They look like a cross between a Cephalotes and a Pheidole major, and are huge and extremely aggressive.
As a myrmecologist I wasn't too thrilled about it but, the scene was well received by the rest if the theater.
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Don't want to spoil this for anyone, but there is a memorable scene involving ants in the new sequel of Indiana Jones.
They look like a cross between a Cephalotes and a Pheidole major, and are huge and extremely aggressive. As a myrmecologist I wasn't too thrilled about it but, the scene was well received by the rest if the theater. |
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Yes, I read that there were ants in it. Was it a long scene? Be sure to caption and vote in http://antfarm.yuku.com/topic/7021 ...
So, was the movie good? What would you rate it compared to the other three Indy movies? I hope to see it on Monday.
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It was quite long (cca 7 mins).
The movie was good, overall. Not as good as the previous ones, but then again, I AM much older now... enjoy |
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djecko wrote: Worse than Temple of Doom? Wow. I didn't like that one. I hope to catch Indy 4 on Monday.
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I saw the movie earlier and I wasn't impreseed either. The ant scenes were cool. The movie started out with a gopher hole that almost looked like an ant
hill and I knew ants were in the movie. It got me excited until I saw a gopher pop up.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367882/faq said: What Are Some The Creepy Critters Going To Be?: Most notably, there are, as Indy puts it, "big damn ants", which chase the heroes and villains as they fight one another through the jungle. It should be noted that the ants Indy identifies - "siafu" - are actually native to Africa, and can't travel at those speeds in the film. ... Are they really siafu looking? I posted my brief comments and review (spoilers) on AQFL.
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Well I saw it and I was bored for most of the film. Highly magnetic box (when it wants to be), Monkeys coming to the rescue because of someone's good
haircut, Aliens? The ant scene was actually a highlight as fake as it was. I'm OK with Indiana Jones calling them siafu because he's an archaeologists
not a myrmecologiest, it's understandable that he's seen a national geographic special. Also I don't know what siafu translates to, for all we know
it could mean Computer Generated Ants.
Compared with the horrific visions of the previous movies, this one didn't have any creep factor. The snakes coming out of the skull's mouth, someone pulling the heart out of a man's chest, people aging incredible fast and having their skin melt off after they've found religion... where was that in this movie? These things scared the hell out of me when I was young and those movies were rated "PG". The best we get in this one is the ant thing again. There's what's her name at the end having her eyes burned out but that looks fake too, and I'm not even sure she'd dead, the ending was so far fetched and out there that I didn't care. We get that stupid close up of the most plane looking alien that's obviously fake. It really kills the mood. We're told that someone initially stole the skull. OK... How? We see Indy use the skull to open the door to where all the skulls are place. How did this man open the door to steal it in the first place? 70% of this film was fake. They could have cut out an awful lot and included another villein or two. They could have been going after the skull for different reasons and we could have had a much better movie. |
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I was going to ask if anybody'd seen this one yet and it sounds as if it doesn't hold up to memories of the earlier Indy flicks too well. In other
words, wait for the DVD, right? Glad to hear that there are some ants in this one after all, though. I'm guessing their scene will be a highlight
for me when I do eventually see the movie, the same way the giant killer crickets were my highlight in the last King Kong remake. ("Jiminy!
Noooooooo...!")
The music written for the ant scene warrented its own entry on the soundtrack recording, by the way. It's #16, the one entitled 'Ants!'.
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I haven't seen it yet, but siafu is an East African name for driver ants. What sort did those in the movie seem to be?
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Doctorant wrote: They look like a cross between a Cephalotes (the abdomen) and a Pheidole major (the head), and are huge (the size of a bumblebee). Also they don't really move in an ant-like manner, but more like a bucket of gravel being spilled downhill...
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The scene reminded me of the rendered red ants (not same species) from Scorpion King movie. http://www.hulu.com/watch...-scorpion-king-fire-ants for a video clip.
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I loved the ant scene just because it was in a major blockbuster film! Yahoo! As for the film, no one will agree with me but I don't care. This film is classic Indiana Jones, from the first frame to the last. When the first one came out many of us were wowed because we had never seen anything like it. Now decades and hundreds of ripoffs later this films somehow gets described as having far fetched scenes and cheesey special effects. Oh my, that's what this franchise was built on. <SPOILER ALERT> My one friend told me the scene where indy gets in the fridge to survive the atomic bomb test was just too unbelieveable as part of his justification for why the first film was much better. I guffawed and said "Oh, but riding across the Aegean sea on the conning tower of submarine, that's completely plausible?" Good times. Indy4 is fun and silly and entertaining and has ants. |
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antdude |
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http://www.unclemilton.com/IndianaJones/ (second one) and http://www.speedydog.net/prod_rcant.html ... Haha.
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Sped up scene from the movie (sounds like chipmunks): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9UECtNLe_U
Behind the scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rhv9dh2j-o and http://www.dailymotion.co...ette-ant-hill_shortfilms (same clip).
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