When Portman and four other women scientists are sent into the densely forested Shimmer area to try to suss out what's going on in there, they're set upon by
giant creatures with big sharp teeth and bad dispositions.
The excitement of director Guillermo del Toro was palpable as the camera lingered on monster gore, the intricacies of the piloting program or the simple badassery of a giant robot hitting
a giant creature with a boat.
Not exact matches
Starship's robot is a far more practical delivery
creature than Fudgems, the
giant brownie that used to terrorize customers in Domino's commercials by covering them
with chocolate fudge.
And until recently, the other half of Ma's prediction was also true: China's tech
giants were mostly domestic
creatures,
with no real presence overseas.
@chris parker, «As more and more of these
giant, mysterious
creatures science called dinosaurs were discovered there was a chance that they could have been associated
with the dragons of «recorded history» but instead were placed by science by use of the geologic column to an age millions of years ago.»
This week we hear stories on how a bat varies its heart rate to avoid starving,
giant wombatlike
creatures that once migrated across Australia, and the downsides of bedbugs» preference for dirty laundry
with Online News Editor David Grimm.
If David Oren could find just one of the horrifying
creatures he knows are out there — huge sloths
with giant claws and a reputation for twisting off the heads of humans — he could save the world's largest rain forest
«The Daohugou Biota gives us a look at a rarely glimpsed side of the Middle to Late Jurassic - not a parade of galumphing
giants, but an assemblage of quirky little
creatures like feathered dinosaurs, pterosaurs
with advanced heads on primitive bodies, and the Mesozoic equivalent of a flying squirrel,» lead author Corwin Sullivan, an associate professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, was quoted as saying in a press release.
From the smallest microbe to the largest dinosaurs and from the tiniest spore to the biggest
giant sequoia, biological research continues to uncover weird and wonderful secrets of the
creatures with whom we share the planet
with — and could soon extend to the study of life on bodies in the solar system beyond our home.
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In order to escape
giant bird - pterodactyl -
creature thing, for example, I had to ward it off
with a pulse laser, create a linking portal from a skyscraper to the ground, AND utilize an anti-grav cushioning device to save ANI and ION from becoming bird food.
You know, I can't remember «Lake Placid 2 ″ or «Lake Placid 3,» but here we are
with the fourth - and - purportedly last film in the
giant crocodile
creature features.
► A man and a woman steal a Medevac helicopter and fly to stop
creatures from destroying a city: they see a
giant wolf jump into the air and bite three helicopters in half while the wolf and a
giant gorilla destroy buildings and vehicles into rubble and smoke; something swims fast under the surface of a river, it rises high in the water to reveal a prehistoric spiny crocodile
with an armored tail and a spiked ball at its end, many huge teeth that include side tusks, and wings behind its ears; it upsets a large touring craft full of people who fall into the water, screaming, and it roars at the sky before joining the other two
creatures in destroying buildings.
► Three women are shown bound and gagged
with another woman threatening them
with a knife as a
giant creature (a cross between a mountain lion and a warthog) enters the room, screaming in the voice of another woman, its mouth bloody and showing several rows of teeth and four fangs covered
with dripping drool; it knocks the chairs over and swallows one of the women as another of the women grabs a rifle and shoots it dozens of times, finally shooting off its face in spewing blood until the animal falls dead.
A woman goes to the top of a high rise building and opens a signal beacon that sends a signal to genetically modified
giant creatures to come to a city where she has a missile loaded
with DNA weaponry.
On the other end of the spectrum are the terrifying
creatures inhabiting the place, from a
giant albino alligator,
with teeth that appear more shark - like, and a sort of plant that seems to have erupted from a human body.
► A USAF stealth bomber equipped
with the nation's largest bomb is deployed to stop
giant creatures attacking a city (the plane is eventually called off).
What it means here is that the screenwriters and director Brad Peyton put the
giant creatures in a few scenarios where they can cause chaos and destruction, while everyone around the monsters plays the assorted scenarios
with a straight face.
Together
with her husband, CDC director Dr Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) and an incredulous cop (Charles S. Dutton, the closest the film comes to comic relief), Susan investigates, at which point the film starts to successfully mimic Aliens, as Susan faces off against the
giant creatures and the supporting cast (including a youthful - looking Josh Brolin) gradually get picked off.
The Jaegers (
giant robots) and Kaiju (huge primeval
creatures with interdimensional containment issues) are again battling head to head in Pacific Rim Uprising, and while original director Guillermo del Toro has not returned for this sequel to his 2013 fun machine, TV vet Steven S. DeKnight proves a more - than - capable replacement.
You follow a variety of characters both human and varl (a kind of
giant) as you clash
with opposing factions, journey for supplies, and fight off monstrous
creatures known as the dredge.
None of that matters very much because Ella is content
with simply being light - hearted entertainment and it easily earns that label
with its fun, gently subversive depictions of olden lifestyles (as a parallel to our time), fantastic
creatures (ogres, elves,
giants, and a guy stuck in a book), and Cinderella equivalents.
You'll do battle
with giant amorphous
creatures, all while trying to topple your friends» high scores.
