Legendary Pictures' 2014 Godzilla Reboot - Directed by Gareth Edwards - Part 1

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Using Rocketman as an example is terrible idea.

You have the right to state your opinion, and others can state their opinion that you're wrong. Breaker never said you were wrong though. He never said you couldn't like it. He never it's wrong to think Godzilla is a bad movie. His opinion was that "objectively" Godzilla was a bad movie, which you didn't even lift a finger to defend but chose to defend Movie 43 instead.

 

[BrollySupersj]

Ah Stan Winston's Godzilla...one of Godzilla's finest appearances. I love the heavy reptilian features. Especially in the head. Has a crocodilian feel to it. A shame it was never used to its full extent.

 

[Solidus]

Ya everything you said in that post was pretty much a lie. You have a very interesting perspective I'll give you that. I never said you could not "not change your opinion" I just said I feel bad that you guys can't change your minds on things, even from the negative to the positive. And I left because the conversation ended. But reading that post man...really? Wow. lol. Wow.

You derail almost every thread you go into and some how make it all about how the world is against you. When it's not the case.

 

[Solidus]

Ah Stan Winston's Godzilla...one of Godzilla's finest appearances. I love the heavy reptilian features. Especially in the head. Has a crocodilian feel to it. A shame it was never used to its full extent.

Ya Stan was the man. No doubts there. Great design.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Thank you, UH for increasing the size and bring up those same post again. I couldn't read it the other two times you brought it up. Actually, I did when I answered that in my last post.

He put up his opinion, and you were the one who decided to backtrack, not even discuss the movie, and discuss how there are no bad movies.

Like you're doing now about my last post when I talked about objective points of view in subjective opinions.

I call a movie that makes me laugh, cheer, get scared, and tear up a good movie. A broad range of emotions define having a good experience. And yes, I always hate it when then they take Godzilla down in the end. That shows that they were able to bring depth to even a character that has no lines of dialogue - especially depth following a rampage through a city. The only other movie that has been able to capture this with a monster like this that I've seen is King Kong the original and Jackson's remake. I also really like Matthew Broderick's character as being the fish out in the big sea for the first time trying to find his way. Plus, the action and spectacle of it has remained largely unseen for A LOT of years.

And I would green-light this just like the studio did back then. It has fun characters, it takes on a variety of reactions and emotions, it has never before seen spectacle, it makes you have sympathy for the monster which is rare, it's part of what an audience likes to see and with that and the trademark name attached it will likely make a profit for the studio. Looking up now -- it did, so my prediction would have been right and I'd get a pat on the back.

Ironically I just had to post what I just stated above.

Also Wayne, dude you have no idea what the whole debate between me, Solidus and Rocketman was all about. It wasn't about a singular film. It was about this guy telling us that we were lying to ourselves. That our opinions do change and if they don't change like his does we are forcing ourselves to make them not change. Basically it was him stating he knows us better than we know ourselves.

 

[Solidus]

No Parker can go ahead to that thread and look for himself if he wants. Being in the moment has nothing to do with it. And I'm sure he would agree with me.

 

[Ultimatehero]

Actually, I already went back and found it.

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=460491&page=2

Actually, I apologize - it wasn't you who was really weird there it was the V.E guy, you left and let it be. Got confused since you left then he came and started it back up again for only two posts.

Whatever the matter is, I'm pretty sure most on here can agree that this whole thing has already ended on the previous page before another post came back in and started it up again for really no reason since for all intents and purposes - it was done.

 

[Solidus]

Whatever let's just get back to Godzilla now.

I just pray either we get a teaser trailer with PR, or they do release the SDCC one.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I'll look at it, but none of this has to do with this thread and I can see Solidus' reasoning for myself because I have been in other threads, and you do tend to make it all about yourself. It's even worse when someone has a different opinion from you. I'm not going into details in this thread because this thread is getting derailed and getting into personal details is getting petty. I'm not saying this from looking at that thread (which I haven't yet), I'm saying this from my own personal experience of talking in other threads with you.

This conversation is going nowhere and I know it won't, so I'm dropping it.

 

[Ultimatehero]

And touche dude, NOW, can we get back to where it was before you interrupted everything? It was actually settled a couple of pages ago, I believe or five hours ago.

I believe the last relevant post was MrMaooz so I've added it below so that it can continue and we don't let this whole thing disregard his post:

How much BO do you think this will make WW?

Also this one which kind of got lost in the middle of everything above:

Ah Stan Winston's Godzilla...one of Godzilla's finest appearances. I love the heavy reptilian features. Especially in the head. Has a crocodilian feel to it. A shame it was never used to its full extent.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

.....And that's your problem.

