Godzilla (2014) Part Three (NON-SPOILER DISCUSSION)

[Prospero]

On the distant panoramic view of the soldiers descending, the clouds appear to have a stem and bulb shape, in the shape of a mushroom. Apparent a nuclear weapon goes off and yet the city survives.

[ebirahsmeg1]

[MouthForWar]

[DannyBeane]

I wish Columbus Ohio got stuff like that.

[MouthForWar]

Upon further inspection, its definitely a photoshop job. But its a pretty convincing one.

[jellydonut25]

[angilas]

[jellydonut25]

I doubt Cranston would mention Godzilla in any sort of acceptance speech for a Golden Globe. You get such little time, and you wanna do more thanking of people involved in whatever you won for than promotion of what you're doing next.

I'd expect just a lot of Breaking Bad talk. Which isn't a big deal, Breaking Bad is frigging amazing, and the more people that watch it, the more people would want to see Godzilla due to how amazing an actor Cranston is.

[angilas]

[Gargantuan Gargantua]

http://youtu.be/7BMmp7tEoKg

Opie and Anthony played the trailer on their show. Anthony mentions Godzilla once in a great while. He referred to his ex-wife and Opie's ex as Godzilla and Mothra. Patrice used to mention baby Godzilla as a joke.

Skip to 4 minutes.

I just thought it was funny. Harsh language btw.

[Jinzo Ningen]

Well... I've watched the new teaser about 50 times now, (a BIG thanks to Mr. Benjimin Haines for making an MPEG4 version for DL - it looks abso-flippin-lutely GLORIOUS on a 60" HD screen!!! ) I'm slightly over the giddiness of just finally having something decent/not blurry to watch. (Anyone else here keep giggling like a 6 year old at the end when we see him rising from the debris and he lets loose with that rumbling skreehonk? I did every freaking time I watched it and I did that for, like, a half hour solid! LOL!)

Anyhow, my primary interest now is in gauging public response to the teaser when it's shown before Hobbit. I'd be very interested in reading posts from folks who go to Hobbit and report back how the trailer went over with the crowds. The number of hits the teaser got and that it trended on Yahoo! in the #3 spot all day Tuesday (peaking at #1 for a while), and has over 8million+ views speaks volumes about not just the anticipatiion of the new film, but just how many folks out there really know and LOVE ol' Godzilla! He's no where near as obscure as many would seem to think. Not everyone knows the whole history or has seen all or even more than one or two movies, but everybody knows him and seems to have an affection for him. These things bode well for the movie - let's just hope it delivers. Judging by the tone & scope of the teaser, I'd say it certainly looks to be one of the best in the series.

[jellydonut25]

Dude, the trailer has like 5 million views or something (so sayeth someone on here).

I think the buzz for this is pretty strong, actually...it's lighting up Youtube, it was not only trending on Yahoo, it was one of their top headlines, it's a featured trailer on IMDb...it seems like people are fairly excited...

[Pkmatrix]

[Gojiraknight]

I'd say there was some pent up demand for the "right" Godzilla within the mainstream. We've seen that unspoken desire expressed in the reaction to this trailer.

[Pkmatrix]

Well, a bunch of us keep pointing out that the general public was just as disappointed with Z'98 as the fans were, it's just that they got over it while the fans never did. :p That's why I've always been baffled by the belief that nobody would want to see this because of Z'98. As a fandom we've got a little bit of a victim complex going, with a few seeming convinced that the world hates Godzilla and that any effort to change that is doomed to failure...when the reality is that the world is overall neutral and indifferent, but if you show them something cool-looking they'll be onboard.

This trailer looks cool. It does everything right to sell a serious Godzilla to the general public, IMO, and probably more effectively than the Oppenheimer teaser ever could have by pointing out that it won't just be Godzilla smashing crap for 120 minutes (which, until I point out how great the cast is, is probably the most cited reason for why uninterested non-fans were uninterested in my experience).

[Hybrid Gojira]

The trailer was at 7 million last night and now has about 8.4 million views.
There are also additional youtube videos of it with 1.7 million views each.

It looks good. Despite what any naysayers think, the trailer seems to be generating a buzz and that's what we need if there are hopes for a sequel. All of the buzz from people I personally know has also been great.

As far as Godzilla's height, it's not a big point of contention for me. Edwards has said that this Godzilla will be "a bit" bigger than any previous Godzilla but that he couldn't be so large that he loses the ability for human interaction. It's also clear they messed around with his size to get it right for this film.

[Benjamin Haines]

This is what the front page of YouTube looks like right now:



The trailer was posted less than 46 hours ago and it has 8,509,156 views and counting.

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

"I would not be asking you to take this leap, if I did not have faith in you to succeed"

In getting trampled underfoot :3

[Reaper G]

[Gyaos1965]

[Gyaos1965]

BTW, thank you for the warm welcomes! First remember watching Kaiju films as a little kid on Monster Week on the 4:30 movie on WABC in NY (lived in CT at the time). Godzilla movies, Gamera movies...as a kid, I was in Heaven.

[XvGojira]

[jellydonut25]

Yeah, I can't see how anyone could look at that halo jump sequence and not be impressed.

This is a SOMEWHAT tangential/longwinded way to get to a point, but while I loved Pacific Rim for all its colors, I think this film will have cinematography that will make the colors pop in a different way.

That shot of the red streaks arcing downward as they leave the plane, with the red plastered against that dark grey cloud. That's STUNNING to me visually. Equally stark imagery is that of the lone jumper's flare streak paired up with the enormity of Godzilla.
The colors in this movie are gonna POP because they will be used sparingly. The staging of shots looks absolutely gorgeous and I can INSTANTLY see why the halo jump was chosen as the main lead-in for the trailer. Sh*t looks amazing.

It's the same reason the bat-beat-down was fairly heavily featured in trailers for TDKR, the imagery is crisp and visually engaging.

I liked the Oppenheimer proof-of-concept thing, but to me, nothing in that trailer is as visually engaging as the halo jump. Oppenheimer's speech might be wildly appropos for a Godzilla movie with a serious tone, but I gotta be honest, I saw it a couple times, and then I kept just jumping ahead to the brief shot of the lizard thing/centipede and then Godzilla at the end. This trailer, that halo jump GRABS me right away.



and just to echo what was said above: It's like the main thing everyone is wondering, "Why does anybody think paratrooping a group of six guys into the middle of Godzilla's rampage is a good idea?" There's an important plot point here, and this TEASER is showing that this movie will have a story with that alone. Again, I liked the Oppenheimer teaser, but it gave ZERO hint that the film would have an actual story.

[Gman2887]

[Jinzo Ningen]

One other thing I wanted to mention regarding the teaser... it was very refreshing to NOT see any of the "shaky-cam" style camerawork that has so heavily pervaded TV & movies of the last 10-15+ years. Even in the brief, high-energy scenes of panic & fleeing people, the shots were either locked down panning, or dolly. Kudos to the DOP & Edwards! There may be some in the film, but at least this doesn't look to be another headache-fest like Cloverfield was. (Ugh!) I pray that they lock the camera down and actually let us see long, loving looks at the monsters, alone and in combat, instead of moving constantly and getting so close you can't tell Godzilla's elbow from a Muto's kneecap, etc., ala Michael Bay. Maybe younger A.D.D. types groove on that "look" but the older I get and the worse my eyes get, the less and less that kind of visual gimmickery does anything for me (and it honestly never really did much for me to begin with, except make me seasick).