Godzilla 2014 Fail
Godzilla 2014 Fail
Now I made a post on this just days ago, I was really hyped to go see this revamped version of the movie. But as the Spill Crew movie reviewers used to say.
This movie is Some Ole BUllSHIT
I broke my rule about going to see movies opening weekend due to crowds and not being able to get my favorite seats, but this time I decided to choose a cinema near a high negro population, knowing a lot of them would have no interest in the ultimate monster. This would be a decision I would regret as early as sitting in my favorite seats, because no sooner had the preview trailers started rolling, here comes this ratchet ass couple to sit two seats down from me, with every gawd damn snack they could seem to find from the food station and it stank. Not only did it stink, it seemed the female sent the male to get even more shit to eat, so for the first 30 minutes I had to tune out this fat ass chic chomping on her popcorn chicken, etc like she hadn’t eaten for days.
Ok back to the movie, back to the King of Monsters. The opening sequence was great, like the back story, the graphics it was just like an older Godzilla with a new feel, so they hit the mark on that one. Opening credits should set the tone for a good movie, most people don’t care about this but given my day job, it came with the training/education. Another great thing about the movie was the score, the music built the expectations for a lot of scenes, again just like they did in the past movies. Now right away something is a what the fuck just happen moment, you have the character development, and you think ok, I’ve seen the trailer don’t get attached to her, Hall aka Bryan Cranston from Breaking Bad fame (never seen one episode, which is why I say Hall, Malcolm’s dad) will probably be featured in the movie but eh maybe not. So “something” happens at the power plant, and then fast forward 15 years, this is the “what the fuck just happened part”. Now a kid that I swear could not be any older than 8-10 is a grown man played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. He’s returning home from a tour somewhere and he’s apparently a bomb expert, ok cool great, Go Navy, whatever! But somehow the maths seems odd. He’s married to his wife played by Elizabeth Olsen with a 5-year-old son. when did he have time to do all this shit after evacuating Japan after the “disaster”? Who raised him, since clearly, his dad went half-loco after losing his wife? So now it’s kind of established this movie will revolve around him and his family. Honestly, that is pretty much all the gawd damn movie revolved around.
Now the extra monsters in the movie were a surprise to me, a pleasant one however until they basically the MUTO took over the movie, looking like a cross between the creatures from Starship Troopers but bigger, with 
the motion of the tripods in War of the Worlds so that kinda lacked some design ingenuity. in terms of scene time, I think collectively Godzilla had about 15 minutes, 3-4 roars, and a couple of kick-ass fight scenes, which they often cut away from to show people doing random shit. The editing on this in some spots was just atrocious. At times it seems like Godzilla was the people’s pet. He was swimming next to the aircraft carriers and surrounded by military, almost like it was some type of co-ordinated strike force. This movie had so many things bordering on the ridiculous it’s just insane. Now I see why critics were just saying shit like how fat Godzilla was and how his roar has definitely changed. Basically, there was nothing to critic about this movie it was just bad
I do not even want to talk about this movie anymore, I should have followed my instincts and just waited for it to get to DirecTV. it annoyed me that they had to get a token Japanese guy Ken Watanabe to yell “Godzilla”, but I guess that was a given anyway. A classic monster movie turns into what seems like another recruitment drive video for the US military, with a dash of romance and subtle suspense. bottom-line save your damn money and don’t get the DVD, if it comes on cable or DirecTV and you have some time to waste, give it a watch, the second kill scene for Godzilla was epic, but still not enough to make the movie anywhere near to classic or memorable. A giant fail!!! Now this is just my humble opinion, one Godzilla fan, who has seen every single Godzilla movie. I expected more, I wanted more, but the movie did not deliver. Maybe when it comes to DirecTV and I watch it again since you always seem to catch something in movies you didn’t see the first time, my opinion may change slightly, but I highly doubt it. I just read a headline saying Godzilla smashed the box office, I am not surprised by this, the marketing on the movie was excellent, too bad box office numbers are not measured by disappointments. One shining moment in this movie is the black bus driver, not sure if you can call him heroic and just doing a “what would black folks do”. but that shit was hilarious.
Sidenote: Richard T. Jones looked old as rass in this movie, he’s been landing a lot of military roles, but the brother that once had the suave demeanor of a Lawrence Fishburne in his prime, just looks like he ate one too many donuts or is a drinker.
Blah … wasn’t interested anyway.
Wow. What the hell. This movie was fantastic. You’re just whining. Congrats on misunderstanding the entire movie.
