How many times is Godzilla going to be rebooted? 2014 edition

Short version:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--pE4I3AlC--/666800864549206056.gif

I have this vague suspicion/hope that Cranston will be TOO good in this movie, accurately capturing the fury and horror a scientist would feel in this apocalyptic scenario, the way Battle:Los Angeles got across how utterly miserable it would be to endure an alien invasion.

"why would my character smile and light a cigar? yes, godzilla has fallen, but the scenario that caused his return remains...his wife is still dead...sure, there would be some relief but...no...there would still be agony, trauma..."

heh.

Anyway, Cranston and Juliette Binoche! Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen! Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins! David Strathairn! From a director equally adept with people and effects! If anything this whole movie is too good for "Godzilla."

nothing is too good for Godzilla

To step on.

wld really love to see someone edit a trailer together for the 1998 godzilla that resembles this ad campaign

hoo boy SIZE MATTERS

eeeeeeee so excited

The only way they could shape a trailer for that 1998 movie into something that looked the least bit thrilling or scary would be to not show any scenes or any of the cast and just have the sound of Godzilla walking and buildings falling over a black screen. Then at the end it just says "Godzilla" in big white letters. And it does not mention the director.

Okay, what is the pterodactyl thing?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1pX97_0rxU

How I'm reading it now, which is totally flipping the movie upside down for me, is that Godzilla was subdued and in captivity and they let him go to fight this pterodactyl thing and now everything is going to hell.

Rodan!

cautiously optimistic about this, based on Monsters.

My knowledge of Godzilla adversaries is minimal, so I knew the name Rodan but didn't know that's what it was. WOO!

like my vid-store buddy noted, I take it as a good sign that there's other monsters in the mix, instead of just some generic city smashin and subway hidin

(one of the old SunOS system manuals had examples that used all the various monster names.)

how do they spend like a trillion dollars making godzilla look real and then the statue of liberty looks like a FF7 cutscene

it's a fucking statue you can just make a decent-looking miniature for like $8

They polish these movies all the way up until the week of release. I'd be shocked if that didn't look much better in the theater.

they polish the shit that ends up in trailers first

my point stands anyway, why the fuck make a statue out of CGI

That's supposed to be the Las Vegas replica of the Statue of Liberty

hrm it costs a lot less to do shit using cg than to make a real model and do the same.

i literally just made a realer looking model using two paperclips and flintstones vitamin

Just saw it!

http://www.sketchplease.com/tag/krypton

Pretty good!

Er, that was supposed to be Godzilla giving a thumbs up

Anyway, this was fun! Surprisingly true to the spirit of the old movies.

Lotsa cool shots. Gareth Edwards really knows how to sell the scale of everything.

Humans, like in all Godzilla movies, are there to be witnesses and explain stuff. Anyone complaining about this is kind of a schmuck, IMO.

awesome

Also want to note that the trailers made this seem like it was going to be a lot more dour and self-serious than it is. It's pure b-movie, as a Godzilla picture should be.

on second-viewing, the trailers look kinda cheesy maybe?

It hits the right combo of awe and cheese, IMO

The best part: Godzilla looks and acts like Godzilla.

?

he memorized all his lines and stopped wearing the perm

Jhericurlzilla was the worst.

I have to say it's Mr. Day-Lewis's most stunning role yet

(godzilla) stopped wearing the perm

― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, May 15, 2014

too bad. 'zilla's hair was a key part of the character.

http://www.aux.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Godskrilla.jpg

Also want to note that the trailers made this seem like it was going to be a lot more dour and self-serious than it is. It's pure b-movie, as a Godzilla picture should be.

― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Thursday, May 15, 2014 10:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isn't the perceived self-seriousness the reason every nerd is blowing their wad over this loooool

It takes itself seriously just enough.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bnx9n29IEAAo8lf.jpg

tbf broderick was the least of that thing's problems but I hope that answers zachlyon's question

what does godzilla's roar sound like in this new version?

a choir of angels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgTWPckhYM8

300 foot Roger Waters

In which our hero Adrian Belew does the sound FX for the new movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8NpBWPL93s#t=622

I am going to see this tomorrow

you guys I am so psyched

15-minute countdown at Metreon IMAX starts now :)

:D

okay so when i was like eight there was this theater on the other side of town that would show godzilla movies on the weekends, and my dad would never take me. but he was a big fan of king kong from back in the day and finally one week they were showing godzilla versus king kong and he cracked and took me. man i was beside myself. I'd only ever seen godzilla in black and white on our little TV with commercials and now it was on. the big screen, popcorn, the whole deal.

and not to hide the birdie or anything but if you've seen it you already know, godzilla versus king kong suucked. even at eight years old, in love with godzilla, i knew it sucked. and i felt kind of bad for having dragged my dad across town to see a bad movie that defiled the memory of his beloved king kong.

anyway this new godzilla sucks in some of the exact same ways (sort of no plot, any scene not involving kaiju is mostly annoying, big fight at the end's a disappointment) that those old GODZILLA VERSUS movies sucked BUT: it's also it's epic in all the right ways, and lovingly restores the sense of scale and grandeur, and while some folks have complained about losing nuclear-cautionary Gojira I really dig this new lovecrafty-unknowable Elder Gojira. and hell even the suck comes off as homage... like if they'd just gone ahead and called this GODZILLA VERSUS MOTU you'd know exactly what you were in for. if i was eight years old i wouldn't have felt bad about dragging my dad to this one AT ALL.

PS it wasn't until like five years later btw that I finally connected the dots and figured out my dad was always reluctant to take me to those godzilla movies because when that theater across town wasn't showing weekend matinees for the kids it was a porno theater. true story the end.

so basically if you know anyone who is eight years old take them to see this immediately is how i break it down to an extent.

*applause*