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 Action, Suspense, and Mystery Mar 08, 2010
If you like big lizards and Godzilla. Then this film is for you because it has action, thrills, adventure, and excitement.
 Hollywood takes the God out of Godzilla. Mar 04, 2010
Okay, anyone who knows me, knows that I hate when Hollywood decides to remake anything Asian, it just never works out, the Grudge, Pulse, Godzilla, Dragonball, all failed miserably at their jobs. In it's own right this would have been an okay movie, nothing great really, but it would have been fine to plop down on the couch with some popcorn to kill some time.
The CG was okay, I'm not really that fond of CG to be honest, I'll always prefer real movie magic, stuntmen jumping out of real windows, blowing up scale, or better yet full size buildings, cars being launched through the air, animatronic monsters, these are things you just can't top with CG, there's no explosion that looks more realistic than an actual explosion.
The acting is decent I suppose, this is a monster movie though, it's not the humans you want to see, it's the giant monsters, similar to how when I pay to see a movie called Transformers I want to see giant, badass, transforming robots beating the crap out of each other, not the stupid monkeys, this is a concept that Michael Bay could stand to learn.
As I said, in it's own right this could have been decent popcorn fair, but the problem is they called it Godzilla, and this is not a real Godzilla movie. All they did was make a monster movie and tack the name Godzilla onto it for the marquee value, something which Hollywood really needs to learn always backfires. Let's analyze this, does the monster look like Godzilla? No, I didn't expect it to look exactly like the classic Godzilla, and I expected it to be mostly CG, if not all CG, which I would have been fine with, but there's a point where you go past being a redesign and just being something entirely different. Could you imagine a Superman movie where he was a black teenager wearing baggy jeans and a pink leather jacket without even having the Superman logo anywhere in sight? You wouldn't say "Well it's okay because it's a reimagining." no, you'd say "This isn't Superman!" Does the monster act like Godzilla? No, Godzilla doesn't climb buildings, Godzilla destroys buildings, Godzilla breaths radioactive fire, frequently, I can only remember one scene in the entire movie where the monster breathed fire at all, Godzilla can not be taken down by jets with missiles, EVER. There are precisely two things that stand a chance against Godzilla, a ridiculously absurd weapon like a device that removes the oxygen from the water, or another giant monster. You could argue that they wanted to go for a more "realistic" approach to Godzilla, but come on, that's like saying you want to take a more realistic approach to Harry Potter. Giant monster movies aren't supposed to be realistic, you've got a giant monster mutated by nuclear bombs, any sense of realism flew out the window as soon as it showed up and started wrecking the place. Even Toho, the makers of the real Godzilla movies have officially declared the monster in this movie is not, in fact, Godzilla but instead a completely different giant reptile that the Americans mistook for Godzilla, the official name is actually Zilla. Why? Because Hollywood took the God out of Godzilla by making it so incredibly weak. Don't waste your money here unless you can get a copy for under $5. You want a good monster movie? Go buy Godzilla Final Wars instead. You get tons of giant monsters, Rodan, Mothra, Gigan, Godzilla, even Zilla from this movie makes an appearance and attempts to take on the real Godzilla, this fight is easily Zilla's crowning moment of awesome.
Great Popcorn Movie! Mar 03, 2010
If you like good B popcorn movies, Godzilla is one of them.
Just have a seat and follow the story. This Blu Ray Edition has a great HD picture and a terrific HD sound (your neighbors will call the police)
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 AMERICA'S GODZILLA good bad and does not look like godzilla Feb 03, 2010
Ok so here goes nothing. I am a big fan of godzilla. most people love him or hate him, or think hes just a big pile of cheese. while yes the films can get cheesey and have over simple and over the top plots, godzilla has always been fun. Accept for Gojira witch to me is more of a tear jerking horror movie more like grave of the fire flies meets king kong. So loving the big G i made my dad take me to see this opening day at our local theatre. I was 9 years old and i was waiting to see him mess up tokyo, not seeing any preveiws. I was ok with it being new york, i love that town and it shocked me to see it get the S@#T kicked out of it. Then we see godzilla, for me being nine i should have loved the t-rex look, but i wanted godzilla. I would watch this movie allot on video cause this is the only G movie my father liked. i hated it for years cause to me it was not godzilla. But looking back as i am no 20, i have this in my dvd collection. It does take in allot of aspects of other g films. it is kind of close to the original american release of king of the monsters, and 1985. and has aspects of other monster films the beast from 20,000 fathoms. But this is a good movie, its fun, its action packed. and it could have been godzilla, but its just zilla. its a good movie and fun. i love it and i love all the other godzilla films, i have em all on dvd, three of em i own on region 3 cause america hasnt released any copys yet. that being said this is a good movie and worth the price. the features are just good, better than others worse than others, but its sounds and looks great. get it and eat allot of popcorn cause thats what this is. its a popcorn movie.
Crap Jan 11, 2010
I think movie reviews are funny because they really don't mean anything and everyones taste is differet. BUT, since Amazon wants me to write this, I will:
This movie sucks. It's crap. It's a shame money that could've fed homeless people or even gotten homeless people off the streets was spent on the creation of this.
OH, and then they put it in Blu-Ray! Even more money!
We bought this for my father in law as he has no taste in movies. If you know someone like that, then please, buy this.
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