[Spearichu]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

It was not great. There's a ton of time and effort spent trying to make you care about a family that, for me, was terminally uninteresting. The monster fights are good, the military stuff is solid, Ken Watanabe commits, but all of the family drama poisons the film.

And, like, your mileage may vary, but I'm genuinely not sure how you do a Godzilla film in a post-Pacific Rim world. Once you've seen giant robots fight kaiju... I don't know how you go back?

So it basically like all Godzilla films then. They try to have a story or characters when I'm all shut the fuck up and bring on the monsters.

[Fish Sandwich]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Also, I don't know anything about Godzilla movies so I don't know if that's a joke at my expense or the Godzilla franchise's expense

It's actually mostly just an honest observation? I mean, the real reasons almost certainly have nothing to do with the presence or lack of giant robots in the films, but the original Showa series of Godzilla movies legitimately did die after a duology of Mechagodzilla films. The rebooted Heisei series was then itself originally intended to end with its own Mechagodzilla movie before they decided to keep it going a little longer. And then the "Millennium" series after that only had Final Wars come out once it was done with its duology of movies featuring Mechagodzilla.

I never thought of it this way until I read that comment by you, but the guy seems to secretly be some kind of harbinger of the end-times.

[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Spearichu

So it basically like all Godzilla films then. They try to have a story or characters when I'm all shut the fuck up and bring on the monsters.

Basically, yeah. There's some fun references that even an outsider like me got, and an impressive level of scale, but Jesus Christ there's so much time on this dumb family. I don't mind human characters in a kaiju film, but, like, Kong: Skull Island did it right. Military, adventurers, scientists, bureaucrats, whatever. These are people I'm cool with seeing in a giant monster movie. Outside of that, hard pass.

[wentwood]

Ordered up Doctor Who The Annimated Collectin and Doctor Who XXXVIII NY2019 Resolution on Blu Ray today.

Annimated set has Shada and The Scream Of Shakla with the alternate 9th Doctor and Infinity Quest and Dreamland with the 10th Doctor. Also Power Of The Daleks with the 2nd Doctor.

Feb 20 to get it.

[Guyver Spawn]

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Originally Posted by Spearichu

I would watch Sonic if I had transportation, so if anyone wants to drive me there I will be willing to pay for the tickets.



Was it that bad?

I enjoy it when I saw it in theathers. People are 50/50 on the movie because I see a lot of people who like it because of the Kaiju battles. Meanwhile, I see people hating on it. It was like how The Predator was in 2018 because you had people that both loved and hated that movie.

[GreenPsychoRanger]

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Originally Posted by Talisman

Already spent my movie budget for the month on Love Live Fest, so no.

I'm rather surprised that you, a major Sonic fan, didn't plan your movie budget better to go see this.

[Kiwami]

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Originally Posted by GreenPsychoRanger

I'm rather surprised that you, a major Sonic fan, didn't plan your movie budget better to go see this.

On the contrary, being a major Sonic fan is a perfectly reasonable explanation for not wanting to see this movie.

[Talisman]

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Originally Posted by GreenPsychoRanger

I'm rather surprised that you, a major Sonic fan, didn't plan your movie budget better to go see this.

Ah, I see. You misunderstand-

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

On the contrary, being a major Sonic fan is a perfectly reasonable explanation for not wanting to see this movie.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I never thought of it this way until I read that comment by you, but the guy seems to secretly be some kind of harbinger of the end-times.

Well, less of a harbinger, and more of a peak. King Ghidorah may be Godzilla's archenemy, but MechaGodzilla's arrival is an event.

[acdcguy]

I didn't think Godzilla: King of the Monsters was a bad film. It wasn't great but it's definitely not worst movie territory.

I've encountered a review of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie yesterday and the reviewer loved the film. Take it with a grain of salt, but it does appear to be a film that actually tried to be faithful to the franchise instead of being a half-assed family film. Still a family film since it's for a general audience, but isn't an Alvin and the Chipmunks or Smurfs style film. It's more like a buddy cop film with Sonic lore thrown in and one of the buddy "cop" happens to be Sonic, who is the Sonic we know and love from the games and tv shows. So again take it with a grain of salt and go in with an open mind. That's what I plan to do, as I really can't see them dropping an additional $90 million to fix Sonic's appearance on a half-assed family flick. They would have cut their losses and released it as is if that were the case.