What a boring piece of crap

"Stranger Things is a Netflix show about kids going through horror movie scenarios. It's like what 'The Last of Us' did to zombie movie/game scenarios/tropes. No kajiu though."

Oh. Can't really use that then.

Speaking of TV series, I thought I heard something about a show called "Enormous", which had kaiju in a sort of apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic setting. Is that still in development, or had that been canned altogether?

"Kaiju is mainly Japanese thing."

Mostly. However, other countries have done giant monster movies as well, especially America.

"you cant limit to just few movies if you want cost/impact analysis. Thats why the closest you can get is scifi-horror-monster sub-genre for cross comparison"

Yes and no. It becomes complicated when one is looking at foreign films, as one would have to consider the film traditions of that country, the country's history, the context for which the movie was made, etc. It's also worth noting that the adversary in the film is a three hundred foot entity; now, this may seem like an odd thing to point out, but the thing with movies such as "Alien" and "The Thing" is that the creatures are generally human-sized, so it's relatively easier to pull off. Sure, the sequel "Aliens" and "The Thing" also had creatures that were in the ten to twenty foot range, but nowhere NEAR as large as Godzilla. Nor were the movies as politically charged/centered and as deeply personal. The movies are terrifying in completely different ways; both "The Thing" and "Alien" are claustrophobic films where the menace is largely unseen and exists on a personal level. "Shin Godzilla's" menace, however, is a f#cking disaster multiplied to the nth degree and made into horrifying flesh, a towering nightmare that is a reflection of the 2011 earthquake and Fukushima, something very intimate to the filmmakers and to the country itself, which is what makes it especially terrifying.



"Shin Godzilla also suppose to be horror, but you can read comments "when we saw this goofy Godzilla, the whole Cinema burst in laughing."

A lot of those comments seem to be made in relation to Godzilla's first form, where he was this bizarre fetal salamander thing. At the movie theater where I saw it (went to see it twice), I heard a few exclamations such as "What is THAT?!", but no one was laughing, especially not at Godzilla's fourth form and the devastation he wrought. No one laughed at all when he first unleashed his beam and completely devastated Tokyo. It was legitimately terrifying to watch. In terms of it being a horror movie, "Shin Godzilla" is to an extent, but it is primarily a political thriller about crisis management and the impotency of bureaucracy in the face of disaster.


"It was simply terribly made."

Not at all. It was an intelligently written, well-made movie that reflected not only on the impotency of bureaucracy during Fukushima, which the movie is heavily based upon, but also on the nature of Japan's Self-Defense Force, the country's relationship with nuclear energy and post-war, among other things. In comparison to other monster movies of its type, especially some of the stuff by Asylum and Roger Corman, the effects were far from terrible. In terms of a movie "being good", you have to take into account everything - plot, tone, pacing, acting, cinematography, music, symbolism, theme(s), characterization (or lack thereof - in some cases a film can be based around the absence of characterization), dialogue (if there is any), how are images framed and why, structure, the genre that the movie is a part of (in which case you would have to consider both the best and worst within said-genre and see where it would fall), the type of movie that it is, etc. Also, you consider budget. Comparing a fifteen million dollar movie with a hundred million dollar movie would be grotesque, as the latter would have more in the way of advantages. The only time you should compare is if the former manages to surpass the latter in quality (which would be unlikely for the most part), or if it covers similar themes/has a similar premise. Or, if the movie rips off from said-movie. In some cases with movies like "Shin Godzilla", you also have to take into account the place that it came from and why it was produced. Once you consider all of these factors, that's when you decide whether a movie is good or not.


"That said, nowadays its so easy to make any kind of 3D models, even working alone on your home computer, technology is already there. Youtube is filled with talented 3D animators created awesome monsters, dragons, etc."


Indeed, there are a lot of talented 3D animators. However, CG still needs to be animated and properly lit, plus it becomes even more difficult when the creature gets larger and larger.

Actually, no. It wasn't a terribly made film, literally the opposite. Why are you even here if you didn't like the film? I bet you don't even know what the film's about.

"Never said it was a bad movie, just pointing out flaws"

Pacing isn't really an issue, though. Over-explanation? In relation "Shin Godzilla", what was done was serviceable, as it does give the film a certain sense of realism (or perhaps verisimilitude is a better word?). I don't feel like it was over-explained, though.

Yeah, that's great. Save it for your dissertation. I'm looking forward to it. That said, I enjoyed "The Return of Godzilla" very much and that was not monstr vs. monster.