Talk:Godzilla/@comment-1418880-20141011223316/@comment-1418880-20141013205013

Twhat's what I like about this movie. Godzilla is portrayed more realistically than I some of his cheesier moments in more recent films. Godzilla isn't there to protect the people. In fact, he has no interest in humans whatsoever. Godzills protecting the humans would be like us trying to go out of our way to protect a fly. We're insects to him. He is only there to hunt the MUTOs, which he perceives as a threat and possible food source. They even explain this in the movie. Large creatures like that wouldn't be interested in organisms that small. He only reacts when he is attacked, which merely annoys him like biting insects would annoy us. Even the MUTOs have no interest in humans. They're simply attracted to sources of radiation, and attack anything that gets between them and their food source. You only see them really go out of their way to kill humans at the end, when the female discovers that they destroyed her nest and stolen her food source (the nuke). They occasionally appear to eat people, though this doesn't appear to be what they are trying to do. At the airport, for example, the male appears to be attacking the train, which is moving towards it at a rapid pace. This appears to be either hunting behavior (investigating this smaller, fast-moving thing as a possible food source) or self defense (protecting itself from a potential threat). The Kaiju in this movie act more like intelligent animals than sentient protectors and destroyers, which fits in with Godzilla being a force of nature, neither good nor evil. That's what his Japanese creators intended him to be, and I was extremely pleased when I found out Legendary hadn't changed that. That's why they succeeded when the 1998 film failed. They didn't try to completely remake him for American audiences. They simply made an American film starring Godzilla. They stayed close to his roots. All that scrappy 1998 film did was turn him into a giant mutant iguana.