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maskormenace2016-10-31 08:58 pm
lastnerv) wrote in maskormenace2016-10-31 08:58 pm
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STAGE 03 - [video, backdated to last night]
[The following is not a standard network post! Instead, it's a series of extremely short network posts made late last night/early this morning. Each one is about the same, a comm camera pointed at a TV supplying the only light in an otherwise dark room. On the TV is some kind of black and white 60's giant monster horror movie (he didn't record a clip of the title) featuring a giant praying mantis attacking some kind of small Midwestern town.
The only other feature to these clips is the voice of an insomniac Shinji Ikari complaining about each and every scene. I hope you have a high tolerance for nerdy nitpicking!!]
I'm almost totally sure radiation doesn't work that way. [The scene in question is a praying mantis - clearly some kind of plastic toy - toppling into a barrel reading "DANGER: RADIOACTIVE" on the side.] It'd just kill the mantis, right? Nuclear energy doesn't just make stuff big. Otherwise Japan would be constantly attacked by giant sea monsters where I'm from. [A pause, and then muttered:] Besides the ones that actually attacked us I mean.
[The next brief snippet is later in the film. The obvious puppet of the mantis is toppling over a model of a church, superimposed behind a crowd running down the street.] Why is it even doing this? Giant monsters don't just attack places for no reason. What does it want? What's its purpose? Or does it just, like, want revenge against humanity for some reason? This is dumb.
[Next, a scene that seems like its almost from a different movie entirely. The generic 60's actor guy is holding his generic 60's love interest, who is practically swooning. The only sound from Shinji is a long, low groan of misery that's cut with the end of the post.]
[Finally. in case anyone was worried they weren't getting spoiled, here's the giant mantis being trapped in a mine shaft collapse thanks to dynamite set by...Chet...Wilkins or whatever this hero's name is. Shinji doesn't care.]
Is this...really what movies were like back then? That felt like it lasted forever but it was less than ninety minutes! Why was the mantis evil? How did they get the dynamite to just collapse that part and not the whole shaft? Did Americans just not care about this type of thing back then? Or is this Japan's fault for making this type of thing popular to begin with?
[A deep sigh.]
Giant monster movies were a mistake.
The only other feature to these clips is the voice of an insomniac Shinji Ikari complaining about each and every scene. I hope you have a high tolerance for nerdy nitpicking!!]
I'm almost totally sure radiation doesn't work that way. [The scene in question is a praying mantis - clearly some kind of plastic toy - toppling into a barrel reading "DANGER: RADIOACTIVE" on the side.] It'd just kill the mantis, right? Nuclear energy doesn't just make stuff big. Otherwise Japan would be constantly attacked by giant sea monsters where I'm from. [A pause, and then muttered:] Besides the ones that actually attacked us I mean.
[The next brief snippet is later in the film. The obvious puppet of the mantis is toppling over a model of a church, superimposed behind a crowd running down the street.] Why is it even doing this? Giant monsters don't just attack places for no reason. What does it want? What's its purpose? Or does it just, like, want revenge against humanity for some reason? This is dumb.
[Next, a scene that seems like its almost from a different movie entirely. The generic 60's actor guy is holding his generic 60's love interest, who is practically swooning. The only sound from Shinji is a long, low groan of misery that's cut with the end of the post.]
[Finally. in case anyone was worried they weren't getting spoiled, here's the giant mantis being trapped in a mine shaft collapse thanks to dynamite set by...Chet...Wilkins or whatever this hero's name is. Shinji doesn't care.]
Is this...really what movies were like back then? That felt like it lasted forever but it was less than ninety minutes! Why was the mantis evil? How did they get the dynamite to just collapse that part and not the whole shaft? Did Americans just not care about this type of thing back then? Or is this Japan's fault for making this type of thing popular to begin with?
[A deep sigh.]
Giant monster movies were a mistake.