientist Alec Holland (Ray Wise) who is transformed into the monster known as Swamp Thing (Dick Durock) through laboratory sabotage orchestrated by the evil Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan). Later, he helps a woman named Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau) and battles the man responsible for it all, the ruthless Arcane. The film did well on home video and cable and was followed by a sequel, The Return of Swamp Thing, in 1989.[4]
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Swamp Thing received mixed to positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 61% based on 41 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Unabashedly campy -- often to its detriment -- Swamp Thing is not without its charms, among them Adrienne Barbeau as the damsel in distress".[13] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 50 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[14] Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars.[15]
Author John Kenneth Muir notes that Swamp Thing differs in many respects from Craven's usual work, in that Craven's intent was to show the major Hollywood studios that he could handle action, stunts and major stars.[16] Craven's usual focus on the problems of family and society was substituted and downplayed in favor of pure entertainment.[17] Nevertheless, Muir points out that some of Craven's usual themes and images do appear in Swamp Thing. For example, as in The Last House on the Left (1972), and The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Craven shows a close connection between the landscape and his characters.[18]
PopMatters journalist J.C. Maçek III wrote: "As much fun as this film can be (and it often is), it's equally often difficult to ignore that Swamp Thing ultimately is, at core, a rubber-suit monster movie".[19]
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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!
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The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- NOTE: we will be watching the version made in 1960, not a later one
- tubi (availability varies by country): https://tubitv.com/movies/382527/the-little-shop-of-horrors
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj_17y6i4O4
- uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox should work for those tubi and youtube links
- archive: https://archive.org/details/the-little-shop-of-horrors-1960-full-movie-hd-1080p-1080-x-1440.mp-4-converted
- someone usually streams it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://nobraincellsleft.github.io/JustWatch-Search/title/tm63837
... the film is a farce about a florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human blood. ... the film employs an original style of humor, combining dark comedy with farce[8] and incorporating Jewish humor and elements of spoof.[9] The Little Shop of Horrors was shot on a budget of $28,000 (equivalent to $298,000 in 2024). Interiors were shot in two days, by utilizing sets that had been left standing from A Bucket of Blood.
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The film's critical reception was largely favorable. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 92% based on reviews from 12 critics.[41] Variety wrote, "The acting is pleasantly preposterous. [...] Horticulturalists and vegetarians will love it."[42]Jack Nicholson, recounting the reaction to a screening of the film, states that the audience "laughed so hard I could barely hear the dialogue. I didn't quite register it right. It was as if I had forgotten it was a comedy since the shoot. I got all embarrassed because I'd never really had such a positive response before."[6]
In his book Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008, Bruce G. Hallenbeck called the film "one of Corman's gems, an idea that was born on 'a night out on the town' that's every bit as looney as it sounds." He cited the hilarious performances delivered by the ensemble cast and Corman's strong results while working under the self-imposed pressures of a cheap budget and a fast shooting schedule.
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I feelz ya, fam! I'm totally into sumo and the top-tier matches in Japan start at 3:30am in my time zone.
Anyway, if you want to replicate the Monsterdon experience: