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Post by BoilerRoomBrawler on Jan 21, 2013 1:11:31 GMT -5
You don't maybe wanna elaborate a little more? i really liked godzilla in the film and yes i love the japan toho godzilla even more but i didn't expect anything like that since it was to be more realistic. i liked jean reno , the soundtrack and i love the action scenes i thought they were well done. it's not like i thought it was going to be anything more than what we got: a good hollywood action popcorn flick. Jean Reno is the telling part of the movie. He's a more charismatic actor, played a more interesting character, and really should have been the main character because of it. Which sounds more interesting? A "worm guy" is consulted by the US military over a radioactively mutated iguana or a badass French spec ops soldier must lead a black ops team to clean up a mess their government caused before it destroys New York City?
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Post by Glitch on Jan 21, 2013 1:42:36 GMT -5
As a Godzilla fan myself, I absolutely despise this movie. Hated it when it came out in theaters in '98, still hate it now. Putting aside all my issues with the title monster and how little he shares in common with the traditional Godzilla, the thing's not even about him. It's about Matthew Broderick's dull character and the very annoying female lead. "Godzilla" barely gets any screentime in a movie that's supposed to be about him, and the character driven scenes are absolutely abysmal. I remember sitting through this in theaters when it came out, and the first half hour before "Godzilla" shows up is just dire. And that's not even getting into the stupid scenes with the babies, which (as everyone has noted) is just an extended Jurassic Park ripoff. The plot takes some pretty astounding leaps in logic - which would actually be forgivable had the cast not sucked. I'll be the first to admit that a lot of the older Godzilla movies, including many of my favorites, require a significant suspension of disbelief - and the pacing is pretty bad. For years I've heard that it's enjoyable if you just look at it as a regular monster movie, not a Godzilla movie, but I don't understand that viewpoint at all. Considering that it's supposed to be a Godzilla movie, I don't see why I should judge it any other way. I think it's horrible no matter how I look at it, but if you enjoy it, then more power to you. Pretty much this. The raptor part really pushed it for me. It can't suck on it's own. It has to steal from other movies.
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Post by Hurbster on Jan 21, 2013 2:42:06 GMT -5
Seeing as (imo) the original Godzilla films were not much cop it didn't have to be that good to live up to them. I quite liked it, and it was better than two blokes in rubber suits fighting/dancing over a model landscape.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 3:53:00 GMT -5
This is probably one of my most memorable movie-theater going experiences of my entire life...for the wrong reasons. Although, it's a semi-touching story. I remember this movie only for the fact that I think it's the first "disappointment" I can remember having seeing a movie. And yes, I did enjoy BATMAN AND ROBIN when it came out. I've seen some bad movies in the theaters (SHOWTIME w/ Robert DeNiro and Eddie Murphy, the live-action GRINCH movie, *gulp* BATMAN AND ROBIN), but this is the king of disappointments for me. I remember being blown away by the teaser trailers like Tim was (and about 85% of the world) and seeing the commercials and the giant "His Foot Is Bigger Than This [item]" ads on billboards and buses, I was marking out about it. I can't remember what the rest of my family had to do that day, but one breakfast, me and my dad were trying to figure out our plans for the day and he said that since I wanted to see it, he would take me. He saw the pained look in my face when we came out of that theater. Ugh. He knew it was terrible too, but he didn't feel like saying it. Then I pretty much just blurted out that I thought it was terrible. His sigh of relief was the understatement of the year. We spent the rest of the car ride home just completely wondering what the hell went wrong with the movie. Today, I watch the movie, and I've grown to appreciate it in the "so terrible, it's kind of fun" sense. But it also makes me think of my pop whenever I see it on TV or whatnot.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 21, 2013 5:41:21 GMT -5
It's a decent movie. There's only a certain amount you can do with a "monster destroys a city" film.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jan 21, 2013 5:55:42 GMT -5
As Dude! (another member here) once said, it's a good monster movie, but a bad Godzilla movie. So for someone like me who hasn't seen another film in the franchise, it's an alright flick, but I can definitely see why long time fans got pissed.
