"Oh, I have to emote through a gas mask now?!"

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe the rest of the movie is a courtroom drama about the lawsuits from the victims' families #Monsterdon

The good news is that hydrogen cyanide is heavy and will descend. The bad news is it's not stable in air and won't get as far as you hope.

#monsterdon #them

That is a *heck* of a lot of chemical warfare for some ants. Didn't they have Raid?

#Monsterdon

The #THEM poll has ended
"Scraping on sheet metal" was 33% and highest, but wrong.

The sound of the monster ants were made from FROG CALLS. 🐸

Specifically, the Hyla avivoca or Bird-voiced Tree Frog, common in the SE U.S.

#Monsterdon

If I were the Ants I would be angry too, ....all those explosions.

#monsterdon

WE?!?!? who's WE?!?!

#Monsterdon #THEM

Atom and the Ants #Monsterdon #Them1954

Everybody seen that video of the US Army firing a nuclear bomb out of a cannon into desert very much like that?

#monsterdon

I have an idea: nuke it! What could go wrong. I mean, you already have atomic ants. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Jesus. A rational approach to a monster any colony! With an explanation! I love this old doctor fellow.

Otherwise, you might be both speaking at the same time and neither of you would realize the other person had said something.

#monsterdon

Love the ants, love the skeletons, A+ no notes
#Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Ok, that ant looked WAY scarier than the ants in Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
#Them

Disappointed that IMDb doesn’t have this movie tagged as “pronoun in title” #Monsterdon #Them1954

@futurebird He's actually a Doctor of Divinity

#monsterdon

This story is just a fantasy of myrmecologist who finally has everyone listening to them with total attention.

#monsterdon

Ironically, the FBI schmuck is correct. Giant ants *are* impossible. But I get the sense his argument is not based on the relevant scaling laws that make them physically impossible.

#Monsterdon

Tommy guns appear to work.

#monsterdon

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

"An ant? I don't believe it, it's not possible" — A man standing literally in front of a giant ant

#Monsterdon

That's ... a lot of body segments...

#monsterdon

I actually have to pull my headphones off
#monsterdon

Forget the ants, I bet that corset was killing her the whole time

#monsterdon

That's not a real professor, he's just a conman who has been winging it for years

#monsterdon

And there's the title! 🐜 🐜
#monsterdon

Kids ... do NOT drink the formic acid.

Formic acid isn't very strong, not like it will burn off your skin or anything. But you don't want to get in in your eyes or ... smell it after your parents got eaten by ants...

#monsterdon

Well that was not therapeutic.

#Monsterdon #Them1954

Formic acid is a gateway drug... to mayhem! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Uhhh. A movie that resists our mockery! I feel unprepared and … delighted? 1954? Is this possible!!! ;)

We are now about as close to the release date of Cinemaware’s giant-ant video game “It Came from the Desert” (1989) as it was to the release date of “Them!” (1954).

#Monsterdon #Them1954 #ItCameFromTheDesert

And thus the title of the film
#monsterdon

🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️

👀 LOOK FOR

Leanord Nimoy and William Schallert in small parts.

Coincidently, they team up again years later to deal with TRIBBLES on #StarTrek

#THEM #THEM1954
#AllStarTrek #TheTroubleWithTribbles

Atomic bombs, you say? Do want to make atomic ants? Because this is how you make atomic ants. #monsterdon

@wohali
I remember #JamesWhitmore from:
- Relic
- Shawshank Redemption
#Monsterdon #Them

Ah our first speaking female role #monsterdon

absent minded professor #monsterdon.

A Woman!

Ah, of course, she's only there because she's the Scientist's daughter

#monsterdon

@CactuarJoe lol, SOOOO many white guys though, oh wait.....a WOMAN #monsterdon

Formic acid?

DUN DUN DUNNNNN

#Monsterdon

Looks like something ransacked the store for sugar, too. Hmmm

#Monsterdon #them1954

didn't even notice her get up
#monsterdon

#Monsterdon Killer Krickets from Outer Space!

that's the "above your pay grade" noise

#monsterdon

@nev

That was pretty accurate! They have two toes and an inflatable sac that might have two lobes.

#monsterdon #them #giantants

@diazona @jonny she's a human-lure #monsterdon

What *would* giant ant footprints look like, @futurebird? #Monsterdon

On the one hand, handling the evidence like that is probably iffy. On the other, the cops doing serious detective work is fascinating.

#monsterdon #Them1954

#Monsterdon oh my god. A competent cop handling evidence properly. I’m shook.

If my memories of this movie are accurate, it might be hard to make jokes, because the movie is just genuinely good, so fair warning I guess

#monsterdon

#THEM feels like it could've been the first movie in the Pronoun Horror series, followed by:

- They (2002)
- It (2017)
- Us (2019)

#Monsterdon

Ah, 1954 when you could just put your kids in the front seat and drive around with no seatbelts.

#monsterdon

@jonny classic Police #monsterdon

where have i seen that cop with the funky
eyebrows?!?!

#Monsterdon #THEM

Tonight's aircraft is a 1951 PIPER PA-22.

https://www.flightaware.com/resources/registration/N828A

#monsterdon

Time for #monsterdon

Booooo Police!

