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Manages to fail at something so simple


The movie was a total and utter misfire. It should have been so simple: kaiju monsters BIG and STRONG, humans small and weak, and you have drama right there. Small, insignificant humans at odds with the huge monsters. It worked in Jurassic Park, and Roland Emerich's 1998 Godzilla, however lame it may have been, stands now as a far superior movie because at least it knew how to approach the subject matter. In 2019 film, people don't seem to be all too affected by the gargantuan creatures destroying their cities. The news anchors featured in the film describe the events in the same bland manner as though they are giving the weather report. And the protagonists are not only boring, but very comfy: they move around in a futuristic space-ship-sized airplane with an interior that looks like it came out of Star Trek Discovery; they never run out of ammo, helicopters, fighter planes, fuel, food, comfort, huge underwater/underground facilities, and huge screens everywhere. So where's the drama?! Horrible.

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Not to mention, they survive all the monster fights like its a usual day at the beach, which is complete bullshit! They totally fucked up the scope of these monster fights, not a single human being should have survived this being this close to them! Near the beginning one of the rocket bounces of off Gidorah's wing and explodes near the dude just a few feet away and HE SURVIVES THAT W/O A FUCKING SCRATCH!!! All these Kaiju creating fucking electromagnetic storms, setting everything ablaze, shooting laser/electric beams at each other, Godzilla is a walking Nuclear Reactor!!! How is ANYTHING surviving there, What in the actual ass!?

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As much as I love this movie, all your criticisms are 100% spot on. I had the same qualms with this film -- we didn't need any of the close-call moments with the humans. Nobody cared!

I think they did it better in Gareth Evans' flick where most of the time anybody nearby those things (or just within the city) were in danger of dying. It seemed like they treated the threat of survival a lot more serious in that than they did in this film, even though the stakes were much higher and the monsters were far more devastating, especially Burning Godzilla who was a freaking walking atom bomb!

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Pacific Rim did it so much better scale-wise, imho. I absolutely loved it.

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