oh the fbi, this movie is getting serious
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#Monsterdon rational human cops applying common sense and logic. It’s like a view pane to an alternate universe!

Little did they know, sugar would be an ingredient in EVERYTHING by 2000 #monsterdon

Once again I notice Americans did not have kettles until recently

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"Let's go down to Gramp Johnson's Store"

The store is a massive hypermarket and part of a global retail empire called "Gramp Johnson's Stores"

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People really did wear a lot of hats back then

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This is how cat reminds me it's food time (in the middle of a #monsterdon riff)

Last one, last one! The irony of having such a hard time finding queens in LA is just hitting me. #Monsterdon #THEM

#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

Honestly, I'd welcome some giant ants of the atomic age rather than * waves arms * all of this crap.

Thanks, #Monsterdonians, @Taweret @cheribaker @JoeWynne and everyone who made this such a fun one!

Let's go find an ant to pat!

the whole 1950s thing of "exciting music while nothing is happening" tho' REALLY does not work for me. i'm glad that's something people stopped doing.

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How did I miss “Liar, liar, ants on fire”? Pretty annoyed with myself. #Monsterdon

@trixter ...oh, they did die offscreen. The workers can't fly, and the queen would have lost flight capability after starting the nest. So once the S S Viking was sunk they drowned

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basically @RobynGoodfellow told (warned?) me that this is basically two movies glued together and it really is

and movie one was really good and movie two is okay but not up to movie one

(which ended in the desert)

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The moral of the story is that even when you find the egg chamber and torch the monsters there's still gonna be that little girl who wandered out of the desert nearly catatonic messed up for life. Because of nukes #monsterdon

Where can I get a flamethrower? I need one for...reasons.

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#Monsterdon victory over ants declared! however we've had 9 years of further mutations which we'll have to fight

in modern times that would be an open call for franchise sequels

OK, that was a dang good film #monsterdon crew.

Thanks as always to everyone who turned out and made all those great posts, and @Taweret our host and hero.

See y'all next week!

That's why you shouldn't put all your eggs in one egg nest

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These guys with the Tommy guns really should have used the drum magazines and not the flat bar ones.

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Of ants and men
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Y'only get the Wilhelm Scream if you actually die, apparently. #Monsterdon

Rifle-grenade!

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@stephancastro Stiff competition on that front when it comes to #Monsterdon

#monsterdon If you think about it this is even more impressive than the effects from the 50's "The thing" because they had to have a giant stunt-ant inside the fireproof costume to accomplish this shot. Nerves of steel.

Oh god please let this be a THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD type ending, warning us to watch the skies

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Apropos of nothing the guys who make Penny Arcade are also Mike and Jerry. #Monsterdon #THEM

@Taweret TBH shooting them didn't seem nearly as effective as setting them on fire

Nor as entertaining

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@allanb Out of context this totally sounds like a Star Wars quote

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Awwww, brave cop goes down with a Wilhelm scream, gets a death scene too

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How are they wrapping all this up in 10 minutes???

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Not only are they going to die from the CO coming out of their motors, formic acid decomposes into carbon monoxide and water, which is why containers of 98% formic acid are shipped with self-venting tops. #TheMoreYouKnow
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I think the Cop is going to marry that flamethrower when this is over

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give me a man who can recognize "brood odor" ... does this guy have pheromone receptors??

(brood has an odor... but not one that a person would notice)

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The sound track makes it really obvious how sound is used today versus then. In this film, the most loud and dramatic music is when NOTHING is happening. They're driving from point A to B. There are no monsters, etc. In a modern film, the crescendo would be when the monsters APPEAR and the climactic battle is happening.

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Vague Hogan's Heroes vibes with the Army hats cocked
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#Monsterdon Everything always leads back to the L.A. River. 🤦‍♂️

@Lazarou I'm finding this film to be scarily foreshadowing of things that actually happened decades later!

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Great. Ant lockdown :/ #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon i'm imagining a modern government going "it's too expensive to shut down los angeles, let's just learn to live with the ants"

The army has enough MPs to arrest every citizen who leaves their house?

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“Mrs. Jansen just remembered that her husband used to bring their sons to fly model airplanes in the stormwater run-off channels. It’s the safest place to play.”

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OMG, the one Black dude in this film is shining shoes, oh c'mon!

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🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

🐜 EUSOCIAL TRIVIA 🐜

Budget cuts forced the final battle to be in the LA tunnels, instead of the Santa Monica Pier.

