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LOOK IT'S GODZILLA....!
11 years ago
...quick, cut to the ineffectual human characters instead! *facepalm*
So yeah got back a little bit ago from the movies with
marbles to see the new Godzilla movie, and while I did enjoy the movie overall that first line sums up my biggest issue with it. There are so many times when the monsters are finally going to fight that they cut away after the first punch (so to speak) to show whats going on with the humans who, lets be frank, are helpless on lookers who accomplish pretty much nothing and can only look on. Most of the screen time is spent following the main soldier character try to get back home but, predictably, finds himself smack dab in the middle of the action constantly and doesn't really do anything till the very end. His wife and son are of course at ground zero but they are very flat and while they did have some chemistry I didn't feel any connection to them either. If I were to estimate 50% of screen time goes to the humans, 30-40% just the MUTO's (the bad monsters) causing havoc, and the remaining time left for Godzilla to finally do his thing.
Getting to see the monsters rampage is very good and when they finally (that we get to see) square off against Godzilla it is fantastic...sadly there is too little of that and over far too soon. When its good its vey good, but the rest of the time its just meh.
There are a few other plot holes and nitpicks i can make, such as they call Godzilla an apex predator and that he is hunting the the other monsters yet we never see him try to eat them. Or when its established the MUTO cause EMPs why none of the military's equipment seems to be shielded or if so state that the EMP is just that powerful. Or how no one noticed the female MUTO (which is larger than the male one from Japan) growing and bursting out from a mountain repository for nuclear waste until it was well on its way toward Las Vegas. There are more but you get the idea.
The speical effects, the cinematography, the action, and to a lesser extent the acting were good....just too much focus was on the humans story rather than Godzilla for my taste. As i told Marbles on the way home, you don't go to a steak house for the salads. I expected a lot more Godzilla in my Godzilla movie and that was what kept this movie from being something amazing instead of just okay in my book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8fjM6xrFCA
So yeah got back a little bit ago from the movies with
marbles to see the new Godzilla movie, and while I did enjoy the movie overall that first line sums up my biggest issue with it. There are so many times when the monsters are finally going to fight that they cut away after the first punch (so to speak) to show whats going on with the humans who, lets be frank, are helpless on lookers who accomplish pretty much nothing and can only look on. Most of the screen time is spent following the main soldier character try to get back home but, predictably, finds himself smack dab in the middle of the action constantly and doesn't really do anything till the very end. His wife and son are of course at ground zero but they are very flat and while they did have some chemistry I didn't feel any connection to them either. If I were to estimate 50% of screen time goes to the humans, 30-40% just the MUTO's (the bad monsters) causing havoc, and the remaining time left for Godzilla to finally do his thing.Getting to see the monsters rampage is very good and when they finally (that we get to see) square off against Godzilla it is fantastic...sadly there is too little of that and over far too soon. When its good its vey good, but the rest of the time its just meh.
There are a few other plot holes and nitpicks i can make, such as they call Godzilla an apex predator and that he is hunting the the other monsters yet we never see him try to eat them. Or when its established the MUTO cause EMPs why none of the military's equipment seems to be shielded or if so state that the EMP is just that powerful. Or how no one noticed the female MUTO (which is larger than the male one from Japan) growing and bursting out from a mountain repository for nuclear waste until it was well on its way toward Las Vegas. There are more but you get the idea.
The speical effects, the cinematography, the action, and to a lesser extent the acting were good....just too much focus was on the humans story rather than Godzilla for my taste. As i told Marbles on the way home, you don't go to a steak house for the salads. I expected a lot more Godzilla in my Godzilla movie and that was what kept this movie from being something amazing instead of just okay in my book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8fjM6xrFCA
Please just tell me they don't "defeat/kill" Godzilla