Godzilla (2014)

FortuneChip

T-Bird wrote: »

Dammit! I was looking forward to this, and am never going to see it now....

To be fair, the intro credit scene is brilliant. And I don't mean that sarcastically.

It's pure old school, and the music has a quality 60's/70's disaster movie feel to it. Pity it's only about 5 minutes long.

cloud493

I only just realised, its the same guy from kick ass :eek:
Good film though. Not the best I've seen this year, not the worst. Solid 7/10.

Fysh

FortuneChip wrote: »

To be fair, the intro credit scene is brilliant. And I don't mean that sarcastically.

It's pure old school, and the music has a quality 60's/70's disaster movie feel to it. Pity it's only about 5 minutes long.

Yeah, I really liked them too - particularly liked the way there was extra text in each credit block that was quickly 'redacted'. Lots of little hints at background information relevant to the film there too, which is something I like in good credit scenes - makes them feel more like part of the film.

Omackeral

bootybouncer wrote: »

Desperately disappointing, 3D not needed at all, breaking bads son was a major douche and I was hoping GODZILLA was going to ate him....................infact I wish he ate the whole cast

I honestly thought he and Godzilla were going to salute each other at one stage. Awfully unlikeable and wooden character.

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

Corholio wrote: »

Haven't seen it yet but kudos to RTE for their tagline from their website review

'G-Funk Terror, locked up with a monster twist'

Superb :pac:

Classic

By showing I got the reference, I've just revealed how old I am though, haven't I

Lovebeat

I watched the movie yesterday and I didn't think it was that bad as most of you are saying..
I believe it was a movie worth watching in the cinema.. As watching it in 3D made it even more exciting!

Skerries

Fysh wrote: »

Yeah, I really liked them too - particularly liked the way there was extra text in each credit block that was quickly 'redacted'. .

here is what the redacted text says

http://badassdigest.com/2014/05/16/badass-exclusive-the-redacted-secrets-from-godzillas-credits/

Looper007

First of I enjoyed it a lot, it's not perfect but it's nowhere near as bad as many on here are moaning about. Maybe expectations were high cause of the trailer but it did everything it said on the tin for a summer blockbuster.

But my biggest gripe was it wasting of a amazing cast, Bryan Cranston, the best thing in it and did the best with what he had

what a waste in killing him off so early he would have made a interesting take on a hero instead of a army guy, they could have done it near the end

, Elizabeth Olsen as the wife has a totally nothing role, she must have been paid some money to take this role. Sally Hawkins too deserves better, she must have done this for money. Ken Watanabe and David Strathairn did well with what they were given. But the biggest waste was Juliette Binoche

a total nothing role as Cranston's wife, she put her heart into it and thanks to both actors her death was one of the more effective scenes in the film

. Aaron Taylor Johnson isn't action hero material but he did ok job.

The fight scenes with Godzilla were awesome

I didn't know Godzilla was the hero, that was the biggest shock to me

. I got to admit everything up to

Cranston's death

was pretty gripping and it would have been an interesting movie If they stuck to that route and had the last half hour with Godzilla bashing things to keep the Blockbuster fan's happy, But overall it was a good solid summer blockbuster.

razorblunt

I went in with low expectations and must say I enjoyed it, seriously impressive sequences and shots in it.

expectationlost

saw it today, the big question as what was godzilla motivation?

balance

my bro said, no that's that

nature's

to be king

then he said, ah that's it but

does he just kill every other creature that appears?

StaticAge11

Sequel already confirmed! I am delighted!

Deco99

mike65 wrote: »

Ah one of the big flops of 2014, you read it here first.

FAIL

Meirleach

Seen it in 3D....Really dissapointed. The movie felt super long for some reason, and I liked Pacific Rim!

Ipso

expectationlost wrote: »

saw it today, the big question as what was godzilla motivation?

balance

my bro said, no that's that

nature's

to be king

then he said, ah that's it but

does he just kill every other creature that appears?

Spoilers ahoy.
I think his motivation may be that the MUTOs start as some kind of parasite on Godzilla's species.

expectationlost

Ipso wrote: »

Spoilers ahoy.

