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

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Now is the *perfect* time to panic!

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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

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

@Princejvstin cooking ants, apparently

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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.

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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

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

NOT IN THE FACE, NOT IN THE FACE #Monsterdon

Ruh Roh

More nests

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Why the army is not sending anyone on this nest crawl?
cowards
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“Spit’s all that’s holding me together right now, too.”

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

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You have to wonder what happened to all the sand the ants excavated to make these tunnels

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@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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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...

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

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

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"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.

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

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

So fuck off, Bob! #Monsterdon

@rberlim@hachyderm.io 50s sci-fi is occasionally cool like that

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

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

I have a bad feeling this movie is going to fail the Bechdel test
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You tell his ass, Doctor Pat.

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"...yeah Bob!"

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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!

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@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?
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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.)

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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

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"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

Thoroughly on Doctor Lady's side with 'Bob' and his aggression

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He just really wants to see the cool bombers fly over

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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

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#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!

#Monsterdon bazookas seemed *really popular* in the 50s, they keep coming up in monsterdon movies

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Oh good the scientist is explaining things and he brought an ant colony chart!

Sure the bazooka is impressive but I still think masers are cooler #Monsterdon

@CactuarJoe do we also have to eat the ants? #monsterdon

No headphones needed for using a bazuka?
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The new meaning of “ant-acid”
A gastric “bee-zoar”
Hardly Ants-ipated Capsule Endoscopy Finding
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#Monsterdon i can’t believe the scientists authorized this phosphorus BS

yee haw! phosphor AND napalm

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@paco The should have used the nuclear bazooka!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

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OOOOOH

AAAAAAH #Monsterdon

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That giant ant was holding a human sized rib cage and that was good

tooting some everyday middling-quality, nothing-special shitposts out during #monsterdon in solidarity with all the background characters who have to go to work and do all their regular daily routine stuff during an unnatural disaster/monster attack

Not sure I like that the State Trooper knows how to operate heavy weapons #monsterdon

Dr Ant, I don't think the patient is going to make it.
Okay that is actually pretty damn gruesome for the 50s.
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so, they are just randomly shooting napalm everywhere?? wtf

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Proper chemical warfare 😨 #monsterdon

aha. so there WILL be a dungeon crawl #monsterdon

Cops with bazookas. What could go wrong? #Monsterdon #THEM

Okay but who wouldn't pass up a chance to wander around inside a giant ant nest????>? Just daub some pheromones on you and you're good!!! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon cloud seeding. topical.

"...so, we go in after we put in the cyanide gas?"

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Pat's a brave woman, I'd give her a crash course in firearms.

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"we go into the nest and find out." okay, dr doolittle can stay. #monsterdon

Trying to find more info on that helicopter; it looks a lot like a vintage Sikorsky but I can't be sure yet.

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But first I must ask why they have a homemade helicopter

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I'm sure the set Department was absolutely thrilled when they were told hey we need you to go out in the middle of the desert and dig a big hole

#Monsterdon #them1954

This score shreds!

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Different kinds of ants make different kinds of nests! For more on this, check out the fantastic Ant Lab video about the guy who pioneered ant nest casting: <https://youtu.be/1LDja40tLAM> #Monsterdon

Wow look at the height difference between the Doc and the General
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are we going to get a dungeon crawl? #monsterdon