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Originally Posted by The Villain
I agree. Sometimes showing it too much takes away from the movie. Recently I felt like Mama did this but other movies such as The Host like you mentioned do a good job with it. For me though i don't care if its just a shot at the end or intermittently throughout the movie, I just want to see it.
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I'm with you, man! Every great monster deserves a significant portion of screen time in their each & every film; otherwise go make a documentary instead, IMO!
In general, a monster movie should be more about the monsters and that's why we always love & re-watch such classics like KING KONG, GODZILLA, JAWS, JURASSIC PARK etc.
For monster film maker(s): If you're going to make a monster movie, then make sure that you have a sufficient budget & VFX/SFX guys to show & reveal it in full form & properly. But that doesn't mean I'm against "less monster - more humans" sort of monster flicks but the thing is it all highly depends on the final pay-offs and in that case make sure you have a great human or survival story with really well developed characters that we'll care about & great script (like
JAWS,
Alien or even
THE MIST) on your table before going to make it happen. And this thing is really tricky, challenging & demands quite a caliber from a film maker.
Director Gareth Edwards was praised for his debut feature
MONSTERS and which was a major reason why the studio picked him for the latest Hollywood's take on GODZILLA.
MONSTERS is a good road movie with fine characters but it disappointed me as a monster flick. Cause the monsters in the
Monsters were interesting & I was expecting to see & know more about them but instead a simple "mating" scene at the end, there's nothing much about those monsters in the movie. That's why I don't like to give it a grade higher than "B-". And though he said he tried to cope the JAWS formula for GODZILLA (2014) but he actually failed to adopt that in many area i.e. weak characters, wrong lead, making the big G as a kind of secondary or supporting character in the story etc. The final pay-offs were good & I still like the movie just because of seeing my favorite monster after quite a long time & for the first time in big screen.