Godzilla (2014) - - Part 11

[Lord]

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.

I know, but 1/ 10 is stretching it, that's the type of rating films like The Room get. Don't look at it as a monster film that doesn't really ahve that much to do with Godzilla himself, or as a spin-off of the main series starring a weaker monster.

I actually prefered when Emmerich was handling these type of high concept films like Independence Day, Godzilla, Stargate and Universal soldier than him constantly making end of the world films.

I do remember many liking it, and for many kids that was the only Godzilla they knew.

 

[redfirebird2008]

I do remember many liking it, and for many kids GINO 98 was the only Godzilla they knew.

Thank goodness I was already a teenager at that point and had grown up on Godzilla 1954 and King Kong vs. Godzilla. He is a certified badass in those movies.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Godzilla 98 I think warrants a 1. It is everything bad about blockbuster filmmaking in 1 film.

 

[Morg]

Godzilla 98 I think warrants a 1. It is everything bad about blockbuster filmmaking in 1 film.

that's wasn't a Godzilla movie, it's a GINO

 

[Spider-Fan]

I am pretty sure I said STOP BICKERING! This includes EVERYONE! If I have to keep deleting posts, I will start handing out infractions.

 

[ShadowBoxer]

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.

I have no issues with people that liked it. However, this movie will be a let down for people like me that expected it to have some epic Godzilla fights. Also, not trying to be a *****e but I was kinda monitoring Godzilla's screen time last night. It was more like 11-15 min mark in regards to screen time. It's mostly quick glimpses here and there and then the final fight that constantly gets cut for human drama. For example, Godzilla's reveal and the first fight ( if you can even call it that) was meh.

Who thought it would be a good idea to cut back to the kid watching it on the news and not show it? The movie has other moments like this, that brought it down for me. That slow burn may work well for others but it didn't do it for me. Also the human drama will be hit or miss on whether the viewer finds the characters interesting or not, I didn't. However, I am not bashing anyone who likes it. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

 

[Spider-Fan]

that's wasn't a Godzilla movie, it's a GINO

Even if you take out the fact that the cinematic abomination known as GINO was supposed to be Godzilla, the film on its own merits is just downright bad.

 

[Flint Marko]

I have no issues with people that liked it. However, this movie will be a let down for people like me that expected it to have some epic Godzilla fights. Also, not trying to be a *****e but I was kinda monitoring Godzilla's screen time last night. It was more like 11-15 min mark in regards to screen time. It's mostly quick glimpses here and there and then the final fight that constantly gets cut for human drama. For example, Godzilla's reveal and the first fight ( if you can even call it that) was meh. Who thought it would be a good idea to cut back to the kid watching it on the news and not show it? The movie has other moments like this, that brought it down for me. That slow burn may work well for others but it didn't do it for me. Also the human drama will be hit or miss on whether the viewer finds the characters interesting or not, I didn't.

However, I am not bashing anyone who likes it. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

Fair enough. I guess it a lot of it really does depend on how invested you were in the human characters and how compelling you found that side of the film, which as I've said worked for me.

 

[Schlosser85]

"Godzilla" 98 is a really bad movie even by Emmerich's low standards.

 

[Lord]

Godzilla 98 I think warrants a 1. It is everything bad about blockbuster filmmaking in 1 film.

1 means it was awful in every single aspect, when it wasn't, 1 is The Room, not even Michael Bay's transformers films deserve 1 or 2 out of 10, event he special effects and Directing counts for something.

Come on, i know it wasn't a Godzilla film, but it was kinda entertaining

Who thought it would be a good idea to cut back to the kid watching it on the news and not show it? The movie has other moments like this, that brought it down for me. That slow burn may work well for others but it didn't do it for me. Also the human drama will be hit or miss on whether the viewer finds the characters interesting or not, I didn't. However, I am not bashing anyone who likes it. It just wasn't my cup of tea.

You just need a bigger cup

 

[Schlosser85]

The humans here honestly are about as paper-thin and cliched as in Emmerich's but at least they're not so ****ing annoying.

 

[ares834]

1 means it was awful in every single aspect, when it wasn't, 1 is The Room, not even Michael Bay's transformers films deserve 1 or 2 out of 10, event he special effects and Directing counts for something.

People have different criteria when rating movies. For me a 1/10 means it is in the bottom 10% of movies.

 

[Spider-Fan]

1 means it was awful in every single aspect, when it wasn't, 1 is The Room, not even Michael Bay's transformers films deserve 1 or 2 out of 10, event he special effects and Directing counts for something.

