YES SUPERANT CLIMBS THE SKY

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Was that Chuck Norris? #Monsterdon

lunch time! #monsterdon

They're boxing The Stuff one factory over. #Monsterdon #EmpireOfTheAnts

@CactuarJoe I mean it was the 70s, they probably did...

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Because I would love to go on a sugar factory tour TBH
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@CactuarJoe It WAS the 70s. #Monsterdon

Are they going into sugar jail? Or getting a factory tour?
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@steggy I want William Shatner to fall in love with her, but tragically fail to save her from a violent demise #monsterdon

Yeah rough em all up before they resist so they know their place #ACAB #Monsterdon

"Looking for a gun"

Might I recommend that giant Chekov's Gun you passed a while back

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Aw, that ditch is NASTY. At least in Tarkovsky's "Stalker" when they were lying around in nasty ass chemical pools getting cancer they were making an immortal classic. Imagine getting, like, Giardia from working on THIS movie.

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captain really went down there. #monsterdon

some really good visuals effects in this movie, very creative composite shots

lots of pine forest though

lots and lots of pine forest

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i wonder how much of the budget we blew on dumping that car in a pond

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Jus' some good ol' bois!

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Them duke boys were in trouble again... 🚗

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ACAA. All Cops Are Ants. #Monsterdon #EmpireOfTheAnts

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The smartest cops always set up their roadblock right after the turnoff through the corn field. #Monsterdon

why didn't the car jump over a bunch of ants? i mean, i know, it's the 70s, car must jump over things, WHY NOT ANTS?! it's RIGHT THERE!

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Lol excellent clear shot of the stunt driver and absolutely no one else in that car

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What happened to the "ants are repelled by fire" theory? Was that debunked? #monsterdon

Are we watching Empire of the Ants or Dukes of Hazzard?

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@brooke Charlie's Ant-gels

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i think someone mixed up a few pages of a starsky and hutch movie with this one. #monsterdon

Hope these cops get eaten next
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Oh, shame on you Bert I. Gordon. #Monsterdon

oooooh right the 70s, car must jump over things

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I will say - that was a really clever shot for this caliber of movie

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You wouldn’t download a car #monsterdon #EmpireOfTheAnts

chekhov's road flares? #monsterdon

no actual engine

just ants

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@CactuarJoe it's all the sugar

and the cocaine

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Mark Snow on the soundtrack all of a sudden. #Monsterdon

Eciton burchellii! are in this too!?

But it looks like only majors, no workers... but I guess the workers would be confused for yet another species of ants and this movie isn't big on explaining much about how the ants work.

Looks like they put these ants together expecting them to fight... but majors separated from their colony won't fight just try to escape, and Paraponera are scared of army ants. So they just clamor on each other. For the best, really.

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The man on the phone looks like a younger Bernie Sanders #monsterdon

@joewynne the people have spoken #Monsterdon

Sure, that noise is annoying, but none of the ants have made that noise in the entire movie. #monsterdon #empireoftheants

Please show me an ant posing as a mannequin in one of the store windows. Pleeeeease! 😆

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Hahaha! The good ol' Lewton Bus fake-out jump scare! #Monsterdon

Ha, okay, that was good :D #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Flash Poll

Who should die next?

what are we doing with the sugar? well we're certainly not feeding it to our ant overlords if that's what you're suggesting

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What these people need is a giant aardvark #monsterdon

@plaidtron3000 YAAAAAY! We can burn it ALLLLLLLL down! :D

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This is going very The Stuff all of a sudden. #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe no worries the ants will regulate themselves #Monsterdon

"...just tell 'em to call me, the Mayor of Sugar Town"

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"Theyve been hearding us"
My favorite hearding breeds: sheperds, rotties, border collies, & giant ants #monsterdon

It's the ant's stepford town

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@moira It sure is! #monsterdon #empireoftheants

is powdered sugar explosive? like silo explosive?

