[ElConvoy]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

I just dont see what the big deal about Cranston was.

Bryan Cranston is a great actor and alot of people fell in love with him after Breaking Bad. So knowing he would be in this movie and the trailers having his monologue all over them gave them the assumption he would be in this movie alot longer than he actually was. I´m one of those people that were fooled by the first trailers in thinking that and when he died I was pretty surprised.

But I gotta say I was suprised in a good way by Bryan Cranstons character dying. Now I knew that all bets were off and that the movie most definitely wouldnt turn out what I imagined it to be. The same goes for everything else the trailers "promised" that wasnt in the movie. I really appreciate a marketing campaign that doesnt spoil the entire movie before you even sat down and watched the damn thing

I believe the problem with Ford was that he was paired up with Cranston in the beginning. Cranston is no doubt a better actor than Johnston and his character was written really well so you got attached to him and his situation. People got invested in Joe Ford and when he died they were just left with his son Ford. And the thing with Ford was that he really wasnt as involved with the actual story than Joe was. Joe actually researched the Kaiju activities and tried to uncover the secret behind it all and Ford just wanted to get home to his family.

That said I still think Ford was sympathetic enough so you could care about him. He was pretty much thrusted into the same situation his father was in fifteen years prior. He now knew what they were up against and what danger his own family had to face. If there is one thing he wanted was his family to be safe and his own Son to grow up with both his parents still being there for him.