Godzilla was okay. The biggest problem was the abundance of action movie cliches and nonsensical plot devices. Take that dog tied to the tree as Godzilla creates the tsunami for instance. They always throw cute animals in harm's way to keep our attention (Armageddon, Independence Day, etc.) and as we gasp and pray for Buster we don't shed a tear for any people who are actually dying. And the kids trapped on the Golden Gate bridge. I'm so sick of children being the focal points of action sequences. In like half the action sequences, some child's life was in danger, and just like with the dog, it's just an overdone attempt to keep us interested. Besides that, nearly every action sequence involved some character either hanging on for dear life or running from something that'd destroy them. From nuclear radiation to a crashing train, there's something scary for our characters to run from as it chases after them. As for the nonsense, too many things going on didn't make any sense. Take Bryan Cranston demanding to know where is son was when he got captured. But when Godzilla's rival starts raising hell, Cranston immediately spots his son in the back of some random army truck and starts yelling for him. And I could never make sense of why the characters and monsters were where they were, when they were. Basically just stuff happening in different places like the last hour of Transformers 2.
But for some reason most of these issues just made the movie really funny and the monster battling scenes were cool enough that I don't think the movie was that bad. Maybe it's just because I liked Godzilla as a youngster and the 2000 one was so God-awful that this movie was like Citizen Kane in comparison.
How things change.
