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Godzilla 2014

I thought it was pretty damn sweet. Felt old-fashioned and new at the same time. Could have been much better, but hey it could have been way way worse as well.
 
One comparison I've heard is with 'Jaws'. A throw back to that film's slow tease of the monster. Also a return to classic monster movie techniques. I think that's probably true, the way Godzilla was built up and built up in the audiences mind (Before we ever saw him) was fantasticly handled for me.
 
I enjoyed the monster effects and the slow build, but was disappointed with the script/characters overall. I feel as if almost all of the exposition scenes could be trimmed/cut without hurting the movie too much. And there were unfortunately too many unintentional laugh out loud moments...

On the plus side, watching monster movies with blueyoda and [MENTION=25720]msinkblot[/MENTION] is pretty awesome
 
njvc said:
there were unfortunately too many unintentional laugh out loud moments...
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I bet, you're thinking of that bit where one of the MUTOs appears to shove a nuclear weapon up it's fanny. :lol:
 
The video link I posted goes into more detail than I do, but essentially while I didn't like the movie, it is important for blockbusters to be mainly influenced by the director's vision (for example, studios might not want to hold off showing Godzilla to the audience for an hour of screen time).
 
njvc said:
And there were unfortunately too many unintentional laugh out loud moments...
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My personal favorite was the iphone vertical aspect ratio moment near the end. (atleast if you turn your head.)
 
Ugh. What a nothing movie.
The initial buildup was wasted. Any sense of ominous dread was gone by the time Cranston's character exited. Wooden acting, pointless subplots that went nowhere. Every single time it seemed the monsters were about to do anything of interest, they immediately cut to the most unlikable bunch of humans since the Aliens VS Predator films. In the Japanese movies, the humans would take focus during downtime - monsters healing or moving, not during the action. And the action here was just dull. The CGI was nice and detailed, but it wasn't depicting anything impressive. It was the Kaiju equivalent of a 1940s fist fight. No interesting choreography, almost no power usage. The destruction was neither emotionally evocative, nor mindless fun. They wasted the Las Vegas setting. Imagine all of the cool casinos and other landmarks they could have battled their way through! The Mutos - cuddling? Lady and the Tramp homage with a nuke? I really can't tell what tone they were going for. Why was Godzilla heroic? I prefer the 60's and 70's incarnation where he was a straight-up hero, and was glad to see him in that light again but... why? They said he was a predator, but they never showed him consuming the Mustos. What was his motivation? Why was he harmed by the nuke at the end if he feeds on radiation? That's like Dracula being harmed by too much blood. Why was the bomb disposal expert better at arming bombs than demolitions experts? Why was there a ticking clock nuke plot point? The stakes were already high because of the multiple monsters. Why did they spend so much time setting up Crasnton's Zip Discs if the data never comes up again? Why spend so much time on the cover-up /conspiracy plot point if the monsters just get revealed anyway, and nothing is made of the secret getting out? And as bad as the 1998 version was, they at least gave Zilla a good chunk of screentime. I think there were maybe... fifteen minutes total of Godzilla in this Godzilla movie.
Strike two, Hollywood. I'm never wasting my time on a non-Toho Godzilla flick again. Zero stars.

 
Godzilla' 2014 sucks big time.

That was the worst borefest I've ever witnessed in my whole life. It desperately needs 15 minutes long fanedit containing EVERYTHING which is worth to be seen in this movie.
 
Sounds good to me, man; I'd love to see more micro/drastic fan edits along those lines tried out. I thought this movie was gonna suck from the beginning, and while some have really loved it, I've quite enjoy the jeering replies. :p
 
I'm amazed by the extremely positive and extremely negative reactions this movie has got. Talk about "deviding the audience". My Spider-Sense is telling me that this will be fanedited in the near future. Although if you are in the "wasn't enough Godzilla" camp, you're probably going to be disapointed with any attempt to fix it. If the studio/director decide to do a LOTR style extended edition with all new FX shots, that would give us some material to work with.

If I was doing the edit, I'd work on tweaking Aaron Taylor-Johnson's character but leave everything else as I thought it was near perfection already.
 
Here's how it should should have ended. :)
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R.O.T.O.R. is better than this movie. At least it had awesome lines like "you fire me, and I'll make more noise than two skeletons making love in a tin coffin" and "hey, I'm like a cemetery, Ill take anybody" and every other line in that movie.

The 4 minutes with Godzilla being like Godzilla were okay, and that shot where we see godzillas giant foot reflected in the city windows while the city was on fire was a beauty.

How do you call this movie Godzilla? He's in it for like 4 minutes! This whole movie was one big tease. 4 minutes of godzilla and then 2 hours of a bunch of actors reading a really convenient script. Why was the wife always in the middle of the action and it never paid off? Did she just run to the locations the creatures were fighting in just so she could run away from them? How did she have the energy to run around the whole city like that? Even Crocodile Dundee couldn't do that. What was the point with the stranded kid? Why kill the dude from Malcolm in the Middle? Why have his son do stuff? I think this movie was written by a under construction prototype script-writing robot who wasn't ready to write scripts but because some idiot spilled coffee on the robot it went haywire and wrote this movie and a big shot movie tycoon business guy was like "This robot wrote a fucking movie! I don't care what its about, it's gonna be awesome because nobody has seen a movie written by a robot before, its a guaranteed hit. Aaaaaand ACTION!". Was the whole movie a trailer for a real Godzilla movie that is gonna come out soon? Trailers for trailers is one thing, but 2 hour trailers is taking things a bit too far buddy boy! They insulted me! And they insulted the company with that bastard creation!
Listen! And understand that script-writing robot is out there! It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with, and it absolutely will not stop evar! Until godzilla movies are dead! It wont stop, it wasn't ready. It's brain functions are incomplete. It can't think twice, it can't reason, can't change its prime directive. It's like a chainsaw set to frappe.
 
....so you didn't like the movie? :p lol

I admit, it far from perfect and I only saw it once, but I enjoyed the first and last acts, but yeah, the middle section really dragged and the main leads are not that interesting.

Do what I did, as soon as I got home I rewatched GODZILLA 2000. Now THAT is a how Godzilla should be done. :)
 
Just watched this on BD today. I enjoyed it quite a lot, but I swear, I don't remember it being that dark in the cinema. I'd do a fanedit just to brighten the damn thing.
 
Aztek463 said:
Just watched this on BD today. I enjoyed it quite a lot, but I swear, I don't remember it being that dark in the cinema. I'd do a fanedit just to brighten the damn thing.
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It was a very dark and moody looking movie (One reason I liked it) but I agree, I don't remember it being this dark...
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who turned off the power?
 
I mean, I kinda get they're going for a realistic look or somesuch. Under the circumstances the dark scenes happen, there wouldn't be that much light. That said, they overdid it on the BD. Good to see I'm not going crazy. At least about that!
 
The newest King Kong commercial has a direct reference to the recent American Godzilla movie (not to be confused with Toho's Shin Godzilla)

http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFjoSeDeo9g[/video]

I wish studios would be less obsessed with franchise building and just focus on telling a single good story.  If Kong sucks, what then?  Does Godzilla II get canned?  Do they still go forward with King Kong VS Godzilla?  

On the flip side, watching a giant monkey being pummelled by monster lizard is always good fun!  :D
 
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