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Them!

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James Whitmore (Actor), Edmund Gwenn (Actor), Gordon Douglas (Director) Rated:

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A landmark movie about giant radiation-mutated ants with Oscar®-nominated effects and an epic struggle in the drains beneath Los Angeles, Them! only gets better with age.

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Actors: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
Directors: Gordon Douglas
Writers: Ted Sherdeman, Russell S. Hughes, George Worthing Yates
Producers: David Weisbart
Format: Blu-ray, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
Number of discs: 1
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Studio: WarnerBrothers
DVD Release Date: October 27, 2015
Run Time: 94 minutes
Average Customer Review: 703 customer reviews
ASIN: B00ZJYJCPQ
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,799 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #100 in Movies & TV > Blu-ray > Horror

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ClassicCraig

Great movie, great Blu-Ray

March 16, 2017

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I've watched it a couple of times now and what struck me most about it is how well James Whitmore sells the picture. Right from the start, he's taking the movie seriously and that lets the viewer do the same. I believe this is the first "giant bug" movie and, unlike the knock-offs that followed, it's a high-quality studio picture. Younger viewers may roll their eyes at the creature effects, but they're very good.
My only real complaint with the movie itself is the lesson on ants in the middle of the film. It goes on too long and does more to slow the pace than increase the tension.
There's some kind of technical problem with the sound. On my Blu-Ray player, I have to change the output from surround to stereo in order to hear the English audio. I have an older player, so this may be something to do with new copy-protection tech. (Yes, I updated the player's firmware.)
Unfortunately, the most popular review of this Blu-Ray has some misleading information. Although a full-screen version of the movie is available on DVD, it was originally shown in theaters in a widescreen format. Like most every movie, it was shot on 35mm film, which has a full-screen aspect ratio. That doesn't mean the director intended you to see the entire frame. Sometimes, the part of the image that is supposed to be cropped is "protected" from boom mics and so on because the filmmakers knew it might be shown full-frame, but it's all extra information that doesn't add anything. (I saw Jurassic Park in a theater near the end of its first run, and the projectionist forgot to matte the image for the first 10-15 minutes, so there were boom mics following the actors at the top and bottom of the screen.) I've included a picture to refute one of the claims in the popular review: that the first appearance of a giant ant is delayed due to cropping. On the left is a DVD screenshot showing more picture at the top and bottom (and tiny slivers less on the side). At the right is a Blu-Ray screenshot of the same shot -- about a second before the top of the ant's head appears above the sand dune. (That round thing at the right is not the ant.) Also, note the DVD is lower in contrast and bright enough to wash out some of the detail in the sand -- in this shot at least. There are DVDs that are better than their Blu-Ray counterparts when the Blu-Ray has been done carelessly or with inferior sources. That's not the case here. Sometimes, it's a matter of preference, but you can't fault the Blu-Ray when it's showing you the film as it was originally shown.
Some trivia about the film: According to Hollywood legend, Fess Parker's performance caught Walt Disney's attention and led to his casting as Daniel Boone. Likewise, James Arness got his Gunsmoke role from this movie. That's the story, anyway.

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Movie destroyed

March 26, 2018

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Another classic movie ruined. Probably on purpose. The original movie is chopped or zoomed in to fit the new television screens. On this Blu-ray you no longer see the tops and bottoms of the film. Then that small portion of the film that is left has been enlarged to fit the screen. The chopping is horrible but the enlargement makes the whole movie blurry. After seeing this I hurriedly put my old DVD copy of Them in my safe deposit box. Then I went to Amazon to order another DVD copy. What do I find? The old original DVDs are now $40 each, and up. I will keep this trash Blue-ray and watch it so as to not take any chances of damaging my original dvd which had ALL the picture and a MUCH better picture than this trash Blu-ray. But now that the movies is ruined I am sure I will watch it a lot less. If this is progress then I wish the ants would have won.

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One of the GREATEST SF movies ever made.

November 3, 2015

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THEM! is simply put, the greatest Gigantism movie ever. Sorry King Kong, Sorry Godzilla, but THEM! has a superb cast, a brilliant story and is shot like it's really happening (all these pseudo-documentaries could learn something from this movie). On Blu Ray, it's also brilliantly remastered. Basically it's a simple tale of fear. The Nuclear tests in 1945 have led normal ants to grow to gigantic size. So what makes this so great? They aren't fire breathing, talking, thinking, indestructible ants, they're just ants, doing ant things, only their 9 feet long. James Whitmore, James Arness, Joan Weldon and more make this film so damn enjoyable. Even though I now have it on Blu Ray, if it's on TV, I'll just stop and watch it. It's one of those films I never get tired of watching. So why are you still reading this? Go get THEM!

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David Doyle

Unfortunately the only take away for me was having watched really cool horror flicks from the 50's

October 30, 2016

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I watched these movies as a kid in Minneapolis on Mel Jazz's TV show and no doubt I was watching them along with the Coen Bros across town. Unfortunately the only take away for me was having watched really cool horror flicks from the 50's, they went on to do something with their education from Saturday afternoons in front of the tube :-)

This is a Warner Bros production and is pretty well done on all counts within the time period. James Whitmore and the rest of the cast are very good with the somewhat simplistic plot of atomic testing gone wrong. But this is what I love about these films, the context of the cold war and of new technology were a watershed of concepts during this period, some brilliant, some not so much but the final product (for me) never fails to entertain as it now is a peek into the mindset of this time period. The visual and sound effects are dated but convincing enough to make the movie above the standard B-movie horror/sci-fi fare of the day.

Later in my life I ran into s person who thought this was real, granted I think the person was probably touched, but I had to chuckle that anyone could think that such a thing was possible. Such is the power of movies!

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Martin S. Hennessee

An Atom Age Classic

November 20, 2017

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This film, the first in the "big bug" craze of 1950s monster movies, holds up superbly today. It's tense and atmospheric, with a smart script, solid acting, and a female scientist who, refreshingly, is neither a damsel in distress nor a tacked-on love interest, but a vital part of the team. The giant ants are truly impressive beasties for the time period - if they occasionally look a little googly eyed, well that's no major sin - when they are rampaging through darkened tunnels and crushing people in their jaws they are certainly no joke. A lot of sci-fi films from this time period come off as laughably quaint today, but this one's a real keeper.

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