GodzillavsRayquaza wrote:After thinking about it more, and rewatching the movie, this isn't my absolute favorite Godzilla movie. It's still one of my favorites, but I'll admit it has quite a few problems, mainly to do with the humans. I disagree heavily with the idea that GFW is a better finale to the franchise than this one, seriously explain how you reached that conclusion.
It's not only the human parts that have problems, it's the monster parts too! Like that scene at the beginning were Godzilla is superimposed onto stock footage of Hongkong with hundreds of people walking CASUALLY on the streets- completely indifferent to Godzilla! Or how about the actually battles between the monsters, mostly lazy and boring beam spamming. And when they do get up close and personal it's poorly shot shaky cam pov shots with monsters just bumping into each other! The worst part about this movie is that it's boring-that's the worst thing a movie can be. I'd give Destroyah a five outta ten- compared to regular movie standards.
Final Wars was is a flawed film, I'am not denying that fact. It has a lot of problems, but it's saving grace is that it is fully aware of what it's trying to do. The acting and writing is better then almost all preexisting Godzilla films because they are not taking themselves seriously, they are having fun and running with it. There are so many winks and homages to older Godzilla films and Toho scifi films. This is the most consistently paced Godzilla movie there is- uneven pacing is a huge problem in more then half the Godzilla series! Godzilla is exactly the way he should always be, the King Of The Monsters an unstoppable force of nature that no other monster even stands a chance against. This is just a really cool action movie,it's completely bonkers and full throttle BALLS to the WALLS! I love crazy weird movies that don't take themselves to seriously, and this movie falls right under that category. 6.9 outta ten regular movie standards, this is my personal favorite Godzilla movie.
I feel like this movie gets an unwarranted amount of hate from some Gfans who just out right think it's crap! It's like there's no middle ground. It has several redeemable qualitys, if you haven't seen it in a couple of years try giving it a re-watch. I've noticed several Gfans who hated Final Wars gave it another chance years later and actually find themselves enjoying it.
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