Marabunta: KILLER ANTS!OMGWTF!11

[NERV]

This is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. It's a creature

feature, of course. No, the creatures are not giant, mutated, or in any

other way special, they are regular soldier ants in Alaska. The whole

movie doesn't make a lick of sense. "OH MY GOD, I'm sitting in my car

and there's ants on my legs, I think I'll flail about on the gas pedal

and crash instead of getting out of the car and going somewhere the

ants are not" "OH MY GOD I'm in a helicopter and there's ants on me, I

think I'll flail about at the controls and crash into a cliff instead

of getting out and jumping into the river 20 feet away from me" "OH MY

GOD I'm surrounded by ants, I'll just curl up and pray instead of

running over them, after all they are just ants, they cant jump or run

as fast as me" "OH MY GOD I'm surround by ants on a beach, but I don't

think I'll wade into the water where ants cant tread" "OH MY GOD

there's ants in the town, we gotta flood the entire town" "OH MY GOD

the ants will reach Anchorage in a MONTH yes a MONTH, its not like we

could organize a few hundred gallons of Raid in a month." It is

complete nonsense, there is no way that soldier ants could pose any

real threat in this modern world of cars and bug spray, they might have

to evacuate the town for a few days and send in a squadron of guys with

bug spray but thats it. If that wasn't enough, go see the movie. But,

watch it with a bunch of friends so you can laugh at how ridiculous it

is, the fact that this movie is actually supposed to be serious makes

it even funnier. As a serious movie, 1/10, as a comedy, 7/10, there are

some scenes that are so unbelievably senseless that you cant help but

laugh your ass off.

Edited February 25, 2005 by NERV

[zeo-mare]

i have never heard of this movie before, but i will definetly keep it in mind when i pass it up what year was it made anyhow?

thanks

chris

[NERV]

1998, so as a recent B movie its full of shitty CGI ants instead of just buying a swarm of ants and taking pictures form diferent angles like they wudve 15 years ago

[Die, Alien Scum!]

Wow, I tried to forget about this. I like cheesy creature movies as much as anyone, but this one is almost too cheesy. But what do you expect from a film where Mitch Pileggi is the best-known, most-experienced, and likely highest-paid actor? You're correct, though; the movie is hilariously bad and all the characters seem to be so pitifully stupid that you actually root for the ants to kill them.

[NERV]

plus the whole tihng about the ants going to anchorage didnt make any sense, they were only able to survive because the volcanic activity int he area made the gorund warm enough for them to live, if they left the area they would surely die, so going to anchorage is out fo the question

[Max Jenius]

Why would they want to go to Anchorage though? I don't think there's anything there that an ant would want.

[Pat Payne]

Great, NERV. Now I've got flashbacks to "Kingdom of the Spiders." It's gonna take three days to get the image of William Shatner screaming like a schoolgirl out of my head!

[Max Jenius]

Wait... they're not giant or anything? WTF.

I guess Anchorage would survive anyway.

[Lo-pan]

Better a swarm of displaced army ants then a herd of giant rabbits.

[HWR MKII]

Ah Loupus now that was a weird movie. The only good ant movie was THEM! its a 50s classic. i still watch it when it comes on tv. and no i wasnt born in the 40s lol

[NERV]

Better a swarm of displaced army ants then a herd of giant rabbits.

i tihnk i rmeeber seeing that when i was like 4 or something, or the one i saw mightve been a herd of rabid rabbit, i just rmeber one scene where some ppl were hiding in a cellar and the rabbits were chewing on the cellar door to get to them and i tihnk some got shot at them thru the door

[GobotFool]

This kinda reminds me of a old campy movie called naked jungle, where a little town gets overrun with a hoard of flesheating amazon ants.

[Wes]

Better a swarm of displaced army ants then a herd of giant rabbits.

i tihnk i rmeeber seeing that when i was like 4 or something, or the one i saw mightve been a herd of rabid rabbit, i just rmeber one scene where some ppl were hiding in a cellar and the rabbits were chewing on the cellar door to get to them and i tihnk some got shot at them thru the door

Man I was just about to ask about that one! Anyone remember its title?

[Pat Payne]

"Night of the Lepus." This one starred Stuart Whitman (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines), DeForest Kelley (Dr. "Bones" McCoy from you-know-what), Janet Leigh (need I say "Psycho?"), Rory Calhoun (from '50s horse $#it and gunpowder epics) and Paul Fix (Dr. Piper from the second Star Trek pilot, To Kill a Mockingbird [!], The Sons of Katie Elder [!], and a list of other films as long as my arm).

Saw it once, a long time ago, and have no desire to see it again.

Edited March 1, 2005 by Pat Payne

[NERV]

"Night of the Lepus." This one starred Stuart Whitman (Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines), DeForest Kelley (Dr. "Bones" McCoy from you-know-what), Janet Leigh (need I say "Psycho?"), Rory Calhoun (from '50s horse $#it and gunpowder epics) and Paul Fix (Dr. Piper from the second Star Trek pilot, To Kill a Mockingbird [!], The Sons of Katie Elder [!], and a list of other films as long as my arm).

Saw it once, a long time ago, and have no desire to see it again.

damn, not on netflix, blockbuster, or westcoast, its pretty rare now