Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - !!SPOILERS!!

[RIDDICK]

Recipe:
1) come up with a story and write it on a piece of toilet paper during diarrhea after cheap restaurant poisoning;
2) inflate it with some pointless uninteresting characters;
3) fill with science for smart people and military stuff for rednecks;
4) cliche to taste;
Serve with garnish of budget FX and don't forget to invite your children.







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I love your wife, Jye

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

I knew he'd fight a monster but I still thought he'd purposely take out San Francisco as well, like he did in so many old movies. Movies like godzilla vs biollante, godzilla vs king ghidorah, godzilla vs destroyah, godzilla 2000, godzilla final wars had him still destroy lives but yet be the lesser of the two evils. So after Godzilla fought monsters in those films he still went out of his way to make mankind suffer.

I was looking for that.

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[jye4ever]

Recipe:
1) come up with a story and write it on a piece of toilet paper during diarrhea after cheap restaurant poisoning;
2) inflate it with some pointless uninteresting characters;
3) fill with science for retards and military stuff for rednecks;
4) cliche to taste;
Serve with garnish of budget FX and don't forget to invite your children.







* * *

I love your wife, Jye

wait

I knew he'd fight a monster but I still thought he'd purposely take out San Francisco as well, like he did in so many old movies. Movies like godzilla vs biollante, godzilla vs king ghidorah, godzilla vs destroyah, godzilla 2000, godzilla final wars had him still destroy lives but yet be the lesser of the two evils. So after Godzilla fought monsters in those films he still went out of his way to make mankind suffer.

I was looking for that.

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Godzilla is more friendly than Spiderman in this movie.

 

[jye4ever]

Godzilla reigned supreme at the box office this weekend, scoring one of the biggest debuts of the year so far.


Produced by Legendary Pictures and released by Warner Bros., the monster movie reboot earned an impressive $93.2 million at the domestic box office this weekend. It also opened in most overseas markets, which added up to $103 million.


Godzilla's domestic debut ranks second in 2014: it wound up in between Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($95 million) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($91.6 million). It also opened significantly higher than last Summer's World War Z ($66.4 million), and more-than-doubled Pacific Rim's $37.3 million.


It's also worth noting that Godzilla earned more in its first three days than Star Trek Into Darkness earned in its first four ($83.7 million) on the same weekend last year. It was also above 2011's Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($90.2 million).


Godzilla's success this weekend can be attributed to some smart choices made by the Warner Bros. marketing department. Coming off last Summer's disappointing Pacific Rim, Warner Bros. opted to pitch Godzilla first-and-foremost as a disaster movie (instead of a monster movie). Advertisements hid the title character—and avoided even mentioning the other monsters—and instead put an emphasis on the human impact of large-scale destruction. Much of this was hung on Bryan Cranston's character, who was positioned as the movie's focal point; while that was very misleading, it was also highly effective.


Many moviegoers opted for premium-priced screenings of Godzilla. 3D showings accounted for 51 percent of revenue. Included in there is $14.1 million from IMAX, which is the biggest haul on those large-format screens so far this year.

Godzilla earned an estimated $103 million from 64 overseas markets this weekend. Warner Bros. reports that 51 percent of sales were from 3D showings.

The movie's biggest markets were the U.K. ($10.4 million) and Russia ($9.1 million), and it had the top opening of the year in Australia ($6.1 million). Other major territories included Mexico ($8.9 million), France ($6.5 million), Korea ($4.5 million), Brazil ($4.2 million), Italy ($3.6 million) and Spain ($1.6 million).

Godzilla opens in China in June, and then Japan in July. If it lives up to its potential in those two markets, it should wind up with over $400 million.

 

[carbo-fation]

Finally got to see it today. I loved it. Movie was everything I had hoped for. Perfect set up and suspense leading to the big reveal. The Mutos were well done and so were most human characters, especially Cranston. Godzilla was the bomb. Every scene he was in was so well done. And the atomic breath!!! Amazing! Can't wait for my second viewing tomorrow.

 

[greygoose]

Godzilla's success this weekend can be attributed to some smart choices made by the Warner Bros. marketing department. Coming off last Summer's disappointing Pacific Rim, Warner Bros. opted to pitch Godzilla first-and-foremost as a disaster movie (instead of a monster movie). Advertisements hid the title character—and avoided even mentioning the other monsters—and instead put an emphasis on the human impact of large-scale destruction. Much of this was hung on Bryan Cranston's character, who was positioned as the movie's focal point; while that was very misleading, it was also highly effective.

