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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Private Wilhelm! NO!

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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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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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“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

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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#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

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 😩

that's a nice collection of (now) vintage mics
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@ketmorco

Who are the ones living in a totalitarian controlled society NOW, humans????

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Back when microphones were the size of human heads.

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"So you can report the facts accurately..."

man things have changed since the 50's

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#Monsterdon has the cold war gotten hot! someone microwaved the cold war and warmed it up! nuked it even!

Trenchcoat Guy looks like Kiefer Sutherland.

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The real enemy is urban sprawl #Monsterdon

oooo, Special Emergency Broadcast!

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The ants are just try to break into Hollywood!
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30 men in a room, and one Woman.

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Yeah, they always skate right past the square/cube scaling law problem in these giantism movies.

Ants are "superstrong" *because* they are tiny. It wouldn't scale up.

The riverbed! LA? Oh no.
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New tires? That can only mean one thing!

Somebody tell me what that one thing is?

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Typical LA. A colony of giant ants moves in and only the drunks notice. #Monsterdon #THEM

do the ants have to soup up their car and participate in the drag race? #wrongMovie #monsterdon

When they talk about Mrs. Lodge I think they're crossing over into the Archie universe #monsterdon

God damn it, Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers gonna come along the LA river any second.

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@faoluin "The No 1 the teenies are raving about!" #monsterdon

Ah, the LA river...
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I have totally heard of a fence for hot sugar.

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Make me a sergeant, give me the booze!

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Men in suits squat and examine things...

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They found a drone!

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#Monsterdon terminator 2 ripped this off

Sewer outlets or something, just like GTA 5
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Jeez, Jensen, quit chewing the scenery #monsterdon

#Monsterdon yes! the los angeles river (which is paved)

Make me a sergeant. Give me the booze!

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Somebody get her number. #monsterdon

Them arrestees know the rules, don't talk to the cops.

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@randy_s But only if there is a forecast for rain!

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Ants in LA?

Yeah, gonna have to order an evacuation soon.

Maybe blame a gas leak

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Macarthur Park? Well, leaving the cake out in the rain IS a good way to get ants.

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macauthor park? by any chance did he have a cake?

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There's usually an amount of indoor smoking in these films, but this one — was it sponsored by the tobacco lobby?

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"You ever hear of a fence for hot sugar?"

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"The S S Viking was sunk by naval gunfire"

This movie extremely exists in the aftermath of WW2

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The crew of milwaukee, and you know anyone that was listening to those radio broadcasts

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@SnoopJ Is "good" the criterion we want to use for inducting into the Hall of Fame though

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Is this train yard guard supposed to be from Louisiana? #Monsterdon

1950s morgues had generous storage accomodations
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why is everyone involved with the sugar trade so unbelievably cool and slick talking, making me think there is something going on with sugar around here #monsterdon