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DR-Studios In reply to X-distroyer [2016-10-03 17:20:12 +0000 UTC]

Thankye!

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DR-Studios In reply to TheTraitor44 [2016-05-25 16:29:02 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!  ^^

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TheTraitor44 In reply to DR-Studios [2016-05-25 19:16:01 +0000 UTC]

Youre Welcome.

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DR-Studios In reply to MrTBSC [2014-07-23 22:46:06 +0000 UTC]

I don't honestly understand why the fanbase seems to be so hard to please.  It's like they are disappointed the film didn't cater to every specific aspec of what they wanted the movie to be.  It seems as if parts of the fandom just got so over hyped about it they didn't dial their hype back enough to be workable.

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DR-Studios In reply to Zero-Box [2014-06-11 04:13:33 +0000 UTC]

The movie doesn't deserve the hate, (or the expletives) for one very simple reason:  The reasons 14 is being hated on, are the same reasons that the 54 is loved.  In both movies Godzilla's screen time is limited and the plots both follow the stories of people who happen to keep running into him.  However, fans are guilty of one very simple thing:  They get their hopes up so high that no matter what, their expectations are unattainable unless the studio and crew have pandered directly to them.

Which they didn't.

And therefore fans become butthurt over it.

I loved the 2014 movie.  I loved the hell out of it.  It was a reboot, a different take, with a slightly different focus than one expected.  I went in, expecting not the best Godzilla movie, not another Zilla, but a Godzilla Movie.  Which was what we had gotten.  It followed the classic Godzilla formula:  Godzilla is established, new monster appears, new monster's threat escalates quickly, humans try to stop it (and all kaiju), human's plan fails, Godzilla comes in to clean up the mess because humans screwed up in the first place.  I've seen it twice and plan to see it a Third time when I get paid again.

The family angle works, and it gives Ford more dimension rather than "generic military guy who happens is EOD."  In the same way that the cast of the original 54 had their motivations.  The love Triangle between Emiko, Ogata, and Serizawa give extra dimension to the characters and added tension.  The goal of Ford getting to his family added tension to his story, especially as the family was split up due to the incoming kaiju and after the death of his father to the MUTO (and him learning his father was right all along and has to deal with that emotional baggage as well now).  Which is an analog to families being split in the onset of a natural disaster, which is intended to get the audience emotionally involved in the characters and their safety.

Is the acting the best?  No.  Taylor-Johnson is a bit wooden, but his acting isn't near as bad as seen in Pacific Rim leads (and I LOVE Pacific Rim).  The new movie does require a bit more audience participation and allows them to use their imagination to fill in the gaps because not every single little detail is force fed to us or strewn through exposition.  We get a minimal amount that we need to understand.  Godzilla's existence is established in the opening credits, and expanded a bit more when the military realizes they are in over their heads, and Watanabe's delivery of some of the best lines in the movie hit it home the weight of the situation.  His near reverence for Godzilla boarders on worship, which is a bit jarring for a scientist (to me) and I love that take on Serizawa.

Did Godzilla need some more screen time?  Sure, I'm all for it.  But in comparison in the 54 movie he's seen just about the same amount of time as in 2014.  I would have loved the two scientists some more screen time as well, especially for Watanabe's Serizawa.  Who was one of the strongest characters in the film.

Every time I see Godzilla first appear and roar at the camera in Hawaii, I tense up, waiting, hoping they show the fight.  I WANT the fight.  I NEED the fight.  And every time it cuts away.  I have just been blueballed by a Godzilla movie.  And I love it.  And I keep coming back for more.

Is it the perfect Godzilla movie?  No.  But then again, I'm not expecting Garreth and crew to pander to me (if they did there wouldn't be another kaiju, there'd just be Godzilla and a higher focus on nuclear energy and nature fighting back).  Is it good?  I love it.  And I'll stand by that.

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Zero-Box In reply to DR-Studios [2014-06-11 04:29:00 +0000 UTC]

thats a very FAIR opinion... but in zilla mmovie you get to see more time the monster, when he came out of the tunnels, and eat a lot of fish, being chased around the city, even the babys have a good show.

this one i was SO cock blocked, in the trailers only showed godzilla INMENSE size, how soldiers fell in parachute close to him, in no moment was more relevant in the trailers the fact of the family bounds, and thats misleading advertising, even when the muto on hawaii was about to figth godzilla, we dont get to see a REAL figth, or even how muto scapes, the really good final movie gets to the last... and thats something that enrage me

in zilla close the finale, zilla follow the taxy like maniac, until it reached the bridge were he's shoot to death, i grow up with that movie and seeing another godzilla coming out, a more clasic one, man that high the expectatives of evryone

in my final, this is not THE godzilla movie, its just ANOTHER godzilla movie, even pasific rim could be more godzilla style that this movie XD

i am not saying it was something i dint liked to see... but my brain will cut off the family parts to get to the real GOOD blood of the movie.

