Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - !!SPOILERS!!

[jrice73]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I love non-ultraman-competitor Godzilla while both Pacific Rim Jobs and Man on Steel almost made me vomit

Those are very poorly written/executed movies and it has nothing to do with ppl not liking robots and monsters destroying stuff. Journalists are paid for controversial and scandalous material, it is their bread. They are not prophets and certainly not analysts daily polling hundreds of people on the streets.

That's your opinion bud and that's fine. But the deal is, I'm not talking about journalists writing this stuff. I'm talking about people like you and me, regular people, who have gone on these threads and said exactly what I was referring too--being bored by not just PR and MOS but films that have the same amount of mayhem and destruction, whether its got giant robots or monsters or superheros or cops and robbers, etc. The tentpole, blockbuster with all of the fx and explosions (whether or not its good) has just run its course for a lot of audience members. And plus, you and I have a lot in common too. We both love the Heisei Godzilla films. G. vs. Destroyah is my favorite.

 

[RIDDICK]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

That's your opinion bud and that's fine.

Didn't read further, sorry.
Don't start a dialogue with obvious reluctance to conduct such, even if you want to just showe "your opinion" in the azz of interlocutor.








































Back to waiting God damn trailer.

 

[Pork Chop Express]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Man of Steel for me was over the top. Two "human" characters battling it out with mass collateral damage worthy of big G. I get that they're powerfull, just felt overdone to me. If Superman is conscious enough to hit back he should be conscious enough to get humanity out of harms way. With a monster movie it's almost expected. I can only described Godzilla as a force of nature, power and destruction that can only be dealt with or flee from. Not the mention what he represents...
That's why the story's gotta be strong or a least "believable" and entertaining. I'll pay money to find out.

 

[Centurion]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I could see this movie having a bigger second week because word of mouth gets out that it's a quality film with heart and story and not just fluff or camp, but opening weekend may be less than people may hope cuz a lot of folks think Godzilla is the cheesy movies only and G98 did nothin to help Americans see his serious side.

Assuming the above is true.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Wait, wut you want a Superman vs Godzilla movie.

 

[Centurion]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Wait, wut you want a Superman vs Godzilla movie.

I want my money back.

 

[MaulFan]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I agree that audiences may be tired of massive city destruction in films, and I think Godzilla's marketing needs to emphasize that it will not only show a city destroyed, but the casualties of it and how the work reacts to it.

Where Bay films and films like Pacific Rim become cliche is that they show the destruction as pure spectacle and that gets tiring. I really believe Godzilla will not be your average disaster movie.

 

[Centurion]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

If they showed the other side of the devastation, the hardships it causes for the people involved, it would be more like the original. I think that would have a significant impact on the success of this movie. But I also still want to see giant monsters kicking each others @$$.

 

[MaulFan]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

They will be showing aftermath, Elizabeth Olsen shot in a FEMA rescue center.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I always truly wonder though how much the timing of these films have to do with it's impact. In the 50's, before giant monster movies became the trend and an eventual running joke outside the cult community, Japan was just coming off two atom bomb attacks ten years previous. As the only country that has ever dealt with that nightmare, the fear and symbolism was alive and haunting. All these years later, the "nuclear threat" has become dismissed in American society like it was global warming or something. Not to mention that it's been so overdone between monster movies, war movies, sci fi movies, and even spy movies. I fear that, just by sheer time and disconnect with modern-day audiences, Godzilla won't ever have an impact like the original did. It wasn't just superb acting, eerie music, and a horrific theme. For many Japanese, it was very, very close to home. Come May 2014, it won't be like that.

Besides, it doesn't help that this Godzilla looks like the offspring of an alligator and a bear. He looks cool, but he doesn't look menacing like '54 or even '84. Hopefully, he goes after humans with the same expressions of intent and pure hatred he had in the old films. It wasn't accidental in 1954, Gojira killed every poor soul that crossed his path and almost looked fully satisfied when he did it. Those beady eyes, those carnivorous fangs, pointy, demon-ears. Godzilla looked hellish, not just a giant lizard. That's what people who still make these films can't seem to separate.

 

[MaulFan]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I get what you're saying, and of course, no film is likely to ever have the impact of Gojira, no even took the world by shock like the atomic bomb tests and Gojira was a reliving of it.

That said, this film will not be without impact and connection. For America, 9/11 is still a scary thought, and where we've see dozens of movies destroy cities, even New York, few ever do so in a way to bring the terror of losing loved ones home. I do think Edwards is going to depict the aftermath somewhat graphically, not blood and guts, but screaming, crying, loss, agony, much like in Gojira.

As for the terror of his appearance, I will grant that so far, images of the new Godzilla have not captured his malevolance, but, so far, all the clear images we've gotten are also marketing art, both the book and Brazil poster. These images are geared towards children, there's going to be some muting of his ferocity in them, but based on the Encounter video, he can look pretty mean and fierce and I have no doubt as more looks at him and footage from the actual movie emerge, we'll see that side of things. The '54 and '84 suits can look almost silly in some images that are out there, their visual power relies as much on cinematography as the actual design and I think Godzilla 2014 will be the same.

 

[Viking Spawn]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Boy, oh boy. I've read a couple of articles today that say the new Godzilla film is definitely not tracking well with audiences and that it may suffer the Pacific Rim effect and leave audiences just not wanting to see it. Hopefully, that changes a couple of months from now once the marketing and hype machine kicks in. WB/Legendary would do themselves a big favor if they put out a trailer that shows Godzilla fully in view from head to toe smashing and blowing **** up. No more hiding behind buildings and clouds of smoke and debris. Show us the Big G or suffer audiences not caring and low boxoffice.

I too read this and it also concerns me. I have a feeling this film will be the G movie I always wanted to see that captures the feel of the original. I just hope everyone gives it a proper chance. G 98 started out as a big hit for its time until negative word of mouth enlightened everyone to it. Hence its proper alias GINO was what it came to be known as.

 

[Sachiel]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Should've cast Bieber.

 

[MaulFan]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Looks like a Japanese theater banner, I kinda like the tagline, Godzilla's spines in the text is cool.

 

[RIDDICK]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Some schoolboy could come up with a better tagline.

 

[Sachiel]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

The legend ends, Godzilla rises.

 

[Master Wayne]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Agreed. Lousy tagline.

 

[MaulFan]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I kind of like it. One thing I hope this movie does is expand on the threat of Godzilla. One thing that bothers me often with like Godzilla movies and superheroes is how they're always focused on a single location. While Godzilla destroys cities throughout Japan, it's always Japan except in Destroy All Monsters. It just feels a bit silly that with so many films, comics, whatever, these guys never expand beyond their main territory and you get a sense that it's the only place in the world with problems.

I do get a feeling that this Godzilla will make him a global problem, which is very interesting for me, and if that is the case, then the tagline works for me, if Godzilla rampages the world enough, civilization as we know it would eventually be destroyed.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Yeah the tagline needs to go. It's a more serious banner without it.

 

[Pork Chop Express]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I'd like to see the story tied to our nuclear arsenal somehow. Maybe Godzilla gets close to some location housing warheads and that gets the military worried, or they decide to use them... anything short of an atomic blast wouldn't stop him, and even then I'm not convinced it would. Just to bring it home how big a threat he is.

I had a relative that was a POW on Wake Island for a few years. He was put on a train that went through Nagasaki (after the bomb fell) and he had a small camera with him, took a bunch photos. Complete destruction with some skeletal structures remaining, crazy...