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Godzilla looks pretty badass

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If you pay to see 2 hours of computer programs hitting each other then don't see this movie. It builds up to it. Bryan Cranston was the character that brought you into the story and he did fine. After that it's about what's going on in monster land and the human is just the guy we glom on to. If you liked and got Godzilla as a kid or are interested in what that was about, you will like this movie. That's what I paid for and was not let down.

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it takes a long time to build up to anything. The monsters that aren't godzilla are very uninspired. 

 

Overall I didn't like it. 

 

Pacific Rim was way more colorful, over the top, and for lack of a better word "epic". 

 

I wouldn't drop the 10 dollars on a movie ticket. I definitely wouldn't go see it in 3D, unless it's just begging for it like Gravity or Avatar I wouldn't see any movie in 3D. 

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I saw it last night with my son. I understand the negative comments on here but think you guys are nit picking. Overall it was well done. 1 million times better than the 90s version.

I woulda been mad if it was just 2 hours of monsters fighting. You need the back story and character buildup so you care about the people in it. My beefs were smaller with it but don't want to spoil anything so I'll wait

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Okay, here's my breakdown. The humans were completely irrelevant to the plot. And yet 95% of the movie is about them.

I should have known. When I watched Gareth Edwards last movie, Monsters, I was so bored by the human drama that I turned it off before I even saw a monster. The guy is just a horrible filmmaker.

Pacific Rim was better because it actually delivered what it promised. You wanted monsters fighting mechas? Here's two hours of it! I wanted to see Godzilla fighting monsters, and I got Nicholas Sparks presents "Godzilla."

The fight scenes and monster affects were awesome, but Godzilla had tops 5 minutes of screen time.

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I saw it last night and i thought the same thing! (This movie is called Godzilla, where is Godzilla???) My girlfriend actually had to wake me up the first part of the movie! All of the action happens the second half!!

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I woulda been mad if it was just 2 hours of monsters fighting. You need the back story and character buildup so you care about the people in it.

fug that, I need a Godzilla 2 just for more monsters fighting.

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I saw it last night and i thought the same thing! (This movie is called Godzilla, where is Godzilla???) My girlfriend actually had to wake me up the first part of the movie! All of the action happens the second half!!

I'm all for building suspense. Jaws, Aliens, you didn't even see the monster for the first hour. But that's because they relied on suspense. And you can't be suspenseful with a monster that's 800 feet tall! Its not like you're not going to see it sneaking up on you.

For them to wait an hour to finally reveal the monster, they needed to develop characters and drama we really cared about. And suffice it to say, the characters with compelling stories weren't the ones we follow throughout the movie. We get family drama that you really don't care about at all, your stock no nonsense military head honcho who effectively does nothing that affects the movies outcome, and Ken Watanabe looking amazed silently. Wow. How thrilling.

It had one redeeming quality. My friends and I spent the rest of the night yelling, "Imma hold your mouth open and throw up down your throat!" And I think that will be a catch phrase of ours for a while.

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Okay, here's my breakdown. The humans were completely irrelevant to the plot. And yet 95% of the movie is about them.

I should have known. When I watched Gareth Edwards last movie, Monsters, I was so bored by the human drama that I turned it off before I even saw a monster. The guy is just a horrible filmmaker.

Pacific Rim was better because it actually delivered what it promised. You wanted monsters fighting mechas? Here's two hours of it! I wanted to see Godzilla fighting monsters, and I got Nicholas Sparks presents "Godzilla."

The fight scenes and monster affects were awesome, but Godzilla had tops 5 minutes of screen time.

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100% this.  Massively underwhelmed.  

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$93 Million at the box office opening weekend. Wow! But that figure is going to take a nose dive this weekend when word of mouth starts spreading. I bet it doesn't top $20 million in week 2, and it loses the number 1 spot.

 

Whoever created those trailers and ran their marketing campaign should win a freakin' Oscar. They knew they had to make all their money in week one, and they almost made $100 million by packin' em in opening weekend.

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Anyone I know that understands what Godzilla is and represents loved the movie. For everyone else I recommend the Matthew Broderick version. A sequel is already greenlit.

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Okay, let's not go down the, hipster-ish "if you didn't like it, you're just not cool enough to 'get it,'" path. RoboCop or Starship Troopers this ain't. The remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" did the nuclear war paranoia better.

 

Godzilla was 2/3 completely irrelevant human drama, and 1/3 wishing for more Godzilla monster fights. Literally almost all of the fight with the male monster happens off-screen. We just assume it's going on while we're watching other stuff.

 

The most compelling part of the movie was the half second where the door is closing on Juliette Binoche. That pained smile she gives was amazing. She emoted, "it's going to be okay," "Don't forget me," "Stay strong and take care of the kids," "Goodbye." In that split second and that was amazing. The rest of the movie was watching A-listers phone it in.

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Anyone I know that understands what Godzilla is and represents loved the movie. For everyone else I recommend the Matthew Broderick version. A sequel is already greenlit.

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Haha....the Broderick version was GINO (Godzilla in name only)

 

My wife loved it and even agreed to watch Godzilla KOM afterwards. She usually avoids the TV if I'm playing anything in my collection. I thought it was a good summer family film. I don't think there is anything I would be worried about a <10yr old seeing on screen.

 

I should have tapered my expectations....it still came from Hollywood. I wanted more in the line of the original Gorija or even Godzilla KOM w/Burr spliced in. I'm no environmentalist, but I wanted a bigger push on the nuclear issues. The discussion of the Pacific nuclear "testing" was inserted and never again uttered. I wanted a Serizawa character...someone who realizes that humanity doesn't deserve his new technology, destroys his research and sacrifices himself (thought it would be Cranston...oh well). But it's still better than 80% of Toho's Godzilla movies. There's camp (Megalon/Sea Monster) and then there's really bad camp (Son of Godzilla).

 

BTW...I own most Godzilla films and still play my xbox versions of Godzilla games. Tagteam monster brawling!!! Not buying a PS so I play the 3rd version. If you've never played any of these, you can find them cheap used.

 

There's so much hit and miss w/ the Godzilla franchise, but alot has to do with budget and audience. I don't think any Godzilla film in Japan had a budget bigger than $10M. Kids fund the toys, nerds/collectors the model kits and statues (and toys).

 

 

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