I swear this is such a stupid post.

It doesn't have to be all Godzilla but having barely any in it, just sucks. It's not that hard to understand. I don't think anyone here expected 120 minutes of Godzilla footage, but more than 2 or 3 would have been nice.

The shit people believe and bitch about..... 2 or 3 minutes.....?
I saw the movie, did you? there is more than 3 minutes of Godzilla, Honestly there is more than 180 seconds of Godzilla this movie. You didn't get what you want. Again, learn to enjoy a movie for what it is.
Just did a quick search on Twitter, which is mostly positive in reactions, one guy wrote "People must be confusing Godzilla with Godfather.

But I do realize this is the internet and people will complain about every little thing they can think of.

No you see a foot, or a shadow or his back or his hand or his tail for at least for the majority of (I'll be generous and say 15 minutes of those scenes in the entire film) You seem to not understand that. We're talking straight up a shot of a full bodied Godzilla causing mayhem. There are about 7 shots in the entire film. I don't need 2 hours of Godzilla, but the Jaws approach should have been used. Once the reveal was set it shouldn't have gone back to the guerilla (Viewpoint of those watching him) because that's been done before better. This is not the best Godzilla film by any measure. Also the other monsters have more screen time unfortunately.

The rest of the complaints are just gravy because there is nothing to complain about when Godzilla is on screen. There is just barely any of it. It's a very safe tame film with very little entertainment payoff.

As a comparator... IMDb's user review's are currently running 150 'loved it ' vs. 196 'hated it'. Sure, that ain't the definitive source (either), but I don't ever remember seeing such a negative love/hate ratio on the opening Saturday of a supposedly successful tentpole. WOM is set to take a severe tumble after this weekend.






Fun Fact:

That is your opinion, not a fact. Learn the difference.
A severe tumble would be from awful WOM, this has mixed as worst.

This had an absolutely perfect amount of Godzilla.

We're not talking about the trailer here.

God, I'm so tired of posts like these.

Of course some people liked it, but me and several others were bothered by the lack of Godzilla and boring human characters. Not everyone thinks like you, deal with it.

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This was so disappointing. Visually it's really cool and I liked/loved most of the action sequences. The last half hour is where the film excels. The character stuff just doesn't work at all almost entirely due to the bland, cheesy and poorly written screenplay. The entire cast is pretty mediocre and I agree that Bryan Cranston is the lone bright spot. Elizabeth Olsen is fine but given nothing to do, Aaron Taylor-Johnson is an uninteresting lead and Ken Watanabe, David Straithairn and Sally Hawkins are straight up awful. It's entertaining and has its moments, but this should and could have been so much better. The advertising definitely oversold it. C+

Also, I HATED the Mutos. Cloverfield did the same thing so much better, and you saw SO much of them. Godzilla himself was definitely underused.

I don't think he mispronounced it. I have to watch it again, but I'm pretty sure he said it (at least mostly) correctly.

"Go" as in the number 5, "Ji" with the correct "e" or long "e" sound, and "ra" has various sounds. And since the English "R" sound doesn't exist in Japanese, so it has more of a "L" sound.

So it should sound, if spoken in Japanese, as "Go-Jee-La", which is how Watanabe pronounced it I believe.

A pretty good movie, no more, no less. It is unfortunately much more about the MUTO than about Godzilla, which we definitely don't see enough. The story is quite average, the 1998 movie's story was actually less ridiculous. In the 2014 movie, we are told Godzilla is an apex predator. Yet he goes into a UFC fight with the MUTOs. As an apex predator, shouldn't Godzilla fight him in order to eat him afterwards, not just fight him for fun?

The movie puts a lot of focus on the human drama, but unfortunately it is not very interesting. I can't say the Ford guy is a bad actor, it's just that his character is so boring.

Also, the world's reaction to the existence of giant monsters seems ridiculous. Hey look, giant monsters! Oh well, I guess we'll have to defend ourselves from them.

Still, it was fairly entertaining.

