Godzilla (2014)

Originally posted by Nemesis X
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Disagree. He could have emoted more, but he did fine as the lead. WTF was Cranston supposed to do anyways? All Serizawa did is spout spiritual dialogue about the balance of nature. We don't need two people to do that. But I guess you want even more cutting away from the action to focus on Cranston. I guess Cranston bytching about how he was right about his wife would have been far more exciting and entertaining than seeing soldiers HALO into the ruins of San Fran (

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that was sarcasm. It wouldn't have been. At all.

I think the point is that if we are to be subject to the human element; better it be Heisenberg than Kick-Ass.

I can't wait to watch it. The movie looks sick and the lead actor is great. I love watching him in breaking bad. I'm sure he's gonna kick some ass in Godzilla!

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Dont expect too much Cranston screen time.

Originally posted by Darth Martin
I think the point is that if we are to be subject to the human element; better it be Heisenberg than Kick-Ass.

Cranston was the better character, but he was ultimately irrelevant to the story. I'd rather they sacrifice his character than sacrifice the movie to focus on his character.

They could have structured the story with him at the center.

Let me ask you a question. Let's say Godzilla and the MUTOs were real. Who do you think would get closer to them, a conspiracy-obsessed nuclear engineer, or a soldier directly deployed to confront them? Like I said, I preferred Cranston over Johnson, but story-wise, there was only one way it could logically go down.

Who said anything about getting close to Godzilla? I just feel Cranston should be the main human character. He can have more screentime without being in direct vicinity of the monsters.

But that would lead to even more cutting away from Godzilla. From a story writing perspective, if you're making a monster movie, and you need a human for the audience to follow the destruction with, it's more sensible to make it a soldier who is often in direct contact with the monsters, than a conspiracy nut who spends all his time on the ship.

Not only does making the soldier the lead get you closer to the action, but it also creates scenes of suspense when the soldiers themselves are under attack. Cranston looking at the skyline of San Fran for the last act would have been boring. The writers needed there to be a human in the city, to build the tension and sense of peril. I think the writers made the smart choice.

^ That would work if said soldier was a strong enough character to carry the movie. In this regard I feel that Kick-ass simply wasn't interesting enough for me to actually care about his existence. His role could've easily been given to another guy because lets face it, he was a grunt who's only connection to the story happened to come from Byran Cranston's character.

They could've did that anyway. In fact I though that was what the trailers were advertising with the whole Halo jump. Heck the trailers advertised it as if Godzilla would be the bad guy in this movie which would've generated suspense off the bat had they just focused more on that aspect of the film.

I won't say Johnson was good, but he was serviceable. I didn't mind watching him act bland for a couple of minutes before switching to Serizawa or the MUTOs. I liked his character and his role in the story, it was just the stoic performance that downgraded it.

Cranston could've been given another part, eg, a military commander, or another scientist (Serizawa's partner?), which certainly would've gotten him in the thick of things, the way it got, eg, scientist Gene Barry in the heart of George Pal's War of the Worlds. Heck, in the original Godzilla, they got journalist Burr pretty close to the main action.

Yeah true, but I think after GINO, they didn't want to do another plot about scientists and journalists being the heroes. Cranston's too old to portray an active HALO-diving commando. And Serizawa basically spouted Confucius-like mantras the whole film. We didn't need two of that. There was no room for Cranston in the main action.

Well it's been confirmed...Gareth Edwards to do 2 more Godzilla movies.

My complaint about Cranston is simply that by killing off his character you cannot use it in further installment of the series. I know that in a disaster setting you need to have some character deaths, but I rather it being serviable to the franchise as a whole than purely generic.

Originally posted by Esau Cairn
Well it's been confirmed...Gareth Edwards to do 2 more Godzilla movies.

Originally posted by Bentley
My complaint about Cranston is simply that by killing off his character you cannot use it in further installment of the series. I know that in a disaster setting you need to have some character deaths, but I rather it being serviable to the franchise as a whole than purely generic.

They should've combined the back stories of Cranston and Watanabe. The way they did it didn't really delve enough into either of them to make you care about why they are obsessed with Godzilla. I didn't care about any of the characters in this at all. Some of them were just completely irrelevant. Watanabe's assistant? Pointless. The general guy that was in The Bourne Supremacy. The wife.

Then again it's supposed to be about Godzilla. Which would've worked if there's was more of him in it. Lucky if he was in 10% of the film.

Best Godzilla movie to date beats the rubber suit horse shit. Not interested in seeing Godzilla doing jumping jacks in a rubber suit Or dancing like Muhammad ali. Acting was not bad and the film had a errie look to it. All in all it was a good flick I think.

The japanees criticize this Godzilla flick and every Godzilla flick the U.S. makes yet I don't see them even trying to compete. Their best grossing film made bout 25 million I believe it was Godzilla 2000. Nobody wants to see the rubber suit shit no more.

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