Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - !!SPOILERS!!
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As long as the camera is held steady.
I know.... but I think that is the charm of Cloverfield to me... It made you feel like you were there.. I thought it was the most successful use of the Handheld gimmick. If I was running from a monster I would be looking all over the place.
Now why that guy would not just put down the camera and run is beyond me
... But there are people nowadays that just go on filming as disaster surrounds them so who knows.
By the way Jye I know that ROTLA is one of your favs if not your number one fav... Not the same film but Temple of Doom just had it's 30th anniversary. There is an interesting article about it over at the Digitalbits.com Not a fav among the fans but I have always loved it. I saw it at the perfect age of 13 and that film even more then Raiders turned me into a die hard Indiana fan. Raiders is of course the far better film but I personally think that TOD is by far the best and most ambitious of the sequels.
Anyways.
GODZILLA!!!
Anyways.
GODZILLA!!!
jye4ever
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ROTLA is simply and truthly perfect in every sense of the word.
I watch it alot.
I don't own one single collectible from the movie.
Temple is the only worthy Sequel....errrr....Prequel.
For instance, Temple is what Conan the Destroyer is not.
I watch it alot.
I don't own one single collectible from the movie.
Temple is the only worthy Sequel....errrr....Prequel.
For instance, Temple is what Conan the Destroyer is not.
jye4ever
Broke and happy
Box Office Mojo article:
In second place, Godzilla plummeted 66 percent to $31.4 million. While that decline is a bit better than Cloverfield's 68 percent, it's still much worse than most comparable titles. Thanks to strong marketing, moviegoers rushed out last weekend; unfortunately, the movie they saw wasn't exactly what was advertised. Combine that weak word-of-mouth with tough competition from X-Men, and a steep drop was in order. The movie has now earned $148.8 million, and is on pace to finish between $205 and $225 million
In second place, Godzilla plummeted 66 percent to $31.4 million. While that decline is a bit better than Cloverfield's 68 percent, it's still much worse than most comparable titles. Thanks to strong marketing, moviegoers rushed out last weekend; unfortunately, the movie they saw wasn't exactly what was advertised. Combine that weak word-of-mouth with tough competition from X-Men, and a steep drop was in order. The movie has now earned $148.8 million, and is on pace to finish between $205 and $225 million
ROTLA is simply and truthly perfect in every sense of the word.
I watch it alot.
I don't own one single collectible from the movie.
Temple is the only worthy Sequel....errrr....Prequel.
For instance, Temple is what Conan the Destroyer is not.
Raiders is in my top 5 of all time and is what I consider one of the "perfect films"
I agree about TOD... It is the only other worthy one... Good to see a fellow Raiders fan agree and not go all ga ga over TLC.
Conan the Destroyer was one of my biggest childhood disappointments. I was a huge fan of the original and it is what got me into the comics and books. Pics of Destroyer in mags had me all pumped up... and then.....
In bold makes me sad..... Because it is 100% true... The film makers seemed to know what kind of film they should have made but didn't
Raiders is in my top 5 of all time and is what I consider one of the "perfect films"
I agree about TOD... It is the only other worthy one... Good to see a fellow Raiders fan agree and not go all ga ga over TLC.
Conan the Destroyer was one of my biggest childhood disappointments. I was a huge fan of the original and it is what got me into the comics and books. Pics of Destroyer in mags had me all pumped up... and then.....
PS---- How do you not own the ROTLA PF??????
jye4ever
Broke and happy
Raiders is in my top 5 of all time and is what I consider one of the "perfect films"
I agree about TOD... It is the only other worthy one... Good to see a fellow Raiders fan agree and not go all ga ga over TLC.
Conan the Destroyer was one of my biggest childhood disappointments. I was a huge fan of the original and it is what got me into the comics and books. Pics of Destroyer in mags had me all pumped up... and then.....
Not even ESB I consider perfect, because SW is required.
I love the way Indy's gun sounds, not since Sergio Leone has a hand gun sounded so perfect.
In bold makes me sad..... Because it is 100% true... The film makers seemed to know what kind of film they should have made but didn't
Weird right.
I have the winning lotto ticket in my pocket.
<-----TLC, ROTLA, TOD
NOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!
