[ElConvoy]

In regards to how often Big G appears in this movie I gotta say I didnt find myself all that bothered by it. The Movie is not a big action blockbuster its a typical disaster movie. Just with giant Monsters instead of earthquakes,tornados or giant killer waves. Keeping the Monsters in the background helped to convey the message of the film. These Creatures are a force of nature, they arent characters in the traditional sense. In Twister we didnt spend two hours with the Tornado or with the Volcano in Dantes Peak.

Godzilla not being in the Movie all that much is actually something all Godzilla movies have in common. I watched GMK and Final Wars in the last two days and Big G doesnt show up until the halfway point. Most of those movies focused on the humans and the villains. GMK showed how the three Guardians assembled to fight Godzilla and Final Wars had the X-Seijin and the other Kaijin as well.

And about the marketing...I guess it helped that I only watched two trailers before going in to the movie and to be honest I actually liked that we didnt get to see the MUTOs in the actuall trailers. We saw glimpses of them and that was it. I wished I wouldnt have known about them at all so I could be surprised to see them appear in the movie.

[Starscream Gaga]

I don't think Final Wars is a very good measuring stick for what a Godzilla film should be like.

But anyway, my problem isn't just the lack of Godzilla but how little Godzilla contributed to the overall plot. The only notable thing he really did was kill the MUTOs because they drove the plot far, far more. As a pseudo-reboot of the original Godzilla I would've liked Godzilla to be a bit more plot relevant. Seriously, think about it. Cut Godzilla out of the entirety of the film except the final battle and everything important would have happened exactly the same. You can keep showing off Godzilla in his full glory to the end, there's nothing wrong with that, but I don't see why that has to mean he doesn't really do anything until the end. That said, Godzilla himself was fantastic, he looked the best he ever has, the bigger budget did everything right for him and what we saw of the fight was just amazing. I just think he should've mattered more to the plot outside the third Act.

Don't get me wrong, the movie was good! I did enjoy it. It met my expectations but it didn't exceed them.

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

(Well, apart from the bit about good Godzilla films being a rarity )

To be fair it has been years since I saw anything except Godzilla 1954, which I watched the night before the première of this one.

[ElConvoy]

Thats a fair point but again I didnt find myself all that bothered by it. Maybe I just didnt have that high expectations and was satisfied with what we got.

A thing I think they could have explored more in this movie is the aspect of Godzilla being natures way to restore balance. They honestly should have had him destroy the City on Hawaii earlier in the movie and have the Airport fight in a different location. I liked the Alpha Predator angle they went with in the movie with trying to convey that Humanity was never the dominant species on Earth and never will be as long as these Creatures exist. If we had more Serizawa in the movie I think we could have gotten more of that.

[Starscream Gaga]

While Days of Future Past will probably usurp it, I think this is possibly a good sign for the future of Godzilla:

"Godzilla" Roars, Scores Biggest Opening Day of 2014

Still super-duper excited for DoFP though...

[ElConvoy]

Godzilla made almost more money domestically than Pacific Rim in its whole run time

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by Starscream Gaga

While Days of Future Past will probably usurp it, I think this is possibly a good sign for the future of Godzilla:

"Godzilla" Roars, Scores Biggest Opening Day of 2014

Still super-duper excited for DoFP though...

I expect DoFP to make around $120 mil and then Bayformers 400 to make around $160 mil and that is only if it has less than a 60% rating on RT. If it has a higher rating it will make $200 mil.

[2ndSndWve]

So I saw it yesterday. It was good, but it seem like atomic breath shouldn't be effective against creatures that feed off of radiation . I was totally taken by surprise when there turned out to be two Mutos, and when Godzilla pried the female Muto's mouth open I thought they were just ripping off that scene in the 2005 King Kong movie where he broke the T-Rex's jaw, and then the atomic breath happened. It's weird to reboot the Godzilla franchise with a movie mostly about the Mutos, though.

[ElConvoy]

Legendary confirmed that a Sequel is already in the works

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/godz...areth-edwards/

[Den-O]

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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

Legendary confirmed that a Sequel is already in the works

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/godz...areth-edwards/

Yes! Love love loved this one so a sequel is good news

[nikinaga]

Prepare for a rambling of a lifetime!

First off the movie was really good. Not perfect, mind you, but a lot better than the 98’ Zilla (it has no right to be called Godzilla, or the Beast from 20,000 fathoms the remake either) and gloriously better than Godzilla's Revenge. Or Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster.

I feel that it got a lot of things right like Joe being vindictive over an anomaly that cost him his wife and son's respect, and Ford's seeming lack of emotion. I mean when we first see him (adult Ford) when he is just getting back from a tour of (insert country here) and still has to adjust to "normal" life. Then things hit the fan and he has no time to stop being an Army (I really don't know what branch he was in) guy and grows some feelings other than what is in the moment motivation. The Brody family worked for what they essentially were. Plot fodder. Dr. Serizawa was good as the default Godzilla expert although I thought they would have given a wink and has Akira Takarada turn out to be Dr. Yamane, thus giving him the G-expert role and have the actor come full circle.

I thought the Monsters worked as what they were supposed to be. Animals and by association an extension of nature and its unpredictability. The Mutos were all right, although I'm still going to believe that they are this universe's Destroyah. Godzilla was Magnificent. I love how they took a seemingly impossible creature and make him look about as real as Bruce Camble's chin. That along with a believable atomic breath (which to me looked more like cobra venom that has a chemical reaction to the air rather than FIRE BEAM) was what made it all the more like actual animals.

I'd give this movie an 8.9/10.

Also to those who want Mothra in this, how would that work? Mothra has an entire religion and tiny twins that I really don't see fitting in this universe. Unless they pulled a cult of Cthulu thing where there is a small group of people who had a muto egg hidden on an island (with TV) that they thought would bring about the end of the world, then this movie happened and all the while they were watching this with there egg and when the female was killed, twin girls were born thus ushering in the idea that the end of days monster will awaken soon, happens.

... Wait. Y'all can go a head with the muto queen thing. I done goofed in my thoughts. Plus, How would Ghidorah work?