{"id":267,"date":"2014-05-20T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T09:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=267"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:09:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:09:47","slug":"the-worlds-most-terrifying-big-movie-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/05\/20\/the-worlds-most-terrifying-big-movie-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"The World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Most Terrifying Big Movie Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The billionth version of Godzilla<\/em> recently stomped onto cinema screens, and it\u2019s actually pretty good. It\u2019s got Bryan \u201d\u02dcWalter White\u2019 Cranston in it, there are more explosions than an amateur cooking class and, of course, there\u2019s ol\u2019 Lizard chops himself, wreaking havoc and generally being awesome.<\/p>\n

Of course, we should confess that we\u2019re suckers for big monster movies here at musicMagpie, so much so that we once wrote and pitched our own. Unfortunately, no-one was up for making \u201d\u02dcAttack of the 100ft Magpie\u2019, even though we promised to give the movie execs extra special rates on their unwanted DVDs<\/a> and Blu-Rays<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Hollywood has given us some brilliant movie giants in the past. Here are our favourites.<\/p>\n

T-Rex…from Jurassic Park<\/h3>\n

Let\u2019s be honest, there\u2019s only one reason people watch Jurassic Park<\/em> \u201d\u201c the bit where that bloke is on the bog and ends up getting eaten by a big T-Rex. It\u2019s as funny today as it was in 1993 (provided you aren\u2019t said bloke, in which case…erm, sorry).<\/p>\n

We can all learn something from T-Rex (who, like Clint Eastwood in the Dollars<\/em> saga, doesn\u2019t have a name). For example, when caged in by electric fences, he just roars loudly and knocks them down, a parallel for our own struggles with barriers and restrictions (probably).<\/p>\n

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Nowhere to park? Just stamp your feet and roar loudly (it helps if you have big teeth)!<\/em><\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t let adversity stop him, either. He knows he has silly arms, and he knows he\u2019ll never be able to feel the warm embrace of a female T-Rex on a cold winter\u2019s night (his arms are too short for cuddling, you see). But he doesn\u2019t let that get him down. Nope, he soldiers on, munching through the cast with all the glee of a 5 year-old eating cake at a birthday party.<\/p>\n

He isn\u2019t all senseless murder, though. When the (very annoying) kids are in danger from sneaky velociraptors, T miraculously comes and saves them. Alright, he probably just wanted a fight with the raptors, but it made him look good all the same.<\/p>\n

King Kong…from King Kong<\/h3>\n

King Kong tells a love story as old as time; big monkey meets woman, big monkey falls in love with woman, big monkey gets shot by a load of planes and falls to his death off the top of the Empire State Building.<\/p>\n

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A face only a mother and\/or terrified woman could love<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a little bit unfair to include Double-K on a list of monsters because, really, he\u2019s just a big soppy romantic. After years spent laying waste to dinosaurs on Skull Island, Kong finally finds purpose when he meets the beautiful Ann Darrow, a normal-sized human woman who fits neatly into the palm of his hand. A pocket girlfriend, if you will (but not that<\/i> kind of pocket girlfriend…get your mind out of the gutter!).<\/p>\n

Then, he gets captured and taken to New York, where he has to sit on a stage while Jack Black tells the world how brilliant he is for capturing him. Is it any wonder he gets a bit peeved and starts smashing stuff?<\/p>\n

Moth-ra…from (Japanese) Godzilla<\/h3>\n

Believe it or not, Godzilla isn\u2019t a \u201d\u02dcbad guy\u2019 in Japan. He\u2019s actually the star of his own series of movies in which he fights other big monsters. If you picture the end of every Power Rangers episode ever made (seriously, why don\u2019t they just start in the giant robot?) and you\u2019re more or less there.<\/p>\n

One of Godzilla\u2019s most popular opponents is Moth-ra, who (unsurprisingly) is a giant moth.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll be honest, we haven\u2019t really seen any of the films with Moth-ra in, but we like\/are terrified by the idea of a giant moth for the following reasons:<\/p>\n