Considering the impressive array of monsters romping through this flick, I figured it couldn't miss. Instead, I have to tag this monster round-up with my most hated of movie sins, one I'd never hope to see from a Japanese kaiju film: they're too stingy with the monster.Can you believe it? And the reason is worse: they were trying really hard to be The Matrix. The human characters, this time, take undeserved screen prominence while the monster conflicts are reduced to cameos. And the humans are led by this guy, but all gruff and dressed in a military uniform.
There's an elite squad of mutant monster fighters or some such, and it's lame. The sheer number of times they rip off The Matrix quickly becomes annoying. There ain't nearly enough spider tossing. Even the climax is too thin on monster action, as the story cuts between the final monster showdown and whatever nonsense the little people are up to. If there's one thing I expect from the end of a Godzilla movie, it's a good twenty minutes of uninterrupted monsters whacking the crap out of each other and knocking over buildings. Seriously, I want enough power lines down that I'm looking at my watch. The people are just meant to hang out on the fringes and go "Oh!" and "Oh! Godzilla!"Not enough monsters. In the monster movie.
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For some unknown reason, Bob is a diehard Godzilla fan. Every year he picks up the latest film at those November cons we love so much. He was so excited at the prospect of this film but ended up concluding exactly what you did! Why de-emphasize the monsters? To me it's analogous to Smallville, Birds of Prey, or the upcoming Aquaman; you know, those shows where it's supposed to be cool never to have the main character actually don the titular superhero persona. I for one will never watch Smallville until he turns into Superman in ever episode. Actually, after watching the remake of The Fog, I'll never watch Smallville.
That picture of Godzilla swinging the spider is awesome by the way.
Yeah! The day before I watched this, I was going to watch it with Adam and the kids, but we balked when we saw it was PG-13 (there was a moment or two of gun violence that made that a good call, aside from the movie laming out). So we watched the special features, which included some great behind the scenes of the monster stuff. No narration, just footage of the dudes in the suits and then a shot of the real footage. Well, the scene with the spider was so short, they showed the whole thing in the making of! They had no choice!
That behind the scenes stuff was cool, and that spider puppet was really cool. More, you fools, more!
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