Well, perhaps not, but I sure think it is in quite a lot of aspects...
What this crazed blue raptor in on about now again?
Well...
Recently, I watched a bit this surely very cult and known by everybody movie "Little shop of Horrors". Yes, that is musical-y one with the talking plant that eats everybody. And watching that (most of it for the first time ever, shame on me, but I did watch it when I zapped in exactly because I felt I should have watches it long ago. The 1996 version, by the way.
And as I watched it, and had to skip a bit because of my own suppertime, I recalled that I read, ages ago in a magazine (that's like a new website that has been printed out, in the days when real internet didnt exist yet, for the younger ones), that it originally had a very well-done epic rampage ending, that would have won the film a lot of special effects awards, but that the test audiences didnt like that so it was totally thrown out. And I also realized that now we do have internet, and if it exists, its doubtlessly out there somewhere.
Well long story short, I found a black an white version of it on youtube (You can read about the movie and what actually happened to that ending here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Shop_of_Horrors_(film) ), and despite some people on the MUCK not being all that enthuseastic, I found, aside from it being a plant, given, it is awesomely epic and I'd even call it the greatest movie rampage of all times for a number of reasons and that I should not keep that to myself and it would make for a good
Macro discussion. 
Oh, and here is said last part of the original ending in the said bad quality. In parts 1 and 2 Audrey II eats the protagonist instead of dying so they can live happily ever after. Or not. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddIK3CIMzFs
So here is what I think makes it so awesome, most of which things that have NEVER been done in any other movie:
- It is a sentient creature that does the rampage.
Audrey II and her offspring can talk, and Audrey II has actually a very cool badass evil attitude.
While every other non-human giant monster I can think of at best has animal-level emotions.
- It is wanton destruction.
They do want to destroy things. As opposed to walking through the city for dog-knows-why and thereby casually breaking things. I mean, yes, Godzilla rocks, but in those old movies it rather looks like "Sorry, I cant see where I step in this clumsy rubbersuit". Definitely not "RAWR, I smash yous!". You get the point I think.
- It fucking has FUN doing the rampage.
Yes, I know its a plant and hard to see from facial expression, but it definitely looks like they enjoy terrorizing and eating the little humans and wrecking and toying with their cities. You can see one of them sealing its lips around a chimney and blowing inside to make the factory explode dammit! How awesome dominating making-fun-of-humans macro is that?
- It has devouring of a vehicle.
Hey fellow monster, look what I can do, I break this overhead train tracks here and let the full passenger train drive into my huge hungry gullet! Yummy!
Nothing unusual you think? Can you show me a single time Godzilla ever ate anything? Or any other monster swallows a train, bus, car, whatever just to show that he/she/it can?
- It has great fast-paced music to go with the rampage!
What other movie monster ever had that? You always get "dramatic" melodies, as something so shocking and terrifying happens, oooh... the shivers, the horror...
Fuck it, here its awesome Go-Rampage! music!
- Its a global threat.
Its not this one things there that stomps on one part of one city until it gets either shot or grows tired and returns to the ocean.
No, this is about wrecking and eating and joyfully rampaging over the entire world.
- The macro monster wins.
Yup. Go Monsters. Humans loose. The planet will be eaten.
No heroic triumph of mankind, no going back to the ocean, no Cloverfield-Maybe.
So, there are my bold thesis why this is clearly one of the most epic rampages ever, and a superlative in many aspects.
What do you think?
