- My Forums
- Tiger Rant
- LSU Recruiting
- SEC Rant
- Saints Talk
- Pelicans Talk
- More Sports Board
- Fantasy Sports
- Golf Board
- Soccer Board
- O-T Lounge
- Tech Board
- Home/Garden Board
- Outdoor Board
- Health/Fitness Board
- Movie/TV Board
- Book Board
- Music Board
- Political Talk
- Money Talk
- Fark Board
- Gaming Board
- Travel Board
- Food/Drink Board
- Ticket Exchange
- TD Help Board
Customize My Forums- View All Forums
- Show Left Links
- Topic Sort Options
- Trending Topics
- Recent Topics
- Active Topics
Started By
Message
1
Posted on 5/18/14 at 10:19 pm to Napoleon
just got back from seeing it. enjoyed it alot, and liked the 'jurassic park' meets 'cloverfield' vibe of showing the monsters from the human characters' perspective. my only nitpick (if you want to call it that) is that in some ways it kinda felt like a sequel (a good sequel, though), because comparatively speaking, godzilla's backstory wasn't as well-defined as the MUTOs IMO...
Posted on 5/18/14 at 10:24 pm to NOSTRODAMUS
Yes I saw the mothra name on the tank also
Posted on 5/18/14 at 10:36 pm to SG_Geaux
quote:
I don't have a problem with someone not liking the movie, but damn ya'll come up with some stupid nitpicking reasons.
Eh, I have no problem overlooking stuff if I find the movie entertaining otherwise, Pacific Rim is a good example of a movie I liked despite it's stupidity here and there.
Godzilla was just mostly boring, so it's stupidity is all the more glaring.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 10:55 pm to auyushu
None of us really know what is in Yucca mountain.
Remember Area 51 was 60+ years old when it's existence was confirmed.
You can go to google earth and see vehicles coming out of Yucca.
Remember Area 51 was 60+ years old when it's existence was confirmed.
You can go to google earth and see vehicles coming out of Yucca.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:08 pm to Napoleon
I really enjoyed it. Compared to other movies like it, it was a 9.5/10.About as good as you can hope for from a monster/apocalyptic scenario type of film.
As a movie in general, it was probably a 7/10. The acting aside from Bryan Cranston was subpar, and the story was pretty simple, but damn I loved the last half hour.
***Spoilers***
If the movie had kept up as it did until Cranston died, it would have been INCREDIBLE. Once his character left the film, it really leaned on the incredible battle effects in the last half hour or so.
As a movie in general, it was probably a 7/10. The acting aside from Bryan Cranston was subpar, and the story was pretty simple, but damn I loved the last half hour.
***Spoilers***
If the movie had kept up as it did until Cranston died, it would have been INCREDIBLE. Once his character left the film, it really leaned on the incredible battle effects in the last half hour or so.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:10 pm to Napoleon
quote:
You can go to google earth and see vehicles coming out of Yucca.
Well, it was still being constructed up until Obama and company tried to get it shut down, not sure what all is going on out there now that it's in legal limbo, but it wasn't being used for it's purpose of nuclear storage. Almost all nuclear waste in this country is being stored on site at the nuclear plants that create it.
But anyway, the whole all our nuclear waste being stored at Yucca thing just made me shake my head, just one of the many things I found overly silly with the movie. I was actually more annoyed by the soldiers running around on the inside of the facility until they saw a hole through a door. Like they wouldn't have noticed that a third of the freaking mountain had disappeared when they flew out to the facility.
Posted on 5/18/14 at 11:38 pm to auyushu
quote:
the whole all our nuclear waste being stored at Yucca thing just made me shake my head, just one of the many things I found overly silly with the movie.
A stupid complaint. Who cares if they used a proposed site as an active site? Hell, at least they used a real place. Movies wouldn't have even done that 30 years ago. Not to mention, this movie doesn't take place in our America/world, but a world with giant monsters, a world where we store our nuclear waste at Yucca Mt.
If this bothers you, how do you make it through any movie? The characters are all fake and half the time the town they live in is fake too. Old man Jim doesn't run the general store either!
quote:
. I was actually more annoyed by the soldiers running around on the inside of the facility until they saw a hole through a door. Like they wouldn't have noticed that a third of the freaking mountain had disappeared when they flew out to the facility.
A more valid complaint. I agree that scene was bizarre for a lot of little reasons, but I don't care because I'm in the theater to see a giant lizard fight a giant alien butterfly.
This post was edited on 5/18/14 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 5/19/14 at 12:34 am to Teddy Ruxpin
quote:
A more valid complaint. I agree that scene was bizarre for a lot of little reasons, but I don't care because I'm in the theater to see a giant lizard fight a giant alien butterfly.
And if I had seen more of the latter in this movie I would little problem with the little things. I would have been fine with the paper thin plot and bad acting if I had a bunch of monster fighting action. But instead we got Cloverfield style cut away action every time something interesting might happen, which is just annoying and leaves you with nothing to do but watch the inane plot.
The overt focus on the humans for 90% of the movie was one of the things that annoyed me about the 90s remake (though this movie was much better than that horrible film).
Posted on 5/19/14 at 6:52 am to auyushu
quote:
Godzilla was just mostly boring, so it's stupidity is all the more glaring
it's a slow build up to a massively awesome ending....
