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- Mar 18, 2007
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This should be the best Godzilla movie since Godzilla 1985.
Yeah they wereThe newer non-American Godzilla movies weren't that bad. I still like it when Godzilla fought Zilla (the redubbed Godzilla from the 1998 movie with Matthew Broderick) in Godzilla: Final Wars.
Glad to hear itI just got back from it, and I can say that Godzilla has finally been redeemed after being Broderick'd 16 years ago. It does feel a little bit more like a disaster film than a Godzilla film, but I think people will be pleased.
Saw it again a second time tonight and the crowd was cheering during some of it!
Saw it tonight in IMAX 3d.
It was awesome. The 3D really shined.
Go see it.
4TH UPDATE, FRIDAY, 7:15 AM: Godzilla is a monster with late-night grosses tallying a sizeable $9.3M on more than 3,400 screens, coming in much bigger than expected. Of that number, $2.1M came from IMAX screens. In comparison, Captain America: The Winter Soldier had a late-night tally of $10.2M and went on to gross $96.2M in its opening weekend.
Saw it last night. I had very high expectations for the movie and I have to say I'm a little disappointed. It is well made in terms of building suspense over the first hour, and I thought the character development (particularly Cranston's) was very effective, but there are severe pacing problems and the way it was edited took away most of the real fear. I also felt the lead was pretty charmless, which stood in sharp contrast to the empathy that Cranston and Binoche had built up. Overall I would give it a 3/5.
I think this movie might be better viewed in 3d. The way some of the shot perspectives are planned, just will not be as good in 2d. The bridge scene, and some of the city scenes where you are looking through broken glass at the monsters just won't produce the same focus in 2d.
I would have really like to have seen more battle scenes, but the movie was pretty darn good.