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

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

Thanks @Taweret for hosting. It's always a bracing slap to the face diving back to the 1950s after a stretch of 1970s B-movies #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.

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@apLundell OMG i forgot about him #monsterdon

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

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@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?

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

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More like Monsterdone, am I right? #Monsterdon

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

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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

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

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

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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

Thus ends Phase I. See you in 20 years.
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I'm going to risk saying it, but I think it was better than the average for #monsterdon

The End!

Thanks @Taweret for hosting!

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

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

Damn it's just a shooting gallery 🐜

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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!

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

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More Destruction!
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Guys, are you trying to save LA? I mean, looking from 2024 We are not sure if this is worthy.
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"...we are the council of ants. Bow before us!"

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Don't worry kids I won't let the ants get you know we'll burn first :BlobcatFlamethrower:

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They stand like old G. I. Joe figures. #Monsterdon

ANOTHER WILHELM!? That's like 6 so far. Calm down with the Wilhelm pedal misty foley man.
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Maybe using all those explosives underground wasn't such a great idea?
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whoa I think that's the first time I recognized a Wilhelm scream in the moment

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okay THAT was the funniest Wilhelm

_that_ was hilarious

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Private Wilhelm! NO!

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the USDA egghead ordering around the military guys is so great, had that trope like not evolved yet at that point or something #monsterdon

So did these ultratraumatized kids, who just had to see their rescuer get killed saving them, also have to see an ant rip their dad's arm off so hard he died from it, or

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"might poison the whole city"
oh well.
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I've been cackling at yall's toots and realized that my loud laugh sounds like that one Wilhelm yell that Goofy makes when he's falling off a cliff or something #monsterdon #them1954

that is a

_lot_

of ant mecha

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RIP Ben WIlhelm

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Honestly, this is such a great exemplar of the genre. #Monsterdon

There’s only a few minutes left, so I’m guessing once they get the kids out, they’re just going to bomb the hell out of the nest. Los Angeles is gone. End of film. Roll credits. #Monsterdon

Another Wilhelm!

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@Taweret Maybe it's harder to shoot ant antennae in ill-lit underground tunnels than out in the New Mexico desert. #Them!1954 #Monsterdon

I love the floppy wings on the alates! They are so cute!

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Fire in the hole doesn't seem like a great strategy for Los Angeles #monsterdon

@jonny They got stuck in the sewers while running away from an ant attack

It's rather unclear why they would choose to run into the giant ant sized hole instead of literally anywhere else, but, y'know, why ask those kinds of questions

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But kids love flamethrowers!

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I'm sure all that fire in a contained space will be completely fine, especially with all of the supporting wood beam members.

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It was nice of everyone to let the New Mexico highway patrolman co-lead the countrywide ant taskforce

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Picking up on this thread - the two boys are alive: "Ooo! Now we can run away and use that life insurance money of Daddy's."

I swear I saw jubilation as she hid her face in her palms.

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@bunnyhero And she throws her hands over her face like she's devastated to find out #monsterdon

so were those....peado-ants?

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who the hell are these kids lol i have been reading ant wikipedia #monsterdon

“We’ve heard what may be the kids,” he says as Peterson suits up with the flamethrower. #Monsterdon

did those ants just use those kids as bait??? #monsterdon

Is that soldier’s name Smee? #Monsterdon

Brother, pass the flamer. The heavy flamer.

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Oh yea, right, the boys are tension too. We care a lot about the boys being alive.

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"However, they have had eggs implanted in their chests."

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"They're alive" for now. #monsterdon

@strangefour Atomic power fixes everything

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Mike still wants to live but Jerry is ready to give himself to the Ant

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Now listen, we’re going to have to construct a giant picnic!

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Sounds like the ants are playing billiards #monsterdon

I wish the ants were as fast as real ants.

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they all got Gamma globulin injections after filming there lol
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10 minutes to go. Legitimate tension: were any queens hatched from this nest? Is humanity doomed?

Let's find out!

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So how long until they all die of carbon monoxide poisoning given they're running all those Jeeps in *tunnels*?

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There's no chance those radios work under there.

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This is definitely in the top 3 of ant chase scene soundtracks that I've heard

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Look, we know the ants want two things consistently.

Sugar and Cops.

The solution is obvious.

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@SnoopJ 💯

Though to be fair, it couldn't be a proper Hall of Fame without including Gojira and the argument for that one probably has to involve it being good

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filmed on location in the battery street tunnel

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"...watch yourself, Bob. And take off that ridiculous helmet."

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Newt could survive in an Alien colony, but these 50s kids are soft and weak. They are dead. Start the flame throwers.
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@Lazarou oh yeah I'm down as well

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the major there dresses like colonel hogan

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Yeah, your kids where kidnapped by giant ants, but take easy!
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Setting the sewers on fire will cause NO property damage?
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@Lazarou Just set the rioters loose on the ants

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#Monsterdon wow all these people running around in a panic like someone poked the anthill

“Anyway, good luck Los Angeles.” #Monsterdon

we already saw the ants bursting through walls. how are we safer in our homes?

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Imagine trying to get people to stay home in 2024 #monsterdon

@Taweret They probably arrived while somebody was filming a movie about giant ants and just blended in

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Curfew is at 1800 hours, that's 6pm for you useless civilians. Anyone found outside their quarters, or "homes" to your pointless useless civilians.

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Hey, an actual black guy! #Monsterdon

Curfew is to stop the ants. Ants love sneaking out at night. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon the cold wars cooked 😩