AND HERE GOES THE POINTS OF DISAGREEMENT
Godzilla wasn't a very good monster movie. It wasn't particularly bad, but a lot went wrong which held it back from being good. As a rampaging, fire breathing monster, it was good and the franchise is rebooted somewhat. As a film, ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. And here is my reasoning (Some spoilers ahead):
-They killed Brian Cranston early. Aka, they wasted a talented actor. The time he was in he did spectacularly, but really? You're gonna waste an actor like that? Come on....
-The premise of old Godzilla was the fear of nuclear weaponry. They did okay with that. What held it back was the plot and trying to put in human drama. They took time away from Godzilla being a thing for "This guy has a family, and it parallels him having an absent father!" Really, though, they should have ramped the action up and put something simple enough to be executed. But with the way the director did that, you couldn't really tell that it was telling the dangers of nuclear weapons and more of "AS HUMANS WE MUST SURVIVE THIS SOMEHOW. LETS USE OUR NUKES TO BEAT IT. RESTORE THE NATURAL BALANCE? NOPE, DON'T CARE!"
-Ya, characters were cliched and poorly executed. Nothing wrong with cliche, what matters is poorly executed cliche. The actors were good, but the characters needed to have some decent dimension. Otherwise, just have them witness the monster destroying everything and move on. They attempted to add that dimension, and they did it pretty badly.
-What's a good screenplay? Not Godzilla 2014, that's what. Pacing could have seriously improved and could do a lot better than just delay the appearance of Godzilla until half way to the film. The story could have really been written better. Think of it like this, the screenplay made the 98 debacle look decent. Ya, I said it, sue me.
-Remember how I said they didn't do the premise well? Its mostly cuz of screenplay and script. If they had actually reworded a lot of things, then maybe their points would have been conveyed across much better. But it wasn't really clear. Talk more about Godzilla instead of a person's family life and then it could have improved.
-Action wasn't very long. And the ending of how he won was less climactic than it could be. Then there were the scenes where Godzilla fell. First one was not necessary and second one had less impact. It was cool while it lasted, but there could have been more and the end could have definitely done better.
-Godzilla wasn't even in half the film. Again cuz of the screenplay and storyline. As I said before, they could have put less emphasis on the human drama and more on the concern of Godzilla and the MUTOs being a thing. Otherwise, it was kind of a waste of characters.
So what's good with it? Visuals, sound effects, and whatever I mentioned above. They did a good job designing the monsters and creating the sound effects to match the giant monster feel. Which gives me justification that as a franchise, it is only kind of rebooted. As a giant monster thing, ya definitely good job. But as a film, a whole lot of nope and whole lot of shit. Overall, the point is that the film was held back a lot by itself and by its own screenplay. That's why I say Godzilla isn't a good monster film. If you're pirating something, don't pirate this. Not worth it.
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