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Oct 5Liked by Mata Haggis-Burridge

😂 I love your awesome drawing. Thanks for this. My main bugbear with creature features is the believability. I think my budget is low. I'm cool with jurassic Park etc but if the people in the film have been in even one explosion and are alive and well without so much as a bit of concrete dust in their hair, I'm out. I struggled with the Godzilla films and the superhero films. How much collateral damage to buildings and infrastructure when they have a street brawl? Too much!

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Absolutely! For me it doesn't even have to be an explosion, it's the 'shot in the shoulder' hero who somehow two scenes later can scale a building and fifteen defeat ninjas. I understand that injuries heighten the struggle of a hero, but if the injury doesn't impede them then the whole thing is devolves into nonsense - rather than becoming more vulnerable, the writer has made the character seemingly invulnerable and the stakes have been lowered, not raised.

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Oct 5Liked by Mata Haggis-Burridge

Yes. I honestly think the directors just get carried away in the fun 😅

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