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Post by camsamurai06 on May 15, 2014 11:00:34 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}I kept pretty dark on the movie outside of trailers, so Cranston being killed off early in the film threw me for one because of how prominent he was in them. The human interest story sort of switches off there as the grown-up son is basicly reduced to wandering about with kids and soldiers and volunterring for everything that places him in the right dramatic beats...but you know what? I kind of liked that. At least for a movie of this stature. All the big dramatic soap opera is taken care of or pushed to the wayside very early on and leaves you with a monster movie to get on with.
"Let them fight" is the line of the film from Mr. Watanabe. Though the only fully realized fight is under the cloak of night and two breif battles glimpsed before that.
Godzilla is used very sparingly and isnt overexposed, and I love how this isnt some long drawn out self-important "origin story" for him. This is just another day in his life, and the humans are like "use the force of nature as actual force" and get on with the task of dealing with the Motus. One great moment is when Godzilla is revealed, we see mere moments of the first skirmish between him and the male Muto and then cut to the day after.
There is a bit that does drag on in the middle...the scene on the train tracks where they learn the female Motu is pregnant, and the train on fire was a bit random
I must have missed this, but does anyone know what happened to the male Motu after Godzilla smashed it into the building? Was it killed when it felt under him, I only saw Godzilla destroy the remaining one with his atomic breath
Love how the news is all "Godzilla is our saviour...king of the monsters" as he gets up and goes home...nice for a movie to give him a superhero send-off this time. Good times. Go see.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on May 15, 2014 17:43:07 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}I kept pretty dark on the movie outside of trailers, so Cranston being killed off early in the film threw me for one because of how prominent he was in them. The human interest story sort of switches off there as the grown-up son is basicly reduced to wandering about with kids and soldiers and volunterring for everything that places him in the right dramatic beats...but you know what? I kind of liked that. At least for a movie of this stature. All the big dramatic soap opera is taken care of or pushed to the wayside very early on and leaves you with a monster movie to get on with.
"Let them fight" is the line of the film from Mr. Watanabe. Though the only fully realized fight is under the cloak of night and two breif battles glimpsed before that.
Godzilla is used very sparingly and isnt overexposed, and I love how this isnt some long drawn out self-important "origin story" for him. This is just another day in his life, and the humans are like "use the force of nature as actual force" and get on with the task of dealing with the Motus. One great moment is when Godzilla is revealed, we see mere moments of the first skirmish between him and the male Muto and then cut to the day after.
There is a bit that does drag on in the middle...the scene on the train tracks where they learn the female Motu is pregnant, and the train on fire was a bit random
I must have missed this, but does anyone know what happened to the male Motu after Godzilla smashed it into the building? Was it killed when it felt under him, I only saw Godzilla destroy the remaining one with his atomic breath
Love how the news is all "Godzilla is our saviour...king of the monsters" as he gets up and goes home...nice for a movie to give him a superhero send-off this time. Good times. Go see. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}I think the Male Muto was impaled on a metal beam after being smashed into the building.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on May 15, 2014 17:52:38 GMT -5
Can't wait to see it on Sunday. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by G✇JI☈A on May 15, 2014 20:10:50 GMT -5
Here is one little nit pick {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}So this bus full of kids need evacuate San Fran. So they head over the Golden Gate Bridge... To get to Oakland.
Now if you know geography of the Bay Area the Golden Gate does not lead to Oakland. You cross the Bay Bridge. Or head south and avoid brides altogether.
Anyway just a minor complaint there
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Post by Pooh Carlson on May 15, 2014 22:01:39 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}I kept pretty dark on the movie outside of trailers, so Cranston being killed off early in the film threw me for one because of how prominent he was in them. The human interest story sort of switches off there as the grown-up son is basicly reduced to wandering about with kids and soldiers and volunterring for everything that places him in the right dramatic beats...but you know what? I kind of liked that. At least for a movie of this stature. All the big dramatic soap opera is taken care of or pushed to the wayside very early on and leaves you with a monster movie to get on with.
"Let them fight" is the line of the film from Mr. Watanabe. Though the only fully realized fight is under the cloak of night and two breif battles glimpsed before that.
Godzilla is used very sparingly and isnt overexposed, and I love how this isnt some long drawn out self-important "origin story" for him. This is just another day in his life, and the humans are like "use the force of nature as actual force" and get on with the task of dealing with the Motus. One great moment is when Godzilla is revealed, we see mere moments of the first skirmish between him and the male Muto and then cut to the day after.
