Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - !!SPOILERS!!

[GodzillaSpawn]

Sweet. Tamashi is revealing their Godzilla 2014 on friday.

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[crows]

Did not know:

One curious detail, which Mr. Tsutsui noticed in his research, is that Godzilla goes from four toes on each foot to three. That change might seem innocuous, but Mr. Tsutsui said there was a significant reason for it. “In Japan, four is a very unlucky number,” he noted. “So it makes sense that at the periods when Godzilla has been the most ominous, he should have four toes. In the period when he was less threatening, he would have three toes.”

Emmerich you tricky bastard:

Mr. Emmerich said in a phone interview. “He came up with a design, and they told us we had to go to Japan to get it approved.” Mr. Tatopoulos’s design made Godzilla iguanalike, slinking crouched through the city. In taking the design to Toho, Mr. Emmerich timed the visit to when “Independence Day” was opening the Tokyo film festival: “Toho, who had the rights to ‘Godzilla,’ was also the distributor of ‘Independence Day.’ That naturally was in our favor.” As for the Toho reps, “I saw it in their face that they weren’t prepared for that version,” Mr. Emmerich said. “But because ‘Independence Day’ had been a huge hit, they thought, ‘Oh God, we cannot say no to this guy.' ” Mr. Emmerich made his version. Toho used the man-in-a-suit formula in “Godzilla 2000.”

Bird was right:

The 2014 Godzilla is digital, but the team has taken great care to make him recognizable. “It was less about designing something iconic and never seen before, and more about giving reality to a familiar face,” said Andrew Baker, a creature designer at WETA Workshop, which worked on the new monster. The filmmakers wanted an angular and hard-lined face. Mr. Edwards thought rounded features connoted a Godzilla that was too cute. “When you’re designing the face, you end up in this triangle of potential pitfalls,” he said. “If you go too much in one direction, he looks like a dragon; too much in another direction, he looks like a kitty; and too much in a third direction, he looks like a dinosaur.” After seeing the Skeksis creatures from the book “The Dark Crystal,” he decided to employ the appearance of a bird of prey. “There’s something noble about eagles and birds of prey, and it’s mainly because the top of their nose is very close to the brow of their eyes.” Godzilla got deep eye sockets, which accentuate his cheekbone

Emmerich..... what a ******

 

[Oxnard Montalvo]

So... Godzilla's reveal.... according to the film company is:

Legend... wait for it.......dary..........

Sorry.... I couldn't resist.....

 

[Solidus]

What's the source for that article, jye? I was wondering how the in the world Toho approved Emmerich's design. I didn't know that he was such an opportunist .

Edit: Found the article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/movies/godzilla-in-his-many-incarnations.html?_r=0

 

[MaulFan]

Movie still from Instagram.

 

[crows]

looks like he is saying: You talking to me? Punk? you talking to me?

 

[MaulFan]

I love how they flare and give emotion through his nostrils, a subtle feature but it lets you know what's going on.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

 

[Rorywan]

I love the Godzilla design on this. Classic but with some realism.
Hope to finally catch the big guy on screen tonight.

 

[jye4ever]

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[ironwez20]

Read a review on SHH that the ending is the only thing that saves this movie. I guess the cut off from fight scenes are really that bad then

 

[Deckard]

 

[jye4ever]

Read a review on SHH that the ending is the only thing that saves this movie. I guess the cut off from fight scenes are really that bad then

89% RT

For a Godzilla movie....it actually increased from yesterdays 87%.

 

[Kibagami]

I'll say it'll prolly go down to the high 70s before the weekend's over.

 

[jye4ever]

But it actually went up, it usually goes down prior release.

Most of the press have already submitted their reviews.

 

[ironwez20]

89% RT

For a Godzilla movie....it actually increased from yesterdays 87%.

Yea Im sick of reading peoples opnions. I'll see for myself this weekend. Good thing tuesday is half over now.

