Hokeyboy

I honestly thought Cloverfield was worlds better than Godzilla and what I saw of Pacific Rim

Ash Ketchum

I lost interest in GODZILLA pretty much at about the 40-minute mark after Cranston left the picture. I saw it 2-D on a regular screen.

PACIFIC RIM held my interest for about 90 minutes, before I got exhausted from the constant CGI and constant battles and began to fade from it. I saw it in 3-D IMAX and the sound really shook up my nervous system and caused some serious stomach distress.

I had to go to the bathroom during both movies.

I saw TRANSFORMERS 3 in 3-D IMAX and I was riveted the whole time. Best 3-D experience I've had in the modern 3-D era. I think it helped that T3 made me laugh a lot before the final battle in Chicago, when it got deadly serious. To me the humor helped keep my interest and served the build-up to the finale quite well. Neither GODZILLA nor PACIFIC RIM had enough comic relief for my tastes.

hanshotfirst1138

Damn, and I was just starting to like you .

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thebunk

Agree with everything.

RocShemp

Which version of Pacific Rim did you see? Because the movie was bookended by action which surrounded 90 minutes of setup. I love the movie but the action is surprisingly sparse, relatively speaking. You got the intro sequence (with only one real fight) and a glimpse of Striker Eureka fighting during the day. The rest is talk, talk, talk, sparring session with Mako, talk, talk, tease at an awesome flashback, more talking, second half of awesome flashback, even more talking, finally some action, Independence Day speech, action (though nowhere near as spectacular as the previous fight in the city), main characters don't kiss, and roll credits.

RichC2

Godzilla. Pacific Rim was excessive and frankly not that interesting.

Though I agree that Cloverfield is the most successful of the recent big budget giant monster pics.

Ash Ketchum

To be honest, after a certain point, it all started to blur together. The image I have of the film is just one long nighttime CGI shot of rain and waves and monsters and giant robots merging with those unfunny scientists chattering off to the side. If it had been 90 minutes, I think I might have loved it.

dave-o

Saw this last night and man was it a let down. I was bored to tears and my wife actually fell asleep. Pacific Rim is loud, stupid, and silly, but 1000x more enjoyable. Godzilla was boring and downright frustrating at times. At least in PR I could tell what was happening in the fight sequences (of which there were plentry) and it was fun...

RocShemp

Yeah, the scientists annoyed. Well, Burn Gorman somehow managed to make a character I would normally despise be somehow tolerable. However, I kept hoping Charlie Day would get eaten. His constant screeching of every single one of his lines was aggravating. Such a horrible actor.

Troy Stiffler

Never watched a Godzilla movie, other than the Roland Emmerich version.

All of the stuff with Cranston was really good. The plotting with husband and wife was alright, but largely forgettable. It served as a conduit for some Godzilla VS MUTO action.

Really liked the Godzilla plot. Is that the normal thing for Godzilla? He's a necessary nuisance? Again, I've only watched the Roland Emmerich one, where he's just a dick who destroys NYC.

Edwards put in a few little touches that were really visceral. A few times he dropped the sound. Or spent some time with a really good looking frame, where a lesser director would have cut away.

An epic trailer for a pretty good movie.

JANK

I just can't fathom why someone would actually consider Godzilla boring. Did we see the same movie?

dave-o

The last 30 minutes were exciting, but getting there was a pain. None of the characters were worth investing emotional energy in, things just happened to push the plot forward, and it was dark....way too dark (I mean in the literal sense). I honestly thought about leaving at one point, but I knew/hoped the end would be worth waiting for... It just took itself too seriously and dragged way too much without interesting enough characters or plot lines for me. Maybe my expectations were too high, as I stayed away from all of the reviews and talk...

Solid Snake

Really? I could see everything pretty well in my 2 showings. I saw it in 2D.

EctoCooler

Loved the movie and will be getting the Blu-Ray. When Godzilla was heading back into the sea and the thousands of people in the stadium basically gave him a standing ovation... come on, how could that not make you smile.

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Jackskeleton

Because Godzilla just took part in a situation where 1,000's were still "missing".

Man, I had some hope for this, but I'm agreeing with this opinion of the film;

Once Cranston left the picture my attention and giving any shit about any characters left with it.

Just didn't give a shit about the son and it really stretched in how much the dude could have survived in his journey to the heart of it all.

EctoCooler

I like Cranston as much as the next guy but I thought he was terrible in this. Not that Kick-Ass and the Olsen chick deserve accolades but I didn't find them bothersome the way I did Cranston's overacting which never rang true to me. I think people are, for now, still being easy on this performance because hey, it's Heisenberg.


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DaveyJoe

I was trying to convince a friend to see this and after watching the trailer he immediately commented on Cranston's outrageous over acting. It actually killed his interest in the movie. He wasn't playing that interesting of a character anyway, the conspiracy theorist cliche is fun for a bit, but it gets old.

Maxflier

Yeah, I never understood the fascination with Cranston's character in this either.

DaveyJoe

Because Heisenberg.

Ash Ketchum

From Box Office Guru:

milo bloom

Once burned, twice shy....



I never posted, but I did see this a few weeks ago and I was definitely pleased. Yes, definitely needed more screentime for Big G, but when he was on he was amazing. I didn't hate the humans either, they were at least tolerable, and enjoyed the MUTOs (though I definitely want to see a classic kaiju for the sequel).

And that finishing move, right out of Mortal Kombat, lol.

islandclaws

G'14 has sold about 25mm tickets, G'98 did 29mm. I'd say that's pretty good considering today's media climate, where more people can skip the theater and wait for BD, or they can just pirate a crappy cam version.

Financially speaking, however, the film did incredible considering this is a franchise that has been dormant in the U.S. for 16 years and the last entry is universally reviled.

Abob Teff

Are we talking about Godzilla or Breaking Bad?

Mr. Cinema

Worldwide numbers for the new film are at $477 million and it doesn't open in Japan until mid July, so this will end up past $500 million.

DaveyJoe

Godzilla, do you think Cranston was overacting at times in Breaking Bad?