Godzilla (2014)

[jh901]

The PQ on my pro-calibrated VT60 was fantastic. I usually ignore screen captures and none I've seen are close to representing how superb the blu-ray looks.

I hadn't seen Godzilla, but I was expecting it to be as good as King Kong. Ugh, not even close. The special effects are tremendous, but the plot and character development was pretty bad. The acting is mediocre at best. Writing below par. Really choppy flow. So much potential. Is the forum consensus overwhelmingly positive?

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by mzupeman

You do realize there's more of the big G in this film than in many of the early godzilla flicks?

It worked then but it doesn't work now. Gareth said this Godzilla was being made for an entirely new audience. I guess he and the writers weren't aware that audiences these days don't want to be teased, they want to see the main attraction, and a lot of it.

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

It worked then but it doesn't work now. Gareth said this Godzilla was being made for an entirely new audience. I guess he and the writers weren't aware that audiences these days don't want to be teased, they want to see the main attraction, and a lot of it.

Like Cloverfield?

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

Like Cloverfield?

Worst.movie.ever!

If it didn't come included with one of my Blu-ray sets, I wouldn't even own it.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by jayman3

[Show spoiler]

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by jala12

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

That should be obvious. It was meant to get a chuckle out of people. Not serious at all, a tad on the sarcastic side.

[Astro Zombie]

Originally Posted by Scarface32

Worst.movie.ever!

If it didn't come included with one of my Blu-ray sets, I wouldn't even own it.

Was this meant to get a chuckle as well?

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

Like Cloverfield?

Cloverfield and Godzilla both suffered from it. Both films had great marketing campaigns that got asses in the seats on OW, then both fell like a rock afterwards. I enjoyed Cloverfield more.

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

Cloverfield and Godzilla both suffered from it. Both films had great marketing campaigns that got asses in the seats on OW, then both fell like a rock afterwards. I enjoyed Cloverfield more.

Cloverfield has its generation of fans and it showed less of the monster.

[Zillamon51]

Originally Posted by Blu-21

King Kong's best chance of winning would be to climb on Godzilla's head and do his best to try and snap his jaw in 2 like he does to T-Rexes all the time. Only this would be 1000 times harder.

Except G's atomic breath would burn Kong's hands. Hell, just powering up would singe Kong's junk if he tried to staddle Godzilla's back. Plus, this Godzilla knows this technique, as he's used it himself.

[Filmmaker]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

It worked then but it doesn't work now. Gareth said this Godzilla was being made for an entirely new audience. I guess he and the writers weren't aware that audiences these days don't want to be teased, they want to see the main attraction, and a lot of it.

This post actually made me sick to my stomach.

[Astro Zombie]

I thought Cloverfield was a great monster movie, don't understand some of the hate it gets.

[Scarface32]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

Was this meant to get a chuckle as well?

No, I'm being serious. Cloverfield was a crap movie.

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

I thought Cloverfield was a great monster movie, don't understand some of the hate it gets.

Probably because of the constant shaky cam. It about made me and the wife nauseous when we saw it in the theater.

[ChristmasFnatic]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

I thought Cloverfield was a great monster movie, don't understand some of the hate it gets.

This. I love it. Sad theres no sequel.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

It worked then but it doesn't work now. Gareth said this Godzilla was being made for an entirely new audience. I guess he and the writers weren't aware that audiences these days don't want to be teased, they want to see the main attraction, and a lot of it.

If the entire movie was Godzilla fighting other monsters, causing mayhem and destruction for two hours, people would hate that, too.

[Astro Zombie]

Originally Posted by HD Goofnut

Probably because of the constant shaky cam. It about made me and the wife nauseous when we saw it in the theater.

Funny, I just realized I've never seen a "found-footage" film in theaters, so I don't know how nauseous I'd get watching it on a big screen (if at all). At home, I have no problem watching it.

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

If the entire movie was Godzilla fighting other monsters, causing mayhem and destruction for two hours, people would hate that, too.

Exactly.

[Zillamon51]

Originally Posted by Underworld54

You're not the only one who feels this way. One cut-away is fine but you start doing it three, four, five times and you're going to start frustrating people and frankly, piss them off.

I thought the first one (cutting from the Hawaii fight to the kid watching it on tv) was actually kinda clever. "Look mom, dinosaurs!" But when they kept doing it later in the film, it got frustrating real quick. Still really enjoyed the movie, though.

[warrian]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

Funny, I just realized I've never seen a "found-footage" film in theaters, so I don't know how nauseous I'd get watching it on a big screen (if at all). At home, I have no problem watching it.

I pretty much make it a rule to only watch found-footage films at home now. Cloverfield was a mess at the theater when I went to see it but I've learned to really like it on home viewings. That was the movie that made me make this a hard and fast rule.

As for Godzilla, I've got a few issues with it, but the amount of screen time for Godzilla is absolutely not one of them. I have a hard time imagining people wanting more fighting monsters then they got, but that said, there has to be something ligit about that criticism because it is quickly becoming the conventional wisdom about this film.