Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - !!SPOILERS!!

[jye4ever]

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

I can't get over it, but the music to me needed some of this. Godzilla and his trademark music belong together.

Akira I***ube was the perfect man to give Godzilla a sound.





You're welcome

 

[thenammagazine]

Akira I***ube was the perfect man to give Godzilla a sound.

You're welcome

Honestly, that's the only thing I didn't like about it. I hope they find some way to work it into the soundtrack with the sequel, even if it's loosely done like X-Men United's nod to the cartoon.

 

[jye4ever]

I was hoping for BeeGee's music in the movie.

 

[thenammagazine]

I was hoping for BeeGee's music in the movie.

 

[jye4ever]

See, even the cat agrees.

 

[Biojex]

I can't get over it, but the music to me needed some of this. Godzilla and his trademark music belong together.

Akira I***ube was the perfect man to give Godzilla a sound.





You're welcome

I agree, I was constantly waiting for it. When Godzilla makes the last dive back into the ocean, and the screen cuts to black for the credits, that would have been the perfect time to just blast the i f u k ube theme…It would have blown my mind.

Hopefully, like Nam suggested, the mix it in somehow. just a few beats of the theme would satisfy me.

 

[MaulFan]

Honestly, that's the only thing I didn't like about it. I hope they find some way to work it into the soundtrack with the sequel, even if it's loosely done like X-Men United's nod to the cartoon.

I've heard arguments about how the theme wouldn't fit and I agree in it's original form, sure, but a good composer could take the theme and work it in and if done right, you might not even realize what you're hearing at first. Great example I use is the fan fair at the end of Phantom Menace, if I didn't read about how that's the Emperor's theme turned into an upbeat track, I wouldn't have known, I'm sure someone could put a twist on the Godzilla theme to work with the new movie.

 

[jye4ever]

The movie needed a longer "comeback from defeat" scene of Godzilla marching towards his foe, then his hero march could've been used to great effect.

But nope.

 

[Centurion]

I can't get over it, but the music to me needed some of this. Godzilla and his trademark music belong together.

Akira I***ube was the perfect man to give Godzilla a sound.





You're welcome

I was waiting for it in the end credits, but sadly, was nowhere in the movie.

 

[Centurion]

I was hoping for BeeGee's music in the movie.

No doubt.

After collapsing from exhaustion and almost being beaten to death, Godzilla rose again and walked into the sunset with this song playing:

 

[Khev]

Warning: Long post ahead, get your "Didn't Read" memes and gifs ready.

Last night I watched this movie for probably the fourth time since owning it at home. I'm kind of surprised at just how re-watchable it is. For a movie about "boring human characters" and a monster that "doesn't show up for an hour" it moves surprisingly fast. I find that each act still just captures my attention.

It was pretty brilliant of Edwards to have either Cranston or a monster in almost every section of the movie. If Cranston wasn't in it and the whole first part of the movie was just Aaron Taylor Johnston then I do think it would have definitely started out being a huge snoozer. But Cranston is so damn captivating, his acting is SO believable but not in a scene chewing "look at me" kind of way. So you've got that cool Bikini Island opening, then Bryan Cranston, then he passes the torch to the first MUTO, then its cool aircraft carrier stuff, Hawaii, tsunami, Godzilla goodness, and then from there the movie just doesn't let up. Nevada, Vegas, the Golden Gate bridge, HALO jumping, and so on.

I feel like Peter Jackson really did a much better job with the human drama in his King Kong, another remake where you have to wait an hour for the main monster to show up, but if you're not in the mood for Kong then that movie can really be an effort get excited about watching from beginning to end. I'd definitely say its a more enriching emotional experience but again, you really have to be in the mood for cool Kong stuff AND the drama of whether or not Naomi Watts' character will find love in her own life.

If you just want a fun monster movie, the human drama is much weaker than PJ's effort but even if you *don't* like it in Godzilla at least it all just moves so fast that it doesn't sideline all the good creature stuff. You see a lot more of Kong than Godzilla, and the human drama is better, BUT I think the pacing and actual quality of the monster scenes when Godzilla does show up might just put it over the top for me. And that is saying a hell of a lot because PJ's King Kong has been close to a top 10 favorite film of mine since it came out. Its weird because I don't know that I could say that Godzilla is in my new top 10, or even better than Kong, but at the end of the day if I want to see an epic modern monster movie...I think my tendency is going to be to give Zilla a spin much more often than Kong.

