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Movies like Them! portray cops, scientists, the FBI and military all working together to protect civil society. It shows a system that works and is capable of meeting serious threats, so that Joe Public doesn't have to worry about them. The reality? Not so much these days.

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"We've tampered in God's domain"

Bring it!

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People do in fact steal bulk food commodities, but I'm now wondering whether the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist was actually by a remnant population of Them!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Heist

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aaaaaah! the era of no safety belts and leaded gas. no wonder Boomers are like they are.

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this is maybe the best disambiguation notice on wikipedia #monsterdon

"ants are savage, ruthless and courageous"

i can't argue with that

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The most unrealistic part of these movies is watching the US government respond immediately with resolve and competence to threats. They're immediately all over them with overwhelming strength.

I loved Shin Godzilla because it is all about beaurocratic and political deficiency and red tape when our friend the giant radioactive lizard appears.

If we had a giant ant outbreak today, Politicians would be sitting in rooms debating whether there was any upside to them getting involved.

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the Dr. Who reference is from the story arc, War Games

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It occurs to me that one of the subtler myths perpetrated by all these atomic era movies is that, yeah, sure the bombs make monsters sometimes, but that's just what radiation does, rearranges the dna, causes mutations. It's a managable side-effect. Heck, the sun does it to ya naturally!

When mostly what the radiation from atomic blasts does is just make a mess of everything in the cell, and even at the level of a bad sunburn can cause cancer.

but hey, giant ants! THEM!

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picture of the escaped flying cholANTs

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BURN EVERYTHING!

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la virgen de la guadalupe is NOT gonna bless these gringos attacking the cholants

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OMG LEONARD NIMOY!!!

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Like this toot if you want Phase IV to be our next movie! Cross species hive mind ants with visuals by Saul Bass (creator of many famous title sequences).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_IV_(1974_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcs3_b3VXSU

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"I'm certain no new queens escaped from this nest."

"Aren't you the same doctor who said cigarettes don't cause lung cancer?"

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I want another ant lecture

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Fun fact, the LA storm drain system just appeared one day and goes on for hundreds of miles underground....they don't talk about it much...

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA the mexicANT queens decided to nest in BROWNSVILLE.

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@brooke It made over $2m at the box office. That alone calls for sequels. This thing made bank for what it was.

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Aaah THAT's how. Mass flamethrowing and professorial lectures.

Well done.

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actually, i just found out the cholANTs are not mexicANTs but boliviANTs.

i always learn something new with my shitposting, LMAO

https://soyfugitivo.com/cholitas-wrestling-las-mujeres-luchadoras-que-estan-cambiando-bolivia/

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OMG it's one of my dreams to go to White Sands in Nuevo México. it's supposed to be really beautiful. i loved the northern part of New Mexico and was sad i couldn't travel to the south.

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i guess ants are better than cockroaches 🧐

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That was really fun! Thanks @Taweret@octodon.social and everyone for the great comments.

Seriously well-paced, good dialogue, decent acting, and not bad FX for the time.

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#monsterdon that movie was great. Enjoyed the heck out of it. Going to sleep immediately.

I'm glad this film isn't afraid of a slow pace

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take me to the river.
drop me in the water.

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queen chola goes to Brownsville to lay her huevos because she got now thousands of mouths to feed after her encounter with El Aparato that gave her super tortilla powers.

i would be wrecking havoc also if that happened to me and my huevos.

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gubmint throwing resistors into psych lockholds because ACAB

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the guy in the sanatorium saw two giant flying saucers, i say they were flying tortillas.

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"they can lift 20 times their weight."

that's a reference to our love of lucha libre.

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So apparently this movie also spawned the Discovery channel. Nice.

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blah blah blah blah MAYA.

SEE! SEE! this is about us spiks invading the country with our savage mandibles and love of cocaína… allegedly

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OMG is this gonna be ant porn?!?

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Ants. Famously always in small numbers so I’m sure it’s fine #monsterdon

We just need a really big magnifying glass on a sunny day #monsterdon

OMG THE ANTS EAT RIBS!!!
new mexican BBQ is good but is it that kind of good?!?!?

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In my next life I would like to be Queen Ant. Thank you.

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Thank you everyone for a lovely #monsterdon the giant ants have soothed my soul.

Really this is exactly what was needed at this moment IMO

I know it's a death scene and all, but that giant ant was very cute.

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she totally looks the mexicANT part with the wings and everything

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This is the climax, so "burn it with fire" is just going to work?

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The jeeps driving into the storm drains again reminds me of Aliens, is it all going to go to shit in there when the Ants come out of the walls?

