"Why they'd sectionate me out of the service"

OK, I'd like a word with the captioner, please.

#monsterdon

"there could be countless numbers"?

You don't know how numbers work do you

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

going to have our own emu war

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🌽 🌾 🫘 ☢️ 🦗 🦗 🦗 😱

"I don't know - countless numbers!"

Home! Didn't miss anything. No commentary though. :( Problem solved.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon

Frank fighting the locusts in penny loafers.

Oh sure, Pete, all those other guns didn't work, but I'm sure you picking up one exactly the same and using it will make all the difference #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Countless numbers!
#monsterdon

Ooh, so NOW you believe Peter

#Monsterdon

"Wipe them out... ALL of them!"

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Why is it bothering me so much that that’s not a grasshopper sound? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🌽 🌾 🫘 ☢️ 🦗 🦗 🦗 😱

you can't bomb giant bugs out of a forest without bombing the forest out of the forest

Bomb those insects back to the stone age oh shit that didn't even slow them down. #Monsterdon

THESE COMPOSITED-SHOT GRASSHOPPERS ARE GOING TO EAT US ALL!
#monsterdon

Oh this is a Starship Troopers prequel #Monsterdon

That's some mighty fine muzzle discipline.

#monsterdon

damn no subtitles today, so i can't turn it down and avoid the grasshopper screeching

though they deserve to scream, and to eat Bert I Gordon

#monsterdon

@cherizilla cute lil' buggers aren't they 😀

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

I can see the projection background, so it's obvious something's COMING.

And then poor Frank!

"There's reliable people who've seen flying saucers & little green men from Mars!" That should be the movie they make, not some giant bugs which are physically impossible!

I said, "It sounds to me like you're just feeding soldiers to the giant locusts", and then the Captain began to cry.

I love how when they eat you, you just pose with your arm across your face.

#monsterdon #beginningOfTheEnd

That commanding officer fired his gun in the air just to feel something. #Monsterdon

Damn that's annoying noise. #Monsterdon

Y'all are gonna need some Browning HB action to take those bugs out.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Nice that they had a gun for Peter Graves just laying in the back of the truck. #beginningoftheend
#monsterdon #grasshoppersvspostcards

#Monsterdon 🌽 🌾 🫘 ☢️ 🦗 🦗 🦗 😱

and they ARE just regular sized grasshoppers filmed very close to the lens! Surprise!

#monsterdon Shift Tilt Locust Porn

I love that they captions spelled Section-8 as Sectionate. #Monsterdon

@malcircuit 😂

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

NEXT TIME, ON DRAGON BALL Z

#monsterdon

The atom? I usually blame things on sunspots, or Elvis. #Monsterdon

SFX are surprisingly good for 1957!

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Well that giant bug noise sure is annoying. And now layered in with gunfire. Oh goodie. I am so glad I am not watching with headphones tonight.
#Monsterdon #BeginningoftheEnd

#monsterdon #BegiiningOffTheEnd1957

I smell a dirty Russki plot here..

Magnificent. Just glorious arthropods making a mockery of mammalian defense. #Monsterdon

They're not only enormous, they're also kind of blurry!

#Monsterdon

Run away, RUN!!!
#monsterdon

You can tell they're surprised by their eyebrows!

#Monsterdon

They blame the atom for EVERYTHING.
#monsterdon

Soldier struggles with his ammo belt.

Wait, you didn't load the dang thing?

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd1957

I wonder if we can push these giant grasshoppers into Willy Wonka's chocolate river and have delicious snacks for months.

#Monsterdon

Fun fact: your sidearm makes a great prop for gesticulation 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🔫

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

the sound mixing in this movie is absolute trash, did Christopher Nolan direct this? #monsterdon

Running: not allowed

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They always call in the army reserves on their one weekend a month to first try and deal with it. #monsterdon

[chirping throughout]

Somebody tell a bad joke?

#BeginningOfTheEnd #monsterdon

@forestine@sunny.garden nooooooooooo
#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

#Monsterdon Luckily, they don't make an annoying noise.

SECURE YOUR COVERS, SOLDIERS!

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Aww I LOVE them! #Monsterdon

Is this building tension?

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

#monsterdon Frank loves being knocked out, and when he's just prone like that, you fiddle with his nipples until he breaks out in full Bob Fosse…

(bugs screeching)

#monsterdon

Welp these guys are doomed.

