The Godzilla Thread - Plus other giant monsters, no matter how popular or obscure

Illuminati Order Official said:
For me the series and Monsterverse in general is something like Showa movies made in the 70s - light, fun entertainment with some bits of action and some wild stories.
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I like how the thread celebrated when they promised to have less talking, acting, and plot in GxK. I can proudly say we're dumber than MCU fans. The Legendaryverse was kinda trying to make "good" movies for a little while there. Glad they gave up on that, they're much better at stupid.

I did hear a complaint irl (from a non-kaijutard) that Minus One was too talky, not enough stompy. Personally, I'd have enjoyed a movie about the MC even without the dinosaur, but I did feel like the dinosaur added a lot to the film.

I haven't seen Pacific Rim but it turns out there's a Pacific Rim Netflix show, how "Netflix" is it? I watched the Gamera show but haven't tried any of the other animated kaiju shows (or Monarch), Gamera's the only one that seemed to have much positive buzz.
 
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Calandrino said:
I like how the thread celebrated when they promised to have less talking, acting, and plot in GxK. I can proudly say we're dumber than MCU fans. The Legendaryverse was kinda trying to make "good" movies for a little while there. Glad they gave up on that, they're much better at stupid.
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My favorite Monsterverse movie is still King of the Monsters - it has the right combination of big monsters fighting, some returning (monstrous) faces and simple, easy to follow plot to perfectly emulate late Showa Godzilla. V. Kong gave too much time and action to the kids \ teenagers, wandering dangerously close to Showa Gamera.
 
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Calandrino said:
I like how the thread celebrated when they promised to have less talking, acting, and plot in GxK. I can proudly say we're dumber than MCU fans. The Legendaryverse was kinda trying to make "good" movies for a little while there. Glad they gave up on that, they're much better at stupid.
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With that Minus One is getting universal praise, we are video essays that emulate Mauler by equating the MonsterVerse to the decline of modern Hollywood and Minus One puts it to shame.


Don't get me wrong. Minus One is a great Godzilla entry and movie in general. It'll probably be on most people's top 10 Godzilla movie as #2 behind the original. But unlike the aforementioned video, Hollywood did not Godzilla an anti-hero or turned giant monster fights into "junk food" entertainment. It's bad enough with the leftist idpols latching onto the character, now we have the anti-woke grifters joining the bandwagon.
 
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Illuminati Order Official said:
My favorite Monsterverse movie is still King of the Monsters - it has the right combination of big monsters fighting, some returning (monstrous) faces and simple, easy to follow plot to perfectly emulate late Showa Godzilla.
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Don't forget a kickass manly soundtrack. This movie just oozes love for the Big G and co.
 
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Illuminati Order Official said:
My favorite Monsterverse movie is still King of the Monsters - it has the right combination of big monsters fighting, some returning (monstrous) faces and simple, easy to follow plot to perfectly emulate late Showa Godzilla. V. Kong gave too much time and action to the kids \ teenagers, wandering dangerously close to Showa Gamera.
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Ditto. Quite enjoyed the monster fight scenes in Godzilla vs Kong, especially the final fight with MechaGodzilla, but every second with the human cast was a fucking bore. King of the Monsters at least made an attempt to make me give a shit about the humans.
 
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For me, I just don't give a fuck about the human scenes in the MonsterVerse. What I'm about to say may sound controversial here, but I feel like the human scenes in the infamous 1998 TriStar/Emmerich movie were better than the ones in the MonsterVerse (albeit in a so-bad-they're-good kinda way).
 
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Don't forget how the monster verse kept shooting all the fight scenes in the dark or in a hurricane, making any action almost impossible to see and wasn't until GVK we finally got some fights in the daylight along with a decent night time fight in Hong Kong with the neon lights of the city. Was this an attempt to hide the "bad" CGI or to make the fight seem more intense with tons of shit obscuring the screen.

Edit: I forgot to mention that Kong skull Island has some of the best fight scenes in all of the monsterverse and use it as a guide on how to shoot a big computer generated Kaiju Battle.
 
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I feel like I wouldn’t hate a lot of the human scenes if they weren’t main characters, but also weren’t disposable. Like have them die, but it’s at least somewhat meaningful.

Minus One does make you care about the human characters because Koicihi is basically living in the shadow of his mistake. It’s never stated in the film, but it’s obvious that his plane’s machine gun wouldn’t have been effective and the Engineer basically realizes he made the guy feel like shit for the last few years over something they really had no control over at the time.

I think the only other times beyond the first film I cared for human characters was GMK.
 
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Mac Monster said:
I saw Minus One last night, and I really enjoyed it. As much as I like the silly Monsterverse films, it was nice to get a new Godzilla film with an interesting main character. I especially enjoyed his "rivalry" with Godzilla.
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I'm yet to hear a negative opinion about the movie from someone who saw it. I went with someone who doesn't really like monster movies and even they said it was really well made.
It also reminded me of something. In The Last Jedi there is a scene where a character makes a heroic sacrifice and the movie goes completely silent for a while. When it happened people started murmuring, thinking something is broken. There is a similar scene in Minus One and the theater was dead fucking silent. Pacing and built-up matters.
 
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Illuminati Order Official said:
It also reminded me of something. In The Last Jedi there is a scene where a character makes a heroic sacrifice and the movie goes completely silent for a while. When it happened people started murmuring, thinking something is broken. There is a similar scene in Minus One and the theater was dead fucking silent. Pacing and built-up matters.
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The thing is, Disney Wars are made with normies in mind. Normies don't like thinking with their brains much when it comes to stories, which is why everything has to be simplified for them.

Godzilla was always rather niche, even when it was considered for kids for a time, and there was always love for the art of filmmaking when it comes to Godzilla. It's not "arthouse", but it's removed from the norm of what is considered "entertainment".

Normies are latching onto Godzilla due to the Legendary Monsterverse, but Godzilla somehow manages to keep from being made with the normie audience in mind because it has managed to find the right balance of monster action and human drama. And a movie that doesn't treat its audience like morons gains the respect of the audience, something that even the normies subconsciously know about.
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
It's not "arthouse"
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