did the photojournalist even take a single picture of a locust? with all those flashbulbs?? (maybe when i got up for a minute?)
#monsterdon

I tried the “Monsterdon MEGA CARD” for bingo.

I did NOT get a bingo.

#Monsterdon #MonsterdonBingo

I feel like most of our movies the producer just like, stiffed the writer before finishing the last few pages of the script and said “fuck it, I can write an ending.”

#Monsterdon

‘Twas the amplified sound of a horned up grasshopper killed the beast

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

@bunnyhero they never tried fir... nuthin! #monsterdon

@crowbriarhexe apparently.

#Monsterdon #BeginningoftheEnd 💥🔫🚓🎥

and with that, it's over. This has been a watch thread for 1957's "The Beginning of the End", aka "Are You Sure We Can't Nuke Chicago, For Funsies?"
#monsterdon

Don't cry for all the dead locusts, girl who used to be a photographer but lost her personality 50% of the way thru the movie. I'm told by this one dead guy there's good eatin' on 'em.

This actually started slow, then got good, then became procedural Berti Gordon crap. Still, ★★½☆☆ I didn't hate anything.

RIP Frank, that one military guy, and all the cute locusts.

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I went and took a shower through part of the movie, which I have only ever done one other time in the entire time I've been watching #Monsterdon

Hubs asked "Real Stinker of a movie, huh?"

"Gimme a sec." I walk back, grab my iPad, and bring it out, still playing the movie... still playing that sensory nightmare sound.

Hubs: "That's... that sure is a movie."

TIME FOR THE DOUBLE-FEATURE!!!! #Monsterdon

welp, guess we have to drown the props now.
#monsterdon

#monsterdon any final words? No? Ok fine

Hey, the THE END screen was missing a question mark!

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd1957

#Monsterdon

Thank you Monsterdon

Good Thymes

Little do they know, all they did was create a giant mutant species of carp

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#monsterdon Cool, now set the river on fire so you'll know you got them, that's a thing you can do there, right? I kid bc I love. What, too soon?

OR IS IT!?

Oh. Oh. It is.

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd

Welp, that certainly was a movie. #Monsterdon

This will affect the fish population
#monsterdon

hashtag mutual aid intermission time #Monsterdon

And they fucked off into the sea
Thank you for a fun time #monsterdon

The locusts have all fucked off into Lake Michigan, and Peter Graves gets the girl. THE END

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and they all fucked off into the sea! #monsterdon

What flooded as a result of that water displacement? How is it over? I have questions. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

That is so clearly just a photo of the building #Monsterdon

It means were free!

-fin

#Monsterdon #TheBeginningOfTheEnd

Why does she need comforted? Just because there was an irritating noise for a couple of hours? #Monsterdon

#monsterdon There, now your forehead smells like Old Spice.

Oh wait, does this mean Chicago is not gonna get nicked after all?

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I guess this whole plan relied on giant locusts not being able to swim...?

"Head for shore" we'll have to get out of the boat and walk there over all the locust carcasses #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Is it just me, or is it getting a little warm in here...

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Those trees look awfully full for having locusts wander through them.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

I hope there were no grasshoppers harmed in the making of this film.

#Monsterdon

Good thing they never discovered that they could fly...

#Monsterdon

Oh this is a beach party for the big buggers.
#Monsterdon #BeginningoftheEnd

"Bugs! Bugs, Mister Rico. Zillions of them!" #Monsterdon

@moira It's a THK production?! #monsterdon

I like how the boat was like "you can't start yet, we have to be ready at a moment's notice" and then Ed was like "ok now" and he's like "nah we'll wait" #monsterdon

The locusts are active on the south side of Chicago!

It's hard to make the locusts menacing when the only shots are of them being cute little guys crawling over each other, probably in a terrarium.

♫ Here we come, walkin' down the street, get the funniest looks from, everyone we meet! Hey hey we're the Locusts! ♫

Is the general gonna do anything but stand on this boat?

Observation post Mannequin, ready for scooter ride with Kim Cattrall!

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Guess I should have specified a slightly roomy boat

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Ok Audrey
Yes Seymour!

