Honestly movie monster design has been bland and boring for almost my entire lifetime. The 80′s had a few gems but eventually everything was just a ripoff of either Alien or Predator and today almost every film creature is a grey rubbery elephant dinosaur man.
I like some of the things I’ve seen from that new Kong movie at least, like the big stick insect, but we’re still such a tragically far cry from the fantastical monster boom of the 50′s
Bring back B.E.M’s
Let monsters be outrageous and colorful in “serious” and “adult” works again
I think someone along the way decided “better available effects = inherently needs to be more realistic” and honestly that’s like the exact opposite of what should have happened? I mean like you’d think with the constant evolution of special effects if someone actually approached one of these designs with the goal of treating it as seriously as yet another Gigeresque biomechanoid they would absolutely still be terrifying as all hell