Pacific Rim, disappointing for the studios box office profits, but in my opinion the better of the two films. If we're basing how good a film is on their box office success than by that theory Transformers 2 & 3 are two of the best movies of all time.

 

[jye4ever]

That article is all about the money.

 

[greygoose]

That article is all about the money.

It's great when a movie you like does well at the box office as these days it usually warrants at least a sequel however as an average movie fan I'd much rather get a movie that I enjoy and has great re-watch value over it making an excessive amount of money for the studio. I can own the blu ray in my collection but I can't spend the movie's profit on myself.

 

[jye4ever]

I do want a sequel to this movie though.

PR I need to give another spin, only watched it once.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Pacific Rim, disappointing for the studios box office profits, but in my opinion the better of the two films. If we're basing how good a film is on their box office success than by that theory Transformers 2 & 3 are two of the best movies of all time.

Despite Godzilla's flaws, I can't stomach Pacific Rim aside from the two big battles (not the underwater one) and the flashback sequence with the little girl.

Hopefully Legendary/WB learn for Godzilla's sequel. Utilize the talent for the human scenes. More Godzilla. Grander scale.

 

[Niltusk]

I haven't seen this, but if there's not enough God Zillah and the humans are underused.... what did they fill the movie with?

 

[greygoose]

Despite Godzilla's flaws, I can't stomach Pacific Rim aside from the two big battles (not the underwater one) and the flashback sequence with the little girl.

To be fair to Pacific Rim, it was marketed exactly how it was, robots fighting monsters and it never took itself too seriously. They could have marketed it differently and potentially made a lot more money but regardless of whether it made more money it wouldn't change peoples view on it now. It's a love or hate it movie.

 

[jnmx2000]

It's great when a movie you like does well at the box office as these days it usually warrants at least a sequel however as an average movie fan I'd much rather get a movie that I enjoy and has great re-watch value over it making an excessive amount of money for the studio. I can own the blu ray in my collection but I can't spend the movie's profit on myself.

I agree with you, and I also agree that Pacific Rim was the much better film. But I think now that godzilla has been established Edwards will go all Aliens on the sequel and give us badass action from the start of the first monster encounter. If this was the "Alien" of godzilla films, I want the next to be the "Aliens" of godzilla films, all out war, don't hold back. Especially when Godzilla is supposed to be the hero of the film, he needs more presence.

 

[jye4ever]

Despite Godzilla's flaws, I can't stomach Pacific Rim aside from the two big battles (not the underwater one) and the flashback sequence with the little girl.

Hopefully Legendary/WB learn for Godzilla's sequel. Utilize the talent for the human scenes. More Godzilla. Grander scale.

Yeah, not looking forward to my PR second viewing.

I haven't seen this, but if there's not enough God Zillah and the humans are underused.... what did they fill the movie with?

There were lots of shots of ATJ sleeping.

 

[Irvy]

We can only hope they take the criticism on board for this one and give us a beast of a sequel.

 

[jnmx2000]

I haven't seen this, but if there's not enough God Zillah and the humans are underused.... what did they fill the movie with?

Mutos, they drive the film and are the focus of all the militarys monster encounters, godzilla is never the focus, even in the end he's just sort of there. I felt it was weird.

 

[greygoose]

Especially when Godzilla is supposed to be the hero of the film, he needs more presence.

They'd have to have a bigger FX budget. I understand Edwards wanted to keep Godzilla a secret for as long as possible but I bet some of the cut away moments were down to budget reasons.

 

[wanderlai]

Pacific Rim, while I didn't hate it, was a let down. Godzilla was far better. Granted of have preferred more Godzilla and Cranston.

 

[jnmx2000]

They'd have to have a bigger FX budget. I understand Edwards wanted to keep Godzilla a secret for as long as possible but I bet some of the cut away moments were down to budget reasons.

The airport action sequence didn't need to be epic, the opening battle in Pacific Rim was great and that was short and it was effective to set up how these things do battle and how it effects the pilots. Could of done the same with Godzilla without costing to much more, they didn't need to wreck Hawaii.

 

[Irvy]

Airport scene would have been ideal for G to get his ass kicked a bit then redeems himself at the finale.