Comments on: Gareth Edwards’ Monsters Review

By: freaks

freaks — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:06:10 +0000

i love this movie, i just read review on IMDB and the movie is great to watch

thanks for reviewing this movie.

By: Tacitus

Tacitus — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:44:20 +0000

Wonderful and beautiful film. If only James Cameron would take notes! John of A-Hole, in the movie, the aliens are portrayed not as noble creatures seeking a land of opportunity in America, but merely as forces of nature…sometimes beautiful, but most times rampaging and killing innocent people. Indeed the two Americans (and the locals they meet) are quite humanistic. Even from the start, the two American stars are not portrayed as evil US citizens who “wake up” after their journey, but as normal decent people caught in an act of nature that the US AND the Mexicans have yet to learn how to deal with. You can impose what you want on any film…I could say this film was anti-press, as the star was encouraged to take pictures of death and carnage and that aspect is an important part of the dialogue. Or I could say it was symbolic of global warming, these rampaging monsters growing and spreading and displacing people as all the US’s technology and half-measures become more and more impotent in face of this awesome force. In the end, maybe the best movie is one you can interpret personally. Personally I see a subtle love and adventure story. So why don’t you let everyone else make up their mind before YOU, John, shill for your right-wing knee-jerk factory.

By: Elena Nola

Elena Nola — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:19:34 +0000

Isocrates – glad I’m not the only who’s seen it!

John of insight – clearly you have none. did you even see the movie before shooting your mouth off? didn’t think so.

By: John of insight

John of insight — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 06:28:23 +0000

This reviewer is a shill for the movie and movie-maker. It’s an alien/romance movie wrapped around a thinly-veiled accusation of America and its policies toward Mexican and other immigrants coupled with just about every other anti-American sentiment. Americans are portrayed as distant, war-mongering, wall-building, destructive, whale-killing, rich idiots who care nothing for nature or other races of the world.

In this movie, America is building a big, expensive wall to keep out the “aliens” (read illegal aliens) who are not bad but only want to live their peaceful, loving lives where they please, and deserve to live. The gas-masks are not for a defense against the aliens, but the Americans who drop chemical weapons on everyone. The revelation is that we–the Americans–are the weapons of mass destruction wreaked upon the world. Anyone–in the director’s opinion–in their right mind, if they care to take a walk on the wild side, wouldn’t want to call the U.S. “home.”

Hey shill: take a pill! We who –think– unmasked your plot to infiltrate the minds of young Americans. Why not make your movie about the horrible British who hate the rest of the world? Take a good look at yourselves before you come attacking us for the policies you hate but don’t have to defend.

By: Isocrates

Isocrates — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:19:23 +0000

Very worthy review and I second both the excellence of this film and also its inclusion as an early runner for your top 10 sci-fi of the next decade.