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well to me this movie defenitly beat the heisei godzilla films but in my opinion the 1954 film will never be touched. :)

I have seen the film three times now and I have to say it's nothing short of an epic. Jaws, Jurassic Park, and Alien now have a new addition chiseled into a proverbial mt. rushmore of classics of classics of both cinema, and sci/fi and/or fantasy. 

The shots, the angles, magnificent. The approach to use realism and the point of view of insignificant humans was fantastic: I have long been looking for a Priam Rage reboot of sorts and I love how Godzilla 2014 was able to grasp the immensity of what Godzilla would be if we saw him trampling MUTOs in real life. 

The acting that wasn't done by Wantabe and Cranston was meh, but a movie can't be perfect, even my most revered films have minute flaws. 

You can nitpick many things about the movie but in my humble, but wildly accurate opinion, failing to appreciate Godzilla 2014 as both an excellent reboot, and an instant classic in itself is failing to grasp both the intention of the movie, and certain aspects of film making in general that are what have made so many of the greats....great. i.e. Jaws, JP, Alien, etc, there is a reason they are being brought up, and it's not a conincidence that so many find these comparisons, and those are 3 blockbuster movies to be compared to, and what made those movies so remarkable is the same thing that Godzilla presents! How anyone can either miss that, or think it's not a good thing, just blows my mind like a Godzilla atomic breath.

All in all and as objective as I can be being a Godzilla fan, I give it a solid 9.5/10

  ~Xenomorphzilla

I can't edit my last post for some reason, I meant to reference Primal Rage in the second paragraph there but forgot to edit it before I hit submit.

I liked the plot where the Muto(es) were said to be parasites consuming radioactive nutrients from within the host who was another creature like Godzilla, basically these bastards were sucking the host dry from the inside in order to grow.  After they came out, they would feed on other radioactive materials.  That explains why Godzilla was hunting down these Muto(es) to restore the balance; otherwise, the earth would be overrun by them. 

In the Golden Gate Bridge scene, Godzilla’s back fins actually blocked some of the missiles; otherwise, the bridge would have been destroyed, and more people would have died from ‘friendly fire.” I think that the director wanted to point out more of the human’s mistakes and ignorance there too. I liked that too.

Questions: Godzilla and these Muto(es) were radioactive creatures of such sizes and scales, so wouldn’t they give off harmful radiation like crazy as they move around, and therefore, so very deadly to every human or living thing around them? Also, Godzilla’s nuclear breath was used during the battle with the Muto, again the radiation from it must be massive, but it seemed to have no effect on the main human character and others around. If the director wanted to make the movie more realistic, you would need to answer a few of these obvious technical and realistic questions to make the movie more satisfying. I am sure some other people must have thought about these questions. Your thoughts?

More Godzilla screen time and fight scenes would have earned a 9 from me on a scale of 1 to 10 for being entertaining.  With that, I would even be willing to overlook some of the missing details and explanations in reality checks, and be happy! The CGI was awesome!  Will definitely wait for the sequel!

Can't wait to see it again...and AGAIN!

yeah i know the dvd will be here soon..... :)

BIGBADBEN - I loved the damn movie. It is a REAL godzilla movie! Even though my friend didnt like the Design of this new godzilla reincarnation, I loved it! Its great to see him a lot more powerfull and huge! Its just amazing to see him enormous.  After 10 years he is BACK!

I dont give the movie a 10/10 because I think the Bryan Cranston parts at the begining were a little unnecesary to build up MUTO as an enemy. 

And I also disagree  with all the idiots saying that Godzilla "didnt appear that much" duuuude they have never seen a godzilla before! The whole end battle was 100% worth it. The shots and cuts added a lot of suspense to the movie.

9/10.

PLEASE LEGENDARY, don't screw up the Sequels... You are doing so great reintroducing my childhood hero to everyone again!

@NORDZILLA YES!!!

I agree on all accounts minus the part about Cranston, I think his part was great, my beef with the film is ATJ's lackluster performance as human lead. 9/10 easily!!! Someday THISMEINTEIL will see the light.

I Finally saw Godzilla for the secondt ime.  I'm not sure if I liked it more or hated it less, but I wasn't as frustated.  Maybe having seen it once, I knew what to expect.  Here are a few  more observations.

The CGI of Godzilla may have been the best visual effect of a creature, ever.

I didn't like the MUTOs, or their story.  I would have preferred to see Godzilla, by himself, on the rampage.

The acting wasn't horrible when they were given something to do. 

The music wasn't as intrusive the second time around, but it was still a little too much.

The lack of Godzilla was one of the major blunders in cinema history.  20 more minutes of Godzilla terrorizing something, and 20 less minutes of ATJ, would have meant another quarter of a billion dollars in revenue.

Gareth Edwards has potential, but he played it too cute.  Hopefully he has learned from his many mistakes.

And Finally, one day someone is going to come along and make the quintessintial Godzilla movie.  But they have got to be willing to break the bank in order to do it.

well guys at least it was better than most of the old godzilla films we grew up watching, the cgi was oustanding and the monster fights were awesome, however there was alot of stuff left out and i know exactly why it is because the studios knew that kids would want to watch it and they probably left that stuff out for their protection, i'll bet you all that the dvd and blu-ray director's cut if there will be one will have all of those missing links from what we saw in the theathers. :)

I tried to post my review but got an error message, mybe it's because it's quite long.

Anyway, if anyone wants to read it then it's on amazon.co.uk here: Godzilla 2014 - a review!