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

@neia the pinworms are also now giant #monsterdon

BREET BREET BREET BREET INCOMING COMPOSITE INCOMING

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Cicadas in the Deeps #Monsterdon

"these days they blame the atom for everything"

in a better movie, i would consider that some nice self-awareness, but in this movie? hm.

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

See Ludlow: Where grasshopper ate my buddy.
#monsterdon

I personally blame The Atom for bad movies...

#BeginningOfTheEnd #monsterdon

Well, they got a platoon at least.
#monsterdon #beginningoftheend1957

@ricci 😆

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Okay everyone. Look delicious. #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

You can't train a grasshopper to pull a plow! You've fundamentally misunderstood their locomotion. You might be able to use them to mill grain. #Monsterdon

All right men, into the woods!

Corporal lackadaisically orders his men to their doom.

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd1957

@socketwench

A bounty program might help.

#Monsterdon

Blasphemy! I like my grasshoppers with mayonnaise!

#Monsterdon

They have this scene in every Burt I. Gordon film #monsterdon

I have a hard time believing that the military would be like "you can't come in here" and then "eh, your explanation for this inexplicable thing is definitely nothing worth considering"

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welp that guy who "doesn't like it" is getting eaten isn't he #monsterdon

@Taweret Is there a flow chart or dichotomous key to determine? #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

"Sir, is this gonna be another bug hunt?" #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🌽 🌾 🫘 ☢️ 🦗 🦗 🦗 😱

I feel that every adult white man in the US in the early 60s had the jacket that Peter is wearing

Another Frank. Are we using that like red security shirts?

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

katydid? more like katy don't Ooooooooo!!!

#monsterdon

Novel idea… let the guys with guns go first.

#Monsterdon

To be honest, colonel IS listening. He is just no believing.
and no one can think he is wrong,.
#monsterdon

"Let's split up so we can search faster...!"

#Monsterdon
#BeginningOfTheEnd1957

@JoeWynne katydid was not valued :GoldenEgg:

#Monsterdon

Fan out! *Clack clack clack*

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Into the woods,
It's time to go,
I hate to leave,
I have to go.
Into the woods-
It's time, and so
I must be eaten by locusts... #Monsterdon

TIL all locusts are grasshoppers, but not all grasshoppers are locusts.

#Monsterdon

Hut hut hut hut hut hut hut hut!

#monsterdon

i-i-i-i-i ain't got no booooooooooody

#monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd #GrasshoppersVsPostcards

No one will be seated during the gripping Truck Backing-up sequence!

#BeginningOfTheEnd #monsterdon

"Alright, grasshopper, he is alright" what?

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

Atomic Wheaties was absolutely thing in the 50's wasn't it #monsterdon

Is this gonna be another bug hunt? #monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️

⁉️THE TRIVIA END 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

👂Listen for the Monster Grasshopper sound. It's actually from Katydids which make their calls at night in large numbers.

Many Katydid photos on Masto are misidentified as grasshoppers.
After tonight's feature, let's commit to giving Katydids the respect they deserve.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

#monsterdon
I gotta say for the time? The effect really is effective.

The actor pretending he's going to get eaten? Not so much.

it's a bug hunt, guys
a bug hunt!

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If he's taking a squad of soldiers with him, he must be giving some credence to Peter Graves' story. #Monsterdon

Dig those crazy grasshoppers, daddy-o #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon

yeah,
uh

no

like

uh

nope

now, I do like an ole M1, or better,a thompson

but

nope
nope
nope

Fun fact: a locust is just a grasshopper that has had enough triggers turning it into a locust. You can either brush it, or get a bunch of grasshoppers to crawl over it.

Being an entomologist you think he'd know that. If there were enough of those grasshoppers to be locusts, they'd be easily visible from the air.

Surely the military would have had aircraft flying around?

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

“With the strength of ten ordinary men”🎶 #Monsterdon

RIP Frank, you were a fine red shirt. #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

This scientist is giving everybody the most intense elevator eyes you ever saw. Like what you see, sir? 👁️👁↑↓️

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

Of course, the military already knew about the giant tomatoes.

#Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd1957

What, your project would make people massive, isn't that a major issue if you want people to eat your giant food
#monsterdon

#monsterdon #BegiiningOffTheEnd1957

THe only solution is we also must eat the giant food so that we are even larger than the locusts!!