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Alright, movie from 1954, im expecting like half a dozen transfers and cuts. Anyone already scouted out the good one? #monsterdon
edit: the default search result from archive.org seems good enough https://archive.org/details/devil-girl-from-mars-1954
@jonny I identified a few here. I'm using the upscaled AI-colorized one. https://don.monster/@ramsey/113778339539289829 #Monsterdon
@jonny I haven't vetted it or anything but this 1950s film collection on the Internet Archive has a copy, and I downloaded that when we were on a 1950s streak, so that's the copy I'll be watching
@jonny here’s what i used for my source, too late for me to re-up, seemed good from spot-checking
@ryan scene releases nowadays with the 20GB rip and FLAC audio for something that was only released in 480p on dvd lol, didn't forsee the ratio economy getting totally out of whack to favor larger encodes back when we were first arguing about ratioless trackers in the BTN days
absolutely incredible endorsement. so bad it inspired some of the best sci-fi ever written out of spite #monsterdon #OctaviaButler
edit: excuse me that's speculative fiction
one must imagine devil girls as hungry and overheated
man that does not count as trivia, wikia. #monsterdon
@jonny Maybe that last line. #Monsterdon
@jonny lol "Mars is an actual planet"
Wow.
now here we go, some actual trivia: https://beladraculalugosi.wordpress.com/category/john-c-mather/
linked to from https://scifist.wordpress.com/2016/10/21/devil-girl-from-mars/ in describing how wikipedia and other sources list the movie as coming from a stage play, but actually it was written and produced in 10 days when they wrapped filming another project early and still had paid time lmao
edit: this scifist wordpress blogpost is actually extremely good, definitely worth a read
incredible how despite all the search engines being totally broken, the original design of the web still works: documents linking between each other are undefeated for durable information discoverability
sounds like we found the perfect movie #monsterdon
@jonny excellent, will get in 75 minutes of meditation
@jonny I HATE it when things happen in the movies we watch
@jonny Rarely is it so directly confirmed though
that's another first scene #BechdelPass, two women talking about space and a devil girl #monsterdon
sincerely any movie whose protagonist is escaped from prison or sheltering a prison escapee instantly rises like 100 points in my book #monsterdon
i was warned that the music in this punches way above the weight class and like, wow. perfectly situationally responsive with that bassoon or oboe slinky thing for the wood carrying guy #monsterdon
okayyyyyyeeee are all the principles assembled and adequately characterizeddddddd because we are burning devil girl daylight #monsterdon
why are they eating out of a trophy you would get for winning the ancient grecian olympics #monsterdon
YES YES YES INCREDIBLE SAUCER A+ EVERYTHING #monsterdon
@jonny I know, I'm sold, going to Mars
who cares about that freaking UFO there's a guy that should be subject to the violence of the state!!!!! #monsterdon
why did they land the UFO and then no UFO things happened and why is anyone talking about anything but the UFO #monsterdon
i could do with like 20 or 30 more shots of the escaped convict guy jumping out from behind curtains and stuff #monsterdon
trying to put myself in the mindset of a 1950's guy where basically every flying object is an unidentified flying object to justify how they keep acting like everything is normal #monsterdon
the parameters of what an extraterrestrial lifeform must be capable of has dramatically changed since the 1950's, where then it was plausible for spaceships to be just like normal rocket craft made by species that can make trivial miscalculations and end up in scotland, but now it wouldn't read at all outside of a comedy for an alien to make a mistake like that because we understand that aliens would have to develop technology well outside our understanding of basic physics to travel to earth #monsterdon
earthlings: this will be a turning point in human civilization
martians: we came to fuck one of your guys
#monsterdon
what would a martian dominatrix use as like a derogatory term for earthlings and why does my mind want her to call them all 'honkies' #monsterdon
@jonny because they're guests: you always bust out the fancy stuff for guests 
#monsterdon
This would be easier to appreciate if my copy didn't have about 1.5-2 s audio delay. Too late fix this!
The music and FX are actually not bad, though.
The script, particularly dialog, is a bit weak, though.
@jonny So the Devil Girl is hot and thirsty. Nice. #Monsterdon
@jonny Kind of like how Penicillin came from mold.
@jonny And she was 100% right! Butler was one of the best SF writers ever, and she was taken from us far too soon.