Godzilla (2014) - - - - Part 13

[Jaspertian1105]

Taylor Kitsch, Charlie Hunnam?

Dont know what you mean, you feel those are better choices than Johnson and Cavill? Hunnam In Pac Rim he was pretty criticized , even though i think the script was pretty bad, almost cartoony in the worst way possible. And Kitsch the guy is BO venom, maybe he can make a come back, but no one will give him a franchise again for a while. But you lead can be the weakest of the cast, i dont think he was bad, just he should have shown more emotion

 

[kvz5]

So I saw this today and I thought it was really good (a solid 8 for me). I haven't read all the reviews here yet so I don't know if I'm in the minority or majority. My biggest issue is that most of its great cast was severely underutilized (Olsen, Cranston, Binoche, Hawkins). I didn't even know that Hawkins and Binoche were in this movie. I also thought Cranston was the lead so yeah... losing him early on was disappointing.

I think the 2nd week % drop is understandable. I didn't even feel that drop because my theater was packed to full capacity. About 85% families. It was a pretty loud and active crowd too. They clapped and cheered when Godzilla took down the female MUTO.

On a side note, our theater ROARED with laughter at the 22 Jump St trailer. Some whispers at the Maze Runner one and surprisingly they were quiet at the Interstellar trailer except for a few whispers when they showed the "director of Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy" caption after Nolan's name.

I haven't seen Johnson in other roles so i dont know if he is always as inexpressive, i wonder how the film would have turned out with Cavill in the lead, i think he was a much better choice and a more solid actor.

Johnson is one of those actors that I just don't "get". I just don't get his appeal at all. Having said that, he's a solid actor overall in his other films. He was serviceable in this film. Others could definitely do better but IMO it's not Cavill. I don't consider him better than Johnson in the acting department.

Godzilla is a tragic love story about two romantic leads who waited a millenia and went against all odds to find each other, only to be murdered by an obese serial killer with bad breath.

OMG. Post of the day.

 

[Marvin]

Dont know what you mean, you feel those are better choices than Johnson and Cavill? Hunnam In Pac Rim he was pretty criticized , even though i think the script was pretty bad, almost cartoony in the worst way possible. And Kitsch the guy is BO venom, maybe he can make a come back, but no one will give him a franchise again for a while. But you lead can be the weakest of the cast, i dont think he was bad, just he should have shown more emotion

I was joking.

Johnson is one of those actors that I just don't "get". I just don't get his appeal at all. Having said that, he's a solid actor overall in his other films. He was serviceable in this film. Others could definitely do better but IMO it's not Cavill. I don't consider him better than Johnson in the acting department.

In Tudors he acts better than what has been seen from Johnson. Then again, a good acting script can go along way.

 

[the last son]

Kick A alone was better than any acting Cavill had done. Johnson disappointed me in this. No emotion at all like in Kick A.

 

[Asr]

Saw the movie earlier and have to agree that it felt like Godzilla cameo'd in his own movie. The build-up was dragged out by too much uninteresting character drama, and then when we finally saw Godzilla get ready for that first facedown against the MUTO, the cut-away was instantly annoying especially when Godzilla looked so badass on that first full-size reveal (thought I saw Godzilla smirking?). The action scenes were indeed awesome though, loved every moment of the smackdown fight in San Francisco between Godzilla and the MUTOs. Would've been better if Godzilla had used radioactive breath more!

Elizabeth Olsen's character, along with the son, felt like totally pointless characters. Not really sure what they added to the movie when just ATJ would've worked by himself. And she totally didn't look old enough to have a son that old either, it was kinda like Superman Returns again with Kate Bosworth and Superkid.

Hopefully a sequel has way more Godzilla screentime....

Btw not sure if anyone's mentioned it before but given the easter egg hinting at [blackout]Mothra[/blackout], maybe it'll appear in the sequel?

 

[Arach Knight]

Seems as though Godzilla is headed for Pacific Rim territory in terms of box office. Which isn't bad, as Pacific Rim earned enough at the box office to warrant a sequel. So Godzilla will clearly get the sequel that Warner Bros. preemptively announced.

Since Legendary is involved with both productions, I wonder if they would be so bold as to have a Pacific Rim film featuring Godzilla? I can imagine it now:

The rift opens once again and a new breed of hyper kaiju emerge, along with the actual alien species that bio-engineered the kaiju. With a depleted Jaeger fleet and years of peace softening up human vigilance, it takes the unlikely team up of an earth-born kaiju, Godzilla, and a redesigned Gypsy Danger to take on the new threat.

Sound silly, but that is the kind of blockbuster idea could likely write its own checks.

 

[Sithborg]

Godzilla has already made more than Pacific Rim domestically. Even with the bad legs, it's going to make a lot more than Pacific Rim.

As for a crossover, I'm sure WB and Legendary wouldn't mind to do it. But, they still have to answer to Toho, who seems to only want one monster to crossover with Godzilla. I wouldn't bet on it.

 

[Serpico Jones]

I would be absolutely shocked if we ever see a sequel to Pacific Rim. Legendary could decide to do a direct to video animated film but an actual feature? No way. The film tanked in North America and barely broke even.

 

[terry78]

Figured it would be on its way to an animated series if it did better.

 

[ares834]

Seems as though Godzilla is headed for Pacific Rim territory in terms of box office.

It already has made roughly 50 million more than PR domestically. It's likely going to double PR's dom gross even with a bad multiplier.

