Godzilla 2014 by Legendary Pictures
 

Brand new forum AND a brand new trailer on the same day? Why don't we christen this new subforum with a thread on the upcoming movie!

Can't wait for that trailer, should be out anytime now.

EDIT: OH SNAP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECUbuBrbP1g

:eek: Welp i need some new pants and a new chair! ALL HAIL THE KING!!!!!

It was smart enough not to show much of Godzilla, but am I the only one that found the army part kinda boring?

Anyways, can't wait for more trailers.

Damn that looks so freakin good.

Too many humans. Not enough ZILLA!

I think it looks great! I'm beyond excited for this movie.

I can only imagine that Baltan II is shaking in anticipation.

The King Has Risen!

They're keeping him underwraps for sure. So far we've only seen his head and his back. But damn he looks great. He looks like Godzilla!

I'm actually hoping for a "less is more" approach to Godzilla in the movie. It harkens back to JAWS, where not seeing the shark was almost as powerful, if not more-so, than not seeing him.

Also, as someone who is so utterly bored with CGI effects, I prefer not to see him all too much this time around.

That's like saying you're bored with visuals alltogether.

CGI is just another tool that takes the same amount of effort and skill as any other visual of a movie, if not more. It takes animators animating by hand and direction to make any effects.

This bizzare mindset on CGI perplexes me. Nobody appreciates the craft of all aspects of movie visuals anymore.

Wow just WOW. Loved it all soo want to see more. I will go see this.

No. No. No. Nonononnonono. Absolutely not. It would not be a Godzilla movie without gratuitous monster shots. Maybe in the first half they can do that. But I would not forgive them if the whole movie contained very few Big G shots.

This is a monster movie. Not a suspense thriller.

Godzilla. NOT Cloverfield. NOT Super 8. Those movies were terrible.

That was beautiful. Absolutely cannot wait for this film.

100% agree.

Maybe the first half of the movie leave Godzilla as ominous and shadowed, but in the last half of the movie, let's get big scaly out in the open with some amazing "swat down helicopters and planes" shots!

I agree, it's not a Godzilla movie if we don't get to see Godzilla! However I like how they're keeping him under wraps. Imagine how awesome (but probably impossible) it would be if we didn't get to see all of Godzilla until the movie is out, and he has an awesome debut shot during the film?

Hang on... Bryan Cranston is in this?

Walter White vs Godzilla?

Godzilla is doomed.

If this has got one thing,it's visuals.It looks amazing.I also don't mind it being centered around humans more so then Godzilla.The first movie barely had any Godzilla in it,more so people dealing with the destruction and chaos he brings.I can see why they took this route,but it seems he'll be ripping up quite a few things too.

All in all,I can't wait for it.

Man....i feel sorry for the town they are in cause you know that cause godzilla rolled into town something else is bound to follow him.

I am REALLY sick of that single low tone that sounds like a Godzilla fart being in all these movie trailers lately.

I'd be very okay with this.

I would not mind that at all! Though what's more likely is Godzilla will get most of the spotlight, and the other monster(s) won't be revealed until the movie.

It would be pretty neat if it was vice versa though. Shots of the other kaiju in the trailers and no full shots of Godzilla until the movie.

YES.

Sorry, but that I'm going to have to disagree with. I expect to see giant monsters destroying cities in my Godzilla movies. If I don't get that, then it isn't a good Godzilla movie.

I agree with PkMstr, Cloverfield tried to do this and that movie sucked.

If they do it in the first portion of the movie, like the original movie did, I am okay with that. However, once we hit the hour point, I better be seeing giant ****ing monsters duking it out with one another.

Agreed.One thing this movie has over Cloverfield already is no stupid shaky cam first person view.

I'm actually most afraid that they'd keep the movie centered on the humans surviving/fighting Godzilla over Godzilla himself.

I know what they're trying to do, and it feels very Jaws-like in tone going solely off the trailer, but I'm gonna have to agree with what others have said. Even without the shaky cam, trying to go in a Cloverfield manner and putting the focus just on the humans would be very disappointing.

Not as impressed with this as I was with the comic con teaser. Suspense and surprise be dammed just show us Godzilla already WB.

Holy crap this looks great! I really cant wait for this!

Oh that I agree on too,but I trust Legendary studios. Whenever they design a creature,they definitely want to show it.

As a long time Godzilla fan this brings tears of joy and chills!

I can understand not liking Cloverfield, that movie had a lot of problem...especially the ending.

But I can't agree with you on Super 8. It was an absolutely delightful return to the classic Steven Spielberg children's adventure film. Maybe I'm just biased on that having grown up watching ET and such, but, I loved every second of it.