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#Monsterdon Welcome gentlemen. This is our oxymoronic panel. Military intelligence. Jumbo shrimp. Giant ants.

Telling LA it's under martial law and curfew is at 18:00 hours would go very well I would imagine

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The square-cube law means that strength doesn''t scale. But... I'll accept it for movie purposes

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mexicANTs
puertoricANTs

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#monsterdon It's really interesting to see how much structure Aliens borrowed from this film.

I know Social Media is evil and all but it would have really helped with the "find the giant ants" problem

OSINT those Ants!

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so they threw cyanide into that hole and are gonna go into the hole without protective gear but for those creepy Dr. Who masks because of course they would do that

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The reason that you said "over" on the radio was that you were talking and receiving on a single frequency and so you had to let the other party know when they could talk. It was only half-duplex communication.

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!

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Let's see if they can avoid the misogyny for 30 sec... ah, crap

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"It's the FBI so watch your language"

"Fuck those cunts"

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"no money stolen, just sugar taken"

Clearly the work of Humans, clearly...

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants

SUGAR!

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I can't believe I went that whole movie and forgot to use this gif :blobfoxfacepalm:

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That film turned out to be more fun than I thought it would
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Pretty good film but kind of an ant-iclimatic ending

Thanks @Taweret for hosting and everyone for posting!

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How many Wilhelm screams can you pack into a movie? Lets find out, shall we?

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you couldn't drive a Cybertruck into a storm drain....

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This film has a plethora of disposable red-shirt guys
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@Newpa_Hasai How the mighty have fallen. The current USDA can't even fight a virus, much less giant ants!

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@diazona rioters join up with the Ants to overthrow White Nationalism, would watch #monsterdon

TBH, I had already written off those two kids but it does explain why all the exposition on them and the widow

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Wait, you mean he's just going to tell the TRUTH? This really IS a horror film!

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#Monsterdon We’ve paged Quentin Tarantino. Reservoir Ants.

this movie has a lot more pointing at maps than i expected for some reason.

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@Configures @jonny @north Oh duh, he's Kris Kringle from Miracle on 34th St. Edmund Gwenn

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"Macarthur Park?"

Somebody left a cake out in the rain?

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Now a high school lecture on ants

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It's a nice Ant presentation but it's not our Ant Lady

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Thinking about the scene in Aliens where they work out some big thing is laying those eggs....

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The educated people are here to provide narrative
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Flame throwers are hideous weapons but fun in movies and games

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Actually just wiki'd chemical weapons treaties.... that is some scary non-ratified crap, y'all

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Props to the Lady Doctor going down into the Ant liar , FOR SCIENCE!

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Apparently people in the 20th Century could only think while smoking

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Hey look, actual antlike behaviors! (Re: garbage removal from the nest)

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How can she possibly see bones down there with all the dust
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Dude is going all "I am become ant, eater of sugar destroyer of worlds..."

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The ant is the size of an eleph "ANT"

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Of course, no plot if we risk a nationwide panic
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The (german?) doctor thinking in metric-first is nice.

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Those are some spiffy goggles though, gotta say

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poor baby! this movie has actually better acting than most.

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Later than you think indeed, we're already experimenting on children

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#Monsterdon Formic Acid! I love it! It’s just enough to tickle ant biology fanatics, right from the get go! A movie that actually trusts the audience and doesn’t just spoon feed the plot. Bravo!

I jumped in late, right into the middle of some unprecedented local/federal cooperation

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OK my ears hurt movie
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EL APARATO is one of the hit singles by the rock latino group CAFÉ TACUBA in their groundbreaking multiplatinum album, RÉ and it is, indeed a song about #cholofuturism.

the song is about Pablo, a guy that is now considered a crazy alcoholic who insists he went blind after having a close encounter of the 3rd kind, aka, with El Aparato, aka The Thing. he insists they're gonna come back for him and take him to a garden of Eden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6Xd4AP6QcE

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I guess that really is the best giant bug movie. I have to dock it a star for the ridiculous over use of the WIlhelm scream, but still good. Starts pretty tense and reasonable well written. Thanks for making me rewatch a movie I forgot about @Taweret
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Spouse notes that this is American kaiju—atomic blast creates giant horror creatures for a moral lesson #Monsterdon

I wonder if they ran out of budget at the end and were like, wrap it up, just burn the eggs and throw in some monologue, that'll have to do.

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@Zerofactorial Who also has aggro PTSD now cuz they made her sniff the ant juice #monsterdon

Better than average? Maybe, they certainly paid for a lot of decent actors and had a not small SFX budget.

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If these puppets did more than wave their heads, they'd be expensive

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