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

The casting of this film is so incongruous for a hollywood blockbuster that I love it. I mean Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, and Martha Marcy May Olsen are like an art house goddess triumvirate. "Monsters" was an ace scifi that cost famously all of $500,000. This is Edward's only other gig and was reportedly made for $160 million. how the hell does that happen? Especially after the dreck that was the 1998 film.

still kinda O_O at how fucking HUGE this godzilla is

it's like nine times huger than any other one I've seen. exciting!

I love love love that you went with "nine times huger" instead of ten. Seriously awesome.

i don't recall the last time everyone on ilx got psyched for a blockbuster type movie that wasn't a Batman. must be years anyway.

or, you know, gravity/pacific rim

xxpost EZ: <3

ok I watched ''Monsters" tonight finally to see what all the hoopla was about

if godzilla looks anything like that, hooray.

but if he playfakes me into watching another hour plus of glassy-eyed indie fuxxors holding hands & staring at landscapes I *will* be fucking pissed

the actual monsters were bitchin tho

The real special effects in Monsters are...human emotions

lol

the monsters are....us

lol seriously by the halfway mark I was silently praying that that would not be part of it

Hooray, I've ordered _Monsters_ from the library. After viewing the trailer on youtube, it was pretty amusing to read the comments. A perky mix of dopes who adore the movie and bros who are real mad about the movie being boring relationship crap that shouldn't be called MONSTERS c'mon wtf suxx.

yeah rented Monsters last night cuz of this thread (haven't watched it yet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WDXpZvbpl8

Hope they included this on the soundtrack, best Godzilla raps!

"Monsters" rules, if you don't like it you don't like people, you monsters.

ppl suck, monsters rule

Hope the new subtitles are as on point as this:

https://24.media.tumblr.com/eed86711a981c9b7c6fe8c04aa78c319/tumblr_n25d3vzJl01r1x4nlo1_400.gif

hahaha that one cow is hauling ass

Man, I haven't been this excited for a movie based on the trailer since I was 13 and I saw an ad for "Predator" during the commercials in SNL:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC3Mi9vOb_8#t=154

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.

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