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carson1213 · Veteran Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 139

Monster in the trailer, what about the back (shell)

**Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:40 pm

InevitableDoom · Boot Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 54

After hearing various descriptions, I didn't think I'd be saying this -- but I'm really pretty pleased with how it looks. From this clip, anyway. There's something very "wrong" about it that's enhanced by the human resemblance.

It kind of has more of that fucked up mutant look than it does the whole Godzilla I'm-in-a-big-rubber-suit-BUT-SERIOUSLY-IMMA-EAT-YOU-BLARRRR...thing.

The flaps on the side of its head read more like gills to me, with the way they move. If you've ever lifted up a fish's gill flaps and seen the red plated stuff in there. External gills crossed with lungs, maybe.

**Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:47 pm

sami_kaye

**Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:04 pm

Bacon Army · Unfettered Joined: 01 Nov 2007 Posts: 447

There's one thing I want to ask the board about MGP, mainly because I can't draw an adequate conclusion myself -

Does it seem to anyone who's watched it that MGP hates mankind, and is acting out of pure hatred for our species?

I say this because a lot of the damage he seems to cause isn't Godzilla-esque "It got in my way" damage - it appears very planned and precise. Take for example, him smashing the Brooklyn Bridge with his tail, or his deliberately picking up a car and destroying a military blockade with it, or his lunging at the helicopter trying to get away shortly after being bombed, or when he looks at Hud and you see a tinge of disgust in his facial features. Does anyone agree that MGP isn't here out of any external motivation, but just because he hates us all?

**Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:45 pm

carson1213 · Veteran Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 139

He is mad

**Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2008 5:49 pm

lethalvenom · Boot Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 57

i'm really starting to love this monster, and i haven't even seen the movie yet!

**Posted:** Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:02 pm

gigantis2001

I liked the movie in general, but I thought the monster design was not a very good one. It's just too...simple, I guess. It needed more detail, maybe (it seemed like too much of it was just flat, nothin' goin' on, surface), the extra arms added to the underside were a nice touch, but I don't think they went far enough. Many of the fan art images I've seen (even the ones based on descriptions from the movie) were preferable to the actual thing.

I think a large part of that was probably the budget. It was probably cheaper to do the CGI if the monster wasn't all that complex/detailed. Also, I thought the CGI wasn't all that good. Admittedly, CGI very rarely looks real/good (first rex scene in Jurassic Park, tripods in War of the Worlds), but in this movie I expected it to be decent since the monster is the main draw. The arthropod things were okay, though.

Did anyone else think the explosion at the beginning was very CGI-looking as well? (Obviously, it was CGI, but you know what I mean...)

Also, would anyone have preferred computer-enhanced stop-motion? Or even regular stop-motion? I know I would've (think Harryhausen+Cloverfield.....aw, yeah, that would be kickin').

**Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:20 am

Southside · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 131

lol wow, all the youtube links have been pulled down. as well as the Gif on the first page. Paramount WANTS YOU to get your ass to the theatre and see this!

**Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:19 am

Euchre · uF Game Warden Joined: 29 Aug 2007 Posts: 3342

Having been to the theater and seen this, the only remaining gif doesn't do justice to what you actually see on the screen.

I think those red apparatus are part of it's breathing, they move like that and I recall the sound of breathing going with them. I'd say our friend is equipped to be fully amphibious, and it's lungs and gill structures may be such a compromise that it's got those flapping bits it has to move around to get sufficient gas transfer. I need to research, but I think lungfish work in a similar fashion, with their gill type vessels in a more lung-like structure and extending outwards towards the usual gill cases. I could be wrong, but even if a lungfish doesn't work like that, I think MGP basically does.

One thing for sure, it's not really like anything we've seen before. It's also really massive. Sorry, I think Godzilla would loose - but might at least be able to put real hurt to MGP before he did.

**Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:33 am

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Matthew.Davidlane · Boot Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 68

**Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:34 am

Fredriksam · Kilroy Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

Hi there. that was sad that the Gif was removed. I have an request to Gwaka.

Gwaka, can you please upload the original file (not Gif) somewhere?

The Gif image was moving too fast. You can maybe also upload some jpgs of it (if you have some)

That would be so freaking awesome, man.

Oh, by the way, i saw the movie yesterday in Australia and enjoyed it quite alot. The parasite creatures were so scary.

It was cool and scary at the same time when hud got eaten. And, boy was the creature awesome or what?

WO-Hoooooo!!!!!!!!!!

The red things on its head was likely some kind of gills (I think). Even the creature eyes were scary LOL.

**Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:24 pm

m_talon · Veteran Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 142

**Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:06 pm

NYC5

Well Played

**Posted:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:50 pm

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