Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - !!SPOILERS!!

[crows]

Good Review.
Again, complaints about lack of Godzilla

 

[Rotfish]

Oh, and that final finishing move... I thought he was going to pull a King Kong, but what we ended up getting was so much sweeter. I couldn't even cheer. My buddy and I just sat in silence and turned to eachother, grinning from ear to ear with our eyes wide. Gareth Edwards isn't a crowd-pleasing director and he definitely did not over-indulge with this movie. But the little nibbles of epic he gave us were enough to shatter worlds.

 

[BlitzOUT]

Side note: FANTASTIC job preserving the 'savior of humanity' angle without being campy. I didn't think it would be possible, but they made it work. He restored balance to the world due to being a force of nature, so that satisfied both my need for his neutrality and his heroics. It was exactly how Godzilla should be.

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So you didn't mind the incredibly campy, inexplicable applause at the end of the film?

Also, I don't think Godzilla intended to 'restore the balance'. He awoke to hunt down and kill his enemy

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Before they had a chance to breed and pose a significant threat to his survival

As I mentioned before, if Godzilla was a 'force of nature' who 'restored balance in the world', he would have come back to wipe out humanity. I don't like to view Godzilla as heroic. He doesn't care about humans, which is odd considering they bombed the **** out of him back in '54. Let bygones be bygones I guess.

 

[jye4ever]

I also noticed a good number of shots from the trailers either weren't in the film at all or were very different. Like the roar shot from the teaser wasn't there at all. Or the POV shot during the halo jump in the trailer just showed his back, but in the movie he's actually fighting the Muto.

I was quite surprised and loved the fact that the halo jump trailer scene was expanded upon, I felt like that was a nice christmas present.

Thing is though, the Godzilla scenes had greater impact because they were sparse. If the film was saturated with Godzilla action, the final fight wouldn't have had such an impact. This was a tale about an ancient threat returning, and Godzilla awakening to hunt and kill that threat. Despite the rumours, Godzilla is not the embodiment of mother nature, restoring the balance. If that was true, he would have come back to wipe out humanity, considering our impact is much worse then that of the MUTO. It's simply because the MUTO is a threat to Godzilla's species that he returns.

One thing I disliked:

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At the very end, a news report shows Godzilla walking through the city after he 'wakes up', with a tagline that reads "Godzilla: Our City's Saviour?". What evidence is there that Godzilla isn't going to wake up and start killing everyone? He's already reduced the city to rubble, killing thousands of people. And yet, he receives a resounding applause from the survivors. A stupid decision by the writers

Most movie-goers will complain about the lack of Godzilla. The truth is though, Gareth Edwards gave us just the right amount of the beast in action.

At first it also bugged me, that they would write

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King of Monsters Our Savior

but then I remembered that its the media, they do stupid **** like that, so it then made sense to me.

 

[jye4ever]

Oh, and that final finishing move... I thought he was going to pull a King Kong, but what we ended up getting was so much sweeter. I couldn't even cheer. My buddy and I just sat in silence and turned to eachother, grinning from ear to ear with our eyes wide. Gareth Edwards isn't a crowd-pleasing director and he definitely did not over-indulge with this movie. But the little nibbles of epic he gave us were enough to shatter worlds.

I expected King Kong as well, what we got instead was indeed much sweeter.

 

[BlitzOUT]

but then I remembered that its the media, they do stupid **** like that, so it then made sense to me.

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It's the applause that really bugs me. These people have lost their loved ones, friends, colleagues, their homes, their jobs. "That 450ft tall monster is still alive! Holy ****! He's going to kill us!!"

Also, can we stop using spoiler tags? If someone doesn't like spoilers, they should create a separate thread.

 

[jye4ever]

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[MaulFan]

Get that wanna be out of here!

 

[blood]

I felt Godzillas pain that whole fight. Everytime that little bug would hook into him i thought "Come on big G!" Then BOOM…Now I am NOT a fist pumper…and this instance was no different…but I REALLY wanted to fist pump

hahaa same here! although the guy in front of me couldn't hold back and raised both his arms screaming "yeaaah!"

i had a good time and enjoyed the movie and that atomic breath!

 

[jye4ever]

Its there as a reminder of how much worse it can be.

 

[MaulFan]

Its there as a reminder of how much worse it can be.

This would have sufficed.

 

[jye4ever]

how the heck are you surviving not seeing this movie.

 

[crows]

or this

 

[MaulFan]

how the heck are you surviving not seeing this movie.

Trying to focus on my son, it's killing me though.

So this shot is after he kills the female muto?

And the daylight shot I was asking about is apparently as he leaves to go back to the ocean, glad it's in there.

 

[jye4ever]

correct on both

 

[MaulFan]

Explains all the blood all over him. This is definitely the most gory fighting in Godzilla way more than past, which I'd say Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla '74, Godzilla vs Biollante and Godzilla vs King Ghidorah '91 had the most gory fights in the past, and not even that bad.

 

[jye4ever]

Nah, that you are off.

While it was an impressive kill, the movie had zero blood, at least from what I could see.

It had some great Muto foot crushing scenes though.

 

[jye4ever]

The Muto is one of the most impressive monster designs in cinema history.

The nuke train bridge scene was incredible, especially in 3D.

Anyways, leaving right now for Imax with the wife.

Then, after school taking my son.

3 viewings in 2 days for me.

I am a hardcore nerd.

I got up this morning to my wife getting him ready for school and I hear from downstairs "Mommy, Godzilla"

 

[MaulFan]

The Muto is one of the most impressive monster designs in cinema history.

The nuke train bridge scene was incredible, especially in 3D.

Anyways, leaving right now for Imax with the wife.

Then, after school taking my son.

3 viewings in 2 days for me.

I am a hardcore nerd.

I got up this morning to my wife getting him ready for school and I hear from downstairs "Mommy, Godzilla"

That's so cool.

I'll be the same when BR comes out, watch the BR at night with wife and son, go to bed watching digital copy on iphone, watch digital copy on pc at work the next day

 

[jye4ever]

alright, out the door for 10am showing

Bio, find me a MAG2K in Manhattan dammit.