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I thought that it was....

posted 5 years ago by LemmyLugosi (411)
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....just average. The fx were fine, and the best parts of the film were the CGI creature battles. I hope someone does a "fan edit", removing all the scenes with human storyline.

Loved the monsters; hated the actors and their plot. And I've been a fan of the Big G since the 1960's. This is definitely the best looking Godzilla film yet, but also one of the hardest to slog through. It needed about 40 minutes edited out.

Unfortunately, a 50% score is a failing grade in my book. I won't see Kong vs Godzilla in theaters; I'll be waiting for cable or streaming to see it.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 5 years ago

I agree to an extent. The monster scenes were good except that they were often shaky and almost always too brief. I thought that awesome scene in the trailer where Zilla and Ghedora are charging each other was super cool and I couldn't wait to see the full scene. Turns out that WAS the full scene. The fights were mostly snippets. Only a few slightly extended fight scenes lasted longer. As a G fan, I felt abused.

I too want a fan edit. Even though we'd still have the AoE victory power and Rodan's "off button"

How is it possible that the makers of this movie didn't see how it's done in Pacific Rim. "Less is more" works in small monster suspense films, not kaiju movies. With kaiju, it is the opposite.

[–] FilmBuff (6712) 5 years ago

I thought the monster scenes were top-notch, the best yet in a film. Perhaps the difference in opinion ties in to our opinions of Pacific Rim, which to me is an example of how not to do it. In this film, we got extended, visible battle scenes, and we know where the monsters are and what they're doing. Pacific Rim was the biggest disappointment of all giant monster films-- the promise of CGI robots fighting kaiju turned into the same monster each time, only a bit bigger, fighting uninteresting robots in dark, rainy places with shaking cameras and rapid cuts to mask the lack of choreography.

Godzilla vs. Ghidorah in the snow is far and away the most breath-taking, amazing scene of two monsters fighting yet put onto film.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16265) 5 years ago

I liked it fine. Solid 7/10 for entertainment value as far as monster carnage goes. The cast wasn't bad. Just not the focus of the film. Which is too bad because I thought of a better setup for all this ruckus. Suppose instead of a eco-terrorist group somehow bypassing Monarch's inconceivable security apparatus, they're just exploring that giant-ass ruins of what looks like Kaiju-Atlantis and awaken Ghidorah by accident?

[–] FilmBuff (6712) 5 years ago

Didn't they bypass them by showing up in a Monarch plane and posing as friendlies until the last second? Seemed reasonable to me, especially in a Godzilla movie.

[–] bond998 (1206) 5 years ago

Frankly ill take it over the last two Godzilla movies i saw. "Hey Lets hire Bryan Cranston right off the heels of Breaking Bad. And will make him the only interesting character with motivation and will kill him 30 minutes into the movie. Then we have leave audience with his boring son. And on top of that lets have 12 minutes of Godzilla in a movie that called Godzilla. Seems Legit." Then we have Shin Godzilla "Hey lets have a bunch of boring people sit around board room for 2 hours". Yeah give me more of this.