by Arrow » Tue Oct 12, 2010 11:02 am
All giant monsters collapse and die because they can't support their own weight.
Instead of growing into King Ghidorah, the atom bomb annihilates the Dorats.
- I don't want to see a Godzilla that walks in a manner parallel to the ground - like GINO. I don't mind a slight hunch (Godzilla 2000), however.
- I don't want to see a movie so caught up in being realistic that it forgets that first and foremost Godzilla should be fun. No matter how hard you try, you can't end up with a creature like Godzilla and have him be 100% realistic. Which is why I would never object to a more fantasy/supernaturally-oriented Godzilla film. One thing I like about GMK is that because of the fantasy element it's a lot easier to accept the monsters in a world where the impossible can (and has) happen. Accept and acknowledge that Godzilla is an impossibility and the audience will have no trouble doing the same.
- I don't want a Godzilla who's vulnerable to anything but the most powerful man-made weaponry. That said, I also don't want fantastical superweapons. One of the things I like about Godzilla 2000 is that it ditched masers and Super-X's in favor of tanks, missiles, and planes. I think that works a lot better and would help to immerse Godzilla into "our world".
- I don't want a long, drawn out origin story for Godzilla. Godzilla is what he is - a giant dinosaur awakened/mutated by nuclear power. I think that the film would do better to have Godzilla be an already established entity in the film instead of stuffing the story with his origin, the origin for another monster, and battles between Godzilla and the military and Godzilla and another monster.
- I don't want an message that's beaten over the heads of the audience, one of the many things that hurt Godzilla vs. Mothra.