Godzilla (2014)

I hope they throw a lot of soldiers and light armor at Godzilla for 90 minutes at least before they consider a small tactical nuclear weapon.
 
Interesting mini-review on the trailer and the state of monster films in general.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/345610.php

And I don't care about Godzilla at all. I'm not a child. I don't care about giant monsters knocking about cities. I've seen this before.In the last ten years, I've seen this kind of thing about 35 times now.

But what I am interested in -- and I'm slightly hopeful for this movie, based upon the trailer -- is that at least one more movie might possibly make me say "Gee whiz" or even "Wow" one more time in my life.

At least someone is thinking. That's a good thing.
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Love the use of the Ligeti piece Kubrick used in 2001. Good trailer. Nothing I haven't seen a million times already, but that applies to just about every movie Hollywood puts out these days.
 
I know a lot of people want to see different things from this movie. What I"d like is the main plot is about, the main character is....Godzilla! then I want a sub plot about the people affected by Godzilla. I don't want 80% love story and 20% Godzilla.
 
+100. I grew up on Godzilla. Well, not literally, I mean, you'd probably need a big saddle to do that literally, but ... when I was a kid, Godzilla was a hero, not a monster. Yes he was a "monster" in the vey first film, but after that they got the formula right and he became a lizardy Han Solo, an anti-hero who got dragged into conflicts he didn't want and didn't ask for but when the fight was on, it was ON...
 
Yeah, I have a feeling he's going to be a big dumb beast without any personality. One of the disappointments of Pacific Rim was how uninteresting the monsters were. If there's one director I thought would have invested their monsters with pathos and personality it would be Del Toro. A curious misstep for him.
 
Barry_Green said:
+100. I grew up on Godzilla. Well, not literally, I mean, you'd probably need a big saddle to do that literally, but ... when I was a kid, Godzilla was a hero, not a monster. Yes he was a "monster" in the vey first film, but after that they got the formula right and he became a lizardy Han Solo, an anti-hero who got dragged into conflicts he didn't want and didn't ask for but when the fight was on, it was ON...
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Exactly. A Godzilla movie should not be a disaster movie and Godzilla is like a Tornado or Earthquake or something. Godzilla is the main character of the movie and should have it's own story arc.
 
Ryan Farnes said:
Interesting mini-review on the trailer and the state of monster films in general.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/345610.php
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While I agree with some of what the article is saying, it sounds like the author of that article has made up his/her mind already.

Starts the article out with:

Yeah, I was actually about to just do my typical "What are these assholes doing?" sort of post but then I watched the trailer.
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Then even after seeing some potential in the trailer, they still slag off the film:

Anyway, I'm sure Godzilla is awful, like every other piece of crap that Hollywood makes.
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Seems like an overly cynical attitude that is destined to lead to guaranteed disappointment.
 
Nektonic said:
While I agree with some of what the article is saying, it sounds like the author of that article has made up his/her mind already.

Then even after seeing some potential in the trailer, they still slag off the film:

Seems like an overly cynical attitude that is destined to lead to guaranteed disappointment.
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And amazes me that they think that that style of writing is what people want.

When i saw the trailer for pacific rim, my cynical side expected it to be a terrible hollywood film, but i instead just hoped it wouldn't suck, that's all, just please dont suck and be a fun, park my brain and eat too much popcorn kind of movie, don't be too into yourself, dont overdue it, just give me some big fun. and it did, and i was very pleased. i thought it was a bold move to do exactly the OPPOSITE of backstory and skip ahead to the 'everythings kinda sort ok' time and then bad stuff happens. it also makes me hope they'll now make the prequel where more stuff gets explained and we get more about the monsters and who sent them an whatnot.
 
Darren Levine said:
And amazes me that they think that that style of writing is what people want.

When i saw the trailer for pacific rim, my cynical side expected it to be a terrible hollywood film, but i instead just hoped it wouldn't suck, that's all, just please dont suck and be a fun, park my brain and eat too much popcorn kind of movie, don't be too into yourself, dont overdue it, just give me some big fun. and it did, and i was very pleased. i thought it was a bold move to do exactly the OPPOSITE of backstory and skip ahead to the 'everythings kinda sort ok' time and then bad stuff happens. it also makes me hope they'll now make the prequel where more stuff gets explained and we get more about the monsters and who sent them an whatnot.
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I thought Pacific Rim was a typical terrible Hollywood film. I hope Godzilla is a lot better.
 
Nektonic said:
Seems like an overly cynical attitude that is destined to lead to guaranteed disappointment.
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I'd think we'd all be accustomed to cynicism on the Film Discussion section of DVXuser.

Hehe. He is basically saying he expects par for the course for a big monster action film, but he immediately qualifies it as saying that he has hope it has something more. The trailer gave him just a hint of that "sense of wonder."
 
Darren Levine said:
And amazes me that they think that that style of writing is what people want.
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He is a political blogger that occasionally weighs in on random stuff like a film. I thought his take was interesting that the trailer made him think they might make more than the typical blockbuster monster flick.

I just saw a nice typical blockbuster monster flick trailer. Not sure what to expect if anything.
 
If this film avoids the scene(s) of crowded urban streets with fleeing citizens being directed by police officers, interspersed with responding National Guard troops....it will meet the threshold of not being a typical film to me. :)
 
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