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In a movie with a giant radioactive dinosaur that can breathe fire fighting two ancient insect monsters, you're complaining about how a tsunami is moving too fast and using this as a basis to say the movie isn't realistic?

I dont know either way whether the water is moving too fast or not, but I always hate this argument.

You might as well say that Bryan Cranston should have a flying car, wear a clown costume and be 8 feet tall with six arms, because if the movie is already about a giant unrealistic dinosaur, all standards for realism are void.

Obviously the movie is going for a certain tone and it's valid to point out things that seem unrealistic within the confines of the movie's established universe.

The audience reaction reminded me of that Zelda E3 video.

So what you're saying is that when the movie comes out, we will discover that they scrapped the whole thing and made a pixar animated film instead.
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Watched it. Liked it.

I don't think the dog made it. :( Or all those people for that matter.

I do like how Godzilla just doesn't give a fuck about anything going on around him except the other monster. He just keeps walking as they fire at him as it probably does nothing at all.

I rolled my eyes a bit with the kid on the monorail, but it wasn't overbearing at least.

The monster does give off a bit of a Cloverfield vibe.

I do love seeing these clips from cons, if only for the crowd reaction.
 
Saw the footage yesterday before it went down.

Looks great I think.
Sure, running dog, kid, etc., but having read the GAF comments before watching it I really was expecting Emmerich "Happy 4th of July daddy!" levels of shit.
I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't that extreme in its cheesiness.

I'm pumped.
That intro to Godzilla at the end of the clip. Holy shit!
 
I'm guessing based off of the toy designs, that he drags his tail behind him/her as well right? How does Godzilla keep from falling over?

you know how a bear stands but cannot walk?

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imagine a bear were given a humongous tail, now its well balanced

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thats really what this animal is IMO, a bigass gator-bear with elephant feet
 
Incase any Canadians in this threat want to see it on the 15th of may. Cineplex has pre sale up. I got my ticket, can't wait May 15th 7pm!
 
I do agree with those who don't like the feet/legs. The new Godzilla design takes animal elements from all over, so he's got the feet of an elephant/Apatosaurus, the head of a grizzly bear, and the tail of a lizard. Don't even know yet what his arms are supposed to be modeled from. So you take all those disparate elements and marry them together into one creation and you get a chimera. Now, Godzilla has always been a sort of chimera, since he's basically an old school T-Rex combined with a Stegosaurus. But those two dinosaurs combine together more naturally than the new one, which uses a more varied palette. Personally, I think the old designs had a more cohesive appearance because of this, but the new one's not bad, especially compared to what we got in 1998.
 
Regardless of how the feet look aesthetically, they definitely look like they were made for stomping shit. If they were more reptilian, it wouldn't seem feasible for it to be walking upright, carrying all that weight. Maybe bigger claws could have made it more visually appealing?
 
I've talked this flick up to a few of my friends to go see opening day.

I hope it turns out good.
The last time I remember getting a bunch of people hyped for a film was Alien: Resurrection.
That was a quiet, uncomfortable post-movie experience right there. Doh!
 
Regardless of how the feet look aesthetically, they definitely look like they were made for stomping shit. If they were more reptilian, it wouldn't seem feasible for it to be walking upright, carrying all that weight. Maybe bigger claws could have made it more visually appealing?

There's really nothing feasible about a 300 foot tall monster with a nuclear reactor for a heart and atomic breath.
 
The one that people went crazy for was the Twilight Princess trailer, partly because of the cartoony Wind Waker that came out previously.

I was thinking of the time before that when everyone went crazy for the realistic Zelda game trailer that got changed to cell shading and cartoony style later during production.
 
I dont know either way whether the water is moving too fast or not, but I always hate this argument.

You might as well say that Bryan Cranston should have a flying car, wear a clown costume and be 8 feet tall with six arms, because if the movie is already about a giant unrealistic dinosaur, all standards for realism are void.

Obviously the movie is going for a certain tone and it's valid to point out things that seem unrealistic within the confines of the movie's established universe.

Normally, I don't jump to that argument. But it just seems so nitpicky to complain about the water moving realistically in a movie like this. You hit the nail on the head -- the movie is going for a specific tone. An 8 foot tall Bryan Cranston sporting a clown costume while driving a flying car does not fit with the tone of the movie.

The movie takes certain -- liberties -- with reality. First and foremost, there's a 300 foot tall radioactive dinosaur breathing fire walking around. His design alone -- excluding the obvious size and radioactive nature -- is completely unrealistic. Then you can nitpick how something like that could possibly be hidden from the public for 60 years. Then you could really nitpick how the main scientist who's doing all of the hell raising about him just happens to have a son who just happens to be one of the soldiers trying to fight Godzilla.

Suspension of belief has to begin at some point. Nitpicking how fast a tsunami is moving is on the extreme end.
 
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