User blog comment:LookatmeIgotaKey/Noticed something/@comment-25285745-20140911213229

I also noticed that when I first saw G14 in theaters. I would say it's just a coincidence, but it seems that Gareth made a point to directly contrast 1998 in several scenes, notably the bridge sequence and the secene where the female M.U.T.O. mourns over her dead young. I'm willing to bet that these scenes and the opening credits were written in a way that showed how situations portrayed in the 1998 film would occur with the actual Godzilla in them. Just a theory though.