by jellydonut25 » Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:52 pm
People are taking this "reality' notion FAR too literally.
Gareth Edwards has even attempted to state in multiple different ways what he means by "reality" and assuage these concerns that the movies will lose their sci-fi/fantasy elements...
He doesn't want to make a movie (or series of movies) about how this could really happen, with realistic monsters and scientific explanations behind everything, he wants to make a movie that shows what would really happen if all this insane stuff that we "know" can't possibly exist actually did. The reality of unreality existing in our modern, cynical world.
The guy says, "What if this really happened?" and the whole freaking fandom PANICS, thinking Godzilla's gonna die before he exists because the bones of a creature that size would snap under its own weight.
"Realistic" is being used in about the loosest way possible here...possibly even looser than the Nolan Bat films, which were nowhere NEAR as real as people claim. The number of impossibilities in Batman's technology in those films is through the damned roof, but it's his way of showing us how something as fantastical as Batman would exist if it really happened.
Personally, I think that kinda rules out Mechagodzilla, at least early on, because humans don't have giant robot technology right now. It doesn't rule out just about any of the biological kaiju because who's to say a giant star-beast can't descend from the skies tomorrow and totally f*ck sh*t up?
It also means the door is open for Mechagodzilla ultimately though, because who's to say if giant beasts starting tearing up the world we wouldn't rush to figure out a way to combat them using a giant robot?
The idea isn't to make the situations realistic, but how people might react to those unrealistic situation if they really happened.
Really.