forgeforsaken
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Jet Jaguar, and Ultraman clone but not Ultraman.
The monster I'd love to see another take on is Hedorah the Smog Monster.
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Godzilla |OT| Legendary
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Jet Jaguar, and Ultraman clone but not Ultraman.
The monster I'd love to see another take on is Hedorah the Smog Monster.
Delta Assault
Member
They gotta keep the psychedelic cartoons though!
you can probably recolor the water and tilt it and its the gaf logo kinda.
should be the gaf logo for a week at least
ahahah, i'd totally be up for it!
HalfBakedProphet
Member
you're the one who's never seen a Godzilla movie, right?
1998 doesn't count
Why are you so worried about a film you might see? If you have no attachment to the series, the biggest stake for you is being out 7 or 8 bucks for seeing a movie that wasn't your thing. Chill out
Eteric Rice
Member
Movie is now at 90% on RT.
The Librarian
Banned
Movie is now at 90% on RT.
Big G comin'
dreamcastfan
Member
It started going back up! =OMovie is now at 90% on RT.
sorry, breh
Corpsepyre
Banned
Movie is now at 90% on RT.
RT has one heavily flawed ratings system. An average score, at times, ends up being a negative or a positive. If one person reviews a movie, his 7/10 is considered either a 100 % rating, or even a 0 % rating if RT somehow manages to term it a Rotten score (which they have in the past). I wouldn't put too much stock in this website if I were you. A lot of the scores there on RT right now are good to average, but NOT first rate 5/5 scores.
The Librarian
Banned
I keep telling myself I won't read anymore reviews, but, dammit, I need to read more impressions!
dreamcastfan
Member
No worries. People like what they like.
triplestation
Member
thats me in philosophy class
Ludicrous Speed
Banned
Dude, calm down. That is what people do on message boards. They discuss things, films included, and films they haven't even seen. Maybe I'm not as big a Godzilla fan as you are, but I am a fan of film, and they're not mutually exclusive. Is that okay?
The Librarian
Banned
For those of you that have seen the movie, what was your favorite aspect/part about it? Non-spoiler answers if you can help it.
HalfBakedProphet
Member
I do want to RT score to be high to help generate buzz. I assume the other posters watching it are the same way.
We aren't so deluded to think the RT score is an definitive measure of a movies quality.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Expendable.
Member
The Librarian
Banned
Plus word of mouth.
Yeah, I saw that. It was a good review; I really enjoyed it!
HalfBakedProphet
Member
you don't think RT affects WOM? Work with me here
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Not outside of people bullshitting on messageboards, nah
Rottenwatching is more often than not a giant waste of time.
So far as the early returns I'm seeing in this thread - not at all surprised the most common complaint is that the human characters aren't all that well drawn or interesting. It was the ENTIRE problem with Edwards' Monsters, too. Unfortunately for that film, he couldn't afford 30 or 40 minutes worth of monsterfighting. Luckily for us, Godzilla won't have that problem.
This is spot-on.
Incredibly jealous of you guys who saw it already. Got to wait for Thursday night for me.
Don't say that, it's serious business 'round these here parts.
Not outside of people bullshitting on messageboards, nah
Rottenwatching is more often than not a giant waste of time.
Don't say that, it's serious business 'round these here parts.
HalfBakedProphet
Member
Id say my empirical evidence disagrees but I really don't have any.Not outside of people bullshitting on messageboards, nah
But really, I think you should go back and watch Monsters. You know now it has almost nothing to do with actual monsters, its more of a vacation movie with occasion land squids. But its GOOD, just give it a chance
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Nah, I gave it plenty of chance in the first place. My problem is entirely with the lack of characterization and bad acting on display. Edwards stranded his actors in some well designed atmosphere. It sounds like he might have done the same thing, but to a much lesser extent, in Godzilla.
Hopefully that small consensus in this thread is somewhat off-base. I'd like it to be so. But his earlier film doesn't give me much confidence.
I do have confidence in his ability to make this thing look beautiful, though.
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
I was thinking about this movie today at work and the criticisms of *human character discussion*
. I can honestly say that I don't agree with much that has been said.
. I'm keeping the spoilers light in case someone accidentally clicks on them.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson's character
I think that what we witness of him throughout the film is him evoking the same thought process of his father, only he handles it in a militaristic sense, as that's what he knows, as opposed to a scientific sense like his father.