🔥 The tunnels worked out better for creepy ambiance, if you ask me.

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"wait, giant ants?!" - LA

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LOL is that the same Italian looking guy in a different cop uniform?!?!

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It's THEM! alright #Monsterdon

Doesn't look a lot like an L-1 to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinson_L-1_Vigilant

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this is one of those locations that's so overused in movies that it pulls me out of a movie to see it

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huh, apparently 65% of all Snickers are made at a plant in Waco

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@brennen Facts. And also, facts!

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Petition to go back in time and make the network create a detective show staring James Whitmore and James Arness as partners. #Monsterdon

Look, if someone starts crying in front of you, you hug her, not stare at her and see if she turns into a giant ant.

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Her sadness looks less and less convincing during this interrogation.

Backstory please.

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Afraid I'm only enough of a trainspotter to say, "that looks like a diesel"

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If you knew about the Quebec Maple Syrup Cartel you wouldn't question the motivations in a sugar heist #Monsterdon

Men just staring at the crying woman like she's embarrassing herself.

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Ants looting a boxcar
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The smart guy referencing “the BIG map”. lol #Monsterdon

in case no one has already posted it: that wilhelm scream was one of the first uses of it, since the source movie was only filmed 3 years before Them! #monsterdon

Kinda dumb to build a nest on a ship. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon we have numerous Wilhelm Screams!

@Lazarou I mean at least it's bounded.

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@sean All the documents have this official seal on them.
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Keeping that poor guy in the psych ward?? BOOOOOOOOO

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“I was scared out of my pants. Excuse me, ma’am.”

Was it uncouth to say “pants” in mixed company in the 50s?

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Oof. Ant rafts are a thing. Do not like that.

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@jonny @north Hey, that's Fess Parker (Daniel Boone) playing the pilot who saw the flying giant ants! #Them!1954 #Monsterdon

"We've limited the search area down to......North America"

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@Newpa_Hasai there's a lot of suspension of disbelief with giant ants #monsterdon

Sometimes the saucers are ants and sometimes the saucers are full of sugar water for the ants

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#monsterdon This is just to say I have thefted the syrups and sweets

Signs of THEM!
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#Monsterdon mission is on a giant billboard. Nobody can screw it up. Just look across the room! My god. Derailing stupid movie tropes with _logic_

Those Texans sure tell tall tales
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"Monitor news reports for thefts of sugar"

Thinking of that Simpsons episode where Homer lucks upon some Sugar

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@whknott Is that true?

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OOOH, Ant film narration. Attenborough did it better, though

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Pat said to burn everything. Hope she's going to stick with civil service, because she's never getting a job with Weyland-Yutani now.

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Finally some actual science. #Monsterdon

Stop imposing your alien morality on the Ants, Professor

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"here are Ants at war"

Most species do fight each other, but it's only Humans who do it over Money

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Ant porn!

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having a pre-canned lecture that is perfectly timed with the one educational film you have in the stock is so extremely academia it's not even funny. you can tell this prof has given this talk every semester for the past 30 years #monsterdon

The short film has lovely shots of harvester ants. Pogonomyrmex badius I think! Nice work girls!

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EXPOSITION!

sung to the tune of Tradition!

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I'm sorry America, you'll just have to learn how to live with the giant ants, the ants are too fascinating and industrious

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#Monsterdon Giant Babies! Now that’s going to be an even better movie!

Did the good doctor just say, "They only have c**nts to guide them along"?????

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Real scientist freely admitting he doesn't know something instead of just bullshitting it
based
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I have to admit I never knew of Joan Weldon until this film. She's actually pretty cool. I may binge her films.

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okay but what if we just let the ants take over the planet for a while? see how it goes

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aldkjfaldkjlfkj ;l explanation of the difference between workers and alates!!! This is WAY more than I expected from this movie, honestly. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Now, learn from 1982’s The Thing. Let them BURN! ;) don’t put them out shortly afterwards with extinguishers!

His flamethrower was still smoking from the tip, during their dialogue. That’s a pretty cool touch from the special effects department.

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"Science or no science" - the tagline foreshadowing our current times.

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I love how so many of these older horror films have flamethrowers. You don't see enough flamethrowers in modern films.

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damn, a flamethrower. they are not playing around. #monsterdon

All those dead ants, somebody check on our Ant Lady!

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@Lazarou "oh wait, I wasn't emoting before, I'll be fine"

#THEM #monsterdon