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Has there ever been a good movie with a giant monster destroying the world?

Professor Rape

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Think Cthulhu (which I dont think has ever been done). Just a giant monster that's really tall walking around and destroying shit.

In the movie The Myst there was a really cool scene with what I'm looking for, but it was only one scene:



There's a bunch of shit fucking movies with huge monsters but they're just gay fuckin shit... like cloverfield etc. Not scary or creepy at all.

I had a nightmare last night where there was a giant fucking monster like Cthulhu overlooking the world. Not attacking yet, but about to. It was horrifying. Where's movies like that?
 
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Myst has some great elements, the film is better if it ends on that final shot of the car which is more a 'Thing'-like ending IMHO.

The scene linked is perfect- humanity is fucked, there's no way out of this shit and you can't even comprehend the horror that's coming, great stuff.

I hear the English film Night of the Demon (57) has a sense of what you're looking for, it's one that comes up over and over but I haven't seen it yet. I remember Godzilla vs Smog Monster (Hedorah) being one of the more creepy entries. They're not monster movies but the Quatermass films are also eerie/atmospheric in a lovecrafty type way. Recently saw The Dunwich Horror (1970) - there's only the bit at the end when the 'entity' starts trashing the place, its talky, not great but for a Lovecraft diehard its worth watching.
 
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UnPRePared

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Do you mind subtitles? Gojira is sincerely great - it's not too slow and has an excellent ending. Yes, it's a metaphor for Hiroshima, but it's still a good one.

The big problem is a lot of the massive monster movies are very routine, and if the monster doesn't look the part, it takes you out of it. There's a reason The Deadly Mantis ended up on MST3K. The Giant Behemoth and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms are cheesy, but I enjoy them.

However, if you want a film about not attacking the world YET, and that impending dread, it's not a monster movie, but it is the kind of tone you're asking for: the original Day The Earth Stood Still. It's very cerebral science fiction, back when the genre was both booming and relatively new, but it's excellent and plays well even today.
 
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UnPRePared said:
I've heard great things about Minus One, but have not watched it yet.

Shin Godzilla was supposed to be good, though.
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I preferred Minus One over Shin Godzilla, but both are worth watching if you’re a fan.
 
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