Kevin Bacon
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I'll say that the more I think about the movie, the more impressed I am with Edwards. The script is really pedestrian and the man got dramatically more out of it than anybody should be able to. With any other director this movie wouldn't have been worth the time of day and and he made it an 8/10 (for me). Pay this man whatever he wants to return, and also just let him write the script next time. Or just hire somebody good instead of a no name and the guy who wrote fucking Doom.
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Oh no, they say he's got to go go go Godzilla
Oh no, there goes Tokyo go go Godzilla
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I don't know, the trailers to me just showed that there was some sort of chemical disaster that killed Cranston's wife and he was trying to get to the bottom of it, and he was saying that whatever caused the disaster was going to send us back to the stone age. Granted, it was implied that Godzilla is what caused it, but I didn't get the impression that Cranston knew about Godzilla.
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I never really thought of Godzilla as actively working with humans. Yeah, he dived to avoid the battleships but it seemed like something practical to do, like, "eh, I don't really feel like plowing through that with my body, easier to just dive". And I'm pretty sure the open fire on Godzilla was the battleships panicking when they were being tipped over by the waves he was creating, and then everyone else eventually joined in. I had more issue with the one school bus with a major character conveniently getting off the bridge, just before 'Zilla crushed it.
Through the rest of the movie, he doesn't really have any issue with doing insane amounts of property damage that still probably results in lives being lost, but his goal is to kill the Mutos and he isn't really worried about anything else. It makes sense that he wouldn't really fuck with the humans unless they got in his way. Hell, I actually like that they didn't go the typical route where the military senselessly attacks the threat and makes it worse for everyone when the scientist was telling them not to. While the city stands up and cheers for Godzilla when he gets up and the news calls him a hero (and I feel like it's worth noting that there's a question mark following the "savior of our city" bit), he doesn't really care, he just goes back about his business now that he's met his kill quota. He's like.... Stone Cold Godzilla; arrive, raise hell, leave.
Though I do understand the disappointment that comes with them not using Godzilla as advertised. I honestly thought going in that Godzilla would spent the early part of the movie terrorizing the city like in the trailers and the other monsters would show up later, at which point he becomes an anti-hero and saves the day. Not that that makes a hell of a lot of sense (why does GZ change his mind about destroying humanity after killing the monsters), but it would allow for the best of both worlds and fit the advertising as opposed to what they went with.
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And the marketing promised an update on 1954. "Destroyer of All Worlds." The Oppenheimer quote resonated stronly in that first trailer. All of the footage of Cranston's character referring to the MUTO monsters mixed with footage of Godzilla himself (made it look like Cranston was talking about Godzilla) while the MUTO monsters were hidden in the campaign. It was setting up to be a movie about Godzilla causing hell for mankind, not protecting us. The movie itself ended up going with the safe, watered down version of Godzilla that Toho used as a formula for so many of the "Godzilla vs. XYZ Monster" movies.
This is pretty much how I felt early on but the actual execution of Godzilla as a hero won me over. I realized that I actually wanted to cheer for Godzilla.
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Great and Godzilla dont belong in the same sentence.
Sure they do.
"Godzilla has great special effects."
"Bryan Cranston delivers a great performance in Godzilla."
"Godzilla is a great big waste of time."
"I took a great shit today, and it was more pleasant than watching Godzilla."
"Godzilla did a great thing in saving the city, but the movie was shitty."
"Snickers' Godzilla-themed commercials are great."
"There are many movies I would call great; Godzilla, however, is not one of them."
"I had a great time eating at Steak and Shake before I headed to the theater to see Godzilla, which sucked ass."
"I wasted a great deal of money seeing that horrid Godzilla movie."
"'Great' and 'Godzilla' do not belong in the same sentence."
"Godzilla is a great movie."
"While I vehemently disagree, many people seem to think that Godzilla is great."
"If Alexander the Great were still alive, he'd have hated Godzilla."
