Movie: Godzilla (2014)

[red calzolaio]

yet another monster movie.

and yet, this trailer has me excited.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Is Matthew Broderick in it?

[Whitey McTeeth]

If the Wallflowers don't sing the theme song, I want no part of it.

[spike]

If the Wallflowers don't sing the theme song, I want no part of it.

this is why i never see movies.

[BurtReynolds]

the nerds are eating it up.

[E.H. Ruddock]

It's no Pacific Rim

[E.H. Ruddock]

I've got to say, that trailer has me interested. I love big monster movies. Godzilla movies were my absolute favorite when I was a kid. We used to vacation at the beach and I would sit there and wish for Godzilla to come out of the ocean and start tearing everything up. When the Matthew Broderick Godzilla came out I wanted to stab my eyes out.

This could be good.

[McParadigm]

If the Wallflowers don't sing the theme song, I want no part of it.

It really was the most logical combination of things.

[McParadigm]

So that has to be David Strathairn babbling in the opening, right? I guess that's something.

I guess I just don't see anything that really distinguishes that from 350 other trailers we've seen in the last ten years. I don't mean that as a judgment about the movie, but as just a statement about the trailer. It does that "don't show any of the movie's personality and just use lots of implied tension and fade outs before hitting the cgi money shot and slapping the name up" schtick.

How people can have an opinion...any opinion..based on something as personality-light as that (let alone something as stimulated as excitement) is beyond me.

[E.H. Ruddock]

So that has to be David Strathairn babbling in the opening, right? I guess that's something.

I guess I just don't see anything that really distinguishes that from 350 other trailers we've seen in the last ten years. I don't mean that as a judgment about the movie, but as just a statement about the trailer. It does that "don't show any of the movie's personality and just use lots of implied tension and fade outs before hitting the cgi money shot and slapping the name up" schtick.

How people can have an opinion...any opinion..based on something as personality-light as that (let alone something as stimulated as excitement) is beyond me.

Well if you see my post above about my love of Godzilla movies as a child then you will see that my stating that "this could be good" is more of a long lost hope from childhood rather than an actual opinion. jeez.

[bada]

I don't want to speak for McP but I imagine he is referring more to the near universal acclaim this trailer has received from the geek community as opposed to anyone's comments here. The trailer is rather ordinary. "This could be good" seems reasonable.

[Jorge]

I like Bryan Cranston. I want to see Bryan Cranston fight Godzilla.

[McParadigm]

I don't want to speak for McP but I imagine he is referring more to the near universal acclaim this trailer has received from the geek community as opposed to anyone's comments here. The trailer is rather ordinary. "This could be good" seems reasonable.

Yeah, this. Also, the geek I go to movies with and my brother both sent me "doooood" type emails about it before I even saw the harmattanic comments section dust storms it had managed to kick up.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Also, these Godzilla "remakes" are all just about Godzilla tearing up the place. What would be ballsy and awesome is if they did a movie with one of Godzilla's enemies. Throw in a Hedorah or Rodan or Mothra. That would be awesome.

[red calzolaio]

"This could be good" seems reasonable.

what about "this trailer has me excited"?

seriously though, i remember the last Godzilla movie, unfortunately, and i remember seeing the trailer for the first time in theater. didn't understand why my friends needed to see it. trailer was terrible, movie was terrible.

[red calzolaio]

Also, these Godzilla "remakes" are all just about Godzilla tearing up the place. What would be ballsy and awesome is if they did a movie with one of Godzilla's enemies. Throw in a Hedorah or Rodan or Mothra. That would be awesome.

there is another monster, just not one of the ones you mentioned.

[Jorge]

GODZUKI?!?

[BurtReynolds]

I'm just glad it doesn't show me the entire movie. I'm sure the next trailer will spoil it for me.

[McParadigm]

I think part of the problem with these types of movies is that, when they were first imagined, the idea of a giant monster attacking cities was probably semi novel. It also had a larger scope than a lot of movies risked to go, and were something of a precursor to disaster film stories.

Now, we do "giant thingamabob breaks shit and makes us look small" movies like every week. So whatever novelty or brand they had is lost. But at the same time, Godzilla HAS to be treated as the central component of the movie, because it is the entire draw of the film. So invention, creative rethinking, and brand evolution are lost. We get a few human characters, who have their own subplots or little dramas, but the movie is about GODZILLA because in order to sell it it has to be worked as a movie about GODZILLA...again.

And when "giant monster thing so look out," is your entire premise for your movie...well, that's kind of tiring to even think about, because we're so inundated with that kind of image by movies that often have other things going for them, and just happened to include a "giant monster thing" as part of their story or as the basis for a single action set piece.

[Peeps]

i actually am looking forward to seeing this. I may also be one of only nineteen people who enjoyed the Ferris Bueller vs Godzilla movie.

the only thing that seems off to me is the actual size of godzilla. it seems like he/she is a quarter mile tall.

i hope they weaponize gamera