Post by Kawaii Kaiju on May 30, 2014 19:38:14 GMT -6
So, I saw Godzilla last week. It was merely okay. I guess I'm glad I saw it on the big screen, but the parts that were big screen worthy were few and far between.
Pros:
Bryan Cranston plays an excellent obsessed widower looking for answers.
Back story information that all nuclear testing done in the 50s was actually efforts to send Godzilla back into the deep.
Godzilla's plasma attack was gorgeous.
Ken Watanabe!
Some beautiful, artistic shots of monsters, or parts of monsters. Like this image right here.
Cons:
Aaron Taylor-Johnson was a terrible lead after they killed off Bryan Cranston. His acting seemed wooden and forced.
Not nearly enough Monster Time.
Apparently all that is needed for reproduction is for a male kaiju to bring food to a female kaiju.
Plot holes, really big plot holes. Plot holes that are big even for a kaiju movie.
The thing that made the movie worse than it really was, and my attempt to come up with something better:
Near the beginning of the movie we see an enormous fossilized spine and rib cage, and a giant egg sack of some sort. Later, Watanabe's character keeps saying that Godzilla is the ultimate predator, and that s/he will restore balance. Oooookay, it's unrealistic, but it's also standard monster movie bad writing. I can let that go. But then, Godzilla comes, kills the two new kaiju, collapses from exhaustion, then wakes up and goes back out into the sea. ARGH! So they are saying that Godzilla swam all the way from Japan to California following these new kaiju, and then just wanted to kill them. Just kill them. Why did Godzilla not eat any of the tasty prey that was just killed?
So my theory is that the initial spine and rib cage we saw belonged to Gozilla's parent. The egg sack was deposited there by the new kaiju's parent. So, Godzilla is tracking and killing these new kaiju in an act of vigilantism. It's a movie about revenge. Godzilla is Batman.
Zilla (who will admit it isn't nearly as terrible as the 1998 Godzilla movie, but that isn't saying much)