Godzilla (2014) - - Part 11

[Roose Bolton]

Having gotten back from watching this, I'd say it's less the Casino Royale of the franchise and more like the Quantum of Solace.

 

[Visualiza]

Having gotten back from watching this, I'd say it's less the Casino Royale of the franchise and more like the Quantum of Solace.

Agreed. How did Ramsay like it?

 

[Lord]

I totally agree with this. Also the movie had a budget of $160 Million(per Box Office Mojo) so they probably couldn't have afforded more CGI monster fights.

Since when is that a small budget? Transformers 1 was done with 10 million less at a time when CGI was a bit more expensive. Considering all that i'm hearing about the lack of monster battles, seems like it was more of a choice from the Director than budget constraints.

 

[hitmanyr2k]

Gremlin, is it at all in your capacity to not lash out at people who think differently from you? Seems like anyone who disagrees with you is whining. That's ridiculous.

Agreed.

ANNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Gremlin gets it.

And crap like this needs to be put to bed as well. There's no "getting it".

 

[djsunyc]

Cranston Hammed it up? really?

people please dont use these reviews as a means of whether or not to watch the movie.

if you have to go by random peoples opinions on the movie then you really arent a Godzilla fan and shouldnt watch it anyways.

it's a good movie. does it have flaws? yes but the payoff for godzilla fans more than makes up for it. imo

if you wanted to watch it from the start , go watch it

no need to be worried about people not wanting to see this movie based on reviews here. if you are on this forum, you are going to see the movie no matter what. this is a very small % of the movie viewing target audience. if you took everyone that read this forum, you may fill up 2 theaters for 2 showings.

as for cranston:

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i am posting my honest review. i was very excited going into it but left sort of flat. cranston was portraying a stereotypical raving conspiracy lunatic. constantly screaming his lines. there was nothing seperating his performance from so many other conspiracy theorists you see on tv, basic cable and the sort. i was expecting more from him.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

i don't get the complaints

i very much liked the movie. my friends i was went with thought it was boring and not enough action. personally, i enjoyed this more than Amazing Spider-Man 2

 

[regnak]

Since when is that a small budget? Transformers 1 was done with 10 million less at a time when CGI was a bit more expensive. Considering all that i'm hearing about the lack of monster battles, seems like it was more of a choice from the Director than budget constraints.

It is only $10 million more than Thor had and it looks much more expensive. I have blotted the Transformers movies out of my mind. Unless there are deleted monster fight scenes then the budget would have been an issue. They spent what they had.

 

[djsunyc]

i don't get the complaints

i very much liked the movie. my friends i was went with thought it was boring and not enough action. personally, i enjoyed this more than Amazing Spider-Man 2

it's all good. alot of folks were cheering in my movie theater. i think this movie will have fans on both sides of the fence. it's not an overwhelming homerun of a movie that will make folks want to constantly re-watch it but it's also not a movie that will make folks walk out of the theater.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Agreed. How did Ramsay like it?

He was quite sad when Ford didn't get eaten by the female Muto. But laughed heartily during Sandra Brody's scenes.

 

[GoblinScrier]

Well I saw it last night and just flipped out...my Godzilla nerd sensors were on overload..I loved it..loved it..loved it....10/10...Godzilla, the less is more approach for me worked...I didn't mind the cutaways...acting was solid...liked everyone...was invested in their stories...not bored at all.

Godzilla...the MUTOs...phenomenal!!!

Loved the easter eggs of the Toho Monsters...I saw at least 3 different easter eggs.

Will be seeing this again and again this weekend....

 

[ShadowBoxer]

Wow, I'm disappointed. Not with the film. With the amount of whining about it.

This is going to make me sound like a complete jerk, but I don't care. I'm disappointed that people seem to genuinely exaggerate almost every major issue that has been brought up. I expected more from the people who post here. You all are acting like a bunch of ADHD addled teenagers. I was genuinely starting to expect to be disappointed with the film because of all the negative word of mouth, but I just got a HARD lesson in never letting peoples opinions influence mine.

I can understand the character issue. The characters themselves are fine. Yes, FINE. Not outstanding, and I wasn't expecting them to be. My Godzilla fan side doesn't expect amazing, three dimensional character work from these films even if it is a big budget Hollywood update, so honestly I get why people would be a little let down considering the talent involved-but there wasn't a bad performance in the bunch. People keep spewing "wasted talent". I never got that saying. What, so you would rather them cast crap actors instead? Wouldn't you want the best actors involved even though they aren't spewing Shakespeare? I would much rather have good actors in archetypal/small/expository roles than bad actors. Just my preference. I don't know about you.

Taylor-Johnson seems to be getting the amount of flack Charlie Hunnam got for Pac Rim and I think it's overblown. He was a likable lead to follow around and experience these events with. He wasn't overly emotive and was rather stoic, but I think that's the ENTIRE point of the character. But I still bought into his relationship with his father and wife.
That's kind of the point of the whole film, is to be put in the shoes of these various people throughout the narrative and see these happenings from a human level. And on that aspect the film grabbed me and got me hooked. I was never bored. The plot itself and the exposition and the build up is all very old-school-monster-movie and I dug the hell out of it. And that is really what this movie is going for. It's a horror movie with a massive scope, much like the original film. These types of films do not need a cast of three dimensional characters with 30 minute back stories and complex relationships. And you know what, there is more attention paid to the characters here than ANY other Godzilla film ever made. Well, it's equal with the original Gojira at least. So in comparison to say some of the more well received blockbusters over the past few years maybe the characters are rather typical (not bad, typical), but in comparison with the rest of the franchise these people are borderline three-dimensional.

