Godzilla (2014) - - - - Part 13

[Schlosser85]

Transformers doesn't even have good action. It's just CGI vomited all over the place incoherently. I don't get how Michael Bay is such a successful action director when it's supposedly his "strength" and he can't even do that. Basically, Bay can't do anything but his movies are all inexplicable blockbusters so he keeps headlining these wildly expensive franchise films.

 

[Broseph44]

I love how this thread is still going, 13 parts. And after the film came out most of you all hated it and are still in here discussing it haha. Am I one of the few that loved the film?

 

[The Dark Defender]

My favorite review of Transformers 2.

"There was some yellow one in there that I could've sworn was Bumblebee, but I was never sure because I had a hard time telling them apart during most of the action scenes."

I love how this thread is still going, 13 parts. And after the film came out most of you all hated it and are still in here discussing it haha. Am I one of the few that loved the film?

It's my favorite film of the year thus far.

 

[Schlosser85]

I liked it but I think it was flawed. The human characters were bland except for Joe who wasn't around for nearly long enough.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I adored Godzilla, every moment of it. Yeah, it has its flaws but what doesn't? Exactly

 

[terry78]

We don't like slow burns in our blockbusters, that is the long and short of it.

 

[-Arya-]

I only loved the last 30 minutes of Godzilla. Everything else was just okay.

 

[TheVileOne]

It's weird how none of my critic friends only love the film and most of the people here agree with me on the film. Usually it's the opposite .

Honestly, I'd be fine with a new director tackling the sequel and a new writer as well.

 

[Dispatch Ninja]

I love how this thread is still going, 13 parts. And after the film came out most of you all hated it and are still in here discussing it haha. Am I one of the few that loved the film?

I loved it as well. Hopefully Gareth stays on for the sequel.

 

[Broseph44]

I loved it as well. Hopefully Gareth stays on for the sequel.

I thought I heard after the films release he's been confirmed for a sequel. And most likely a trilogy.

 

[Wildcard]

Yep, he's been confirmed for Godzilla 2 & 3.

 

[redhawk23]

I adored Godzilla, every moment of it. Yeah, it has its flaws but what doesn't? Exactly

Not all flaws are created equal.

 

[redhawk23]

I loved it as well. Hopefully Gareth stays on for the sequel.

I hope not. He's a very competent director, but I feel most of the film's problems come from conscious choices that he made.

 

[sportjames23]

I love how this thread is still going, 13 parts. And after the film came out most of you all hated it and are still in here discussing it haha. Am I one of the few that loved the film?

I loved it.

 

[GremlinZilla89]

I don't get how anybody could want Edwards to be replaced after his amazing sense of scale and power he accomplished with the monsters in this movie. He crafted the most jaw-dropping monster effects since Jurassic Park but people dislike the characters and it's all "BRAAAAHH GET RID OF HIM!!!!"

 

[Supernova]

It was a solid attempt and got the franchise going in the right direction but there was alot of time spent with the son and his wife that I just didnt care about. Once godzilla was on camera the film came alive and felt epic but when the monsters werent on camera or cranston the film suffered and held it back. Im not calling for a film man of steel or transformers style where its relentless and makes you feel sick watching it but something where atleast the characters have motives to be involved in the story and or interesting enoguh where there not wooden.

Also I didnt mind the first time they cut away from monster fight in hawaii but the second and third time they did it I was ok A-holes I paid good money to see this fight and you keep pushing it off like they couldnt afford the FX shots.

 

[X Knight]

I love how this thread is still going, 13 parts. And after the film came out most of you all hated it and are still in here discussing it haha. Am I one of the few that loved the film?

nope. I liked the film, too.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

It wasn't perfect, but I loved the movie.

 

[Broseph44]

Glad to hear I'm not alone haha

 

[Rowsdower!]

I love parts of this movie. But on the whole, I'm sad to say I was disappointed. I don't mind that they focused so much on the human characters. It's just that the humans themselves weren't particularly interesting and I found myself just constantly wanting those scenes to move along faster so we could get back to the monsters. I also felt like they tried to make Godzilla too heroic and almost a non-threat to the humans. And that's kind of missing the point a bit, isn't it?

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

I was really hyped for the movie but it was a huge disappointment. My wife ended up liking it more than I did. I'll buy the blu ray and skip to the last 20 minutes. So far Winter Soldier is easily movie of the year... I loved it.

 

[Destructus86]

I love how this thread is still going, 13 parts. And after the film came out most of you all hated it and are still in here discussing it haha. Am I one of the few that loved the film?

Aside from the people on here everyone I've met who has seen it loved it. I did too.

 

[Sithborg]

I loved it. But, I understand why those that hated it did.

 

[Wildcard]

I love parts of this movie. But on the whole, I'm sad to say I was disappointed. I don't mind that they focused so much on the human characters. It's just that the humans themselves weren't particularly interesting and I found myself just constantly wanting those scenes to move along faster so we could get back to the monsters. I also felt like they tried to make Godzilla too heroic and almost a non-threat to the humans. And that's kind of missing the point a bit, isn't it?

Not really. We're talking about a character that has appeared in 30 films & has been portrayed as everything from a villain, hero, pure force of nature & everything in between.

With Godzilla it's always open to interpretation. And he's not really a hero in this instance, tbh. To be a hero he'd have to be trying to save people, and he killed hundreds, if not thousands just by coming on land. He was just there to fight the MUTOs. It was a predatory thing...like a lion & hyena, essentially. He didn't really give a damn about us, he was just here to take care of the MUTOs.

 

[The Dark Defender]

Yeah, but the moments where he makes direct eye contact with the lead human character, and having "King of the Monsters: Savior of the City?" on the news broadcast as he heads back into the water, they were definitely playing him up as the hero in this movie.

It felt like a superhero movie, only with giant monsters as the superheroes/supervillains.

Didn't bother me at all, I loved it, but that's definitely how it came across.