I really wish the studio was smart and realized that the huge opening weekend for Godzilla 2014 meant the audience wanted something serious and a disaster movie...just with more Godzilla and Bryan Cranston.MegaEvilSaurus666 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 3:48 pmIt is. It's the only one that I can actually sit through these days and not feel like some stupid joke(s), music choice(s), or cinematography just breaks the thing.Moogabunga wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 11:32 amThat awkward moment when Godzilla (2014) is still the best overall movie in the Monsterverse...CrimsonBloodX wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 10:41 am
Nah, Gareth Edwards is more like the MonsterVerse's Zack Snyder. He made the 2014 Godzilla movie have a dark, horror-like tone and atmosphere. There was no humor, no jokes made for a cheap laugh, just seriousness from beginning to end with the use of dark coloring in almost every scene. That is something Snyder would have done.I've been thinking the same thing for the longest time. Why do we need so many jokes in these movies? I was not going into the 2014 film looking for a comedy.
Kong: Skull Island went a bit off with some of them, but it was more tolerable than what would follow. I don't think the humor is necessary.That would likely be because Godzilla isn't the threat of the movie by any means, but the MUTOs are. Look at other Godzilla films, and you see this happening as well to varying degrees. Godzilla is much more mysterious too, and I think that adds to the movie.UndineUndying wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:06 pm The problem with G14 (for me) has always been the sense that Edwards and co. were more invested in the MUTO's journey (and replicating Godzilla '54's Monster delay), than Godzilla or any of the human characters who were meant to be his foils.
I don't think the human characters were that bad, either. It's only that Bryan Cranston's character died, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson was very lacking in his line delivery. The energy of the movie declines without Joe Brody, or the father and son dynamic. Sequels could have learned from the reception that G2014 got, but they didn't really. The serious tone wasn't the problem, but the characters and cutaways before the finale were.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts had it put together better, but Dougherty didn't. Dougherty, in my personal opinion, gets far too much praise for GKOTM. It's easily the weakest of the MonsterVerse in nearly everything it attempts to do. The writing of the story, the color filters, the dialog, the numerous juvenile jokes (most pull you straight out of the movie, and disrespect the monsters in some way), the comic book/cartoon feel to it, the scope (it feels so lifeless and small, and yet travels all around the world): all of it just fails to create a satisfying film to me. It's more annoying and insulting than anything. I'd take boring characters over irritating characters any day.UndineUndying wrote: ↑Thu Apr 15, 2021 12:06 pm I feel like that's why think Dougherty, and by extension Jordan Vogt-Roberts, were hired. I think KSI and KOTM found a better balance between human/monster, even if the director's haven't exactly found a proper balance for other their strengths (comedy/humor, horror, and animation) within the MonsterVerse.
I'd love to see Gareth Edward's direct another Godzilla movie with a big budget. I regret he didnt do the sequel...he said he wanted to attempt a monster island with a realistic take.