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I'd change three things because these three were the problems I had with the film-
1. Have Cranston last longer. Have him die in at least Honolulu instead of in the helicopter. ((Not enough Cranston))
2. Give more focus to the Brody family. Flesh 'em out more. Show more injured people as well. ((A tad bit more human drama))
3. Get rid of the clapping scene and calling Godzilla a "savior". Just have him wake up and walk back into the ocean. Maybe have Serizawa smile. ((The cheesy ending))
I'd agree with the first two (I honestly had to think for a second about who the "Brody family" even was, and I saw the movie a few hours ago), but nothing cheesy about that ending. Or if it was, I didn't care because it was just too damn cheerful.
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What I can say with complete conviction is that whenever Godzilla's on screen, it's incredible. Gareth Edwards really knocked this out of the park, because even if the action, on paper, is mostly giant monsters throwing each other through buildings, which isn't anything new, the monsters (Godzilla in particular) had a certain "it" factor, a presence on screen, and visually the destruction they inflict on the environment and each-other is jaw-dropping. The "teases" performed mid-way through the movie, with Godzilla's arrival in Hawaii and then the beginning of the fight near the final act, only helped it feel like a bigger deal and build more anticipation, even if the moment that they cut away just as things are getting started is brutally disappointing. The best example of this is Godzilla's roar: there is an indescribable "holy shit" feeling attached to it, it's so loud, so commanding. "King of the Monsters" is abso-fucking-lutely correct.
Then, the human stuff that makes up the majority of the movie. I didn't dislike any of it, even if the contrived manner in which ATJ's character (in)conveniently found himself in every location of the world where the monsters were most definitely did stand out. Granted, after Hawaii he's pretty much following them around, but there's really no way to explain Hawaii and then the fight leading directly to his hometown of San Francisco. Cranston is an otherworldly actor and he did his job as well as you'd expect him to. It's unfortunate that his character (who is also the best one in the movie) died as early as he did, but that's less a case of them killing Heisenberg too early and more a case of all the characters they intended to carry the movie not living up to him. The performances, around, the board, were fine. They weren't bad, and I didn't get a "wooden" vibe from ATJ as was warned. The characters weren't horribly interesting, but they felt real and served their purpose. They exist to keep the movie moving forward and give us perspective in the story while the anticipation of Godzilla's arrival looms, and they do that very well.
My concern is how that'll affect repeat viewings. With the elements of tension and anticipation gone following already have seen the movie, will the unspectacular characters be enough to sustain interest? I've only seen it once so I can't answer that, but there's a solid chance that they don't. "Good-hearted Navy lieutenant who'll give anything to save the day" and "scientist who is trying to help the military" are pretty two-dimensional characters, even if they're well executed and seem genuine.
But, as for the movie as a whole. After the initial exposition in the first act and the first monster is revealed, the pace picks up and never really stops. Despite a lack of screen-time for Godzilla, there's plenty of action and plot movement to keep things rolling throughout and at no point was I not entertained. Plenty of potentially cliched sub-plots were introduced that menacingly threatened to drag on through the whole movie and were instead briskly wrapped up and moved on from (ugh, he's going to have to watch this kid the rest of the movie? Oh, never mind, there's his parents!). The movie only got better as the monsters moved closer to one another, with the action continuously escalating including the memorable railroad sequence. Unfortunately, the impact of this insane situation on humans wasn't touched on much, outside of Elizabeth Olsen's terrific face of sheer terror and shock whenever a gigantic monster enters her eyesight--and several great moments where you catch civilians seeing fucking Godzilla destroying a city on the news and collectively shitting their pants, which was an unexpectedly brilliant way to really make the movie feel like it was happening in the real world instead of some movie land where giant monsters weren't that big of a deal, so long as they aren't in front of you. But then there was the stupid Navy guy dropping lines like "I guess we're monster hunters, now?" like he's playing a video game, literally hours after it was revealed that giant unkillable monsters are destroying cities.