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Post by Fundertaker on Jan 21, 2013 6:16:23 GMT -5
It's a dull movie that doesn't know if it takes itself seriously or not with lots of plot holes and focus on the wrong subject. I mean, it's not like the Toho Godzilla movies are perfect, and there are some pretty terrible ones, but I don't think any of them was this... dull. Seriously, the only things I remember from this movie are gray tones everywhere, Broederick being dull, Jean Reno being Jean Reno (which is always awesome) and the Nostalgia Critic review. When you make a monster movie when the monster is rather forgettable... yeah, not a good sign. Good thing Godzilla: Final Wars happened though. Zilla being Atomic Breathed on top of the Sydney Opera House is always good fun
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jan 21, 2013 9:58:15 GMT -5
One of the few good things that came out of it was the underrated animated adaptation that aired on Fox in 1999, which actually picked up on the film's supposed sequel hook. Ah yeas, I remember stumbling upon it by chance and finding it surprisingly entertaining. Not entirely sure how a bunch of teenagers ended up befriending Godzilla though, hopefully it's explained in one of the early episodes I missed.
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Post by J is Justice on Jan 21, 2013 10:39:59 GMT -5
Matthew Broderick.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Jan 21, 2013 15:49:38 GMT -5
One of the few good things that came out of it was the underrated animated adaptation that aired on Fox in 1999, which actually picked up on the film's supposed sequel hook. Ah yeas, I remember stumbling upon it by chance and finding it surprisingly entertaining. Not entirely sure how a bunch of teenagers ended up befriending Godzilla though, hopefully it's explained in one of the early episodes I missed. I think one of them was Nick (Mathew Broderick's character), who befriended the creature from the hatched egg from the end of 1998 Godzilla so the monster pretects him. Yeah, animated series was good............but it was far too late because the damage was already done by that damn movie. The best thing they did was give the monster the "atomic breath" although it was green instead of the blue we are used to.
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Post by Arrow on Jan 21, 2013 16:10:58 GMT -5
The animated series still didn't save it for me. It was very enjoyable, and much better than the Hanna-Barbara Godzilla cartoon by far, but I could still never get past how the monster looked nothing like Godzilla, even if he got the atomic fire back and fought other monsters. Just wasn't what I came for.
Good show, though.
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Post by BoilerRoomBrawler on Jan 21, 2013 16:25:28 GMT -5
I really gotta check out the cartoon. Never did before.
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Post by Fundertaker on Jan 21, 2013 16:51:21 GMT -5
It had Mechagodzilla. That alone makes it awesome.
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Post by Arrow on Jan 21, 2013 16:54:43 GMT -5
It had Mechagodzilla. That alone makes it awesome. I don't think that was meant to be Mechagodzilla.
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Post by Fundertaker on Jan 21, 2013 17:15:43 GMT -5
I'll just call it Mechagodzilla though Besides I watched that about 10 years ago and the only thing I remember was a mechanical Godzilla like monster. THEREFOR IT MUST BE MECHAGODZILLA~! [/memory rage]
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Post by Glitch on Jan 21, 2013 17:17:21 GMT -5
Can't wait till we see an American movie about Ghidorah.
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Jan 21, 2013 17:23:24 GMT -5
Good thing Godzilla: Final Wars happened though. Zilla being Atomic Breathed on top of the Sydney Opera House is always good fun why didnt the japanese have the good sense to just ignore the character, here i am watching Final Wars and when it shows all the monsters around the world i was shocked to find they used the stupid ass American Godzilla, now known as just Zilla and it was runing amuck in Sydney! why did Australia get the crappy monster
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Jan 21, 2013 17:25:29 GMT -5
It had Mechagodzilla. That alone makes it awesome. I don't think that was meant to be Mechagodzilla. I must have missed it but TV Tropes does mention something about a Cyber-Godzilla.
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Post by Evilution E5150 on Jan 21, 2013 17:29:16 GMT -5
Can't wait till we see an American movie about Ghidorah. just be a lot of depressing news reels put together for around 90 minutes
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