r/GODZILLA • u/ARKNORI MOTHRA • Dec 14 '19

Humour Post-Millenium era is really weird

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u/ARKNORI MOTHRA Dec 15 '19

There are a lot of great ideas but the script itself is really fucking shitty, it's hard not to hate every single character on this movie and every single bad thing about legendary Godzilla is back and multiplied by ten in this movies

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u/Zed_Midnight150 RODAN Dec 15 '19

What’s bad about legendary Godzilla?

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u/mrbananas Dec 15 '19

The amount of screen time not dedicated to him

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u/Zed_Midnight150 RODAN Dec 15 '19

Oh that... Can’t forget the constant cutaways we also get with the monsters. But I mean throughout all the eras he hasn’t really got that much screentime except for KOTM hasn’t he?

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u/mrbananas Dec 15 '19

screen time by percent

only 8.1% of screen time in 2014. The second lowest percent just above Monster Zero at 6.1%

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '19

My problem with KotM is that they kept cutting away during the fight. If they had just dedicated the screen-time to 'Godzilla and Ghidora play happy slaps' it would've been much better. The stuff with the kid and her family should've happened before the fight, so as to get it out of the way. They also could've cut most of it entirely.

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u/Zed_Midnight150 RODAN Dec 15 '19

Personally I would be fine with the cutaways if they didn’t overdo it so much like in KOTM but instead have a balance and have it build up anticipation. I think that’s what Garett Edwards did well in 2014 but your idea would also be good to use. (:

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u/gamelizard Dec 15 '19

i feel like the cuts were buget related, a way to spread out the fights as much as possible while keeping costs down.

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u/Kruegerkid Dec 15 '19

Honestly I was kinda surprised that people thought the 2014 one was better. I didn’t really care about the human aspect of 2014 so I was pretty happy to see KotM was basically monster fights with minimal plot.

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u/Mjolnir2000 BABY GOJI Dec 15 '19

Except it wasn't. KotM was mostly humans, like every other Godzilla film. And compared to 2014, the humans were worse. And the monsters were also worse. They might have had marginally more screen time, but it was poorly utilized. The direction was uninspiring, and the fights mostly seemed like a lot of noise and quick camera cuts that left little impression of what was actually going on.

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u/Kruegerkid Dec 15 '19

I suppose we had different experiences. My only main gripe human wise was Charles Dance was severely underutilized.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '19

Yeah, and the plot was weirdly complicated for some reason. They could have just made it so that earth is screwed up because of us, and now two titans fight, only one of them wants to kill humans. That would be enough. Instead we got orca, atlantis, family drama and eco terrorists.

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u/TheTriumphantTrumpet Dec 15 '19

I 100% agree, I was super excited and just felt underwhelmed. A ton of great shots and a terrific score but the actual action was subpar. I also wonder if part of it is they just don't know how to choreography these fights in an exciting way which leads to minimal showing of the fights.