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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 18, 2014 19:32:57 GMT 2
I've been a bit of a slouch when it comes to the cinema lately. Just saw Spidey 2 today and missed Captain America completely. But Godzilla was something I had to see at the first opportunity.
SPOILERS AHEAD
And am I glad I did. Won't lie, killing off Bryan Cranston's character half way through the movie was some Hitchcock Psycho shit, and Bland McGoodDad didn't exactly set pulses racing, but if you're watching a Godzilla movie for the actors you're watching the wrong fucking movie.
I would have preferred a canon monster from the huge galley of Godzilla villains but Motu was as good as any you could hope for. Hopefully they bring out some big guns in the sequel.
Godzilla himself? Flawless. Monstrous, terrifying and sympathetic, everything he should have been. Breathing atomic breath down a monsters throat is easily the best Godzilla kill yet. A home run movie.
What did you guys think?
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Post by trashcanman on May 19, 2014 19:13:52 GMT 2
Not at all was I was expecting. Not how I would have done it. But I'll be god damned if that wasn't a true Godzilla film. I was looking for something really bleak and dramatic and steeped in symbolism and commentary. A rebirth. An American Godzilla for a new age that stripped all of the cheesy good times wee are so accustomed to. What I got was a classic Godzilla movie. That's good too.
I literally clenched my fits in front of me and shook them when he killed that last monster, man. When I was a kid, I fucking dreamed that shot (except in the dream it was Mechagodzilla getting his head torn off). Seeing it actually happen was so much YES. And that shot where you see his spines lighting up through the darkness? Goosebumps for days. I've never wanted to stand up and cheer in a movie so much. They didn't do a midnight premiere for it so I had to wait a couple days, and that makes me sad because seeing this with a room full of Godzilla fans would have been like a fucking rock concert.
It's funny because this Godzilla is actually way friendlier than any of the Japanese ones aside from full-on superhero mode in Godzilla vs Megalon and the like. I kind of resisted that, especially since those amazing trailers implied Godzilla was the cause of all that destruction, but what the hell. It was cheese, but it was delicious. Oh, and I've read that there was a post-credits scene shown only in Asia that featured a certain fairy-accompanied kaiju and implied she may be the source of the MUTO. I won't argue with that concept.
Fuck the critics, man. Seeing all of the weak criticisms of Godzilla just serves to highlight what I've been saying for years now. Being forced to review movies you don't want to see makes you opinion useless and unnecessary.
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Post by The Curmudgeon on May 26, 2014 2:20:51 GMT 2
Glad you liked it too. It'll be interesting to see how second viewings fair once it comes out on Blu-Ray etc, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I read a lot of online criticism saying there wasn't enough Godzilla in it, but I think they got the balance just right. Too much and it becomes a sluggish monster fest that you could struggle to take seriously.
You'll have heard already that a sequel has been officially greenlight (apparantly a trilogy), potentially based on the Destroy All Monsters. I haven't seen the extra footage you mentioned, but I really, really hope it's not Mothra. Worst. Monster. Ever.
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Post by trashcanman on May 26, 2014 2:44:49 GMT 2
I can always stand to see Mothra get burned to death again, though. I'll be watching it again tomorrow to take my son. I thought it would be too dark for him, but it was actually cartoonish enough that I think he'll be fine. The criticisms are just dumb. Oh, he's too fat. There's not enough Godzilla in it. They cut away from the action. It wasn't anything like Breaking Bad and the guy from Breaking Bad wasn't in it enough. Jesus Christ, I thought I was a man-child for liking it, but the critics sound like fucking toddlers.
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