I think his motivation may be that the MUTOs start as some kind of parasite on Godzilla's species.

oh right forgot about them, so his motivation is

defense of himself if he doesn't stop em breeding he'll have a whole lot of parasites after him, why do the parasites choose to bury themselves in one of his kind?, does he emanate nuclear power? he can obviousy generate 'electrical power' which seems to hurt them

Nuri Sahin

StaticAge11 wrote: »

Sequel already confirmed! I am delighted!

Has Edwards committed to the sequel? If he has, I'm sure he'll take in a lot of the feedback and implement it into the sequel.

I_p_freely

***lots of spoilers***
Saw it tonight, went in with low expectations and I was entertained. Not the greatest film ever but it was decent. There are a LOT of gaps in the story and its very cheesy and pro America - the MOTU first appears in Japan and guess whose navy comes in to take control of the situation first? The Japanese navy? Of course not! Why would you think that? America's navy, of course! Also, the MOTU spends 15 years feeding off a nuclear power plant in Japan (where they all speak English), and the authorities don't think to consult the physicist who witnessed the first MOTU attack on power plant which he is a top engineer and has vital information, until he is dead?! Also - "Cranston's" son is at every significant moment in the film at perfect moment in the perfect place to witness what happens and to save the day. Even though that entails travelling thousands of miles and from Japan to Hawaii to Nevada to San Francisco, hitch-hiking lifts from the navy along the way.
And they fly a nuclear warhead directly over San Francisco attached to a helicopter by 2 straps?! Surely that's a health and safety no-no!
Anyway, even though there are all those massive gaps, and the poor acting, and the sometimes hammy script, I actually enjoyed the fact that the story builds up fairly slowly and you only get teasers of the monsters until well into the film. And overall it was better than most CGI laden summer blockbusters which generally have no stories.

heebusjeebus

expectationlost wrote: »

oh right forgot about them, so his motivation is

defense of himself if he doesn't stop em breeding he'll have a whole lot of parasites after him, why do the parasites choose to bury themselves in one of his kind?, does he emanate nuclear power? he can obviousy generate 'electrical power' which seems to hurt them

I'ts not

electrical power

he generates, it's

atomic breath

.

LuckyLloyd

Bullet point review:

- GOAT opening credits. Seriously;
- Dum, dum, do, do, do just waiting for these standard emotional set up scenes to end;
- Bam! A monster, awesome;
- Get on with the next action scene already;
- GODZILLA!! Yay!;
- Jaysus the acting (Godzilla excepted) is dreadful isn't it;
- lol, that's stupid!;
- Godzilla! Woo!;
- Really? No, why would anyone do that? That's dumb??!!;
- lol, how would you know that? Christ;
- OH MY GOD THE ACTING;
- Godzilla again, he's cool;
- Don't care, don't care, don't care;
- Godzilla;
- End, emotional blah, blah (jaysus, the acting);
- Oh, okay there will be a sequel;
- Meh;

constitutionus

wasnt for me im afraid.

found the first half fecking boring.

i thought they did a good job equating the monsters to forces of nature , and i cant fault the visuals at all. but there was an annoying amount of "ooh look at the fight ya want, but were not showing ya it".

i know that was teasing for the smack down at the end but i found what was being concentrated on then instead tedious. i have to agree with the switch to the son being a major flaw.

the bloke isnt leading man material and i found him a complete charisma vacuum. certainly after having to follow cranston who i woudve preferred to be the focal point for the whole film.

i wouldnt advise people not to see it or anything , i just left the cinema completly nonplussed about it. "meh" being the prevailing sentiment it left me with.

TBH i reckon you could quite happily walk into it a good hour into it and enjoy it more.

a disappointing 5/10 from me. pity as i was really looking forward to it. im glad its getting a sequel though.

Mal-Adjusted

To be honest, I think a sequel should drop A.T.J and family, maybe even downplay the military entirely and focus on a new group of characters. Maybe keep Ken Watanabe around but give him something to do.

Kunkka

Worst movie I've ever seen. From about halfway I just laughed the rest of the way through. The acting was absolutely ****ing hilarious. The Japanese guy with his love for Godzilla had me in tears laughing. I was just waiting for him to come out with " Don't kill him he's my friend"

Looper007

Kunkka wrote: »

Worst movie I've ever seen.

oh come on, that's a bit OTT. There have been worse blockbusters

Kunkka

Looper007 wrote: »

oh come on, that's a bit OTT. There have been worse blockbusters

No honestly I thought it was that bad.

