Cacique Caribe | 07 Jun 2009 1:22 p.m. PST |
I mean monsters (get your mind out of the gutter)!!! Godzilla and company, do little for me. Maybe because we are simply "ants" to them, and it seems unlikely that they would single out any one of us. Just go out to the countryside, away from crumbling skyscrapers and most of us would be ok. Now, if something like this (maybe 30-40 feet long) headed your way . . . YouTube link YouTube link link picture picture picture picture link link Plus, it at least gives you the impression (hope?) that it can eventually be killed. What about you guys??? CC TMP link |
Cacique Caribe | 07 Jun 2009 1:49 p.m. PST |
So, for you, when is a monster too big to be fun and scary anymore??? CC |
Frederick | 07 Jun 2009 1:51 p.m. PST |
Well, it certainly gives one more hope than the thing from Cloverfield Especially when it eventually winds up getting killed by an archer, a homeless guy and a ticked-off Dad |
Space Monkey | 07 Jun 2009 1:59 p.m. PST |
Really huge monsters aren't as scary because they aren't as personal
The mummy/wolfman/vampire can stalk YOU personally
but Godzilla and his ilk won't notice you
if he steps on you most likely it's an accident. He's a natural disaster more than a creepy spook. But jumbo monsters are certainly fun
in a mondo-destructo kind of way. |
Cacique Caribe | 07 Jun 2009 2:08 p.m. PST |
Agreed. If they are 30-40 feet long, they might still see you as food worth eating. I get the same feeling about the ones underwater: YouTube link YouTube link TMP link Maybe it's the fact that we have accepted the size of creatures like T-Rex, Diplodocus, Blue Whales, Megalodon, etc., (none of them exceeds 100 feet) but anything bigger is just not real anymore, and just becomes silly (to me). CC |
Space Monkey | 07 Jun 2009 2:23 p.m. PST |
Also, giant Kaiju usually don't seem much more intelligent than puppies
enormously destructive puppies. Monsters that aren't intelligent are just critters
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Cacique Caribe | 07 Jun 2009 2:36 p.m. PST |
I think the sight of something this size must have awed our ancestors, just like it does to us today . . . picture picture picture Now, imagine something that size 1) coming on land and 2) seeing us as prey! There's got to be a size limit before we lose that wow-awe-fear factor. Right? CC |
Fatman | 07 Jun 2009 2:48 p.m. PST |
Damn I was going to give you a web site link but after reading your opening remark I won't bother. Fatman Shuffles of looking sheepish. |
Cacique Caribe | 07 Jun 2009 2:56 p.m. PST |
LOL. Thanks for not sharing that link. Back on topic . . . I would be more afraid of those 5-foot long Cloverfield "parasites" than of the monster itself: YouTube link YouTube link link link YouTube link According to the director, "they are much more in human scale, so they are more targeted at you" (1:05 minutes into clip): YouTube link CC |
28mmMan | 07 Jun 2009 3:58 p.m. PST |
The 30-40 creature is always fun. Too big to deal with one on one without some serious tools/experience. Big enough to weaken any hope of security
homes, work, cars, boats, etc.. Big enough to put us on the menu. This size gets my vote
digging through the ground link hopping after us link in the air picture swimming at us picture or running after us picture The world would be that much more interesting with 30-40' hungry hungries to chase us around. |
Cacique Caribe | 07 Jun 2009 4:04 p.m. PST |
"The world would be that much more interesting with 30-40' hungry hungries to chase us around." I know what you mean. I think we missed out on all the fun creatures from the real past and legends of old. CC |
Hrothgar Returns | 07 Jun 2009 5:31 p.m. PST |
Many real beasties of antiquity must have been quite menacing! how about: picture link picture these must have been the stuff of nightmares for our ancestors. That being said, the biggest monster was always other people |
Kampfgruppe Cottrell | 07 Jun 2009 6:01 p.m. PST |
Check out the movie "The Mist", it has all of us at the bottom of the food chain in minutes and with all sorts of small/big nastiest to make us lunch. Brian |
28mmMan | 07 Jun 2009 7:12 p.m. PST |
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Cacique Caribe | 07 Jun 2009 8:22 p.m. PST |
28mmMan, Those Dunkies looked mean! link Even the plastic ones! link CC |
manatic | 07 Jun 2009 8:53 p.m. PST |
Not to forget our modern-day friends: picture |