Godzilla (2014)

[rodneyfaile]

Japanese thinks this Godzilla is "fat"

Japanese Fans Think America?s Version of Godzilla Is Too Fat - TIME

I'm more concerned with this part of that link:

".....it sounds as if the Hollywood version of Godzilla doesn’t actually feature that much Godzilla, fat or otherwise. Vulture reports that the monster is an “elusive presence” in the film."

 

[knightdriver2001]

I really hope that's not true. We got that elusive nonsense in the Emmerick movie.

 

[Robiwon]

I doubt the majority of the movie is going to be G stomping around town fighting MUTO. We will get glimpses here and there and there will be the big reveal/fight at the end of the movie, maybe with a cliffhanger suggesting a sequel.

 

[hansicle]

Get Ready for a Monstrous Fight in the First Clip From Godzilla - ComingSoon.net ...

 

[Zombie_61]

I doubt the majority of the movie is going to be G stomping around town fighting MUTO. We will get glimpses here and there and there will be the big reveal/fight at the end of the movie...

Based on comments in a few articles I've read, this is pretty much spot on; if they're right, we won't get a good look at Godzilla until somewhere in the last third of the movie.

 

[Bryancd]

WOW

Godzilla Movie CLIP Let Them Fight (2014) - Bryan Cranston, Gareth Edwards Movie HD - YouTube

 

[cayman shen]

So...can I pull a Cartman and just be frozen until the release date?

 

[knightdriver2001]

This will be the first time you will ever NOT here me complain about CGI in a film. WOW!

 

[rodneyfaile]

 

[Krull]

If you're a fan and watch the typical Godzilla movie from the 85 relaunch up you'll know that in a hour and half you'll see Godzilla the most the last half hour in one big fight,with the odd part here and there through the rest.

The first two are also like that,really be surprised at how G shows up the most at the end,the sixties is when you got him through most of the whole movie.

 

[Robiwon]

I saw that Fiat commercial last night. My first thought was not "Ooh, good shots of G" or "that's a neat little car", but rather it was "Wow, first car commercial where people die in it"!

 

[knightdriver2001]

AWESOME commercial

Nice to see a full bodied Big G walking around.

Gets me that much more excited for the film.

 

[Monster Dave]

This is pretty awesome:

 

[Soulinertia]

I dig! :thumbsup

 

[Krull]

Cool..when you think about it not many sixty year old films have been a series going that long with that many retakes and such.

 

[crabra comander]

It's funny, I thought the giant diorama's were excellent, but when I saw old Godzilla's teeth, I thought it looked bad. We've come a long way. Godzilla has some potential for growth as well. Just don't have him start sliding on his tail or dancing.

This is pretty awesome:

Godzilla 2014 Trailer With 1954 Gojira Footage - YouTube

 

[hansicle]

HD - (1973) Godzilla vs Megalon - YouTube

 

[CutThumb]

I am glad SP effects have come on a wee bit since then: Godzilla 3D en Cinemas Procinal - YouTube
Some of those shots of the big G coming out of the water might possibly look VERY good in 3D. One more week until we find out. I think his chunkier body design is the right choice to have made given the weight and size that its trying to support, and it gives him a sense of mass to his movement like I've never seen before, very like a moving mountain.
Slight spoilers!!!!
I have been told that the bulk of the Godzilla scenes cut in towards the last half , but that doesn't mean the first half of the film misses him at all. Its actually very action packed with fantastic disaster scenes caused by the various mutos we've seen glimpsed in the trailers. The whole film plays very much like the old movies in that Godzilla is neither a force for or against humanity , we simply rather unfortunately get in the way when the monsters scrap and apparently that is entirely worth the wait.
Surprisingly its the human elements to the story that play out rather well against the background of the monster story and this knocks it up a notch against anything you've seen before in this kind of film, its certainly a massive improvement on the rather weak character performances in "Pacific Rim". Its kind of reminicent of the old disaster movies we got decades ago, except all the chaos is definitely " un-natural ".

 

[.:MirrorminD:.]

 

[Ronan87]

This is going to be E P I C !!!