Godzilla Trailer Stomps the Tubes

[Nokturos]

As long as they don't make the one major flaw that made me completely despise the first American version: letting the humans actually inflict damage to Godzilla. He's supposed to be a force of nature. Humans shouldn't be able to defeat him.

 

[The Apple BOOM]

The paratroopers probably aren't there to fight Godzilla, that's what that huge missile you see later in the video is probably for. The paratroopers are probably there to retrieve some scientist or research material, making all those shots of scientists, vaults, facilities, caves, and so on important.

Which actually sort of worries me; an overly present human element in a movie that, in my opinion, should mainly be about a gigantic lizard movie fucking shit up big-time, and eventually getting fucked up itself.

And going by that trailer I'm worried that we'll see too many people and too little giant lizard. But that's just my gut.

This has all of the evidence of being set up to be a 2014 reimagining of the original Gojira. That movie was completely about the human element. Godzilla/Gojira barely got any screen time in that movie, and the one big scene he was in wasn't a fun action romp, it was very humbling and disturbing.

 

[Sir Shockwave]

Looks alright. But I have one problem.

But as always they have to make humans important. I don't care about people! I want to see giant monsters killing each other and the military. I don't give a rat's ass about Joe Everyman and his wife Mary Sue and their misadventures.

Actually on that point, there's a rumor floating around that two other Monsters are going to show up - one being a Giant Spider, the other a Giant Centipede. Long time Godzilla fans might spot the Spider as Kumonga (a relatively minor note monster on Godzilla's Rogues list), though if the Centipede is true - well, it could very much be the first Western Made Godzilla "Villain", because to the best of my knowledge, none of Godzilla's Rogue's Galleries are Centipedes X3

So if true, it's likely the Human involvement will just be a side story, a la Toho Godzilla movies. Then again, there's also a Rumor floating around that Toho has issued an Executive Mandate that some form of Rubber Suitmotion be used in the movie, so take with Salt Mine.

 

[Remus]

Hell yeah, Bryan Cranston! The hell is up with the extra negativity lately? I want to see Godzilla blowing stuff up and it looks like I'll get it.

I dunno, is it set in Tokyo, or what city is Barney's big brother trashing this time around?

I was impressed that there wasn't a single dubstep DUUUUURRRRR in sight (or hearing), and it focused on slow build up with long cuts, instead of Bay style quick cut explosions. At the very least that's a good sign that it won't be another mindless explosion shakey cam fest.

You can add them yourself
BWOOOOONG
Big monster right over there! Punch it in the face! PUNCH IT IN THE FACE!

 

[Crimsonmonkeywar]

The paratroopers probably aren't there to fight Godzilla, that's what that huge missile you see later in the video is probably for. The paratroopers are probably there to retrieve some scientist or research material, making all those shots of scientists, vaults, facilities, caves, and so on important.

Which actually sort of worries me; an overly present human element in a movie that, in my opinion, should mainly be about a gigantic lizard movie fucking shit up big-time, and eventually getting fucked up itself.

And going by that trailer I'm worried that we'll see too many people and too little giant lizard. But that's just my gut.

This has all of the evidence of being set up to be a 2014 reimagining of the original Gojira. That movie was completely about the human element. Godzilla/Gojira barely got any screen time in that movie, and the one big scene he was in wasn't a fun action romp, it was very humbling and disturbing.

I'd rather them go the natural disaster route, like Twister or Volcano, were the movie is about people surviving rather than fighting.....I don't think that has been shown to work all too well.

 

[Decamper]

For whatever it's worth, they've already said that the hoary old lizard will be fighting other monsters in this one. To quote wikipedia:

"An epic rebirth to Toho's iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence"

Also:

"Screenwriter Frank Darabont in interviews described his plans for Godzilla as returning it to a "terrifying force of nature". The film will add a "very compelling human drama" and that Godzilla would be tied to a "different contemporary issue" rather than the original atomic bomb testing"

So, there you go. Best of both worlds maybe? Hopefully?

Or it will just be Godzilla vs. Global Warming. Which could be neat, maybe. Hopefully?

Link to obligatory viral marketing things.

http://www.godzilla-movies.com/news/1327

 

[Tanis]

Can't be worse than that previous American Zilla film.

Hopefully it won't try to me.

 

[J Tyran]

Although the new trailer starts out pretty intense I do wonder the logical reason of sending in paratroopers in a area with a giant monster.

