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Godzilla (2014) Review/Discussion (Spoilers)
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05-15-2014, 10:03 AM
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Starscream Gaga
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Hey, so Godzilla was released today in Australia and I went to go see it, so I thought I'd share my thoughts plus I noticed there's not an actual discussion on the movie in general so I thought pretty soon everybody'll be seeing it too, so let's discuss it here! Yaaaay!
Anyway, let me start by saying if you're after a movie with lots of Godzilla and plenty of GODZILLA destroying stuff, then you're out of luck. Godzilla is on-screen for maybe 10 minutes of footage and the majority of that is through the viewpoint of humans, so most of the scenes are fleeting at best. What you do see is awesome, but I definitely left the cinema wanting more. Godzilla is also the hero of the story. I know I speculated that when we saw the first MUTO toys and was snapped at for that being wrong but that is most definitely the case here.
So, as for the story. Basically, Godzilla and the MUTO are ancient beings that lived "when the earth was far more radioactive" and feed of radioactivity. Godzilla was awoken in the past and during 1954 they set off bombs to destroy him, although it failed. The MUTO are parasites that were discovered deep in the earth, when a mining site collapses. They had eaten a monster (implied to be the same species of Godzilla) and cocooned themselves. Two cocoons, one is deemed dead and the other hatches, travels to a nuclear site in Japan, consumes it and then re-cocoons itself.
The human story takes up most of the footage. Joe Brody worked a the nuclear plant with his wife when the MUTO attacked and his wife was killed. Since then he became obsessed with discovering what the true story behind the site's collapse. 15 years later he gets arrested and his son, Ford, who now has a family in San Fran, comes to bail him out, but gets convinced to check out the Quarantine Zone where they used to live. There, they discover that Dr. Serizawa and his crew are experimenting on the concooned MUTO in order to understand it, just as the MUTO hatches and Joe Brody is killed in the confusion. For the rest of the film, Ford is finding his way back to his family in San Fran while constantly running into the MUTO or Godzilla, who is hunting the MUTO. The cocoon that was deemed dead is discovered to actually be a gigantic female, non-flying MUTO, which proceeds to hatch and head for San Francisco, making a quick stop off at Las Vegas in order to destroy it. The majority of the movie chronicles Ford racing the MUTO and Godzilla to San Fran.
Godzilla wants to hunt the MUTO because he is an "Alpha Predator" (Apex?) and he wants to "restore balance". He appears when the flying MUTO reaches Hawaii but the scene cuts away before the two fight, which I found very annoying. The only glimpses of the battle are seen on a small TV screen that Ford's wife and son are watching. When the MUTO flees Hawaii, Godzilla follows it to San Francisco, where it wants to meet its mate and lay eggs.
The big scenes of the movie all happen in San Francisco, where the three monsters collide. Godzilla himself isn't on screen for the fights too much, because the movie follows Ford, who is with the Halo team trying to deactivate a nuclear bomb that was being used to try and lure the MUTO and Godzilla away from the city and then detonate. Most of the fights are seen from Ford's view looking up and there is far more focus on Ford and the bomb then on the monsters themselves. What we DO see is epic, Godzilla is huge and fierce and the MUTO are also pretty awesome. Godzilla is his classic self, grabbing, wrestling, throwing, slamming with his tail, biting and, most importantly, breathing that blue atomic breath of his, glowing blue spines and all.
The movie ends with Ford blowing up the MUTO's eggs and managing to get the bomb off-shore enough to not threaten humans, Godzilla crushing the flying MUTO with his tail and dispatching the giant female with an Atomic Breath straight into the mouth. Godzilla collapses and Ford is reunited by his family, however Godzilla soon awakens, to the cheers of the people (A TV-Screen reads "King of Monsters, our city's saviour?") and Godzilla returns to the ocean, diving and swimming away.
Godzilla 2014 definitely focuses a lot on the humans, which isn't a bad thing early on, but I FAR preferred Joe Brody to Ford Brody. I was really surprised when Joe unceremoniously died in the MUTO's first scene. I love Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Kick-Ass, but here all his personality is just bland. There's nothing notable about him, you wouldn't be able to decipher a single trait of him either then "blank slate hero character". His son also has the distinction of being THE WORST child actor I've seen in ages. The kid would probably died if he had to show emotion. I think the reviews of Rotten Tomatoes are being very fair with their scores. Its current 84% seems really good, but I wouldn't be shocked if it settles at about 75-79%.
The movie was good. It reached my expectations but it didn't exceed them. I didn't leave going "Ohmygod that was so amazing" like I did with Pacific Rim, I left thinking "Yep, that was pretty good". I was never bored during the movie, but I often felt like I wanted more. I'm not exaggerating when I say the first two Acts are like a big Godzilla strip tease and the third Act doesn't quite feature the big fight the movie was leading up to as much as I would've liked. Still, it was definitely a fun movie and worth the watch. I recommend it.
Sorry about my incoherent wall of text, I'll let the movie settle in a bit and then probably be able to discuss it better.
I have heard A LOT about there being a Mothra reference. I sure didn't see one, though.
But there IS a returning actor from the 1998 film! Doug Savant cameos as a medic. I forgot about his role in that film, but I always love seeing my much loved Desperate Housewives actors in films!
7/10
There ain't no post-credits scene either, I waited but there's not even a single roar!
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