There is a bit that does drag on in the middle...the scene on the train tracks where they learn the female Motu is pregnant, and the train on fire was a bit random
I must have missed this, but does anyone know what happened to the male Motu after Godzilla smashed it into the building? Was it killed when it felt under him, I only saw Godzilla destroy the remaining one with his atomic breath
Love how the news is all "Godzilla is our saviour...king of the monsters" as he gets up and goes home...nice for a movie to give him a superhero send-off this time. Good times. Go see. Why why why why why why why why why did I click this spoiler?
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Post by kidglov3s on May 15, 2014 22:02:50 GMT -5
I'm really excited to see this in ATMOS (and 3D too!) tomorrow morning!
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Post by Munkie91087 on May 15, 2014 22:05:56 GMT -5
I got honest to god goosebumps during some of the monster scenes. Just really well shot and put together.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on May 16, 2014 0:49:57 GMT -5
Still not the most terrifying thing to hit San Francisco involving a member of the Olson family
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Post by Cela on May 16, 2014 1:01:34 GMT -5
I loved the first half of this movie. The rest was more than a little disappointing. Minor minor spoilers, but long rant. Some fanboy griping. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Godzilla...
Let me preface this by saying, I was a massive fan of the rubber suit. I devoted way too much of my youth watching poorly dubbed movies of giant monsters battling under the influence of extraterrestrial beings that somehow still had Coca-Cola. I would march around the house and do the godzilla roar. I would put socks on my hands and pretend to be Ghidorah. I KNOW THE WORDS TO MOTHRA'S SONG!
So it hurts that this movie failed so miserably on all levels of a Godzilla movie.
It didn't start out that way. The first half of the movie was amazing. I was actually trembling in the build up to the big reveal. It was tense, well paced, had an awesome opening credit sequence, and you knew that as soon as the God Lizard showed up, shit was going to get real.
Finally, midway through the movie, the payoff happened, I was shaking in my seat mouth agape when Godzilla was revealed facing off against another monster, and gave the iconic roar.
They then cut away.
The entire movie works this way. Rather than show the monsters fighting, they cut to some random occurence. When finally they do have an actual battle royale city wrecking fight, it's just background to the real star. Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Yes, there are cool moments. Ken Watanabe is awesome as a guy with a perpetual look of "I lost my wedding ring in a strip club" and Bryan Cranston chews plenty of scenery. But the supposed star of the movie, old Godzilla itself, moves with the speed of an 80 year old with arthritis. There are some decent fights, but they are barely shown in favor of pointless scenes with Kick-Ass.
Also, I know CGI is expensive, but can we get one giant monster movie where they fight during the daytime?
And I know this is a fan boy longing, but it would have been awesome if they'd played the Godzilla theme during the fight, or when it came ashore. Really anytime.
Long story short, this is a movie that sets up something incredible, and fails on the follow through. Great sets, great look, but in the end, somehow less impressive than a dude in a rubber suit battling a moth on a string.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2014 1:13:03 GMT -5
I thought it was great. I will see it again on Saturday with my father, I hope he likes it as well. Been a long time since I had goosebumbs in a film, but I did tonight.
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Post by camsamurai06 on May 16, 2014 4:20:35 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}I kept pretty dark on the movie outside of trailers, so Cranston being killed off early in the film threw me for one because of how prominent he was in them. The human interest story sort of switches off there as the grown-up son is basicly reduced to wandering about with kids and soldiers and volunterring for everything that places him in the right dramatic beats...but you know what? I kind of liked that. At least for a movie of this stature. All the big dramatic soap opera is taken care of or pushed to the wayside very early on and leaves you with a monster movie to get on with.
"Let them fight" is the line of the film from Mr. Watanabe. Though the only fully realized fight is under the cloak of night and two breif battles glimpsed before that.
Godzilla is used very sparingly and isnt overexposed, and I love how this isnt some long drawn out self-important "origin story" for him. This is just another day in his life, and the humans are like "use the force of nature as actual force" and get on with the task of dealing with the Motus. One great moment is when Godzilla is revealed, we see mere moments of the first skirmish between him and the male Muto and then cut to the day after.