I just think it's overused these days (ex. Blood Effects)...and I profoundly miss practical special effects, which as an artist, I can appreciate a bit more as a craft.

While I understand CGI does require a lot of work, I will always have a stronger appreciation for someone who took the time to build an animatronic, cast a mask, or use miniatures. It looks more real to me.

Yeah, well, I've been a Godzilla fan since I was 4 years old, going on 30 years now, so this one is a no brainer. Looks fantastic.

Trailer looks very promising. If only there was an easy way to watch the classic ones to catch up. :D

Cool trailer! I'm excited for this movie.

As Godzilla has other kaiju to battle in this one, I'm guessing we'll be seeing a lot of him in the latter half of the movie. I could be wrong on that, but generally movies with giant monsters battling each other have gratuitous amounts of monster screen time.

I just feel meh about the trailer. It wasn't terrible but it wasn't amazing either. I know, terrible Toku fan. Godzilla (the original one) is the only film I have ever fallen asleep whilst watching though, so that probably has something to do with it.

I kind of agree here. Sometimes it feels as though a film has to use CGI, like it's trying to hit a quota. Heck even YouTube videos/fan films feel the need to thrown in tacky looking explosions and stock muzzle flares. I still think it's that that put me off slightly with pacific rim and Avengers. Same for horror as well. My film student brain tells me it's a bunch of numbers or funky make up and any suspension of belief/level of escapism/engrossment in the film is just reduced to a minimum. On the other hand, a guy in a rubber suit smashing up a model village just feels all that more real to me. Probably nostalgia's fault that...

Avengers I agree was nuts with CGI, and not all of it was good. But Pacific Rim only used CGI for shit you couldn't do real. And yet despite that, the entire cockpits in the robots were massive three-story, hydraulic sets with the only CGI being the holograms and foot harnesses. (for safety reasons) All that moving mechanical business, the gallons of water splashing around, taht was real, physical stuff. Any other movie you know would make the cockpits all CGI They'd probably even take advantage of the pilots in full armour to make them CGI. (Afterall, Green Lantern took an entire bodysuit costume and mask and made it CGI for no good reason)

And plus, at leats in Pacific Rim, the CGI is astounding. When Knifhead first rises out of the water and we see him from head-on, he looks real. And most of all, huge. Ditto when he takes Gipsy's arm off. The way the water moves, the detail of the skin, the amount of little things affected by physics at that scale. Suits could never do that.

I guess it's just different viewpoints, because for me that nostalgia works against rubber suits. All I can think of is the silly Power Rangers and Godzilla films I've seen whe I think suits and miniatures.

Practical effects may be a craft... but that doesn't mean every single practical effect is good. There's a lot of awful practical effects out there. Hell, look at Transformers 2007. They went to a lot of trouble making a full-detailed life-sized Bumblebee, and a full sized Frenzy puppet operated by three people... and they looked AWFUL compared to the fluid, realistic CGI robots. There's also one scene I remember from the Dark Knight. When the Tumbler crushes a garbage truck in a tunnel. I rember thinking "man that's bad CG, it looks so fake and unnatural." Imagine my suprise to find that entire bit was real, done with miniatures. Yet it looked phoney.

And people complain about how fake 1998 Godzilla was... and there was a ton of practical effects in that, including a huge (but obviously not life-sized) godzilla from the waist-up, and full velocibaby suits with leg extentions that sadly I think were ditched despite being incredible.

CGI and practical effects both have merit, are both an artistic craft, and both take years of study and practice by dedicated individuals to perfect. If CGI has a downfall practical effects don't, it's that public opinion of CGI is worse, which is reflected by thsoe who do it. To paraphrase De Toro on the subject of CGI "People think Computer nimation and think the computer does the work. You don't put five dollars into a computer and a shot comes out. It's all still animated by hand." This incorrect mentality leads studios and effects workers to believe CGI is easier, use it, and not put the right ammount of time and effort into it and turn out substandard results. With Practical effects, the idea that it is a difficult, intricate craft means only the most serious and dedicated still try it. So it means less is used, but when it is it's usually better made. It has nothing to do with practical effects being better, or needing more work or skill. CGI just has a bad rap for being "easier." If popular opinions were reversed, I seriously believe there'd be more sub-par practical effects, and less CGI, but it'd be of better quality.

That's why it always bugs me when people propagate that mentality. You're only doing a disservice to both methods of effects. A true artist can make the most of whatever tools they're given. Sometimes effects companies will actually take a practical footage scene and remake it in CGI to show their chops, even though obviously you wouldn't do it in a movie.

I don't see any problems with the CGI in Avengers.

As for Godzilla, unless they can top GMK's effects, then I saw no to CGI. GMK proved that you can do practical effects in a Godzilla movie and make it be truly amazing.