scary monsters

My brother is watching TV. He always makes fun of me watching old fairy tale movies, and now he's sitting in the living room watching some Japanese monster film. The flying monsters of Osaka or something like that. At least there's no Gozilla in that one. What is so great about plastic landscape breaking down under the feet of a plastic, caterpillar-type of - well - monster? Every kid interested in model trains could build better landscape models. And then we have the typical cast: The scientist, the soldier, the brave young man and his beautiful girlfriend / fiancee / wife. Mix that with a little bit of Japanese legend and a dash of Cold War (usually the monsters show up beause the Americans throw bombs on something), and there you go. Have a nice little movie you can sell to German Sunday afternoon TV program.
They must have some kind of conveyor belt production company for these movies. I can see a whole bunch of elderly Japanese women sitting next to the conveyor belt picking out pieces to put into their film. The woman next to you already took Gozilla? OK, then you got to put the gigantic fly into your movie and I'll chose the worm. Don't take the flood, I need that. Why don't you do something with the earthquake? Or maybe the meteor?
The world is full of possibilities...
For some reasons, only about half of the TV programs work today, so I can't even suggest to watch something else. I'd get my video and watch Labyrinth (my parents aren't home so they can't say anything) but my brother would never agree to that. Oh well, I guess I'll just take our dog for a walk and ponder about what people complained about before the invention of television