GODZILLA 2 : TOHO MONSTERS CONFIRMED AND RELEASE DATE

Saw it in 2D. An average slab of popcorn entertainment. I actually liked the character focus, but it suffered the exact same problems as Pacific Rim: lumbering a decent cast with poor pacing, terrible dialogue, a clichéd plot and moments of unintentional hilarity (the bit in Las Vegas, where they fail to notice it stomping away from the mountain...really?). But it was pretty, ambitious and when it got down to it, had an entertaining final fight. 6/10 territory

sounds really interesting.. so how was it?

It was an ok movie. Probably 6/10 territory.

I can get the idea of not having so much action to make it stand out more. But there was too much teasing at action that actually was happening and just cutting away to characters you didn't care about.

For 2 hours you really need more payoff than a great fight at the very end. The end was great to be sure. It's just too bad the human characters weren't very interesting. Just a bunch of cliches really and for a movie that intentionally focused away from the monsters for these characters...that's a bit disappointing.

Certainly glad it had enough success to get a sequel, but if they go with this approach again...I'll just wait to rent it.

As I mentioned many posts back, I had a few gripes with the movie despite my overall satisfaction. One thing that I really loved was how humanistic they made Godzilla. It was a great homage to the old movies and we could really sympathize with him. One thing I really hated was, once again, how humanistic they made Godzilla. Being sympathetic towards him is fine, that was the point of Godzilla movies after all. But in this movie, he was too ambivalent. In previous movies, he killed people left and right and you still wanted to root for him. In this one, it's like he made an effort to not kill a single person.

TL;DR: His humanistic nature acted a s a double edged sword.

My next Gripe has spoilers so read at your own risk:



Other than those, I thought the movie was excellent. The reveals were pretty next level in hype factor(especially the Atomic Breath) and the payoff at the end was very good. The original Godzilla movie was only 98 minutes and Godzilla only appeared for about 12 minutes so him appearing for nearly 30 in a 123 minute movie made me quite happy.

[size=17]Warning!! SPOILERS AHEAD!! You've been warned!!
Written by Max Bornstein and directed by Gareth Edwards.
From Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Brothers Domestic.
Based upon 'Godzilla' from Toho Pictures, LTD, Tokyo, Japan.

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First off: I'd like to dispel some rumors based upon the
trailers and TV spots that we've seen since the beginning of this year.

There is no Rodan, no Mothra and no Baragon in the movie. The only classic Toho monster is Godzilla himself.

There are only 2, other new monsters besides Godzilla.
The M.U.T.O.'s - Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms. (1 male, 60 meters tall, and 1 female, 100 meters tall)

Godzilla is part of an ancient species of dinosaur that lived in a time when the surface radiation of the planet was many times more than it is now. When the radiation decreased, ancient beasts took refuge in the bottoms of the oceans or underground, feeding on radiation from the core. (Is the core radioactive?) The M.U.T.O.'s are parasite species that fed on Godzilla's species. The film opens with a mining team discovering dormant M.U.T.O. spores still living within the skeleton remains of an even bigger relative of Godzilla which looks amazing as it's a real set piece and not CG.

Godzilla himself was dormant in the ocean for millions of years. In 1954, the first nuclear sub explored an underwater trench and the radiation awoke Godzilla... to more or less no consequence.

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First onto the good points of the film:
The script was pretty decent and the characters were somewhat believable.
We get to see through their eyes "what if monsters were real and how would we deal with them."

Bryan Cranston (Nuclear Physicist, Joe Brody) was brilliant as was Ken Watanabe (Dr. Ichiro Serizawa)
The other supporting characters were pretty good too minus one in particular, which I will explain later on.

The drama and action were pretty heavy at times with scenes of total devastation
with thousands of people dying or being injured, due to the monsters' attacks. I mean it is a monster /disaster movie, right?

So expect to see a lot of destruction and scenes of death, especially when Godzilla
comes ashore in Honolulu, Hawaii (it was also a scene in the recent trailer)... It's a pretty grim scene.


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OK now onto the bad.
Yeah there were a few things that bugged me.

Aaron-Taylor Johnson's performance was kind of underwhelming, IMHO.
He didn't seem very emotional and took all the unreal incidents as if they were everyday occurrences, which they aren't. How could he be so calm when the Big G makes his grande entrance? Or when someone close to him died?

Godzilla is only on screen for about a total of 20 - 25 minutes and the final, big fight is at night or early morning.
I know it's not much of a big deal, but I wanted to see a lot more of the big guy wrecking the city and kicking monster
butt!!

Well, in the original 'Gojira' (1954) he is only on screen for a total of about 15 minutes and the movie is considered a classic. Well, it is a classic and I own the 50th anniversary 2-disc DVD set.




My final thoughts: If you're a fan of Gojira as much as I am - I say go see it.
It's really epic in size and scope - plus the fight scenes (when they were visible)
were pretty awesome, other than it was kinda dark (like I mentioned above.)

Overall it's really good and fits in well with the original, Toho films.
Oh one more thing: I also saw it for a second time in 3-D and it was a lot better, IMHO. :)
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Oh and a sequel is in the works as the movie's already made $200 + million, worldwide :)[/h]

Went so see the film, i would give it 3/5 stars or what ever. Alot of friends of mine hyped the film quite a lot and i can honestly say i dont see the reason for that. It was and average, 'normal' popcorn action film with your regular hollywood humor and hollywood action scenes. I did not see any good reason to get your pants wet over this film.

YES, it was way better than the, i think it was 1998 when they made the first 'American' Godzilla movie, BUT when you compare this film to all the other films that have been made, it is average. Maybe if you consider only the Godzilla movies it might be really good, but i have only seen the two American Godzilla movies so i can not make that refrence.

Toho Monsters confirmed for Godzilla 2! Those Toho monsters will be....



And released date for the movie will be June / 8 / 2018

And that is all~ ( = w = )/

So now we must wait again for the return of Gojira! Glad to see the classic monster villains returning, though. Muto's were okay, but reminded me too much of Cloverfield monster.

For me it's Starship Troopers and Tremors~ XD