I agree with this. Though I’m not sure I’d give it so much as 2 out of 5.

I wanted to punch everyone in this movie for their stupid ass decisions. The mom, the dad, the kid, the scientists, the monsters...the director, the producer. Just fucking everybody!

And I’ve been known to defend Michael Bay in the past.

When I saw this at a local multiplex in late June, the theater management turned the house lights on after it had started and allowed a busload of schoolkids into our screening without warning--all while the movie was running. (It was a morning weekday screening.) The constant stream of kids in and out of my row to confer with their teachers and distribute snacks and such finally compelled me to leave and ask for my money back. It was the worst moviegoing experience of my life.

So, as of this writing, I've only seen the first hour. But what I saw matches Hokeyboy's description perfectly.

I felt especially bad for Ken Watanabe and Zhang Ziyi. I imagine a pre-production script conference where the decision was made to give all the worst lines of dialogue to the two Asian actors, since they figured they'd be the least likely to complain.

I guess it was better than the 2014 movie. Although, to be fair I don’t really remember much about it. This one did have some action scenes and a lot of destruction.
But the human characters’ motivations and actions were so fucking incomprehensible, it was hard to have any sort of emotion while watching it....aside from utter bewilderment.

There’s a movie cliché that I’ve been seeing a lot lately where adults, with supposedly normal brain functioning, allow kids into Top Secret/highly dangerous/restricted areas for no reason than to somewhat propel the paper-thin plot forward (see also The Predator). It happened here within the first 10 minutes of the movie and it already lost me before the story even got going (and frankly, it only got more mind numbingly stupid from there).

Even beyond the ridiculous character actions, the movie just doesn’t work, like, at all. The characters travel around the world with no consideration for time. It was essentially teleportation levels of unbelievability. They traveled on some Star Trek rip-off Flying Fortress type plane. The camera shows the characters watching every event unfold when they should be far from eyesight. The final scenes show them watching everything happen from the helicopter for several minutes when they should have been long gone. Every time I figured they’d be miles away, the caners cuts to them watching in amazement as the action unfolds again.

I’m not sure if the Godzilla vs. King Kong movie is still planned but I don’t see how they can have an even remotely believable fight between the two when we’ve just seen how incredibly big and powerful Godzilla is.

He is but that still makes him approximately half the size of the Godzilla we’ve seen in these last couple of movies. Oh and Kong isn’t thermonuclear either.

I think the Fukushima disaster a few years ago could have been the perfect starting point to a good Godzilla movie with a strong social commentary.

I’m not a huge fan of the franchise but it’s possible to make an action packed, entertaining movie that still has something to say.

I did not know this. I feel like I should get paid some type of royalties for my idea though...

It boggles my mind that there’s one of the largest nuclear disasters in history that took place in Japan and then 3 years later a big budget Godzilla film is made that DOESN’T use that as the jumping off point!

Unifying factors!? The movies are full of them ... they are monsters, Monarch is involved, we find out Kong is Chewbacca’s son (and they take time to explain the ringlets and rivets on Chewie’s bandolier), one of the fighter pilots is Goose’s son, another one is Will Smith’s son, we learn Mothra’s mother’s name is Marthra ... it’s all connected!