THEM (Prime Video)

BananaDunka · 9 Apr 2021 at 19:52

Fans of Get Out and Us should be right up the street with this, about to watch episode 1, will update!

I read a few non spoiler comments before adding to watchlist today and it seems it doesn't hold back!

BananaDunka · 9 Apr 2021 at 23:04

Ok so onto episode 2 now and have to say it's been gripping so far. Tense moments, scary moment... The IMDB rating is very odd, the latest slew of user reviews at at least 8/10 but drill down to within hours of release and you get the usual nutjob user reviews giving it 5/10 or 2/10 etc. Some even calling it drivel from the "far right" :rolleyes:

The display of racism in this is clearly picking nose hairs with the kind of people we all point fingers and laugh at for being ridiculous.

Acting seems excelelnt from the entire cast, cinmatography is excellent, choice of colour is relevant to each scene much like in Hannibal and the scare factor is certainly there.

Episode 1 alone I would give it a solid 8/10 - A shame a few delicate flowers on imdb are letting their personal views get the better of them.

If episode 2 continues what 1 started then I can see myself binging this all of tomorrow.

arknor · 10 Apr 2021 at 15:34

I finished watching it all last night.

it was okay but not that good.

one of the white families should have had a dog called a racist word like people used to even in the UK in the 90s

Simmz · 10 Apr 2021 at 23:41

I was enjoying it until it went silly with the

religious devil crap

BananaDunka · 11 Apr 2021 at 00:56

On ep 9 and yes this is when that all kicks off and the whole ep seems to be just about that. Annoying!

wolfie138 · 11 Apr 2021 at 09:24

expected ants :-/

Jean-F · 11 Apr 2021 at 13:20

wolfie138 said:
expected ants :-/

Me too, I remember seeing the movie “Them!” at a cinema in Salisbury Wilts., about giant ants rampaging around New Mexico, eating people, leaving bits of them soaked in formic acid, apparently they were a mutation caused by radiation from the testing of atomic bombs in Alamogordo.
I think that the movie scared me more than “Psycho”, I was a mid twenties truck driver then, and I walked very uneasily back to the b’n’b that I was overnighting at in Salisbury that night.

smokedog · 11 Apr 2021 at 20:06

Started ok but lost interest about half into the series...couldn't be bother to finish it.

firstborn · 11 Apr 2021 at 20:37

Jean-F said:
Me too, I remember seeing the movie “Them!” at a cinema in Salisbury Wilts., about giant ants rampaging around New Mexico, eating people, leaving bits of them soaked in formic acid, apparently they were a mutation caused by radiation from the testing of atomic bombs in Alamogordo.
I think that the movie scared me more than “Psycho”, I was a mid twenties truck driver then, and I walked very uneasily back to the b’n’b that I was overnighting at in Salisbury that night.

I always remembered the noise before the ants came and the sound of a squeaking fan belt would instill terror in me as a small child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ovKBFSaLtFE

Tombstone · 11 Apr 2021 at 23:51

Jean-F said:
Me too, I remember seeing the movie “Them!” at a cinema in Salisbury Wilts., about giant ants rampaging around New Mexico, eating people, leaving bits of them soaked in formic acid, apparently they were a mutation caused by radiation from the testing of atomic bombs in Alamogordo.
I think that the movie scared me more than “Psycho”, I was a mid twenties truck driver then, and I walked very uneasily back to the b’n’b that I was overnighting at in Salisbury that night.

One of my favourite B movies of all time, I have it on Prime. It was essentially the inspiration for the computer game It Came from the Desert, which itself was made into a movie in 2017

wolfie138 · 12 Apr 2021 at 09:25

there were some cracking b-movie bug films. the classic is Tarantula, the optical effects of the spider are still remarkably good, considering they were done 50 years ago.

Reality|Bites · 22 Apr 2021 at 17:26

I binged the full series in one day and loved it, it got a bit silly if you took it on face value and not seeing what the odd visuals actually meant. eg the street at night and not a single cloud or star in the sky, like the movie Vivarium where it was all fake

I'm surprised this thread hasn't had more replies tbh.

EddScott · 26 Apr 2021 at 10:24

Reality|Bites said:
I'm surprised this thread hasn't had more replies tbh.

GF and I are watching this at the moment. Think we're on Ep4. Both enjoying it and yes, I would have thought this series was worthy of more comments. It's decent enough.

something daft already!! · 26 Apr 2021 at 11:15

I need something new. I'll give it a shot.

Reality|Bites · 26 Apr 2021 at 18:24

it seems the woke are too stupid and don't know where to begin? or say i'm wrong?

Reality|Bites · 26 Apr 2021 at 21:38

the mob can signal all day but when they have to think about it they are stumped or avoid it? who knows?

IvanDobskey · 28 Apr 2021 at 16:52

Watched a couple of episodes so far, a bit meh if you ask me. Maybe it improves?

The racism thing grates after a while. Would everyone in a street all be such vile unrelenting racists?

Reality|Bites · 28 Apr 2021 at 16:54

It's really good, but it does go a bit ott and weird, You have to think about it as you aren't spoon fed the answers pf what you are seeing and why...

Liquid_Entity · 28 Apr 2021 at 16:54

Being a parent episode 5 was horrible to watch. The rest of the series has all been a bit mehh

Reality|Bites · 28 Apr 2021 at 16:56

" the demons of the past " holding them all back and destroying them...