>The bad sea monsters are spiny and angular
>The good sea monsters are soft, monocoloured blobs
It's babby's first character design.
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The sea beast (2022)
The good sea monster is pure sex.
I'd let Red sit on my face any day.
Haven’t seen this but I hope they boiled and ate that claw monster like a lobster, looks like it’d taste good
The ultimate goal was to make obvious references to other movies.
Dear Dreamworks and whoever these guys are. Lizards don't have their eye sockets near their nostrils. That would be hell for them, thanks.
>That would be hell for them
why? too cold?
U wot?
You know nothing about reptiles and aquatic biology.
Oops, you didn't expect me to have photoshop ready to make a comparison, did you?
Holy autism, imagine being upset a cartoon exaggerated anatomy to underscore character. Next you're going to tell me human skulls don't look like this
I wanna frick Red
Eh I guess. I wouldn't actively pursue it but at least she's nice and there usually aren't a lot of female monsters around.
Even though this reference is obvious it's also natural enough (and relatively obscure) that it's not a problem. It's certainly not an Akira bike slide level of annoying.
>Nothing dies or kills anything: the monster movie
fricking horrible.
SJWs shouldn't be allowed to touch anything.
Green Monster died
Gov monster Hunter ships died too
Why can't we have a monter hunting movie?
we did, it even starred Millia jovonanobovovich
>Nothing dies or kills anything: the monster movie
Did you not see the Imperator getting bodied by Red, presumably taking most of its crew with her? Just like Captain Crow predicted.
Was he unironically the only interesting design in the movie? Red is well...red Toothless, there was the generic little monsters, and then a....crab...
>it's another "it turns out it's the HUMANS who were... LE BAD" movie
There. I just saved a bunch of people almost two hours.
Correction, a wealthy elite controlling the media are lying to you to sow race conflict for their own profit and continued control
>a wealthy elite controlling the media are lying to you to sow race conflict for their own profit and continued control
I was kinda shocked when it turned out that the movie actually did this. How the FRICK did they get away with it?
>How the FRICK did they get away with it?
Shit talking capitalism without actually saying capitalism in a kids film isn't much to worry about. Sometimes shows can outright critique it and still get aired.
Literally nobody disagrees about elites controlling everything and sowing division. The only difference is whether or not you think it's "Le Jooz".
Why do I get "mom mourning her dead family"-vibes from it?
This, Red seemed to have more like a sort of motherly care and protectiveness towards Maisie and Jacob instead of just friendship.
Why did the girl decide the beast was a female, anyway? She just got that kind of a vibe for no apparent reason. In fact, she seemed to do that multiple times; she jumped to conclusions with weak justification but turned out to be right in the end (she figured the beast saw and understood the rope-cutting drama, and that the beasts weren't actually evil, and that there was a conspiracy, and that you have to speak in a special way in order to give the beast swimming directions).
The only matter where she wasn't proven to be correct was the beast's gender. The characters referred to it as "she", but there was no actual confirmation of that. I thought it'd become plot-relevant and she'd turn out to be a mother or something, but apparently not.
im guessing canonically its a she from the director bcuz muh woman stronk.
could also be handwaved away as a naval tradition thing, ships are referred to as women, prob the same goes for any beasts they see
>Protects her babies from the captain that was about to shoot them
>Brings her babies home to the island where seamonster babies are hatched
>Protects her babies from a hungry crab kaiju
>Feeds her babies by herding fish for them
>Shelters her babies from a lightning storm
>Seems legit shocked when she accidentally hurt one of her babies
Let's call it what it is: Jacob and Maisie got adopted.
It's also seen in her attitude, unlike Toothless she doesn't energetically display affection nor does she play with them, instead she just accepts affection and observes while at most making an exasperated expression at Jacob when he does something dumb. It may be a HTTYD clone but at least the nature of the relationship was different.
Kinda racist ngl.
the bad sea monster wasn't even that evil to begin with. He was just hungry and wasn't killed for his actions.
>ruins your euro emissions records
Nothin personelle kid
This movie had so much potential. The first 15 minutes are pure kino with an awesome set up the world and its lore. A demonstration of how people in this world deal with giant sea monsters and a legitamately touching relationship between Jacob and Crow. We even get this great set up for a challenge between Crow's crew and the royal navy. But then it all goes to hell because rather than tell a fun unique action adventure story about fighting deadly monsters we get a dime store version of How to Train Your Dragon that is inferior in every way. A character arc that feels forced with motivations that make no sense to how the characters ultimately change their life view. It sucks so hard that something that started off so great goes straight to hell just because the director didn't want a straightforward monster slaying adventure.
