"Is this a standup fight, or is it just another bug hunt?" - Pvt Hudson

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@bunnyhero Would watch #Monsterdon

Flame thrower guy is regretting that burrito he ate earlier. #monsterdon #Them

Me at work this year: "There's no time to give you a fast course in insect pathology, so let's stop all the talk and get on with it."

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:bing: do ants play dead?
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Ummm... I just realized the old doctor is the good lady's dad. WHY was he ogling her?

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Imagine giant sentient ants in the 1950s being like "take us to your leader" and getting fed up like "the REAL leader! We want to talk to someone who isn't a useless drone!!!"

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Look Robert, I couldn't stop my sexualized headstrong daughter from accompanying you in a mission of almost certain death
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@whknott this is the 1950s. Pretty sure not

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Bazooka Joe vs THEM
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you're can't come you're a dumb old girl

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not a firearm person but just once i’d like to shoot a bazooka #Monsterdon

"You think they're all dead?"

Oh sure, we've only got another hour left in the film. I'm assuming it's all denoument from here out. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon when all else fails throw grenades until they stop coming

@paco Or 2024.

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Are they going to launch cyanide gas into the ant hill with a rocket launcher? #Monsterdon

Fuck the military industrial complex, but also, bazookas are pretty cool #monsterdon

It was probably a Sikorsky H-5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_H-5

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Oh now they've given the cop a flamethrower?
I appreciate lot of men back then could have been in WWII but this is getting out of hand, does he operate a tank later?

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I like how they pat the bazooka guys on the head for doing a good job. It’s sweet. #Monsterdon

They are going inside a giant ants nest? They must have Ellen Ripley on their team!
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ORBITAL NAPALM INCOMING

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White phosphorus against the ant colony? But that's a war crime!

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"We don't want to damage the nest!"

"So what DO we do?"

How long would it take for your team to build some sexy lady ant costumes

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So we've got military people and cops that were probably in the military in WW2 or Korea, I guess.

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I lost track, what myth are we busting here?

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direct hit captain

er, general

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We arrived at bazookas surprisingly quickly considering the scene that immediately preceded it.

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#Monsterdon for once the scientist has _no compunction_ about murdering all the ants, he's excited to come up with myrmico-genocide plans

That escalated quickly. You know it's the 1950s when everything escalates to bazooka. #monsterdon

Oh sure, doc. Just a little ant dungeon crawling. #Monsterdon

Pat has a StereoRealist 3d camera.

This was supposed to be a nod to the fact that Them! was in 3d. Unfortunately, the production crew broke their 3D camera and Them! was not filmed in 3d. Sadly.

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Lots of talk about formic acid because of #monsterdon so I'll just say that I once had to take a liquid medicine which had been mixed with formic acid to keep me from using it to drug people, and it tastes bad but not all that bad. The trick is to mix it with citrus, which then tricks your brain into thinking it's just strong citrus. Dasani makes a water enhancer which is pina colada flavored which was excellent at disguising the taste.

"So what you're proposing is... a bug hunt, man."

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I really, really want to lay phosphorous over a mound with a bazooka.

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stridulatory organs are primarily found among arboreal ants, and the airborne sound of stridulation is only used in very close range communication, and usually is directed as vibrational communication through a common substrate like a leaf or a branch. so the stridulation being extremely loud is like they are treating the earth as just one of their branches, that they are 'arboreal' as their arbor is the galaxy, and should be causing a ton of earthquakes and causing gravitational waves as an alert signal to ants on neighboring planets #monsterdon

Cloud seeding! By god, this fiction is properly scientific

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Bazooka Time!!! Yes!!!

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@Rozzychan ants can exchange money for goods and services!

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I see at least two skulls in that scattered bonepile ...