Josh, you cwazy!
tylerdurden
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i'd like to address that point (in bold). i think audiences have become too used to excess like the kind michael bay and his ilk have been peddling. the result is shorter attention spans and an insistence that the entire movie has to be spectacle. while i do agree that the human characters weren't as strong as in jaws or close encounters, they really weren't that bad. the characters were perfunctory and i can think of far worse sins than that. like annoying characters. my take is that a number of opinion leaders started off saying the film was lacking in monster action, was boring/slow, etc etc and then the public bought into that and perpetuated the opinion til it got out of hand.
personally, i loved every bit of the film, yes, even the so-called "boring" parts. so sue me, i was engaged with the story from start to finish. is it perfect? far from it. i think the director had the right idea, he just went a tad overboard with it but to me it's not a fatal flaw. godzilla vs the MUTOs were the textbook definition of awesome and made the wait worthwhile.
this review offers a more balanced view on things:
https://electroshadow.com/return-of-the-king/
Agree wholeheartedly with you on that, tyler.
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I thought Cloverfield was pretty good for what it was at the time.. a novelty movie.
The only thing that reall bothered me was the *puts on Zoolander voice* ridiculously good looking cast considering it was supposed to be real and gritty. But we had a pile of catalogue models running around screaming.
It was dumb fun though IMO. But I had low expectations before seeing it. It was at the pinnacle of the found footage craze.
Which I detest with a passion. Apart from Blair Witch, which was very clever for its time.
The only thing that reall bothered me was the *puts on Zoolander voice* ridiculously good looking cast considering it was supposed to be real and gritty. But we had a pile of catalogue models running around screaming.
It was dumb fun though IMO. But I had low expectations before seeing it. It was at the pinnacle of the found footage craze.
Which I detest with a passion. Apart from Blair Witch, which was very clever for its time.
What I hated about Cloverfield was that, Okay this studio is spending 25 million on making a movie, and they go and make it the same way a drunk person makes a crappy youtube video???
I remember seeing how JJ kept talking that they would go on Youtube and study how people's videos were made.... yeah... okay....
so he based his movie on the same way some dumb 13 year old makes a video with their phone...... yay?
I mean at least with the Blair Witch Project they had valid reason to make the movie they way they did, it was incredibly cheap and they had no crew working on it. It was the 3 guys and that was it. 3 people worked on Blair Witch.
How many hundreds worked on Cloverfield? how many thousands? and with a budget that was like 500% bigger.... Big studio behind it.....
and it was based on drunk videos from youtube...
I still think about this movie and think WTF were they thinking?
I remember seeing how JJ kept talking that they would go on Youtube and study how people's videos were made.... yeah... okay....
so he based his movie on the same way some dumb 13 year old makes a video with their phone...... yay?
I mean at least with the Blair Witch Project they had valid reason to make the movie they way they did, it was incredibly cheap and they had no crew working on it. It was the 3 guys and that was it. 3 people worked on Blair Witch.
How many hundreds worked on Cloverfield? how many thousands? and with a budget that was like 500% bigger.... Big studio behind it.....
and it was based on drunk videos from youtube...
I still think about this movie and think WTF were they thinking?
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Anyone else thing "Back to Janjira" from the Godzilla soundtrack is very like parts of John Williams Jaws?
I don't think the part in bold means what you think it means... People were not expecting a transformers movie... They were expecting a very serious, dark, and apocalyptic film. Watch the trailers again.... They advertise a much different film.
They weren't bad.... Just boring. I don't blame the actors... They just were not given much to work with. ATJ was good when he had someone to play against. His wife, his father, the little Asian boy. But most of the film he had nobody of interest to talk to. That led to his character being very boring. His wife suffered the same problem. Ken W. had people to act against but he was just as wooden as ATJ.
Again I say if you fill the film with engaging characters then nobody would complain that It was slow. Some would... Of course. But that is going to happen with every film.
I did not even think the film really had "boring" parts... There was plenty of monsters throughout the whole film. But the characters being dull hurt the movie.
Let me put it this way... The most exciting part of the film was the beginning with Bryan c and his wife.... No monsters to be seen. Just characters that we were able to quickly identify with... No Godzilla but more exciting then the whole final monster battle. Give us Characters we care about and nobody would be complaining of a boring movie.
Now... I might still complain that the Godzilla film we got was not the Godzilla film advertised.... But with great characters I would have easily overlooked that.
Do you get frustrated with most movies then??? Most of Hollywood are "Beautiful" people.
PS - I would not call Hud a model
It was the high point of found footage... Even more so then Blair Witch IMO...
For me personally it is too well crafted of a film to be called a "novelty" movie.
But I get that many hate the handheld style of film.... I don't blame any of you... But this film is the exception to the rule IMO.
25 Million is not a lot of money for a film that was as large in scope as this one was. If this was done a more traditional level it would have cost a lot more. I thought it looked like every penny was spent and put on screen. Unlike Blair Witch which somehow cost $60,000 to make.
The point was the "you are there" style. That is what the film makers were going for. Personally I had no trouble following the action and appreciated the first person perspective.
But it did not work for everyone which I get.
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