7.5/10

Godzilla's return to America screens is not without its flaws, but it's entertaining on the whole, and it's also a very vast improvement over the 1998 film bearing the same name. Although the humans provide little in the way of characterizations or storylines that we haven't seen before in disaster or monster movies, the actors do sufficiently solid work to keep the audience invested in the characters as they live amid the monstrous turmoil (and this film has its eye more closely on the human collateral of the given situations more than most other films of its genre). However, it's really the monsters that we're here for, and once they finally get to make more than peek-a-boo appearances, director Gareth Edwards and crew deliver with sequences that are exciting and large in scope. Although it bears the Godzilla name, this reboot ultimately feels as though it has more in common with the likes of last summer's enormously-budgeted monster showdown, Pacific Rim: it may not always have the brains, but there's more than enough brawn to make it a solid popcorn flick.

B

The movie looks good and is well-directed but the script isn't very good. The stuff going on with the human characters isn't as involving as it should be considering the film focuses so much on them for so long. I like the cast but none of them are given much to do. I did highly enjoy the scene on the train tracks. It's not a bad movie by any means but it's just somewhat dull. Not one I'd want to watch again. Cloverfield this is not.

7/10 (B-)

Credit to a BOT forum guy and i liked the film, but this sounds fucking awesome

-Same opening credits, opening mine scene, opening at the nuclear power plant

-A massive monster, seen off screen, annihilates an island village in the Pacific

-15 years later, Joe, a masked individual breaks into the forbidden zone solo at night - gets caught, gets arrested - but not before he can recover and listen to some audio tapes

-Same ish with Ford and his family

-Catch up with Watanabe's character, whose Monarch company has totally lost track of Godzilla's wareabouts. He is keenly interested in the island village destruction, but lacks supporting evidence. Operate out of the forbidden zone in secret.

-Ford gets the phone call to bail his Father out jail.

-. In the room, Joe -revealed as the intruder form earlier- goes off on crazy rant seen in film, plus mentions discovery of communication in the tapes. He had been listening in and knew he recognized the sounds, but needed to be sure. Watanabe's assistant hears the rant.

-Ford meets up with his Father in jail. Somewhat stand off ish. Back at his crazy apartment, Joe shows an invention he has been working on to remove radiation from area's. Its a work in progress.

, Watanabe comes out, interested in hearing his Fathers tapes. Ford is skeptical but forced to go along.

-Watanabe buys what Joe is selling about the tapes. Reveals they occurred shortly before earlier island attack.

-Travel to the island, which is now extremely radioactive. Joe thinks the same thing which caused the power plant meltdown is responsible. Ford is extremely skeptical and doesn't want to get involved.

-Return to the forbidden zone. A small cocoon is revealed to be heavily guarded. Discovered in the wake of the plant meltdown. Watanabe speculated it is a still born. Watanabe informs them that the ancient at the mine had revealed a massive underground lair filled with dead cacoons such as the one they now in their possession. Some type of enormous animal escaped and caused the destruction, but not before laying a highly radiative egg. It leaves a peculiar type of radiation, the same found on the island. The monstyer is called a "muto". The government and military do not believe Watanabe, and say if the animal went dormant after the 1999 attack, it will do so after the 2014 attack. Joe says that's false, he heard two voices. Watanabe reveals "an ancient alpha predator, whose sized increased by the thousands following the nuclear tests of the 1950's". Watanabe speculated the two voices communicating were godzilla and the muto - the hunter and the prey.

-A submarine disappears. The military is on red alert as they race for Honololoo. Ford wants out and heads for the airport while Monarch's private military scans the island to find the MOTHER MUTO have burrowed under the island with the sub marine in tow. Same ish from the movie.

-Stunned, the military suddenly believes Watanabe. The Muto hits Honolulu with the EMP. Watanabe warns there may be company soon. Joe frantically sets out to find his son in the wake of the impending attack. He tracks him down to the train. Ford thinks it means his Dad is coming back to the United States. Joe says they need to leave.

-Tsunami time.



