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Godzilla Movies

And will keep the larvae Mothra quiet by munching on your cardigan!
 
A friend of mine got some Godzilla manga for Christmas, featuring unfilmed scripts they turned into comics. He says some of them are basically porn, with Big G gettin' it on with the laydeez. The mind boggles. Actually, the scale difference boggles.
 
Saw Godzilla at the movies this afternoon! Loved the battle scenes!
 
I thought the last film so appallingly bad I've little hope for this one, but the trailers do look good.
 
It's a good movie, but if you want something like Cassablanca or Citizen Kane, then watch those movies instead...
 
PeteByrdie said:
I thought the last film so appallingly bad I've little hope for this one...
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Ditto. I was really looking forward to the first one, big budget, good cast, etc, the first few minutes were promising... then it just became a lacklustre succession of paceless monstery wallopings.
 
stu neville said:
Ditto. I was really looking forward to the first one, big budget, good cast, etc, the first few minutes were promising... then it just became a lacklustre succession of paceless monstery wallopings.
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Just what were you expecting from a movie involving giant monsters?! Gone With The Wind?!
 
stu neville said:
Ditto. I was really looking forward to the first one, big budget, good cast, etc, the first few minutes were promising... then it just became a lacklustre succession of paceless monstery wallopings.
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Which one? The US Godzilla (2014)? There were very few monster-y wallopings, which was fine (best to use them sparingly) but outside of Brian Cranston the main characters were dull as was the story.
 
Tigerhawk said:
Just what were you expecting from a movie involving giant monsters?! Gone With The Wind?!
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Basic characterisation and storytelling shouldn't be restricted to traditional drama. In contrast, I greatly enjoyed Kong: Skull Island.
 
Tigerhawk said:
Just what were you expecting from a movie involving giant monsters?! Gone With The Wind?!
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Pace. Compare it with the 1998 one (or Cloverfield, come to that.) It just lumbered about.
Ogdred Weary said:
Which one? The US Godzilla (2014)? There were very few monster-y wallopings, which was fine (best to use them sparingly) but outside of Brian Cranston the main characters were dull as was the story.
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Yes, that one - this is what I mean though, the succession of monstery wallopings were ok, but that's all that was worth paying any attention to. Everything else in the film felt like a time-filling intermission.
 
stu neville said:
Pace. Compare it with the 1998 one (or Cloverfield, come to that.) It just lumbered about.

Yes, that one - this is what I mean though, the succession of monstery wallopings were ok, but that's all that was worth paying any attention to. Everything else in the film felt like a time-filling intermission.
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I also liked Cranston's character and the plot around him, he and the monsters were all that was worth bothering about. Hollywood has to shoe in a good looking couple and some romance and family shit, all of which was badly executed.

The 1998 may have been fatsre paced but it was execrable, cartoony in a bad way.

I don't know that there's a good way to do a $200mil Kaiju movie, given the commercial constraints. The monsters are often the only compelling parts and it's easy to overdo them - look at Pacific Rim. I fear the new Godzilla will go down the same path, will hopefully see it in the week.
 
Mythopoeika said:
It was also lots of fun!
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Yeah, I've got no particular problem with the 1998 Godzilla movie. It wasn't Godzilla, but I enjoyed the creature design all the same. I liked the characters and humour and action. It's a much maligned movie, but as a movie in its own right, rather than an attempt by Hollywood to claim Godzilla, I find it a great fun kaiju movie, and far more watchable than the soulless attempt from a few of years ago.
 
Mythopoeika said:
It was also lots of fun!
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You know you like it.
Go on, go on, go on...
 
Humble apologies...
 
Will it help or hinder to say I liked the 98 Godzilla too? Maria Pitillo probably wishes it never happened, mind you.

What puts me off this new one is the reports that to make it look "serious" most of the battles are filmed in semidarkness. Didn't have that problem when Toho were calling the shots.
 
Godziller: Kong of Munsters, I went in with medium to low expectations after seeing the critical consensus, previously my expectations were medium; however I was pleasantly surprised. It's better than the previous film and it zips along for the first two acts or so, things really begin to drag in the third. I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT STUPID FUCKING HUMANS AND THEIR "FAMILIES" OR WHATEVER, I JUST WANT TO SEE HOT MONSTER ON MONSTER ACTION.

It mostly goes through the usual motions and ticks off various cliches, many of the exposition dripping lines are hilariously clunky. Virtually all the monster scenes and certainly all the fights take place in semi-darkness, clouded in a mixture of fog, dust, mist, rain and snow which is presumably to cover up where they've scrimped on CGI, which was noticeably poor in places. I mostly don't care about plot but the whole "Titans bringing balance to Earth" thing doesn't make much sense and whichever Baldwin is in the film basically knows how to do anything and everything, despite not being part of Monarch (the monster managing govt dept), let's call him "Mary Sue."

It's implied that Godzilla is boning which Mothra, which is hilarious, especially considering she's only just hatched and metamorphosed. It mostly had the action right until the final fight, which drags as I said before and is just to big, loud and long. I don't know how the hell they are going to top this with Kong v 'Zilla next year, firstly as Kong is just adorable and unthreatening and frankly if they make it any more action heavy it's just going to be overkill.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHH and a MONSTER FAP out of 10.
 
Guys, they're movies for children up to teenagers.. The effects are the thing. Once you've got used to them, what else is there? CGI fights get boring pretty quickly.
 
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