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Summary: I thought it was a very good movie
Review: I thought it was very well don
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Summary: Good campy movie.......
Review: If you're looking for a movie that's fun in a bad way and that you don't have to take seriously,then this is a good one.If there's a movie that needs to have the MST3K treatment,then it's right here...Bad effects,but then it comes from a guy that did Amazing Colassal Man,so what do you expect?? Good silly fun....
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Summary: Conundrum.
Review: It took me days to get up the courage to write this review...Everyone agrees on the movie being a "B" or less. The problem comes in taste or preference. I would have given this movie a "five star" rating; however no one would ever take my reviews serious again...The Photography is poor. This is a candidate for MST3000. I can not quite say that it is Joan Collins "Biography - Joan Collins" ASIN: B000006QJR at her best. And you know how some movies are so bad that it is good? Well this is not one of those movies. On the other hand there is a lot of stay in the car scenes and action in running away from ants. You can guess who the bad Guy(s) are. But then you have to figure out why and what their angle is. It leaves you with the feeling that all ants eat sugar and slow people. But only the queen ant eats beans and doesn't use gas-x. Watch at your own risk.
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Summary: EMPIRE OF ONCE FAMOUS ACTORS
Review: Let's see, we have: Joan Collins in her pre-Dynasty days; Robert Lansing from the tv series "Twelve O'Clock High," Robert Pine and Jacqueline Scott from countless B movies and tv series; Albert Salmi from his Daniel Boone days; Edward Power from the old soap opera "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" and the ubiquitous John David Carson who peopled many B movies during the seventies. Put them in the hand of schlock bug master Bert I. Gordon, and you have "Empire of the Ants."
This is one of those painfully bad films that makes you laugh at its cheesiness. Do the ants EVER really look like they're in the film? Credit Gordonf for his sharp use of moving cameras, screams and loud music to subterfuge most of the ant attacks; they at least give it some tension. I do think Joan Collins deserved a more fitting death than dying from ant gas, though!
A drive in delight!
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Summary: EMPIRE OF ONCE FAMOUS ACTORS
Review: Let's see, we have: Joan Collins in her pre-Dynasty days; Robert Lansing from the tv series "Twelve O'Clock High," Robert Pine and Jacqueline Scott from countless B movies and tv series; Albert Salmi from his Daniel Boone days; Edward Power from the old soap opera "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" and the ubiquitous John David Carson who peopled many B movies during the seventies. Put them in the hand of schlock bug master Bert I. Gordon, and you have "Empire of the Ants."
This is one of those painfully bad films that makes you laugh at its cheesiness. Do the ants EVER really look like they're in the film? Credit Gordonf for his sharp use of moving cameras, screams and loud music to subterfuge most of the ant attacks; they at least give it some tension. I do think Joan Collins deserved a more fitting death than dying from ant gas, though!
A drive in delight!
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Summary: The Book is Better.
Review: Low budget treatment of the H.G. Wells novel finds Giant Ants mutated from radiation and making meat out of the main characters. A big waste of the acting talents of Joan Collins and Robert Lansing (both of whom went on to do better work in science fiction television like the Twilight Zone and Star Trek).
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Summary: Great Character Study & Practice For Alexis Carrington!
Review: Perhaps above all, Joan Collins is internationally renowned for her role of Alexis Carrington Colby in DYNASTY; the most highly rated evening TV drama of all time. For eight years, viewers were treated to a weekly dose of Alexis' elaborate schemes for power, money and love. Well, Joan's character here is really no different and was probably great practice for her eventual TV persona. Joan plays Marilyn Fryer, a real estate agent and land developer for "Dreamland Shores". However, unbeknownst to her freeloading group of highly impossible investors, the shores have been contaminated with toxic chemicals that make ANTS grow to humongous proportions! Add in a sugar processing plant, horrendous dialogue, bad acting, & cheesy special effects and you have a great, classic B-grade horror film. Based on an H.G. Wells story... If you liked "Them", "Pirahna", "Frogs" or other films that follow animals or insects taking over the world, you will certainly enjoy this pic. Happy Watching!
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Summary: Great Character Study & Practice For Alexis Carrington!
Review: Perhaps above all, Joan Collins is internationally renowned for her role of Alexis Carrington Colby in DYNASTY; the most highly rated evening TV drama of all time. For eight years, viewers were treated to a weekly dose of Alexis' elaborate schemes for power, money and love. Well, Joan's character here is really no different and was probably great practice for her eventual TV persona. Joan plays Marilyn Fryer, a real estate agent and land developer for "Dreamland Shores". However, unbeknownst to her freeloading group of highly impossible investors, the shores have been contaminated with toxic chemicals that make ANTS grow to humongous proportions! Add in a sugar processing plant, horrendous dialogue, bad acting, & cheesy special effects and you have a great, classic B-grade horror film. Based on an H.G. Wells story... If you liked "Them", "Pirahna", "Frogs" or other films that follow animals or insects taking over the world, you will certainly enjoy this pic. Happy Watching!
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Summary: LOW GRADE BIG BUG B-MOVIE IS SILLY FUN
Review: Released about 20 years after "Them" -- the first big ant flick, and nowhere near the class act -- "EMPIRE OF THE ANTS" (MGM) is the brain-child of Bert I. Gordon who produced, directed and wrote the screenplay based loosely (very) on a story by H. G. Wells. Gordon is the man behind several other cheesy things-that-get-really-big movies including "Earth Versus the Spider," "Village of the Giants" and "Amazing Colossal Man." A young and pretty Joan Collins is crooked land developer Marilyn Fryer who lures prospective buyers to an island by offering them a free cruise. One of the drawbacks to the island is that its native population includes ants who have fed on leaking nuclear waste cannisters. And they have become huge, carnivorous and intelligent and they resent the human interlopers. The ridiculous plot, ludicrous dialog and repellent humans actually serve to create a wave of sympathy for the rampaging ants. In fact, by the end of the movie you'll probably be cheering for the bugs. This is a silly, fun film that looks far better than it deserves.
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Summary: LOW GRADE BIG BUG B-MOVIE IS SILLY FUN
Review: Released about 20 years after "Them" -- the first big ant flick, and nowhere near the class act -- "EMPIRE OF THE ANTS" (MGM) is the brain-child of Bert I. Gordon who produced, directed and wrote the screenplay based loosely (very) on a story by H. G. Wells. Gordon is the man behind several other cheesy things-that-get-really-big movies including "Earth Versus the Spider," "Village of the Giants" and "Amazing Colossal Man." A young and pretty Joan Collins is crooked land developer Marilyn Fryer who lures prospective buyers to an island by offering them a free cruise. One of the drawbacks to the island is that its native population includes ants who have fed on leaking nuclear waste cannisters. And they have become huge, carnivorous and intelligent and they resent the human interlopers. The ridiculous plot, ludicrous dialog and repellent humans actually serve to create a wave of sympathy for the rampaging ants. In fact, by the end of the movie you'll probably be cheering for the bugs. This is a silly, fun film that looks far better than it deserves.
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