Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga (Post 365691)

That changes absolutely nothing. A flaw is a flaw.

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.

Originally Posted by Powerman293 (Post 366394)

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.

Originally Posted by Boshusan (Post 365257)

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.

Originally Posted by Powerman293 (Post 366394)

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.

Originally Posted by xSkullheartx (Post 366414)

It wouldn't be irrelevant if he stayed alive. Remember,he was looking for the truth,but also revenge. If he lived,then he would have backed Serizawa by saying to let them fight because to him it would have been "Good,they could destroy each other!" and at some point have had Godzilla save people from these monsters.

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 366397)

And he was important to the plot. Have you never seen Gamera Guardian of the Universe?

Originally Posted by Den-O (Post 366404)

This is how I felt. Aside from being a mechanism to bring Ford to the MUTO, he really didn't contribute much. His old data was a minor contribution in tracking the creatures but I feel like that lost it's significance pretty quick.

Originally Posted by Dr Kain (Post 366542)

Godzilla was a force of nature. What more do you want? Do you want him there in an hour long drawn out boring battle like the Bayformer movies have? There are flaws, which is why this movie is only an 8/10 and not a 10/10. However, it follows the same tropes of every other Godzilla movie, and I don't see how that is a problem. In fact, it was more true to Godzilla than most of the sequels.

BTW, my comment about Gamera GOTU was because it was the same play but with MUTO instead of the Gyaos.