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Walterego tells us all about.... THEM!!!

CLICK-CLACK, I THINK YA HEAR US COMIN'... by Pennsy	Mar 11th, 2007 08:35:34 AM
Sorry, was flashing back to one of those UnderArmour sports equipment TV ads. :)
second by Cedar_Room	Mar 11th, 2007 08:41:20 AM
i will never watch this film. Just wanted to post second.
And the click clack comes from... by Mindworm22	Mar 11th, 2007 09:01:27 AM
...their large antennae, mutated from the nuclear waste dumped by careless humans. :::sigh::: In the end, it's always our fault.
Sounds interesting but... by SPECTRE Agent	Mar 11th, 2007 09:44:35 AM
what I think we really need is remake of the original Them! with the mutant ants. That movie scared the crap out of me as a kid but imagine what they could do with CGI...
The big twist ending...(SPOILER) by NapoleonDynamite	Mar 11th, 2007 10:26:15 AM
(SPOILER)...is that the home invaders are 10 year old kids.
SPOILER? by IJUSTLIKEMOVIES	Mar 11th, 2007 10:56:19 AM
ND- I've been searching for the big spoil party, but no luck. Is that really it? Ten year old kids? Lame-Lame-Lame!
And the only reason I care... by IJUSTLIKEMOVIES	Mar 11th, 2007 11:04:07 AM
is the intrigue of low payoff twists. Far more interesting stuff than a good surprise.
The movie is indeed pretty scary by Marsellus	Mar 11th, 2007 12:11:41 PM
I saw it last year, when it was released. It really is creepy, very minimalist, like a Blair Witch Project-like movie but not shot by mongolians. The only thing that disturbed me about Ils (or Them, if you prefer), is the reason why the directors made it. I read in an interview that they decided to make a low budget horror flick just because that's the kind of movie thanks to what you can get noticed by the industry. You see, if I were to direct a low budget horror flick one day (and I hope it'll happen), I wouldn't do it just to break into the movie industry and be hired to direct another fucking remake of an Asian horror film. I would direct it because I just love the genre, without giving a damn about "what good effect it could have on my career". But apart from that, the movie is pretty well done, and definetly worth seeing.
That's really the twist. by NapoleonDynamite	Mar 11th, 2007 12:12:29 PM
It's kids. No shit.
WHY DID THEY HAVE TO MAKE THE GIANT ANTS CGI !!?!?!? by Sigmar 25	Mar 11th, 2007 01:21:49 PM
YET ANOTHER POINTLESS REMAKE, & THAT SCENE WHERE THE WIFE IS WEARING S SWEATY UNDERSHIRT AND BATTLING THE GIANT ANT WITH KUNG FU WHILE THE "LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR" SONG PLAYS WAS ESPECIALLY UPSETTING
Let's have a review - not a synopsis by Danny_H	Mar 11th, 2007 01:24:48 PM
Why is it that every mofo on this site spends far too much time speaking about either themselves and / or a scene by scene description of the film - the whole 'geek' gonzo thing has gone too far. Give us a proper 'review' with some informed comment and the good grace to leave the finer points of the plot up to ourselves to work out. I don't need some geek preaching to me about how the director was their childhood hero to make up my mind whether or not I will go and see a film. Sort it out!
They have a beer and cheat on their wife. by thelivingdoll	Mar 11th, 2007 02:20:35 PM
...sorry...I had to.
Marsellus,I think you meant to say "mongoloids" by TORTURE PWN	Mar 11th, 2007 02:50:24 PM
instead of "mongolians".Maybe I'm wrong.Genghis Khan spins in his grave...
No giant ants ? by RobinP	Mar 11th, 2007 05:27:23 PM
No interest.
I didn't get the giant ants stuff until now by IJUSTLIKEMOVIES	Mar 11th, 2007 05:42:15 PM
Shame on me.
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Mar 11th, 2007 05:59:08 PM
Damn you Michael Bay
Yup, that is the great "twist ending" above. (Spoiler) by JackPumpkinhead	Mar 11th, 2007 06:10:03 PM
The spoiler above is the true ending of this pretty mediocre film (mediocre but definitely better than that plagiarized crap Haute Tension - but what isn't?) I can even post the last lines of this film - so, SPOILER, SPOILER, STAY AWAY, SPOILER, SPOILER FOLLOWS! ---> OK, here goes: [[["After the investigation, the murderers were arrested in the Snagov region. They were between the age of 10 and 15. During the first interrogation the youngest amongst them declared: THEY wouldn't play with us."]]]
Oh, yeah, and it suffers from the "true story" crap. by JackPumpkinhead	Mar 11th, 2007 06:11:20 PM
There's an actual "based on true events" garbage opening this film. I guess this lie isn't only used by crappy US remakes of horror movies anymore...
The minor "twist" at the end..(spoiler) by Walterego	Mar 11th, 2007 06:12:41 PM
(Spoiler) The intruders are not really 10 year olds, they are teenagers. Just before the credits roll, some subtitles announce that police apprehended the remaining members of this gang and said that the were all aged between 10-15. So the movie is claiming that at least one was 10 and the rest were about 15. This is simply ridiculous because these would have to be the biggest 15 year olds I've ever seen. They are just as tall as Clementine, the french woman, as you can see in the trailer. They are big enough to drag a full grown man and singlehandedly pin an adult woman to the ground. In the opening scene they obviously drag off an adult woman in seconds and hold a 18 year old to her carseat. This problem with the movie could easily be fixed by just changing the subtitles to read that the intruders were aged more like 16-18. Or they could just get rid of the "twist" completely, since the whole notion that this movie is based on actual events is (SPOILER no.2) probably total BS. I've looked it up, and people in France and Bucharest don't recall anything like this happening in 2002. When I watched the end I assumed that some of the intruders (the ones offscreen) were adults and only the ones we had seen so far were teens. And those young ones looked at least 16 to me, so the end subtitles annouced their ages, I thought, "Oh, creepy..huh...waitaminute, seriously? WTF?" The point is that this movie is still extremely suspenseful and not lame at all, so long as when they start rolling those final epilogue subtitles, I advise that you just ignore what they say. I don't know why there has to be a "twist" at all in suspense films these days, this one didn't need it at all, it was perfect literally up to the last 15 seconds when those subtitles popped up. Otherwise when I was this again I'll be thinking that the couple should just get a couple knives and barricade themselves in some room. The reason they don't is because the intruders keep themselves hidden so much of the time, which is what works so well in your imagination while watching THEM, and the few glimpses they have the intruders are clearly of adult height and weight. Like at one point we see the boots of one of "them" stalking Clementine in the attic, and the sound of his feet on the floorboards sounds like Hulf Hogan is walking towards her. So it's like the movie wanted to have it both ways: large threatening antagonists, but also a tacked-on twist that makes them seem not so large or threatening.
Just for the sake of comparison by IJUSTLIKEMOVIES	Mar 11th, 2007 06:35:07 PM
Is this flick worse than its bad Euro horror brother, Calvaire? (and no offense to fans of the recent string of Euro horror films, I have yet to be impressed.)
re: no offense by IJUSTLIKEMOVIES	Mar 11th, 2007 06:37:09 PM
I'm not trying to take on a whole genre here, and have seen only a handful of these movies.
Who wants this crap? GIVE ME GIANT ANTS INSTEAD! by Triumph poops!	Mar 11th, 2007 06:57:28 PM
SPECTRE Agent and RobinP, I'm with you. I want a remake of the one and only movie worthy of being called THEM!, which is without question one of the top 5 monster movies of all time. Supposedly Warner Bros. greenlit a big budget remake and Joe Johnston, given his effects background, was set to direct. He was supposed to go straight into THEM! after JURASSIC PARK 3. I don't know what happened, but I'm guessing JP3's lackluster performance killed that deal, sending the remake back into development hell. But hopefully now that Universal is going ahead with a big budget Americanized remake of THE HOST -- and given how Hollywood loves to copy what the other guy is doing, to hedge their bets -- maybe as Warners sees that going into production they'll think to themselves "Hey, maybe people WOULD like to see a good old-style big ass monster movie", at which point they'll revive the remake. But I totally agree that with today's SFX technology, an all-out Army vs. giant mutated ants movie would kick serious ass and get my butt into the theater during the summer. Several times, in fact! "Look at this. The walls are held together by saliva." "Yeah, well spit's the only thing holding me together right now, too!"
Mongolians Vs. Giant Ants! by Uncapie	Mar 11th, 2007 07:39:51 PM
See Genghis, get down! See Temujin's harem girls do the forbidden "Ant Dance Of the Gods!" See giant telepathic ants scream, "KHANNNNNNNN!" I am so there!
For those of us who came in late ... by The StarWolf	Mar 11th, 2007 09:37:12 PM
What the heck's an SXSW? Meanwhile, yes, give me the giant ants!
Mongolians GOTTA EAT. by Pennsy	Mar 11th, 2007 10:17:54 PM