Deano7788

This is pretty much how I felt every time they teased Godzilla or a fight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nVk25ZvTkU

It got really irritating, once you'd say ok but to do it repeatedly in a movie called Godzilla was a bit much.

It's not like I actually was made care about the human cast once the 1st hour was over, so every time they cut away from Godzilla about to fight to essentially nothing was annoying.

I don't understand the hate that Godzilla is getting. A lot of people are saying that it is closer to the very first cut of the original Godzilla movie than any of the sequels, so you have to admire Edwards for trying to get the franchise back to its roots.

Looper007

Kunkka wrote: »

No honestly I thought it was that bad.

I think it's a little dramatic, it's not great but it's not as bad as many of you want to paint it as. There are some great things in it but the creative team behind it I think let it down by instead of doing a downbeat but interesting blockbuster instead chickened out and during the second and third act went all Hollywood by the numbers blockbuster on it.

It's decent but not awful or god it's the worst film ever. But you are entitled to a opinion so I shouldn't shout you down :pac:

Looper007

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't understand the hate that Godzilla is getting. A lot of people are saying that it is closer to the very first cut of the original Godzilla movie than any of the sequels, so you have to admire Edwards for trying to get the franchise back to its roots.

I think Edwards wasn't totally in control of this somehow, I think the money men were in his ears. I think it's a decent but hugely flawed film. I think they should have

made Cranston the hero instead of killing him off early for Aaron Taylor Johnson Army guy to take over, would have been nice to go agaisn't the grain

they should have cut out Elizabeth Olsen's Wife and the son character really it had no place in the story and wouldn't have made any difference, maybe made Ken Watanabe more of a

Shadier character

. I think the film needed more of darker spin on it, having

Cranston as the heart of the film

would have made it a more interesting film.

maximoose

Looper007 wrote: »

It's decent but not awful or god it's the worst film ever. But you are entitled to a opinion so I shouldn't shout you down :pac:

I don't think it was the worst film ever, but I don't think awful is too harsh a term.

I can't remember the last time I was in the cinema where the audience collectively groaned, sighed and laughed (not in a positive way) as much as during this film.

StaticAge11

I thought the cut away from the airport fight was such a brilliant tease, as we were all hyped up for the on coming fight and seeing it partially through a news report I felt was a funny tease for the finale fight.

Looper007

StaticAge11 wrote: »

I thought the cut away from the airport fight was such a brilliant tease, as we were all hyped up for the on coming fight and seeing it partially through a news report I felt was a funny tease for the finale fight.

they did it two or three times though. the cut away's.

Looper007

maximoose wrote: »

I don't think it was the worst film ever, but I don't think awful is too harsh a term.

I can't remember the last time I was in the cinema where the audience collectively groaned, sighed and laughed (not in a positive way) as much as during this film.

I love how people like to add that people in the audience did this and that, did you go the people and ask them how they felt . I'm not been rude and I apologise if I think I am. But Judge the movie on you're terms, you thought it was awful.

It's not awful though, it's a decent two hour watch a bit like Amazing Spiderman 2 was decent nothing too bad. But I think maybe people had so many expectations in their head that it's bound to disappoint. I really worry what this forum will think when Interstellar doesn't live up to it's trailer.

I'm in the Godzilla was decent camp. I think the hate for it is a little OTT.

maximoose

Well the general reaction I was getting from the crowd as we left the cinema overhearing other people's conversations (was in screen 17 in Cineworld so there's a mass of people slowly making their way down 3 floors!) was largely negative.

e_e

Some guy a few seats down from me threw up his arms and shook his head when

Cranston died.

I think we both had that sinking feeling of the film being on shaky ground (no pun intended) from then on. It's a bizarre screen-writing decision and feels like they gave up 40 minutes in and thought "Let's replace the most human connection people will have to the movie and turn it into Call of Duty: Lizard Warfare."

Banjaxed82

e_e wrote: »

Some guy a few seats down from me threw up his arms and shook his head when

Cranston died.

I think we both had that sinking feeling of the film being on shaky ground (no pun intended) from then on. It's a bizarre screen-writing decision and feels like they gave up 40 minutes in and thought "Let's replace the most human connection people will have to the movie and turn it into Call of Duty: Lizard Warfare."

