Godzilla

I liked it too. After the last one my hopes were mush as I feared the worst. I tried not to get falsely encouraged by the positive reviews this one got and it paid off. Enjoyable movie. I did not learn anything about myself, life, what it's all about or anything historical. But I was highly entertained.
 
Saw it yesterday on IMAX 3D, the best way to see a big action film like this. Very entertaining. Liked it a lot. Wish they had used his original roar, though. 8/10.
 
Thanks guys! I wasn't going to waste my time because I figured "another Godzilla movie" would just suck. I go to be entertained and it sounds like this fits the bill.
 
I saw my first Godzilla movie, which was called "Gigantis the Fire Monster" (now renamed "Godzilla Raids Again"), at the State Theater in Amarillo about 1959. I think I've seen every one since then, so I couldn't miss the 30th installment in the Godzilla series.

It was certainly one of the best ones.....but I didn't like the way they kept Godzilla off screen until late in the movie. I couldn't believe that the first battle between the MUTO and G was seen kinda of off-handedly by the little boy watching TV!!! WTF! The first showdown between monsters should have been a highlight.

Somebody mentioned the Godzilla's roar. I thought it was awesome, especially that last bellow during the final showdown. I was near a speaker and it about blew my hat off.

It's good summer fun. Go see it.
 
Clean.........I saw scores of movies at the State. Also went to the cheapee theater "Victory" next door. The State was 25 cents and the Victory was 15 cents.Also went to the "Paramount" down the street on Polk a lot. For a dollar I could ride the bus downtown, get a soda, candy, see 2 movies at 2 theaters, and ride the bus back home.
 
I'm tired of every big screen being called IMAX. I actually didn't think the 3D added much to the monster fights, I would have much rather paid a reasonable price to watch it regularly.

Good movie, one of the better monster movies ever made IMO, but also left me feeling it could have been so much better. The military could have been more competent, the clichés toned down, the "character X is going to survive everything so there's no real tension here" stuff dealt with, and most of all, a little less of the cheap "delay the main villain forever while teasing him a lot" that pretty much everybody does nowadays. A Godzilla movie should have more of, you know, Godzilla.

The CGI was flawless though; every last detail of Godzilla looked as "realistic" as a 400 foot tall nuclear-powered dinosaurish creature can be. When he shakes his head every ripple of his neck looks exactly like an animals neck would ripple in that situation.
 
Just got out and overall I liked it. Certainly worth the $6 early bird price. As mentioned earlier I agree not enough godzilla and in my opinion too much focus on the family/hero story line when after all was said and done Godzilla is the hero. I loved the roar too.

I say go see it if you can. Saw the regular version which was entertaining enough for me.
 
dillohorn, we hung out at all the same places. My Mom worked downtown. My sister and I would take the bus down there and she'd give us money to see movies during the summer. We spent a lot of time at the Dick Bivens Library too.

Nobody would let kids wander around downtown alone these days. Times were different... and much better then.
 
I'm tired of people who think that movie goers don't know the difference between an IMAX 3D and 3D screen. For me, IMAX is worth the extra cost, as is standard 3D over regular 2D for certain films.
 
I agree that it wasn't one of the better films in 3D (the Iron Man series and Avatar were excellent), but you never know until you see it. Based on the trailer, I thought it would be a knockout in 3D, but I still enjoyed it.
 
I thought it was OK, better than "Pacific Rim" and "Battleship."

But mainly (and probably only) because it starred the famous creature named in the title.

The rest of the flick was OK, but more of the big guy was needed, IMHO.

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I actually liked it more than I expected - I figure if you can get past the issue of Godzilla actually EXISTING, you can get past the concept that he's an apex predator existing specifically to do the thing that he did at the end of the movie (avoiding spoilers for those who haven't seen it or the dozens of previous Godzilla movie renditions.)

BTW for CGI, I was a little disappointed in that all the monsters still looked like guys in monster suits - just much more lifelike monster suits.
 
For me, nothing can surpass the greatness that was "King Kong versus Godzilla" in 1962. I saw it at the drive-in in Rockdale when I was a little girl. My sister and I were visiting family friends who had a teenaged daughter, and she and her friends took us to the drive-in with them n night. It was fun and exciting to be out with teenagers, and that movie will live forever in my memory as the cheesiest, most fun movie ever. I've seen none of the more recent incarnations of either Godzilla or King Kong because I don't want that memory disturbed.
 
That actually would have been a great ending. Slow pan out of Godzilla eating the monster in the middle of a wrecked city, and everyone standing around going... OK now what???

And when I said they looked like guys in monster suits, I just mean that to be true to the old-school Godzilla look, you've got a reptile with essentially man-feet and arms. I especially noticed it with the other two monsters, both of whose legs looked human and not at all designed to walk on all fours. It literally looked like a cleaned-up CGI version of a guy in a bug suit.
 
Just watched it again, with my parents, at their house.

I stand by my statement that the pseudo-3D added nothing to the film. The big screen, however, made a huge difference. I liked Godzilla in the theater, but it lost a ton of its luster watching at home. The lack of Godzilla screen time is more glaring as well, since the scenes he's in no longer tower over you, and the lighting in the monster fights is just awful for home sets. We could barely tell what was going on half the time because there was almost no contrast at all.
 
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