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Godzilla Review? Why not!
11 years ago
So I've seen a ton of people posting reviews about the latest installment of Godzilla and I figured I'd post my own little review. I might post a review of the new X-men movie, but why bother, just like every other Marvel movie, then only things I have to say about it are good, so go watch it.
Anyways....
Godzilla, or big green as I affectionately call him, has spawned an entire franchise of giant animal monsters attacking cities. In the furry fandom this seems to have radiated out into a substantial amount of art and stories. An entire section of furry can be called 'macro' because of big green. Now I've never understood how you can turn that into any sexual kink or anything, but the idea of smashing through a city as a giant monster...I've loved that idea ever since I was 5 years old. So if you know anything at all about Godzilla I shouldn't have to explain anymore. Hopefully most of you have seen the orginal Godzilla movies and not just the 1998 abomination where godzilla didn't have a dick and somehow changed her size back and forth through the movie depending on camera angles...
Pros:
1) The Monster - I love the creature design of big green for this movie. Back to the bulky towering figure he used to be instead of some sleek super agile alien newt.
2) The tone - Finally a godzilla movie that was the perfect mix between Horror and Suspense like the old ones. This was not an adventure movie...this was not an action movie. Bad things happened and we couldn't do anything to stop it. The music really captured the emotions of the movie.
3) Sticking to the Classics - The way he rises out of the water and walks, his roar, even his atomic breath. I love that they put all of these into the movie to make me feel like a kid again while I was watching this.
Cons:
1) Undeveloped Characters - I didn't understand why they would spend the first part of the movie introducing a nuclear physist only to kill him off abruptly and have his death serve no other purpose. He didn't do anything heroic, He didn't leave anything behind to help stop the menace. Before he died they just tortured him needlessly with that "fifteen years later" backstory that made him look like a crackpot where he was never really vindicated. The Son in the movie was also given little backstory, where his one useful skill (disarming bombs) was never even used! He spent all the time building up and trying to disarm a bomb in the last moments of the film only to roll over and take a nap at the end instead of completing his mission. LAME.
2) Short Monster Battles - Godzilla is about Monsters fighting. The first half of the movie never even shows two monsters on the screen at once. When you finally get a chance to see them fight in Hawaii, they close a door and cut away to news footage after the event. What the fuck? I wanted to see them fight! They do this several times where you expect to see a really good monster fight and either cut it short or just go to another part of the story. I can understand running multiple plot points simultaneously, but it didn't allow me to ever enjoy the monster battles like I wanted to. Also, it seemed like whenever they actually grappled instead of just slapping and biting each other around, the fight ended four seconds later when Godzilla killed the monster. For the first part of the fight, Godzilla just got knocked around constantly, not really inflicting any damage at all to the other monster, then with his first good move he outright kills it. I wanted more back and forth.
3) Retention of Disbelief - While they got it right with the people's reactions in this movie, they messed up with some of the situations. I liked how the military didn't engage Godzilla unless they got spooked and Godzilla's reaction to the attacks showed that he had some intelligence and didn't want to harm the humans. I didn't like how the monster at the beginning escaped because they were unprepared to stop it. They had 15 years to develop ways to keep it restrained and kill it, but when it actually starts to escape I was wondering where all the artillery and missiles were. Where was the pocket nuke in the bottom of the cocoon? The worst part is at the end of the movie after they explain that the nuke they have is 1000 times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb and when it goes off in the harbor (less than 5 miles from downtown SF) somehow it doesn't destroy the entire city. And people are just walking around the city around a giant monster hours after A FUCKING NUCLEAR BOMB WENT OFF. Ever heard of radiation sickness or nuclear fallout?
All in all, I only had those three things that bugged me, and it wasn't a bad movie. I'd give it a 7 out of 10. I think if you really enjoyed this movie though, you should go back and watch a couple of the 1970s and 1980s Godzilla movies. Just ignore the silly rubber costumes and bad dialogue from translations. If you can let your imagination take over a little bit instead of needing to have computer generated special effects forcefed into your eye holes, I think you'll really enjoy classic Godzilla.
