Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-24868748-20140518055647/@comment-25623847-20141104220053

Let's compare, not the American Godzilla movies themselves, but how people view them:



Acting:

1998 - OMG the acting in this movie was so terrible.

2014 - Why are you criticising the acting? Acting in Kaiju movies has never mattered, who cares if it's bad, it doesn't matter, it's about Godzilla.



The military makes equally stupid screw-ups in both movies:

1998 - OMG this movie is so stupid, that is so not how it works.

2014 - That's just used to represent how Godzilla is a terrifying force of nature.



The characters:

1998 - These characters are so stupid, I really don't care about them.

2014 - Why are you criticising the characters? Everyone knows that Godzilla is the main character and the human characters don't matter in a Godzilla movie.



Do you get my point? Godzilla fanboys will eviscerate the 1998 Godzilla for many things, and then they will turn around and talk about how those flaws are completely irrelevant in the rest of the Godzilla movies. Talk about the plot holes in the new Godzilla and you're a hater who's just looking for reasons not to like it, while they ferret out every single flaw in the 1998 Godzilla like they get a reward for it.