Action-Adventure Godzilla 2016

[TheVileOne]

Time to get back to work on 4.0 Anno-sensei.

 

[The Big G]

Time to get back to work on 4.0 Anno-sensei.

Then you better hope Toho doesn't toss money at him to do a sequel

 

[Gabe99]

Time to get back to work on 4.0 Anno-sensei.

He is:

Anno also responded to a remark from an audience member saying that he/she would wait as long as it took for the fourth Rebuild of Evangelion film. He first thanked the audience, and then said, "I'll work hard on it. As a matter of fact, I'm already working hard on it."

 

[TheVileOne]

He is:

Yet he's done a poor job of getting Rebuild done.

 

[Binker]

GUYS!
The movie is now out in America starting today till the 18th!

Are you going to see it?

 

[The Big G]

Tonight at 7pm PST

 

[Sithborg]

Got my ticket.

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

Should be seeing it tomorrow.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Aw, ****. I hope I can see it Saturday. It's a loaded month for me. Already saw Young Frankenstein, got Taxi Driver and The Shining on my to do list and maybe The Girl on the Train.

 

[redhawk23]

Seeing it Sunday at noon!

 

[Sithborg]

I will do a more indepth review later. But that is an amazing film.

 

[Smilodon]

The US reception to it has been quite positive with a few mixed opinions here and there, so I'm glad that foreign audiences are enjoying it too. In some of the behind the scenes stuff, Anno mentioned that he ultimately wanted to make a fun movie above all else, and it really looks like he succeeded. (Not the incredibly high praise that it has gotten in Japan, but that's to be expected as this is an incredibly Japanese film and won't resonate in the same way with foreign audiences)

I'm hyped to see it this Thursday. Bending over backwards to see it, but the praise for this film has made it unmissable.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Got my tickets! I can't believe I'm seeing a Japanese Godzilla on the big screen.

 

[The Big G]

I give it 10/10 Kamata-kuns

 

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

Just saw it. It was an enjoyable, albeit flawed, film. The first half of the film is very good, with plenty of tension build up and is well paced. The film, unfortunately peaked at the atomic breath reveal, which was beautifully done, but was at about the half-way point of the movie. After that moment the film grinds to a halt as [BLACKOUT]Godzilla powers down and focuses on the humans trying to kill him for the next 40 minutes.[/BLACKOUT] This wouldn't be a problem if it was interesting but it was honestly quite slow and dull. My main issue being the fact there was never a truly satisfying climax. There was never really that city destruction scene like the original '54 film had and instead the movie just sort of ends on a pretty anti-climatic note.The film also had a surprising amount of moments of levity throughout to keep one from getting bogged down with the films tone. The world's reaction to Godzilla was well done although the nonstop political dialogue ranged from interesting to dull. I must also give praise to the soundtrack. Straight up lifting the original Ifukube score was a warm welcome and the new additions were really well done and haunting. The effects were really well done for a japanese production although the movie did have it's fare share of pretty fake looking shots. The new direction taken with Godzilla was... interesting to say the least. The design is definitely one of, if not my least favorite design in the franchise but it's something I was able to get past.

Spoiler

Godzilla being able to mutate in order to survive was an interesting idea but with what the ending was implying with him evolving into what appeared to be human Godzillas, is something that I'd be more than happy as a one-off experiment rather than be expanded in a sequel.

All-in-all:

7/10
It had a very strong first half followed by a drawn-out, uneventful second half and an anti-climatic ending but I'm overall pretty satisfied as both a Godzilla fan and someone who enjoys movies.. It's definitely not in my top 5 of Godzilla films and not even my top 10, but I enjoyed it.

 

[punishermax]

Just saw it. It was an enjoyable, albeit flawed, film. The first half of the film is very good, with plenty of tension build up and is well paced. The film, unfortunately peaked at the atomic breath reveal, which was beautifully done, but was at about the half-way point of the movie. After that moment the film grinds to a halt as [BLACKOUT]Godzilla powers down and focuses on the humans trying to kill him for the next 40 minutes.[/BLACKOUT] This wouldn't be a problem if it was interesting but it was honestly quite slow and dull. My main issue being the fact there was never a truly satisfying climax. There was never really that city destruction scene like the original '54 film had and instead the movie just sort of ends on a pretty anti-climatic note.The film also had a surprising amount of moments of levity throughout to keep one from getting bogged down with the films tone. The world's reaction to Godzilla was well done although the nonstop political dialogue ranged from interesting to dull. I must also give praise to the soundtrack. Straight up lifting the original Ifukube score was a warm welcome and the new additions were really well done and haunting. The effects were really well done for a japanese production although the movie did have it's fare share of pretty fake looking shots. The new direction taken with Godzilla was... interesting to say the least. The design is definitely one of, if not my least favorite design in the franchise but it's something I was able to get past.

Spoiler

Godzilla being able to mutate in order to survive was an interesting idea but with what the ending was implying with him evolving into what appeared to be human Godzillas, is something that I'd be more than happy as a one-off experiment rather than be expanded in a sequel.

All-in-all:

7/10
It had a very strong first half followed by a drawn-out, uneventful second half and an anti-climatic ending but I'm overall pretty satisfied as both a Godzilla fan and someone who enjoys movies.. It's definitely not in my top 5 of Godzilla films and not even my top 10, but I enjoyed it.

