{"id":1381748,"date":"2025-11-04T21:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rTgkvUWYfyP45fm7jicarC"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:00:05","slug":"director-paul-ws-anderson-says-you-can-blame-metal-gear-solid-for-the-monster-hunter-movie-because-juxtaposing-machine-guns-and-monsters-is-simply-great-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/director-paul-ws-anderson-says-you-can-blame-metal-gear-solid-for-the-monster-hunter-movie-because-juxtaposing-machine-guns-and-monsters-is-simply-great-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Paul WS Anderson says you can blame Metal Gear Solid for the Monster Hunter movie, because juxtaposing machine guns and monsters is simply ‘great imagery’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I hold the dubious honour of holding what is probably the most positive opinion of the Monster Hunter movie on planet Earth. I thought it was great!<\/a> Spiders exploding out of a guy’s chest and then eating him: what’s not to like?<\/p>\n

Plenty, according to everyone else, with the film sitting at around a 40% score on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, with a slightly higher audience score of 70%. Pour one out for Lori, who found a movie about military grunts hunting down fantasy monsters “totally unrealistic and gory.”<\/p>\n

The Monster Hunter film released in 2020 but had been brewing in the mind of director Paul W. S. Anderson since the late 2000s when he’d become a fan of the series. And the particular point he got into the wonderful world of Monster Hunting seems to have had a huge influence on the movie’s slightly odd setup, whereby the focus is on a US \/ UN military team that gets sucked into the world of Monster Hunter and oo-rahs through various encounters (with limited success).<\/p>\n

A lot of folk didn’t like this side of it, but it turns out I’m a sucker for watching a Rathalos fight a tank. In an interview with Social Dissonance Anderson explains that this setup, and Milla Jovovich’s character Natalie Artemis in particular, was inspired by a crossover in the PSP game Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.<\/p>\n

“Well it kind of came organically based on where Monster Hunter had been before,” says Anderson. “I was very influenced by a crossover that Monster Hunter had done with Metal Gear Solid. That already existed, it’s part of the mythology of the game. I thought this is great imagery, y’know, to juxtapose a man with a machine gun against the creatures.”<\/p>\n

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