When the temperature reaches 68 degrees, make sure you launch the locust at 88 miles per hour

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Yo dawg I heard you liked to call grasshoppers so I put an audio amplifier in your audio amplifier so you can call grasshoppers while you call grasshoppers.
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I think your nonsense technobabble is agitating the locust

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Just take a normal sized bug jag and add radiation

Also… normal sized bug net plus radiation… obviously

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Chicago is rough town. You might be walking around at night and you get jumped by a grasshopper.
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Giving the locust a lie detector test?

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Because no one can do a convincing giant locust mating call, the bug scientist tells the general he will need a live giant locust for this plan to work. I'm not sure if they've even killed any of the giant locusts, yet, despite all the tank rounds and flame throwers they've employed.

But they army dudes seem willing enough to send One Guy to go with the bug scientist to try to capture and one.

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TWO
TWO audio amplifiers
NO THREE
FOUR
FOUR

No three.
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The bee sound he's referring to is called piping. It's a high pitched call that queen bees make.

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Straighten your helmet, General. #Monsterdon

The bug scientist tells us that the bugs slow down when it is cold. This seems to make their plan to attack chicago a bad one, but I guess it's summer now so they won't all freeze to death.

The lead general plans to evacuate Chicago and then nuke it. The reporter suggests driving the locusts into Lake Michigan, and that gives the bug scientist an idea to attract the locusts to the lake with a fake locust mating call.

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So the army and tanks can't stop them, but eight guys with carbines are going to capture a live one?

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"I need an Arduino and a DAC shield."

"Also a trans femme game dev with deep knowledge of chiptunes."

#Monsterdon

Chi-raq most dangerous city in America

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"you ever been duck hunting General"

Say no, we know where this line of questioning goes

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After a tense battle, the army is defeated. The news guy tells us that the giant locusts have reached the Chicago south side and also no one should panic, so naturally we get a panicked evacuation scene. Some locusts are chasing people and eating them. We get a scene of locusts crawling on a building and another one where a girl in a towel is doing her hair and then is accosted by a locust.

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#monsterdon Washington wants us to bomb Chicago. I think I heard a very far away moan from DC just now…

HOld your fire!
It's only composited effect! There's nothing actually there!
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Voyeuristic locusts

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Locusts, defeated by Chicago winters. Just like Chicago!

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America has lost Chicago to the Locust

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I’m not that worried about the south side of Chicago because Bad, Bad Leroy Brown lives there.

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Everyone's panicking, except Gertrude who had a luxurious shower and is working on her hair, until "Arrrggg!"

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hee hee

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Pervy locusts!

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Meanwhile, the news media:

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I mean… it’s not Ray Harryhausen high quality work… but it’s not the *worst* we’ve seen

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So the rest of the movie just drags on like this. With rather dull machinations of controlling the grasshoppers. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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also, there was a guy in the group that looked Native Americanish and that seems to be the guy that also got eating

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MY GOD IT'S KING PICCOLO

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I got a Golden Corral commercial and I feel I should make a Golden Corral's New Slogan joke but nothing comes to mind. #rifftrax #monsterdon

hut hut hut (tank edition)

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Despite the stirring Small Locust documentary, the generals are not convinced that the Large Locusts are a threat and are convinced that the Illinois National Guard can defeat them. But then the lead general gets a phone call that the Illinois National Guard's defensive line was breached by the locusts with thousands of casualties. The general changes his mind.

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It becomes a cannibal. A cannibal that screams all night long in SHU. (IYKYK)

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Situation rooms got way cooler when they went underground and got that big circular light like in most Muse music videos and also that famous movie whose name escapes me.
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I hear bugs are a good source of protein...

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Where exactly *is* this office? close enough to drive to all the scenes of destruction but far enough to not evacuate it?

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@ricci slightly less than a sh*t ton? --dad #monsterdon

GIANT LOCUST (singular) MOVING NORTH ... various towns destroyed.

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@malcircuit Rodan hears the call of duty.

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There's a really great video from Tom Scott about research of the behavior of locusts in large groups using an assload of compuer vision.
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@ricci
Beginning of the End/The Birds crossover....

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The army captain... oh wait this guy's a colonel... the army colonel has declared war on the locusts. He is asking for artillery and air support. The bug scientist warns him that the locusts are too powerful and cannot be defeated by the puny weapons of man and believes that the end of humanity is on hand. So he and the reporter go on a road trip to Washington to tell the Pentagon that the End is At Hand.

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I'm looking for a leading man, get one who is EXTRA stern.
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Locust trees! Giant locust trees with giant thorns!

