It's pretty obvious Americans are just utterly incapable of making a real action monster movie. Outside of Aliens, I can't think of one worth a fucking shit over 3 decades. They always stuff in the same formula over and over: 90+ minutes of generic feels from daddy, mommy, and kiddies in a crisis/comic relief, soft porn for tweens ala xformers, then ~10 minutes of actual monsters.
I would LOVE to see the absolute total fucking mockery and molestation that would be made of something like Evangelion.