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Originally Posted by ChronoGrl
Which brings us back to Godzilla I suppose... Unfortunately he's really just a bit part in his own movie... Between the MUTOs and the Brady family, Godzilla gets so little screen time that mourning at his supposed death didn't feel very earned; it felt false and bizarre... And when he woke up, I didn't feel relief either; I felt very conflicted because even though I am interested in the concept of Godzilla being Earth's protector, I wanted there to be SOME kind of horrifying monster... The MUTOs weren't horrifying because they're not like a Xenomorph that explicitly targets people... They're just two big clumsy bugs trying to settle down and make a family (daaaaw)... And Godzilla, well, early on it was made clear that he was going to be taking on his protector role instead of destroyer role, so where's the explicit threat there? Sure, there was lots of damage, but it's just portrayed as unimportant and collateral. The only time where I thought that post-"monster" damage was impactful was when we were in the quarantine zone.
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Great review, Chrono! Agree with you but like Villain, I still couldn't left the theater with only disappointment. I guess, for fans like us even that limited amount of Godzilla showoffs resulted bit of satisfaction also.
Anyway, certainly you've made plenty of very reasonable points like FC did but I'd like to share some views about THE THREAT. I understand & agree with your views & sympathies about the MUTOs (you can open a facebook page: 'SAVE THE MUTOS' :D) and about their "horrifying appeal" but I think any giant & destructive monsters should certainly be consider as a threat for us (whatever their intentions are). We just can't let any man-eating (though MUTOs are not, just saying), giant or destructive animal/monster to move around & breed freely in any human establishment; can we? Whatever their intentions are, that may stimulates huge public panic & chaos as well as deaths & destruction at any point of time. But if their premise for nesting, feeding & fight for survival was different...let's say, in a remote island or jungle, abandoned or untouched by human civilization (i.e. Skull Island) then that would be totally different.
2014 Godzilla is kind of a homage to those Japanese sequels where Godzilla played the good guy role & intentionally or not, fought alongside humanity against common threats but yeah...I'd definitely more like to see an unpredictable, badass Godzilla like in the very first & original film. And the thing that often bugged me is why in any of the Godzilla sequels as well as in this American revive they didn't go with his "metaphor for nuclear weapons" concept, I think that would give more perspective & much more darker & interesting angles into a movie(s) which would also generate a great human story easily. Not in a great length may be but I'd love to see more closely destroyed cities & devastated human lives fighting for survival after Godzilla or any other monster's rampage. And last but not the least, when there are monsters who feeds on radiation then it'd be better to see some radiation poisoning things in an aftermath scenario more or less like the way the original depicted...and this all, as a whole could offer a great deal of threatening scenarios which even could lead into an apocalyptic warfare premise for any later sequel.