Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-24868748-20140518055647/@comment-3367060-20140624061933

Reboots are not just "going back to the original." 1998 was a reboot (not a remake since it had nothing to do with the original 1954 film ANY Godzilla movie) and we all know that no one liked that and it had zero connections to the original source material.

So what if the movie takes some elements from 1998? Just because 1998 used those elements doesn't mean that whenever they're used it makes a movie bad.

Serizawa should have had a bigger role, yes, but he is not supposed to be like Daisuke Serizawa, and that's that.

The "If you want to show off the CGI, then show us the monsters fighting" you put there is simply wrong. Some of the teasing might have gone too far, but this is NOT Michael Bay's Transformers. You will NOT get action every single second of the movie. Audiences nowadays have forgotten how to watch summer blockbusters, having a "MORE, MORE, attitude when it comes to action in movies, where they just want a ton and a ton of action, and the Transformers movies are the shining example of that. Some of the absolute best summer blockbusters of all time used build-up and teasing and did NOT bombard you with action which made the CG obvious, destroying the suspension-of-disbelief and making the action boring--no, they paced things and rewarded you for your patience, much like 2014. Jurassic Park, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind--these movies are LOVED by so many people and they were great summer blockbusters with many similarities to Godzilla 2014. If they're so similar, why is 2014 disliked then? Like I previously explained, people have forgotten how to watch summer blockbusters and movies like the Bayformers are making audiences more impatient and demanding, it is not the movies.

Toho will probably not use guys in suits for Godzilla movies once the Legendary series is over in more than 6 years, they'll instead use CGI like many will be doing over that time. How ARE Godzilla movies supposed to be done? Very positive America learned since we did not repeat 1998, so what's left to learn? Making better-written characters and less teasing? That can be done without Toho making a Godzilla movie in immediate response to 2014, the writers just have to learn how to write better, that's it. To be extremely fair, characters in Japanese Godzilla movies were not super interesting. There ARE some that come to mind and some that are very fondly remembered, but those are few and far between and their relatively large number is due to Godzilla having so many movies. More pointless action like Transformers is a definitive no unless the runtime for the next movies are longer. Introducing more original monsters? Okay, the Legendary monsters should be more original and they could use help from Toho on that, but what's the point if so many people (including Gareth Edwards) want some Toho monsters from the sequel?