Watching Godzilla for the 5th time I am noticing more and more things that amuse me that I personally haven't seen discussed:

1. The reactor leak. Okay, you've got the one guy panicking over the intercom that the whole city is going to be exposed to radiation and that Cranston MUST close the doors or all will be lost. But just a couple scenes earlier we saw that Cranston had to tell the guy to "turn the door to manual control." Umm, if the switch to make the door manual release is in the control room, couldn't that same guy have just flipped the switch again to make it remote again? Why the panic? But it still made for good drama to watch everyone freaking out about the door.

2. F-22 ejector seats. In San Francisco we see the incredibly endearing Elizabeth Olsen step outside and watch a pilot quietly descending with his parachute shortly before his fighter crashes into a skyscraper. Then in the bay fighters are falling left and right out of the sky due to the EMP and we see another pilot eject seconds before his plane hits the water. Okay, so ejector seats are NOT electrical? Is this common knowledge? If the jets are crashing because they have NO electrical systems working then how are the seats launching? How is the cockpit opening? Inquiring minds want to know.

3. The little kid who gets separated from his parents in Hawaii. Okay the kid is actually pretty cool for his part but seriously, Brody just can't go five seconds in his life without spontaneous drama? Who is he, Spider-Man? That kid losing parents had literally nothing to do with Brody's dad or the monsters, just a completely unrelated plot device to give him a couple more hero moments. And then the really eye-rolling part for me was the next day after the attack Brody carries on like the kid is his responsibility but miraculously the moment he shoulders that responsibility the kid runs off and finds his parents mere seconds before Army troops march by that Brody can join. Dayum! Now that's convenience.

4. The flaming tanks in the Nevada river and the flaming train barreling down the tracks in the dark. Um, why? Do the MUTO's shoot fire? No. Do they attack things in any way that should leave human vehicles intact but still set ablaze? No! In no way do they just set things on fire and then move on with their business. But hey those flames sure looked cool coming out of the darkness.

But stuff like that happens and I get a good chuckle but I don't care. I feel like the movie gets to have moments like that because at the end of the day it's just a fun genre movie and it does so many things so well. It has MOS level devastation but it's done in such a "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" kind of way that I don't dismay failures of the heroes, I'm not offended by them milking 9/11 imagery, no I instead find myself craving to know the backstory of all the people involved in the collateral damage. Who was on that plane that crashed in the middle of all those cars stuck on the rural highways? Who was in that luxury suite that the firefighters tried to rescue in Vegas? Who did Godzilla smash through on the Golden Gate Bridge? Did kids in buses get taken out? Probably. That's fascinating stuff!

Now I can see people watching the movie and considering everything I mentioned above as strikes against the film. "They glossed over too much destruction" or "they cut away from too much," or something like that. But I feel like they just presented the arrival and destruction of the monsters in such a "realistic" (for lack of a better word) way that it didn't feel to me like they were glossing over things as much as just focusing on *other* aspects of what was going on. It's hard to put my finger on but for me it obviously worked.

And with regard to Brody conveniently always being at the forefront of the action I just felt it was handled much better than what we usually see in movies like this. Will Smith always being the go-to hero in situations he had absolutely no expertise in in Independence Day was just so stupid. "I can fly that UFO, I've seen how they maneuver." Give me a freaking break. Brody's journey was admittedly contrived but it still had an organic flow to it that still had just enough of an air of plausibility about it.

And the music, man, that's some of the best old school "epic monster" music I've heard in a long time. It makes the movie in certain scenes. When Brody is charging down the dock and frantically trying to get the boat launched, damn I almost get chills from the pounding score.

I think that a lot of people were quick to write this movie off because of certain preconceptions that weren't satisfied but when Godzilla 2 comes out and it's two hours of monster mayhem and then it gets rebooted 15-20 years from now I bet people will look at Godzilla 2014 as a Batman Begins-esque gem.

I kind of want to put Kong in tonight to do the whole back to back Pepsi challenge but a big part of me is just thinking, "nah, I'll just watch Godzilla again."

