“GODZILLA!” tell me you didn’t just say that in a Japanese accent?
It was a little while into the film but a Japanese man did indeed live up to the stereotype of exclaiming the creature to be ‘Godzilla’. With the clear line between the Japanese scientists who are wise, mysterious and annoyingly vague when asked questions to the ‘let’s shoot it’ Americans. The film tried to modernise the traditional Godzilla (1954) and (1998), by this I mean they added extra monsters… that’s pretty much it. I’ll let the trailer explain the basic plot.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIu85WQTPRc
Let’s check our nuclear waste facility in the middle of nowhere which has high security. After checking a couple doors, they open another to find that half of the facility has been demolished. So the guards that man the facility didn’t hear half the mountainside explode, god knows how long ago? I could go on with silly plot fillers like these but it’s really pointless.
The thing that got to me about this movie the most, was the sheer stupidity of the script and the lack of imagination when it came to storyboarding. The actors can be the greatest ever known but when given lines that are so cheesy, obvious and unneeded, there’s nothing that can save them. There are other ways of explaining past events, without adding it into the middle of a characters sentence to make the audience aware of why it is important.
As for the storyboarding, the same old shots are picked for each scene, be inventive! Why haven’t the military got enough funding for some decent damn lighting in their submarines? Why is it always dark and gloomy, you can add tension and suspense without putting them in the dark. I also want to see a film where all the men in the military don’t have ridiculously low, moody voices in each scene.
The thing that keeps getting debated in modern films is the lack of communication between technology and story. With technology moving so quickly, it feels like film makers are rushing to get their hands on the latest tech instead of the best scripts which seems to be the case with Godzilla.
http://sundial.csun.edu/2014/05/filmmakers-need-to-focus-more-on-story-less-on-technology/
I’m trying very hard not to say how stupid I found this film! The one thing that possibly saved the film for me, was the sound engineering and the camera work throughout. Although there could have been more thought into the camera angles and shots, overall it did what it needed to do and it looked good. The only other good point was putting some eye candy on the screen in the form of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, known for Kick Ass (2010) while trying not to snooze.
Starring: Bryan Cranston Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen
Running time: 123 mins
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