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@Louisa Yeah I was hoping that second old couple would be ant-ified

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OMG its humans not covered in polyester. The horror! #monsterdon

“It’s none of your business what we’re doing with the sugar.” :blobfoxo_o: #Monsterdon

Does the sugar refinery boil people down into sugar? #monsterdon #empireoftheants

I was wrong about the old weirdos. She tried to warn us. #Monsterdon

So, this is more @moira's baileywick, but I feel like the solution to this problem is to take big bites out of the local trees & other flora, and then poop into the giant ants' mouths

unless I've greatly misunderstood ant biology*

*I've greatly misunderstood ant biology

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um, so, what ARE you doing with with sugar, mr mayor? #monsterdon

"A person to person call. No not an ant to person call!" #monsterdon #empireoftheants

...Oh. The capitalists are FEEDING the ants. Of course. #Monsterdon

@SRLevine I'd kind of rather see the ants enjoying chocolate-covered Larry

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Sugar and ants, I'm crazy to mention one of the things everyone knows about ants?
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I hope no actual ants were harmed during the filming of this interspecies conflict #monsterdon

"What ever you do, don't let them take you to the sugar refinery."

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#Monsterdon Chekhov’s sugar refinery…

something funny indeed. ha. ha. ha. #monsterdon

humans have had a good run. i say we give the ants a shot a running things. see how it goes

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EFF APTS. Yeah, me too, sign. Me too. #monsterdon #empireoftheants

Good thing they got away from the giant ants. They should be safe at the sugar factory.

/s

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That is crazy, you're right lady. #Monsterdon

Is...is that the old couple from earlier? Did they turn that little shack into their own homestead? #monsterdon #empireoftheants

Sugar refinery just randomly there, right by the mutant ants, made me laugh
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Why is Marilyn so panicked, by a giant ant that didn't get within twenty feet of her and showed no intention of doing so? #monsterdon

S-s-sugar refinery? 👀 #monsterdon

A SUGAR REFINERY!? :blobfoxscared: #Monsterdon

A sugar refinery!?!?

I see where this is going...

(chocolate covered giant ants)

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Joe, as one of the most astoundingly bad actors I've ever seen, is really carrying this movie for me
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Does everyone here in civilization secretly work for the ants? They can’t all honestly believe the giant ants story.

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I gotta say, I kind of like the angle that it's not JUST a monster horde, you can't trust the people either

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A SUGAR refinery! Gosh I wonder where all the ants could be. #Monsterdon #EmpireOfTheAnts

@CactuarJoe that's literally what i just said. #monsterdon

Long distance phone call. I remember those. #Monsterdon

Seriously though, I've seen an entire (small) island that might take you 30 minutes to walk across, covered with warring _Myrmica rubra_ (I think). If you were at their scale it would be HORRIFIC.

Ant war! (Huh!) What is it good for!

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"Giant ants. That's hard to believe. Never thought I'd live to see the day."

Well maybe you won't live more more now will you...

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peevie has some strong beverly hillbillies vibes

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You guys still got a half an hour, I don't think this car's making it out. #Monsterdon

Incestuous cannibal couple? #monsterdon #empireoftheants

Bet you dollar that cop is in the Klan.....

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@yatsu It’s hard to tell in Florida. #Monsterdon

guys, i'm not trying encourge the run time of this movie any longer than it really needs to be, but i think we are in danger. #monsterdon

#monsterdon oh shit looks like they found Bithlo, no, no, turn around go the other way now

@apLundell We're getting a good look at their acting, which is indication enough #monsterdon

The cops are going to feed the whole town to the ants. #Monsterdon

this movie has some great compositing

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Wow animal abuse in filmmaking is very fun and cool #monsterdon #empireoftheants

A sugar refinery! #Monsterdon

Wait until the ants try to milk them for honeydew. They're going to be so disappointed. And so are the ants. #monsterdon #empireoftheants

?????????? #monsterdon #empireoftheants