Talk:Godzilla (2014 film)/@comment-26497550-20150615051849/@comment-1418880-20160403183225

Does anyone understand how classic monster movies work, these days, or do people just have no taste in film? When filmakers use what I like to call the classic approach, the titular monster only appears fully at about the halfway point. In the meantime, you build suspense, offering blurred or brief glimpses as well as evidence of the monster's presence. A tail here, something moving through the water there. Sometimes, you may even have a human antagonist or lesser monster appear that adds further suspense. Then, when the time is right, you reveal the titular beast in all his or her glory in a shocking and/or dramatic fashion. A lot of classic monster movies are like that. Look at Jaws. How much screen time do you think the monster shark gets throughout that entire film? For most of the film you don't even see him. You just see people disappear, pools of blood, bodies or bodyparts, a brief glimpse of something moving through the water, and of course the classic fin. It's only when the protaganists go out on the boat and hunt the thing that you finally get a good look at the shark. The sharks monstrous face finally appears in the famous "we're gonna need a bigger boat" scene as they're chumming the waters. That's a typical example of the classic approach to monster movies.