 

[Centurion]

Agreed.

 

[thenammagazine]

I've heard arguments about how the theme wouldn't fit and I agree in it's original form, sure, but a good composer could take the theme and work it in and if done right, you might not even realize what you're hearing at first. Great example I use is the fan fair at the end of Phantom Menace, if I didn't read about how that's the Emperor's theme turned into an upbeat track, I wouldn't have known, I'm sure someone could put a twist on the Godzilla theme to work with the new movie.

I even call BS on that. Sure, scratch the roar and the heavy horns at the beginning, but there's no reason the rest wouldn't fit. Especially if they slowed it down a bit.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

It doesnt even have to be the classic Godzilla march (which could have worked jyst fine imo)...there are so many tunes that could have worked from the classic movies they could have incorporated it in so many ways. They could have even just used a bit of some of the military themes from the old films. People generally think Godzilla has one main theme but he doesn't. There are so many iconic tunes for any atmosphere.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

The movie doesnt come close of have the acting and atmospheric power of the original but it can be a fun film and it has great monster action. I love the original Gojira, but its a heavy film and repeat viewings aren't the easiest. I can watch mothra vs godzilla, monster zero, or godzilla vs biollante a lot more despite me acknowledging that they aren't as powerful as '54.

This new film is an example of that. It's like a more epic godzilla vs the sea monster lol.

 

[Biojex]

Warning: Long post ahead, get your "Didn't Read" memes and gifs ready.

Last night I watched this movie for probably the fourth time since owning it at home. I'm kind of surprised at just how re-watchable it is. For a movie about "boring human characters" and a monster that "doesn't show up for an hour" it moves surprisingly fast. I find that each act still just captures my attention.

It was pretty brilliant of Edwards to have either Cranston or a monster in almost every section of the movie. If Cranston wasn't in it and the whole first part of the movie was just Aaron Taylor Johnston then I do think it would have definitely started out being a huge snoozer. But Cranston is so damn captivating, his acting is SO believable but not in a scene chewing "look at me" kind of way. So you've got that cool Bikini Island opening, then Bryan Cranston, then he passes the torch to the first MUTO, then its cool aircraft carrier stuff, Hawaii, tsunami, Godzilla goodness, and then from there the movie just doesn't let up. Nevada, Vegas, the Golden Gate bridge, HALO jumping, and so on.

I feel like Peter Jackson really did a much better job with the human drama in his King Kong, another remake where you have to wait an hour for the main monster to show up, but if you're not in the mood for Kong then that movie can really be an effort get excited about watching from beginning to end. I'd definitely say its a more enriching emotional experience but again, you really have to be in the mood for cool Kong stuff AND the drama of whether or not Naomi Watts' character will find love in her own life.

If you just want a fun monster movie, the human drama is much weaker than PJ's effort but even if you *don't* like it in Godzilla at least it all just moves so fast that it doesn't sideline all the good creature stuff. You see a lot more of Kong than Godzilla, and the human drama is better, BUT I think the pacing and actual quality of the monster scenes when Godzilla does show up might just put it over the top for me. And that is saying a hell of a lot because PJ's King Kong has been close to a top 10 favorite film of mine since it came out. Its weird because I don't know that I could say that Godzilla is in my new top 10, or even better than Kong, but at the end of the day if I want to see an epic modern monster movie...I think my tendency is going to be to give Zilla a spin much more often than Kong.

Watching Godzilla for the 5th time I am noticing more and more things that amuse me that I personally haven't seen discussed:

1. The reactor leak. Okay, you've got the one guy panicking over the intercom that the whole city is going to be exposed to radiation and that Cranston MUST close the doors or all will be lost. But just a couple scenes earlier we saw that Cranston had to tell the guy to "turn the door to manual control." Umm, if the switch to make the door manual release is in the control room, couldn't that same guy have just flipped the switch again to make it remote again? Why the panic? But it still made for good drama to watch everyone freaking out about the door.

2. F-22 ejector seats. In San Francisco we see the incredibly endearing Elizabeth Olsen step outside and watch a pilot quietly descending with his parachute shortly before his fighter crashes into a skyscraper. Then in the bay fighters are falling left and right out of the sky due to the EMP and we see another pilot eject seconds before his plane hits the water. Okay, so ejector seats are NOT electrical? Is this common knowledge? If the jets are crashing because they have NO electrical systems working then how are the seats launching? How is the cockpit opening? Inquiring minds want to know.

