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Mokelumne Trekka
Nov 22, 2015

Soon.

Samuel L Jackson and John C Reilly actually put effort and brought life into their roles, an impressive feat given how quickly things moved IMO

G'14 had one guy with a pulse (Bryan Cranston) but died 40min into the movie

So, an improvement human character-wise

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Mokelumne Trekka
Nov 22, 2015

Soon.

Another improvement I noticed from G14 (this is somewhat anecdotal): the audience was really into Kong, laughing at the right moments and lots of oohs and ahhs whereas Godzilla not much reaction beside the two Muto kills at the end. Audience was disengaged - no wonder, the characters weren't engaging and the exciting scenes were few. Saw each in packed theaters.

Kaiju movies should be fun

Mokelumne Trekka
Nov 22, 2015

Soon.

Joseph-Gordon Levitt was the first choice for Ford in G'14.

Gareth Edwards said they needed someone who could "carry the role", with natural, interesting charisma and screen presence I guess. You can't help but wonder if Levitt turned down a (presumably) big sum of money because he felt he couldn't do much with the part that was written.

On the flip side of things, where there is a written part that has a decent amount of material, you can still be stuck with boring by casting a boring actor. Imagine if someone like Sam Worthington played Samuel L. Jackson's character. Boring!

Mokelumne Trekka fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Mar 30, 2017

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