The Black Scorpion (Blu - ray) Release date: March 27 Details: 1957, Warner Archive Collection Rated: Not rated The lowdown: «The Black Scorpion» ranks high
with me among the
giant - bug
creature features of the 1950s.
Variety reports that the project is moving forward
with production set to kick off in September in Cape Town, South Africa
with an approximate $ 60 million budget which aims to render this story which will see
giant galleons sailing on waves of sand as they fight
giant creatures that can get as big as a city block.
Gru has a
giant group of minions, little pill - like
creatures with large eyes and nothing arms.
And it's a remarkable way to end a remarkable career: a film
with all the artistry that we've come to expect from Studio Ghibli, but by some distance proving to be a more grounded and realistic work, doing away
with the
giant cat
creatures and courier - witches and flying pigs and moving castles that have defined his work.
After teasing the world
with teaser footage at Comic - Con back in 2012, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures plans to unleash the film, which aims to take a more realistic look at what happens when
giant creatures terrorise humanity, on May 16 next year.
This seems to be essentially a chase movie,
with the chasers being various ancient
creatures, including mammoths, a sabretooth tiger and some
giant birds that we don't know the name for.
The sci - fi, co-written
with Jon Ronson, follows young Mija (An Seo Hyun), who, for 10 years, has been caretaker and constant companion to a
giant creature name Okja at her home in the mountains of South Korea.
The third Japanese reboot of the series opens
with an echo of the original 1954 Godzilla, on the mystery of an abandoned boat in open water, but otherwise it wipes the slate clean and treats this as the first ever encounter
with a
giant creature on a tear through Tokyo.
«I've done one other movie where I was asked to track a tennis ball
with my eyes and pretend it was a
giant creature thing.
Del Toro, also a producer and co-screenwriter, worked closely
with the effects team at ILM to create the battle sequences between the
giant robots and
creatures that make up much of the film.
Henry Selick's adaptation of one of Dahl's most beloved stories, James and the
Giant Peach captures the author's spirit, creating a film
with not only whimsical
creatures but very real emotions.
The monsters are
giant wormlike
creatures with sharp teeth, gaping maws, and pendulous appendages that humans can't outrun or out power without some ingenuity.
The story goes like this: The Great God of the Forest, a mythical
creature with the body of a deer, a human face and wooden horns that morphs into a
giant, glistening blue amphibian at night (imagine Cecil, the Sea Serpent, dressed by Bob Mackie), has decreed that the forest gods may use any means to protect their domain from humans.
There is such a love of film, and of the films of stop - motion master Ray Harryhausen that its hard not to get a little nostalgic watching scenes such as when Juni and Carmen battle a horde of skeletons, or when two
giant creatures battle each other
with two of the children on their backs.
As in all previous «King Kong» movies, Skull Island turns out to be roaming
with creatures, including the scariest
giant spider since Shelob in «The Return of the King,» except this one is a lot bigger.
At one point, during a fight
with Blade, Drake morphs from human form into some kind of
giant, red, thorny
creature — and then gives Blade a head - butt.
Addictive turn - based empire - building
with colossal, real - time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes,
giant monsters, flying
creatures and storms of magical power.
«We wanted 20,000 Lums Under the Sea to have a very distinctive theme to it that fit
with the new focus for the world: avoiding detection through stealth, slowly descending into an underwater base and eventually destroying a
giant mechanical
creature created by a madman,» said level designer Chris McEntee.
Wandering through the weird landscape are bizarre
creatures like floating
giants, hostile sphinxes, scampering one - eyed spiders, and monkey - birds
with removable beaks.
From November 8th to November 23rd,
Creature Features celebrated the 15th anniversary of the beloved Iron
Giant with an art tribute show, featuring brand new, exclusive artwork from legendary illustrator Drew Struzan and many more!
If you're ready for a new challenge, Reign of
Giants expands the entire world of Don't Starve
with new characters, seasons,
creatures, biomes, and other challenges to Don't Starve.
You can also find
giant eggs and craft a hatchery for the various
creatures that you encounter, allowing you the possibility to take a pet
with you as you travel the lands.
A punch - up
with a
giant creature could have come across as a CGI mess, but Pettyfer's timing sells it, making him an action star to watch.
Some of what he did has passed on to Bruce, explaining why he survived the accident and why he turns into a
giant, muscular, green
creature with anger issues.
that covers their yard
with scarecrows, battery - operated
creatures, Styrofoam tombstones, and fake cobwebs
with giant spiders in them?
While this bill is obviously aimed at deterring those owners who would train their dogs to be vicious and / or making those whose dogs are potentially more capable of inflicting more damage (large to
giant breeds) more aware of negative consequences if their dogs are left correctly untrained, dogs are
creatures with their own sense of will — even dogs that have not been trained to be aggressive or shown aggressive behavior in the past can and do attack.
For those who want to get even closer to some of the ocean's most interesting
creatures, SeaWorld's animal encounters can be a dream come true: Dolphin Interactions allows guests to feed, touch and play
with bottlenose dolphins; Beluga Interactions offer a unique chance to enter the water
with beluga whales, gentle
giants known as «sea canaries» for their bird - like vocalizations.