Welcome to episode 132. Today, we talk about Empire of the Ants!
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don’t know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!
Join Scott, Randy, Brian and Ibbott as they feel slightly bad for Larry.
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Been waiting all week for this gem. Bring on the critiques of the screaming ants! First post! (I played bass guitar in a band called the Screaming Ants)
RADIACTIVE WASTE OM NOM NOM NOM
ok i’ve seen this thing before so i skipped to the end, because I forgot the ending. Now i remember why. it’s terrible. In every possible way. It breaks the whole movie. The only good thing is the gas truck exploding for no reason, and that’s a trope!
The moral of the story is go watch “The City on the Edge of Forever”
Hey, lets dump that girl in the thin satin blouse into the water again when it’s cold out!
The saving grace of appalling movies like this is that they allow the boys to wander merrily all over the place discussing anything other than the movie. I now know more than I ever want too about the time share hustle!
Bring on Rocky!
Here is every rapper that I can think of that has acted in something( I left RB singers like Jaime Foxx and Tyrese off the list).
Forgive the spelling:
Tupac, LL Cool J, Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz, Kid and Play, Vanilla Ice, Busta Rhymes, Common 50 Cent, MOS (formerly Mos Def), Mark Walhberg, DMX, RZA, Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, Xhibit, Ice Cube, Ice T, Heavy D, Queen latifah, Will Smith, Emeniem, Sean Combs, The Fat Boys, Ja Rule, Dr. Dre.
Brian, when they were talking about the Mexican guys voice over, I thought I heard them interrupt a “Paging Mr. Herman”.
I think that is a very likely possibility.
I gotta tell ya, the first time I ever saw Joan Collins in a movie was either “The Bitch” or “The Stud”. I do not lie. They are actual movies. In which I remember her being really naked. A lot.
Today’s antfest made me think of Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a secret campaign in that or its expansion where you fight against giant ants? Incidentally, I recall it being a lot more entertaining than this movie.
I think you’re underestimating the internet a bit if you’re saying that Film Sack would have no listeners if all it did was really bad films, Mr. Jordan. I mean, there are entire subcultures on the internet devoted to just looking up horrible stuff and going on in great length about how horrible it all is. I certainly wouldn’t want Film Sack to be like that, being a firm proponent of the so-bad-it’s-good philosophy and enjoying the positivity you guys can retain, but I’d imagine that Film Sack would still have some kind of audience.
Another case of a movie I never saw or never will see. Enjoyable sack nonetheless, as I also enjoy when a crappy movie leads to wide off-topic swings.
Your mention of Mantinee! (their exclamation point, not mine) made me think of it for the first time in years, and remembering it as being OK. I seem to remember the movie within the movie was “Part human, part ant, it’s MANT!”
But I have one major bone to pick with you guys. How can you sack a giant ant movie without a single metion of “THEM!”, for shame on you. The father of all giant insect movies and one that holds up a lot better than this pile of crap. Plus its got James’ Arness and Whitmore. (Brooks from Shawshank!) In fact, if this ones on streaming, you should totally sack it someday!
Still better than Hardware.