Naldan said:
Huh. Then teasing fights and not showing them, but instead showing the results of said fights is faithful in your eyes?
Given how that's about as faithful as you can get to the original, yes. This was a remake of Godzilla 1954, not Godzilla 1980
Also, the themes? The military being the biggest actor in creating Godzilla? That wasn't recreated faithfully, either.
Necessary change due to modern sensibilities coupled with the need to distance itself from Emerich's Godzilla.
The change was one that still fit the themes of the uncontrollable nature of devastating firepower in the form of nuclear weapons, particularly since their use was what awoke him in the first place.
And why are you *surprised*? No matter how faithful it claims to be, after 28 movies, not counting spin-offs, people expect Godzilla to have more appearances.
Given how at least 90% of the people who watched Godzilla 2014 never watched more then one of those 28 mentioned movies (and the box office numbers make that a lowball estimate), the fact that fans of the franschise have overwhelmingly approved of the movie, and the fact the marketing and studio made it pretty clear it was a remake of the original that isn't even in the same genre as most of the others (meaning it's down to Godzilla 1954 and Godzilla 1980 in terms of reliable source material) anyone who went in and was disappointed went in with expectations they shouldn't have had to begin with.
The original was about only Godzilla as a personification of nature's revenge on humans for abusing the earth, namely with atomic bomb testings. Further interpretations aside.
I don't see how that differs too much from the movie.
This movie had the following major points shared with the original from 1954:
- Godzilla is in it
- It's Godzilla's origin story
You're forgetting the focus on human characters, Godzilla making almost no appearances in it, the story revolving around people trying to cope with the disaster that is upon them, and the inability of anyone to properly deal with the menace.
Really one couldn't realistically have asked for a more faithful adaptation of the original movie for modern times. What you're asking for isn't a remake of Godzilla, it's more of the same movies that Toei actively tried to move away from three times now because while it's profitable in the short term it has killed the IP 3 times (4 if you count Emerich's Godzilla) and counting.
Wow. Nope, excusing it with it being a remake (yet another one of Godzilla's origin story, which has about 4 or so) doesn't cut it. Too much teasing, too few destruction scenes despite it being so much CGI.
So you went in expecting it to just be a Michael Bay explosion's fest? I'm honestly happy that wasn't the case and that we got a pretty decent movie instead of that.