#monsterdon

my pronouns are ...

#monsterdon #ietf

I would take an ASMR tape with the stridulations and that chirring sound 🤔

#Monsterdon

@beans_please Well, this was like 1953-54, so more like McCarthyism. All the institutions of America working together to destroy an ant collective lurking under our city streets and insidiously spreading across America? Pretty good metaphor for the times, really.

#monsterdon

The ants told us them's pronoun, if we had just used it, we would have all been fine! #Monsterdon

now i want a crossover Chinatown and Them! movie #monsterdon

Y'know, a colony of giant ants - hunter-gathers that they are - would strip everything in a pretty large radius around the nest. Think that would be more obvious to anyone nearby ...

#Monsterdon #Them(1954)

Tuesday, we will be watching Sherlock Holmes, as we continue on that 1954 journey (well it goes into 1955)... That is us starting back on Archivedon.

Today, I went to check to see if I could get the #Monsterdon film, Them! and it's on there, but more importantly, the video player is back. No more than usual problems with one exception.

There's a problem that some content still doesn't display, and it times out. The thing is, when I looked, it was actually stuff that while I limited to video content, has no video content. It's straight up images, or something. Maybe not even that.

It's never really displayed. It's just doing it differently now, that seems more broken (and I think it would be considered to be).

It shows an embeded page, that fails to load. In the past, those would say "we can't display this content." Which I think is because it's basically "not anything to display".

I'm good to continue with #Archivedon. Now to go (much late) see if I can watch tonight's Monsterdon.

@futurebird really was, wasn't it? now that it's over I can feel the tide of repressed anxiety filling back in, but it was nice to have a couple of hours off!

#THEM #monsterdon

#Monsterdon For me and my sisters, no life but this, to serve our Queen until death. Formian sisters.

@futurebird You are very welcome! Thank you for joining! You made it so much better!

#Monsterdon

takes a drag follow the sugar

#monsterdon

ah ah ah ah stayin a hive, stayin a hive 🎶 #TheAntGees #monsterdon

The moral of that movie is that US military containment works and if you burn down client states you will prevent the dominoes from falling.

#Monsterdon

@apLundell OMG i forgot about him #monsterdon

Tune in for the exciting sequal/lost footage that was never made/found! The End!

#monsterdon #them1954

@whknott SMELL THE GLOVE #monsterdon #spinaltap

those ant monsters were cool as hell though, them in the nest set were some A+ monster shots #monsterdon

Did we literally just run out of movie? They're beginning to Assault The Hive in the movies over that's it?

#Monsterdon #them1954

I am pleased to have been wrong about the old man scientist dying! And I suppose the ants on that one Navy ship fucked off into the sea offscreen. Goodnight, #monsterdon, and thanks for hosting @Taweret !

And they found the queens and killed them with fire!

THE END

But if the first nuclear bomb made these big ants what could the other bombs have wrought?

KAIJU OF COURSE!

Thanks for another fantastic and educational #Monsterdon @Taweret ! It was worth watching for the Wilhelm Screams alone!

A great time, glad I downloaded it onto my phone so I could join late but caught up.
#Monsterdon

that was fun. the first movie is better than the second movie but the second movie isn't bad either

#THEM #monsterdon

More like Monsterdone, am I right? #Monsterdon

@rallias Yup. I saw some monster ants in basement other day that would beg to differ.

#Monsterdon

if only we could solve all the problems of the atomic age with a sturdy flamethrower... #monsterdon

Good old Wilhelm is getting a lot of mileage in this film

#Monsterdon #them1954

And that's a wrap! A very spiffy _good_ 50's monster flick. <3

Thanks as always to @Taweret and see everybody next week!

#Monsterdon

Thus ends Phase I. See you in 20 years.
#Monsterdon #Them1954 #PhaseIV

we got literally 5 lines about the horrors of the atomic age and theres no ambiguity, just cleanly resolved by flamethrower. now that's what you call 1954 #monsterdon

I'm going to risk saying it, but I think it was better than the average for #monsterdon

The End!

Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

#Monsterdon

I'd be pretty annoyed if a bunch of soldiers showed up in my egg chamber and just sat there staring

#Monsterdon

And we close on the shot of ants slowly roasting to death. Good night, and may ant bless! #Monsterdon

Very prescient doc. #Monsterdon

Yeah, I'm like 87% sure there isn't another queen, we are good.
#Monsterdon

Shut up, you're an ant professor, not a physicist #monsterdon

Damn it's just a shooting gallery 🐜

#Monsterdon #them1954

Ah, drat, looks like our heroes made it in time.

But we do have a bit of fear of the atomic age to send us out!

What a great #Monsterdon, that was a fun ride

wait WHAT it just ENDS ? what did i expect it's #monsterdon

Another #Monsterdon is in the can!

Thanks to @Taweret for hosting!

Tonight's feature, #Them, from 1954, was this year's second "OMG ANTS!" feature. As we followed the radioactive sugar trail, we discovered:

i can predict... the end of this movie! #monsterdon

That was almost educational. Thanks, friends!

#Monsterdon

Permanent hearing loss from close quarters gunfire after the ant siege of 1954

#Monsterdon #Them1954

More Destruction!
#monsterdon