Never understood these movies at all, unless the skin of that thing is tougher than 60ft of toughest reinforced concrete man can make (which I doubt) why drop paratroopers on it instead of flying a B2 over and dropping a pair of GBU-57s on it? Even the kinetic energy should be enough to smash the thing to pieces, let along its 2.5 ton warhead. Even if it could survive one or two because of super healing powers or something it could never survive ten B2s dropping all twenty of those bombs the the US own being dropped on it.

As a fan of the series/colossal geek, allow to answer your questions (my answers won't exactly be scientific, but it's Godzilla; cut me some slack)

1) Godzilla was awoken/mutated/powered by an atomic blast; he's kind of hardcore like that

2) "tougher than 60ft of toughest reinforced concrete" is pretty accurate

3) Yes, he does in fact have super healing powers (think 100m tall nuclear Wolverine)

4) Here's the kicker: Godzilla is essentially a walking nuclear reactor. Several times within the franchise, it has been reference that it's blood & body tissue are highly radioactive & about as good an idea to spread around as crop-dusting with plutonium (this is something I've always found to be a fascinating concept & wanted to see taken further in the films. I very much hope they explore this aspect in the new one)

Even Wolverine wouldn't be able to heal back up from being spread all over as chunky kibbles, seriously like I said the kinetic impact of those bombs alone is astonishing. They are weigh 14 tons and are dropped from high altitude, they are going well over mach 1 when they hit. They have enough energy to punch through 60ft steel reinforced concrete that can withstand pressures over 10,000 psi, see normal high strength reinforced concrete like the Hoover dam that withstands around 5,000 psi? They can penetrate 200ft of that, as Mass Effect 2 states "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a *****..." and thats not including the explosives. Godzilla would have to have skin made from Depleted Uranium composites several feet thick to stand up to repeated hits from weapons like that, I am only including the confirmed versions too. Supposedly there are newer secret versions that are smaller and lighter but are rocket assisted and have twice the penetrative potential due to the increased velocity, thats just rumoured though and the standard GBU-57 is confirmed and real.

 

[mirage202]

Seems as though it has potential to be a good action movie. Just like Bay films if I expect nothing more than explosions and action sequences then I think I'll have a good time with it.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Although the new trailer starts out pretty intense I do wonder the logical reason of sending in paratroopers in a area with a giant monster.

Well, one would assume they are being sent to find and retrieve something rather than fight the big lizard, paratroopers being small enough to avoid monstrous attentions, although the smoke flares aren't helping that idea. If that was the whole trailer it would have been great, that image of all the spines looming out of the darkness is intense, if nothing else this movie will be better shot than the 98 one.

If this was a Pacific Rim crossover I would be delighted, nuts to established canon of either series.

Five years after the rift was first closed, they opened it again, what came through... was a category six...

 

[fix-the-spade]

When this trailer portrayed HALO jumpers being dropped via helicopter, of course I'm going to verify that that's even a valid military tactic. From my findings, it is, at least, feasible.

Silly question, weren't they jumping from a C-17?

I know the internal shot looked a lot like the back of a Chinook, but that might be all the set budget stretched to.

 

[Fijiman]

Well it should be interesting at the least. Let's just hope they don't royally fuck it up.

Also, there is a depressing lack of Blue Oyster Cult in this thread. Let's fix that, shall we?

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Well, at least he looks more like Godzilla than that other movie did. So I guess that's a step in the right direction.

However, I was under the impression that this movie was going to be Godzilla FIGHTING ANOTHER MONSTER! Not the military again. Of course, this could be a clever re-direct and the unnamed monster is the one that's causing all the damage we saw. That would be rather smart, but I doubt that's the plan. Sigh...

That intro looks like it'd make a fun game though, or maybe a different movie all together.

 

[Vykrel]

Never understood these movies at all, unless the skin of that thing is tougher than 60ft of toughest reinforced concrete man can make (which I doubt) why drop paratroopers on it instead of flying a B2 over and dropping a pair of GBU-57s on it? Even the kinetic energy should be enough to smash the thing to pieces, let along its 2.5 ton warhead. Even if it could survive one or two because of super healing powers or something it could never survive ten B2s dropping all twenty of those bombs the the US own being dropped on it.

something tells me that the paratroopers are not meant to land on Godzilla and punch him to death, my man... im sure we will learn what the purpose of the HALO jump was, once the movie comes out. there are plenty of possibilities, and the one you came up with is very unlikely to be accurate.

