Warning: Spoilers! This is for people who've seen both movies. Maybe somebody can explain what doesn't make sense for me here.
So, apparently:
I understand that it's a horror movie... and I love the immersiveness of these movies, but I've seen so many of the same kind of shrieking flailing monsters (just with different skin and bone structure) in modern movies that I need something more to feel real scares from them; having them be more believable than "we're just here to scare you" tactics reduces that immersion.
Cillian Murphy made it a little more believable for me, but predictable quiet-then-loud jump scares and random spazzy monsters ended up making it feel more like a Grade-A B-movie than something deeper like Jaws or The Thing or Alien. Yah I'm old-school, but the believability of the monster goes a long way in a horror movie for me.
So, apparently:
- WARNING: "Monster Attribute 1" spoilers belowThey don't eat anything, they just like beating people up.
- WARNING: "Monster Attribute 2" spoilers belowThey have super-normal hearing, but no sense of smell (the top sense of most animal-like predators on the planet).
- WARNING: "Monster Attribute 3" spoilers belowThey can tell when a person has stepped on a twig, but they don't attack the noisy boats rattling around the dock all the time.
- WARNING: "Monster Attribute 4" spoilers belowThey're strong enough to bash, throw around, and shred apart giant metal barrels, warehouse scaffolding, and cars, but can't rip apart a metal furnace or car when the protagonists are in it (plot armor?).
- WARNING: "Monster Attribute 5" spoilers belowThey land on a planet with 70 percent water, but can't swim.
I understand that it's a horror movie... and I love the immersiveness of these movies, but I've seen so many of the same kind of shrieking flailing monsters (just with different skin and bone structure) in modern movies that I need something more to feel real scares from them; having them be more believable than "we're just here to scare you" tactics reduces that immersion.
Cillian Murphy made it a little more believable for me, but predictable quiet-then-loud jump scares and random spazzy monsters ended up making it feel more like a Grade-A B-movie than something deeper like Jaws or The Thing or Alien. Yah I'm old-school, but the believability of the monster goes a long way in a horror movie for me.