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Post by Vits on Aug 20, 2019 20:14:21 GMT
I give it a 1/10.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 20, 2019 20:36:20 GMT
7/10. I got what I paid for.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2019 22:44:52 GMT
8
Enjoyed it. But when will the US Godzilla movies learn that these movies DO NOT need some boring human melodrama taking up the space? I didn't care if Matthew Broderick got on well with his ex. I didn't care if bland soldier boy reunited with his wife. And I didn't care if evil-mommy made some heroic sacrifice to redeem herself. I want to see five hundred foot tall monsters punching one another in the face, please! This movie had adequate amounts of that.
Oh, and you could actually see what was going on, so that was a big improvement over the last one.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 22, 2019 1:00:45 GMT
8 Enjoyed it. But when will the US Godzilla movies learn that these movies DO NOT need some boring human melodrama taking up the space? I didn't care if Matthew Broderick got on well with his ex. I didn't care if bland soldier boy reunited with his wife. And I didn't care if evil-mommy made some heroic sacrifice to redeem herself. I want to see five hundred foot tall monsters punching one another in the face, please! This movie had adequate amounts of that. Oh, and you could actually see what was going on, so that was a big improvement over the last one. Honestly, and this may be controversial, but I preferred the human cast in the '98 Emmerich movie more than the ones in this continuity except for Ken Watanabe. And of course he's the one that died.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2019 1:21:17 GMT
8 Enjoyed it. But when will the US Godzilla movies learn that these movies DO NOT need some boring human melodrama taking up the space? I didn't care if Matthew Broderick got on well with his ex. I didn't care if bland soldier boy reunited with his wife. And I didn't care if evil-mommy made some heroic sacrifice to redeem herself. I want to see five hundred foot tall monsters punching one another in the face, please! This movie had adequate amounts of that. Oh, and you could actually see what was going on, so that was a big improvement over the last one. Honestly, and this may be controversial, but I preferred the human cast in the '98 Emmerich movie more than the ones in this continuity except for Ken Watanabe. And of course he's the one that died. Well to be fair, I'm not saying there should be Godzilla movies with no people in them that are just 90 minute monster fights. In the 98 movie I liked Jean Reno's guy and the idea of the French running around trying to sort things out because their nuke caused the problem. And in the 14 version I liked Brian Cranston trying to work out what happened to his wife, and Ken Watanabe pushing his "let them fight" angle. But so much rubbish as well. 98 had Broderick and his girlfriend, camera guy and his girlfriend (was she his girlfriend? I don't remember), Emmerich's little tantrum about Siskel and Ebert... none of it mattered, none of it was interesting. 14 had Boring soldier guy and Boring wife. The sequence where some random asian kid is dumped on boring soldier guy literally to give him somebody to look after in hopes that it will make the audience give a damn, and as soon as it's done he's just straight back out of the movie again. I literally laughed out loud at the awfulness of it. Now in the 19 one almost all the human stuff is bad. Watanabe is good again, sure, but I could care less about the Stranger Things girl and her mommy and daddy. All three were just painfully boring. And Stupid Eco Terrorist guy was... did they even bother to resolve him in the end? I seem to remember the movie just kind of stopped talking about him after a while. Anyway, I guess there has to be some sort of human story going on, but I wish they'd have better characters doing better stories.
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Post by Morgana on Aug 22, 2019 8:52:55 GMT
I gave it a 6. It was okay. My problem with it was the cast of humans that added nothing to the story. I didn't like any of them except for the Ken Watanabe character. I hate it when the characters in a monster film are boring and useless; they pull the film down. Same thing happened in the last Predator.
I've just re-read my post and realised I meant Predator, not Aliens.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 22, 2019 20:24:54 GMT
I gave it a 6. It was okay. My problem with it was the cast of humans that added nothing to the story. I didn't like any of them except for the Ken Watanabe character. I hate it when the characters in a monster film are boring and useless; they pull the film down. Same thing happened in the last Aliens. My thoughts exactly. The human characters in Kong: Skull Island were even worse. I actually liked Godzilla 2014 quite a bit because I found the human story much more compelling than your average monster movie.
