Disappointed in Today's Monsters

Snow White and the Huntsman monster. The design is almost as worn out as George Clooney.

Snow White and the Huntsman. Why does every movie monster looks like this?
A featureless head with teeth and lots of other pointy stuff.
It's as though the designers are so overconfident in the importance of the hulking silhouette that they forgot to fill in the interesting details that make a monster scary and fun to look at - the face.
Or is it just easier to model / animate a simpler form?
Or is it just trendy? It's like every monster is spawn of the Dungeons & Dragons 'bulette'.

Here we have a rendition of the Dungeons & Dragons 'bulette'.
Kind of an interesting diversion when I was a kid, but one of this kind of shape is enough.
This design idea was from probably the early 80s.

Yet another head-eyes-mouth copout design. I'd rather look at Harryhausen's ass than at this thing.

Clash of the Titans 2010 - Harpy design. Head with eyes and teeth. Harpies are supposed to be part woman, for cryin' out loud! Another missed opportunity.

Textures could only polish this turd of a model so much.
Wrath of the Titans.

Wrath of the Titans.
Looks like a crude clay model at a distance, partly due to the lighting and partly due to the modeling and dynamics.
The cyclops is one of my favorite monsters - what a missed opportunity to do something cool. It might as well have been designed for a video game, it's features are so lacking. Probably modeled after one of the guys in the studio or maybe after a wargame character, but not much going on in the monster department.  I know, I know, they wanted it to be a giant person with one eye. Yes, but it acts like a monster, right? We should love how it looks, regardless. Even ugly should be creative and fun. Look at http://bogleech.com/uglies.html 

I think maybe it's a generation gap issue. I was born in '71, so I like monsters that were not concerned with CG limitations. Today's designers were probably playing Doom as kids. They were cool coming from one shop, but enough is enough. These monsters are as depraved as our culture as a whole - afraid to take creative risks and marketing-driven, so we churn out the same crap again and again, chasing our tail. Well, chase your tail and all you see is your *, and that's what we have going on here.