> The movie world has some pretty daft ideas about the way animals and
> monsters look and behave.
>
> First, and most irritating, is the "head jut, shake and ROAR" routine.
> Even the green "Hulk" did it. The pointless jut, shake and ROAR is
> employed in any situation - chasing people, turning, looking, just
> before eating, and in times of high emotion and drama. But have you seen
> an animal do that? It just looks ... crass.
>
> Second is the dearth, or complete lack of bumholes. Spielberg's Jurassic
> Park monsters, for example, apart from doing the endlessly irritating
> shake and roar at the drop of a hat, occasionally also drop their guard
> and look and behave suspiciously like Tom and Jerry cutesies, without
> that nasty but vital anal dimension. Which is not surprising as
> Spielberg picked up his monster template from watching cartoons in his
> youth, endlessly, year upon year, locked in his bedroom, apparently.
>
> Third, is the "kill the nasty monster/alien" routine employed against
> all genetic newcomers. Monsters are set up to be nasty, of course, so ...

> even the new ones, seem to be
> cloned from a synthesis of old characters

> Can we have some new movie monster writers, please?