as always good job team and thanks to @Taweret for hosting ^_^

#THEM #monsterdon

@jonny Walk away, Jake. It's giant ants. Walk away.

#THEM #monsterdon

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

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@SnoopJ I think you got your wish! #Monsterdon #Them!1954

BTW this movie had better acting by a smidgen and the xenophobia references were totally in my ballpark because look at my profile. anyways. this was much fun but now i want some churros covered in tons of sugar.

that makes me a puertoricANT 😜

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@ryan@dads.cool @ryan@tvwatch.party Datapoint: Streaming quality was good again tonight. Thank you! #Monsterdon

@moira @RobynGoodfellow Yes, I liked the mystery and not so much the reveal #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

@apLundell@octodon.social I guarantee you he is still there. Now 102.

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@jonny i still got dracula city bullshit in my head I totes coulda gone another week xD

but it's good to leave us wanting more

#THEM #monsterdon

#Monsterdon gratuitous heterosexual tension...

i sort of miss dracula i am not even lying #monsterdon

Well, in this bad lighting, looking at an awkward angle and at some distance, I think those are two queens and there are only two hatched queen eggs. Burn 'em, we should be fine. The (abrupt) end.

#Monsterdon #Them(1954)

the best part of movie two was the boat. that's some good horror shit right there. that's the entire movie "alien" wrapped up in like 45 seconds of screen time.

#THEM #monsterdon

If you're reading this, you're at the tail end of a long stream of posts on the feed about #Monsterdon, a fediverse community movie-watching event. This week we watched THEM! (1954). See the post at the top of this thread for more info:

https://hachyderm.io/@SnoopJ/111004128276431553

#Monsterdon Damnit, they got James Whitmore, the New Mexican cop that tried to save L.A. from those giant ants!
#Them

This movie could almost be a companion to Gojira (ie: contrasting US vs Japanese views on WW2 and the early Cold War)

Also, I was not expecting something this good.

#monsterdon #Them1954

@amyfou so, he's a has been? --dad #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

Aaaand Ben is pincered to death.

that one was really fun! #monsterdon

@north not at the flippin prop stores in the fifties! #Monsterdon

That was a nice "ooo atomic age" wrap-up. I've gotta go get my laundry out of the dryer now, but thanks to @Taweret for hosting, @ryan for the stream, @cheribaker for the bingo, @Louisa for the T-shirt, @blogdiva for "cholofuturism", and probably more I've forgotten

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Now THIS was Monsterdon!

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Next up on Tubi, the Beast from 20k Fathoms! . . . maybe some other day
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And DONE! That's a wrap everyone. Thanks as always to @Taweret for hosting! The next two days are going to be a pretty long week. In the meantime anyone know a good fence for 30 tons of hot sugar? #Monsterdon #THEM

Wow

Thanks @Taweret for another great #monsterdon 🐜🐜🐜

#Monsterdon huzzah! We sort of got pokey at the end, but it was really well done! Thanks everyone!

they found the beginning of a new world… so they burned it all down.

and that's how they covered up the native mexicANT holocaust.

the end.

#Monsterdon #THEM

Well, I for one was rooting for the ants.

Thanks, fellow puny humans, and especially @Taweret for this magnificent anty feast.

#monsterdon #them

Remember that smell from the sun magnifying glass adventures of my misspent youth. With that note, goodnight! #Monsterdon #Them1954

#Monsterdon oop and we're done. abrupt. as is usual. ty @Taweret

Huh. Old scientist survived the movie. And wow they are all breathing in formic fumes/whatever giant ant puppets are made of.
#Monsterdon #Them

#Monsterdon 🐜 !🐜 !🐜 ! 🔥 😱

We just now got to 'brood odor' over here, Ben is still alive.

But we know what to expect next, I guess

appiddyapp that's all folks #monsterdon

I am behind because Tubi keeps showing me Cologuard commercials.

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I Mean, yeah, it's the end of this movie... but they seem overly cocky with their declaration that they're all dead.

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WELP that's it, ants on fire, no need to stick around for anything else!

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@Infoseepage You can't use mommy guns on aunts! #Monsterdon

It's over! Thank glob, the movie is over!

#Monsterdon #Them1954

OR IS IT!?

🐜

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The End...

... or is it?

