OT: Godzilla

There are not very many "single-scene teleplays like '12 Angry Men.'" If that's your only cinematic cup of tea, you'd do well to avoid the multiplex these days...

I agree that Godzilla looks interesting. But the most recent trailer I saw shows Brian "Breaking Bad" Cranston on the verge of tears in almost every scene previewed. Man up, Walter White! Make that giant lizard your b!+c#. /Jessie Pinkman voice

@How-I think he's more of a Hal Wilkerson than a Walter White.

Eeees Godzirra, lun fol youl rives.

motor, you would probably like "Doubt" with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep

I don't know about a remake of "Godzilla." The classic creature features are the best.

I don't know, Jack. The Smog Monster? Mothra? Son of Godzilla? I'd put Cloverfield over any of them, any day.

Just hope it is better than the last one. Looks like it.

Cloverfield did not work.
But a modern telling of "Gojira" can be good. The original had charm, but was man-in-suit, and severely limited in suspension-of-disbelief.
Previews suggest ...

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nuclear weapons tests were the genesis of the monster, so nukes won't take him out. I wonder what they'll try? High power lasers? Germs/virus?

I beg to differ. Cloverfield was awesome. Of course, we can obviously have different tastes. I was disappointed in Pacific Rim.

The 1954 Godzilla was quite good...but the monster movies were done best by Ray Harryhausen...The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans..etc.

If this new Godzilla is half as good as Jackson's Kong remake(original, is still awesome), it will be a winner.

I gotta' agree with Jackslash, here. Some of the classics were fantastic. I can still remember sitting in the middle of the first row on a Saturday afternoon with popcorn and a "big" coke, my head tilted back to see all of the enormous screen as Reptilicus ripped a city apart while tank rounds bounced off. Best $0.50 I ever spent!

I must be the only person in the world who liked the Matthew Broderick remake. Everyone seems to trash it!

@rockstar: Nope, you're not the only one.

^^^ it was ok, but it seemed like a giant iguana movie instead of Godzilla

Yeah, well, I don't see anything wrong with giant iguana movies. There should be more of them. Especially if they all go after NYC.

My problem with Cloverfield - I found the (human) characters singularly unappealing - by the end of the movie I was rooting for the monster to finish them off just to stop their constant bitching & bickering, lol

Hey How, according to one trailer, those were not nuclear tests that caused Godzilla, we were trying to kill it!

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down

Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them

He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

Oh no, they say he's got to go go go Godzilla
Oh no, there goes Tokyo go go Godzilla

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

For this version, they have a method actor in the Godzilla suit. They shipped him 90 lbs. of the remains of a demolished Tokyo building, so he could eat a pound a day for three months prior to filming.

dallas702: "Best $0.50 I ever spent!"

I know what you mean. I would go to the Saturday matinee, and when they had a double feature of a cowboy movie and a monster movie, I was in kid heaven.

If Godzilla is a success then I smell a sequel-Godzilla 2:Godzilla vs. King Kong.

@carl: Yeah my college band played that song! The Bouchard brother's sister was going to the law school at the time too.

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Jonny Soko rocked as did Ultraman!

(Isis was a babe too!)

I haven't seen the new movie. Looks like it might be good.

There's some old Cadillac model that, at 70 on the highway, makes the same whistling sound as Ultraman when he's flying.

I finally watched it today. Not very good. The first 45 minutes telling the backstory was good - then it got dumb.

I thought the opening scene was a subtle nod to Jurassic Park.

i thought it was great. much better than the last godzilla.(98 or whenever it was).