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I liked this movie a lot (spoilers continue) by Fullofkittens 08/31/2016, 6:57pm PDT
Its Visual Effects guy went on to direct the shitty new Godzilla movie and is directing the Star Wars Expendables movie. :(

I agree that the beginning and end were not great in terms of fx and editing but I do like what they do in the movie structurally. The theme of the movie is that fear keeps races hating each other. The monsters have killed a lot of people it's because they're on a planet they don't understand, they try to start families and new lives here but humans keep killing them. So they try to fight back and things just keep getting worse for both sides. The lead characters gradually come to understand this and during the gas station scene they finally get confirmation of what is really going on...

...how do you end it at that point? The rich white people go on the news and say "the monsters* are just like us... if we find a way to help them they won't hurt us?" That ending would be so much dumber than what they landed with: it starts with the only scene of a monster actually flipping its shit and killing people - establishing that yes, they are super dangerous - and at the end it turns out that it was killing two of the few people that had tried to understand it. That's an okay ending, I like that ending.

I also just really like the feel and pace of the movie. It works as a fantasy travelogue to a place that kind of actually exists on Earth in real life(???). I enjoyed and rewatched Troll Hunter for the same reason.

*nonwhite people
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Monsters by Mischief Maker 08/31/2016, 7:05am PDT NEW
    I liked this movie a lot (spoilers continue) by Fullofkittens 08/31/2016, 6:57pm PDT NEW
        Oh! Oh. That was not my interpretation at all. (spoilers) by Mischief Maker 08/31/2016, 9:35pm PDT NEW
            (more spoilers) by Fullofkittens 09/01/2016, 6:16pm PDT NEW
    How long do you have to stick with it by fabio 09/01/2016, 7:33am PDT NEW
        Re: How long do you have to stick with it NT by Wow that was a bit harsh 09/01/2016, 7:51am PDT NEW
        if you watch it from beginning to end you will see the good parts NT by Fullofkittens 09/01/2016, 6:07pm PDT NEW
 
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