*SPOILERS* How did you feel about the Mutos?

i thought the mutos were interesting. :)

M.u.t.o which stood for massive unidentified terrestrial organism. :)

I was right about the muto laying eggs, just a speculation i had. :)

But to see godzilla use his atomic breath, sending it down the queens throat and ripping her head off, that was amazing. :)

great movie 10/10 for me. :)

I thought the MUTOs were a great and unique new enemy to the Godzilla franchise. I felt sorry for them when they die (especially the Female MUTO). When Ford kills her babies with that explosion and she started crying I felt very sad and sorry for her.

Yes, good work by Edwards in creating that empathy--and exposing how foolish we truly are. I guess I have more respect for nature than to feel sympathy for 300 foot tall parasites (nature's closest thing to malevolency pretty much--they benefit nothing else in the environment except their own existence).  And before you feel too bad they had to die, we basically played by their rules in the end (none) and, well, we won. That's the way it is in nature, foolish humans...

Frankly, I was pumped when Godzilla killed the sneaky flying one with his tail and loved when he breathed fire and ripped the cute "Mommy's" head off. I wanted him to drop kick her head but, alas.

Nature is cold, uncaring and cold-blooded folks.  Your sympathy is completely manufactured (UNnatural) and as arrogantly human as the efforts made by those in the film to "study" these things.  

Do you all feed bears at National Parks? Be honest...

No not strange, just curious to me.  I see people every day who show more affection to animals than they do to other people, and I've never understood it. Don't get me wrong, I like animals, they have their place and I've even gotten attached to them, but...

I think I didn't empathize w/them because I saw right away what a complete threat they were...I mean even Godzilla's whole purpose in the movie was basically the giant Orkin Man, right?  Admittedly, even if I kill bugs (I usually don't--I usually let them out), I do so regretfully, but not emotionally.  I long ago realized how brutal nature is, so I don't let it suck me in, y'know?

Anyway...I like you.

so...does this make Godzilla like Darth Vader? LOL

About the MUTOs, I think they are really in a league of their own. In fact, I'm not shy to say I like them much more than the new Godzilla himself and any other adversary of Godzilla so far. My former favorite was Biollante. So kudos to Gareth Edwards for coming up with such a fearsome foe. :)

Their behavior does remind me of how wasps and spiders behave (except the MUTOs are much smarter) and the parasitic traits in them makes their existence all the more believable. The sounds they make are really cool, and you can really feel that heavy presence of them through the cinema's sound system especially the part where the Female MUTO was sneaking up on the railway track. Despite Godzilla's roar being much more majestic than the MUTOs', I thought the MUTOs evoke more fear than the King himself in this movie. 

There are three scenes I really like about the MUTOs:

The first scene was when the Male MUTO stamped his claw down in the rainforest and a shockwave hit the entire Hawaiian stretch, putting out all power in the area. It really had this Lord-of-the-Rings majesty to it, which gives the MUTO a powerful presence.

The second scene was when Godzilla arrived in San Francisco and tore off an entire section of the bridge, and just when you think that was awesome enough, suddenly the seagulls start flocking away in their hundreds, a shockwave hits the entire landscape and suddenly everyone is frozen and rendered powerless. And in comes the Male MUTO diving down on the ship carrying the warhead and making his exit easily. I'd say the Male MUTO at this point seems more powerful against the humans than Godzilla. 

The final scene I thought was great and eerie at the same time, was when the Male MUTO, having snatched the nuclear warhead at the Golden Gate Bridge flew to the city centre, which was all covered in smoke and dust, and in it emerged the much larger Female MUTO. I also thought both the MUTOs closing up on each other was sweet when the male handed the warhead to the female, but on the other hand, it also appears that the Male MUTO is merely to serve the queen while she lays her eggs. Because when the male MUTO was impaled by Godzilla, the queen didn't really bothered about the male's death or his disappearance at that juncture.

So all in all, the MUTOs left a deep impression in me than Godzilla did. I'm hoping Bandai or SH MonsterArts would release much detailed toys of the MUTOs in their collection. :)