It is true that there were unanswered questions. Hopefully some of these things will be better explained in sequels.

As for the female MUTO, it was the 2nd pod in the dig site.

Just saw all 15 minutes of Godzilla fighting the ice cream monsters from South Park. Can't say I'll watch it again.

I had a nice laugh when I leaned over to my wife while the kids were stuck in the bus and whispered "Now that was a sticky situation".

I wanted this movie to be epic, but it just isn't. Hardly any carnage in it and the pacing was terrible.

The mutos were a parasite that lived inside godzillas it seems. They fed off the mama Godzilla radiation and created the pods from my understanding. The first pod burrowed to the reactor facility while the second was transferred to Nevada.

Thanks, Marsuvees. That makes sense.

My thoughts from the other thread:



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I'd give it about a 7/10 up until Bryan Cranston died, at which point it promptly dove to about a 3/10 for the rest of the movie, at best. Poor writing, poor acting, poor pacing, pretty much poor everything save for Cranston, who was outstanding as usual in his limited role.

So the Japanese and U.S. governments were hiding a massive monster a half mile off of mainland Japan, flying all kinds of personnel in and out, while lying about a massive fake radioactive zone...and nobody figured it out for 15 years? Come on.

Then when it breaks out 15 years later...it starts calling to its mate...who is out in the Nevada desert (wtf?)...and they mate...and make a nest in the middle of a city...which apparently can be destroyed by blowing up a few gallons of gasoline even though it's the size of a skyscraper.......what.the.hell.

And all this time, Godzilla is....oh yeah, he's lollydicking around in the Pacific Ocean, being a fatass, wasting time swimming at snail speed so they can make the run time over 2 hours...what do they call that again? "Hunting" and "returning the balance to nature"? (seriously that Japanese doctor is the most garbage character I've ever seen, with his useless female sidekick being a close second).

Furthermore...what happened with the bomb? It was on the boat right under the Golden Gate Bridge WITH LESS THAN 5 MINUTES KEFT. HOW IN THE HELL DID IT NOT BLOW UP THE ENTIRE STATE OF CALIFORNIA???

Speaking of the nuclear bomb...OF COURSE the highly trained explosive ordnance experts arm it IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY before they get it out to sea. Gee...WHAT COULD GO WRONG???

I'm not even going to address how the "protagonist" (does he have a name? Eh, who cares) was about as charismatic as a brick.

Also, where the hell were the leaders responsible for deciding to contain these monsters for 15 years instead of killing them? Where was the U.S. President or whoever authorized that boneheaded move? It cost thousands of lives. Why wasn't that ever discussed, and why didn't anybody ever have to answer for it? Instead all we get is gray-haired General Overact-Every-Scene and his upstanding African-American underling handing out meaningless orders from an aircraft carrier the entire movie.

It was just terrible. If you consider yourself any kind of intelligent or critical movie-goer, I don't see how you could possibly enjoy this movie.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED to hear this movie sucked. Who could have known?! /heavy sarcasm

Eh, I'd give it a 7/10.

The plot/storyline was probably 5/10
The action/Godzilla scenes were 9/10

If you went into a Godzilla movie without your brain partially switched off, I don't know what to tell you.

FYI, for those of you not on the Premium board.....

"Sound Awake" pretty much always posts like this. Very condescending, negative, and WAY over the top.

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It was just terrible. If you consider yourself any kind of intelligent or critical movie-goer, I don't see how you could possibly enjoy this movie.

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Seriously? An intelligent person can't enjoy a big @ss Godzilla running around?

Take everything he/she says with a grain of salt.

[This message has been edited by Wrec86 ag (edited 5/17/2014 7:31a).]

Sound Awake was hoping for more of a meta piece where a little fat kid dreamed about Minilla for 80 minutes just for a glimpse at Godzilla, at which point the movie turns into Home Alone. DEEP

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I enjoyed the 15 minutes of the movie that had this...so about 10 percent.

TCTTS,

There was the short explanation that they retreated closer to the Earth's core for it's radiation. Godzilla was probably chilling in some trench in the Pacific feeding on the core's radiation until he sensed the radiation from the nuclear tests.

On the point of why he hadn't resurfaced, it wasn't explained though I'd guess he didn't really want another bomb dropped on him, and went back to his trench for less explosive radiation.

The 2 MUTO were originally in the cave with the irradiated Godzilla skeleton, feeding off of it. The male burrowed to Janjira in '99, Monarch took the other pod to the States as nuclear waste, and then both hatched when the male had sucked Janjira dry.

