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Godzilla 2014

they discovered it in 1954....... i smell a conspiracy that they might even include the original godzilla movie as a sort of artist interpretation of this myth :p

no but honestly i love how Edwards plays with the legacy of godzilla especially when it comes to the godzilla design:


In a way we approached it was, imagine in 1954 (when the first Godzilla movie was made), that this creature really existed and someone saw him from Toho, the Japanese studio, and went running back to the studio and said, ‘I’ve seen this creature and it kind of looked like this.’ And they tried to draw it and they tried to make a suit and they did a very good job of it but then, when you saw the real creature, you go ‘Okay, I totally understand how you got that suit from that creature but now I see the real thing. Oh my God, I totally believe that it’s completely real.’ And that’s how we approached it. We went through hundreds of designs, and never stopped playing really until the last minute and got to the point where it was like, ‘Is there anything else that we want to change about this design’? And I was like, personally no, I’m very happy with it. And Toho was very much a part of the approval process. So it’s a Toho approved design as well.”
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I mean this guy clearly loves the original and I love his Monsters movie. out of all the blockbusters this year imo godzilla has the best chance of being really really good and not just empty spectacle
 
how many humans does it have to eat to maintain that weight?

dayumn.
 
Never have I ever had more mixed feelings about a movie than this. On the one hand, I enjoy Godzilla very much. On the other hand, this is nothing we havn't seen before. I'm not talking about having similar scenes of destruction in a more upbeat package like Pacific Rim, though that does have a big deal to do with it. It feels like that if this were the movie that was released in 1998 as well as being a straight remake of the 1954, then I would be more excited about it. But by acknowledging that the 1954 version still exists (in that case, why would you try nuking Godzilla to death, Godzilla can't be killed by nukes!), I'm not sure what this movie can offer me.
 
What if you got Godzilla to eat the nuke, then explode it once it is in its stomach?
 
Well, that would just give him indigestion.
 
wouldn't want to nuke him anyway. imagine how many people his meat could feed.
hoping he tastes like chicken.
 
wayne.workman2012 said:
Rofl
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:yo:

my suspicion, though, is that gojira will get the "gus fring" treatment.

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godzilladammitnotatall!

da wifey scored tickets to a pre-release screening in may. i knew there was a reason i married her.
 
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this movie just looks better and better come on may.
 
New international trailer:
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Just saw this

I kept pretty dark on the movie outside of trailers, so Crayston being killed off early in the film threw me for one because of how prominent he was in them. The human interest story sort of switches off there as the grown-up son is basicly reduced to wandering about with kids and soldiers and volunterring for everything that places him in the right dramatic beats...but you know what? I kind of liked that. At least for a movie of this stature. All the big dramatic soap opera is taken care of or pushed to the wayside very early on and leaves you with a monster movie to get on with.


"Let them fight" is the line of the film from Mr. Watanabe. We get two fleetings glimpses of two fights in night and day, and then a fully realized one, albiet under the coat of night.


Godzilla is used very sparingly and isnt overexposed, and I love how this isnt some long drawn out self-important "origin story" for him. This is just another day in his life, and the humans are like "use the force of nature as actual force" and get on with the task of dealing with the Motos. One great moment is when Godzilla is revealed, we see mere moments of the first skirmish between him and the male Motu and then cut to the morning after.


There is a bit that does drag on in the middle...the scene on the train tracks where they learn the female Moto is pregnant, and the train on fire was a bit random


I must have missed this, but does anyone know what happened to the male Moto after Godzilla smashed it into the building? Was it killed when it felt under him, I only saw Godzilla destroy the remaining one with his atomic breath


Love how the news is all "Godzilla is our saviour...king of the monsters" as he gets up and goes home...nice for a movie to give him a superhero send-off this time.
 
Zarius said:
I must have missed this, but does anyone know what happened to the male Moto after Godzilla smashed it into the building?
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To me it was clear that he died when Godzilla smashed it into the building.

Spoiler free little review:

This was a very good "old fashion" movie in a way (don't worry the effects are amazing anyway)
I read that the director was a big Spielberg/Jaws fan and it shows (I'll let you spot the MANY Jaws references!) And, please, what's with all those children all along the movie? They are not irritating but it's like in every scene the life of children should be at stake.). This is not Pacific Rim's monster porn all along (and I liked Pacific Rim quite a bit), the movie teases you more than it shows screentime wise. Some could be disapointed with that, I don't know. The directing is kind of classy and kept the audience at human's vision most of the time. Only, sometime, there is a lack of logic in the way the story is told. I mean, it's also the case with Spielberg sometime. You know, when the camera lets you discovering something at the same time as the character when he should have seen it WAY before. That kind of directing. That is smart because it's the classic "show don't tell" kind of directing, and I like it, but it can sometime lacks visual logic.
Characters are interesting but overall I found the first half better in therm of development. After that it was just a straight "follow the hero from point A to B" storyline.
I did not see it in 3D so I can't comment on it but I know I'll buy the 3D bluray when it'll be released.
Like I said, it's a very good movie (maybe this review does not sound like it, but the movie is truely enjoyable) but I can totaly see fanedits be done with it.
 
Am stoked to see this... going to the IMAX in London tomorrow... CAN NOT WAIT!
 
TMBTM said:
To me it was clear that he died when Godzilla smashed it into the building.
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Yeah, I guess...just everything was so hazy and grey I couldnt tell for sure, probably wasn't paying attention there, it felt very...blah

I can totaly see fanedits be done with it.
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I was dfinitely thinking of all the trims I could make when watching it

-the scenes on the train tracks, remove the random train on fire too, just keep the bits which emphasise the Muto is visibly pregnant.
-Remove the Japanese kid story, it goes nowhere and neither he nor his parents are crushed (where was the risk in this movie? Only two people of note ever really die at all)
-Tweek the ending so the wife of the soldier doesnt arrive at the stadium and he's just left waiting for her so we have some kind of consequential ending
 
Pretty awesome flick. As some other people have already pointed out this version of Godzilla takes a lot from classic movies like Jaws. The monsters are teased for a long time, but I think the finale is really worth the wait. I also thought the 3D looked pretty good, not sure if it was filmed in 3D or just a good looking conversion. There are some very silly moments, and plot conveniences that are pretty laughable, but I don't think they completely ruin anything. I had a lot of fun watching this, and I'm not a big Godzilla fan. Most of my knowledge of Godzilla films comes from the MST3K episodes that made fun of them.

 
i was supposed to go to a screening this week and planned my work schedule accordingly weeks ahead of time. . . but the events people shifted the screening forward a day (zilla daylight savings?), and it landed on one of my work days.

godzilladammitsomuch.
 
Hopefully going to see this next week, and i cant wait. Been looking forward to this for ages.
 
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