What's so special about Cthulhu that people keep calling for movies to be made of it? It's just a stupid kaiju

What's so special about Cthulhu that people keep calling for movies to be made of it? It's just a stupid kaiju.

Idk but I read Call of Cthulhu and it sucked ass. Don't know why Lovecraft is so hyped

RPGfags raving about Call of Cthulhu for the past 30+ years.

Bro hes a cosmic level entity bro just looking at him causes 200 sanity damage bro.

for it's time it was game changing, problem with game changing things is they don't seem so special after the game is already changed.. aka everyone else copied it

It's a meme at this point. They don't care.

I'm a lovecraftian fan, and don't want to see it made. You could do it like an adventure movie, or even like ninth gate detective movie. But the existential dread is the point of the material. You and humanity as a whole are insignificant. There are so many bigger things going on, you factor in none of it.

My favorite is at the mountains of madness personally.
He has a good handle at describing minutia in a way that your brain tries to paint a picture of it, but gets blocked because you don't actually know what "cyclopean architecture" means.
Also just the idea of a spooky supernatural setting.

Lovecraft brings as much to you as you bring to it! Stephen King actually said that.

Next time don’t read it on your iPad 7.

Could he beat Godzilla?

A kaiju that ALSO passively invades people's minds and drives them insane on a massive scale is still pretty novel. Name one movie that already did this.

Nothing can beat Godzilla. Nothing.

Why are you hating on a white man's creation?

Oh look, another thread where Anon Babble talks about "lol lovecraft hahaha cthulu! omg squid hahaha LOL" because the only interaction with anything related to HP Lovecraft's actual published work is that they've seen degraded forms of fanfiction ostensibly derived from things he created.

but gets blocked because you don't actually know what "cyclopean architecture" means

Cyclopean architecture means massive stones stacked together with no mortar in the joints. That usually means shit like ziggurats, pyramids, obelisks

He can be defeated by drunks on a tugboat. The world surrounding him, his cults, the aliens and the elder gods above Cthulhu, are much more interesting then Cthulhu entity itself.

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The example I most often see cited is minoan.

I read a fanfiction where Godzilla drove Cthulhu back to sleep so no.

I get his point. For years I thought "non-Euclidian geometry" basically meant "MC Escher type structures that drive men mad to gaze upon."
Turns out it meant curvy walls.

le heckin squiderinos!!!

Why dont they stick to the superior unknown horrors?

His best stories are the ones with no monsters.

see Colossal squid man in the ocean in the distance

don’t go in the ocean

go the other way

Check mate. I win again Lovecraft fags

basically meant "MC Escher type structures

It IS to some extent.
But it means geometry different than what you're used to and shapes that don't behave the way they should.
And its also about a boundary where euclidian geometry meets that weird spot. Where you go from flat space to a space that "curves" into another higher dimension you can't see from the surface.
And just to put it in context, I've been to hong kong a few times, and the first day there I always have to get acclimatized because when you walk around the city you get vertigo because the buildings are so tall when you look up you see that the real world is curved, and you can see the point where the curvelinear perspective hits and it looks like they bend around you. And you're generally a little bit shell shocked because your brain isn't used to dealing with things on that kind of scale.
And I've been to plenty of big cities, lived in a few, and hong kong was always unique in that regard.

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What I want to know is why does every new Lovecraft show or movie have to insert some blacks in an important role? No. Not just Lovecraft Country. It's everything. For fuck's sake, Color out of Space with Nic Cage unironically included scenes of Nic Cage's daughter telling him how hot this black guy was and how she wanted to fuck him. The black guy was also the sole survivor of the movie. What the fuck.

I was one of those people who discovered Lovecraft in the 2000s thanks to the internet, so I just like him.

It's just a stupid kaiju.

That what it’s become but isn’t what it is. It’s a giant entity that even in torpor affects the global consciousness and can drive people insane if they come too close. It’s a ticking time bomb waiting to stamp out life on the planet. It can’t be bargained with or reasoned with, it can’t be killed. Perhaps more than that it exists in planes of existence we can’t see and becoming aware of we can’t handle. The more you understand the threat the closer you are to falling apart.

Lovecraft has a bunch of creatures that go bump in the night that would make for good movie villains. The cosmic ones aren’t good because they always want to make it a direct confrontation which doesn’t work. You’d have to be so indirect and make it about the person falling apart it’d be some slow burn a24 horror movie people make fun of.

Turns out it meant curvy walls.

It doesn’t really, that’s just a dumb meme created by people who are genuinely upset by Lovecraft’s cat. You can google videos of non euclidan game environments to understand, it really is about nonintuitive geometry that warps your head. The ground becomes the earth, distances to objects become impossible to gauge, things bend in on themselves or you get to see the back and front of the same object at the same time.
Also try the videos that set pi to 3 in fps environments.

that people keep calling for movies to be made of it?

Because they don't understand what it is, and probably haven't read any lovecraft.
His books really aren't about giant monsters that wreck your brains, but about really creepy eerie short stories that establish a creepy atmosphere, and describe things just enough that your imagination is desperate to fill in the rest.
I think its a shame Del Taco's Mountains of Madness never got made since I think its one of the few stories that would adapt well.
Its some guys flying to a research base in Antarctica and they find the camp abandoned, and the investigate, and its just really creepy and eerie.

Also try the videos that set pi to 3 in fps environments.

Intriguing.