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he learned too late that man is a feeling creature

#THEM #monsterdon

I was actually worried there for a moment that Graham wasn’t going to make it. #Monsterdon

Red Bull gives Them wings!
#Monsterdon #Them

@Louisa we can help them relive that trauma any time they want with a vial of parfum de formica

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I see the doctor took the time to have someone tailor her uniform. #monsterdon #them

Alert listeners will also hear Gray Tree Frogs in these later scenes.

#Monsterdon #THEM #THEM1954

I bet you will find the same old bullshit in that new world...

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Queens of the Anthill #monsterdon

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who calls gynes "princesses" #Monsterdon

Nice shot with the fire coming at the camera there.

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Am I the only one who sees the James Arness - Kiefer Sutherland resemblance?

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#Monsterdon ok fr what is the obsession with the scream. that is so many times the same scream. did the soundboard have one button and the guy was like, well i heard this cool scream and movie scary, sooo...

and now this did just did a scream out of his mouth and made it sound like the same scream! was he directed to do The Scream?!

You just hope that's the only princess ants

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Why didn't they just irradiate a dozen anteaters and breed them big?

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The best thing about this climactic sewer sequence is that it keeps the actors from all that rapid-fire jabbering that they were pummelling us with during the previous reel #monsterdon

Should have done a drinking game on number of Wilhelm screams
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@paco
Remember #TheUsualSuspects? There's a loud awesome soundtrack playing when they all get into the elevator and are on their way up to meet Kobayashi.

Film makers still use the sountrack to build tension.
#Monsterdon #Them

@moira I just saw it. It was hilarious. #Monsterdon

@strangefour@retro.pizza Please pardon our sewer's appearance while it is under construction.

#Monsterdon #Them1954

"Dig, dig!"

Alright, jeez, I'm goin'. What do I look like, some kinda anteater? #Monsterdon

@strangefour per earlier in the film, it's an incomplete drainage field still under construction

(in 1954 which makes sense)

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Wilhelm count: 4. The sound guys were really not trying. They got that ant sound and were like "guess we're done here" #Monsterdon #THEM

That's at LEAST the third wilhelm #monsterdon

I feel like with all the shit collapsing, OSHA would be unhappy.

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THEY GOT WHILHELM CLONE #6!

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can someone just murder wilhelm already, he's still screaming. #monsterdon

Now they're in an old mine?
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Them are mounting a defense in the LA sewer mine shafts... what is with all the wood braces?
#Monsterdon #Them

okay THAT was the funniest Wilhelm

_that_ was hilarious

#THEM #monsterdon

ENOUGH with the WILHELM ALREADY #Monsterdon

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

Oh no! Another Wilhelm gone! #Monsterdon

MEDIC!

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It's just as well the giant ants have no concept of stealth, what with their noises

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OMG! Graham and Peterson even have a touching moment there! They’re meant for each other!

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@SarraceniaWilds nah the kids are okay

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@blogdiva starts taking notes, looking in anatomy books.... oh, nevermind... #Monsterdon

somebody's gotta groom the mats out of those ants' fur #monsterdon

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO la cholANT took the eyebrows guy that saved the kids.

oh well. toldya la virgen de la guadalupe wasn't gonna bless them.

#Monsterdon #THEM

#5!

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Die Varmint Cong!!! #monsterdon

Wilhelm screams abound!!!

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Ben got bit by the bug
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Honestly, this is such a great exemplar of the genre. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon did the kids get et i was typing

Alas, Peterson. I knew him, Horatio. Ant food of most infinite jest. #Monsterdon

Uncle Ben nooooooo!
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anyway RIP Ben, congrats to the ants on killing both cops from the start of the movie

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Damn, those kids are really brave, I would be screaming till my throat bleeds.
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Climb thru the shit and filth of LA, kid! It’s your only chance! You’ll probably be fine. #Monsterdon

Man, that's a LOT of Wilhelm in this flick. #Monsterdon

It's That Scream again! #Monsterdon

whoa, rifle-launched explosive!

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More wilhelms?? #monsterdon

Maybe they should have found a way to make a sugar cannon to lure them into the Pacific #monsterdon

#Monsterdon o shid wilhelms back

Okay, it looks like they did finally.

It's kind of striking that diegetically, almost everyone is shown to be acting intelligently throughout the movie.

#Monsterdon #THEM

rookie mistake kid, letting the ant chomp you across your whole body #monsterdon