It doesn't seem that popular a review as "0 out of 2" people found it helpful! So if you do like it, even if you don't agree - feel free to comment or leave a friendly "found this helpful" click!

There is only one word for experiencing a kaiju up close cinematically, and that word is AWESOME. I hate how that word is so overused that it has lost most of its meaning and impact, so I will define awesome again: a mixture of fear and wonder. 

Think upon that carefully. What other word do we have in the English language for feeling both so afraid as to soil yourself, simultaneously with a desire to stay and marvel at what you are seeing? That is what awe means. That is what a kaiju should be, and (in this film) definitely is. 

Nowhere other than in a movie theatre can you use a huge screen and truly thunderous speakers to reproduce the experience of a kaiju and Godzilla in particular. It is for this reason I will be a shill for seeing this film cinematically, and not waiting for a video release. You simply lack a sufficient entertainment center to recreate the experience of a kaiju up close and personal. Godzilla delivers 3, including the titular monster.

I liked it a lot. Good entertainment value. The downers, sort of, is the "hiding" approach to portraying the monsters and Godzilla's rather weak beam breath. But still a good watch. 

at least the movie was successful. :)

Godzilla passed, what is for me, a kind of litmus test. There were times during the several showings I went to that I actually forgot that I was watching a movie.

The film's story is rich and textured. The whole idea of the nuclear tests in the Pacific actually being attempts to kill Godzilla is brilliant. The exposition and back story provided by Dr. Serizawa and Dr. Graham was riveting. I hope Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins return. I would also like to see the character of Admiral Stenz in the sequel. David Strathairn was convincing as the decisive, yet thoughtful military leader. Sally Hawkins did a lot with not only her lines, but with her facial expressions and even body language. Watanabe's Serizawa is the Japanese link to Godzilla and the human reminder of Hiroshima and the atomic origins of the Godzilla mythos.

Bryan Cranston was brilliant as the driven, but tortured Joe Brady. He carried the burden of what he knew, but could not prove with a pain that was palpable and easy to feel and relate to. He made the film personal and of easy access, and in the process, allowing us to travel with him on his part of the film's narrative and journey. And Godzilla feels like a journey. The film literally (and physically) takes us west to east across the Pacific Ocean, leading to the Great Reveal in Honolulu, and then the climatic and decisive battle in San Francisco. 

Despite the disparate elements, the film feels like an organic whole, integrated with a semi-documentary feel to it. I've enjoyed it immensely each time I've seen it, which has been (so far) eight times.

It's satifying to see someone embark upon the actualization of a vision and then fulfill it.

Kudos to Gareth Edwards, Thomas Tull, the Cast and Crew and everyone at Legendary.

And thank you.

@jamaal,

nicely put there my friend you hit the nail right on the head with what you just stated. :)

@bigbadben

Thank you for the kind words.

The riveting nature of the exposition given by the Monarch scientists, Dr. Serizawa and Dr. Graham was matched by the persona and presence of Godzilla. He was given a definite and compelling role in the film’s narrative. Godzilla was hunting the MUTOs. He was, for the most part, oblivious of mankind. There was the exception of The Look between him and Lt. Ford, a kind of mutual recognition, exchanged between two warriors, fighting, as it were, the same fight. But this was an exception, because Godzilla was driven, with a purpose.

In some ways Gareth Edwards’ portrayal of Godzilla was reminiscent of Gamera in Shusuke Kaneko’s Gamera: Guardian of the Universe. Godzilla allows the Navy to track and follow him across the Pacific Ocean. His focus is the MUTO’s. He demonstrated a singleness of purpose in his pursuit of them. Similarly, Gamera was obsessed with wiping out the Gyaos.

At the Golden Gate Bridge, it seems that Godzilla absorbs the Navy’s surface to surface missile attacks, shielding in the process, the traffic on the bridge. He could have swam under the bridge. It reminded me of Gamera shielding Officer Yonemori, Dr. Nagameni and the little boy from the sonic beam of the Gyaos on the pedestrian bridge.

The massiveness of Godzilla is convincingly realized. He has a personality without being anthropomorphic. An example of this is the way he stands up completely and rears back before he uses his atomic breath weapon.

However, during the first viewing, I wasn’t completely convinced that Godzilla wouldn’t turn on the military at some point. He seemed rather sentient. Perhaps he was somehow aware that they were planning to use nuclear weapons on him. Again.

Dr. Serizawa and Dr. Graham seemed to be relieved when SPOLIER ALERT

Godzilla came to after appearing to be down for the count. This reminded me of Asagi’s relief at Gamera having survived the plunge into the petrochemical complex.

So, there was some interplay between the humans and Godzilla, although not on the level in the Heisei Gamera trilogy. It was well done, believable and not overdone. It was hinted at, with a subtlety that contrasted quite well with the brute force and visual onslaught of the giant monsters.

Who knows, perhaps in the sequels, Godzilla may not be so friendly. After all, the H-Bomb ‘tests’ in the Pacific in the 1950’s weren’t really tests, were they?

Jamaal, dead on man. The gamera trilogy has had a huge effect on these monster movies. Looks like Godzilla is taking the same path. :-) 

Also Jamaal you might want to take a look at this. :-)  

http://www.godzilla-movies.com/community/forums/topic/36031

You might be glad you did. :)

My review  of   2014's Godzilla. It  has  the  darkness of  Rodan,  Varan, Gorgo, Reptilicus, and  Gigantis  the Fire  Monster. It lacks  the idiocy  of GMK, Godzilla vs.  the  Smog  Monster,  and Godzilla's  Revenge. 

A ten  out of  ten. See it,  you  will not  be disappointed.