some of you don't believe us. so how 'bout these apples?
#monsterdon

"Does everyone have a smoke? You have to. A bit like saying 'Over'. It's a rule."

#monsterdon

Clever way to use stock footage.

#monsterdon

oooh, a short film. does it have a musical introduction?

#THEM #monsterdon

TIME TO INFORM WASHINGTON!

#Monsterdon

Movie time! ("In a small way...")

#Monsterdon

So, can we use these ants in war? I mean giant ants could really be a good weapon, right?
~Me as CEO of Antz War Inc.
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

Look I know the giant ants skeletonized the people but I still want to pet their fuzzy antennae and I'm pretty sure they'd be nice to us if we were nice to them

The Queen's chamber and the eggs. Oh.... OOOH. Well as people have pointed out this is some serious Aliens scenes going on.
#Monsterdon #Them

@moira @trixter Also I like how they decided to leave the nest once they confirmed Plan A hadn't worked. Like the captain (Laurence Fishburne) in Event Horizon when he said, "We're leaving." Also reminded me of the Aliens egg chamber scene. #Them!1954 #Monsterdon

queen ants in the stratosphere? bummer for the ants but pretty cool all the same. #monsterdon

This is not the end, nor is it the beginning of the end. #Monsterdon

Ooo, are we gonna get stock footage of the Army?

#monsterdon

@darren It really is. ❤️
#Monsterdon

"We haven't seen the end of them"

I know, right, Doc? We've got a whole 45 minutes left and we're still escalating.

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon what the fuck are these ants gonna _eat_ that they can grow and reproduce at this rate?

Commence barbecue

:akillitwithfire_rev: 🐜 :akillitwithfire:

#Monsterdon #them1954

If there's an aerial planes vs. gynes dogfight I'm going to shit myself and die #Monsterdon

uh-oh, 'Washington!'

#monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

The saliva tunnels have plenty of dry ice in them I guess

If the very smart lady who knows how to speak Metric says to burn it all down you do it NOW #Monsterdon

So many #aliens connections. These scenes were so similar! #monsterdon

I'm not even sure what he meant by spits all that's holding me together too

#Monsterdon #them1954

Ant egg souffle? #monsterdon

Get em Ripleys! #monsterdon

okay, see if the crew of the Nostromo had simply firebombed the whole place as soon as they found the egg chamber, that movie would have gone a LOT differently. #monsterdon

"...I said burn it!"
#Monsterdon #Them

"I said burn it, burn everything!"

Doctor Pat should definitely be in charge of this operation.

#Monsterdon

Ripley vibe burn everything!!

#Monsterdon #Them1954

"Burn the Galaxy!"
#monsterdon

Ant flambe ...

#Monsterdon #Them(1954)

in fallout 3 the ants had the flamethrowers #monsterdon

#Monsterdon aaaaaahhhh he took a duck in the face at fifty knaughts

Love the superhero eyeholes on their face masks #Monsterdon

Flamethrowers? Is this safe on such closed space? I mean, not for the target, but for the one who is using it
#monsterdon

Those eggs were moving... don't you want to, you know, kill them?

#Monsterdon

Now is the *perfect* time to panic!

#Monsterdon

You've got to be careful with the flamethrower. The candle that burns twice as bright burns twice the oxygen.

#Monsterdon #Them1954

"...there's enough eggs in here to have an ant omelet!"

#Monsterdon #Them

@Princejvstin cooking ants, apparently

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

Pat will WIN this argument because Pat is used to having to have these arguments

now DON'T GAZE INTO THE EGGS

we don't need alien 0.5

#THEM #monsterdon

#monsterdon I would personally love to have a flamethrower. Just hinting, it's holiday season soon.

working so hard on the giant ant props only to watch them get set on fire #monsterdon

hot damn #monsterdon

....this movie needs a Warcrimes Per Minute counter.

#monsterdon

Personally. I'd want to be the guy with the flame thrower. #Monsterdon #THEM

@futurebird @brooke invasive??? they're a rare short-range endemic morph of a native species! fence this place off and make it a conservation area!!!!!!!!! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon this is so fucking rad haha

NOT IN THE FACE, NOT IN THE FACE #Monsterdon

@moira @trixter "Yeah, spit is all that's holding me together right now [too]." James Arness? In #Them!1954 #Monsterdon

Ruh Roh

More nests

#Monsterdon

Why the army is not sending anyone on this nest crawl?
cowards
#monsterdon

“Spit’s all that’s holding me together right now, too.”

