If you went into this thinking Cranston was the lead, there's no helping you.

Into seeing the film. Not auditioning for the part.

Stop being a dumbass.

Also, you're implying that Cranston thought he would be the lead in the movie. And he never implied or said such a thing.

This was terribly bland and uninteresting. Surprisingly the "Broderick Godzilla" was way better (and even I knew at age 12 that wasn't a very good movie). I pretty much agree with everyone's complaints about this movie, and none of the praise. The characters were worse than cookie-cutter. Plot-holes all over the place, and contrived moments of human peril had me literally rolling my eyes. The whole "tension build-up" didn't work because I didn't care about any of it. Where's the sense of terror, of awe? GIANT FUCKING MONSTERS!!!!!!!!!!! Pacific Rim was leagues better.

C-

Go watch Zilla98.

Stop being stupid.

This whole "bro" persona you've taken on is really annoying. You're not a bro. Zingy and torrino, MAYBE. You? No.

As soon as you learned the main characters last name is "Brody", you know that the whole human story is going to suck and that they should not even bothered to incorporate the whole cliche story of soldier being away and missing his family. That type of story would make Michael Bay so proud except that he would not limit the autobots to cameo appearances.

He probably wanted an early execution when he saw the rest of the script.

But for real, I'm glad that they were able to incorporate other monsters into the film because that was what I was worried about when compared to the 98 version of Godzilla where he was just the stand alone monster and villian. Even though I was glad he is not made out to be the villian for the film, they sacrificed a bulk of his screen time and devoted it to the Mutos.

They should have given the right balance between the the Mutos and Godzilla. I guess they probably did it that way because it would have cost shit load more to CGI Godzilla.

Not saying it is a bad film or anything but I do believe most people overate this film because of how bad and how much wrong that the 98 Godzilla film did to the general public.

A fudgesicle made from Magnus' morning poop is better than Godzilla '98 so...

The gap is enormous, Magnus.

In Zilla (no god), Maria portillo turns what is truly the worst acting performance I have ever seen in a tentpole film. Alicia Silverstone's turn in Batman and Robin looks like the work of Katherine fucking Hepburn in comparison. Matthew Broderick is arguably the most annoying tent pole lead in history. Even the great Jean Reno is utterly wasted. Godzilla looks hideous as do most of the special effects. The only redeeming quality of the entire film - and frankly something the 2014 Godzilla could have used - was Hank Azaria's HILARIOUS turn as well as a few other funny moments (Siskel & Ebert jokes, for example).

2014 Godzilla is a little over serious and too much of a cock tease, but please. It's two quick hours of exciting, suspenseful build up.

Though I am a huge fan of Peter Jackson's King Kong and feel it is clearly the better film, I would much prefer to watch Godzilla 2014 over it. All the flaws of KK are rectified here - that was far too slow early on and focused too heavily on the characters to the point where it was quite boring, while Kong had almost too much exposure to the point where the mystery/awe surrounding him was lost.

This film isn't perfect, but shut the fuck with the "the gap is not the big" crap. Zilla 1998 is one of the all time worst films in history. The plot makes no sense, the acting is awful, the effects are awful - the score and Azaria's performance aside, the film is horrendous.



The score to that film is great, particularly the main "awe struck" Godzilla theme.

That was a really, really stupid decision on the part of the filmmakers. There is little reason to remove his character at that point of the film anyway.

The Godzilla/MUTO fight reminded me a lot of the King Kong/T Rex fight.

The human characters are placeholders, but I like that the film doesn't make a pretense of giving a crap about them the way that say, Pacific Rim did. It acted as though you cared about the character arcs of Hunnam, Kikuchi, Elba and Charlie Day and his partner, when the only ones worth caring for are Kikuchi and maybe Day. This film puts effort into an arc for Cranston (and mostly succeeds), but once the monster action is set in motion, the human characters are mostly at the service of the mounting action from the monsters. Even Brody's "arc" isn't much of an arc - once Cranston is dead he's more of an audience surrogate than anything, and the film never puts up a greater pretense that he's anything more.

Also, there's a perfect amount of Godzilla in this movie. I've said this elsewhere, but it's like a well-portioned dessert - I kept wanting more, but at the end of the movie I got everything I wanted out of it. 'zilla's finishing move alone was worth the price of admission.

Magnus, I'm going to murder you sometime this week. Cool?

After the first 40 minutes though almost everything going on in the film is devoted to the monsters. We get Brody calling his family and watching after that random kid, but otherwise the human moments are restricted to following the humans following the monsters and planning to stop them, setting up said monster action. These moments aren't exactly riveting cinema, but calling them "shit" is a bit much, and the setup for the monster action that does happen is more than worth it.

I disagree with the idea that the human characters are place holders. There are countless examples of great films about monsters with great characters. Jaws, Jurassic Park, King Kong, even mighty joe young.

Yes, Jurassic Park would not be as strong a film without the memorable performances of such top-flight actors as Richard Attenborough and Jeff Goldblum.

I don't want to echo what's already been said, so I'll just go with my other random thoughts:

-I was a bit disappointed with no baby MUTO's - we see them in their nest, then 5 minutes later they are all miraculously destroyed. The only immediate threat to humans was being crushed by a skyscraper
-Annoyed by the scenes where they go investigate a building and then suddenly discover, "OH WAIT, there's a giant hole in the building. How did we miss that?"

B-

Well I'm glad at least somebody here remembers that movie. Another, underrated monster movie that people seem to want to forget, but I loved it as a kid.

Anyways, I agree that Cloverfield and War of The Worlds 2005 are superior movies, but when it comes to Spielberg sensibilities I honestly think Edwards got more right than what Abrams attempted to do with Super 8 three years ago.

The character work might be leagues better than this, but the monster aspect is still a pretty weak element. They would have been better off making a Goonies type flick than a 70's throwback creature feature IMO.

Needs more Bryan Cranston. The human aspect dies with him

Like I said the acting especially from all the kids is really good and script is stronger, but that shitty looking carbon copy of the Cloverfield monster running amok just didn't do it for me.

It's been settled.

If you don't like GODZILLA it means you can't give women orgasms.

Lock the thread. This case is CLOSED.

Except the babies were already made. Which means they already consumated the relationship.

Because MrMUTO got off in MrsMUTO.

Technically Cranston getting arrested was the biggest cockblock of the movie. If I'm ATJ I just take the morning flight though. Being so easily lured away from his wife after 14 months makes me wonder if there's something else going on with ATJ. Maybe a future romance between he and Godzilla? Godzilla II: King of Lovers.