I just got out of a screening for Godzilla, and the film definitely has merits, but in my opinion it absolutely does not live up to expectations. Now most of this post is probably going to upset anyone who enjoyed the film, but this is my opinion immediately following the movie. Warning, spoiler heavy, especially towards the end.
First of all, this didn't seem like a Godzilla movie to me. I grew up watching a few Showa series films, and a couple Heisei films. At the time, Godzilla films weren't really readily available to me, so I pretty much rewatched the few I had repeatedly. The ones that really stick out are Terror of Mechagodzilla, Godzilla VS Monster Zero, Godzilla VS the Sea Monster, and Godzilla VS Megalon. I wasn't expecting this to be anything like any of the ones I watched as a kid, as some of those are awful, just truly awful.
I did, however, expect Godzilla to be in it! It would be a major exaggeration to say Godzilla isn't in much of the movie, and I'm sure if I went back and added up the screen time for Godzilla in older titles, it's probably pretty on par, but it really seemed like the filmmakers were intentionally keeping Godzilla off screen. There were multiple times in the film where Godzilla is about to do battle with one of the monsters, and the filmmakers cut away. Some of that was undoubtedly to give more meaning to the scene were we actually get to see him, but even then, it didn't feel like much. Don't get me wrong though, I'm grateful we got another monster. |
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