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Godzilla King of the Monsters Review

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Finally Saw Godzilla! ANDddddd....

HOLY SHIT THAT FUCKING LIZARD WAS BADASS FROM START TO FINISH!

That roar, his entrance, his beastly face (literary), him kicking ass, his gigantic-ness, THAT ROAR!

This movie was greatly put together in terms of monsters doing damage. I am glad that they put more focus on the humans, because Pacific Rim did it and look how fabulous that came out, and of course the audience is supposed to find this movie relatable in some way.

Except...I didn't find the characters that interesting to keep me interested on the humans.

No offense, I know they were trying to show a human calamity taking place, and we're supposed to root for the many military and civilian forces trying to come together to save the city (American or non-American, I'm not going into that debate), but I just didn't FEEL anything for the characters. Except for Bryan Cranston's character, who I enjoyed watching the most and wanted him to stay throughout the whole movie, I didn't care about his son, or the scientists, or the military...even Ken Watanabe, who I was looking forward to, sort of had the same face throughout the entire film like 

That's it. That was his face throughout the whole thing. He was like the crazy guy on the street who talked about the end of the world and mankind's diabolical ways and other philosophical shinanigans. Not that I minded, but there was nothing more than that. He just sort of accepted the situation and just did what a stereotypical Asian man in a hollywood film would do...be the voice of the harbinger of trouble. I don't know how interesting that shit gets after a couple of minutes. 

Bryan Cranston's character's SON, Ford Brody...yeah he was more or less the main human focus throughout the whole thing, and he did a pretty decent job trying to save the world, but he was just a very poor protagonist to me. For someone who had to face a lot of trauma as a child and as a lieutenant, his face didn't really change from the example you see above, which made it harder to assume whether he was suffering from a personal turmoil or not. Sure he had two objectives: to return to his wife and son, AND to potentially help the military save the city from the MUTO monsters, but that was it. It was like an objective that pretty much any character withOUT a backstory could have done.

I feel that there was so much potential to see a growth in Brody Jr, to see him start as a man in denial and detachment and slowly grow to accept his loss and years of denial and finally see the truth. That growth would have paralleled well against Godzilla's takedown of the MUTOs, but it all just seemed that Brody did things out of DUTY as a military officer and not out of need to avenge a personal trauma.

I know the movie tried to show that by making a parallel of him seeing the Asian child separate from his parents in the train and saving his life TO his own detachment from his father and loss of both his parents, but it wasn't as strong as I preferred. Again, Brody Jr. didn't talk much, didn't really give time to reflect on his thoughts or show changes in his behavior and emotion, which led me to believe that he was just a military man doing his thing. 

THAT in consequence just did not make me pity him that much in the movie at all, especially when he was trying to detonate the manual cranked-up bomb in the end. For one thing, he didn't even manage to kill the monster with it, but when he was close to be eaten by the female MUTO, I didn't feel any fear for him or anything. It was just like, "Oh, well I guess he's screwed."

I don't know, there was just something about his monotonous sets of expressions that  kept making me want to check my watch every few minutes and wait anxiously for Godzilla to come back on screen again. Maybe that was the objective, or maybe it wasn't, but if you're going to put more attention on human characters, at least make them a little more 3-dimensional.

I say that for most of the other characters too. That excludes Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) who's story I would have much preferred to follow if he didn't die in the middle, and perhaps a little bit of Ford Brody's wife, who I liked doing her civic duty to keep her son and her patients safe, despite her fears. But other than that, this movie won me over with the epic monster scenes. CGI graphics for once won me over more than the human story! 

P.S--- I really wish there was a scene where Ken Watanabe's character had a heart to heart with Ford Brody about his dad and comforted him because he knew what his parents went through and just...ahhhh, why didn't they add that? It would have made both characters complex and lovable just from a scene like that! Oh well.

Other than that, Godzilla was a pretty decent watch. I still have ALOT I could rant about that did not make sense to me (like how are people still alive and well after all that radiation swimming around?) but that will be for another day. ANy other moments of the film I would have loved to dissect will be pushed aside for now. Because I'm le tired.

But that is ALL MY OPINION. SO what did others think?