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

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*

fyi i am mentally 8 years sold so I am taking me to see it :D

old, even

bonus trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3OuGMcTVeA

VG i think you'll be quite pleased

(and yes i totally had one of those and it was pretty much my #1 toy until atari arrived)

I gotta quit getting sucked by the hype machine into these blockbuster things.

Mr Veg is kinda mad at me for dragging him to see this lol

I think rogermexico's review was the perfect mental preparation. It really did suck plotwise, the characters were cyphers & mostly took up valuable monster time

But the monster stuff was mostly awesome & my inner 8 yo was p into that

But this Monsters director guy is such an emo, like omg dude settle down with all yr 'heartbreaking moments'

he made a bitchin godzilla monster though

luv that there are still people on ilx who call people emos

i get emos and screamos confused?

i love that there are ppl who are too cool to use the word emo

lol i'm very uncool, i'm really good at being uncool ok!!!, i just never see people use it like that anymore

:)

there's a bunch of godzillas on amazon prime, so rn i am rewatching og gojira :D

Is he actually bigger in this one than in the others?

The secret theme of this movie was the dangers of digital obsolescence

First they scared you by having the 15 year old data be on ZIP DISKS

You were like "Oh shit! How are they gonna read that zip disk!"

Then fifteen minutes later MOTU was firing EMP waves!

Bam! No more digital data at all! You gotta use a fucking handcarved swiss chronometer to detonate your bomb!

BTW if you wanna save $10 I found a condensed version of the movie online thank me later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ3oOe3mdoQ

LOL! They def made a point of letting us see the Big Blue Zip Drive onscreen for a moment.

i was in love with this directors first film, which was basically before sunset with affectionate cgi monsters and a great riff on american/latin american relations/immigration in the background.
this though, was a failure.

the monsters were great, some of the best ive seen recently, genuinely scary and a bit alien-like, but not overtly derivative, and unlike the monsters in something like super 8, they felt tangible, and physical. but the rest of this film was totally underwhelming. the subtext, if you can call it that, was so ambivalent i couldnt tell what it was trying to say about nuclear technology (probably nothing at all, but felt it had to, because of the source movie). and i couldnt tell whether godzilla was good or bad until the very end, nor did i know what the other monsters were doing there.

sally hawkins looked like she was half doing a pisstake of blockbuster acting/half acting in a mike leigh film, juliette binoche was fine but pointless, brian cranston was meant to be a crank but didnt really get enough time to make me care. which basically left the son, who was just typically bland and someone i didnt give a shit about. the film was trying to be a bit of a spielberg-ish blockbuster, with the whole family theme and attempt at sentimentality, but it couldnt even do that right, as it never made you care about the family to begin with, before they got broken apart. all the spielberg touches also made me think that jj abrams might have done a better job, but that its a shame that for anyone trying to do a good blockbuster with a narrative and characters, they have to try and imitate 2nd hand spielberg - do modern directors have nothing of their own to add? basically, this was just a tragic waste - godzilla deserves better.

i think gareth edwards has got a lot of talent, but maybe blockbusters arent for him. hes not allowed to do unusual things with monsters in a movie as big as this, so maybe he needs to be allowed to make more low budget movies where monsters are nice to each other like they were in his debut.

basically, this was pacific rim all over again.

"any scene not involving kaiju is mostly annoying"

this is otm, which basically means the film can be cut down to about 30 minutes tops