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"pardon my model, i didn't have time to build it to scale" #wrongMovie #monsterdon

You know what you gotta do. You need a GIANT ANT-MIMIC SPIDER. <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223684992>

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Mic drop, ribcage drop, potato potáto #monsterdon

@moira Wake me when we get to the Empire of the Ants anthill, that's a couple streets down. #Monsterdon

The doctor’s frustration with the absurdity of the radio communication rules is somewhat endearing. #Monsterdon

Maybe the ants represent the other, or the Lacanian real, or they are rhizomatic.

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Helicopter English is exactly the same as normal English except that you have to say "over" after every sentence

Don't worry about having to be speak more clearly to be understood over the static, nope, definitely not a concern

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"He's a scientist, and this is a scientist's dream come true. We all dream about finding giant ants."

"Lady, what exactly IS your field of study?!"

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geeze I hope none of them can fly..

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The general fears no giant ant, but man, he does NOT want to piss off the FCC.

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"Sorry, this is the Phase IV anthill, the THEM! anthill is one field over."

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Since no one else has commented yet, the Professor was also Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street, which I just can’t forget whenever he speaks! 😀🎅

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Screw your silly military rules!

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professor is more used to telegraphs, it's understandable #monsterdon

That particular biblical passage is extremely vague and not relevant to your situation at all old man

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The young ones just naturally know how to talk like a telegram
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@SnoopJ Where would we be if we let a little thing like being impossible stop us

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Time to break out a carpet bombing of boric acid with sugar!

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I don't think that is actually from the bible.

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#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

The ant's little fur tufts are also quite adorable

Why is a general flying the helicopter?

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THEM mostly come out at night, mostly

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Of course the cop in tiny town middle of desert nowhere has a freaking tommy gun in his cruiser. #Monsterdon #THEM

"What is it?"

Are you joking?

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do the goggles count as silly safety equipment? #monsterdon

jezus christ this is worse than Dr. Who

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#monsterdon Dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant.

Escalation from pistol to SMG (M1 Thompson?)

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Get the antenna, they will be fuirious to lost their TV signal! #monsterdon

Go for the ~~eyes~~ antenna Boo!

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Every state trooper is, naturally, equipped with a machine gun #monsterdon

HE'S GOT AN UZI IN THE CAR!? #Monsterdon

what?!?!?! conventional weapons effectiev!?!??!? ripoff!!! #monsterdon

That is the most realistic movie monster ever.

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Y'know, I think it's time to realize that shooting the giant ants is not working

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Right in the antenna! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon i need guns to protect my science daughter from 30-50 feral ants

Where's the Earth Defense Force when you need them?

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Why don't you crack open a dictionary you fucking pig :pigpolice:

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Non-compound eyes? Look what they've done to my ant. ​:floofCry:​

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a government not wanting to panic people has never felt plausible to me in a movie

governments love panicking people

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Meanwhile, the one woman goes out alone and explores while the men discuss panicking.
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First monster sighting at fewer than 30 minutes! Good movie! Good movie!

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So, the doctor didn’t know what the goggles were for, was wearing them on the side of his neck, and then when he put them on his face, the police officer had to adjust them for him.

Weird.

That interaction almost appeared unscripted. If so, they both stayed in character, and was pretty cool.

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#Monsterdon "over 12 cm" metric first, bitches!

my man using the metric system aw yeaahhhh

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out in the deserts in their fancy suits no scarves or anything, they are gonna have to blow their nose for a week after this. suffering for gender. #monsterdon

Leave the kid alone, she's just having a nonverbal day! #Monsterdon

I, too, am one of the world's greatest myrmecologists.

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#Monsterdon omg they don’t EAT people do they

Ugh, we have Romantic Subplot.

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"NOW LOOK MISS"

Oh shove it, spook. #Monsterdon

You'd think that when you are given a pair of goggles it would naturally occur to you to put them over your eyes

It's a stretch, I know

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#Monsterdon FBI agent Robert Graham is played by #JamesArness - him I recognize!
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Just these two mounds over here, yuk yuk #monsterdon

#Monsterdon wtf these glasses. Is this the future?

Well better hysterical than catatonic?
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Well, now that we've traumatized the child, our work here is done. On to the next scene.

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