Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Amazing Colossal Craps?

I was watching War of the Colossal Beast (1958) - Bert I Gordon's sequel to his own The Amazing Colossal Man from the previous year - and as the protagonists wandered around some Mexican mountains looking for traces of said fifty foot tall man, it occurred to me that surely the best way to track him would be via the trail of humongous turds he must be leaving behind him.  That and the pools of steaming green piss.  Maybe there's something wrong with me that my mind immediately races to the scatological while watching a B-move, but the refusal of such films to acknowledge the existence of normal bodily functions has always struck me as a weakness.  It just seems obvious to me that, without access to a shovel, let alone toilet paper, that colossal man would have to be taking huge dumps in the open and leaving them uncovered.  Sure, he could go into a cave to take a crap undetected, but would there really be any caves big enough for to get into to perform such a function.  Hell, let's face it, the stench and massive swarms of flies would surely be enough to guide his pursuers in his general direction.  Even when they finally catch up with and capture the colossal man, I was left wondering just how the authorities dealt with his bodily functions.  They have him chained up in a hangar, but I didn't see any gigantic toilet bowls in there with him.  Were teams of soldiers in gas masks taking it out using steam shovels and dump trucks, (quite literally dump trucks)?  It wasn't just the solid stuff that would have caused a problem - let's face it, one good fart on his part could have taken out half of LA.

Of course, it isn't just the colossal man whose bodily functions aren't addressed in B-movies - what about all those giant monsters that stomp around in them?  Surely the likes of Godzilla would, in reality, be leaving huge piles of dung behind them.  Probably radioactive dung that glows in the dark.  For that matter, why wasn't King Kong flinging his own crap at the planes when he was at the top of the Empire State Building?  But why confine ourselves to cinematic monsters?  What about all those 'cryptoids' that the lunatic fringe keep trying to convince us are roaming around out there?  Surely if the Loch Ness Monster was real then Loch Ness itself would be awash with huge turds and, bearing in mind that some of the alleged sightings of this creature have been ashore, the area around the loch should also be littered with steaming great stonkers.  Why aren't the Himalayas covered in Yeti dung?  Moreover, if, like King Kong, the Yeti are some kind of ape-like creature, why aren't they throwing their dung at explorers?  Much the same applies to Bigfoot - people seem to keep 'finding' lots of footprints, but no Sasquatch shit.  If that alleged footage of Bigfoot walking around instead showed him squatting down taking a crap, I might be more inclined to believe in its authenticity.  These things don't even have to be giant - just look at the lack of big cat droppings around the UK countryside, which is supposedly infested with stray big cats, (although I'd say that the lack of missing cattle is pretty conclusive evidence that they don't actually exist).  If any of these things actually existed, then surely these so called 'cryptozoologists' would be able to track them via their spoor?  (Would that make them craptozoologists?). Mind you, I have a feeling that the 'cryptozoologists' would just clam that these creatures weren't physical beings, but some kind of ethereal spirit projections (or some such cobblers) and theefore wouldn't leave physical traces behind them.  Not even monster turds.

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