4815162342 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Equal amount of destruction. You have to admit, no one makes more divisive movies on this forum than WB TDKR Man of Steel Pacific Rim Godzilla and more 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 You have to admit, no one makes more divisive movies on this forum than WB TDKR Man of Steel Pacific Rim Godzilla and more Hobbit as well 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 You have a lot of posts to catch up on nah...i have contributed to the 'like it' posts a few pages back. but things get seen thru the love hate prism imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted May 21, 2014 Community Manager Share Posted May 21, 2014 Should we take this outside? Hey, this is an issue Spielberg faces with most of his movies: they are expertly crafted but it's hard to pin-point a Spielberg visual style. Of the iconic directors, he's the vanilla of execution. It's very popular, it works, but it's not exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punishment Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I think seeing Tele defending Godzilla is the biggest shock I have seen since joining this forum. He makes his points eloquently as always (well deserved like magnet), but when I read them they just make me smile and shake my head in disbelief. I can't write half as well as Tele, but I'll give it my best try: Warning do NOT open this spoiler if you have not watched the movie! I will say again that the marketing for the movie was awesome (misleading, but masterfully done).The move just drags on which is due mainly to to dreadful acting, but also because we never get to see Godzilla in any action (or much of any) until the end of the movie which saves the movie from being an entire waste for me.The cut away scenes showing Godzilla fighting the mutos were totally unacceptable to me and frankly makes it look like they ran out of budget money to properly show Godzilla in action.I just felt like everytime the movie was about to ramp up they would shove more bad acting and cheesy tv cutaways in instead.And to compare this movie to the likes of Jaws, Jurassic Park, or Aliens is so unfair to those movies as they are on an entirely different level.I'm glad so many people do like the movie though and I will be the first one in line again for the next one as I have been and always will be a die-hard Godzilla fan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 (edited) You have a lot of posts to catch up on actually even though it may seem that way, I don't hate Godzilla, it was overall an entertaining film but kind of disappointing based on what the filmmakers were saying and the trailers. Edited May 21, 2014 by John Marston 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 The characters. Give me a character who changed at all besides Hammond in JP. Annoying kids. Walking cliches ((Ray Arnold, Nedry, Dodgson, Muldoon)). of all the potentially pluses gz might have over jp, characters is not one of them. not the same ball park, not even the same sport 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted May 21, 2014 Community Manager Share Posted May 21, 2014 of all the potentially pluses gz might have over jp, characters is not one of them. not the same ball park, not even the same sport I think Mulder isn't arguing GZ has better characters than JP but that both had equally weak characters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop54 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Maybe during the Tuesday's numbers thread we can talk about numbers???? Is that a possibility? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulder Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I think Mulder isn't arguing GZ has better characters than JP but that both had equally weak characters. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I think Mulder isn't arguing GZ has better characters than JP but that both had equally weak characters. LMAO Godzilla got Water Bottle out of hibernation. You hardly post in the movie threads. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Maybe during the Tuesday's numbers thread we can talk about numbers???? Is that a possibility? What do you want to talk about Bishop? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bballman24 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Maybe during the Tuesday's numbers thread we can talk about numbers???? Is that a possibility? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAR Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 You can only talk about the numbers for so long Godzilla had a very good Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Community Manager Water Bottle Posted May 21, 2014 Community Manager Share Posted May 21, 2014 LMAO Godzilla got Water Bottle out of hibernation. You hardly post in the movie threads. I made like 5 posts in the Star Wars thread like a few months back. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#ED Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 So now we got Big Pun involved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Marston Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 (edited) I think Mulder isn't arguing GZ has better characters than JP but that both had equally weak characters. I would say no, the characters in JP held my attention during the non dinosaur scenes while I found most of the characters in Godzilla boring and uninteresting. Especially the lead character, who we spend a lot of time with. The only character I found myself liking was Bryan Cranston's character. Edited May 21, 2014 by John Marston 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mulder Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I would say no, the characters in JP held my attention during the non dinosaur scenes while I found most of the characters in Godzilla boring and uninteresting. Especially the lead character, who we spend a lot of time with. The only character I found myself liking was Bryan Cranston's character. That's subjective though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I think Mulder isn't arguing GZ has better characters than JP but that both had equally weak characters. k. imo characters in jp were amazing. grant, malcom, satller, hammond, newman...and their chemistry...was brilliant. they spared no expense. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecstasy Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I think seeing Tele defending Godzilla is the biggest shock I have seen since joining this forum. He makes his points eloquently as always (well deserved like magnet), but when I read them they just make me smile and shake my head in disbelief. I can't write half as well as Tele, but I'll give it my best try: Warning do NOT open this spoiler if you have not watched the movie! I will say again that the marketing for the movie was awesome (misleading, but masterfully done).The move just drags on which is due mainly to to dreadful acting, but also because we never get to see Godzilla in any action (or much of any) until the end of the movie which saves the movie from being an entire waste for me.The cut away scenes showing Godzilla fighting the mutos were totally unacceptable to me and frankly makes it look like they ran out of budget money to properly show Godzilla in action.I just felt like everytime the movie was about to ramp up they would shove more bad acting and cheesy tv cutaways in instead.And to compare this movie to the likes of Jaws, Jurassic Park, or Aliens is so unfair to those movies as they are on an entirely different level.I'm glad so many people do like the movie though and I will be the first one in line again for the next one as I have been and always will be a die-hard Godzilla fan. I understood it. Good job. Tele's a smart guy. But let's keep the praises to a minimum. We don't want it to go this head. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
