I'm convinced this film was written by a room full of 9-year-old boys just wanting to make the monsters look BIIIIG and BAAAD. YEAH! except the monsters are all dynamic shots and repetitive movements. I don't understand how in 2019 they made a film that was worse quality than in the 50s, and particularly, the 60s. I've watched every Godzilla film and these new ones are always atrocious.
The Good:
- It said Godzilla.
- There were more monsters.
- I managed to finish it.
The Bad:
- The roars. Godzilla no longer sounds like Godzilla, but a lion with laryngitis having his tongue pulled out. Ghidorah? The original high-pitched screeches years ago were not only better quality, but far more distinct. At one point Ghidorah and Godzilla roar at each other and you cannot tell the difference. Neither of them sound remotely like their characters.
- Garbage audio. The humans talk barely above a whisper the entire film then it'll cut to a scene with a helicopter so loud it rattles your entire house. It doesn't set the scene or make it feel realistic to play sounds a completely deaf person could hear halfway across the planet, it makes it infuriating and low quality.
- So. Many. Humans. And almost none of them you'll care about by the end of the film.
- Mothra was atrocious, weak and pathetic. She hatches from her cocoon this massive goddess... and shrinks to the size of a peanut in combat. I've never seen a moth have this many facial expressions. Queen of the Monsters? what disrespect to the original Mothra. She was larger as a larva than a full moth. She was tossed in as a token.
- Contains the nicest bad guy ever with like 3 scenes and 4 lines of dialogue.
- The writing was bad. The dialogue was bad. The plot was bad.
- The fight scenes are predictable and all the same. Big monsters roar and show off how big and bad they are- run at each other- grab each other- a few electric/nuclear breaths and then boom, fight is over only for it to repeat again in an hour after a massively long stretch of humans doing stupid things.
- That ending? not only predictable, but I physically cringed watching it. DEFINITELY written by a preteen boy who loves action figures and explosions.
- Calling them Titans. What is this? Cartoon Network? Refer to them as the monsters/ earth defenders/ mutants/ alien invaders, as they've always been called.
- So much CGI. So many extreme explosions and so much fire and yet everyone walks out unharmed. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
- 0 logic. Rodan *sits harmlessly on the mountain* Humans *shoot him with missiles to buy time for the evacuees* Rodan *Flies over and murders all innocents, destroys the city and slaughters half their fighters* Okay. Seems legit.
- There's so much smoke, so much darkness and so much fire it's hard to see anything.
This film is worth the watch, but it's absolutely nothing to brag about. If you want to see quality Godzilla films then watch the older ones from the 50s- early 2000s (Excluding the 1998 'Zilla'). Real fans will know what I'm talking about. I can imagine this kind of film only appeals to young kids who like big and buff and nothing in between. Again, just a film written by kids with no depth, no good characters and a few of the weakest nods to the originals I've ever seen. I get this is supposed to be new and epic, but it wasn't.
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