So the next Godzilla movie released a teaser trailer and has a pretty cool viral marketing campaign going on right now.
Visit: www.monarchsciences.com to track Godzilla and see all the Monarch facilities across the globe. Thus far we've got Mothra, Rodan and King Ghidorah confirmed while Zilla's on the move, appearing to be heading to San Diego to drop the trailer at Comic-Con. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Sure-Oz:
I've seen mostly positive too but typically from critics with the same type of movie tastes as me. I'm excited to see the craziness.
Godzilla and King Ghidhora keep the pomp hand strong.
Just got home from seeing the flick. A few notes, any potential spoilers will be in tags.
Loved...
The monsters! Godzilla looked great, Gidorah looked great, Rodan & Mothera looked great.
Monster fights were great
The music was perfect, "remixes" of the old Godzilla March from the Toho movies sparked a lot of nostalgia for me
Monster roars were well done, not perfect matches to the old Toho roars but updated, for lack of a better term, for the new movie
Hat tips to the old Toho movies galore, from the Subijin for Mothra, Gidorah's origins, and other throwbacks were mixed in the movie
Getting to see Millie Bobby Brown be someone other than 11 in "Stranger Things" was cool, she did well in her role
Ken Watanabe was excellent in his role as well
Hated...
Dear God someone at WB hire a competent script writer for these movies, the human element of the movie nearly put me to sleep
The plot was lacking and most of the actors were wooden to put if kindly
Forgive me this rant but can we please have a monster fight in daylight without some sort of driving rain storm?!?!?!
As a huge Godzilla fan I give this movie 2 grade;
- Monster Part 8/10, great but not excellent
- Human Part 3/10, awful script, poor acting, and I had zero interest in any of the humans in the film [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Lee:
Just got home from seeing the flick. A few notes, any potential spoilers will be in tags.
Loved...
The monsters! Godzilla looked great, Gidorah looked great, Rodan & Mothera looked great.
Monster fights were great
The music was perfect, "remixes" of the old Godzilla March from the Toho movies sparked a lot of nostalgia for me
Monster roars were well done, not perfect matches to the old Toho roars but updated, for lack of a better term, for the new movie
Hat tips to the old Toho movies galore, from the Subijin for Mothra, Gidorah's origins, and other throwbacks were mixed in the movie
Getting to see Millie Bobby Brown be someone other than 11 in "Stranger Things" was cool, she did well in her role
Ken Watanabe was excellent in his role as well
Hated...
Dear God someone at WB hire a competent script writer for these movies, the human element of the movie nearly put me to sleep
The plot was lacking and most of the actors were wooden to put if kindly
Forgive me this rant but can we please have a monster fight in daylight without some sort of driving rain storm?!?!?!
As a huge Godzilla fan I give this movie 2 grade;
- Monster Part 8/10, great but not excellent
- Human Part 3/10, awful script, poor acting, and I had zero interest in any of the humans in the film
As someone who grew up on showa era godzilla flicks, this makes me happy they they got the monsters part better. Pretty cool they did remixes of Akira Ikefube(sp)'s symphony stuff. Cant wait to see this tonight. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Aspengc8:
As someone who grew up on showa era godzilla flicks, this makes me happy they they got the monsters part better. Pretty cool they did remixes of Akira Ikefube(sp)'s symphony stuff. Cant wait to see this tonight.
There are some Hensi Era hat tips as well. Won't give them away here but if you've seen any of the Hensi films you'll catch 'em.
Didn't stay for all the credits so I cannot say if there was an end credit scene but I can tell you is they use the credits, up until the mid-credits, as an epilogue to the movie. Basically newspaper and website headlines showing what happened after the movie. Again don't want to spoil anything but don't just jump up or look at your phone, you'll miss some good stuff. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Lee:
There are some Hensi Era hat tips as well. Won't give them away here but if you've seen any of the Hensi films you'll catch 'em.
Didn't stay for all the credits so I cannot say if there was an end credit scene but I can tell you is they use the credits, up until the mid-credits, as an epilogue to the movie. Basically newspaper and website headlines showing what happened after the movie. Again don't want to spoil anything but don't just jump up or look at your phone, you'll miss some good stuff.
Given the reviews, I actually thought it was better than what I was expecting. It probably deserves better than 40% on rotten tomatoes.
Spoiler!
Mothra was flipping awesome. I almost wanted to see them make a Mothra movie after this. Ghidorah was certainly a scarier enemy.
That said, I'm not sure if I liked it better than the 2014 movie or not.
I get the argument that there wasn't enough action in the last one and these movies are not high art, but my biggest complaint is I think the action scenes in that last movie were way more badass. There was nothing in this movie as good as the HALO jump or the ending where Godzilla breathes fire down the MUTO's neck. Even the reveal of Godzilla was pretty awesome in that movie. It was cool to see all these legendary monsters fighting but I think the last movie has more epic scenes I'll remember 10 years from now.
Originally Posted by tk13:
Given the reviews, I actually thought it was better than what I was expecting. It probably deserves better than 40% on rotten tomatoes.
Spoiler!
Mothra was flipping awesome. I almost wanted to see them make a Mothra movie after this. Ghidorah was certainly a scarier enemy.
That said, I'm not sure if I liked it better than the 2014 movie or not.
I get the argument that there wasn't enough action in the last one and these movies are not high art, but my biggest complaint is I think the action scenes in that last movie were way more badass. There was nothing in this movie as good as the HALO jump or the ending where Godzilla breathes fire down the MUTO's neck. Even the reveal of Godzilla was pretty awesome in that movie. It was cool to see all these legendary monsters fighting but I think the last movie has more epic scenes I'll remember 10 years from now.
%88 audience approval, fuck those pretentious assholes that don't get it. [Reply]
A couple of thoughts came to mind as regarding future Godzilla movies. I'll put them in spoiler tags as some of these thoughts will give away some plot points.
Spoiler!
1) So Gidorah is from outer space, cool. Know what other classic Toho monster was from outer space? Gigan! Could we see Gigan somewhere down the road?
2) With hollow Earth theory being presented in the movie, could we see another classic Toho monster in Megalon. Remember, Megalon was sent by the Seatopians (an underwater civilization) after nuclear test.
movie was ok, about as good as you're going to get w/ this kind of stuff.
acting wasn't great as you'd probably suspect, but people see these movies for the action/destruction....which actually kind of wish there was more of that.
Originally Posted by CoMoChief:
Also wish every fight wasn't in the dark.
Better than the battle of winterfell but this is trend. Why? Who decided that when we are watching a movie that we really dont want to see what the artist is showing us. We are happy with seeing 50% of what is on the screen.
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
Better than the battle of winterfell but this is trend. Why? Who decided that when we are watching a movie that we really dont want to see what the artist is showing us. We are happy with seeing 50% of what is on the screen.
Anyone know why?
More cost-effective, I think. The darkness masks CGI deficiencies. [Reply]