 

[Bruce Malone]

I'm still really baffled as to why PR performed as poorly as it did domestically?

I really enjoyed that film. If you want a film spectacle that has some kick-ass battles between giant monsters and mech suits you couldn't ask for more?

 

[Jaspertian1105]

A predictable drop for Godzilla, its already close to its 160 million budget,so it will probably come close to the 200 million. Hopefully the sequel is on track. Im surprised with xmen BO, i expected 100 million for sure, dont know what happend there, but it was hard competition for Godzilla, so its opening weekend was a great advantage

 

[regnak]

I'm still really baffled as to why PR performed as poorly as it did domestically?

I really enjoyed that film. If you want a film spectacle that has some kick-ass battles between giant monsters and mech suits you couldn't ask for more?

They needed better promotion and lots of action figures to bring in the kids.

 

[regnak]

A predictable drop for Godzilla, its already close to its 160 million budget,so it will probably come close to the 200 million. Hopefully the sequel is on track. Im surprised with xmen BO, i expected 100 million for sure, dont know what happend there, but it was hard competition for Godzilla, so its opening weekend was a great advantage

I just hope it makes enough to get an increased budget. To get more Godzilla onscreen more fx money will be needed.

 

[Bruce Malone]

They needed better promotion and lots of action figures to bring in the kids.

I've just been trying to wrap my head around why the transformers films can make a billion dollars, when you can't even tell which robot is fighting who but PR can barely get by.

You're probably right, better action figures and I guess Shia Laboeuff somehow makes the difference?

I know it has become somewhat of a hit though on video now.

 

[ares834]

Yeah, it's domestic BO was incredibly low for some reason. Never understood it either. It's OS gross was decent though.

 

[regnak]

I've just been trying to wrap my head around why the transformers films can make a billion dollars, when you can't even tell which robot is fighting who but PR can barely get by.

You're probably right, better action figures and I guess Shia Laboeuff somehow makes the difference?

I know it has become somewhat of a hit though on video now.

The Transformers had the 1980s cartoon going for them. I don't think any of the human characters in TF are a positive with the possible exception of Megan Fox. I know I wanted Zac's whole family dead during TF2 and skipped TF3.

 

[X-Maniac]

I'm a big fan of monster movies.

But not a big fan of this Godzilla movie.

Just saw it, didn't really like it very much. The human story and disaster movie story they chose as the main part of the movie just wasn't strong enough, I couldn't care less about any of them.

Juliette Binoche was utterly wasted, Cranston wasn't that good but was written out too early, Sally Hawkins was awful as the female scientist, Aaron TJ was okay hunk eye-candy but probably not charismatic enough for a male lead, Elzabeth Olsen wasn't much better. The monster designs looked silly, too unreal, all these box-faced things that don't look like they ever could have existed.

Some of the monster fight scenes were great, that's about all it had going for it. The only character you cared about/rooted for was Godzilla himself.

I kept laughing when it wasn't supposed to be funny, it started annoying the woman in the row ahead of me (who was dumb anyway, she had to ask her boyfriend/whatever-he-was what the eggs were on the underside of the female. 'Babies', he told her).

I guess I'd give it a 6/10 at most. I suppose Bryan Cranston's distracting hairpiece will get its own spin-off, lol...

 

[Donut]

Hmmmmmmmmm

 

[AnneFan]

It was hilarious how they didn't notice the massive hole in the side of the mountain in Nevada too.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3848&p=.htm

A 66 percent drop to $31.4 million for the weekend. That is absolutely horrible, especially considering it didn't open over $100m and DoFP only did $90m.

Nah. It's heavy competition and mixed WOM.

The competition was not that heavily. Not close. Also the overall box office wasn't that high for that to be a thing, especially over a holiday weekend.

Sigh, even a great movie with no strong competition in week 2 dropped 56.6%.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=marvel14b.htm

If TWS(which I rated a 10 btw) had something big coming out the next week it might not have dropped the predicted 63% of Godzilla but it would almost certainly drop more than it did.

56.6% is a fine drop. DoFP didn't do the kind of business that should have seen Godzilla drop a huge 66%.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Blended bombed and Days of Future Past opened lower than Fast and Furious did last year. The box office was down 29% from last year. Word of mouth was clearly Godzilla's toughest foe.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Blended bombed and Days of Future Past opened lower than Fast and Furious did last year. The box office was down 29% from last year. Word of mouth was clearly Godzilla's toughest foe.

Yep Blended didn't even get started, and DoFP did well, but not fantastic. The overall box office number is the most telling stat. All the films will make a bit more then usual tomorrow thanks to the holiday, but the weekend numbers are very disappointing.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Yep Blended didn't even get started, and DoFP did well, but not fantastic. The overall box office number is the most telling stat. All the films will make a bit more then usual tomorrow thanks to the holiday, but the weekend numbers are very disappointing.

Yep Monday being a Holliday will help in the short term. I'm still trying to get over a film dropping 66% during a Holliday weekend. It's Sunday was inflated for goodness sake.

 

[Donut]

They probably could have shown more Godzilla effectively when he showed up instead of cutting away. Its not like we are asking for 10 minute fight scenes. But since when he shows up first hes fighting one monster & not two. At least make him showing up as little as he did satisfactory. Like he can easily defeat those monsters one on one with no problem & he LETS the monster run to fight another day because he enjoys it. A quick minute or two fight scene & the defeated monster runs away would have been good enough. They should have made the little times Godzilla showed up enjoyable with something like that & then at the end he has a more harder time against the two