There is a bit that does drag on in the middle...the scene on the train tracks where they learn the female Motu is pregnant, and the train on fire was a bit random
I must have missed this, but does anyone know what happened to the male Motu after Godzilla smashed it into the building? Was it killed when it felt under him, I only saw Godzilla destroy the remaining one with his atomic breath
Love how the news is all "Godzilla is our saviour...king of the monsters" as he gets up and goes home...nice for a movie to give him a superhero send-off this time. Good times. Go see. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}I think the Male Muto was impaled on a metal beam after being smashed into the building. {Spoiler}I read from other comments they focused on the wound to make that clear, but I could barely see what was going on with all the smoke and hazy grey kicking about so I definitely missed it
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Post by kidglov3s on May 16, 2014 6:58:09 GMT -5
I'm watching my favorite G movie, Godzilla's Revenge/All Monsters Attack, for the final push before seeing the new one (in the past week watched vs Ghidorah, Gigan, Hedorah and Smog Monster (AIP dub LD synced to new Blu-ray, tooo swweeeeeeet), vs King Kong, vs Mothra and Terror of MechaG).
Knowing that whatever goes on in the new one it will almost assuredly be absent of folksy Don Knotts sounding Minya.
Setting myself up for disappointment.
However, Godzilla says that I should learn to fight my own battles, yknow.
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Post by The Sam on May 16, 2014 10:19:43 GMT -5
Watched it tonight. Thought it was good, but could of been better.
I give it 7 fish out of 10.
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Post by Fundertaker on May 16, 2014 10:31:04 GMT -5
That's a great quantity of underwater animals!
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Post by kingoftheindies on May 16, 2014 10:49:10 GMT -5
I thought it was really good. Aaron Taylor-Johnson wasn't a great choice for lead but he wasn't annoying. The movie does tease you enough to be a tad annoying.
Biggest complaint would have to be still not enough Godzilla in the movie, but when he's on screen it's a huge deal... especially when he first uses his atomic breath
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Post by kidglov3s on May 16, 2014 13:56:08 GMT -5
So I uh really really really really hated it. It was super boring so I imagine Heisei fans will love it. As for the defense of "Well yeah it's stupid to expect Oscar level acting or drama in a Godzilla movie" {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}This is a long long movie that is like 90% boring scenes of people no one could possibly care about either just standing around or talking to each other. The problem is not a lack of human drama, it's an overabundance of shitty boring human drama. If what I saw on the screen is an accurate representation of a screenplay then this should count among the most poorly written films of all time. I would like to say a personal f*** you to whoever decided at some point a few years ago that all genre movies need to be a minimum of 45 minutes longer than what they have story or incident to reasonably support. Cela{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}The namby pamby wishy washy score that faintly hinted at Ifukube's work was bullshit. Go big or go home. Was very disappointed not to hear the iconic themes.
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Post by andrew8798 on May 16, 2014 14:22:39 GMT -5
Godzilla earned a phenomenal $9.3 million from late Thursday shows. That's one of the best late-night openings ever for a non-sequel.
Compared to recent releases, Godzilla actually performed better than The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($8.7 million), and was only a bit behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($10.2 million). It also did over twice as much business as World War Z ($3.6 million), which had the advantage of opening when school was out.
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Post by Bad Moon on May 16, 2014 17:44:14 GMT -5
Just got back from seeing it, very good film. Usually I would give a list about stuff I liked versus stuff I didn't like but here all I can think of is stuff I liked and stuff I would have liked to see more of. I won't spoil anything in particular for you, I'll just share some general observations.
Stuff I liked: Every time a monster or a military vehicle is first shown on screen it's always from POV of a child, which is awesome. Some real Spielberg shit. While the US military is a big part of the film, it never steals the spotlight from the monsters, but it doesn't look weak or ineffectual either. Godzilla's (and the new monster breed's) new origin story works pretty well, it's not too heavy handed but still gets the message across: For all our technology, humanity is helpless in the face of nature. No human villain this time around, which is a breath of fresh air. Honestly one of my favorite looking Godzillas ever, basically a CGI version of the Millenium series suit.
Stuff I'd have liked to see more of: Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe. Holy shit, as little as we get of these guys, they carry so much of the movie.
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Post by Legion on May 16, 2014 17:47:59 GMT -5
I liked the first half hour or so and the last half hour.....but the middle.....I struggled.
Amazing cinematography though, the shots were all great.
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Post by Some Guy on May 16, 2014 19:47:53 GMT -5
Meh, I really liked it. Cranston was fantastic and underused, which annoyed me, and the story with Aaron Tyler-Johnson was a tad weak...but the CGI made everything look so much better than it ever has. Maybe it's because I don't think Godzilla movies are all that great as a general rule, but still.
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