Talking about a common complaint about the new movie.

Hi all,

Okay, today I am trying to talk to those who had a particular problem with the 2014 movie. It seems to me that one of the things I like most about the movie, is one of the biggest complaints that people have against it. That complaint is the lack of a Godzilla vs. military battle.

In my humble opinion, this was the lynchpin of the whole “Godzilla is a force of nature” allegory that they were going for, and gave Godzilla the feeling of something that was above us. Let me explain. I feel that the entire third act, from the Golden Gate Bridge to the time when the bomb goes off, the movie is very much about the military fighting the monsters. Not in a tanks on one side of a field duking it out with the Big Guy who is on the side, but in a more modern surgical strike military fighting Godzilla.

However, this lack of a straight up Godzilla going out of his way to fight the military is one thing that I love so much about the new movie. Why is this? Well it’s because that it stresses the point that the monsters don’t care. We as humans are so insignificant and meaningless to them, that they don’t feel the need to go out of there way even a little to hurt us. Godzilla didn’t go out of his way to break stuff, because why would he? We nuked him, and he shrugged it off, we can’t hurt him, he is in an entirely different level than us. For him to go out of his way to hurt/destroy humans would mean that he would have to care enough about us to actually do so. Godzilla going out of his way to destroy a building, would be like a person going out of their way to destroy a birds nest.

For me, it brings the whole Nature vs. Man theme to the forefront. Godzilla is like a tornado. He is just going to do what he is going to do. He isn’t going to go out of his way to break stuff, but if we happen to be in his way, well that’s just too bad for us. This was shown very clearly in the tidal-wave scene, and the overall destruction that he caused during his fights. He didn’t walk through the buildings because, well that’s kinda dumb. that would be like me walking through a bunch of thick brush in the woods when there is path right next to me.

So, I guess what i’m asking is for someone who had this complaint to clearly say why they did not like this aspect of the movie. I’m not trying to start an argument, I’m genuinely curious why this aspect of the movie did not appeal to you. Is it just because the Godzilla vs. Military fight is so iconic that you wanted to see it? Or is it more about wanting more action in the movie? A bit of both? I want to know.

TL:DR

Why do you not like the idea of Godzilla not fighting the military.