Kaiju Fan Confessions

[Jermobooka]

The Monsterverse is my favorite Godzilla film series/continuity

I love and prefer the wackier, Showa feel of the Monsterverse to the “realistic” and “”grounded”” feel of G14

The Heisei Gamera trilogy is way better than the Heisei Godzilla series

Heisei Ghidorah, Rodan, and Mothra are my least favorite designs and incarnations of their respective characters. Godzilla is pretty good though

Monsterverse Godzilla, Kong, Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan are my favorite designs and incarnations of their respective characters

KOTM is not a good film. At all. Very little redeeming qualities.

I enjoy and prefer Shin Godzilla (creature and film) over Gojira.

Can i go get my cross now? I want to get a head start on my crucifixion

[SoggyNoodles2016]

Some spicy meatballs here, especially the last one lol.

Don't worry I agree with a lot of these (though I won't say which) but good choices.

[goji89]

Some spicy meatballs here, especially the last one lol.

Don't worry I agree with a lot of these (though I won't say which) but good choices.

Choose wisely

Because that post was fully loaded.... It gave me cancer.

[Tyrant_Lizard_King]

Wait im so confused! Prefers the tone of KSI and KotM over G14 yet thinks KotM is a terrible film and yet somehow the MonsterVerse is still his favorite?

[Voyager]

The flip flop is strong with this one.

[attilagodzilla]

I enjoyed Godzilla 2014 more than kotm

[godjacob]

As a Ghidorah fan by law I have to praise G:KOM because it has my fav version of the character to date, though I will say Kong: Skull Island has been my fav movie so far in the MonsterVerse.

[Jermobooka]

Wait im so confused! Prefers the tone of KSI and KotM over G14 yet thinks KotM is a terrible film and yet somehow the MonsterVerse is still his favorite?

I know, my opinions are all over the place lol

[Kiryu2012]

G14 feels like a film that actively tries to keep you from watching it.

[LSD Jellyfish]

G14 feels like a film that actively tries to keep you from watching it.

How so? I’m going to give it a rewatch today in preparation of Godzilla vs Kong.

[Kiryu2012]

G14 feels like a film that actively tries to keep you from watching it.

How so? I’m going to give it a rewatch today in preparation of Godzilla vs Kong.

My main issues with G14 is how it teases the audience too much with hiding Godzilla and the MUTOs, leaving us with only a few minutes of them on-screen, and that's mostly in the action scenes. Apart from that, I just can't get into the human cast in G14 as well as I could with the likes of the KSI and KOTM cast. There's also apparently DVD versions of this film that make some scenes too dark to discern anything, and the lighting was already an issue I had with the film to begin with. Compared to its successors, G14 feels like a chore to sit through despite it's strength. A friend of mine once said that he'd watch G98 over this for how often it shows its kaiju, and I honestly feel compelled to agree.

[goji89]

G14 feels like a film that actively tries to keep you from watching it.

True. The fucking thing is shot with a God damn samsung phone that is too dark.
Fuck this movie it'd be great If I could see what the fuck was happening.

[godjacob]

G14 feels like a film that actively tries to keep you from watching it.

True. The skreeonking thing is shot with a God damn samsung phone that is too dark.
skreeonk this movie it'd be great If I could see what the skreeonk was happening.

Alien vs. Predator: Requiem laughs at you.

[goji89]

G14 feels like a film that actively tries to keep you from watching it.

True. The skreeonking thing is shot with a God damn samsung phone that is too dark.
skreeonk this movie it'd be great If I could see what the skreeonk was happening.

Alien vs. Predator: Requiem laughs at you.

Ooooof.....yeah that one sucked.

[eabaker]

G14 feels like a film that actively tries to keep you from watching it.

How so? I’m going to give it a rewatch today in preparation of Godzilla vs Kong.

My main issues with G14 is how it teases the audience too much with hiding Godzilla and the MUTOs, leaving us with only a few minutes of them on-screen, and that's mostly in the action scenes.

I feel like G14 is confident int he quality of its kaiju action - which I find much more impressive than most of what's in K:SI or KotM - and uses the slow-burn and the teases to earn those payoffs.

[Rando Yaguchi]

I feel like G14 is confident int he quality of its kaiju action - which I find much more impressive than most of what's in K:SI or KotM - and uses the slow-burn and the teases to earn those payoffs.

The problem is that everything surrounding these bits of monster action is dull as hell. You can take the slow-burn approach, but you better have some interesting chatacter/story moments to keep the audience invested in between the set-pieces. Jaws this ain't.

[eabaker]

I feel like G14 is confident int he quality of its kaiju action - which I find much more impressive than most of what's in K:SI or KotM - and uses the slow-burn and the teases to earn those payoffs.

The problem is that everything surrounding these bits of monster action is dull as hell. You can take the slow-burn approach, but you better have some interesting chatacter/story moments to keep the audience invested in between the set-pieces. Jaws this ain't.

I think "everything" and "as hell" are both exaggerations, but regardless, I don't think more monster footage would solve the problems with movie's human drama; they'd just dilute the value of the monster footage that's in there.

[Rando Yaguchi]

I feel like G14 is confident int he quality of its kaiju action - which I find much more impressive than most of what's in K:SI or KotM - and uses the slow-burn and the teases to earn those payoffs.

The problem is that everything surrounding these bits of monster action is dull as hell. You can take the slow-burn approach, but you better have some interesting chatacter/story moments to keep the audience invested in between the set-pieces. Jaws this ain't.

I think "everything" and "as hell" are both exaggerations, but regardless, I don't think more monster footage would solve the problems with movie's human drama; they'd just dilute the value of the monster footage that's in there.

They're less exaggerations and more just purely subjective observations. To me, there's almost nothing interesting happening with the plot or characters after Joe's death. It's all pretty "been there, done that" stuff, with little reason to care.

I agree that more monster action wouldnt have fixed this, but it at least would have given the viewer more of what they came to see.

[eabaker]

I agree that more monster action wouldnt have fixed this, but it at least would have given the viewer more of what they came to see.

And I feel like the movie succeeds in "less-is-more"ing its monster action so well that more would be distinctly... less.

[goji89]

They're less exaggerations and more just purely subjective observations. To me, there's almost nothing interesting happening with the plot or characters after Joe's death. It's all pretty "been there, done that" stuff, with little reason to care.

I agree that more monster action wouldnt have fixed this, but it at least would have given the viewer more of what they came to see.

I agree with this. The characters acting as first bananas to the monsters was pretty dumb considering they were dull as fuck aside from Joe. They cut away too much wanting for the Jaws treatment with characters that were just not interesting.