Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-3367060-20131210214456/@comment-3367060-20140127080934

Except, none of the cast for this film has worked with Gareth before. So what if they might have been in movies that made them play poorly written mopey-dopey characters? Those films have nothing to do with this one. The story will revolve around the main characters so you'll see it through their perspective, Godzilla is a force of nature, and humans observe disasters. If they invest into the characters, you'll care for them, and they've already said the movie invests into the characters. In 1998, they didn't invest into the characters, so you don't even remember the name of most of them except the main one, am I correct? No one cares for the humans in 1998, because Emmerich and Devlin didn't invest time into them, they were just doing a pop corn film--something completely unfitting with Godzilla. It's been stated, explicitly by Cranston, that this film is not like that, which means that the only way you won't care for the characters is if you force yourself not to care for them.

Also, I wouldn't say the mood of this film seems to be bleak and lifeless. It seems more like serious and huge, threatening, but not unexciting and dull. Could you mean depressing by dreary? Perhaps, but not too much so as to make the characters in this be mops.