#Monsterdon
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"I want to make a monster movie. I don't have money but I have a whole bunch of these grasshoppers."
#monsterdon

everyone on the boat is now deaf

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

That army man is standing on the back of that boat like its the ledge of a Chicago skyscraper

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Making movies in the 50s must have been so fun...

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The scariest thing in this movie is Peter Graves' character being allowed a machine gun #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Locusts are dropping like turkeys dropped from a helicopter!

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I'M GONNA WRECK IT! - every grasshopper, apparently

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#Monsterdon 🌽 🌾 🫘 ☢️ 🦗 🦗 🦗 😱

ok the locusts walking on what is clearly a print of a photograph that's entirely the wrong scale was a poor choice

"Should we be using hearing protection?"
"Nah."
#beginningoftheend
#monsterdon #grasshoppersvspostcards

The locusts crawling across postcards is surprisingly effective.

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okay, considering those are just some normal grasshoppers crawling all over a photo of a building, these effects are surprisingly convincing.

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It's a standard issue rifle for entomologists.

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At least the bugs get to visit Chicago.
I wish I could
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How come light arms are working against them now?

#Monsterdon
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@Taweret It's Independence Day but with bugs -- very stupid, but fun ^^ #Monsterdon

@moira must be a drinking college! #monsterdon

Haha they just shot the same bug off the building twice. #Monsterdon

SURPRISE GRASSHOPPER'D!
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now that we're back to the action this is a lot more fun.

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#monsterdon The Drayton hotel jiggling like a block of jello in front of that backgroun- oh hi mark

@techlifeweb

This is why you are supposed to use the buddy system!

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#BeginningOfTheEnd

Okay, that’s creepy! #Monsterdon

Is this actually an arrangement of Mars, Bringer of War, or?

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

So when does the biggest giant grasshopper grab Blonde Lady Reporter and climb the nearest skyscraper with her?

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Have the grasshoppers presented a list of demands yet?

#Monsterdon

Here they come.
Walking down the street.
Hey, hey, it's the locusts!

#BeginningOfTheEnd #monsterdon

#Monsterdon a giant grasshopper creeping up on him? Seriously?

They're climbing the building... and now there's Batman and Robin!

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Another +1 on Peter Graves' body count #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Omg what vfx!

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Here they come, coming down the street.

They get the funniest looks from, everyone they meet.

Hey hey they're the locusts!

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd1957

LOCUSTS ARE CLIMBING ON THE PHOTOGRAPH!

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Is that some Star Wars music?
Also how does a 30 foot long locust sneak up on a guy?
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Can't they just turn the audio on and off by turns to get the insects to come slower?

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

That's quaint: Wacker drive with only one level. (Today it has 3!)

#monsterdon

@whiskeysailor Thin crust pizza!? #monsterdon

They're getting funny looks from everyone they meet! #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

they get the funniest looks from
everyone they eat

hey hey they're grasshoppers!

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Those things are making so much noise and the guy on the roof doesn't hear it coming up behind him?
#monsterdon

(yes! yesss! the body count of this movie is amazing.)

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@moira @Taweret #monsterdon AH no, it's absolutely Paul Frees, confirmed! Helicopter Pilot • Airplane Pilot (uncredited)

That's where I know it from, any number of Jay Ward productions.

As is standard in our #Monsterdon flicks, there is absolutely no consistency in the relative size of our bugs compared to, well, anything

At the corner of Wacker and State. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

"THey're climbing the postcard!"

#beginningoftheend
#monsterdon #grasshoppersvspostcards

Oh that's glorious; locusts scaling a building. #Monsterdon

oops, sorry observation point three.

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It's CHOMPIN' time!

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@dogwelder oh you know, tubes #monsterdon

"I heard the reports" aka we're all on the same radio frequency, you ass #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Take a shot already!

#Monsterdon

The locusts are embedded in the street but still moving forward.

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#monsterdon daddy was a (grass)hop on the South Side of Chicago 🎶

"I'd like to start, sir."
"I never stopped. Wait, we're talking about drinking, right?"
#monsterdon

Wacker State?! I never even

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I don't think you're gonna need binoculars to see grasshoppers the size of busses

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The locusts are moving toward the Emergency Lab?? Oh no, save that poor dog!! #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd