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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I'm wearing my #monsterdon T-shirt for Monsterdon!

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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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This movie could almost be a companion to Gojira (ie: contrasting US vs Japanese views on WW2 and the early Cold War)

Also, I was not expecting something this good.

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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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That's some real utilitarian philosophy right there.

Two children? All of humanity? Which one????

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"No girls allowed in the storm drains, your periods attract ants..."

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@Lazarou Oh yeah. Went down real well in the 1990s.

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Ant ant paw-print!
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So, the LA River was always gross? Interesting.

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LA's Storm drains are pretty famous, I'm sure I've seen that bit in Grease and Terminator II

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"Men in suits question Old drunks"

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Ooooo! SCANDAL.

"Sick friend", indeed.

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@paco "Ma'am, would some cigarettes help with your tears?" #monsterdon

There was a sequel called “Those,” and it was about an invasion of giant aunts. Horrifying.
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I have a hard time believing no one is noticing a... what, 80 foot long giant ant zooming around over the shipyard

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The Woman once again appears the most knowledgeable about Giant Ants but the Men look so disinterested when she speaks, ug, the Patriarchy...

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FBI quashing vital information to prevent public panic

Seems legit
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Already the Ants are outwitting the Humans....

TWO WILHEILM SCREAMS! DOUBLE BONUS!

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Them and The Thing should have a fight to see who can take over the earth in the shortest amount of time.

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"The Giant Ants could exterminate Man in the space of one year"

I question that assumption, there's oceans and other factors.....

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Now, to the all-male smoking war room
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We haven't seen the end of them. THEM! I see what they did there.

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Quite impressive how that Professor worked up a small film in the flight over to Washington, without Youtube or anything

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I'm pretty sure using flamethrowers is not equivalent to 'doing science'

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Queen ants flew away!

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#Monsterdon at least the humans are wearing gas masks! A movie with logic is as unlikely as peace without honor!

@WhiskeySailor She's going to talk to the ant queen and we'll have a Bechdel pass!

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Is it just me or wouldn't cyanide grenades surely have violated some kind of chemical weapons treaty or another?

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#Monsterdon my god, it’s a whole nuke site from orbit argument without an awful profiteering corporatist lackey tossing fits and wrenches into the plan!

Noon? That's not... they're not wasps... oh shit, this guy is going to get a lot of people killed, isn't he? Scientist, my ass.

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Cop smokes a cigarette while holding a grenade launcher..

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None of us have seen a plastic ant farm

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#Monsterdon The old doctor has exactly the right response to a radio pedant. Yay!

love the human ribcage in the mandibles of the Ant

How many people have gone missing locally?!

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THEM are stealthy. THEM are big. THEM are fuzzy.
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For a scientist, he gets biblical pretty fast. Oh, wait, did they say what KIND of doctor?

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so the militarization of USA cops started waaaaaaaay before the 1970s

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This film should come with an ear damage warning
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I have never heard "myrmecologist" uttered with such withering contempt

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@Bluedepth does it count if it's two women talking about a third girl while every man just stares at them ? #monsterdon

#Monsterdon how hazardously close are we to having a Bechdel Test pass from 1954?

What were the odds of the Ants killing an FBI family?

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#Monsterdon that cash register reminds me of an antique NCR cash register with the metal work and the glass display on top. The same company that makes bullshit DIY checkouts today, started with those sorts of registers long ago. Fun bit of history.

"Somebody had to die so it might as well have been Ed"

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#Monsterdon endless vistas of cop competence. Actually trying. Not whining about cups of coffee or stupid kids. Whaaaaa?

is this the same set of that other movie that had a similar situation when the people came into the shack and it was already ransacked?

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Those seventeen year cicadas sure are annoying.

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@paco "drive faster, and drunker, like a real man would!" #monsterdon

dude knows his blood stains....

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"Who do you belong to?"

America views children as property

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are those joshua trees in the opening credits?

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lol, at the doll's exposed and hollow head....

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Ok, let's go.

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GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO

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I have not been watching the #Monsterdon movie but the commentary is off the rails tonight. 🐜 🐜 🐜

That was... pretty great, actually?
Great score, decent acting, FX about as good as you get in the 50s, reasonably nonsense-free about the science-y ant stuff - I dug it!

Thanks all for joining in! thanks @Taweret for hosting! hope y'all have as stress-free week as possible! See y'all next Sunday, or on Tuesday if you join in for #distractodon
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@apLundell@octodon.social I guarantee you he is still there. Now 102.

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@jonny of course it just ends that's the #Monsterdon rules, like saying "over and out" at the end of a radio conversation

I hope they remembered to call the doctor at the mental hospital and give that airman the all-clear.

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And, with that, we have poignant words from Dr. Medford to make us think about how we've destroyed our world through the nuclear arms race, and we close out another great #Monsterdon.

Thanks @Taweret and everyone else!

@diazona Welcome to the sport of Kings #monsterdon #WilhelmScream

I predict giant lizards!

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And they all fucked-off into the sewer?

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they tampered in god's domain

ain't that just the way

ty for joining, everyone!!

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"but what about all the other Bombs?"

Professor lectures everyone on The Atomic Age

The End

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Is the corset part of her uniform or what?

Jesus, lady, breath.

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That has to be a record for quickest wrap-up to end a movie #monsterdon

All troops to drain 267

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"tell mrs. lodge her boys are alive"

< ant noises >

"uhhh scratch that"

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hut hut hut hut hut hut

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Y'all are on fire tonight. Much like the sewers of L. A. i guess #Monsterdon

"I think we should pour gasoline down the drain and light it" "And that will kill the ants?" "Um, yeah I guess that too." #Monsterdon #THEM

@diazona @Taweret It IS Hollywood

"Oh those guys? Extras."

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"formic acid can't melt steel beams!" —ant truthers

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Get me a list of all the tire places in the area, we'll see where these ants are getting their retreads, and then we'll have 'em

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Jensen saw the cholANTs in the river because, of course the cholants would be crossing the Colorado river at the border 🙄

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"Tire marks!"

Oh shit. The ants are driving.
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is Jensen, Victor Borge?

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#Monsterdon a sick friend. I helped burp his… member. He’s married. Don’t involve him. I yearn to… burp… him again.

really the only reason the ants need to be attacked is that they seem to be disrupting the free flow of sugar. the main victims so far have been purveyors of sugar. so this is a movie about the US government intervening in secret against anything that hinders the smooth flow of capital #monsterdon

@OldRustBucket its close to a water source AND a food source?

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thanks to all of our dracula movie watching, now i'm wondering what would happen if a giant flying queen ant boarded the demeter

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@blogdiva I LOVE old films for just such sightings!

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"Is your child involved with giant ants? Monitor their social media for..."

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Hear me out. Giant radioactive anteater #monsterdon

This probably actually educated all the people in the drive-in back in the day

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"The males are unequipped for survival after mating and soon die afterwards"

Amirite Ladies? yeah? Yeah?

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