 

[MaulFan]

Read a review on SHH that the ending is the only thing that saves this movie. I guess the cut off from fight scenes are really that bad then

I'm wondering if the human story is that bad, or are people not accepting of it because they keep getting unfulfilled teases of the monster action.

Let's look at JAWS for a minute. Yes, we wait an hour before we see the shark, but, his presence is fully felt, you get victims, you see some attack footage, and then the human story cuts to dealing with it.

From what I've read, the early monster action in Godzilla cuts before anything can really get substantial, and then you've got humans dealing with things. I feel like people are probably so bothered that they didn't see the monster action that they turn and look at the human stuff, no matter how good, and think, I have to deal with this **** some more.

I'm not worried about not liking the movie personally, but I feel like the crew may have tripped up a little in executing the whole build up concept. Look at Gojira, it's almost the end of the movie before you get the really meaty Godzilla encounter, but, each one before it gives the audience enough. Let's look at the dock scene, Godzilla comes in, smashing a lot up, eats a train, scares everyone and takes off. The audience and the characters are all thinking the same thing, what if he comes back.

Looking at this Godzilla, you have a muto attacking an airport, ok, Godzilla shows up to take him out, and just before that starts, cut away. The characters are thinking about dealing with the situation, while the audience is thinking, what happens here. There's a difference between a tease and an incomplete sequence and I think the misstep was cutting off sequences instead of giving a completed tease.

 

[Hologram AI]

I'm wondering if the human story is that bad, or are people not accepting of it because they keep getting unfulfilled teases of the monster action.

The problem it seems is that the build up to the final 15-20 minutes which has the full out monster warfare, sucks, more or less. The summary portion of a review done by CBM seems to be the general saying from most reviewers about the movie. He also mentions the cutaway teases for certain scenes.

"- and then the movie makes a critical mistake that it almost doesn't recover from: The focus is shifted from Cranston (as brilliant as you'd expect as the manic, complex Joe) and placed on Johnson (not so brilliant as the block of wood Ford). The Kick-Ass actor is okay, it's just that his character is pretty much a blank slate.

There are even a couple of scenes that cut away just as Godzilla and the MUTO are about to throw down, and these are sure to infuriate some. Personally I was fine with it because I knew (or at least hoped) it was all building to something special, and in that regard I was not disappointed.

The final 15-20 minutes are a Kaiju lover's dream come true. I wouldn't even consider myself a massive fan of these type of monster flicks, and I was in awe of the spectacle. The special effects, the creature fight choreography (if you will), the screeching, the atomic breath..all well worth the wait. It's just a shame that our human guide on the journey to get there wasn't more interesting.

Taking a giant monster movie as seriously this Godzilla reboot does is risky business, and to his credit Edwards does infuse the story with genuine emotion and character drama -- which works just fine while we care about those characters, but drags a bit when we don't. Still, this is a welcome return to the screen for the King Of Monsters and the incredible creature fight scenes are worth the price of admission alone -- just be aware of how long you'll have to wait to see them, and in who's company."

 

[MaulFan]

I feel like to some extent, reviewers, as much as audiences, may be too used to immediate gratification films and don't have the patience or appreciation for a quality human story.

I'm not saying the human story isn't bad and they're all wrong, just putting it out there, could people be bored by the human story, not because of it's execution, but simply because they can't get into that, especially in a film containing giant monsters.

I'm a huge fan of Alien, Predator, etc. I'm used to that sort of structure and I like it and often find myself disappointed but the modern films that don't give you that substance beyond the creatures/robots.

 

[crows]

Pacific Rim took its time to show the final battle,people were fine with the movie for the most part

Prometheus took a long time to get going and you don't even see the most important stuff until the very end, and the fans were okay with it.
I personally love Both movies, and i didn't mind that they took a long time to show stuff, and the complaints of Prometheus are not really about the slow reveal but about the stupid decisions and how things were not making sense.

Of course both of these movies get hate, but the hate is because of other things, Not necessarily because of the slow burn.
that is not the main complaint.