The biggest sticker seems to be Godzilla himself. Would I have liked more of him? Yes. But not in a way I felt cheated. I wanted more of him in the way I wanted more dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, more aliens in Alien and Aliens, more shark in JAWS, more Gojira in Gojira. So basically, I was so satisfied by the end of the film that I didn't want the experience to be over. But honestly, his screentime is perfectly substantial. No, do not go in thinking you're going to get amazing monster fights every 10 minutes. And as much as I love that stuff, I honestly think it would have been a mistake to go that route here.

9/10. One of the best movies of it's kind in a long time.

I respect you opinion but people wanted to see a Godzilla / Kiiju movie. I didn't come to see a Godzilla movie where he has 10 mins or less of screen time. And the fight scenes are constantly cut to go back to more human drama. Pacific Rim's story, characters, dialouge was cheesey but the lengthy and awesome fight scenes blow this movies out of the water in my opinion.

 

[Sithborg]

All I know is, I am eagerly awaiting to see this again in IMAX.

I understand the complaints. But I think some of them are being blown way out of proportion. I see a lot of people wanting it to be more like Batman Begins or Casino Royale. I just don't see how, considering Godzilla isn't exactly a character. As for the focus of the movie, I can think of quite a few movies where the main complaints was that the villains were just tacked on. And considering the issues the LAST movie that only used Godzilla had, they were damned if they do, damned if they don't.

And really, is it that surprising about lack of screentime after watching Monsters.

 

[redfirebird2008]

$9.3m in previews. GREAT start.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

I just saw two positive reviews on RT that have me baffled. One says that there is an HOUR of Godzilla in action... WHAT???!! The other one complains that there wasn't enough human drama..... Again WHAT??? These people saw a diffrent movie than I did last night.... Crazy

 

[cyclone]

Just back from seeing it.....

Firstly I'm not going to get at people for the different opinions or anything like that. Afterall, opinions are like buttholes - everyone's got one.

Me though, I absolutely loved it. It's a 10/10 for me. I loved the cutting away, because when we got the fight at the end, it was perfect. It did something no film has done for a long time - while watching it, I genuinely felt like a kid again. When Godzilla first

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uses his atomic breath, with it running through the spines

I had the most ridiculous grin on my face.

I understand peoples complaints, totally. But for me they were null and void.

10/10, will be seeing it again, and my film of the year (so far).

 

[Spider-Fan]

Guys, STOP THE BICKERING! It is a friggin movie. People are allowed to love it or hate it. Why don't you guys take your OWN advice and stop whining about other people whining

 

[Flint Marko]

I didn't come to see a Godzilla movie where he has 10 mins or less of screen time.

He has substantially more time on screen than ten minutes, I think most people counted it to be around 20-25.
And again, I at least really appreciated the slow burn. The build to the last fight made it work for me, but a lot of others seem to take issue with it.
And to everyone reading this and possibly getting disparaged about maybe not seeing the film because of all these complaints let me say this one more time: in my showing, there were several moments where people were clapping and going nuts. My theatre and myself included loved it, I'm thinking this is really going to connect with audiences as a whole.

 

[redfirebird2008]

I totally agree with this. Also the movie had a budget of $160 Million(per Box Office Mojo) so they probably couldn't have afforded more CGI monster fights.

I didn't want more CGI fights. I wanted Godzilla to be the driving force of the story. I wanted him to be The Destroyer of All Worlds like the marketing material SAYS he is. Remember the Oppenheimer trailer? Yeah, they watered him down in this movie compared to what he could have been.

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I wanted a 1954 style Godzilla, not one of Toho's later "friendly" Godzilla. The marketing is very misleading on this, so I think it is completely fair to be disappointed in Godzilla's characterization and the fact that the plot is driven by two other monsters.

Still though, this is miles better than the 1998 movie. That one was like a 1/10 whereas GZ2014 is probably a 6.5/10 for me. The good thing is that I think they can do quite a bit better with the sequel, so I'm hopeful on that front.

 

[Super Kal]

Guys, STOP THE BICKERING! It is a friggin movie. People are allowed to love it or hate it. Why don't you guys take your OWN advice and stop whining about other people whining

 

[Lord]

Zilla 98 was bad, but come on, it wasn't a 1/10, being an Emmerich film it was actually a lot of fun for what it was.

 

[Visualiza]

Zilla 98 was bad, but come on, it wasn't a 1/10, being an Emmerich film it was actually a lot of fun for what it was.

Still...it was pretty bad. With this movie, I appreciated the approach they took, and the aesthetics were very well done, but the overall structure is a key area where it let me down.

 

[Schlosser85]

Godzilla has a lot more than 10 minutes screen time, where did that come from?

 

[redfirebird2008]

Zilla 98 was bad, but come on, it wasn't a 1/10, being an Emmerich film it was actually a lot of fun for what it was.

Maybe for you that's the case. I actually enjoy Independence Day so I don't hate his filmmaking style, but GINO 98 had some really bad stuff in it.

The design of 98 Zilla in and of itself was bad enough to knock the movie's score down a few pegs for me. Then tack on a really bad plot and those stupid wannabe raptor baby Zillas.

 

[Flint Marko]

Zilla 98 was bad, but come on, it wasn't a 1/10, being an Emmerich film it was actually a lot of fun for what it was.

That film is probably my guiltiest pleasure. I was 7 when it came out so I loved it, still has a special place in my heart t:

 

[Visualiza]

Godzilla has a lot more than 10 minutes screen time, where did that come from?

I think that when people say that, they mean in a relative sense, as in that's the impression they got from the movie.

He is of course in the movie for more than ten literal minutes, but throughout the duration, Godzilla seemed to get lost in the shuffle of his own movie.