As many of you know, the new American remake of Godzilla is slated to be shown in cinemas this year, and as a fan of this franchise, I couldn't be happier. However, like many fans, there are things I hope for that I would like to see happen in this movie, not the least of which being that the monster in question actually looks like the classic version, though the recent trailers seem to have already alleviated my fears on that particular point.
But my biggest desire for this movie is for it to achieve what few, if any, monster movies have ever managed to achieve, a sense of doom. While it's certainly true that giant monster movies have shown the monsters as forces to be reckoned with, they never managed to make me feel terrified of them, which is something even classic Kaiju movies like the Godzilla franchise often struggled with.
Giant monsters in movies have always seemed to me to be akin to natural disasters. They're devastating and cause many lost lives to be sure, but like many real-life disasters, such as terrible floods, hurricanes and earthquakes, it's often something that humankind will walk away from and recover from, given enough time. And while that's certainly a terrible thing to go through, it doesn't quite capture what I want this new Godzilla to be like.
No, for me, I want this new monster to be less of a natural disaster, and more like an extinction event. I want it to be the kind of thing that, when you look at it and see what it can do, you get an overwhelming sense of "if we don't get this thing, we're all dead".
No monster movie has made me feel that way as of yet, so if this new Godzilla can pull it off, then I will have no qualms about calling it perhaps the most effective giant monster movie of all time.
But my biggest desire for this movie is for it to achieve what few, if any, monster movies have ever managed to achieve, a sense of doom. While it's certainly true that giant monster movies have shown the monsters as forces to be reckoned with, they never managed to make me feel terrified of them, which is something even classic Kaiju movies like the Godzilla franchise often struggled with.
Giant monsters in movies have always seemed to me to be akin to natural disasters. They're devastating and cause many lost lives to be sure, but like many real-life disasters, such as terrible floods, hurricanes and earthquakes, it's often something that humankind will walk away from and recover from, given enough time. And while that's certainly a terrible thing to go through, it doesn't quite capture what I want this new Godzilla to be like.
No, for me, I want this new monster to be less of a natural disaster, and more like an extinction event. I want it to be the kind of thing that, when you look at it and see what it can do, you get an overwhelming sense of "if we don't get this thing, we're all dead".
No monster movie has made me feel that way as of yet, so if this new Godzilla can pull it off, then I will have no qualms about calling it perhaps the most effective giant monster movie of all time.
