OK.
So I am a COMPLETE Godzilla fan boy. When I was a kid I actually went to the theater to watch the kind of corny Godzilla (Showa Godzilla) as well as watching every old one I could find on Creature Feature... etc.
I now own a bunch of them, some unfortunately on VHS so... someday I need to get them moved but, let me just say this about G:KotM... IT WAS AMAZING!
I hate it when people build up a movie, then you go, and are disappointed. I heard all kinds of good things about this movie and almost dreaded going but... everything I heard was true. It really was a keep you on the edge of your seat movie.
It was NOT perfect. There were a few things they could have done better, for example taken a little more time. Felt like they shortened it a bit. The other thing that made me want to scream was that they gave VERY LITTLE TIME TO THE OTHER MONSTERS. There were snippets here and there, and don't get me wrong, the action with Godzilla, Rodan, King Ghidorah and Mothra where crazy good but at the end of the movie I wanted to see more more more.
So here is to hoping G vs. KK will bring that.
Anyway, I do not want to say too much because I like what I like and other people, especially people who might miss all of the 8 zillion plot, character and other back references to the past Godzilla movies... other people might not like that or get those references (which made it extra fun for me... I kept explaining every scene to my wife).
So... 5/5 and two thumbs up for G:KotM.
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Shin Gojira
Got to see the special preview on 11-OCT! It was great! I went into it with no expectations and I was pleasantly surprised, despite it not being exactly what I had expected.
I won't reveal anything... I will simply summarize with:
The monster was FANTASTIC! LOVED it. As with many Godzilla movies, there was a secondary, or perhaps a primary, plot aside from the monster. It was serious and yet made the movie much lighter in spirit than I had expected. It will be interesting to see how the English dubbed version compares to this subtitled version, when it arrives later this year.
And really that is about all I want to say. Don't go into it expecting Godzilla itself to be the focal point, though it is the plot driver. Just go to soak in a new, Japanese release of Godzilla. :)
Enjoy!
I won't reveal anything... I will simply summarize with:
The monster was FANTASTIC! LOVED it. As with many Godzilla movies, there was a secondary, or perhaps a primary, plot aside from the monster. It was serious and yet made the movie much lighter in spirit than I had expected. It will be interesting to see how the English dubbed version compares to this subtitled version, when it arrives later this year.
And really that is about all I want to say. Don't go into it expecting Godzilla itself to be the focal point, though it is the plot driver. Just go to soak in a new, Japanese release of Godzilla. :)
Enjoy!
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Godzilla!
Well, I went to the 7:00 PM show tonight. Took my son and we had a good time. Never new there were other Godzilla "nerds" out there... groups of people hanging out and talking about this movie and comparing it to other Godzilla movies throughout the past 60 years. It was kind of cool. I also discovered I am not the only person in North Phoenix that owns a Godzilla T-Shirt. :)
The movie was a good movie. That sounds odd, I know, but what I mean is it is a MOVIE... not a MONSTER MOVIE. Does that make more sense? It is quite the suspenseful drama and I imagine you could have almost replaced the monsters with aliens or natural disasters or something like that. That being said the monsters were cool as well. It was sort of two movies in one... and it hearkens back to the original Godzilla movie from 1954 in that the monster is a necessary part of the story but the monster is not necessarily the primary focus of the movie.
It's a movie that anyone can see I think, even people who hate sci-fi or monster movies. There was little or no foul language (I didn't catch any, but I imagine someone had to swear at some point), no sex or nudity (not that you would expect that in a Godzilla movie). In a way it was really a near tragedy sort of movie with a ton of action (even tho' not a ton of monster action), several sad scenes, confusion, hysteria...
Critics have been comparing it to different types of movies as this really cannot be compared to the Godzilla movies from the past 30 or so years, it is very different, and not at all like the last American Godzilla movie. At the end of the movie I wasn't sure how I felt about it... but I sat awhile and thought about the entire movie... sort of rewound it and played it back and felt both satisfied and dissatisfied because I had different sets of criteria in my head and it didn't fully match any of them.
I will very likely see the movie again.
But to reiterate... this is not your "typical" Godzilla movie. It is much more like the original in many ways, which in turn was also not like any of the movies that followed after it. It had very serious overtones, focused a fair amount on people and the misery going on around them, and the monsters themselves were almost oblivious to humans, except in a few instances.
One thing that DID bug me in the movie were the soldiers carrying sidearms and rifles. Seriously. The monsters can take direct hit from missiles and not even know they were hit... they can walk through sky scrapers as if they were cobwebs... pistols? :) Why carry anything at all...
The movie was a good movie. That sounds odd, I know, but what I mean is it is a MOVIE... not a MONSTER MOVIE. Does that make more sense? It is quite the suspenseful drama and I imagine you could have almost replaced the monsters with aliens or natural disasters or something like that. That being said the monsters were cool as well. It was sort of two movies in one... and it hearkens back to the original Godzilla movie from 1954 in that the monster is a necessary part of the story but the monster is not necessarily the primary focus of the movie.
It's a movie that anyone can see I think, even people who hate sci-fi or monster movies. There was little or no foul language (I didn't catch any, but I imagine someone had to swear at some point), no sex or nudity (not that you would expect that in a Godzilla movie). In a way it was really a near tragedy sort of movie with a ton of action (even tho' not a ton of monster action), several sad scenes, confusion, hysteria...
Critics have been comparing it to different types of movies as this really cannot be compared to the Godzilla movies from the past 30 or so years, it is very different, and not at all like the last American Godzilla movie. At the end of the movie I wasn't sure how I felt about it... but I sat awhile and thought about the entire movie... sort of rewound it and played it back and felt both satisfied and dissatisfied because I had different sets of criteria in my head and it didn't fully match any of them.
I will very likely see the movie again.
But to reiterate... this is not your "typical" Godzilla movie. It is much more like the original in many ways, which in turn was also not like any of the movies that followed after it. It had very serious overtones, focused a fair amount on people and the misery going on around them, and the monsters themselves were almost oblivious to humans, except in a few instances.
One thing that DID bug me in the movie were the soldiers carrying sidearms and rifles. Seriously. The monsters can take direct hit from missiles and not even know they were hit... they can walk through sky scrapers as if they were cobwebs... pistols? :) Why carry anything at all...
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