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    Godzilla

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    A lot of people dumped all over Roland Emmerich's 98 Godzilla and for good reason. Yet I felt that for a movie about a giant monster destroying NYC it delivered at least action wise, all that could be expected. It was everything else in the 98 version that was terrible, capped off by its idiotic, tongue and cheek attitude toward everything, making none of the destruction seem in any way serious or scary. This new version for the most part, plays it 100% serious, choosing to focus much more on the human element and the catastrophic effect on the population than on Godzilla or his "enemies". In fact it's over an hour before audiences will even get a glimpse at the star of the show and even then it's mostly a tease. Like any director worth his salt, Gareth Edwards knows that you just cant put Godzilla in the first half of the movie, because after the big reveal where do you go from there? So he set's up a decent set of characters (most notably Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe) and allows the film to build up to the monster show. However, with most of the action taking place in the final half hour, that's amounts to quite a bit of time to wait for today's audiences and I can surely see the word "boring" being thrown around a lot. For this is a monster movie after all and even though this film succeeds brilliantly at creating a serious tone, it is, at its core, a wholly ridiculous story, one that perhaps was never meant to be given the serious treatment. To make it real and to build characters people care about takes time and it's time today's audiences just aren't willing to invest in a Godzilla movie. All they want is the destruction and 25 minutes of it in nearly a 2hr movie just isn't enough.

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    jerster82@  16.5.2014 age: 26-35 438 reviews

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