Godzilla Trailer Stomps the Tubes

[Ix Rebound]

please,Please,PLEASE Warner Bros! Do not screw this up.
I want to relive my childhood of watching Godzilla movies over and over as he smashes up cities and fucks up the military!
I do not want to have my beloved Godzilla pushed to the side by Mr Generic White Soldier so he can have quite drama time with Mrs Generic White Wife.

 

[Nazulu]

They can't use that score from Space Odyssey, it just reminds me of some of the greatest scenes ever, and makes this look inferior by comparison.

Have to say this trailer is better than most I see these days. Not revealing too much and introducing it from a different perspective is what I'd like to see more of.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Looks promising. It seems like they're giving it a much more serious vibe than than the previous American Godzilla movie. Hopefully they focus more on Godzilla being awesome in this one than retarded drama.

 

[Agayek]

Even Wolverine wouldn't be able to heal back up from being spread all over as chunky kibbles

Actually, wolverine has healed back to perfect health from being near-completely obliterated (read: all that was left was his completely unbreakable skeleton and one living cell). And he did it in seconds.

 

[The_Darkness]

Someone help? That opening speech by the general about the HALO jump is reminding me of a similar speech, similar voice, possibly the same actor, from another movie. Does anyone have any idea what I'm thinking of? And who is the actor?

The line in my brain goes something like:

"Gentlemen, this is a high priority situation, you will give me your full attention please. At 0200 hours yesterday..."

And yes, I realise that's about as generic as movie speeches go. Which is probably why google isn't helping.

EDIT: Got it. Noah Vosen/David Strathairn in The Bourne Ultimatum, where the "high priority situation" is, well, Bourne. And since David Strathairn is credited to Godzilla 2014, it could well be him in that opening speech.

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On topic... I'm cautiously optimistic. Very cautiously.

Yeah, that's definitely Straithairn. I'm saying this as one of the only Alphas fanboys in existence as soon as I heard his voice, I decided I kind of really wanted to see it just for him... I'm terrible.

That actually makes two of us (three Alphas fans if you count my mother ). Although I've only seen the first series.

Yeah, I'll probably be giving Godzilla 2014 a watch - either on DVD, or in cinemas if the reviews are positive. At the very least, there are some decent actors in there, and the special effects look... I'm at a loss looking for a word other than 'epic'.

 

[Ichigo]

OHHH come on. Godzilla is ment to be watched in Japanese and if there aren´t two guys in rubbersuits rolling around on the ground its not fun to watch in the first place. Godzilla stopped destroying Tokyo already in 1965 so why should he attack America now?
Besides the Trailer alone already looks rediculous, why are they jumping outside the plain with flares on their feed except to poisen the next one above them?

 

[Slash2x]

I was interested in another attempt at a modern Godzilla flick but after seeing the trailer I'll probably just relegate it to 'watch on Netflix when there is nothing else to do'.

I think you ment this I do not think I would pay to watch this.

OT: oh look a H.A.L.O. jump!....... With flares... damn it so close movie so close.

 

[nuba km]

What's with modern godzilla movies trying to hide godzilla in the shadows A) he is bigger then most buildings so not getting a good look at him is silly and B) WE ALL KNOW WHAT GODZILLA LOOKS LIKE!

 

[Diddy_Mao]

I'm remaining cautiously optimistic.

A lot of the things I've heard and the visuals shown in the teaser make me excited because it looks like a good adaptation of the source material.

And then I remember that the director was the one behind "Monsters" which was a 90 minute train wreck of ham handed social proselytizing and poor character development.

I'm not saying a modern Godzilla shouldn't address current issues in some capacity, there's an established history of that with the character and indeed in sci-fi in general. I'm just not convinced that Gareth Edwards has the restraint or tact to handle it correctly.

 

[haruvister]

I really liked Monsters; and the trailer is impressive, plus it uses the Ligeti music from 2001: A Space Odyssey... so I'm in.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Wow, way to analyze and hate the film based on one measly teaser trailer which gives us no insight to the story or characters whatsoever.

At least it can't be as bad as the 1998 one, right? Maybe I'll check this out if it doesn't get squashed by critics.

 

[cojo965]

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.

He has tough scales and is now over 770 feet tall. I think that is a thing worth knowing.

 

[Jesse Billingsley]

I forgot how cynical people on here could be....

I'm personally looking forward to this movie. It'll most certainly be better than that horrendous film from 1998 that shall not be named.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

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.

Huh, you know, I was super-hyped for this movie (still am) and I was putting aside any doubts I could think of about this movie but that was not one I thought of.
Now you got me worried.
Look what you did.

HOPEFULLY.
That is not the case. As much as I love Godzilla, I'm aware a couple hours of him wrecking stuff is not something you can build an entire movie off of. Sixty to seventy percent maybe, but not all of it. That said, if you turn that ratio completely backwards, I will me sorely disappointed.
But I'm not going to think about that.