Godzilla (2014)

I liked the dude sees the second hatchling near las vegas from fucking Yucca Mountain. Great binoculars, but I don't think they work at 90+miles.

So, saw it last night and immediately passed out. Going to go see it again next week, most likely.

I didn't care much for the human characters outside of Wantanabe and Bryan, I feel like they could have gotten another actor to bring some more emotion to the role of Brody. Either way, though, he does a decent enough job.

I loved the MUTOs. They're interesting creatures, though I'm still unsure of what Godzilla himself eats. Does he eat radiation like the MUTOs, or does he eat fish and what not? If he does eat radiation, then I can see him coming back in another movie as more of a menace. Also, what is the evolutionary reason that the MUTOs can do EMPs?

The military was alright, though they did a lot of stupid things. Firstly, why would they follow Godzilla so closely with their ships? How do they know he won't just stop and cleave through all of them? Also, why would they start firing so close to a bridge with civilians on it?

As for Godzilla himself, I think they nailed him. The atomic breath could have been a little more blastier, but the way he acted, moved, etc, was perfect. I also love the look of him. The battle at the very end was freaking awesome. I will say he does look fat when he's walking back to the ocean though, but it was kind of endearing.

Overall, 7.0/10. Could have been a little better, but still enjoyed the hell out of it.

Anyone else notice the lable on Kick-ass kids terrarium in the quarantine zone said Mothra?

Loved Godzilla's swag walk when he woke up at the end, then casually swam into the ocean

dies

1) Kick-Ass is locked in a truck when the MUTO hatches and the truck gets thrown like 20 feet but he's OK. Oh and weren't he and his father both handcuffed when they were brought into the truck? Where'd Kick-Ass' handcuffs go?

2) This helicopter will take you too Hawaii and from there Kick-Ass, you'll take a plane to San Francisco. Two seconds later, hey guys, the MUTO appears to be headed towards Hawaii, let's not tell that copter that just took off.

3) Kick-Ass and Japanese boy on tram headed to somewhere at the Hawaii airport when attacked by MUTO and Godzilla. MUTO crushes tram car in half and we see Kick-Ass save the Japanese boy as both dangle from the Tram. Cut to Godzilla vs. MUTO, then to Kick-Ass and Japanese boy at refugee camp. WTF?

4) Kick-Ass and Japanese boy at refugee camp for 2s and woot it's Japanese boy's parents.

5) I am Kick-Ass, let me on this train to SF. Apparently this bombing team was short a Kick-Ass so they decided, what the hell, add him to the team.

6) Kick-Ass does Stand By Me movie impersonation.

7) Kick-Ass and Star Trek Red Shirt hiding from MUTO on the bridge when Red Shirt's radio goes nutz do to the radiation and he freaks out until they can turn it off but it's nothing for him if Kick-Ass shines his flash light right into the MUTO' s eye.

8) Kick-Ass is knocked off bridge and falls a few hundred feet into the river below, manages to avoid debris from bridge but seems to apparently drown while watching MUTO and Godzilla fight.

9) Kick-Ass wakes up down river among tons of bridge debris. Predator mud caking though is the best bridge debris repellant.

10) Godzilla arrives in SF for Gay Pride but he's too big to go under the Golden Gate Bridge so he grabs on of the suspension supports and breaks it but the suspension bridge still manages to be magically suspended to let Kick-Ass' son make it to Marin County. Eventually Godzilla walks through the bridge and all that happens to the bridge is it gets a gaping whole.

11) I don't know much about skydiving but I'm thinking if you drop from the height they did you might have to open your parachute more than a few hundred feet above the ground.

12) The whole city of San Francisco could collapse around Kick-Ass' wife but his wife would be ok, cause you know, movie.

13) Kick-Ass and son are somehow reunited before they arrive to see either the Giants or 49ers. Amazingly, Kick-Ass' wife shows up too and they instantly meet up. Happy Endings for all.

Especially when he played dead, people next to me were all worried that the King had left with the building. I was like please... Mother fucka was just power nappin.

Especially that tail swipe... and the look of pure satisfaction on Zilla's mug as he watched the mini muto go limp. That was just all the money right there... and it really brought down the house.

Hopefully more monsters, maybe even a team up:

- Lots of places new monsters could come from; global warming and thawed out eggs, volcanic eruption, etc. I think an alien invaders premise might take hold on an American audience, if they take out the cheesy crap; perhaps show a vague spaceship launching meteorites implanted with spores into the atmosphere.
- Being that this isn't an introductory movie, hopefully they turn it up to 11 because a slow approach would be kind of disappointing in a way. If they're going to take it slow, do that just for Godzilla himself: e.g. I think the bad monsters should wreck shit, then a new, "good" monster shows up to fight them, and gets his ass kicked. He runs into Godzilla while fleeing, and Godzilla is about to kick his ass when the bad monsters show up. Instead, they team up(because they're both "earthborn" monsters compared to the new, unfamiliar visitors), and now it's 2v3, with a little help from the military(because the military will never be excluded in any of these movies).
- New good monster should be a sidekick of sorts, like Anguirus turns out to be in the old series; smaller and weaker, but tough as nails.