by TerranigmaFreak » Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:33 pm
How do you feel about the way the monsters were portrayed in this movie? Their looks, sounds, powers, and origin story?
I think Godzilla was handled really well. No complaints about the design, or anything. What bugs me a bit is the Burning Godzilla power up. It feels like a weird mishmash of Burning Godzilla, the Super Godzilla power up, and the nuclear pulse combined yet it lacks a certain oomph to it despite being super OP.
I like the more slender design. The wings are still massive and it's still fluffy. Mothra seems to be lacking her powder attack... but also not? The scene she's trying to establish contact with Godzilla seems like she's using the powder or when she gets blasted to hell. The new abilities are cool and the pincers work. The stinger reminds me of GMK. I just wish we had more Mothra in the film. If you watch the end credits, it mentions an mysterious egg being washed up. I think its safe to say Mothra is not truly dead. Who thinks Mothra might also come back in the next one?
It's nice to see Rodan again after all these years. Top notch design. I kinda wish they did more with his fire ability. Does it have a fire ability? You can see fire trailing it wherever it goes, but they don't clear establish if it has any flaming powers. Rodan also gets a really cool scene, but I still wish he had more screen time. They missed out on giving us a really cool aerial battle in this movie. The final battle should have had all 4 of them in a battle royale instead of just focusing on Godzilla and Ghidorah. I love this Rodan and I hope we'll see more of him, but I doubt it.
Wow, where do I even begin with Ghidorah? They managed to make it an alien lifeform and not make it seem out of place in this movie. If this movie had the tone of the previous one, it would be seriously weird, but it works in this movie. I'm sure I wasn't the only one shocked to see one of its heads getting ripped off early in the movie. It was a seriously holy crap moment and you start questioning how that plays out in the rest of it. Then they pull another twist by allowing it to regrow the head. That was so cool. The energy draining power could have played a bigger part. You can clearly see Ghidorah draining Godzilla's energy when it bit him. But what does that energy do? Does it just power up Ghidorah or gives him new attacks? This should be explored more.
I'm very happy with the way all 4 of them came out in this movie. They really updated the look, the powers, and their backstories.