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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

While I agree modern weaponry could blow apart anything normal, even crazily tough material, I think a huge part of why movie monsters at least used to be super interesting has been really lost with modern CGI. Since anything is visually possible, nothing is surprising any more. A lot of what made old movie monsters so crazy and impressive was explicitly the "normal" things they could shrug off.

Kinda' like how in the first Independence Day movie, it was so crazy when the mothership shrugged off a nuke. These days, it's just, "oh, well that didn't work".

Much like how I'm sure older movies used to be really crazy when a monster could shrug off a large calibre gun or tank round or missile/etc. It is literally impressive, but no longer visually stimulating like it should be.