yay stock footage!

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Shouldn't have all those soldiers been in position already? Did they think the grasshoppers were being led by Napoleon?

@RobynGoodfellow I miss that guy! #monsterdon

Chicago is doomed, isn’t it? #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe So much protien, fiber, all the things a growing capitalistic military state needs.

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Stop misquoting the Bible and do some science Peter Graves.
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Meanwhile in Stock Footage land!

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If you think there are too many posts about #AI on here, check out #monsterdon!

#monsterdon Print a headline... “Giant Locust found to have same chemical as Viagra!" and just let the townies figure it all out by themselves.

"WBEZ Chicago, I'm Ira Glass, here with This American Life. What would you do if you were in a city that was being attacked by locusts? It was a situation that no one ever considered to be possible... until it was." #Monsterdon

Chicago is running out of food? I've heard grasshoppers are edible.

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All they have to do is accidentally drive them to extinction, just like humans did to the locust of America in 1902

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*sigh*

Paxton was overrun at 1400

Not "Paxton has been overrun at 1400."

One sentence provides a time, the other implies a location.
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Nice pantyhose.

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I kind of like the random documentary segments old monster movies often insert into themselves, maybe we should bring that back. Put some educational content into the giant bug movies.

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The suburbs of Paxton? #Monsterdon

your map people

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Paxton??? Nooooooo

(what's a paxton?)

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I'm not going to apologize, but I do own you one.

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"thousands of casualties" jesus christ we don't get kill counts these high except for post apocalypse movies #monsterdon

General Short is going to be replaced shortly.

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Chechov's cannibalism.

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#Monsterdon Imagine if the general was right.

Turns out the military is completely prepared to kill giant insects. Movie over.

We need all the stock footage of military vehicles you can possibly dig up. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

"Even this small locust will attack a man."
The real monster here is Man. A kaiju of a monster to the poor locust.
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straight outta locusts

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She said "Annihilation" in a deadpan manner.
Jaded reporter, obv.

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Annihilation. The beginning of the end.

I'm afraid annihilation is pretty much the end of the end.

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Why, they almost caused as much damage as the insecticides

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He said my state!!! 😊

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locust is intelligent?

Uhhhhhhhh. My good sir. Pretty sure that locusts are just mindless eating & swarming machines.

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oh great, now I'm afraid of regular-sized locusts too

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Thanks for that vague and probably inaccurate movie fact!

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Compositing sold a lot easier in B&W. I guess when you're already interpreting color, it's not so off putting when it doesn't match perfectly.

#Monsterdon I wonder where he got this reel of stock footage?

Did he stop at a library on his way to the pentagon?

"Look, not even Australia can kill these fuckers, we have no chance." #Monsterdon

If there was this much bugs, wouldn't they already spread?
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Um, also the giant locus eats humans, seems like a big difference then other locus
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Oh yeah these people know how to play the political game. One person talking about giant locusts wouldn't be believed, but two is totally fine.

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are they locusts or grasshoppers? are they the same thing?

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RE: https://cosocial.ca/@rebeld/116989369993182808

From orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

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#Monsterdon "I feel responsible."

No, don't blame yourself. How could you have known making things giant was a bad idea?

#monsterdon This is the time of his life when Peter Graves was 98% brylcreem.

@diazona There are much locust.

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@Violinknitter more like a cicada innit? #monsterdon

Apparently 1957 was before the invention of audio mastering 🙉

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@Blort 5 months basic... #monsterdon

✔️ conventional weapons fail #monsterdon

The hell with Science! I'm a-shootin!!!

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lol, another war the US Military loses....

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this is actually not bad by Bert I Gordon standards

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What kind of formation is that? Where's the training gone?

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USE THE HOLY HAND GRENADE!

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@MatthewTitus88

Plants manipulate bugs into pollinating. It's the leaf eaters that piss plants off.

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#monsterdon I've never seen this level of surrender or capitulation ever. ;)

Escalation (machinegun)

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A little known fact about giant mutant locusts is that they have incredible stealth skills and are undetectable from as little as 10 feet away.

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Send out a Charmander

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I don’t think the Army sent their best squad on this mission #Monsterdon

@xerozohar It helps the monster

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@moira #monsterdon

"Grasshoppers are good eatin'!" Yeah, farmed grasshoppers can be. Wild grasshoppers tend to be quite bitter, and there's a strong risk of pinworms.

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#monsterdon if you're making a monster movie, "the authorities don't believe it" is your bread & butter, but at a certain point you have to let go of it

Like when a town is completely destroyed and people have already seen weird things and two reliable witnesses tell you it was a monster

WOULD YOU LISTEN TO THE AGITATED SCIENTIST PLEASE? HAVE YOU NEVER SEEN THESE MOVIES?
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Soldiers: We've been promoted from cannon fodder to giant bug fodder.

It's a bug hunt, man! A bug hunt!

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@MatthewTitus88 the math checks out!

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This photographer/wire service lady's wrist bands, is that Wonder Woman in disguise?

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I like the idea that the grasshoppers hide and leave no tracks. Ninja Locusts!

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#Monsterdon This is the same mistake they made in Food of the Gods.

You've GOT to keep pests out of your magical super-food.

I guess nobody cared about poor, generically named Frank Johnson.
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Unfortunate that nobody at the scene had a device which could be used to record images for later viewing, which could have been used to verify to the colonel that the problem was indeed a giant grasshopper

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#monsterdon His beltline is above his bellybutton, and his crotch is utterly formless panel of muslin. Captain, you have absolutely no reason not to run for office, it must have fallen off in the war.

You're living in the atomic era cinimatic universe, the saucers are real too! 🛸
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You know what would solve this? A Giant Spider Invasion #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

That Sgt has the lowest voice, it's distracting.

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Wait, so what happens when people eat the giant radioactive plants?

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200-300 grasshoppers, each as strong as 10 men. So 3k men worth of locust. Yikes. #Monsterdon

Science!

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

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#monsterdon okay that's 5 mimecop demise-reactions out of 5 right there. Poor Frank

honey I embiggened the grasshoppers #monsterdon

ATOMIC LOCUSTS
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was that actually a locust or a grasshopper?

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Well, we've had our reveal.

After the giant tomatoes being accepted so easily, you'd think they'd be less skeptical about the big bugs.

Oh no the T-Rex ate the lawyer!!
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#monsterdon the 50s absolutely love a scientist who doesn't care TOO much about all this science mumbo jumbo, he still appreciates a pretty woman or a good beer

False alarm. It was just a giant locust. Carry on.

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Beloved Bert had to locate a wingless variety of grasshoppers that could not fly or hop, so they would be unable to escape during filming. He imported 200 from Texas.

He kept them in boxes without food, and at the end of production only twelve were still alive from the insect cannibalism.

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A million bushels is approximately 1,000 semi trucks worth of grain.

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Movie's Frank nooooooooooooo!!!
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FRANK?! FRAAAAAAAAANK!!!!

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Oh good lord, I’m not sure what I was expecting for the monster but it wasn’t that. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

#monsterdon okay _that_ is the misophonia trigger

OH NO! NOT FRANK!

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YESSSSS!!

but NOOOO NOT FRANK!

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Frank didn't hear the grasshopper but Katydid. #Monsterdon

Chekhov's entomologist

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Her car is probably this 1956 Chrysler New Yorker.

And yeah, I bet it's pink and white on set. Because how could it not be?

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#monsterdon And then we go to the mens room and we show each other Mr. Bouncy's Kingdom of Fun.

ATOMIC WHEAT
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