 

[Korten12]

Looks alright. But I have one problem.

But as always they have to make humans important. I don't care about people! I want to see giant monsters killing each other and the military. I don't give a rat's ass about Joe Everyman and his wife Mary Sue and their misadventures.

You do realize the most liked (and original) of the Godzilla movies, was basically 80% Humans 20% Godzilla? CGI monster destroying stuff would get very boring very quickly if it was the majority of the time...

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

I'm pleasantly surprised. As someone who loved the original Godzilla 'King of the Monsters' rubber suited smackdowns I've been longing for a modern adaptation which treats him with respect. I can't get over the size of him in this movie! He's like a moving city block.

And did someone mention Frank fucking Darabont? That fills me with enormous confidence about this movie. Not only is it the guy who directed The Shawshank Redemption (and wants to direct The Dark Tower), but he also directed The Mist which featured a humongous walking quadripedal Cthlulu-looking thing at the end. Not to mention but that gut-renching ending to The Mist was pure Darabont. Even Stephen King admitted that if he rewrote the book he'd use the movie ending instead of his own.

 

[AntiChrist]

Meanwhile, Stanley Kubrick is turning in his grave... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhwWAciO6F4]

 

[Odbarc]

Saw a lot of military human-focus which is something I generally hate in Godzilla movies. I just want the rubber-suit smackdowns! But the stuff done in Pacific Rim made me feel otherwise about the human-story-element in these types of films.
'Zilla of '98~99 was pretty hard letdown in terms of what Godzilla should have been like. The dude died to the one thing that the monsters all shared a seemingly immunity towards. I forget who said it (on this site, probably) is that it was more like a giant T-rex from Jurassic Park than Godzilla. I didn't hate the redesign he had mostly but all he did was play hide and seek.

The trailer makes me half worried about how much stupid people we'll see instead of monsters but Legendary studios does some pretty amazing movies and I was happy and excited to hear they picked up this movie. So far, everything seems to be hitting green lights with me. I intend to see the movie in theaters and hope for the best.

 

[ServebotFrank]

90% of the comments completely miss the point of the original (and best) Godzilla movie which was an anecdote about the horrors of nuclear war from a country that experienced it firsthand, that's why Godzilla was such a cultural icon. Until movie execs ruined him by making him some weird Monster hero. Don't forget that the original movie's solution to Godzilla involved using another super weapon that could potentially destroy the world if released.

I'm looking forward to this movie so damn much. There's a lot of good people behind it; good actors like Bryan Cranston, a script by Frank Fucking Darabont the writer of some of my favorite movies, and it's being herald by someone who actually got the point of the original movie. That teaser released a couple of months ago showed the aftermath of his destruction, a bunch of dead bodies and a ruined, desolated wasteland of a city. Now that's a Godzilla movie.

My favorite scene in the original was Godzilla's romp through Tokyo not because Godzilla was wrecking shit but because it was such a creepy scene. The camera focused on people being crushed and burned alive, one shot in particular showed a mom comforting her kids, saying that they'll be seeing their dad soon as Godzilla crushes them. Even after Godzilla is done there are scenes in the hospital showing survivors being scanned with Geiger Counters after being exposed to the radiation equivalent of an Atom Bomb.

The original is a damn good film. Shame it wasn't watched by many.

 

[Something Amyss]

Godzilla hits the screens on May 16, 2014. DUH DUH-NUH-NUH!

Great. Now I have that stuck in my head. Thanks, Obama!

Unfortunately, very little of this trailer does anything for me. The lack of monster makes it look like boilerplate Hollywood, so really they could have cut out all but the five seconds of monster to give me the same effect.

I could make a cloverfield jibe, but that would be lazy, obvious and unoriginal..... Oh the irony.

I was gonna say...Not like it stopped THEM.

America's first attempt at a Godzilla film was a travesty. Having a semi-competent technical or military adviser would have prevented the writer/director from firing Sidewinder air-to-air missiles at a ground target (nevermind that it was "cold-blooded") and mislabeling damn-near every single piece of real-world military hardware portrayed in the movie.

Having police advising didn't help CSI be any more accurate.

I mean, for the life of me I'm not sure why anyone would care in a giant monster movie, but I do think it's a touch niave to assume a military adviser would have any inherent effect on the movie. Hollywood is Hollywood. Sillier things happen in less silly movies.