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Post by Morgana on Aug 23, 2019 9:00:19 GMT
I gave it a 6. It was okay. My problem with it was the cast of humans that added nothing to the story. I didn't like any of them except for the Ken Watanabe character. I hate it when the characters in a monster film are boring and useless; they pull the film down. Same thing happened in the last Aliens. My thoughts exactly. The human characters in Kong: Skull Island were even worse. I actually liked Godzilla 2014 quite a bit because I found the human story much more compelling than your average monster movie. I hate it how writers seem to think every disaster/monster/apocalyptic film or TV series has to have a headstrong bratty kid in it, so the adults have to run around after them trying to find them.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 3, 2019 3:59:00 GMT
B- ...I voted 7, though it's a 6.5.
Not too much else that hasn't been said. I was bored for the first hour. Not bored from a bad movie, just bored from monotonous build up. While I like how deliberately intelligent they're trying to treat this monsterverse, beyond old fashioned monster movie juvenile tropes, they took way too many liberties of convenience for KOTM. The final act in Boston was rich... driving around Armageddon looking for the girl & they find her?? lols Don't give me layers upon layers of sci-fi logic & reasoning, only to rain deus ex machinas all over the place as time runs out.
Still, the second half did pick up, once they nuked Godzilla back to life. The cumbersome chitter chatter vanished, & the movie became spectacle. Even the monsters who early on seemed like way too many on one plate, were handled well in the last hour.
I'll admit, I blind bought the blu ray because of Godzilla 2014 & Skull Island, both I liked for different reasons. I'll be onboard again for Kong v Godzilla, though I do hope they veer back to Skull Island's less super serious mode.
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Post by japie on Sept 3, 2019 16:56:27 GMT
I give it a 1 also. Like most of its predecessor it is shot in pitch darkness, with some of the most atrocious special effects ever seen in a big budget movie.
For much of the movie, I didn’t know who was winning, who was losing, or (half the time) who even was fighting. Is that one of Ghidorah’s heads or is it Rodan’s only one? The director, Michael Dougherty, can’t even seem to find the monsters in the frame. At some point a major character was killed and I missed it altogether. The movie is visual noise — truly an unholy mess.
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Post by sjg on Sept 25, 2019 10:14:49 GMT
4/10
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Post by Prime etc. on Sept 25, 2019 20:24:05 GMT
I hate it how writers seem to think every disaster/monster/apocalyptic film or TV series has to have a headstrong bratty kid in it, so the adults have to run around after them trying to find them. This is one thing I miss most about monster movies before the 90s. They didn't even need to have a child in a dinosaur film. There was no child in THE LAST DINOSAUR, THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT, most Godzilla films before 1969, and when there was one, like the child in VALLEY OF GWANGI, was a minor part of it.
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Post by kingslayer on Sept 25, 2019 22:50:43 GMT
3/10. Hated this film, worst time I had in the theater this year. Stupidity factor of the charts. Havent' seen as many films this year as i normally do so its managed to take my worst film of the year slot as of now. Congrats movie!
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Post by twothousandonemark on Sept 7, 2023 0:30:00 GMT
B- ...I voted 7, though it's a 6.5. Not too much else that hasn't been said. I was bored for the first hour. Not bored from a bad movie, just bored from monotonous build up. While I like how deliberately intelligent they're trying to treat this monsterverse, beyond old fashioned monster movie juvenile tropes, they took way too many liberties of convenience for KOTM. The final act in Boston was rich... driving around Armageddon looking for the girl & they find her?? lols Don't give me layers upon layers of sci-fi logic & reasoning, only to rain deus ex machinas all over the place as time runs out. Still, the second half did pick up, once they nuked Godzilla back to life. The cumbersome chitter chatter vanished, & the movie became spectacle. Even the monsters who early on seemed like way too many on one plate, were handled well in the last hour. I'll admit, I blind bought the blu ray because of Godzilla 2014 & Skull Island, both I liked for different reasons. I'll be onboard again for Kong v Godzilla, though I do hope they veer back to Skull Island's less super serious mode. now... Plays better at home, plays much better without expectations & trying to catch everything they want to link up for continuity, which was distracting on my part initially. All 4 of the big monsters are well designed, introduced, & battling. I really appreciated Watanabe's Japanese heritage being the one to bring Godzilla back to full life via nuclear charge... & perishing in the mission. |
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