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[quote name="Mischief Maker"]Monsters Surprisingly good-looking movie made on a shoestring budget. I liked it quite a bit. But in retrospect I have a huge bone to pick with the film (spoilers): <FONT COLOR="000000">One of the problems with the director hand-crafting all the CG is it becomes almost impossible for him to throw out weeks of effort because a scene just doesn't work. I wish they left out the night vision beginning scene/true ending. First of all, seeing the characters all die at the end is a lame Blair Witch/Cloverfield kind of rimshot ending that only works if the FOCUS of the movie is the monsters and how dangerous and scary they are. Second, the rest of the movie seems like it was set up to gradually reveal the look of the monsters until the mating scene at the gas station when you see them full-on. That would have been great, except in the night vision scene we already saw the monsters full on so that layer of mystery is entirely spoiled. Finally, the CG in the night vision scene looks the most fake out of all the entire movie. I was surprised how good they looked at the gas station scene after how awful they looked in the night vision scene.</FONT> But I'm mostly angry about that one part because the rest of the movie is so refreshing. I recommend it. Is the sequel Dark Continent any good? The trailers look awful, actually.[/quote]