Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-25784384-20141130033710/@comment-5234191-20141130114917

For a first movie in a trilogy and a second movie worked by Mr Edwards (his first high-end movie), Godzilla is good, not super good or terrible, just good.

The amount of screen-time of Godzilla has on screen, while not proportional compared to the MUTOs and Ford as a standalone movie, actually is finely set if in a Trilogy, I mean, would it be fun if all three movies are always having him go Pacific Rim on his co stars with the only significant difference being the monsters that are cast and the location of the battle and the ultimate finishings? Edwards actually made his kaiju casts to generate tension to the viewer while also displaying their disastrous power while having them minimally present on screen, the onlyy other kaiju to accomplish this was clover and yet Godzilla and MUTO came out to be more iconic and eye-catching, thanks to their designs and complexity of plot.

He could have made Godzilla a Kaiju Action flick, but I supoose he think it shouldn't and it wouldn't work that way, that's not how he want Godzilla to be presented and he doesn't want viewer to see Godzilla simply as a powerful Giant Monster who fights other monster with flashy power moves for entertainmentn's sake, he wants Godzilla to be viewed as an intrepetation of a greater force that reminds us that there are things beyond our control, Tsunamis, Earthquakes, Nuclear Fallouts etc.

As for Aaron/Ford? I admit, the character potrayed was rather looking stale and lacking expression, but let's look back: He grew up in Japan with parents that are busy with their work at the nuclear powerplant, He worked so hard to celebrate one of his "Maniac" father's birthday to have his mother die in the afternoon and is forced to evacuate from his childhood home for good, his father become obsessed of the incident and the eventually got seperated with Ford somehow joining the Military and started a family which is one of a few good things in his life. I guess a tragic past and military background will not create a guy with expression you see in drama movies, while not entertaining to the eye, his character suits a man of the role really well, at least if the events really happened in real life, I don't want to see a guy kept being hold back by his sadness over some personal struggle WHEN THERE'S 3 KAIJU CONVERGING OUT THERE, But a calm collected soldier willing keep everyone, even a lost child, safe from harm trying to reach a family he's the father of?, I'll applause to that, that's selfless, such a pity if people can't see that through the freezing calm of Aaron's face, people will probably pay more attention if the story was about him trying to survive with his ex and later got back together or something, Is a stoick soldier's and a longing father's figure that hard to relate? I would say yes, that's probably why its really hard for Ford to "touch" viewers.

Gareth didn't screw up, he just needs to further dig for the intersect point where his trademark elements and people's appreciation or taste meet, and from someone who shows such a quality in his first big budget movie, I won't even question wether he desrves it or not, he earned the right to do it again.