This.
I was hoping for Pacific Rim on the high seas.
I'm I the only one that wished they made red look scary looking
bruh
bruh^2
>Design team lead: How do we make sure the audience knows Red is a female?
>Designer 1: We drop the current concept and have it look softer and rounder.
>Designer 2: And eyeliner. It should wear eyeliner.
>Design team lead: Genius! I think we deserve a bonus after solving this conundrum.
I love this post because you can tell they're seething because the strat absolutely worked, angel was the most popular character to start out in that show
Good sheep, keep sucking the corporate wiener.
>it's the, good things need to obviously look good and have mass appeal school of thought
I cretainly find thereopod-like dragons cuter and cooler and kids like dinos and monsters that are giant reptiles. Maybe in the 18th or 19th century people would find reptiles disgusting.
What kids want these pussy monsters as their friends? When I was a kid I wanted to ride something like pic related into battle
They probably wanted something less like a cute real animal and something that would look more sentient.
>It's babby's first character design.
Yeah which means its character design babbys understand. Its a ripoff movie for kids where the red one looks like Toothless, and I watched it because it gave me MH Tri vibes (it even has a dragonator and Jhen Moran battle).
If you want the same concept but way better, watch Love & Monsters.
The only monster that had a good design was the one that died. All the others were just animals. Red was just a fricking seal.
Just saw the movie last night. Of course the movie was what I thought it was gonna be.
>humans were the bad guys
>white people bad
>little girl is perfect in every way and cannot do anything wrong
>whatever she says is right
Gamera 3 almost had an inversion of this. Iris was supposed to look soft and cute while Gamera was supposed to look scary and evil
Iris did nothing wrong. Gamera killed all those people and her parents. Gamera had it coming and I hope all the Gyaos killed him at the end.
Not intentionally. He stops giant monsters from destroying the world, there will be collateral.
Only baby Iris is like that. Adult Iris was inspired by some Yu Gi Oh or Magic the Gathering card and it does look fairly anime-like.
I mean the concept art. Look at some of it
So they wanted their Gigan. Guy who's almost entirely made of sharp edges.
They already had a Gigan before Gigan was a thing
Gamera 2015 was a god-tier way to do something like this
What did everyone think of the little girl? Was she well written?
She got a place on the ship by speeching, and she saved Red from getting cannon'd by speeching.
She was obnoxious and only there to voice the plot's morality.
And the funny thing is that the story would have improved with her absence, because then the main characters would have go through *actual* realization and character growth.
I liked her. She was cute. Well written though? Nah.
>closet racist is mad that a chocolat QUEEN is the best character of the movie
Was this movie good?
It's a worse(bad) version of How to Train Your Dragon
It was okay but the finale was hard to sit through. It's pathetic bullshit that gives kids expectations that people will listen to them, ever. People can also change their opinions they had for hundreds of years in an instant just because a random girl talks to them and tells them everything they know was fake, it seems.
And finally, the message "just because you're wrong doesn't mean you're bad" is kinda toxic nowadays.
The movie should have been the sea monster version of Kaiju Ouji. Such a missed opportunity.
that looks terrifying, actually doing a better show than showa godzilla
Do they even bother to explain why some monsters are nice?
Monsters are divided into "destroyers" and "protectors" factions and humans have to learn to cooperate with the good monsters so they can keep the natural balance.
Or was that a different movie? Must've been How to Train Your Dragon.
>humans have to learn to cooperate with the good monsters so they can keep the natural balance.
You wish. Humans are banned from exploring the sea at the end of the movie, forever. Instead of studying the monsters. I shit you not.
Are you serious?
So many monster movies have pro-environment message or have monsters as good guys. I don't think it ever ends up quite like that. Maybe on accident.
Should've just told them not to overfish or something.
>Should've just told them not to overfish or something.
They said they'd stop hunting monsters so there's no reason not to explore the seas and study the monsters. But it's explicitely stated humans are banned from going too far off the shore.
>humans are banned from going too far off the shore.
Which is decided when a little girl overthrew a whole Empire with a speech to a 100 people, too...