See, that's a prime example for me of where less can be more. That fight just outstayed it's welcome.
HalfBakedProphet
Member
I'm asking a question, why are you so worried? I'm not turning this into a pissing contest of who the bigger fan is. Youve been critical of the CGI too, I'm trying to understand your perspective because you seem pretty wound up for a movie you may or may not even see.
QisTopTier
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I hope this is successful and we get a series of movies with a remake of Destroyah as the final one :3
Eteric Rice
Member
I'm watching a bunch of Godzilla Showa movies right now in prep for it. It's been so many years since I've seen some of these.
Also, GMK was the best of the millennium movies imo.
Also, GMK was the best of the millennium movies imo.
The system flawed, sure, but it doesn't hurt at all to see your movie with a 85-90% rating at RT.
I expect WB to hand Gareth Edwards a blank check for his next movie.
roflwaffles
Member
RT ratings aren't based on quality, they're based on how many people liked the film basically.
Expendable.
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The Librarian
Banned
...which can be a measure of quality. In theory, the better a film is the more likely more people will like it.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Great review Expendable
Rodney McKay
Member
Just got a ticket to the Pacific Science Center IMAX showing on Thursday.
CAN'T WAIT!
CAN'T WAIT!
HalfBakedProphet
Member
he gave it a 6/10, which according to RTs arbitrary cut off point, is fresh.
I know, but the whole didn't sound like fresh. Point in case broken rating system.
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
Is it too soon to make a spoiler thread?
The Librarian
Banned
Is a spoiler thread really necessary? This thread isn't exactly fast moving, and I don't see the difficulty in highlighting all spoiler discussions.
Yeah, spoiler threads are redundant.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
With the new American Godzilla coming out let's look at all the American design takes of the King of The Monsters.
The Steve Miner/Bill Stout Godzilla that never was from 1982. There was even a shout out to Godzilla in Friday the 13th part 3 with Godzilla on the cover of a Fangoria magazine.
The 1994 Godzilla that was designed by Stan Winston which eventually morphed into Godzilla 1998 when Tri-Star wouldn't give Jan Debont enough money for his film.
Godzilla/GINO/Zilla 1998
I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with this version for better or worse.
Godzilla 2014
The Godzilla design in the new reboot and in my opinion the best of all these designs.
The Steve Miner/Bill Stout Godzilla that never was from 1982. There was even a shout out to Godzilla in Friday the 13th part 3 with Godzilla on the cover of a Fangoria magazine.
The 1994 Godzilla that was designed by Stan Winston which eventually morphed into Godzilla 1998 when Tri-Star wouldn't give Jan Debont enough money for his film.
Godzilla/GINO/Zilla 1998
I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with this version for better or worse.
Godzilla 2014
The Godzilla design in the new reboot and in my opinion the best of all these designs.
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
Well I didn't want to scare people out of the thread with giant black walls of text. And when the film comes out, it'd be nice to have a thread to discuss without worrying about spoilers.
For instance, I want to have an in depth discussion on Ford but it isn't fun doing it covertly.
The Librarian
Banned
Obviously anyone can start a spoiler thread at any time, but like Snaku, I find them redundant. I mean, what becomes the point of this thread when everyone takes the entire discussion of the movie somewhere else? Then people have to follow two threads at once if they want all their discussion of Godzilla. Yeah, sure, highlighting text can get kinda of annoying, but that's about it.
Fancy Clown
Member
With the new American Godzilla coming out let's look at all the American design takes of the King of The Monsters.
The Steve Miner/Bill Stout Godzilla that never was from 1982. There was even a shout out to Godzilla in Friday the 13th part 3 with Godzilla on the cover of a Fangoria magazine.
The 1994 Godzilla that was designed by Stan Winston which eventually morphed into Godzilla 1998 when Tri-Star wouldn't give Jan Debont enough money for his film.
Godzilla/GINO/Zilla 1998
I'm pretty sure we're all familiar with this version for better or worse.
Godzilla 2014
The Godzilla design in the new reboot and in my opinion the best of all these designs.
Yeah, 2014 Zilla is easily the best. But I actually kinda like the Crocodile-esque 94' version as well
HalfBakedProphet
Member
The Stan Winston design never bothered me too much. It is much more "Godzilla" that GINO certainly
Delta Assault
Member
94 version just looks like a platypus crossed with the Monster from the Black Lagoon.