-Mama Muto approaches the airport. Everybody freaks out and exits the train manually, sprinting up the tracks, military aiding them. Power comes back on. Realizing the Muto is going to hit the track, Ford and a soldier race back to the train, filling it with grenades and turning it back on. The muto arrives much faster, destroying the train and killing the soldier. Shots of Ford isolated and terrified on the tracks with bits of the monster around him visible, panning up as Ford turns to see the head of the Muto staring down on him - Ford is about to get pwned when Joe saves him, tackling the fear-frozen Ford out of the way as the the Muto crushes the bridge. They dive out of the way and to the ground - where military men meet them - as the muto tosses the train into an airplane, causing it exploding, panning to reveal Godzilla's epic cankle. Watanabe watches in awe. Joe and Ford watch in terror/amazement as the alpha Pedator Godzilla arrives. Godzilla and the muto fight, the muto getting the upper hand and sending Godzilla tumbling. Godzilla, hurting, retreats into the ocean. The muto takes off towards the coast.



-Ford is touched his dad saved him and now determined to help aid the fight. Everything from film intact except with Joe there as the sides converge on San Francisco and Oakland. Plan hatched to lure the muto away with radiactive weapon. Godzilla will pursue. Blow both up at once. Ford goes along while Joe and Watanabe argue with the military that it wont work. Watanabe suggests their best bet at stopping the monsters may be to help aid Godzilla in his fight. Military doesn't know if he is even alive.



-train/bridge sequence. The muto gets the bomb. It consumes the radiation and grows in strength as a result, Watanabe coyly adding "you always think nuclear weapons are the answer. cant you see theyre the problem!?". The muto cries out loudly.



-Back in the forbidden area, the cocoon hatches - the winged, flying muto is born and escapes in a terrifying frenzy.



-Joe and others find Ford, barely alive. Ford is very upset, still having not seen his family and now fearing for all their safety. The city is evacuated as the winged creature arriving, flying by sky scrappers. The emp causes planes to fall out the sky - it attacks military boats.



The two mate as the military prepares a HALO jump to circumvent the emp and retrieve the bomb from within the city. The military isn't sure how to defeat the MUTO's. Cranston thinks.



-The plane for the halo jump takes off.



-Fins in San Francisco harbor. Boats rise out - school bus on bridge scene. Military attacks godzilla.



-Still hurting, Godzilla flees into the ocean. Watanabe is pissed, saying they scared their best chance at defeating the muto's way. Stenz finally agrees, ordering a cease fire on Godzilla and hoping he returns.



-the Halo jump into the city (no godzilla yet). Sneak into the beasts lair - see the babies being born, feeding off the radiation.



-Flying muto attacks the crew. Flee into china town - still not near bomb. Ground thunders. Lightening reveals Godzilla's body through the smoke. A massive paw lands near Ford. With a deafening roar, Godzilla has arrived.



-The fight begins. Godzilla is having a tough go of it. Ford blows up the nest, causing the Muto's to lose focus. Godzilla gains the upper hand while the bomb is raced to the pier. He fire breathes the mother, hurting her. The flying muto attacks, killing most of the soldiers. Godzilla tail whips him in mid flight, sending him crash down to an ugly death.



-PISSED, the mother Muto grows in size and pounces on Zilla - seriously hurting him. A rocket hits it, revealing Ford - with the bomb, on the boat - calling for the muto. The muto races towards him. Joe suddenly arrives. He has the anti radiation device he showed Ford earlier. They promptly switch the bomb with the device. He says he has to get it inside the monster. Ford says thats impossible without dying. Joe says the monster already killed him a long time ago. Ford tries to pull him away but Joe fights back, ending with ""Think of how you see your son. And you know how I see you. Please go". Godzilla watches. Ford leaves with the real bomb as the muto comes and eats Joe, swallowing the anti radiation weapon with him.



Ford races the real bomb towards the ship as the Muto gives chase. Suddenly, the muto becomes weak - the device working. The military attacks, doing some damage. A wounded Godzilla rises, marching towards the muto. Muto still pwns the military and is about to get to Ford when Godzilla arrives, picking up the creature and body slamming it. The muto continues to attack while Ford difuses the bomb with little time to spare. Godzilla forces himself onto the muto, breathing fire into her mouth, killing her like a bad ass. He collapses, very tired.



Same ending as film.

That you would be in the directors cut?
Didint see the movie yet.

I would of loved to see a bit more of Godzilla and less of the Mutos but its still a great entertaining movie.