Yeah i'm like a 100% sure that's htyd because i feel that was one of the few things that kept it interesting like how you always had bad dragons who were violent or attackers that allowed for some form of non forced conflict and not just a no were the bad ones plot like this movie
also so about this movie does anyone else feel it should have been a show like 7 to 10 eps so we could actually flesh these characters out more everything felt so fast and unmotivated like we learned about stuff as it happened like that witch b***h
If anyone's interested in my episode-based idea
>episode 1 starts the same as the beginning (it had a great beginning) so we keep it the same and reach up to the point where we get the captain waking up from almost dying (also because of Chekhov's gun we make whatever that big beast from the opening and jacobs back story the big bad cause frick it why not)
>episode 2 we get to the part where crow gives his captain spot to his *son* and then we keep the same til we reach the contest part and through this we will start the real change
>Episode 3-5 or so we basically actually have time to develop characters the world get a fish out of water with the girl being the new kid on the sea also we can have time to play around with the contest like so we don't feel they will lose so obviously in the fight with the red bluster and also have us root more against the gov ship show them getting ahead on crow because they refuse to help other ships and stuff like that but also show how they easily completely over power some mid tier beast big enough we think damn they op but small enough it's not weird that they lose to the bluster later also ACTUALLY SHOW US THE MONARCH BACKSTORY shit make that the whole a episode
>episode 6 is either the monarch backstory or when they fight the bluster i'd feel a good way to develop the girl would be to have the monarch backstory correlate with the bluster like around when the backstory/story ends about the monarch at the end of an ep have the bluster appear
>Episode 7 the whole ep is the bluster fight show signs that the bluster can be violent and how it goes then it ends the same but now we can add character to the girl by having her know what it's like to have a hunter crew die and them being like her family so that's why she cuts the rope not just fear so have her think about her parents and the people on the monarch and her other development from the other eps.
ok deadass this all i got i have no good ending any ideas?
>we're expected to believe that just like that, both humans and monsters are all willing to immediately give up their hundreds of years conflict with one another
I kinda feel like he didn't pay the price for using the witch. His losses were an effect from the actions of Jacob and Maisie, not his own.
best character in the movie
poor mister Ahab just cant seem to get that darned whale.
that beast hunting tattoo/icon still looks pretty cool though, perfect for me to steal for my oh see donut steel rpg setting's coastal area.
Yeah they really glossed over that bit
>"what will it cost?"
>"everything!"
>nothing happens
Imagine an inversion of this kind of shit
>Little kid discovers cute monster and befriends it
>Bigger, scarier monster shows up and starts wrecking shit
>We're led to believe the cutesy monster is the hero
>SIKE, the "Cutesy monster" was a horrible, manipulative beast that devours the child and tries to consume as many things as it can, growing to a massive size.
>The "Scary" monster was actually trying to stop it
I thought it'd be cool
Reads like an episode of Love, Death & Robots.
Is that a bad thing?
No.
But, it would take it outside of the confines of a kid's film.
The kid doesn't necessarily need to be killed, just proven wrong
The message is "Critical thinking is important and listening to adults is also important"
Why was the little girl who knew nothing or the world and monsters right 100% of the time?
black
how dare you?! listen to the child! listen to greta!
I rolled my eyes when he “discovered” that the kingdom made up all the monster lies just because they wrote all the books. She had zero proof and they just jumped to that Conclusion.
She (and the story) skipped some steps there, yeah.
To be fair, she did know something of it. She read a lot about monsters and hunters because her parents used to be on a hunting ship too. She was very interested in monster-hunting before the events of the movie.
But yeah, she did have an annoying tendency to be constantly right.
>Well Magical Black folks are alright when the side I like uses them
You're so deep in your Muttism that you're literally defending Niggvination, where the black character has apparently read the script using their melanin energy.
It's just stupid no matter how I look at it. I hate this movie.
OP is baby's first recognition of shape theory in animation
fixed. Now it's normal.
shit, no. The nostrils are also in the wrong position for a marine animal. Fricking dreamworks.
>dreamworks
Uh anon you are aware this isn't a Dreamworks movie right?
And why. Just WHY, would this thing have horizontal slit pupils?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only small predators have them, there's a reason for an animal to evolve this trait, being a giant aquatic monster isn't a reason!!!!
It's fixed now.
Stop nitpicking and just enjoy the design.
Design? It’s just a fricking seal or sea lion. There is no design. Vg0mx
looks fun
>make a movie about giant monsters
>make it boring
I had more fun watching that shitty godzilla movie where minilla befriends a boy than watching this thing
Godzilla’s Revenge is dogshit. You don’t mean that.
at least it's so bad it's funny, this is just mediocre and a waste of potential that was watered down because Americans are pussies that can't handle giant monsters