Cranston's death

seems like something that was forced on the makers for whatever reason. What good reason is there to

knock him off that soon?

I could understand

him croaking it at the usual "mentor" death scene prior to the 3rd act, but this early made no sense.

lolosaur

this film is essentially a 2 hour long ode to a cock-blocking iguana.

still sat on the fence about it.

Looper007

e_e wrote: »

Some guy a few seats down from me threw up his arms and shook his head when

Cranston died.

I think we both had that sinking feeling of the film being on shaky ground (no pun intended) from then on. It's a bizarre screen-writing decision and feels like they gave up 40 minutes in and thought "Let's replace the most human connection people will have to the movie and turn it into Call of Duty: Lizard Warfare."

awful mistake I agree.

Cranston should have been the lead

would have gave it more heart.

expectationlost

Banjaxed82 wrote: »

Cranston's death

seems like something that was forced on the makers for whatever reason. What good reason is there to

knock him off that soon?

I could understand

him croaking it at the usual "mentor" death scene prior to the 3rd act, but this early made no sense.

they constantly looking for reasons to have his son in the room

but was it fair enough he had half figured out what happened to his wife

bootybouncer

Looper007 wrote: »

awful mistake I agree.

Cranston should have been the lead

would have gave it more heart.

I agree the son just looked like a young tom hardy who was dying to lay a turd

tunguska

lolosaur wrote: »

this film is essentially a 2 hour long ode to a cock-blocking iguana.

still sat on the fence about it.

Thats it in a nutshell.......I dont really know what to make of this, seemed to go on for a long time and I think the plot was so simple it actually confused me???
Much ado about nothing really.
4/10

expectationlost

heebusjeebus wrote: »

I'ts not

electrical power

he generates, it's

atomic breath

.

oh so godzilla

does generate nuclear power, but i thought he could convert to straight electrical power out his mouth, but i see 'atomic breath' is a thing, was the did the wires around the muto at the start have power running through them.

um can we go for spoiler talk mods pls ta

Looper007

bootybouncer wrote: »

I agree the son just looked like a young tom hardy who was dying to lay a turd

Yet Hardy is one of the best actors of his Generation while Aaron Taylor Johnson still looks like he should be in secondary school and acts like it.

This film is really a down the middle splitter isn't it. Some really hate it and some enjoyed it.

Jelle1880

Just back.

Apart from Cranston who at least tried (Ken Watanabe, I am disappoint) and Godzilla who finally is Godzilla again: What a piece of crap.

The last half hour kind of managed to keep me interested due to, well... Godzilla being awesome but everything else ? Cliché, but not the good kind.

Characters you don't care about, a storyline that is pathetic,...

The only top marks go to the director and the way he brought the massive destruction into view without losing the focus (Transformers, eat your heart out).

Thargor

Am I being an idiot with their horrible website or is this not in the Dublin IMAX?

KillerShamrock

Just back from this myself will try not to spoil it.

I liked it. It had flaws

and was mis-titled it should of been called m.u.t.o seen as they got more screen time that the big man

didn't like the lead or his story far to clichéd too many moments of convenience for them both other than that the "fight scenes"were good and the effects top notch worth a watch indeed

Basq

Thargor wrote: »

Am I being an idiot with their horrible website or is this not in the Dublin IMAX?

Seems to be..

I am a godzilla fan , i have all the movies etc... But if i had to sit down and choose to watch Cloverfield or Godzilla , i would choose cloverfield. That Depresses me , it has no re-watch value at all despite the ending.

the teasing of the fights pissed me off because quite frankly that is what i paid my money for. The Godzilla defeated the other monster a little too easily which made me think, why didnt he do that in the first place.

Also something else the film lacked was that anticipation of the monsters coming to the city. The Build up with the sirens going off. For some reason that just didnt grip me like it does in the other movies.

Godzilla himself looked good though, its the only good part of the movie. Unfortunately that's the only part that's lacking.

Tar.Aldarion

he did do that in the first place, he just was crushing it until the second one attacked at the same time.

I wish the whole film had been like the first 10 minutes, with come actual story and acting. The main character may as well have been an inanimate carbon rod.
Enjoyable enough affair, didn't expect anything more.

ktulu123

Saw it this evening, thought it was class Love me some huge monster movies

Fysh

This Multiplex comic is one of the funnier comments on whether the film features enough Godzilla.