OT: Godzilla

27 comments

• how

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  10 years ago

  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
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

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

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  10 years ago

  Eeees Godzirra, lun fol youl rives.
• jackslash

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  10 years ago

  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.
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

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

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  10 years ago

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

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  10 years ago

  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 ... SPOILER ALERT........ ..... ..... ..... 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?
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

  I beg to differ. Cloverfield was awesome. Of course, we can obviously have different tastes. I was disappointed in Pacific Rim.
• mikeya02

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  10 years ago

  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.
• dallas702

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  10 years ago

  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!
• rockstar666

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  10 years ago

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

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  10 years ago

  @rockstar: Nope, you're not the only one.
• mikeya02

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  10 years ago

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

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  10 years ago

  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.
• steve229

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  10 years ago

  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
• mikeya02

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  10 years ago

  Hey How, according to one trailer, those were not nuclear tests that caused Godzilla, we were trying to kill it!
• carl95

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  10 years ago

  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
• ilbbaicnl

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  10 years ago

  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.
• jackslash

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  10 years ago

  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.
• SlickSpic

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  10 years ago

  If Godzilla is a success then I smell a sequel-Godzilla 2:Godzilla vs. King Kong.
• rockstar666

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  10 years ago

  @carl: Yeah my college band played that song! The Bouchard brother's sister was going to the law school at the time too.
• sflguy123

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  10 years ago

  Godzilla Spoiler Alert . . . . Movie ends with Super Robot taking his candy ass down. [view link]
• deogol

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  10 years ago

  Jonny Soko rocked as did Ultraman! (Isis was a babe too!)
• sharkhunter

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  10 years ago

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

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  10 years ago

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

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  10 years ago

  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.
• chessmaster

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  10 years ago

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