Really? Yea I misunderstood the entire concept of the King of monsters movie.(sarcasm) But If you consider this movie fantastic you are easily impressed… move it along!!
mad bajan. we will find you and we will rip every piece of your skin then we will eat your flesh.
~ Order Draco
OMG the MUTO live and seem to have a firm grasp of English…. remarkable!!
No offense but you’re logic is flawed. First off the math is perfectly plausible. For the sake of argument let’s just say he was 8 at the beginning of the movie. After the melt down 15 years pass. What’s 8+15? 23 right? His son was roughly 5 but most likely 4 since we never see him with a school bag like we did with his father 15 years prior. But again for the sake of argument we’ll say he’s 5. What’s 23-5? 18 right? I’m sure you know of a few people, if not yourself personally, who have had kids when they were younger than 18. My best friend had her son when she was 15 but that’s not relevant. So he had a son when he was 18, happens all the damn time. He probably even married his wife after she got pregnant. How many times has that been done in the movies? Hundreds I’m sure. So after he marries his wife he joins the Marines and is deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan or something like that and comes home after every tour. I find it refreshing that they didn’t dwell on those details and left it up to us viewers to decide how we got to that point in the movie. I’m also glad they didn’t have him despising his father for his moms death at the beginning of the movie, which again has been used countless times as a plot device. Ya he never took his father seriously at first but there wasn’t this deep seeded animosity towards his father and just before his dad died he got to look at him and say “I’m sorry I didn’t believe you dad.” Those words weren’t actually spoken but it on his face when he last saw his father before he died. As for who raised him after the nuclear meltdown, I don’t think it was important to the story so it didn’t need to be told but I think his father was around for most of it considering he didn’t really hate his dad. The first 20 minutes I found myself bored but once the action picked up I was in awe. I loved the look of this Godzilla, he was massive and makes the others before him look anorexic, plus he could bend and move in ways we’ve never seen Godzilla do before which made him seem all the more real. I do agree with you though that final fight was bad ass I wanted to clap in the theatre but held back because I’d look like a fool. The scenes you describe of Godzilla swimming by the navy ships, that was to give context that Godzilla wasn’t there to harm us, but to help us defeat the other monsters. That was then reinforced when the navy was shooting at him when they were at the Golden Gate Bridge. He could have killed those men easily but he didn’t he swam off to find his real targets. As for his screen time. Yes it was short and you wanted more which is what I think the director wanted. I kind of liken it to being at a strip joint. The lady on stage is dancing seductively teasing you with her dancing, she flashes you her boobs then covers them up again making you want even more. It was brilliant the way he did that, I love the movie even more for it. On a final note the token Japanese guy yelling Godzilla, while corny, was more of a homage to the Godzilla’s of yesteryear where they would be running in the streets yelling it.
Agreeing to disagree on some points that’s cool, Being flawed when it comes to movie logic is often open to interpretation as movies are a form of art, some art pieces are not for everyone. The timeline can add with teen pregnancy math and 18 year old military enrollment sure, but since these are the main human characters of the movie anyway, spend some time developing them without odd questions arising, we all know the first 20mins could of been filled with much more as there was a serious lag. Bottom line I think we both can agree this movie could of been so much better.
Honestly, I do believe you’re being a bit harsh on the movie. You really didn’t find ANYTHING good about this movie?
Now, while you state your opinion, all of us may openly state ours. So I’m just going to say that the movie was great. It balanced out suspense, science fiction, action, and pure hype in a single hour and a half that succeeded in portraying humanity being in trouble and a giant fucking radioactive lizard coming in and saving the day, while not making it overly cheezy, corny, or unrealistic. The elements of this movie demonstrated the way that Godzilla is SUPPOSED to be portrayed. Hell, the ORIGINAL CREATOR of Godzilla came and worked on the project with them, and since the director has only worked on small time films like Monsters, I don’t see how they could have made the movie any better. Do YOU have any ideas? What kind of plotline would YOU prefer?
The only thing that pissed me off about this movie was that *SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!!* Bryan Cranston died. But even then, that kept along with the realistic aspects of the movie. Now, I know that gargantuan monsters aren’t stomping around the world REALISTICALLY, but if they did under these circumstances, I’m pretty sure that they’d do so in a manner that was actually closer to this movie than to any of the past films.
I’m proud about this finished project, and there’s nothing more I can ask of them. We came for the monsters, a decent storyline, and characters hopefully better than Pacific Rim, and we GOT the monsters, a decent storyline, and characters that were better than Pacific Rim.
To say that this movie sucked is being WAY too much of a critic. It’s the same as looking at every tiny imperfection, because there really are no large ones, and saying that the product is a total disaster.
