Do you love Godzilla?

[Coxhere]

Godzilla vs Kong is actually a fun movie to watch.

Gotta see this one!

 

[Dagan]

I keep waiting for a dead on, in your face, capitalist Godzilla movie, where some major city leader is trying to attract him for his destructive nature - the scheme to then have to rebuild and therefore make a ton of money from the labor contracts, etc.

I am in the minority of liking Roland Emmerich's Godzilla movie best. It makes 99% more sense, the creature moves correctly and has a story with human characters that I actually care about more than the creature.

 

[Coxhere]

I keep waiting for a dead on, in your face, capitalist Godzilla movie, where some major city leader is trying to attract him for his destructive nature - the scheme to then have to rebuild and therefore make a ton of money from the labor contracts, etc.

I am in the minority of liking Roland Emmerich's Godzilla movie best. It makes 99% more sense, the creature moves correctly and has a story with human characters that I actually care about more than the creature.

Do most cheer for the monster in monster movies? Or the human beings?

 

[Dagan]

Most do cheer for the monster, and that's the weird irony of Roland Emmerich's Godzilla movie. Roland is known far and wide for making disaster epics - folks go to see the massive destruction. His Godzilla actually had a story with better human characters, compared to most everything else he's done in that genre. Not to get off-topic, but Roland's best film overall, though, IMO, is one of his few that wasn't a disaster-piece at all. He did the film, ANONYMOUS - it takes on a popular Shakespeare theory (that he wasn't the real author). Back on point - Roland has the chops to make solid character pieces, and his Godzilla seemed to not be what critics or fans wanted so much because he didn't lean into the destruction as much as fans are used to.

 

[Judge]

Why can't "beasts" ever be handsome?

The "Amazing Colossal Man" seemed relatively handsome, until he got caught in the wrong place at the wrong time- during an Atomic Bomb being tested. Oops.

 

[Outdated]

Never been a fan of the giant monster movies, although I have seen a few of them. Just not my thing.

Same. And the cheesy horror dramas like Towering Inferno and Jaws. The Titanic was another one, 3 hours of drama and we already know the ending, my apprentice went to see that and he said the only good part was watching Leonardo DeCaprio fall in to the ship's propeller.

 

[Judge]

The Titanic was another one, 3 hours of drama and we already know the ending, my apprentice went to see that and he said the only good part was watching Leonardo DeCaprio fall in to the ship's propeller.

True, I had this sinking feeling of what was going to happen long before Kate even disrobed. I must have been psychic, but then I recall how often I could guess at the plot of an M. Night Shamalayan film as well...lol.

Actually DiCaprio succumbed to cold shock response while letting go of the wooden debris Kate was on and drowned. Kate could have shared that debris and DiCaprio might have survived. Silly girl. Sadly his Italian buddy Fabrizio was crushed by one of the smokestacks that collapsed onto helpless persons already in the water. Though Fabrizio would later reincarnate into several characters seen on television. Mamma mia...

Kind of grim though that the chairman of the White Star Line escaped death in a lifeboat while the ship's designer chose to go down with the ship along with its captain. That much was true...but I digress.

 

[Outdated]

Actually DiCaprio succumbed to cold shock response and drowned. His Italian buddy Fabrizio was crushed by one of the smokestacks that collapsed onto helpless persons already in the water.

I never saw it so I wouldn't know. I can't stand predictable story lines, it's even worse when the movie title declares the ending and there's actually no real story. Hollywood is perhaps the worst for this and it's not so prevalent in shows from other countries. They do come out with some surprises though, I loved Breaking Bad because you could never tell what was going to happen next.

 

[Judge]

I never saw it so I wouldn't know. I can't stand predictable story lines, it's even worse when the movie title declares the ending and there's actually no real story. Hollywood is perhaps the worst for this and it's not so prevalent in shows from other countries. They do come out with some surprises though, I loved Breaking Bad because you could never tell what was going to happen next.

Another interesting thing is that since the film experts have reevaluated all the aspects of when the ship sank, coming up with a somewhat different outcome. The just learning of all the physics of such an object plummeting underwater was pretty scary in itself. The ship's debris field at the bottom of the ocean told quite a tale for those who finally interpreted it more accurately than in the past.

Breaking Bad? I loved it. Consider it one of the few very top, best television series. Though Walter may have been the star, I liked Mike Ehrmantraut even more. Mike was right, while Walter let the thrill go to his head- and ego. Mike may have been a vicious criminal and ex-cop, but it was Walter who was truly breaking bad.

And the "monster" of that series? Gus Fring, for sure. But he needed no lizard suit. Just a good suit, tie and box-cutter.

 

[Coxhere]

I never saw it so I wouldn't know. I can't stand predictable story lines, it's even worse when the movie title declares the ending and there's actually no real story. Hollywood is perhaps the worst for this and it's not so prevalent in shows from other countries. They do come out with some surprises though, I loved Breaking Bad because you could never tell what was going to happen next.

I wondered if Titanic won any Oscars. Here's what I found: "The film Titanic made technical breakthroughs in feature filmmaking by combining a set built for the film with computerized special effects. The film won eleven Academy Awards, tying a record set by Ben-Hur in 1959. The flood of Oscars paralleled the popular success of the film, which was a box-office smash in 1997."

 

[Coxhere]

Most do cheer for the monster, and that's the weird irony of Roland Emmerich's Godzilla movie. Roland is known far and wide for making disaster epics - folks go to see the massive destruction. His Godzilla actually had a story with better human characters, compared to most everything else he's done in that genre. Not to get off-topic, but Roland's best film overall, though, IMO, is one of his few that wasn't a disaster-piece at all. He did the film, ANONYMOUS - it takes on a popular Shakespeare theory (that he wasn't the real author). Back on point - Roland has the chops to make solid character pieces, and his Godzilla seemed to not be what critics or fans wanted so much because he didn't lean into the destruction as much as fans are used to.

Dagan, your comment, "ANONYMOUS. . . .takes on the popular Shakespeare theory (that he wasn't the real author)," reminds me from high school days back in the early 1960s, that there was talk about Shakespeare and Marlow being one-and-the-same author. Do you know if this is still being discussed?

 

[RemyZee]

Godzilla, king of the monsters. Sometimes he is a villain, sometimes he saves the planet.He

I love Godzilla movies.

What is your opinion on this classic character?

He is wonderful