Anyways....
Godzilla, or big green as I affectionately call him, has spawned an entire franchise of giant animal monsters attacking cities. In the furry fandom this seems to have radiated out into a substantial amount of art and stories. An entire section of furry can be called 'macro' because of big green. Now I've never understood how you can turn that into any sexual kink or anything, but the idea of smashing through a city as a giant monster...I've loved that idea ever since I was 5 years old. So if you know anything at all about Godzilla I shouldn't have to explain anymore. Hopefully most of you have seen the orginal Godzilla movies and not just the 1998 abomination where godzilla didn't have a dick and somehow changed her size back and forth through the movie depending on camera angles...
Pros:
1) The Monster - I love the creature design of big green for this movie. Back to the bulky towering figure he used to be instead of some sleek super agile alien newt.
2) The tone - Finally a godzilla movie that was the perfect mix between Horror and Suspense like the old ones. This was not an adventure movie...this was not an action movie. Bad things happened and we couldn't do anything to stop it. The music really captured the emotions of the movie.
3) Sticking to the Classics - The way he rises out of the water and walks, his roar, even his atomic breath. I love that they put all of these into the movie to make me feel like a kid again while I was watching this.
Cons:
1) Undeveloped Characters - I didn't understand why they would spend the first part of the movie introducing a nuclear physist only to kill him off abruptly and have his death serve no other purpose. He didn't do anything heroic, He didn't leave anything behind to help stop the menace. Before he died they just tortured him needlessly with that "fifteen years later" backstory that made him look like a crackpot where he was never really vindicated. The Son in the movie was also given little backstory, where his one useful skill (disarming bombs) was never even used! He spent all the time building up and trying to disarm a bomb in the last moments of the film only to roll over and take a nap at the end instead of completing his mission. LAME.
2) Short Monster Battles - Godzilla is about Monsters fighting. The first half of the movie never even shows two monsters on the screen at once. When you finally get a chance to see them fight in Hawaii, they close a door and cut away to news footage after the event. What the fuck? I wanted to see them fight! They do this several times where you expect to see a really good monster fight and either cut it short or just go to another part of the story. I can understand running multiple plot points simultaneously, but it didn't allow me to ever enjoy the monster battles like I wanted to. Also, it seemed like whenever they actually grappled instead of just slapping and biting each other around, the fight ended four seconds later when Godzilla killed the monster. For the first part of the fight, Godzilla just got knocked around constantly, not really inflicting any damage at all to the other monster, then with his first good move he outright kills it. I wanted more back and forth.
3) Retention of Disbelief - While they got it right with the people's reactions in this movie, they messed up with some of the situations. I liked how the military didn't engage Godzilla unless they got spooked and Godzilla's reaction to the attacks showed that he had some intelligence and didn't want to harm the humans. I didn't like how the monster at the beginning escaped because they were unprepared to stop it. They had 15 years to develop ways to keep it restrained and kill it, but when it actually starts to escape I was wondering where all the artillery and missiles were. Where was the pocket nuke in the bottom of the cocoon? The worst part is at the end of the movie after they explain that the nuke they have is 1000 times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb and when it goes off in the harbor (less than 5 miles from downtown SF) somehow it doesn't destroy the entire city. And people are just walking around the city around a giant monster hours after A FUCKING NUCLEAR BOMB WENT OFF. Ever heard of radiation sickness or nuclear fallout?
All in all, I only had those three things that bugged me, and it wasn't a bad movie. I'd give it a 7 out of 10. I think if you really enjoyed this movie though, you should go back and watch a couple of the 1970s and 1980s Godzilla movies. Just ignore the silly rubber costumes and bad dialogue from translations. If you can let your imagination take over a little bit instead of needing to have computer generated special effects forcefed into your eye holes, I think you'll really enjoy classic Godzilla.
Ketaki
~ketaki
*RAWR SMASH SMASH* Giant lion is giant! *SMASH SMASH*