you lost me at "no gore" by the_shogun_gunslinger	Mar 12th, 2007 12:27:17 AM
PASS! sorry Harold my god man, but no.
Ant Sounds by JohnIan	Mar 12th, 2007 01:28:12 AM
Growing up I lived next to the train tracks. I wouldn't find out until later that the sound effect for the ants was train wheels. I remember the first time; walked home from school and heard the sound. That creeped me out. Anyhow; why a remake. How about a sequel? In the movie during Dr. Patricia Medford (Joan Weldon) briefing in Washington she speaks of a map, the locations of sighting as well as dead male ants. One of them is of particular importance, Dr. Medford: "The most recent finding was about four days ago, hear near Mt. Wilson in California. It was badly decomposed and we figured it've been there for perhaps a month to five weeks." There are two possibilities. One - that ant was merely a scout, it became lost and died on that mountain. Two - there is an undiscovered colony in Northern California. Hmmm? Have it set shortly after the L.A. incident. Could be cool.
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Mar 12th, 2007 02:32:07 AM
Damn you Michael Bay
Yeah by Fortunesfool	Mar 12th, 2007 03:19:15 AM
It's really not that great. It's two dull characters creeping around in the dark followed by a shakycam. Seen it a million times. Just because it's French doesn't make it great cinema. Cool ending though.
Damn those Frenchmen! by Mindworm22	Mar 12th, 2007 06:23:33 AM
....just another group holding the ant down.
"Mongoloids" Isn't right EITHER. by tHeGRinGoGenTiLE	Mar 12th, 2007 08:18:00 AM
Dude that's a racist term. They are Downs Syndrome victims. Look up "mongoloid" and see why you shouldn't use it.
How is this movie not lame with that onscreen text? by Doctor_Sin	Mar 12th, 2007 12:05:28 PM
So, we have a cool suspenseful mysterious film with some out-of-your-ass ending that doesn't support the weight of the film that came before it? How can people criticize "The Village" and yet drool all over this Frenchy-twisty film?

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