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First Reactions To GODZILLA Come Roaring In

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mcz117chief said:
I never saw Pacific Rim, I don't like the robots in that movie, they somehow look weird and un-appealing.
I was thinking more along the lines of the sandworms from Dune: huge, extremely deadly, agressive, almost invisible and very tough but still animals, so a well organized and trained team can take a worm down with little trouble. On the other hand a huge well equiped army could get wiped out by it if they didn't know what to do.



Well, in reality it is still an animal with skin and soft body parts so even a pistol could harm it.
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Godzilla has never been just an animal though. It's always been a symbol for something unstoppable and uncontrollable. Be it a nuclear bomb/war/meltdown, raw forces of nature like volcanos and earthquakes. The point of Godzilla is the creature representing those things humans can not control or endure as a reminder of our place in nature, that our hubris so often causes us to forget. You can't stop a volcano, you can only hope to get out of the way. That's Godzilla.
 
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mcz117chief said:
I never saw Pacific Rim, I don't like the robots in that movie, they somehow look weird and un-appealing.
I was thinking more along the lines of the sandworms from Dune: huge, extremely deadly, agressive, almost invisible and very tough but still animals, so a well organized and trained team can take a worm down with little trouble. On the other hand a huge well equiped army could get wiped out by it if they didn't know what to do.



Well, in reality it is still an animal with skin and soft body parts so even a pistol could harm it.
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Godzilla is a deep water animal, so do you know how dense he must be to deal with the pressure of the deep sea? Having a Glock harm a creature like that would be fucking ridiculous.
 
" In reality it is still an animal with skin and soft body parts so even a pistol could harm it."

Hmm. Go try that with a Grizzly bear. Come back and let us know how it went. :P
 
mcz117chief said:
Well, in reality it is still an animal with skin and soft body parts so even a pistol could harm it.
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How much damage do you think a .009mm slug (1/10,000th the volume and mass of 9mm) from a tiny gun would do to a six-foot lizard man?
 
Retro said:
Godzilla movies are hard to pin to any specific genre because they've been around for 60 years, and in that time they've changed a lot. Godzilla '54 is definitely horror, but in the 60s they were "science fiction with giant monsters", in the 70s there was a lot of "Children's Movie with giant monsters." with some "spy movies with giant monsters" in the middle and towards the end. Godzilla vs. King Kong could even be called "Comedy with giant monsters." It's all over the place and the only distinguishing feature is the "with giant monsters" factor. It's not like other long-running series, like Bond; despite the occasional misstep into sci-fi (Moonraker, most notably) and changes in tone and style (e.g. the more jokey Moore films vs. the darker Dalton movies), they're all definitely spy movies.

You could grab two random Godzilla movies off the shelf and end up with something that plays like an after-school special about bullies (with the same production values as a made for TV movie) where the monsters talk and a spy caper with science fiction elements where the monsters bleed.
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This man here knows what's up. Truth.

I think I'm the anti-comic fan movie fan. Hated Pacific Rim. I'm okay with seeing less Godzilla because frankly, these movies are only effective for me when the reactions of the characters/population have 'the feels'. None of the monster on the monster action of the trailer does anything for me. The reaction of the soldiers to the planes falling from the sky? The choice to go wide while the paratroopers descend on this horrific city? Bryan Cranston's reactions and gravity that he brings? THAT's what's appealing to me. Totally grounds the CG on CG fightfest that becomes inevitable unless there's real drama attached to it.

Man, I hated Pacific Rim. I hope fans got their monster wrestling matches in THAT movie.
 
Here's a new reaction from someone who attended a screening at box office forums.

http://forums.boxoffice.com/index.p...dzilla-for-being-too-fat-no-spoilers/page-350

So I went to attend an early Godzilla screening. The screening was about half full, all adults.

It was delayed by about 45 minutes, because of problems with the projector supposedly, so we all sat around impatiently playing on our smartphones till suddenly the logo came up out of nowhere.

This review is spoiler free, though if you have a question related with the movie's story, PM me or spoiler-tag a question. I won't discuss it openly for obvious reasons.

To start off, the CGI. This is the type of movie you need to see in theater, on big screen. Those Youtube clips and trailers you've been seeing do not do justice at all (I think they were using old footage). The amount of detail on Godzilla was insane (I heard it took months to do the scales apparently) and the other ummm... monsters were also fantastic looking. The visuals looked great for the entire film, I'll definitely rewatch in IMAX, because this was freaking made for the biggest screen. See it on theater if you ever plan on seeing the movie, because I suspect TVs and small computer monitors won't be enough.

The screening was in 2D, so I can't really comment on the 3D.

The soundtrack by Desplat for the movie is pretty good, especially when the Big G makes his appearances. In a way the soundtrack sounded like the human race was contemplating what to do or panicking. I don't remember the OST using the old theme song for the Japanese Godzillas sorry.

The dialogue was good, but now for performances.

Cranston was obviously great as usual. He is pretty convincing lets just say, I don't want to spoil a certain part where he is glorious in his acting. Oslen and Taylor Johnson were surprisingly great. Watanabe was okay, not amazing. The guy who played the admiral, Strathairn was decent enough. If you look at the events from their point of view, lets just say its pretty fascinating and terrifying.

The scale of the movie was amazing. You got a real sense of chaos. Sites of destruction everywhere, where Big G visited. There was CGI over some destroyed areas, but they also used tons of extras and made plenty of destroyed sites, that looked real enough, though maybe it was great CGI. Those poor soldiers unable to do squat.

Was there a perfect amount of Godzilla? Hell yes. I was worried to some extent by the early complaints on twitter there wasn't enough, but they were exaggerating or were expecting a 2 hour monster bash. The human factor is usually the key, but Godzilla in the end, is what makes this movie. Its a joy to see him on big screen, in CGI form, back with the western audiences, not like that Zilla. Godzilla also does atomic breath don't worry.

