"I Like Them BIG!!! (But Not Too Big)" Topic

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 . . .

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Plus, it at least gives you the impression (hope?) that it can eventually be killed.

What about you guys???

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So, for you, when is a monster too big to be fun and scary anymore???

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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

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.

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:

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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).

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Also, giant Kaiju usually don't seem much more intelligent than puppies… enormously destructive puppies. Monsters that aren't intelligent are just critters….

I think the sight of something this size must have awed our ancestors, just like it does to us today . . .

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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?

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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.

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:

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According to the director, "they are much more in human scale, so they are more targeted at you" (1:05 minutes into clip):

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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.

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The world would be that much more interesting with 30-40' hungry hungries to chase us around.

"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.

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Many real beasties of antiquity must have been quite menacing!

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these must have been the stuff of nightmares for our ancestors. That being said, the biggest monster was always other people

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.

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I will see your prehistoric animals with a few of my favorite choices:

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28mmMan,

Those Dunkies looked mean!

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Even the plastic ones!

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Not to forget our modern-day friends:

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