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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I hate to say it, but I guess movie audiences today just don't understand the concept of pacing and plot. They want a non-stop 90 minute action sequence at the end of the movie that has nothing but Bayplosions and no plot or character development.

If people don't like this movie, that is fine. However, a lot of the complaints people are making are in EVERY Godzilla movie. Rarely is there A LOT of the monster until the final sequence, especially during the Showa era, which is what this movie felt like it was paying homage to.

This movie wasn't exactly full of plot and character development, so don't make such a silly blanket statement. It wasn't necessarily bad in that regard, but the main character himself doesn't have a decipherable character trait about him either then "he's nice" and the plot wasn't exactly anything to get super-excited about. The movie wasn't bad at all, it was good, but I actually think a lot of this forum is exaggerating just how good simply because it was a good Godzilla movie (which is admittedly a rarity) and are fan boying a bit.

Its not that the movie lacked monsters and action, it had plenty, just comparatively little of it had Godzilla in it. I just would've preferred Godzilla be more important to the plot. Take him out and replace him with practically anything that could kill the MUTO and you have practically the same story. The bait and switch promotional material didn't help either. Not only did they make it seem like Joe was the main character, scenes of the MUTO appear to be edited to feature Godzilla, even if he wasn't in the scenes at all.

I think the problem is that Pacific Rim before it balanced both decently, but Godzilla was far more one then the other. Pacific Rim also ended with a more memorable cast and what I consider a funner, less serious kaiju movie.