Not exactly what I had in mind, but sometimes getting a formula wrong in a macro
can give your shot an intereting surreal twist ;)

I call it "Revenge of The Killer Scarabs from Outer Space".

(Okay, wrong color - should be brown and sound like a bell - but what the
heck...)


Hum... somehow reminds me of some queer "insects heading for world domination"
movie... anyone recall the title of it? The one with that bunch of researchers
setting up a high-tech camp near some ant colony that seems to have gone a bit
termite-ish (them building towers and such), the researchers going mental over
time, and the director apparently going on LSD or some other stuff as the story
nears the end?

Don't tell me you don't know which one I'm talking about... the one where the
ants start communicating with those scientists via a plotter... yeah, THAT
freakin' movie...

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I think the film you are referring to might be called: Them!

 Could be wrong though, although, it was an ant horror film from the 50's or 
60's I think.

    ~Steve~

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"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
> I think the film you are referring to might be called: Them!
>
>  Could be wrong though, although, it was an ant horror film from the 50's or
> 60's I think.

The German title of the movie you are referring to (1954 according to
Wikipedia... heh, did you know that Leonard Nimoy appeared in that movie?),
"Formicula", did come to my mind already, but that's not the movie I mean.

....
(some seconds later)
....

Duh, that was an easy one - googling for "movie ants scifi" actually brought up
the IMDB entry as first hit, and the title immediately "clicked" with me:
"Phase IV", 1974, GB.

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"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>> I think the film you are referring to might be called: Them!
>>
>>  Could be wrong though, although, it was an ant horror film from the 50's 
>> or
>> 60's I think.
>
> The German title of the movie you are referring to (1954 according to
> Wikipedia... heh, did you know that Leonard Nimoy appeared in that 
> movie?),
> "Formicula", did come to my mind already, but that's not the movie I mean.

     Oh well, it was worth a try. Quite a good film if I remember correctly. 
Giant ants building giant nests underground in one of the many deserts in 
America. And of course, the queen has many babies... EOTWAWKIJ! ;)


> Duh, that was an easy one - googling for "movie ants scifi" actually 
> brought up
> the IMDB entry as first hit, and the title immediately "clicked" with me:
> "Phase IV", 1974, GB.

   Can't remember seeing this one, although I may have. I'll go look where 
you did.

      ~Steve~

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Unlike many sci-fi movies of that time, the movie Them! stands up pretty 
well today in terms of acting and cinemaphotography. That is, until the 
"professor" starts explaining where they came from. Radiation from nuclear 
testing? Of course! *headslap*Although I have never seen mention of this, it 
seems to me that James Cameron was inspired by the ending to Them! when he 
made Aliens.

Mike


"St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote in message news:49a9c486$1@news.povray.org...
>
> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
> news:web.49a994ccf3f1ac26e41007250@news.povray.org...
>> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>>> I think the film you are referring to might be called: Them!
>>>
>>>  Could be wrong though, although, it was an ant horror film from the 
>>> 50's or
>>> 60's I think.
>>
>> The German title of the movie you are referring to (1954 according to
>> Wikipedia... heh, did you know that Leonard Nimoy appeared in that 
>> movie?),
>> "Formicula", did come to my mind already, but that's not the movie I 
>> mean.
>
>     Oh well, it was worth a try. Quite a good film if I remember 
> correctly. Giant ants building giant nests underground in one of the many 
> deserts in America. And of course, the queen has many babies... EOTWAWKIJ! 
> ;)
>
>
>> Duh, that was an easy one - googling for "movie ants scifi" actually 
>> brought up
>> the IMDB entry as first hit, and the title immediately "clicked" with me:
>> "Phase IV", 1974, GB.
>
>   Can't remember seeing this one, although I may have. I'll go look where 
> you did.
>
>      ~Steve~
>
>
>

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Pretty cool. I love abstracts.

I saw a movie like that on scifi chan. about a year ago, it was made fairly 
recently too.
And yeah, it was crap lol!

ian


"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> Not exactly what I had in mind, but sometimes getting a formula wrong in a 
> macro
> can give your shot an intereting surreal twist ;)
>
> I call it "Revenge of The Killer Scarabs from Outer Space".
>
> (Okay, wrong color - should be brown and sound like a bell - but what the
> heck...)
>
>
> Hum... somehow reminds me of some queer "insects heading for world 
> domination"
> movie... anyone recall the title of it? The one with that bunch of 
> researchers
> setting up a high-tech camp near some ant colony that seems to have gone a 
> bit
> termite-ish (them building towers and such), the researchers going mental 
> over
> time, and the director apparently going on LSD or some other stuff as the 
> story
> nears the end?
>
> Don't tell me you don't know which one I'm talking about... the one where 
> the
> ants start communicating with those scientists via a plotter... yeah, THAT
> freakin' movie...
>

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Looks nice, and...small.  Gee, I want to see a bigger version!

"Phase IV" was an odd film--essentially a documentary about ants, turned into a
quasi-doomsday story. Clever conceit, though.

THEM! is one of my faves--especially that chilling scene when the little
frightened girl, numb with shock, screams bloody murder when she smells formic
acid. The giant ants were pretty cool props, too--probably state-of-the-art
special effects for the 1950's.

KW

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"Mike Hough" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> Unlike many sci-fi movies of that time, the movie Them! stands up pretty
> well today in terms of acting and cinemaphotography. That is, until the
> "professor" starts explaining where they came from. Radiation from nuclear
> testing? Of course! *headslap*

Well, it should be noted that 1954, at the time of the film's making, long-time
effects of radioactivity from nuclear weapon use were still poorly understood
in public. People were only starting to grasp that there *were* such effects.
And after all, when it was found out that radioactive fallout causes "genetic
mutation", this term was probably still more associated with Darvin's "survival
of the fittest" ideas than genetic defects. This misconception seems to have
been common those days, see those infamous Godzilla & Co. movies, which were
obviously bred on the same lack of insight.

We today have this insight, so it's a head-slapper for us. Wasn't for people
back then, I guess.

"The day the earth caught fire" was another example of misconceptions about
effects of nuclear testing, though unrelated to radioactivity issues; didn't
stop it from being a good movie.

(Getting off-topic though, I guess...)

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"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:

> "The day the earth caught fire" was another example of misconceptions about
> effects of nuclear testing, though unrelated to radioactivity issues; didn't
> stop it from being a good movie.
>
Probably my all-time favorite of the genre; an implausible concept made
plausible by a great, serious script. On a par with the original "The Thing."

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"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message 
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> "clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>
>> "The day the earth caught fire" was another example of misconceptions 
>> about
>> effects of nuclear testing, though unrelated to radioactivity issues; 
>> didn't
>> stop it from being a good movie.
>>
> Probably my all-time favorite of the genre; an implausible concept made
> plausible by a great, serious script. On a par with the original "The 
> Thing."

   Omg, I watched 'The Thing' at the flicks - yeah, it did what it was 
supposed to do - frighten the life out of me!

    Another great film.

    ~Steve~

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