Originally posted by quanchi112
I was let down with my expectations from the trailers.
I honestly did not see the Godzilla trailers. I missed out. Had you not seen those trailers, there was no hype surrounding the film, and you randomly found out it was playing in the theaters, would the movie not have let you down so badly (meaning, would it have been a pleasant surprise)?
The official trailer for Godzilla is definitely one of the best I've ever seen for any film. I wasn't disappointed per se, but I was surprised at how different the trailer made the events of the film seem. But I consider that a blessing, considering the amount of trailers nowadays that outright ruin their films. It was nice to be surprised and unexpecting of what would happen next.
Just saw it. Where do I begin...
Alternate titles: "Godzilla 2"; or perhaps, "Mutos Breed!" guest starring Godzilla and Bryan Cranston."
While it was great seeing the big guy in CGI (when you finally got a clear shot), the movie itself seemed at times to not know what it was about, what its center was. Godzilla did not impress so much as an "unstoppable force of nature" but as "the old friend come to stop mutos."
FX were great. But for clear, straightforward storytelling about a terrifying, eponymous monster...the original is much better. Hell, I hate to say it, but in that regard, even 98's Zilla was better.
Originally posted by dadudemonMore than likely yes. I was not massively disappointed like Man of Steel. I just expected more but still enjoyed it just not as much.
I honestly did not see the Godzilla trailers. I missed out. Had you not seen those trailers, there was no hype surrounding the film, and you randomly found out it was playing in the theaters, would the movie not have let you down so badly (meaning, would it have been a pleasant surprise)?
Originally posted by dadudemonGodzilla himself was great, but I think I still would've been somewhat disappointed. Imho, there's a general, "proper" sequence of events to monster pics, and this movie neglected those basics (eg, main-monster solo city-stomp).
Had you not seen those trailers, there was no hype surrounding the film, and you randomly found out it was playing in the theaters, would the movie not have let you down so badly (meaning, would it have been a pleasant surprise)?
Originally posted by Lestov16
The official trailer for Godzilla is definitely one of the best I've ever seen for any film. I wasn't disappointed per se, but I was surprised at how different the trailer made the events of the film seem. But I consider that a blessing, considering the amount of trailers nowadays that outright ruin their films. It was nice to be surprised and unexpecting of what would happen next.
The trailers were a lie, it was pretty disappointing tbh.
Originally posted by Mindship
Just saw it. Where do I begin...Alternate titles: "Godzilla 2"; or perhaps, "Mutos Breed!" guest starring Godzilla and Bryan Cranston."
While it was great seeing the big guy in CGI (when you finally got a clear shot), the movie itself seemed at times to not know what it was about, what its center was. Godzilla did not impress so much as an "unstoppable force of nature" but as "the old friend come to stop mutos."
FX were great. But for clear, straightforward storytelling about a terrifying, eponymous monster...the original is much better. Hell, I hate to say it, but in that regard, even 98's Zilla was better.
That's the thing about this film. It marketed itself as a tribute to the original 1954 personification of destruction Godzilla, but instead it was a tribute to the 70's Showa era Godzilla who was a good guy who battled other monsters. It's still technically a Godzilla film, but not the one that was advertised.
That's what kills me about this. I enjoyed the film, but I must admit this had one of the most deceptive, manipulative marketing campaigns I have ever seen for a film.
Spoiler:Jeez, talk about exploiting star power. I understand a trailer not giving everything away, and like I said earlier, I enjoyed being surprised by the plot, but the trailer outright lied, and I recall numerous scenes from the trailer that had a completely different context in the film than what was implied.
Bryan Cranston was in this literally ONLY because his presence in the trailer would attract Breaking Bad fans. Practically every scene of him in the film is from the trailer, and as soon as the trailer scenes ran out, no surprise he went to the meth lab in the sky.
So yeah, if they were going to make this a Showa-era tribute, they should have advertised it like that instead of making it seem like a tribute to the direct original. Audiences know the difference and it feels sleazy that they attempted to trick us like that.
To quote a poster from a 24 forum
Point is, I walked out of this with the distinct feeling that (a) I'd been duped by the trailers, which isn't uncommon and (b) that was complete bullsh!t that there was only one fight in the movie, and it was at the end of a 2-hour-long cocktease. The flaws were visible to me right away, rather than days later. That's a problem.You can't pull a "Game of Thrones" with Godzilla and cut away right at the start of a battle, and then just show the aftermath...Godzilla, it could've worked effectively once - the HALO jumpers falling into a devastated San Francisco, and we're seeing the extent of the damage for the first time, and it's chilling. But it didn't work effectively because this was the 4th time that happened in the film. All they had to do was show a minute or 2 of fights before cutting away, gradually leading up to the climax. But they didn't.
Point is, you can't tease Godzilla 2014 as a dark gritty serious film starring Bryan Cranston and Godzilla as an apocalyptic force of nature like nothing we've ever seen before,
and give us Godzilla 2014 as a love story between two Mutos, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson as a plank of wood and Godzilla as basically Clifford the Big Red Dog who just wants to help the cute humans and oh no, just happens to smash a couple small buildings along the way because he's just so damn big and cuddly!
Watching the marketing for this film I never would've expected there to be a headline saying "King of the Monsters - savior of our city?" and people cheering Godzilla on as he winks at them and swims away.
Thought the movie was a lot of fun. If I were going to nit pick then I could pull the movie apart just like any other movie. With that said I don't think there is much for me to criticize here. I got what I paid for...,a Godzilla disaster movie. Sure, some of the story seemed pointless and went no where, but if you're going to a Godzilla movie for a story you're sabotaging yourself. You would have better luck learning how to juggle live grenades. For what faults the movie has it does a great job at making, Godzilla relevant again.
It starts out a serious disaster movie and ends as a B monster movie thrill ride. I think it would have benefited the movie had there been a more global scale involved. I would also liked to have seen some of the action scenes prolonged. With that said there really was no shortage of Monster screen time. Around the forty minute mark the formula went...,for every ten minutes of human/story/scenario building, we get...,one-two minutes creature action. I think everyone would have preferred the formula to have been reversed but this is coming from a franchise full of movies where the formula is....,95% exposition/ %5 creature action.
I think the effects were very well done. Going into the movie I was worried about how defined everything was going to look. For all of the major scenes being shot a night, I was able to distinguish the action flawlessly. Some of the scenes were even iconic. We needed the entire movie to match the pace of thse key scenes. Godzillas' design looks better thn ever imo
I really don't understand why they just didn't market this as a monster battle film, since that's what it was. Maybe they were afraid people would compare it to Pacific Rim? That would only have made me want to see it more, although then again I probably would have been pretty pissed at the lack of monster battles.