Board Thread:Monster Discussions/@comment-19975417-20140202184548/@comment-133597-20140210074942

The monster itself, much less the movie, isn't bad really (there are plenty way worse out there). Just replace the "Godzilla" label with "Zilla" or something else and it'd be its own monster movie.

The main gripe a chunk of fans have is simply the fact that it was given the name, "Godzilla", but then seemed to "insult" the name with how it was executed. When people hear/think "Godzilla", they expect a towering, nigh-indestructible powerhouse force of nature that can just casually walk through pretty much anything the military can throw at him while a few breaths of his atomic ray wipes out entire units/squadrons with ease. So when they were given a monster that, instead, did all it could to hide, ambush pursuers, breathe normal fire (from the looks of it), is knocked unconscious a couple torpedoes and killed by a mere 12 missiles, that is pretty much the total opposite of "Godzilla" for them.