even will have been aceptable that in some parts, they showed more secrets, maybe how the army try to figth the mutos, more of them destroying the city, a gigant 8 legs creature come across USA and we dont get to see HOW much does it destroy?

personaly here, movie tickets are expensive, if we go to a movie, have to be a good one... this... was something to see onece in your life, and if any secuel comes out... i rather buy it in the streets... low quality... bad record, and its pirate... but is cheaper...


but you have your reason too... and i am not saying the oposite

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DR-Studios In reply to Zero-Box [2014-06-11 06:34:03 +0000 UTC]

I am familiar with Godzilla 98 as I did watch it many times and enjoyed for what it was.

Trailers are not so much false advertising as they are teasing you to go see the movie so you can figure out what is going on.  Did the tone match completely to the final film?  No.  And you would be hard pressed to find a trailer and movie that matched up in tone (without the trailer giving the movie away in the process).  That's just the nature of trailers and what they are intended to do:  To make you want to see the movie.

The 98 movie showing more of Zilla continued a trend in movies where the audience is blasted with spectacle after spectacle until all the impact is gone and then it's just mindless Michael Bay explosions for the sake of explosions.  And this is the thing.  You are comparing two very different styles of movie making, as if expecting one to be striving to be better than the other.  And that is not always the case either, considering that Godzilla 98 was more a generic monster flick than Godzilla movie, and Godzilla 2014 was more Godzilla movie with a sociopolitical message that brings memory of recent disasters to ground us in the scope.  One is mindless, the other requires the audience to think.  Which audience members are not able to do any more, because they're so used to being shown everything.

On the limited amount of what was shown.  It is cinematic foreplay.  It is intended to tease you, without revealing too much.  It's meant to make you want more and more until the big payoff, the final battle between Godzilla and the MUTOs, in which it pays off amazingly.  All of that buildup, all of that teasing, released in the final minutes because you've been waiting for it the whole movie.  That's smart, it keeps the audience engaged.  It also allows the audience to use their imagination.  Sure the Hawaii fight was cut out.  But we get the beginning, a few highlights of the middle, and then the end through news clips:  It requires imagination to fill in the gaps, and that's what audience members are expected to do with the information given:  Fill in the blanks with whatever images you want, since you know how it starts, and how it ends.  Just fill in the middle.  You might not see it on the big screen, but you get to have it play out in a way that would make you satisfied.  And that's the genius of it.

The same goes for the Female MUTO, and the reasoning they had for not showing as much military vs monster action.  They don't' want to bombard the audience with he same 'useless military assault on monsters' for 30+ minutes, because that would bore the audience, and honestly if you've seen a kaiju fight the military once, you've seen it a thousand times.  Also, I have traveled through Nevada to California.. There's not much there to smash, so really you wouldn't see much except of the MUTO walking around as planes fell out of the sky.  Not very exciting.

As for high expectations... I've learned to dial them back so that I'm less disappointed when I go to movies.  I went into Godzilla 98 expecting an awesome Godzilla movie... and it wasn't.  But I still enjoyed it, despite the let-down.  I reminded myself to dial back the hype train that I was on, and warned others of the same thing.  In a way you did, you went in with high expections and were disappointed, hence you felt the need to express your reaction with.... a lot of expletives.

I still stand by that the human element of the movie is what gives the audience a ground to relate to the characters.  Without them, there's really no context for the monsters.  It'd just be animals fighting, and you can watch that on cable.  And if you remove that human element... then all you really have is Pacific Rim.  And it comes off as if you're disappointed because it wasn't a Pacific Rim clone, in that case... just watch Pacific Rim (it's a fun movie).  Which is kinda funny considering Pacific Rim is a tribute to the tokusatsu genre rather than an improvement.  And you aren't the only one I've kind of felt that stance from.  But you really can't compare the tribute movie to the reboot of the source of that tribute.  It doesn't really mesh very well.  It wasn't Pacific Rim, and it wasn't supposed to be.

As far as movie tickets:  Our matinees are half price, and so are Tuesday movies, so it's affordable then.  I just haven't had time or else I would have gone a few more times already.

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Zero-Box In reply to DR-Studios [2014-06-11 06:38:23 +0000 UTC]

 MAN.... i am gonna read that tomoroow.... i dont have streng for do it today XD

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DR-Studios In reply to Adaiala [2014-06-02 15:15:03 +0000 UTC]

Keep an eye out on the Etsy store for it, should be able to get caught up on that this afternoon.

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Kaijukid23 In reply to Kaijukid23 [2014-05-15 14:00:53 +0000 UTC]

If you live in Indonesia or Thai

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