The final act is officially kicked off with the terrific space-jumping sequence from the teasers, and from that point on, it's fucking on. Godzilla and the Mutos are beating the shit out of each other while our heroic Navy guys are trying to recover the jacked (armed) nuke out of the monster nest. Both are fantastically executed, and there's enough interaction between the two sequences that there's no disconnect when shifting focus from one to the other. Godzilla, as a concept, is introduced pretty much from the beginning as more of a tweener/anti-hero akin to the original Godzilla as opposed to a destructive heel character like the marketing suggests. I wasn't sure how I felt about this early on, but by the end, I was completely sold and ready for sequels. As Godzilla crumpled to the ground right after saving San Francisco, the preceding fight taking its toll, I felt genuine sympathy for the 400-foot tall fire-breathing dinosaur. And when he rises to his feet, "Godzilla: King of the monsters" is shown on the giant screens, and survivors rise to their feet and actually cheer for him, the movie earns an emotional response from its audience, and fuck me, I was happier than I've been after a happy ending in a movie in a very long time. Godzilla is my new favorite superhero, and I'm dying for a sequel so I can see him again.
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That David Lynch Goofy trailer is the best thing I've ever seen.
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So they just aired a "fuck" on TV. Is this new?
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It would have been better if Skyler died somehow. I hate that bitch.
Skylar was sexy and a total bitch.. She was the one that fucking insisted on getting in on the act, then bitches about it toward the end forcing Walt to put her in her place when he made that phone call to her after kidnapping the baby.. It was all his idea and she should've known that..
Oh boy.
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Canceled. #fiveseasonsandfuckeverything
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Man this show. This show. How the fuck can somebody just make something this good, all on his own? Can we just put Louis CK in charge of all television?
I can't put into words how great this show is. Brilliant.
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Do you really need to make five times your rent in monthly salary to be able to afford it?
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Well that simply isn't true.The wire isn't even close to being the best show ever
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I hope Matthew Rhys gets some Emmy attention for this episode. Assuming that Best Actor is pretty much a two-man race with Cranston and McConaughey, any chance he slides into one of the three remaining spots? I don't watch nearly enough currently airing TV to know the whole field, but I do know that he stole the entire damn series tonight.
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Rhys is absolutely slaying tonight.
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:lol:What, you guys hate Nina?Sorry, I thought the Henry crying scene was cringe-worthingly, eye-roll inducingly bad. Way over the top, no subtlety whatsoever to the metaphor. What kid reacts like that? "I swear in not a bad person!!"
Well, kids aren't known for subtlety. It actually sounded like something a real kid would think/say, which is why I thought it was effective. Henry and Paige have been written as pretty smart kids, so it's realistic that he'd have a legitimate moral dilemma when reality hit him and he realized that he was actually a criminal.
As for Nina, I don't hate Nina. Just sayin' that I think she's playing too many angles, and she's gonna get got for it.
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Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah. I've got a friend who's granted me the hook-up with HBO GO but they have Comcast and because Comcast are gigantic dickbags, I can't watch on my PS3, meaning I have to either borrow my mom's Chromecast or use my laptop (meaning I can't do anything else on my laptop as long as I'm watching). With this deal, I can knock everything I need to see out in no time, even if I'll have to watch GOT and True Detective the hard way.
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It's been a slow season but it looks like things are going to pick up big time next week. Great episode this week. Henry breaking down because of how bad he felt was heartbreaking. Who knows what the hell Nina is doing. I'm calling that whenever she gets made by Stan her time on the show comes to an end. It's been made clear enough that he has something of a temper.
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I think I preferred this to most of Season 3. S3 had some absolutely incredible gimmick episodes that were series highlights but outside of them? Meh. Season 2 has yet to be even approached in quality, though.
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I'm disappointed that "Game of Thrones in Space" isn't the actual title.
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I'd rank them...
Season 3
Season 5
Season 2
Season 4
Season 1
Wknd Estimates: Godzilla - 93.2M
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The writing for both movies is mediocre and banal, which was to be expected from the writer who wrote Doom. The difference is that, in addition to Godzilla having much better subject matter, Gareth Edwards outclasses Stallone as a director by a comfortable margin in every conceivable way.