This pretty much sums up my thoughts, although I think it would crack my top ten. Honestly, and I was talking to my wife about this last night, out of everything in the movie about a walking dino dragon monster creature, the thing that was most unbelievable to me was the Ambassador to Japan (her name escapes me atm) wanting to be President and yet she honestly cannot speak English very well at all. That was the part that took me out of it Small gripe but that was really it. Enjoyed the movie, still can't believe I was able to see a Japanese made Godzilla movie in one of my local theaters!

 

[Smilodon]

Satomi's poor English turning off English speakers is probably how foreign viewers feel about people who aren't Japanese speaking bad Japanese or anything other language. It's interesting how the tables unintentionally turned on American audiences.

 

[divan]

Satomi's poor English turning off English speakers is probably how foreign viewers feel about people who aren't Japanese speaking bad Japanese or anything other language. It's interesting how the tables unintentionally turned on American audiences.

As with most things movie-wise, it really depends on character and story. Personally I'm not from an English speaking country (though I admittedly have a better ear for germanic languages I've learned since school like English, that I do for japanese) but I generally have no problem with English speaking actors (badly) speaking my language (it's Spanish by the way), as long as they aren't supposed to be fluent.

Satomi's character is not only supposed to be native, she's the special envoy for the President of the United States, which makes her mangling her sentences much less forgivable than it'd been if this were any other character talking.

Note: I know there are English-speaking films that do the same, but I don't give them a pass either.

 

[TheVileOne]

To me that character, Kayoko Ann Patterson, is just one of those weird "Engrish" characters from an anime. She randomly spouts English phrases because she's half-English or American, or half-American or whatever.

There were a few characters in the film that seemed to come straight out of an anime.

Spoiler

There are weird implications here. Besides that weird ending shot, there's also the idea that Goro Maki IS Godzilla or is the one that created it.

 

[The Big G]

To me that character, Kayoko Ann Patterson, is just one of those weird "Engrish" characters from an anime. She randomly spouts English phrases because she's half-English or American, or half-American or whatever.

There were a few characters in the film that seemed to come straight out of an anime.

Kayoko was pretty much Asuka and the girl with the Laptop was pretty much Rei

 

[TheVileOne]

See, if she was Asuka, she would've hit more people because she's a tsundere.

 

[Smilodon]

Just got back, and I was just blown away by the film. As someone who has never been into Godzilla before (even though I've seen some of the newer Toho installments as well as the '98 and 2014 US versions), this just captured me in a way that I've never been before by a Godzilla film. I'm a tokusatsu fan, so it's not like I've been adverse to these kinds of stories, just that I've always gravitated less towards kaiju and more Sentai/Ultra/KR branches of Toku.

I think one of the criticisms I don't get about this film is how the human characters are dull, uninteresting or don't necessarily have an arc. I'm not comparing it to any other prior Godzilla film, but I interpreted the actions of Yaguchi and his band of outcasts, nerds, academic heretics etc. as a clear message from Anno about the importance of working together. (A very Japanese thing to do it seems) Why would they need anymore fleshing out when they have all banded together with the singular goal of stopping Godzilla? Even then, Anno gave them of the more notable scientists little character beats here and there.

There's some cool behind the scenes stuff here and there online since the movie has been out for awhile now. Anno straight up filmed scenes himself with an iPhone and I think that's pretty cool how it in a way captured the documentary-like approach to the film.

I think all the notable female characters in this film are pretty anime-like. Kayoco, Ogashira and Hanamori (defense minister) could slide right into an anime. Akasaka too. Ogashira's quite a hit in Japan though, and I can see why.

 

[PaulCONX]

Just got back, and I was just blown away by the film. As someone who has never been into Godzilla before (even though I've seen some of the newer Toho installments as well as the '98 and 2014 US versions), this just captured me in a way that I've never been before by a Godzilla film. I'm a tokusatsu fan, so it's not like I've been adverse to these kinds of stories, just that I've always gravitated less towards kaiju and more Sentai/Ultra/KR branches of Toku.

I think one of the criticisms I don't get about this film is how the human characters are dull, uninteresting or don't necessarily have an arc. I'm not comparing it to any other prior Godzilla film, but I interpreted the actions of Yaguchi and his band of outcasts, nerds, academic heretics etc. as a clear message from Anno about the importance of working together. (A very Japanese thing to do it seems) Why would they need anymore fleshing out when they have all banded together with the singular goal of stopping Godzilla? Even then, Anno gave them of the more notable scientists little character beats here and there.

There's some cool behind the scenes stuff here and there online since the movie has been out for awhile now. Anno straight up filmed scenes himself with an iPhone and I think that's pretty cool how it in a way captured the documentary-like approach to the film.

I think all the notable female characters in this film are pretty anime-like. Kayoco, Ogashira and Hanamori (defense minister) could slide right into an anime. Akasaka too. Ogashira's quite a hit in Japan though, and I can see why.

Agree with all this! I have seen a handful of Godzilla films and while I enjoy the monster fights, the story does not usually grip me as much as this one did. I warned my girlfriend this one might be a little boring, as she thought that Godzilla 2014 US was as dull as they come. Well, we were both captivated and thrilled by this movie. I love this bold new version of Godzilla and hope to see more.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

Really enjoyed seeing this. The editing is sharp which I like a lot and to know it was edited on Premiere Pro made it even better for me personally. There's also perhaps the best atomic breath sequence I've ever seen. This movie certainly makes Godzilla look like the King of the monsters.

 

[Binker]

A little early, but when will this hit blu-ray?

EDIT: Due to school and work, I have yet but will soon post my review. I had to think about, rethink about, and see the film again to give it complete thoughts.