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05-19-2014, 05:37 PM | #101 |
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How was he the most interesting character? He did very little. Sure, he was great in his scenes, but I don't see how he was all that interesting. Serizawa was much better.
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05-20-2014, 03:15 AM | #102 |
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I give this movie a 6.5/10. It's technically and visually a solid work. I enjoyed most of its parts, some were disappointing.
- Awesome fights. - A coherent setting, not bad for a giant monster movie. - The build up is too long, we should have a big fight when Godzilla catch up with the flying MUTO in Hawaii, not a TV-flash for a few seconds with a cut to the aftermaths. I mean everybody knows Godzilla, it's an iconic pop-culture figure, why trying so hard to keep it off screen just to preserve it for the climax ? That was a problem there, it feels the story does not flow as it should. The movie is formatted like a disaster one, and my brain wanted too see a toku one with monsters beating the crap out of each other. - Too much elements to enforce drama: lost kid in Hawaii, Serisawa's watch, etc. Anyway, I can't see the watch memento trick in any movie without thinking of Christopher Walken watch in Pulp Fiction. - Emmerich 1998'Godzilla has a lot of bad ideas, that scene with the larvaes was too reminiscent of it. It was there just to allows the main character to have something to do and save the day (the reason everything explode is not very convincing by the way). Like launching the boat while half dead was not enough for KickAss. - A nuke explode 5mn away from boat from the city, depending of the winds in the end all the survivors are irradiated and will die from a slow agony.
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05-20-2014, 08:05 AM | #103 |
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Serizawa's watch served its purpose though.
Godzilla was always meant to be a disaster film more than a movie about a giant monster. |
05-20-2014, 10:27 PM | #104 |
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It is really only people who have really never watched a Godzilla movie. Or the only ones that they have watched are Destroy All Monsters or Final Wars. They definitely have not watched the 1954 Masterpiece
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05-20-2014, 11:23 PM | #105 |
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The movie was good, but it was flawed. Trying to invalidate the people mentioning these flaws by saying "well they just didn't GET it" doesn't do anything. Especially when you're wrong, I've seen nearly every Godzilla movie made. That doesn't magically make this movie's flaws not flaws any more. Again, the big problem with Godzilla's involvement in the film wasn't that he was missing for the majority of it, but the fact that he contributed very little to the overall plot. His biggest (nearly only) contribution was getting rid of the MUTOs. The 1954 movie was about Godzilla. Everything about the plot related back to him in some way. Both were FAR more interesting characters then Ford and both were severely underutilised. Last edited by Starscream Gaga; 05-21-2014 at 12:32 AM.. |
05-21-2014, 08:14 AM | #106 |
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No one is saying it isn't flawed. We are just saying that a lot of the complaints are no different than every other Godzilla movie.
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05-21-2014, 08:38 AM | #107 |
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Not only that, every very good Godzilla movie has Godzilla be important to to the plot, even if he's not always there. He was not in this movie. |
05-21-2014, 08:45 AM | #108 |
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Saw the movie last night with the missus and going again to night with mates, so I'll probably do a more in depth review/commentary then.
For now, I really enjoyed it. It's well paced, I personally thought everyone acted pretty damn well and the finale is incredible. It's certainly not without it's flaws but I enjoyed it much more than (although it's really a completely different type of film) pacific rim. As for the people having not watched Godzilla before argument... Yeah it doesn't matter. I've only watched the 1954 one and it is the only film I have ever been so bored watching I have fallen asleep. It's gonna be a marmite film, either love it or hate it. It lacks the action for most modern audiences and isn't quite all there for the others. |
05-22-2014, 04:44 PM | #109 |
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Finally got to watch this yesterday. Some of my thoughts have already been expressed so I'll just say I enjoyed it a lot.
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05-22-2014, 05:20 PM | #110 |
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Was it just me, or was Brian Cranston's story-line in the movie completely irrelevant to the overall monster plot? I mean, yeah we find out about the conspiracy but the MUTOs would have still come out/ hatched if he didn't search.
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