B+

After a series of incredibly tantalizing trailers that left expectations sky high, Godzilla '14 arrives with more of a whimper than a roar. It's entertaining enough, sure. The special effects and technical credits (particularly an awesome score by Alexandre Desplat) are top notch. Most will probably have a good time watching it. But overall, I left with the feeling that it didn't live up to the hype. Part of the problem with this is the lack of actual presence by the monsters at the expense of the human stories. I'm a firm believer that movies like this benefit enormously from strong human drama but this department falls flat in Godzilla. Much of this is due to the fact that Bryan Cranston (superb as usual) has a much smaller role than anticipated, and the film is instead "carried" by the unfailingly bland Aaron Taylor-Johnson. Numerous other terrific actors, including Elizabeth Olsen, Sally Hawkins, Ken Watanabe and David Strathairn, are completely squandered. When Godzilla and the other monsters actually are on the scene destroying cities like we've come to expect, Godzilla really takes off. Unfortunately, that aspect of the film isn't as prominent as it probably should have been. B-

Eh, well at least you didn't completely hate it Magnus, but I knew you would be somewhat disappointed. The trailers promised something much darker and I really wish this movie would have lived up to that awesome Oppenheimer teaser we got two years ago.

There was some great doom and gloom imagery in it that I had hoped we would see more of in this, but I guess the studio didn't want to push it as they got scared it wouldn't go over as well with mainstream audiences so they wanted to make it as safe as possible. It's definitely more like Independence Day than the War of the Worlds remake.

Still, I'm satisfied with what we got in the end. The movie is far from perfect, but it's a lot of fun and as a big monster movie fanatic it managed to bring out the inner kid in me.

Too bad MOS with all it's grittiness and mass destruction couldn't even manage to be half as enjoyable as this which is pretty sad when you think about it.

this movie was entertaining but it is nothing like it was sold.



The filmmakers said it was going to go back to the feeling of the original 1954 movie. The trailers gave off a dark, apocalyptic tone. The movie is nothing like that. It is not a dark and scary movie at all. It is pretty much a superhero film, with the superhero and supervillain in monster form.



ATJ was indeed awful. Everything said about him was true. He had just one expression the whole movie.



Killing off Bryan Cranston was a huge mistake He was easily the most compelling human character by far. How did no one involved in the production see this clear fact and realize they were shooting themselves in the foot? What's sad is he dies before Godzilla is even introduced in the movie!





Godzilla was not really portrayed as a frightening monster, it was like he was a friend of humanity right from the beginning. One scene that kind of bugged me is when you see all the boats around him guiding him to the city or something. Come on! This is Godzilla, being in the water with him should be the last thing you would want to do.


That's why the comparisons to Jaws and Alien don't work. Ignore the fact that Jaws and Alien had more compelling human characters, in those movies the creature was kept off screen in order to build a sense of suspense and dread, but here Godzilla is not portrayed as a creature to be feared or something that could pop up anytime to harm our heroes. So this comparison makes no sense



as mentioned before the MUTO's receive the brunt of the screentime and focus and is the main thing all the characters are reacting to the whole movie. Godzilla is not even really mentioned until an hour in and in an extremely throw away scene where they basically go "Oh in 1954 we awakened some creature and tried to kill it but failed , we called it Godzilla"
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Seriously, it is like I don't know, making a Spider-Man movie where the whole first hour focuses on the origin of the villains and some supporting characters and Spider-Man is only mentioned an hour in in some scene where some character goes "In this year, some guy was bitten by a radioactive Spider and became a person called Spider-Man, he maybe our only hope". Lol



but the main problem I had though, is that there really is no sense of dread or suspense at all. The closest it came was the scene on the railway tracks but really that was it.



Overall, I guess it is still a fun action movie but really kind of disappointing in how better it could possibly have been.

The characters are essentially clichés from every disaster movie ever made and you might as well call this a Marvel movie while your at it because tonal wise that's pretty much what they tried to copy. Cranston is really the only one who takes his performance to the next level and it's a shame he isn't in it more. I really liked his character despite all the conspiracy gibberish and crying.

I also get the WWZ comparison, but this had such a better pacing IMO. The second half of that movie bored me to tears.

I actually thought World War Z was better than this. More effective pacing.

compared to this WWZ is great.

I slightly prefer World War Z, though neither is very satisfying.

Cloverfield and Spielberg's War of the Worlds leave both in the dust.