Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-24868748-20140518055647/@comment-5989773-20140527202629

Crockalley wrote: I am one of those haters you have all been talking about. This movie was so g.d. boring. Just because some people think it was boring does not mean that they wanted to see an all-out, two hour action fest. (For the record, I really really hate movies like Revenge of the Fallen.) Yes, I would have liked a bit more monster action in G2014. But overall, the boring human drama was what killed this movie for me. By the time of the final fight, my brain was already checked out.

To clarify: I call the human drama in this film "boring." This does not mean that I do not like human drama. It's just that the human drama in Godzilla 2014 was not interesting enough to sustain the film. Ford Brody was not nuanced. There was no texture there for me to grab onto. Total bore-zilla. Thanks for the review.

Anyways now that I have scene the film I can see why there are some complaints. Really the film has three problems, all are big, all come from the root of the fact that the main protagonist is a bore. "But in other Godzilla movies the characters are a bore" isn't an important part of every reboot to improve upon the original instead of leaving what was broken broke? Another problem was that they killed who was by far the most intriguing character early on. Three, the airport scene wasn't a lead up, it was just a giant cock tease. People wanted to see the battle because they showed you, not implied, but showed you that it happened and was incredibly frustrating. Fourth is one I haven't heard nor experienced but I'm sure it's out there, the massive tone difference from the movie and the trailers.

Now, I liked the film, and it's my new favorite Godzilal film. But it is not without it's problems and I sympathies with those who dislike the film.