Escape to the Movies: Godzilla - Breaking Kaiju

[Mr_Jellyfish]

Bob, I enjoy your reviews but you don't have to bring up The Avengers just because it shares an actor with Godzilla! It seems like you're always talking about that damn film. I get that you like superheroes and stuff, but as someone who isn't in to comics, and so found The Avengers movie to be pretty much unwatchable, it makes it difficult to take your other reviews seriously! It's like listening to someone reviewing interesting new music but keeps bringing up Justin Bieber!

 

[vid87]

Saw this at a $5 special - price is right. Re-reviewing Bob's assessment, the whole thing with casting Cranston and the Wonder Twin Avengers feels to me like a marketing draw in case people weren't convinced to see it yet. Thing is, the whole "scientist understands Godzilla" arc, while handled nicely by Ken Watanabe (so many people were happy when he first said "Godzilla"), I do get the sense that this single perspective wouldn't have worked since Watnabe just isn't a big enough name to draw people in and, unfortunately, there's the sad undercurrent that the lead still needs to be white to satisfy audiences. All that in account, y'know the actor who could've filled that role and kept the more interesting arc intact?

CRANSTON!!!!

What, was he so damn expensive he would've doubled the budget with an extra 10 minutes?

 

[vid87]

Bob, I enjoy your reviews but you don't have to bring up The Avengers just because it shares an actor with Godzilla!

Two actors - Elizabeth Olsen is his wife and will play Scarlet Witch.

#awkward kissing

 

[Yoshi Dragon]

having watched most of the older godzilla movies as a child i prefer the millennium Godzilla the older versions just seemed like 2 monsters boxing it out in an arena full of squishy humans and their buildings. maybe i'm missing the point but thats really really boring to me

 

[Killclaw Kilrathi]

Am I the only one who thinks the military in this movie were utterly incompetent? I know a lot of it was set up for dramatic shots, but geez. Are you telling me nobody at the nuclear storage base saw, heard or felt a giant monster ripping half the mountain apart? And none of the approaching forces thought to look slightly to the left and see it tearing across the featureless desert plain? And did nobody think that it's a bad idea to send fighter jets after a creature you already know emits EMPs?

There were so many scenes like this that it pretty much turned the military into the film's comic relief.

 

[Inodio]

Honestly should have been a short film. After Godzilla leaves Japan, one can almost hear an audible CLUNK in tonal shift from the intrigue built up from the entire intro, when the Navy shows up faster than Japan's own Defense Force and says "We're in charge now!"
The Final fight scene was FAR from perfect however. It DID cut back to the bland hu-mans doing hu-man things with bombs, after Godzilla is cheated out of two fight scenes, one cut out completely, and the other jump-cut away to be shown on the news to transition to more hu-man shit.