User blog comment:Cloverfield monster/How come herbivores are never portrayed as bad guys?/@comment-1187034-20150617013041

Good question, Cloverfield monster.

I think dinosaur films don't use herbivores as antagonists because the public associates them with modern herbivores, which are usually harmless, gentle, and/or even can be perceived as cute. Whereas carnivores are commonly seen as scary, ugly, and aggressive. Plus, carnivores like to eat other animals and there's always been this primal fear of being attacked by a vicious predatorial animal. So I suppose filmmakers pick carnivores over herbivores in dinosaur films for the reasons I've stated above as this would make the film more suspenseful and scary to audiences.