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You should call the regular army, your Kirkland Signature army isn't going to cut it.
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Candlestick phone? What year is this supposed to be?
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Our soldiers wander into the surprisingly mowed woods and hear some Giant Locust Noises. Then a giant locus appears and eats one of them off camera. It advances toward them and so they jog away from it, shooting it with their World War II vintage guns, but it appears to be immune to bullets. Eventually they drive off, still shooting at it.

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It's good compositing, well some of it. At least its not just forced perspective.
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I've seen this movie too many times, god I hate that noise.
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Title drop

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We should break into groups of two so we're easier to eat in one bite.
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Pete helps himself to a gun. #Monsterdon

What horrible destruction. So much corrugated steel carnage.
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Big and loud as they are, they still manage to sneak up on humans remarkably well.
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Cower in fear!

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Reaction Faces!

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Your delivery of life-size army themed sex dolls is here sir.
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"Lads, when you go into battle make sure your ties are tucked in, for safety"

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How in the fuck do they never take five minutes to teach actors port arms and not to point guns at each other?
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#monsterdon Okay everyone, separate out! Make yourselves into little snacks, make sure you wear your popcorn leis so the bugs feel cared for and special!

should we maybe secure that greenhouse then? given the apparent issue where it might create giant monsters?

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Those locusts ate radioactive food, so they might glow in the dark. Giant nightlights!

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Ten men. He was paying attention.

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Imagine the noise the giant locusts would make at night

No need to destroy a town, they could just keep everyone awake forever

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We learn the chatty scientist is actually a bug scientist but you must study the plants to study the bugs. He notices a lack of insects on the ground. Then he looks backwards and A Giant Grasshopper Looking Thing appears, then eats the mute scientist off camera. RIP.

The reporter and the surviving scientist drive off.

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(aww man, these crisps are good!)

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― can you eat them?

― nah. they’re totally freaks with no inherent value only for us to show shareholders that arrow goes up forever

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eisenhower looks on disapprovingly

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"The kind of gun people keep at home"

not on my island matey!

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"some even bigger" okay but it was exactly one tho

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"Major, you gotta get the DDT!"

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Ah. Burying my gays already.

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Here come the cicadas ... of, sorry, giant grasshopper.

Silently screaming deaf-mute bites the dust.

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I'm a bug guy. ATOMIC BUGS.
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I hope Frank doesn't get eaten, that seems a very bad way to go....

.....oh darn

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So the reporter likes the chatty plant scientist more than the army dudes. She drives both of the plant scientists to a rubble pile for a first date. The chatty plant scientist says that the rubble pile used to be a granary that did not explode, and assumes that birds ate all the grain. All the grain. They did not miss a single grain. The birds were very hungry.

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Well, bugs couldn't live without plants. Plants would do just fine without bugs. #monsterdon

very handy he studies insects and is in the neighbourhood.....

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@CactuarJoe give it time

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"this is deeper than horses go", they tend to stay on the surface #Monsterdon #BeginningOfTheEnd

@diazona Giant radioactive goats?

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#Monsterdon Poll

What color is that car

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@xerozohar He's the lab assistant, I think

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The army finally lets the reporter take pictures of the town so we see piles of rubble everywhere. While driving back the reporter tells the army captain about all the war reporting she did and how tired she is of seeing ruins and the horrors of war.

He follows up on her maudlin reflections by asking her out to a bar, but she changes the subject.

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#Monsterdon I love how in movies like this everybody knows the newspaper reporter and has fond memories of reading their articles.

As though people actually remember the names of newswire writers.

"yeah i've always been interested in science. Discovering the... impossible."

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Is that guy Teller's dad

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She could use roids to count her age?
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Around this part of the country things seem to have a way of vamishing..
DUDE. Are you stoned?

#monsterdon You'll notice the cavalier way she ejects flash bulbs. Nope, not going to even bother picking them up, or recycling them, let the townies, whatever CHUDS they turn into, let them step on those bulbs and get enraged. That's the reason for the Act 3 attack. G-D Flashbulbs left willy-nilly, LAZY WOMAN. FETCH THE COFFEE.

I like that she's suddenly a hard boiled film noir detective

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Ha - Did he do the fake yawn to get his arm behind her seat?

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"I've had enough."

I've got a bucket in the back, hold up. #Monsterdon

"I hope you have a strong stomach." Dude she was a goddamn war correspondent in Korea.

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Your mission: Believing this story.

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radiosynthesis, okay.

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@cd0 omgwtfbbq

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deilghtfully incorrect explanation of photosynthesis

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