Also, I think Watanabe didn't want them to nuke them because he wasn't sure it would work, and the nuclear fallout wouldn't be good, like Hiroshima, where if you survived the initial blast the radiation killed you painfully anyways.

It was mentioned that something in the depths of the ocean was not awakened until the U.S.S. Nautilus. If I had to guess, echolocation (which Cranston's character was studying) and Sonar have similar properties (using sound to locate things) and the signals woke up Godzilla but this wasn't directly explained.

Oh yeah. Well, the USS Nautilus was a nuclear submarine so it could have been the radiation given off as well.

On a separate note, I really enjoyed the movie. Yes Cranston was awesome, and ATJ wasn't as great, but he was still pretty good. The build up to seeing Godzilla was great and pretty well executed IMO. The monster fights were pretty awesome as well.

Thanks, Twelfthman. Great, easy explanation. Totally forgot about them mentioning the Earth's core bit.

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It was just terrible. If you consider yourself any kind of intelligent or critical movie-goer, I don't see how you could possibly enjoy this movie.

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Seriously? An intelligent person can't enjoy a big @ss Godzilla running around?

Take everything he/she says with a grain of salt.

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As another poster said, there was hardly any of Godzilla running around.

That was made clear well before the movie came out.

What point are you trying to make with that? You could say that about any ****ty movie that had reviews released prior to opening day.

Meaning if the lack of Godzilla pissed you off that much, and you knew going in there was going to be a lack of Godzilla, then why bother seeing it? Just seems like you're walking into a movie you already know you're going to hate.

Perhaps some people don't like to read reviews because they actively avoid spoilers. Heck, Spielberg only showed Jaws for a few minutes of the movie, but his presence was felt throughout. I can't say the same for Godzilla.

But I'll keep your argument in mind next time I see you go ape **** over a comic book movie that doesn't make it to the oscars.

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What the hell are you talking about?

My bad, thought you were one of the ones saying Spider man is ruining the movie industry.

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Phillip, my post wasn't really directed to you, but to Sound Awake who already insulted the intelligence of people who liked Godzilla in the other thread.

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Good to know opinions differ.

If there was more Godzilla like so many have hoped, I don't know if it would have been that much better.

What we would be left with is a movie without any substance and comparisons with Michael Bay.

I disagree with the idea that more Godzilla might make it better. It's nothing we haven't seen before. Repetitious, non-stop action, destruction, monsters, whatever. Ultimately people would complain like now, the fight scenes were cool but the story sucked.

The other dilemma is, we already know Godzilla, so you can't approach the movie like Super 8 or some such, where we're waiting the reveal of something we've never seen before.

Anyway, I don't know how much better it could have been. I enjoyed it.

Godzilla shows up surprisingly little in his films

Yep. Godzilla himself had something like 17 minutes of screen time in the original movie. And 0 minutes in the 1998 abortion.

Loved it. Imax was well worth it, and the sound was loud as hell. Several moments caused cheers and applause.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/godzilla-seeks-worldwide-domination-at-the-box-office-1201181416/

Doing pretty well

9/10. Really enjoyed this but was surprised at Cranston's early death.

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I saw what I thought were references to other movies ... The helicopter near the movie's beginning looked like the one that took everyone to the island in Jurassic Park. When the bus driver wiped condensation from the window, I was reminded of Jeff Goldblum in the Explorer when the T-Rex pushed through the fence. The tracker the soldiers were using looked a lot like the one Michael Biehn used in Aliens. And then there was Lone Pine, California, which is what Marty McFly's town was named after he went Back to the Future.

Lone Pine was the name of the mall (Twin Pines in the beginning of the movie). Hill Valley was the town.

In the family's old house in Japan there was a terrarium with MOTHRA written on it.

Also, 5 dudes cannot pick up and carry a nuclear warhead. It would weight 5000 lbs.

Thought it was good but 3D took away from the movie.

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I had never noticed this. Thank you for pointing it out for me!

I too, caught the Mothra reference.

We went with 4 families with kids, and took up an entire row of the theatre. While the adults liked it very much, the kids were absolutely enthralled with it.

Which means it did exactly what it was supposed to do as a movie of this kind. The adults enjoyed it, and the kiddos will talk about this movie for many years if not a decade or two. The kids we took (four families) are already asking about a sequel. They were pumped. If Godzilla would have been on stage the entire time, I am not sure this would have been the case. The lead up, and anticipation was well played, and left the kids wanting more (and adults). What was funny, was watching the kids react to Godzilla's apparent death, then reawakening. Deep sadness to arm waving and cheering. And on questioning, these kids had no idea of the original Godzillas.

A new generation, with that love of the/a monster character is great to see.

Thumbs UP.