Godzilla Spoilerish Review

[Bruce Banner]

Apparently, Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah may appear in the sequel (also to be directed by Gareth Edwards).

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/68173

[Godzilla]

Holy Crap! I need that Cup!

[samurainoir]

[Random Axe]

Just saw this today and I really liked it. Sure there were some plodding human moments, but I knew I was going to get sucked in by the opening sequence with the top secret 50's footage montage. My wife liked it as well, so that's a plus. Great designs and effects. I was thoroughly entertained despite some gaping plotholes. I prefer not to linger on those but rather praise the overall product, which was very good.

[Gorn Captain]

Well, it seemed to me that using the breath, took quite a bit out of him. Hence the reason he collapsed after the fight was over. I assume it uses up the energy that actually keeps him moving and alive. (he does feed off radiation, so using radioactive breath attacks has to burn up some of his energy stores.)

Hey, that makes a lot of sense. I was wondering why he collapsed so quickly.

[tay666]

Why did Godzilla wait so long to shoot his Atomic breath?

Well, it seemed to me that using the breath, took quite a bit out of him. Hence the reason he collapsed after the fight was over. I assume it uses up the energy that actually keeps him moving and alive. (he does feed off radiation, so using radioactive breath attacks has to burn up some of his energy stores.)

Why were they hauling nuclear bombs via train when they had helicopters that could carry them?

Because the choppers would drop from the skies when the MUTOs used their EMP bursts. Then they would have been screwed.

[4NDR01D]

I really liked parts, but thought it was too slow and had poor characters (aside from Brian Cranstons character that lasted all of 1/2 hour). If I could take what I liked from Cloverfield, Pacific Rim and the new Godzilla, I think I'd have a perfect movie.

[Gorn Captain]

SPOILER!



They should put a commercial at the end.

You see Godzilla, floored on his belly in the ruined city.
Then the voice-over comes on:
"Tired? No energy? After swimming 5,000 miles and fighting Kaiju for hours, you need Monster Force, the new energy drink! Before you know it, you'll be kicking monster butt all night long!"

"Bad case of monster breath? Does your partner's head fall off when you breathe on her? Kaiju Minty Fresh will take care of all that and more!"

[Hector]

Quadruple agreed!

[Gorn Captain]

Cloverfield the best Godzilla movie ever?



Please, that overgrown squid was laughable, hated that "done-that-before" annoying hand-held camera shaking shooting (so Blair Witch Project cliche), and every single inept actor in that flick was obnoxious as shiat, lol.

Agreed, agreed and agreed!

[Gorn Captain]

SPOILERS!!!!!!

I liked it, but as most say here, "too much human drama, not enough Kaiju combat".
It's a slow movie, and it takes forever to see Big G kick butt. Every time a fight seems imminent, they cut to "human drama".
The creatures remind me of a mix of Gyaos and Legion from Gamera, but I did like them. It's hard to come up with an exciting new monster concept these days (btw, hated Cloverfield and everything in it).
I loved all the nods to Classic G, it's done very respectfully.
I had thought Godzilla would look big and clumsy (too beefy), but I liked it a lot! He looks big and bad and ready for action.
He does tire easily, though. I mean, he fights the creatures and just collapses afterwards. Come on, Big G can take more than that! He hardly broke a sweat...

It all seems like a prelude to the real Godzilla movie, where hopefully we'll see a big monster fight, in broad daylight, and if possible all through the movie.
Make it so!

[Hector]

Cloverfield the best Godzilla movie ever?



Please, that overgrown squid was laughable, hated that "done-that-before" annoying hand-held camera shaking shooting (so Blair Witch Project cliche), and every single inept actor in that flick was obnoxious as shiat, lol.

Just saw Godzilla today, and it was friggin' awesome.

That's all I'm saying...not remotely interested in discussing, or trying to convince the haters otherwise, only my own opinion counts to me, and I enjoyed it, lol.

[hedrap]

Cloverfield is light years ahead of this one as far as story telling, creativity, and pacing is concerned. Godzilla fans don't want to hear it because it's technically not Godzilla, but Cloverfield is the best Godzilla movie ever.

No, it just shows you don't know what makes a kaiju film different from a monster movie. There's a reason Kaiju Eiga has survived for decades while the Atomic Monster movies of the same time didn't make it out of the fifties as a sustainable genre, and now only sporadically surface as like Cloverfield.

[spacecaps]

Cloverfield is light years ahead of this one as far as story telling, creativity, and pacing is concerned. Godzilla fans don't want to hear it because it's technically not Godzilla, but Cloverfield is the best Godzilla movie ever.

[drquest]

I saw it Saturday night with my 15 year old daughter and her friend. I liked it ok, was a little disappointed in it I guess. The human stuff got in the way of what I really wanted to see. It was also annoying that the first half of the movie was pretty absent of monsters. I enjoyed Bryan Cranston a lot, but he left way too early in the movie and left such a hole that the writers I guess had to keep throwing his son and daughter in law in every few minutes if the audiences wanted to see them or not.

Why did Godzilla wait so long to shoot his Atomic breath? Why was his head so small compared to his body? Why were they hauling nuclear bombs via train when they had helicopters that could carry them? Why were the monster's so attracted to such a small amount of radiation from the Atomic Bombs that were shielded to not allow radiation to leak?

I could go on, but I feel it could have been a lot better.