They have done ants, bees, mosquitos, and among others, but it seems no one has ever had the guts to do roaches. Is it because of how intense the gross factor would be?
I could imagine because I have seen The Nest (1988), about killer normal size roaches infecting a small town. There was a couple of half-breed roaches in it (a cat roach and life-size human roach, the latter turning out to be a jumbled mess of work rather than something very original). Men In Black does not count. That was a giant animated cockroach, it didn't look realistic. Mimic does not count either, those were not roaches, the plot dealt with a plague being spread by cockroaches so the scientists created an insect called the Judas Bug to eliminate the roaches, but they ended up getting bigger and taking human form. So Mimic was basically about giant cockroach EATERS and not roaches, heck they don't even look like giant roaches, more like ants with wings.
One exception is a grotesque scene from a freddy film.
2006-09-10 10:53:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Do I like ants? no
How about mosquitos? nope
Bees anyone? not here
But roaches? I don't want to pay money to see the creature I despise the most. They are beyond gross, they are beyond creepy crawley, they are disgusting. And the fact is I don't want to see them at home, at other people's homes, or anywhere else for that matter. Especially not somewhere I have to pay to see them, like in a theater.
2006-09-10 11:01:33 · answer #1 · answered by legallyblond2day 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I must protest about Men in Black. What were you expecting, that they'd purposely mutate a cockroach so that it stood eight feet tall or that they'd do some fancy trick with a camera so that it looked big? Well, good luck getting that itty bitty cockroach to first swallow a gun, and then swallow Tommy Lee Jones and make it look convincing. Think about it. Would you have believed it if it hadn't been computer animation? I know it did not look exactly like a cockroach, but it's an alien. How close of a resemblence can there possibly be?
Oh, and there aren't any cockroach movies because how many decent plots can one come up with, using cockroaches, and still make a decent movie? Men in Black is probably the only movie that truly did that. Thank you for your time.
2006-09-10 18:08:51 · answer #2 · answered by hermione_bjc_06 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi im zaikee13 and I think the reason why they havent made a giant cockroach movie because the know that roaches are gross
2006-09-10 18:01:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cockroach scene w/ Freddy Kreuger wasn't grotesque, imo.
How about Joe's Apartment. They got their own movie.and those roaches had talent.
Great cockroach parody songs:
The Cockroach that ate Cincinatti
Roaches *parody of Rumors*
2006-09-10 18:25:15 · answer #4 · answered by starikotasukinomiko 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a lack of market for B-films these days. However if you want to see a movie involving giant cockroaches, this is a challenge to make one yourself. After you make the movie, distribute it at film festivals and who knows. Now and then people like a good and silly movie. The important thing is to have fun...
2006-09-10 18:07:04 · answer #5 · answered by mrgoodbar 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, Mimic was kind of a let down.
I perfer an endearing romantic comedy that the whole family can enjoy...Vampire Biker Babes.
2006-09-14 15:15:36 · answer #6 · answered by Movie Guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
snakes on the plane
2006-09-10 17:58:26 · answer #7 · answered by jackofalltds 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it's up to you to make one then.
2006-09-10 18:01:56 · answer #8 · answered by Sara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