#Monsterdon

I don't mind getting killed by a giant any but I'm not touching anything in the saliva caves

#monsterdon

@ketmorco @trixter Oh age has nothing to do with it. Go watch "My Girl Friday." You will be glad you did.

#THEM #monsterdon

Well it doesn't look like the first round drove Them! any deeper into the mound

#Monsterdon #them1954

"they're dead"
i think we guessed that.
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon look Bob! There's no time to give you a crash course in insect pathology.

If I had a dollar for every time I had to say that...

@WhiskeySailor Not if she talks to an ant about anything but a man!

#Monsterdon

Spit is all that's holding you together? EEEEEEWWWWWWW.

#monsterdon

Not going to lie, I would much rather send a quadcopter down to investigate rather than go in person.

#Monsterdon

So is the rest of this movie just an anthill dungeon crawl? Because I could get into that. #Monsterdon

Movies lost something when we lost catty, self-assured women on screen who actually were experts in their damn field. They all seem to disappear by the late 60s.

#monsterdon

The ants are just down here doing Bane impressions to make each other laugh #monsterdon

you tell him Pat #Monsterdon
AS @yatsu noted, it is reminiscent of Jurassic Park

@brooke

That feels accurate. Even people who like ants don't like invasive ants. And IDK I feel like this counts.

Although I would totally be the "no we must try to talk to them" (and be friends!) person.

Probably get eaten. I don't care.

#monsterdon

It's hard to make movies that show off the latest in military hardware when you're in a cold war, which is why giant monster movies like this were so important for the propaganda machine to keep rolling. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon look Bob! There's no time to give you a crash course in insect pathology.

If I had a dollar for every time I had to say that...

#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

I just realized that a bazooka looks a little bit like a bassoon who knew?

@trixter genuinely does, dialogue a solid A

#THEM #monsterdon

I don't think Bob could handle a course in insect pathology anyway.
#Monsterdon

"Dammit, you have unmanned me with your womanly logic"

#monsterdon

Oh I guess we're taking turns over the Bazooka like a good old fish in a barrel shoot

#Monsterdon #them1954

"Don't worry, Dad, I'm the only woman, so I have to be the Final Girl."

#Monsterdon #Them1954

FBI guy found that verbal dressing down strangely arousing. #Monsterdon

@moira This really does have some decent writing.

#monsterdon

Oh F I would not want to fight a battalion of giant ants!

#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon the precussive nature of this exchange makes me want it as a ringtone SO. BAD.

So fuck off, Bob! #Monsterdon

Ants eat man... woman inherits the earth #monsterdon

"we'll talk about misogyny in giant ant situations later." #wrongMovie #monsterdon

I have a bad feeling this movie is going to fail the Bechdel test
#Monsterdon

You tell his ass, Doctor Pat.

#Monsterdon

"...yeah Bob!"

#Monsterdon #Them

I have to admit these movie is more fast-paced them our usual #monsterdon feature.

"If I can raise an arm I'll show you how saturated I can get" Me on Tuesday. #Monsterdon #THEM

We can't have a LADY on this mission!

#monsterdon

@jeffron yeah please i need to make more rich survivalist friends so i can get my hands on a bazooka one day #monsterdon

Are they throwing fire crackers at the ant?
#Monsterdon

Edmund Gwynn (Dr. Medford) is a favorite actor on mine. Other great movies he was in are:

Miracle on 34th Street (The original version of this holiday movie.)

Mister 880 (Cute movie about a guy counterfeiting one dollar bills.)

Apartment for Peggy (Filmed at UNR in Reno.)

#Monsterdon

they're gonna use up all their grenades on one ant. Do they realize and ant hill usually has more than one ant? #monsterdon

@msh Objectively true

#Monsterdon

"I'm gonna show you just how well saturated I can get" :D

#THEM #monsterdon

#Monsterdon i just finished what i was doing and came back to fire and enviro suits and bombs. this has escalated at pace

I hope the ants are ok. #monsterdon

He just really wants to see the cool bombers fly over

#Monsterdon #them1954

very alien landscape like looking scene here #monsterdon

I've seen some silly old movies, but honestly I think the square cubed law is the only part of this that's been inaccurate

#Monsterdon

#monsterdon Bazooka! (My dad was temporarily blinded while loading one because the guy fired early thinking he'd gotten the shoulder-tap or something similar)

40:00 c'mon you gotta hit 'em right in the puss w/ those grenades!