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Crockalley wrote: I am one of those haters you have all been talking about. This movie was so g.d. boring. Just because some people think it was boring does not mean that they wanted to see an all-out, two hour action fest. (For the record, I really really hate movies like Revenge of the Fallen.) Yes, I would have liked a bit more monster action in G2014. But overall, the boring human drama was what killed this movie for me. By the time of the final fight, my brain was already checked out.

To clarify: I call the human drama in this film "boring." This does not mean that I do not like human drama. It's just that the human drama in Godzilla 2014 was not interesting enough to sustain the film. Ford Brody was not nuanced. There was no texture there for me to grab onto. Total bore-zilla. Why are you even here? The plot of the 2014 film follows the same basic pattern that most Godzilla films follow. The human characters are almost always bland and uninteresting, and the film's are always a mixture of human and monster action, complete with cutaways from the fights to show what the people are doing. This film stays true to that formula. You don't go to see a monster movie to see the human characters; you go to see the monsters. If you want to see interesting movie characters, go see a different film. Plus, you can't expect the monster to be present throughout the entire movie. Traditionally, you rarely get a good look at the monster until at least halfway through the film. The original Godzilla movie was exactly the same. I can't really see why any Godzilla fan would hate this film so much unless they weren't a fan of Godzilla in general. The film is faithful to the franchise, and we finally got an American Godzilla that wasn't a complete piece of crap or cheesy. I've seen almost every Godzilla film ever made, and I loved it. It certainly wasn't boring, the monsters themselves were great, and the fight at the end was well worth the wait. Overall, it was an excellent addition to the Godzilla Franchise.