by jellydonut25 » Thu May 15, 2014 2:51 pm
The complaints about Godzilla's screen time from professional critics is maddening. I expect that kind of foolishness from die-hard fans, but if you're a professional critic and THAT'S the reason you give the movie a negative review, you need your head knocked around to bash your brain into place.
I mean, honestly, it's FINE if someone doesn't like the movie. If ATJ just rubs you the wrong way, and everything after Cranston is on screen seems deadened in terms of emotional impact and the climax just throws all kinds of stuff at you that's not your kind of movie, that's FINE...but no movie is BAD due to the lack of its monster. Are Jaws and Alien BAD because they don't have tons of shark and alien? It just seems terribly unprofessional to me for someone to be PAID to write that the movie is BAD because it doesn't have enough Godzilla in it.
You wonder if these people today would write articles, "Shouldn't a Movie Called Alien have an ALIEN in It?"
Again, don't like the movie? That's fine. Don't like it because Godzilla's screen time is limited? That's okay....as long as you're just a die-hard fan who's only there to see Godzilla. A film critic should be there to review the QUALITY OF THE FILM, not the screen time of characters.