3. The little kid who gets separated from his parents in Hawaii. Okay the kid is actually pretty cool for his part but seriously, Brody just can't go five seconds in his life without spontaneous drama? Who is he, Spider-Man? That kid losing parents had literally nothing to do with Brody's dad or the monsters, just a completely unrelated plot device to give him a couple more hero moments. And then the really eye-rolling part for me was the next day after the attack Brody carries on like the kid is his responsibility but miraculously the moment he shoulders that responsibility the kid runs off and finds his parents mere seconds before Army troops march by that Brody can join. Dayum! Now that's convenience.

4. The flaming tanks in the Nevada river and the flaming train barreling down the tracks in the dark. Um, why? Do the MUTO's shoot fire? No. Do they attack things in any way that should leave human vehicles intact but still set ablaze? No! In no way do they just set things on fire and then move on with their business. But hey those flames sure looked cool coming out of the darkness.

But stuff like that happens and I get a good chuckle but I don't care. I feel like the movie gets to have moments like that because at the end of the day it's just a fun genre movie and it does so many things so well. It has MOS level devastation but it's done in such a "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" kind of way that I don't dismay failures of the heroes, I'm not offended by them milking 9/11 imagery, no I instead find myself craving to know the backstory of all the people involved in the collateral damage. Who was on that plane that crashed in the middle of all those cars stuck on the rural highways? Who was in that luxury suite that the firefighters tried to rescue in Vegas? Who did Godzilla smash through on the Golden Gate Bridge? Did kids in buses get taken out? Probably. That's fascinating stuff!

Now I can see people watching the movie and considering everything I mentioned above as strikes against the film. "They glossed over too much destruction" or "they cut away from too much," or something like that. But I feel like they just presented the arrival and destruction of the monsters in such a "realistic" (for lack of a better word) way that it didn't feel to me like they were glossing over things as much as just focusing on *other* aspects of what was going on. It's hard to put my finger on but for me it obviously worked.

And with regard to Brody conveniently always being at the forefront of the action I just felt it was handled much better than what we usually see in movies like this. Will Smith always being the go-to hero in situations he had absolutely no expertise in in Independence Day was just so stupid. "I can fly that UFO, I've seen how they maneuver." Give me a freaking break. Brody's journey was admittedly contrived but it still had an organic flow to it that still had just enough of an air of plausibility about it.

And the music, man, that's some of the best old school "epic monster" music I've heard in a long time. It makes the movie in certain scenes. When Brody is charging down the dock and frantically trying to get the boat launched, damn I almost get chills from the pounding score.

I think that a lot of people were quick to write this movie off because of certain preconceptions that weren't satisfied but when Godzilla 2 comes out and it's two hours of monster mayhem and then it gets rebooted 15-20 years from now I bet people will look at Godzilla 2014 as a Batman Begins-esque gem.

I kind of want to put Kong in tonight to do the whole back to back Pepsi challenge but a big part of me is just thinking, "nah, I'll just watch Godzilla again."

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As far as the ejector seat thing...I believe most ejector seats are combustion/ ballistic based. Similar to how a gun fires a bullet. Basically they pull a trigger which activates the explosion. Having an escape system use electronics while your vehicle is failing around you would be a bad bad idea .

And the guy freaking out about the door. I don't know if he was still in the control room. My understanding was everyone was being evacuated. So he was just talking to him trough a radio he was using outside. Yeah that sounds plausible. Ill go with that

The music is great. It knows when to use the right tonality. The sound effects are ****ing awesome as well. I love the Muto mimicry sounds. Where it copies the soldiers radio on the bridge. As well as the train horn just before he destroys it. Also Godzillas "rising" sound (I can't think of a better name for it) but whenever he slowly rises theres that big deep creaking sound. Like maybe all his bones are straining under the weight...or he's rippin a big one

 

[Devil_666]

 

[jye4ever]

 

[Biojex]

There's gotta be a Godzilla didnt read gif out there somewhere

If not I commission Devil or jye to add it to this

2nd edit: or the one Nam posted