Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - !!SPOILERS!!

[greygoose]

So....minor spoilers here!

I have a few complaints about the movie but I dont think I can do spoiler tags from my phone. But I agree with the complaints about Cranston's character, and I hated how they would skip over some battle scenes. Didnt early teasers or showings of this movie at comic cons show a whole ruthless battle at an airport where Godzilla manhandled Mutos? They just changed that completely cause they kept cutting away from yhe monsters when they were about to hammer each other. And I dont like how the trailers made it seem that Godzilla was causing all the destruction but in actuality all the memorable shots came from Mutos.

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Yeah the trailers did make out that Godzilla was the one destroying everything when it was infact the Muto's causing chaos. I always thought G was the one who was meant to **** up cities...

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

He did seem to fall on her a lot didn't he

She was like tripwire for Godzilla where ever she was he was busting his ass lol

 

[greygoose]

For those of you that watched it, how did you guys feel about the lack of fight scenes? Seems to be the main complaint right now with some of the fights being cut short.

It's not the fact they were cut short as most of them we never see get started. A door closes on one fight whilst some just cut out all together.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Yeah the trailers did make out that Godzilla was the one destroying everything when it was infact the Muto's causing chaos. I always thought G was the one who was meant to **** up cities...

Yup. Even when he's been portrayed as an impartial force of nature, Godzilla leaves lots of destruction. So, it would have been nice to see him walk through some monuments (without being forced into it by Mutos or the military) and show why Godzilla being alive isn't exactly good for the human race either.

 

[Biojex]

He did kind of mess up Hawaii with his tidal wave.

 

[Hologram AI]

The main fight scene was so good, that I personally don't find the lack of them as a negative.

I do think, once I own the Bluray, there will be times where I pop it in and just skip ahead to watch the last 30 minutes of the film…But I've done that with almost every Godzilla movie, so that's nothing new

It annoyed me in the beginning. Thankfully the climax was truly epic. But my audience was getting restless that they kept cutting away. So I don't think it was a great move. The finale was great, the audience cheered, but walking away from the movie all the cool Godzilla money shots and moments all happen in like a span of twenty minutes. So, yes I still want more and I know a bit more Godzilla during his initial appearance would have helped keep the interest levels up.

Yeah this seems to be how the reviews are being split right now. Some are saying the final scene justified the overall lack of fights while others say they shouldn't have cut them so short. It's clear that they were going for the same overall structure of Jaws.

It's not the fact they were cut short as most of them we never see get started. A door closes on one fight whilst some just cut out all together.

Yeah I can see that being frustrating. Will probably annoy me even more now when I go watch it knowing I'll have to wait until the end.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

I knew that too and it still aggravated me. I get the rationale sometimes less is more but at the end of the day I think even if they SHOWED Godzilla destroying hawaii and not just a tsunami I think it would have been satisfying enough.

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[MaulFan]

Isn't all this the aftermath of Godzilla making his way to the muto from the beach?

 

[Biojex]

Isn't all this the aftermath of Godzilla making his way to the muto from the beach?

More or less yeah, some from the tsunami he causes, and some from him just stomping through buildings.

 

[crows]

less is more


but they took it too far. i dont understand why everyone has to name Transformers or say that people now have attention spans of a goldfish, When this guy clearly went too far with the "less is more" approach.


And It wouldn't even matter if they wanted to do it like JAWS but all the trailers make you think Godzilla will show up a lot. This is kind of like false advertising in a way because If I never talked to you guys or knew anything about the movie I would expect Godzilla to cause all kinds of mayhem.


Also, People compare this one to the original, but technically that movie had only one monster and this movie had 3. If there were no MUTOS and instead that screen time was given to Godzilla then I think people wouldn't be as mad.

 

[meth head]

The film isn't bad, it's just not great either, IMO.

I get that Edwards wanted to ground this movie in reality and give the film a strong human element/story, but if you're going to do that, you need to make it compelling, I need to connect with the characters and their story arc, unfortunately Edwards didn't do this for me. It's been said before and I will reiterate it, Cranston is the only character in this film that had a story arc I was interested/invested in, plus the emotion he brought to the role was beautiful, this was sadly lacking in all if the other characters. They killed Cranston off way too early for my liking and that's when the film really went down hill for me. Johnson just didn't do it for me but neither did his story, so the blame doesn't solely lie with him. The reunion at the end for instance should have packed a real emotional punch, but it felt flat and somewhat cheesy.

The lack of Godzilla in his own film is a real problem for me as well. I loved the anticipation that Edwards created in holding back on the reveal of Godzilla, and the reveal itself was superb! But once you get past this stage, I want to see plenty of him for the remainder of the film. The fight scene at the end was great, and how I would of loved to have seen more of that! Setting up a great Godzilla moment, then cutting off to another irrelevant breaking news clip or military scene just p____d me off if I am being honest.