Come on, i know it wasn't a Godzilla film, but it was kinda entertaining

The human characters are awful. The woman in particular can't act at all. The plot is stupid. It tries very hard to be charming, but ultimately 99% of all jokes in the movie fall flat on their face. The monster in the movie gets beaten fairly easily.

Sorry dude, I simply don't agree. That film warrants a 1. I can actually laugh at something like The Room because it is so bad, but in a hilarious way. G98 isn't funny bad or charming on any level. It is boring, unfunny, poorly plotted, poorly acted, poorly directed, etc. No enjoyment at all.

 

[redfirebird2008]

The humans here honestly are about as paper-thin and cliched as in Emmerich's but at least they're not so ****ing annoying.

GZ2014 probably takes itself a bit too seriously, but I would rather have that than the horrible attempts at humor that we got in GINO 98 and the typical immature humor we see in the Transformers movies.

 

[Schlosser85]

I agree with Spider-Fan. It's not entertaining. Apart from maybe Zilla's landfall and the submarine scene which I kind of liked, it doesn't even have good monster mayhem. And the humans are like a sitcom mashed up with a monster movie.

 

[Tron Bonne]

So, is the screen time for Godzilla really that low, or not? I mean, if the human characters are well done, I don't mind them getting a lot of time, but I would be disappointed if we don't see Big G at least a decent amount.

[BLACKOUT]We only get a few very fleeting glimpses mostly of his spines in the water until he makes his grand entrance in the Hawaii scene. After that he reappears in the big San Fran climax.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[Lord]

People have different criteria when rating movies. For me a 1/10 means it is in the bottom 10% of movies.

I think you mean 10% of hollywod movies, because as a whole, around 50% of the films ever made are absolute trash and bigger waste of time than the worst Emmerich or Michael Bay movie

 

[redfirebird2008]

So, is the screen time for Godzilla really that low, or not? I mean, if the human characters are well done, I don't mind them getting a lot of time, but I would be disappointed if we don't see Big G at least a decent amount.

His total screentime is not bad (probably around 20-25 minutes), it's just that...

Spoiler

he is not the driving force of the story for the first hour and a half. About 98% of his screentime is lumped together at the very end of the film.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I agree with Spider-Fan. It's not entertaining. Apart from maybe Zilla's landfall and the submarine scene which I kind of liked, it doesn't even have good monster mayhem. And the humans are like a sitcom mashed up with a monster movie.

Exactly. The movie devolves into a much inferior version of Jurassic Park. I was actually rooting for the monsters to kill everybody.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

So, is the screen time for Godzilla really that low, or not? I mean, if the human characters are well done, I don't mind them getting a lot of time, but I would be disappointed if we don't see Big G at least a decent amount.

You see him plenty, but until the end, you don't actually see him doing anything other than walk, swim, or roar.

 

[X Knight]

for what it's worth, my "local" paper review gave Godzilla 3 out of 4 stars!

for comparison sake, they gave TASM 2 one and a half stars........

 

[Flint Marko]

So, is the screen time for Godzilla really that low, or not? I mean, if the human characters are well done, I don't mind them getting a lot of time, but I would be disappointed if we don't see Big G at least a decent amount.

I'm not going to pretend that the human characters are super fleshed out and interesting in and of themselves, but I didn't really need them to be to enjoy the film for what it is. I bought into the relationships fairly easily and enjoyed seeing all the catastrophe and mayhem from a human perspective. A poster in here a page or two ago called the characters "fine" and I'd say that's a pretty fitting description. They are, at the worst, serviceable.

 

[ares834]

I think you mean 10% of hollywod movies, because as a whole, around 50% of the films ever made are absolute trash and bigger waste of time than the worst Emmerich or Michael Bay movie[/IMG]

Yes, quite right.

 

[Schlosser85]

So, is the screen time for Godzilla really that low, or not? I mean, if the human characters are well done, I don't mind them getting a lot of time, but I would be disappointed if we don't see Big G at least a decent amount

[BLACKOUT]we get very fleeting glimpses of him, mostly his find in the water, until his grand entrance halfway through where there is the first full shot of him. Then he mostly reappears at the big climax, probably the last 20-30 minutes.[/BLACKOUT]

 

[ShadowBoxer]

So, is the screen time for Godzilla really that low, or not? I mean, if the human characters are well done, I don't mind them getting a lot of time, but I would be disappointed if we don't see Big G at least a decent amount.

[BLACKOUT]We only get a few very fleeting glimpses mostly of his spines in the water until he makes his grand entrance in the Hawaii scene. After that he reappears in the big San Fran climax.[/BLACKOUT]

He has a total of about 15 or so mins. For a majority of the movie you just see quick glimpses of him and his spine/ spikes swimming in the water. Then you see a for a good amount in the ending.