Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-24868748-20140518055647/@comment-4457915-20140715013708

I liked this film a lot, and thought of it as kind of a sequel to the 1954 movie, like how the films from the Heisei and Millenium eras were sequels to the original and ignored its original sequels. The reason I think some people started hating on this movie like crazy, goes back to the 1998 film. It made many people from general audiences (outside of Japan) not like Godzilla, and they stopped caring about his movies. This is probably why Godzilla 2000 didn't make nearly as much money in the U.S. Anyways, even in 2004, many people still thought the 1998 creature was Godzilla and not Zilla, and lots of people weren't as used to the formulas in the original Godzilla movies. Most people outside of Japan and who were non-kaiju fans became used to movies with tons of action and no buildup, and didn't like Godzilla-styled movies. So when many moviegoers saw this, they got angry because they weren't used to it or the screentime Godzilla had, which made it nowhere near their ideal movie. If this film was just shown to people who were used to the Godzilla formula, or released in 1998, it might even have around 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Another reason is because of Bryan Cranston being shown in the first trailer, and this made Breaking Bad fans extremely hyped for it because they thought that he would be the main character just because he was in the trailer. Then, when he was only in it for about 30 minutes, they got really angry and ranted about the movie. Those are my theories. I still loved it though :D