Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 10:40 pm
Watched this with my kid, since obviously he had never seen it. I had misgivings about making this one the first Godzilla he sees, but hell with it. It was on Netflix and that made it easy.
Anyway, this movie is kinda dull. Pacing is bad, lots of slow parts, the cgi doesn't hold up especially in light of one of the other movies it competed against that summer, Armageddon, and since the monster was played up as a simple, if large, animal literally just trying to nest in NYC, all of the military scenes in which they are blowing the shit out of the animal just seem cruel and you want it to just be over with.
The military were played like idiots most of the time, and they arguably caused more damage than the animal did.
And the idiot mayor and his aid were an obvious send-up of Siskel and Ebert, the famous movie reviewers of that time, so I wonder at what the bad blood was between them and the people who made the movie. Obviously the movie was made before the reviewers would have skewered it, so there must have been something else.
Anyway, this movie is kinda dull. Pacing is bad, lots of slow parts, the cgi doesn't hold up especially in light of one of the other movies it competed against that summer, Armageddon, and since the monster was played up as a simple, if large, animal literally just trying to nest in NYC, all of the military scenes in which they are blowing the shit out of the animal just seem cruel and you want it to just be over with.
The military were played like idiots most of the time, and they arguably caused more damage than the animal did.
And the idiot mayor and his aid were an obvious send-up of Siskel and Ebert, the famous movie reviewers of that time, so I wonder at what the bad blood was between them and the people who made the movie. Obviously the movie was made before the reviewers would have skewered it, so there must have been something else.