cojo965 said:
I was so happy with the climax of the film. It truly felt like what a battle between animals that size would be like. While say Pacific Rim, the fight choreography was a bit obvious at times (most obviously any time Gypsy Danger fights) this movie it was less obvious because the techniques the monsters use are based on actual animal fighting stiles. Godzilla bites, claws, and grapples while the MUTOs do the same but capitalize on there being two of them better than I remember Pacific Rim's kaiju ever doing. That is not even mentioning hearing Alexandre DeSplat's score in context. What I mean is hearing the track Godzilla's Victory with the scene of same was quite possibly the greatest soundtrack moment of awesome I have ever heard. Have a listen:
Also, poor Godzilla. Unlike other Godzilla movies, we truly get a feeling that Godzilla has limits as by the end, he is completely exhausted. How did you guys find it?
P.S. Fun question to go along with the thread, how much would it cost and how long would it take to repair the damage caused by the monsters throughout the movie?
Overall, I think it was a good movie that is just shy of being great. Godzilla looks and moves like he should, and while the mutos weren't anything special, they were sufficiently cool enough to get the job done. The scenes with the kaiju are some of the best put to film that don't involve rubber suits, and there's just this grand scale of awe and majesty. Godzilla is more a living natural disaster than an animal, and that is awesome. You can also tell that Garreth *gets* Godzilla. It's in the little touches, like how Godzilla kicks the mutos when they're down, and that final scene with Godzilla walking back into the ocean, victorious, like any good Godzilla movie should always end. The fact that he seems to *get* it gives me a lot of hope.
There are some negatives though. I get what they were trying to do with Ford's story, and the humans in general, but the cast just wasn't strong enough to pull it off. They weren't horrible, they weren't good, they were just, very very dull. There's only so many times you can see "Handsome white soldier-guy braves an end of the world disaster to return to Wife, Son and/or Daughter in the end." It was so very uninteresting and cliche, and I have to wonder if that may have been the studio meddling to try and add in a more traditional disaster movie plot to the film. It didn't ruin the movie for me, but it definitely dragged down the non-kaiju scenes a bit. Also, Lieutenant McWhitey's ability to conveniently be exactly where he always needs to be was kind of annoying. I'd have rather had a larger cast, and follow multiple people trying to survive, instead of him being at the heart of everything, trying to carry the whole movie.
But, like I said, looking at the whole thing, I quite enjoyed the movie. It filled my inner-child with glee to see a proper, modern big-budget Godzilla movie. I just hope that in the inevitable sequels they go and tighten up the bolts a bit. Either give us less human drama, or get a stronger cast that can carry it better. I'd also prefer, now that we've warmed up Godzilla by letting him pound on some random mooks, to throw some proper Toho monsters at him in the next film. It's a bit too early for Ghidorah (he *needs* to be a big deal, end of the world sorta situation), but there's plenty of other potential baddies to toss at Godzilla, and probably bring in Mothra too. This series has to have Mothra and the sooner you set her up, the less weird the flying magical god-bug will be. I wouldn't mind an equivalent to G-Force coming about either. There's bound to be more minor kaiju, and Godzilla can't do everything himself. Give humans something to do that isn't completely ineffectual. It would also fit a theme of kaiju being a thing, no longer able to be covered up, and no we've got to deal with them.
My inner kid went FUCK YEAH with Godzilla's finishers. But I'm not going to chalk up a movie just because I thought it had 3 really cool minutes in it.