 

[Ultimatehero]

To try to salvage this and get it in the right direction -- *sighs*

I don't think Pacific Rim's box office will be a judge on Godzilla. It's a big name. We have seen giant robots fighting things before, so if it does poorly that will be because of people's misconceptions that it is a rip off of Transformers. Whereas a giant dinosaur attacking a city will be a really new thing. Plus, we haven't really seen dinosaurs for a while. Also with Pixar's dinosaur movie, I'm to guess that they did that for a reason. Typically studios somehow are able to judge when trends are going to get started. So, I'll take a guess and say that statistics have shown them that dinosaurs will be wildly popular in 2014. In other words, while I don't know the amount I do think it will be very successful.

You can also liken the summer to when Jurassic Park came out. That had Jurassic Park, a more horror based approach for the teens and older crowd and some children. And 'We're Back, A dinosaurs Tale' for the children that very summer - and if not that summer, that very year. So we're really going back to a summer like 93'.

ADDING: Looking back now, not exactly since 'We're Back' didn't do that well... I'd still say they probably see dinosaurs trending though to have two dino films out in one summer.

And yeah, Stan Winston was a genius.

 

[Ultimatehero]

EDIT: Double post for some odd reason.

 

[Breaker]

With Legendary Pictures ending their partnership with Warner Bros. I honestly hope that Universal Studios picks them up. (Or they at least stand on their own as their own business).

If Universal Studios partners with LP, then potentially, if Godzilla is a success, it could lead to an interesting remake of King Kong vs. Godzilla.

Or better yet...Wolfman vs. Godzilla

Yes folks, Wolfman vs. Godzilla is actually a real thing, well mostly. Gotta love the creativity of the Godzilla franchise ^_^
Of course if Legendary Pictures is on their own, then at least they'll have the rights to GODZILLA for themselves since they were the ones who attained it and not Warner Bros.

 

[Ultimatehero]

I think it might still be with Warners. Now I am not entirely sure. But, I think because it started with those two working together it is still those two. Sometimes these companies make films that aren't associated at all with the main studio they make films for. What I do know is that apparently, somehow, when a company I'm connected to split from Warners we still had some affiliations with them on future projects; those films haven't come out, but we are still associated on those. So my best guess is it will work like when these companies don't go through their primary distributor and go through one that is more indie - only here it will be Warners. It's late, I'm unsure if everything I've stated will make sense, and this is all hypothesizing but that's what I've seen from a Warners split. It won't put a sequel at risk (this company I'm talking about is still aiming at sequels that came out when it was with Warners) and I'm pretty sure it will remain those two despite Warners not being its primary company anymore.

 

[nite-owl]

I didn't realise that Godzilla is a lot smaller in real life.

 

[BrollySupersj]

I don't think a modern day Godzilla vs King Kong would work. Not without making Kong 10x bigger and giving him some type power, much like the first film, I don't think Universal would do that again. Besides...Godzilla would win all the time every time.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I don't think a modern day Godzilla vs King Kong would work. Not without making Kong 10x bigger and giving him some type power, much like the first film, I don't think Universal would do that again. Besides...Godzilla would win all the time every time.

I loved the original Kong as a child. I loved me some Gzilla too. But even as an american child of the 80's the 'americanized' ending of that movie just made me cry BS every time my family watched it on Thanksgiving.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

I don't think a modern day Godzilla vs King Kong would work. Not without making Kong 10x bigger and giving him some type power, much like the first film, I don't think Universal would do that again. Besides...Godzilla would win all the time every time.

For me, Big G>>KK. All day every day.

 

[ConnorKon-El]

I am so ecstatic for this film. I own almost all 28 Japanese Godzilla films. That was my big thing as a kid. I just hope for a good film, anything is better than that god awful 1998 Matthew Broderick "giant iguana" film.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

At the moment, this is my most anticipated film of 2014. Me and my young brother have been waiting 10 years for a new Godzilla film.

 

[MrMaooz]

At the moment, this is my most anticipated film of 2014. Me and my young brother have been waiting 10 years for a new Godzilla film.

Next year looks really good. I'm anticipating TASM 2, Godzilla, Cap 2, DOFP, the Apes sequel, and Fifty Shades of Grey .

 

[Kane52630]

That is all. I will never talk about that movie again.

I still love it.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

Next year looks really good. I'm anticipating TASM 2, Godzilla, Cap 2, DOFP, the Apes sequel, and Fifty Shades of Grey .

Still have hope that Cavill gets the lead.

 

[MrMaooz]

Still have hope that Cavill gets the lead.

Lets hope they pair him up with Cuoco.