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What a Lazy creatures ??!!! ( Spoiler ........)

posted 14 years ago by mai_moaaz
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spoiler alert

...these creatures are very lazy they can't go fishing themselves. they need someone to bring them the dinner at midnight.they also can't just kill the victims on the train when they are brought in the very isolated area in the tunnel. no they need them to be already killed ! they don't want them to be suffocated by gas leak in the subway or by gun shots but only to be stabbed and cut, they also can't just eat them while clothes on.they need someone to undress them and hang them to be more easier and tasty !!! sophisticated and aristocratic creatures !!
what a movie ?!!

[–] tvilkov 14 years ago

maybe there's more to this than you think. What if the creatures have ... an agreement with humans? Thing is that they maybe are "staying quiet" if they are looked after, and if not... all hell will break loose on the surface.

[–] adalsteinn-pk 14 years ago

or that this movie is incredibly boring and the ending just killed it for me... Going from a serial killer ( again not me knowing about no short story or read anything else about the movie ) to some demon creature CRAP!!. If i want to watch a creature movie, i want to know that on the beforehand like The Thing or Alien... GOD THIS MOVIE WAS A MESS

[–] laeyisoracle 14 years ago

It's not that they are lazy, more than it's they are the masters of humanity(majority of humanity doesn't know it). Those who are aware do their bidding, and are giving high ranks in human society. Those are aware SERVE their masters. It has nothing to do with laziness, more than it has everything to do with loyalty to the masters. It's like a rich person hiring a butler, live-in cook and servants for their mansion, they wait on the rich person, bring them food and make their life comfortable, in exchange for a nip at the rich person's fortune.

[–] odddnightmare 14 years ago

well said

...aND i uSeD To THiNK WeiRD WaS aN iNSuLT

[–] dexshirts 14 years ago

I think a few folk have missed the idea of the movie here. For me, and others I recommended to watch it, the demon monster creatures at the end were an exciting shock to the plot that we didn't expect and was a kind of 'woah, no way!' moment.

How many people thought he was either providing meat to regular butchers, or was older than his appearance and had been doing this since the beginning of the train timetables in his bag...? Somehow, cheating time...

I can totally understand the concept of a master race of beastly creatures kept quiet by nightly offerings of food. As a primal creature, all they care about is their next meal, so keep them fed, don't bite the hand that feeds you and they're content. They'd have no reason to go on a rampage, for what? More food?

Mahogany was an interesting character, whom didn't have to say a word but was intensely creepy and disturbing. You wanted to know if someone was controlling him, or if he was just a serial killer.

The undressing and preparation of the victims I believe was meant to symbolise the simple 'meat factor' of humans to these creatures, and the visual comparison of Mahogany working in a meat processing factory should convey that representation that while we think and feel, we are at the end of the day just another source of meat for a creature higher in the food chain. So we're stripped, bled and hung from hooks.

The only thing I couldn't get away with was Leon's immediate acceptance of his new responsibility to serve and kill people... he lost his friends, his girlfriend. Either he'd have nothing left to live for, without those, and his tongue... or he'd try to escape and get away from the city...? Not immediately just replace Mahogany.

[–] keykeyx100000 14 years ago

Hey, don't discriminate. Monsters can be divas too...

;)

[–] MasterlessSamurai 14 years ago

Leon had a choice, either serve or die.

Personally I would've chosen to die, and damn the consequences, if the "Monsters" didn't have a Butcher, they would have most likely risen to the surface and plunged the world deep into Chaos. I die, everyone dies, but that is just my personality.

In addition to being grotesque beasties, they clearly had "magical" powers seeing as they can bestow longevity of life and great strength upon a mortal man, judging by Mahogany and the Driver ( if he was human at all ). Which leads me to believe these monsters are exceptionally powerful, long lived, and most likely cannot be killed, unless you somehow deliver a nuclear payload to their lair, hoping that would even do the job, that is even if we could get the army in gear after the wholesale slaughter of man begins.

I knew Leon was going to join however, not only because he lost his friend and lover, but he is the "hero" and has a sacrificial personality. He would prefer to do the deed of killing a few civilians for the sacrifice/banquet/dinner than see more people suffer the loss of life and loved ones if the creatures "deal" was broken. Needs of the many outweigh the few, so the few die so humanity can continue to exist.

I don't think for a second Leon will enjoy the killing, which brings a special dimension upon Mahogany, he clearly is a human that also had his tongue removed. So although he is portrayed as a heartless serial killer. Imposing evil figure. I don't think he truly is evil. He like Leon now, had to do this terrible work.

[–] bartvanree 14 years ago

I still don't understand why the whole monster-species-creatures are so dangerous. Why not drive a wagonload of explosives into their cosy little home and end the whole thing?
Considering how many (few) people have to die to feed them; it can't be all to many of them?

So if I was in Leons position I certainly would try to find a way to end it all.

Maybe a well-written dialogue between the police officer and Leon would have helped me to get this idea out of my mind. Like how impossible it is to harm them because this and that...

But without that I'm leaving the movie with a strong urge for revenge!

[–] drxcreatures 13 years ago

Maybe they knew that Leon would be easy to coerce, since he was chosen.

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[–] sick_desperation 13 years ago

In the story it goes something like this: they (the festering monsters) are the CEOs, bankers, media moguls, top politicians... those that move in the shadows, the ones that pull the strings... so of course you wouldn't kill them. They 'keep the trains arriving on time'. Society (as we know it, at least) would fall apart without the administrators and mayors.

It's not very different than most of the Illuminatti/Mason/Lizard People stuff that the internet is crowded of.

[–] televizor_himself 13 years ago

I have the book in front of me right now.
The creatures were the ones that created the City (new york), some of them even older than the idea of building the city.
And in the book there also seems to be (I saw the movie once and don't remember if this was in it) a gigantic precursor of man, that lived there even before the native americans, a creature without a head or members that looked like a bunch of fish on land, the Father of the Builders.
And the builders that talks to Kaufman says that they can't survive without food and they looked frail and very old.
Nowhere in the books is it implied that they had supernatural powers (other than the longevity, ofc) and/or could bestow others with powers.

[–] Rena_Mahone 13 years ago

As people already said, the monsters did not hunt humans because they had an agreement, a pact with society.

Boycott movies that involve real animal violence! (and their directors too)

[–] Z_cm 13 years ago

But why couldn't they just eat ungulates like the rest of us?

[–] PotatoMonsters 9 years ago

Why do we breed caddle?