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Usually I'm with CineD on stuff but I thought this movie was wildly uneven and ultimately I didn't like it. I felt the anti-war stuff was totally hollow - the movie ends with a big martial brawl so clearly violence is the answer sometimes (yeah, I got the text that weapons were useless against nature). I don't know. Still working my thoughts out but: Not A Great Ape Film. An Uneven Ape Film.
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Sir Kodiak posted:I don't know, one of those movies that, even if you don't love it, plays well on a big screen. Oh right, that's true. I'll remove that.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:03
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Chairman Capone posted:Was John Goodman's backstory supposed to imply that Godzilla destroyed his ship during WWII, or some other famous Kaiju that I ought to knw? No you nailed it. Here's another thing that probably influenced me negatively: I had just watched Peter Jackson's King Kong V-Rex fight and I felt like the ending sequence was aping it (pun intended). Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Mar 13, 2017 |
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Mar 13, 2017 22:33
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Giant octopus! Also, we're talking about a movie where a collosal Sasquatch spontaneously invents & deploys the flying guillotine. I like what you're trying to do here.
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Nothing bad, I like that you're trying to link Kong to Master of the Flying Guillotine! If he had popped that fuckin' lizzo's head off I would have wilded out right there in the theater.
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Mar 15, 2017 19:00
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Oh I got you; the 'trying' part threw me off. There's definitely a visual similarity even if the propeller never functionally decapitates anyone, and I like that you caught it. I sure didn't.
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Mar 15, 2017 20:51
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Steve2911 posted:Wasn't expecting to like this as much as I did. I would've liked more monster variety though. There were loads of cool creatures in the first half, and the skull things were a bit generic in comparison. My favorite monster never appeared onscreen: a big fuckin' ant that sounds like a bird (but it's not)
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Mar 17, 2017 23:48
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:Kaiju movies should be fun Godzilla '14 has a fuckin nuclear lizard throat-gently caress the bad guy with radioactive fire. On what planet is that not fun. What you're actually saying is that kaiju movies should be a trifle; I disagree.
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Mar 20, 2017 19:31
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Basebf555 posted:I think it was a fine performance, but the problem was there wasn't a Jackson or Reilly to balance him out. Cranston was maybe going to fill that role but then got taken out too early in the story. I really believe they would change that if they could go back and do it again, having Cranston's manic quality to balance out Taylor-Johnson would have helped a lot. The part with the kid on the monorail is when he won me over. I never understood the "boring" protag thing. He just discovered that monsters are real, his dad is dead, and his wife and child are in a city that's going to be nuked and his response is to throw himself into his work and do everything he can to help. I guess people expected him to pull a Hudson but he kept it together.
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poly and open-minded posted:I left before after credit scene. Anyone have a link? I stayed and it's really not worth getting excited/peeved about. It's cave paintings of Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah.
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