#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.

#Monsterdon #THEM

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!

#Monsterdon #Them

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!

#monsterdon #them

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"?????

#Monsterdon

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.

#Monsterdon

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!

"I say we take off and nuke the whole site from orbit"

"Isn't that how we got here in the first place?"

#monsterdon #them

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

#Monsterdon

"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

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

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@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?

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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.

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

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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?

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

If the ants took the money. They could buy more sugar.
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#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.

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Love the ants, love the skeletons, A+ no notes
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#Monsterdon Ok, that ant looked WAY scarier than the ants in Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
#Them

#monsterdon "HOLE'D IT"

what's with these gringos with british accents?!?!?

#Monsterdon #THEM

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

@futurebird He's actually a Doctor of Divinity

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

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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.

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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...

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I actually have to pull my headphones off
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Forget the ants, I bet that corset was killing her the whole time

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

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And there's the title! 🐜 🐜
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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
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🦖#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

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

Formic acid?

DUN DUN DUNNNNN

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"...I have all the ways he could have died listed here in the form of a bingo card"

#Monsterdon #Them

"guns are ineffective!"

marking the bingo board.

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

#Monsterdon #them1954

didn't even notice her get up
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#Monsterdon Killer Krickets from Outer Space!

that's the "above your pay grade" noise

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@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

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

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

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

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@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

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Time for #monsterdon

Booooo Police!

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my pronouns are ...

#monsterdon #ietf

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

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@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.

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

I went back and found Leonard Nimoy! Thanks for pointing him out, @blogdiva!

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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.

takes a drag follow the sugar

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