What are you talking about there was plenty of that
They were still too much boring human scene that probably have a bigger runtime than the actual monsters. If more than 50% of your film is boring, than you do not have yourself a good movie. Especially when all I am going to do if I ever rewatch at home is skip to the monsters fight.
Me personally, I would just axed the saving the environment motive since that just a lazy and stupid motivation to give them. At the very least maybe replaced the generic eco terrorist villains with ancient tribe people who want to bring back all the kaiju from their sleep or something. It would not be good, but it be less boring and generic eco-terrorist group.
Also I guess just not having boring human in general, but that not specific enough.
They should have kept the intresting characters played by Bryan Cranston, SLJ, Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston., John C Reilly instead of them appearing in just one movies
Godzilla 2014 made that much money because people wanted to see Heisenberg Vs Godzilla and was disappointed.
They should have kept the intresting characters played by Bryan Cranston, SLJ, Brie Larson, Tom Hiddleston., John C Reilly instead of them appearing in just one movies
Godzilla 2014 made that much money because people wanted to see Heisenberg Vs Godzilla and was disappointed.
The male lead didn't need to exist. I would have cut him out entirely and use his screen time to further flesh out the mother and daughter duo and Serizawa. Replace the awkward "broken home" link between them by emphasizing Serizawa's position as the woman's mentor to give the human drama the emotional weight it needs.
In the same vein I'd cut out or at least keep down the comic relief figures and give their screen time to Charles Dance's character to give him more to work with.
Basically I'd trim the fat of the human story and move that wasted time to the characters that actually matter so that the human story would be more rich and engaging. It isn't that there was too much human story in the movie. The problem is the human story wasn't especially good because there were so many characters competing for screen time that we didn't have time to care any of them.
Ok maybe a few cringey lines of dialogue but the trailers never gave a false impression of what this movie was trying to accomplish. Rotten Tomatoes has too much power over the box office, sadly.
Ok maybe a few cringey lines of dialogue but the trailers never gave a false impression of what this movie was trying to accomplish. Rotten Tomatoes has too much power over the box office, sadly.
That really ain’t close to being true holmes (about rotten tomatoes)
@mike_fowler: Phily D made a video pretty recently about this. Has sources and whatnot. The conclusion was iirc that RT does hold more sway than the industry likes.
Edit: sorry I mean RR. Phil promoted this video. Still has sources though.
Human characters worth caring about and a plot that isn't totally phoned in. A 90 minute or longer movie can't sustain itself on just 15-20 minutes of monster action and nothing else.
Ok maybe a few cringey lines of dialogue but the trailers never gave a false impression of what this movie was trying to accomplish. Rotten Tomatoes has too much power over the box office, sadly.
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