Finally, setting up Godzilla as the 'anti-hero' didn't sit well with me. It wasn't just the media that did this, the narrative of the film did this as well. When I think of Godzilla (54), he terrorised the people and city of Tokyo. The terror aspect in this movie was the M.U.T.O. not Godzilla.

Overall the special effects were some of the best I have seen and the final battle was EPIC! Unfortunately I was bored by the rest, and that was the majority of the film

 

[Biojex]

less is more


but they took it too far. i dont understand why everyone has to name Transformers or say that people now have attention spans of a goldfish, When this guy clearly went too far with the "less is more" approach.


And It wouldn't even matter if they wanted to do it like JAWS but all the trailers make you think Godzilla will show up a lot. This is kind of like false advertising in a way because If I never talked to you guys or knew anything about the movie I would expect Godzilla to cause all kinds of mayhem.


Also, People compare this one to the original, but technically that movie had only one monster and this movie had 3. If there were no MUTOS and instead that screen time was given to Godzilla then I think people wouldn't be as mad.

I don't think people should compare this to the original film. It's not that film at all. This is more or less a modern day Heisei era film with a little sprinkling of Showa era salt.

Actually….it has a lot in common with the Millennium era too…ok it's everything BUT the original

 

[MaulFan]

More or less yeah, some from the tsunami he causes, and some from him just stomping through buildings.

Point being, people talk as if he strolls around and everything around him is unaffected unless a muto knocks into him or it's the tsunami, he does pass through our world with no regard for what's around him, if it's in his way, he'll destroy it.

I don't think people should compare this to the original film. It's not that film at all. This is more or less a modern day Heisei era film with a little sprinkling of Showa era salt.

There was a misleading about the connections to Gojira, it had some, even myself, thinking that Godzilla's depiction would be that evil monster from Gojira, but that's not the case. The connections are using monsters as metaphor for consequence of our actions and a more serious tone.

Edwards has professed to be a Showa era fan, so it would seem that shows with his Godzilla being more so man's savior than enemy. There's a slight touch of Heisei in that he's as much a danger as the monsters he fights, but he's not as destructive as he was in the Heisei era, he's a slightly more destructive, and way more serious, version of Showa Godzilla.

 

[crows]

I don't think people should compare this to the original film. It's not that film at all. This is more or less a modern day Heisei era film with a little sprinkling of Showa era salt.

any time someone complains about this movie or has a problem (online not here) the usual answer is one of these

1.This is not Bayformers, This is like JAWS
2. this is a smart movie, not a typical blockbuster
3. the original only had godzilla for 20 something minutes, "you are so ignorant"

the one I see used the most is the third one. But Like I was saying, the casual movie goer that is not really a godzilla fan would be expecting a monster movie just from the trailers alone.
to say that person is stupid or ignorant about the original Godzilla is kind of weird seeing how this was marketed. The trailers do not make it seem like you will see Godzilla at the end mostly.

 

[MaulFan]

That's just basic marketing though, you don't sell the steak, you sell the sizzle.

Do you think people thought they'd have to wait an hour to see the shark in JAWS watching that trailer?

 

[meth head]

The characters in Jaws are compelling, so much so Jaws is a guest to his own party. The characters in Godzilla are not, with the exception of Cranston. Unfortunately Godzilla is not in the movie enough to save it IMO.

 

[crows]

That's just basic marketing though, you don't sell the steak, you sell the sizzle.

Do you think people thought they'd have to wait an hour to see the shark in JAWS watching that trailer?

Even this trailer lets you know it is a story about people first. all you see is people in this which is what we got. which is fine.

Nothing like the Godzilla marketing.

 

[greygoose]

Isn't all this the aftermath of Godzilla making his way to the muto from the beach?

Yeah that was caused by Godzilla but the female Muto destroyed a big chunk of the West coast on her travels. Regardless of what Godzilla destroyed by accident on his mission to kill the Muto's the human race still hailed him as their saviour in the end.

 

[MaulFan]

Yeah that was caused by Godzilla but the female Muto destroyed a big chunk of the West coast on her travels. Regardless of what Godzilla destroyed by accident on his mission to kill the Muto's the human race still hailed him as their saviour in the end.

To me that seems like a natural reaction though, even in Toho films where he destroys plenty on his own, he's embraced for taking care of the greater threat. Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster has him sink a cruise sheep, destroy a dock region, take out small villages fighting Rodan, and yet, he's loved for saving everyone from King Ghidorah.

In a moment of relief, I'm sure people would feel grateful for him, and the mutos had caused more problems already so the threat Godzilla poses is certainly lesser. He may have messed up Hawaii but for 60 years he'd been keeping to himself. The second the mutos get out, they start destroying everything.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

They didnt really show Godzilla destroying that bit in hawaii. The tidle wave was shown. Then they showed the aftermath. But they briefly showed godzilla at all wading through the city. Just the flare bit. His tail. Then him confronting the Mutos at the airport. Nothing in between really. No shots if him wrecking those buildings. All that damage but only Mutos is shown as being destructive.

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