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[quote]Nards wrote:
For anyone who hasn’t seen the movie I am hopeful that now you’re NOT expecting to see much monster fighting because you’d then be surprised.

I mean I heard that from initial reviews then saw the movie and anyone who thinks it needed more fighting might find goddamned Transformers 4 more up their alley.[/quote]

Agreed. The fights and the monsters themselves almost every time they showed up on screen feel perfect.

The movie precisely followed how the traditional B-Godzilla movies structured themselves- The main baddie shows up and does things, Godzilla shows up and does things, both are left to the periphery for the time being while the background is set up. Then, BAM, final show-down that is awesome to behold.

The only issue is that the movie is much longer than your traditional Godzilla films, and the human element doesn’t hold up enough for the film to justify that.

The original Godzilla is roughly an hour and a half long. So, the brief periods that Godzilla shows up on screen, and the one scene where he actually goes and destroys the shit out of something (Tokyo iirc), seems to move at a lively pace.

Indeed, most Godzilla movies are an hour and a half long or thereabout, and they are that size for a reason. People watch this film to watch giant monsters fight. I think it would have been better if this version cut out a bit of the fluff and kept it moving at a much tighter pace. Perhaps the train scene could have been shortened a bit, since that is the weakest and most pointless scene in the film imo.

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I agree…how long was the film? It certainly didn’t feel overly long to me, but I guess it was over 2 hours.

The final battle is so satisfying that saying you wished there was more monster fighting after you see the movie (to use another food analogy) I would compare it to leaving a wonderful buffet stuffed to the gills and saying later that you wish you’d eaten more.

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Wiki writes it at 2hr 3 minutes.

Not at all long for a blockbuster film. Long for a Godzilla film. I think it could have easily been 1hr 40-50 minutes long and be fine.

Movies don’t have to be long to be good. They need to be extremely satisfying and fulfilling to watch.

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It’ll be hard to get excited over another Jurassic Park movie when you can fit about a dozen T Rexes in Godzilla’s mouth.

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[quote]magick wrote:
The only issue is that the movie is much longer than your traditional Godzilla films, and the human element doesn’t hold up enough for the film to justify that.[/quote]

Yeah, this was the part why I thought the movie was meh. The action scenes were great. It was just those damn humans that brought it down.

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[quote]magick wrote:

[quote]Nards wrote:
For anyone who hasn’t seen the movie I am hopeful that now you’re NOT expecting to see much monster fighting because you’d then be surprised.

I mean I heard that from initial reviews then saw the movie and anyone who thinks it needed more fighting might find goddamned Transformers 4 more up their alley.[/quote]

Agreed. The fights and the monsters themselves almost every time they showed up on screen feel perfect.

The movie precisely followed how the traditional B-Godzilla movies structured themselves- The main baddie shows up and does things, Godzilla shows up and does things, both are left to the periphery for the time being while the background is set up. Then, BAM, final show-down that is awesome to behold.

The only issue is that the movie is much longer than your traditional Godzilla films, and the human element doesn’t hold up enough for the film to justify that.

The original Godzilla is roughly an hour and a half long. So, the brief periods that Godzilla shows up on screen, and the one scene where he actually goes and destroys the shit out of something (Tokyo iirc), seems to move at a lively pace.

Indeed, most Godzilla movies are an hour and a half long or thereabout, and they are that size for a reason. People watch this film to watch giant monsters fight. I think it would have been better if this version cut out a bit of the fluff and kept it moving at a much tighter pace. Perhaps the train scene could have been shortened a bit, since that is the weakest and most pointless scene in the film imo.
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Fuck that train scene was pointless. Especially when they decided they could just fly the bomb out with the helicopters.

I saw it in IMAX 3D. Out of the 7 of us that went, only 3 of us enjoyed it. I’ve seen plenty of the old ones so I knew what I was getting but I think my friends wanted more of the new age action movie (ie Transformers). Having said that, there were some definite issues (why the fuck did no one notice half the mountain over the nuclear waste facility missing?)

I’ll probably pick it up when it comes out so I can make my house rattle with bass though