Board Thread:Movie Discussions/@comment-24868748-20140518055647/@comment-25211864-20140722143724

I was really disappointed by new Godzilla. It actually made me start watching or re-watching every Godzilla movie ever made. There were movies worse than '14 (mostly Showa era), but the ones that did it right (say, vs Destroyah, or Mechagodzilla II) had a soul in it. Yes, the humans characters were almost always awful and generic, but the plot was more engaging anyway. I think the Japanese achieved that by putting more emphasis on the problem itself (how to fight Godzilla/other monsters) instead of creating an emotional drama. I didn't care about that marine guy in '14, I didn't care about the Japanese protagonists in classics either. I liked Heisei series because I could watch the humans figuring it all out, trying new ideas to cope with the monster problem etc. In Godzilla 2014 there was only a boring human drama, even worse than "2012". Heisei Godzilla* had a "personality", you could feel sorry for the monster even though it was destroying cities and killing people. The new one left me thinking that if I didn't know any Godzilla before seeing '14 version, I would just consider him a really generic monster.

I don't know what exactly is the reason for it, but classic Godzilla movies had magic in them. New one is just... well, generic and soulless IMO.

Bottom line - maybe not horrible movie, but horribly dissapointing.