Funny you mentioned Pacific Rim, I actually enjoyed that movie, I look forward to a Pacific Rim2. I can think of many ways to add to this movie, I am hoping the dvd has an extended version with plenty of deleted scenes. I want to see more of the big guy giving fisticuffs to the Mutos, also without him acting like Mr Marcus after he buss a nut, just falling out an having to take a minute to recover. he should of been well rested all this time. I get his blaster takes it out of him but c’mon!! Harsh is open to interpretation again, I’m not calling the movie a total piece of shit, it’s just that I wanted more, I didn’t want Godzilla hiding in veiled shadows or clouds or dust, I didn’t want cutaways to show a human element when he’s kicking ass!! Here’s one of my movie ideas…. Godzilla Vs King Kong, would that not be epic, if done right?
holy shit you just predicted a 2021 movie
I suppose then you liked the Godzilla 98 offering? Or perhaps Final Wars? Now i do feel you on some points. In fact i’ll go so far as to say this wasn’t “really” a Godzilla flick it actually felt like a Gamera movie.He saved Brody’s ass a few times, not to mention the kids on the bus@ the golden gate bridge. Godzilla gets curb stomped then makes an impressive comeback. Also Big G wasn’t randomly destroying shit in pursuit of his target. And while i wasn’t put off by the human drama in this piece, i’ll agree with the cuts that took us away from the first monster brawl. However the overall tone of the film was true!
1. Godzilla is a badass pure and simple and it can’t be denied
2. Most impressive film to date…back in japan Toho rushed production all the time, screwed up scripts, changed monsters to give us nothing new, rehashed old crap whenever they could. Only GMK can match the balance (overall) with this film. GMK was also way above the curve for effects of that era (early 2000’s). Legendary’s Godzilla, and GMK stand above all other G-flicks with the exception of Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla vs Astro Monster aka MechaGodzilla (73) and thats 3 out of 30 fuckin movies…
3. Godzilla done right by a director who knows the monster. Emmerich and Develin had no idea what, or who Godzilla was the result, we get a mutated iguana…i mean WTF an iguana!!!!
I can see you are a G-Fan by your passion but serisously, don’t you think this film did some good for Godzilla fans everywhere?
As an aside… Peter Jackson wanted to remake Kong vs Big G, and while i love his work with LOTR and the Hobbit (altho i don’t think the Hobbit should have been a trilogy) Don’t you think this current director Garth Edwards could do a good job with that film?
It’s clear this film did plenty for some Godzilla fans. A lot of people seem to be in love with this film. But it was not a complete film for me. I think if Garth Edwards pays attention to details more, he could do a good job with a Godzilla V Kong, maybe get Michael Bay involved, actually then it might be too over the top.
From a comedic standpoint, I liked the 1998 Godzilla, but you are correct that was not a true Godzilla movie, he, sorry she ran from everything and then laid eggs c’mon
I do agree on most of your points here. I also agree that they cut away from Godzilla way to much to show us the humans that we’re supposed to relate to. I wanted to see the big guy fighting other monsters. I am glad he was a ‘good guy’ in this and not randomly destroying things. That scene where he’s the ‘pet’ of the carriers is both realistic and not. I don’t think the Navy ships would EVER be that close to him while he’s in motion, especially since they don’t know anything about him at that point. The Japanese guy hadn’t yet convinced them that Godzilla was on their side yet. And you can tell in many scenes that both Godzilla and the MUTOs had a high degree of intelligence. Godzilla didn’t want to tear up the place, he’s just so big he doesn’t see things on such a tiny human scale.
I do think the dad still raised the son. Its not like they emptied out Japan after the accident. They might have stayed there, and once the son was old enough he got his commission and joined the Marines. There are MANY American bases in Japan and he might have met his wife there, heck maybe even as high school sweethearts at one of the DoD schools there. It wasn’t really relevant to the story line or the plot, so it was omitted. Honestly can you say knowing where he was raised would have made a difference in the storyboard? I do not think this was a ‘recruitment’ video for the marines as you say, since there were several other services there. Granted many of them overlap, but its SEEMED like you saw Air Force, Navy, and Marines. Since it was based in San Fran, I can tell you (since I live there) there is a large multi-service population here. It only makes sense that the military would respond to this sort of thing. If not the military…who then? The cops? Yeah right.
Overall I do agree that the movie could have been done better, but I for one loved his brawny bad ass look. He has a face like my Pit bull and I enjoyed that. I’m sorry you had to sit next to that fat chick sucking chicken bones tho. Ugh… but ‘giant fail’?? No. Too harsh.