The most timely On My Shelves ever today...

[seawasp]

... as I review Godzilla 2014!

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Hooray! I've been waiting for you to review this and hoped this would be your reaction.

I haven't seen it yet, but my daughter works for AMC now and we can go for free...the lines have just been wrapped around the theater building and I didn't want to stand in them. :)

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

I'm a little surprised that you mentioned the Brody in-joke while skipping the more direct one: Serizawa. I don't know how Ken Watanabe's Ishiro Serizawa is related to Akihiko Hirata's Daisuke Serizawa but there it is.

I haven't seen the new film yet but it's on my short list of films to bother seeing in a theater -- assuming I can find a not-3D projection somewhere.

[seawasp]

That one was so blatant I didn't even mention it, yes.

I don't think he's actually RELATED. They didn't, as far as I can tell, take the 1950s Gojira as backstory; there was no "oxygen destroyer" -- the story couldn't have been reasonably covered up. I think his name is merely a nod to the original.

[q99.livejournal.com]

Legendary does kaiju well. First Pacific Rim and now this!

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Now we just need the Pacific Rim/Godzilla crossover.

[q99.livejournal.com]

Though it's hard to slot them in too well with the current Godzilla. Either a villain one (taken down by a group of Jaeger, but at great cost), or a more openly hero one (fight alongside Jaeger vs evil kaiju!) would fit better.

[seawasp]

The one in this movie is pretty clearly hero. He pursues the MUTOs with intent to kill them before they reproduce (and that would have been REALLY disastrous. He shows recognition of human presence and never attacks any human installation that doesn't attack him, and shows no inclination to continue any attack -- he just keeps going towards his own goal. He catches up with the last MUTO just in time to save the human he looked at earlier, with considerable effort that leaves him unconscious shortly thereafter. He then gets up and leaves, apparently carefully avoiding doing any more notable damage.

I was envisioning a bigger breakthrough of the Pacific Rim Kaiju and somehow Gojira coming along to help. I'd have to work out the best way for that to happen.

[q99.livejournal.com]

Yea, though I would guess he's a bit territorial too ^^

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

I just got back from seeing this film.

Long version: the people who made this film remembered something important, something that Roland Emmerich forgot. This thing is simple. It's obvious, at least I would think it is obvious: giant monsters are the stars. You can have any kind of plot that you want, or not plot at all, and still make a good giant monster flick as long as the giant monsters are front and center.

Short version: they made a Godzilla film.