...just like almost every other Godzilla movie
Posted on 5/19/14 at 7:31 am to Napoleon
Just saw this movie yesterday.
The Godzilla monster was 100x better that the t-rex they had in 98.
I didn't think the roar sounded right but it's getting closer.
I enjoyed it but the movie seemed to take a really long time getting going though.
going through what happened the 50s'.
then jumping ahead to 99
then 15 years later.. seems like it took 2 hours to finally see a monster.
oh and i think i would avoid hanging out with the younger brody, he seems to attract those monsters.
The Godzilla monster was 100x better that the t-rex they had in 98.
I didn't think the roar sounded right but it's getting closer.
I enjoyed it but the movie seemed to take a really long time getting going though.
going through what happened the 50s'.
then jumping ahead to 99
then 15 years later.. seems like it took 2 hours to finally see a monster.
oh and i think i would avoid hanging out with the younger brody, he seems to attract those monsters.
Posted on 5/19/14 at 7:36 am to auyushu
We're expecting Pacific Rim?
Posted on 5/19/14 at 8:44 am to auyushu
Saw it yesterday. Loved it, though based on the trailers I expected it to be a little bit darker than it actually was. Pretty sure at least a couple of the "mass death & destruction" shots from the initial trailer(s), the ones with dead civilians scattered about, were not in the final cut. As someone else said, the movie took a step back when Cranston's character died.
The bomb doing no damage to SF after puttering towards the mouth of the bay 5 minutes bugged the shite out of me. They should have just had Kickass disarm the damn thing at the last second - would have been way less ridiculous.
The other thing that really pissed me off was the MUTO's ability to do insane amounts of damage with almost no one noticing. Yucca Mtn was one instance, the other glaring one was daddy MUTO carrying the Russian sub onto Hawaii and chowing down on it while it sits on a mountain side, but the highly trained special ops soldiers standing 50 yards away and the choppers with spotlights circling overhead don't notice him for like 90 seconds. He was three times the size of the fricking sub! How the hell did they not see/hear him from about 1/2 mile away?!?
The bomb doing no damage to SF after puttering towards the mouth of the bay 5 minutes bugged the shite out of me. They should have just had Kickass disarm the damn thing at the last second - would have been way less ridiculous.
quote:
I was actually more annoyed by the soldiers running around on the inside of the facility until they saw a hole through a door. Like they wouldn't have noticed that a third of the freaking mountain had disappeared when they flew out to the facility.
The other thing that really pissed me off was the MUTO's ability to do insane amounts of damage with almost no one noticing. Yucca Mtn was one instance, the other glaring one was daddy MUTO carrying the Russian sub onto Hawaii and chowing down on it while it sits on a mountain side, but the highly trained special ops soldiers standing 50 yards away and the choppers with spotlights circling overhead don't notice him for like 90 seconds. He was three times the size of the fricking sub! How the hell did they not see/hear him from about 1/2 mile away?!?
Posted on 5/19/14 at 9:01 am to EastcoastEER
i guess i'll use the famous saying, It is what it is...
A japenese godzilla flick that i enjoyed,
Acting preformances were C+ by the two leads...
A japenese godzilla flick that i enjoyed,
Acting preformances were C+ by the two leads...
Posted on 5/19/14 at 9:04 am to Jack Bauer7
yeah, i find it hard to complain about the effects of the bomb and other "plot holes" in a movie about a 350 foot tall monster saving the world from 2 other huge monsters.
Posted on 5/19/14 at 9:08 am to Cockopotamus
quote:
Godzilla vs Mothra has a helluva build up. The two monsters don't fight until the last 20 mins.
And the format is similar in most Godzilla movies.
you are right, most of the godzilla movies introduce godzilla's opponent before godzilla hits the screen. However, we've never waited 90 minutes to see Godzilla in all his glory. As somebody mentioned earlier, the cutaway scene(at the airport in hawaii) was really frustrating. Also agreeing with somebody else that it seemed more like a sequel, and i wish they made the movie a little darker and less campy.
I definitely loved Godzilla when we finally got to see him in action.
Posted on 5/19/14 at 9:17 am to LSUTygerFan
quote:
I didn't think the roar sounded right
This is my initial reaction as well. I loved when they used the classic roar, but the one they used when he killed the last one, and at the very end just sounded weird.
Posted on 5/19/14 at 8:08 pm to Napoleon
quote:
Movies like this I want to see in Imax or at least in a theater with great sound and resolution.
You sound like the previews before the movies that say movies this big deserved to be seen on a screen this big. Also, for some reason I got the impression from the trailers that this was going to be a smart movie ala Dark Knight and not just mindless popcorn entertainment. I was wrong.
This post was edited on 5/19/14 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 5/19/14 at 8:11 pm to Napoleon
dunno if it has been posted yet, but this gaping hole made me laugh.
the nuke is on the train and when the train crashed, the picked up the nuke and carried it to the site with a heilocopter. question, why didn't they use the heilocopter in the first place?
why bother with the slow arse train
the nuke is on the train and when the train crashed, the picked up the nuke and carried it to the site with a heilocopter. question, why didn't they use the heilocopter in the first place?
why bother with the slow arse train 
Posted on 5/19/14 at 8:20 pm to Displaced
Page 7 of 8
Popular
Back to top
Follow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News