Criticisms, I do wish they showed more Godzilla anyway. The did a effective job of showing him off and now I want a damn sequel.

Good job Edwards. I personally think he nailed the movie and Godzilla.

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Just a note, this is completely my own opinion. Maybe the mainstream audience won't take it the same way as I did. I'm a big Godzilla fan, so I'm obviously biased.

Looking forward to discussing the story in the RTM thread.

EDIT: 1000th post! Corrected a few mistakes. For criticisms there were a few nitpicky things I want to discuss later, but they weren't disruptive to the plot, its for my own personal amusement.
 
I'm not sure if I want to see this in 3D or not. But the local theater's biggest screen always shows 3D if it's available, and I know this movie will be on that biggest screen.
 
Oh and I just found this. Not sure how accurate this is since I'm pretty sure Trespasser wasn't that big, but the rest seems fine.

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Man, Clover is such a mangled design.

Is that Clash of Titans movie worth a watch just for the Kraken? That's huge.

Oh, thanks Youtube. That was disappointingly short, was expecting a 10 min epic battle.
 
I still can't believe Slattern got wrecked by Striker Eureka, such an anticlimactic finale.
 
Messofanego said:
Man, Clover is such a mangled design.

Is that Clash of Titans movie worth a watch just for the Kraken? That's huge.

Oh, thanks Youtube. That was disappointingly short, was expecting a 10 min epic battle.
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Clash of the Titans is one of the only movies I've ever fallen asleep during in theaters.
 
I never knew the Kraken from CotT had such an interesting design. Then again, I don't remember a damn thing from that movie.

About Slattern, I don't remember him being that big in the movie. He looked hardly larger than Gypsy when they were tanglin.
 
More_Badass said:
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Great shot...but if you stare at it for a while, something about the railing in the bottom makes it look like it's a kid holding a toy close to the camera.

Not a genuine criticism. Just saying, lol.

Cow Mengde said:
Oh and I just found this. Not sure how accurate this is since I'm pretty sure Trespasser wasn't that big, but the rest seems fine.

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Who's a chubby little Gojira! Eating lots of fishies during his cross-sea voyage from Nihon!
 
Cow Mengde said:
Oh and I just found this. Not sure how accurate this is since I'm pretty sure Trespasser wasn't that big, but the rest seems fine.
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Actually...Tresspasser might be too small here, The water depth beneath the golden gate is 372 feet. Godzilla even has a similar scene and it's also a bit out of scale
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No big deal though, wouldn't exactly be exciting if Godzilla was struggling to keep his head above water.
 
Redit AMA from someone who saw the movie: http://www.reddit.com/r/GODZILLA/comments/24nyj3/soi_just_came_back_from_a_screening_of_godzilla/

[–]gzillathrowaway 4 points 14 hours ago

Without spoiling too much, the fight between Big G and the MUTOs is pretty epic right? I am just sort of afraid of a out of nowhere victory, in the sense that Godzilla gets beaten down pretty hard and in the last second pulls out the win, It's a pet peeve to see something so powerful pull out a lucky win instead of being so dominating

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[–]r_antrobus 5 points 13 hours ago

Believe me, it's everything that you want.
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[–]that_guy2010 21 points 15 hours ago

How much screen time did Godzilla actually get?

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[–]r_antrobus 32 points 15 hours ago*

Plenty of screen time. Those journalists might have underestimated American audiences...(Well, the same audiences did give Grown Ups 2 a 100 million dollar opening....)
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ffejeromdiks said:
Actually...Tresspasser might be too small here, The water depth beneath the golden gate is 372 feet. Godzilla even has a similar scene and it's also a bit out of scale
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Apparently, the numbers are accurate and Trespasser length was provided by Legendary. That threw me off cause I thought they would get progressively bigger. Trespasser was the odd one out.

I'm also surprised by how big GINO was. I thought he was closer to Karloff in height.

Messofanego said:
Is that Clash of Titans movie worth a watch just for the Kraken? That's huge.

Oh, thanks Youtube. That was disappointingly short, was expecting a 10 min epic battle.
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I was just about the ask what movie Karken was from. Thanks for the link.
 
Can't believe there are people complaining about the size of Godzilla. He actually looks formidable unlike many versions of him including most Japanese versions of Godzilla.
 
So the new Godzilla will be something else then mindless slaughter of people, there will be another monster which the Godzilla will fight ? If true, I will want to see that movie.
 
Cow Mengde said:
Oh and I just found this. Not sure how accurate this is since I'm pretty sure Trespasser wasn't that big, but the rest seems fine.

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This is awesome! But I'm not sure how accurate it is. I'm don't recall Slattern or GINO being that big.

What movies are these from besides Pacific Rim, Cloverfield, the two Godzillas, and Clash of the Titans?
 
tycoonheart said:
Its gonna take a lot to beat the classic 98 version.
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LOL, no kidding ;-)

I always thought the 98' version looked like his skull developed upside down. For some reason reminded me of Pete Puma or former Steelers hed coach Bill Cowher if he were a giant lizzard.

The Kraken in the 2010 COTT is badass, and the only decent thing about that movie. Too bad it shows up for all of 30 seconds or thereabouts.
 
What happened to the guy who said he was gonna see it last night and post his thoughts?

Also idgaf how big the monster is if the scene it comes out in sucks sooooo..
 
Just got out and...it was good! Intense from the start and effectively builds and builds. Edwards does a great job holding things back until the finale. Some of the character stuff is rushed and Sally Hawkins and Ken Watanabe are useless, but it's a lot of fun.

More to come.
 
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