Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) - Part 1

[Lasirius]

Dougherty seems to be going for a "Spielberg look" while understanding half of it. It's great to set up the emotion of a scene by showing the human characters reacting to something before the audience sees it. ONce you do it though, you don't have to cut back to the humans literally every 3 seconds. They really don't wan't to let anything just play out in this do they?

Agreed, it was excessive. Mixing that with the close ups and shaky-cam, regret seeing this on IMAX. It became too jarring.

 

[TheVileOne]

It's surprising to me the 2014 film got such better reviews. The film hasn't aged well at all. I thought King of the Monsters was a lot better.

 

[The Big G]

Ghidorah was such a dick...I love it

I can't decided what Rodan was more of....TFS Vegeta or Starscream

 

[TheVileOne]

Starscream.

 

[redhawk23]

I was impressed with how much character they invested in Ghidorah and his heads. I loved the tails even!

Also good call on the Starscream comparison for Rodan. I was actually really reminded of Starscream destroying the f-16s in the first TF film, ripping the nose cones off.

 

[Sithborg]

I liked Lefty. The Moe of the group.

 

[The Big G]

Confession Time.

I loved Dr. Rick Stanton. They should have just let him say "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub"

 

[Another_Fool]

Only because you guys brought up Starscream, while I'm mostly pretty understanding of the negative reviews of this film, as both a major Godzilla and Transformers fan, it grinds my gears that there were a couple critics who took a dig at KOTM by calling it a Bay-Transformers clone. Especially considering that, regardless of its quality KOTM was evidently made with love whereas Transformers was made with such cynicism and disregard for the property. Save for Optimus mostly, nobody else resembled either the cartoon/comics counterpart in either looks and/or personality. (Not counting the Bumblebee movie of course)

I get why critics made that comparison and I don't truly expect them to brush up on their lore for such a throwaway dig, but man its such an uninformed opinion.

 

[Sithborg]

I think the comparison was mainly because of the shaky cam, not the adherence, or lack thereof, to lore.

 

[Another_Fool]

I think the comparison was mainly because of the shaky cam, not the adherence, or lack thereof, to lore.

Ok that's fair. Though I will say at least with KOTM we know who's fighting who.

 

[TheVileOne]

People preferred Gareth Edwards' movie with its bad acting, bad writing, and cutting away from the monster fights?

 

[redhawk23]

This movie in its own way cuts away from the fights almost as much, there's just more fights overall. The acting isn't much better, its family almost as bland but their drama also oddly muddled.

This just manages be about as flawed in slightly different ways than the 2014 film.

 

[TheVileOne]

This movie in its own way cuts away from the fights almost as much, there's just more fights overall. The acting isn't much better, its family almost as bland but their drama also oddly muddled.

This just manages be about as flawed in slightly different ways than the 2014 film.

Not really.

 

[The Big G]

I'd take the Russel Family drama over Brody family drama personally

 

[writer0327]

Man I am severely disappointed. I was pumped up like nobody's business to see this film and this has got to be my biggest let down of the year so far. Not the worst movie I have seen, but definitely by far my biggest let down. But that's my dumb fault for having my expectations too high. I had heard going into this that the movie was a mixed bag....great monster action and horrible, eyerolling melodrama between the humans. I can attest this is nothing but the 100% truth. This movie is an absolute 10/10 when the monsters are on screen, every single fight was incredible and I felt myself literally rising out of my chair. There are some genuine "cheer for Godzilla" moments in this thing. But there's these people that keep getting in the way of all that, and this film is a 2/10 when the humans are doing anything at all. And because there are more humans than monsters and they didn't pay these actors to stand around and do nothing, we get to see a lot of people standing around delivering some of the most cockamamie lines in film history. There's a moment midway through the film where one of the main characters stops the film in its tracks and delivers a 6 or 7 minute laughably bad diatribe full of utter nonsense explaining the villainous plot. It was probably the most cringeworthy thing I have ever witnessed from a top shelf Hollywood performer in the last 10 years, I literally felt bad for this person. This movie needed about 3 more re-writes to be even remotely competent, or it needed to just drop the pretense and have the monsters line up one by one to fight each other like some video game. Seriously, they could have killed off about 90% of the characters in this film and just let the monsters go at it and I would have liked this movie much, much more.

5/10

 

[TheVileOne]

I'd take the Russel Family drama over Brody family drama personally

Well they didn't kill off the best actor before Godzilla even showed up. That was so stupid. Why would you do that to Cranston. He could've provided a lot to that first movie had he not died. Not to mention Aaron Taylor Johnson's character had the personality of a stump and didn't even seem to care his family was in danger.

 

[The Big G]

are we going to ignore the fact that Kyle Chandler thought

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Ghidorah was gunna bang Rodan?

 

[TheVileOne]

are we going to ignore the fact that Kyle Chandler thought

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Ghidorah was gunna bang Rodan?

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I mean he's an animal behavioral expert. He said the predator would look for "food, fight, or a ****."

Also, O'Shea Jackson also basically said Godzilla and Mothra were banging as well.

 

[The Big G]

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The Godzilla/Mothra shippers are gunna have a field day XD

 

[Filmfan93]

So Ghidorah

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is an alien and comes from space?

 

[flickchick85]

So Ghidorah

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is an alien and comes from space?

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Yep.

 

[Arachnerd]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who actually really liked that moment as well. That was honestly the most emotionally effective scene in the movie IMO and it took me by complete surprise. It was well done and man when that classic Godzilla theme hit it was pretty awesome.

Favorite scene in the movie for me, and that's saying something.

People preferred Gareth Edwards' movie with its bad acting, bad writing, and cutting away from the monster fights?

Heaven forbid people like something you don't. Jesus Christ.

Despite his flaws, I think Edwards had an overall better direction and way of shooting the monsters and making them feel big and powerful.

 

[Schlosser85]

It’s weird to say the 2014 movie had bad acting and bad writing and then try to act like it’s not true here.

 

[Joefixit]

I love that scene with serizawa but

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shouldn't the radiation have completely destroyed him?

Yeah, but like the iron man scene in endgame it worked. It’s one of those where you know it should not be possible , but it worked so yeah it was great to me. I especially liked the similarities between Godzilla and Serizawa in the 1954 film. Just knowing the history it was a really well done scene.

 

[Spider-Fan]

So Ghidorah

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is an alien and comes from space?

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Yes he is in this movie, but Ghidorah is also classically an alien in the early Godzilla films.