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Old 04-13-09, 12:42 PM
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Two good examples of this are Daredevil and Nightcrawler. Daredevil turned out to be a blind guy in a red suit and not the devil as the poster suggested. Nightcrawler, while a heroic monster, didn't get included in the next film. An obvious snub to his vocal monster-base of fans.


*Side note, I hope people know this entire thread is clever joke on the laughable "Why does Hollywood hate Christians" post. I say this because a few of the responses seem to not get the joke and are trying to figure out why everyone is calling them a gay fish.
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Woah woah woah! I am not gay and I am not a fish! I am the genius voice of a generation!
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It doesn't help that all of these monsters are straight. If there was someone brave enough to make a movie about a gay monster is would surely win an oscar.

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This thread is a joke, correct?
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So I am browsing through the old releases, and I see this film called The Wolf Man with Lon Chaney on the cover in wolf man makeup. I don’t have to even read the film description. I know it is just another slap at the face of monsters.

Sadly, I can’t recall one single movie by a major studio which portrayed monsters in a positive light. Monsters, Inc. offered some positive monster elements, but hard to include that film since it uses kid-friendly animated monsters. Totally unnecessary. If you can get past the cuddly creatures and celebrity voices, Aliens vs. Monsters can be seen as pro-monster (although it can be argued that Aliens are included in the monster genre). But a film that completely demonstrates monsters in a positive light? Not a chance.

It is almost like the heads of studios have a deep rooted liberal atheist mindset, and they are determined to present their world views on film. Instead, their idea of monsters is Frankenstein. A guy who pieces together dead people to create a monster in an offensive manner to all Monsters

Whenever we do see monsters portrayed on film, it is almost always in the form of murderers. You have some corrupt vampire doing bad things, or a giant insect eating people, or in the case of Godzilla, a giant lizard who likes to stomp buildings. The fact that Hollywood represents a world where scary creatures are the only form of monsters is offensive enough. For the uneducated, many of the monster teachings and practices are not even found in the monster handbook.

They are completely clueless about a huge region in the United States known as the Monster Belt. Millions of monsters attend church every Sunday in a fashion that is almost never represented on film. The closest example I’ve seen is the church scenes done in The Munsters and The Addams Family which were financed outside Hollywood by Robert Duvall (or something like that).

So why do we even need movies about monsters? Because obviously, there is a high demand for it. Mothra was a grass roots film made outside the Hollywood machinery. The film was a massive success, and even more so on dvd. The dvd remains on Amazon’s bestseller list. The film was also mocked and panned by Hollywood. If it is really that bad, why would people buy the dvd?

There is a huge market for positive monster films, yet Hollywood’s hatred will not even let profit sway them.
That has started to change in a big way with vampires. Vampires are no longer evil and part of Satan. They can fall in love and care.
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When has Hollywood ever treated a monster with anything but the utmost respect?



Oh, wait. Nevermind.
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It's funny as hell, but why didn't this thread get locked like the others?

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