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The arms on the new Godzilla look like they have rotted or atrophied away. I'm interested to see how they are taking him in this film. I'm ok with him being a villain again.
I have listened to some of the OST for the AoT film, composed by Sagisu Shirō (who has also worked on Eva). Very promising! And given what we have already heard in the trailer, I think this will be one of the best Godzilla soundtracks in a long while.
So tuesday I did a presentation about godzilla and its allegories for my culture of japan class. My professor stopped me halfway through and said "Im excited for the new gojira movie, I heard rumors it will talk about the fukishima disaster and godzilla is going to be born from that, rather than a bomb. I already got my ticket to see it in japan. Im so excited"
It just floored me that this 60yr old proffessor is just excited as I am.
Yeah, he almost looks like more of a demon/oni than the usual radioactive lizard. Especially with the even tinier arms, the giant joker smile and some of the shots of the tail (which is already freakish because of the length) with exposed vertebra and almost looking like skulls/jawbones sticking out all over the tip?
Would make a cool "demon strain" godzilla for the more standard godzilla to have to fight.
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AegisGrimm wrote: Yeah, he almost looks like more of a demon/oni than the usual radioactive lizard. Especially with the even tinier arms, the giant joker smile and some of the shots of the tail (which is already freakish because of the length) with exposed vertebra and almost looking like skulls/jawbones sticking out all over the tip?
Would make a cool "demon strain" godzilla for the more standard godzilla to have to fight.
In one movie, he is the literal reincarnation of all the people japan has killed during its imperialism coming back to destroy japan.
Wouldnt be the first time something like that.
Some analysis: First shot - big G from below. Then people running for their lives, buildings collapsing, and long shot of G tearing across a city to demonstrate the scale of the crisis. Next, a shot of officials watching the carnage - identifying us with them, reducing them to helpless bystanders like us. Then a montage of characters who seem as powerless to engage with one another as they are to stop G, punctuated by a close up of a determined-looking lady presumably giving the order to attack.The elegiac soundtrack characterizes it all as tragic rather than horrifying. And so on to the obligatory scenes of conventional attacks on G ... the sequence is extended to demonstrate the absurd amount of firepower expended. Finally, a shot of big G seemingly wilting under the barrage - but wait no, he's simply upping the ante and, holy gak, yes the breath weapon is - abrupt cut to black. Godzilla here seems to embody the overwhelming character of problems facing society today and the futility and misguided quality of our efforts to address them. My suspicion is that the filmmakers want to retrieve the existential terror of the original movie, in an era when even the horror of nuclear holocaust has been throroughly digested by pop culture.
Now - what I don't get: that grin at 0:32 ... is this the new face of Serizawa? Or perhaps a villain? He is so emotionally at odds with the rest of the trailer.
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Or climate change, or global economic crises, or any of these huge issues that we can identify as problems but cannot really get our arms around solving. My own G-fandom is based on the 1954 movie, which was dead serious. I definitely do not want a Godzilla film that is winking at the camera.
Sinful Hero wrote: Still pumped for this movie. This Godzilla is really starting to seem more like a monster than previous iterations.
Yep! Again this is a return to form, rather than a new development.
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No need to hope, given these trailers. I usually am for fantasy and sci fi films taking a lighter approach, given how gloomy and deadpan all of them tend to be nowadays - but Godzilla is the exception because for many people he is just a joke. Now, I'd be all in favor of a pulpier Batman or Superman film, as those characters have been portrayed way, way too seriously, and that tone is not really in keeping with their origins.
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No camera winking, but...the latest US version of Godzilla was good for me!
There was way too much not Godzilla in that movie for me. Hopefully someday there will be a fifteen minutes fan edit that's essentially Bryan Cranston and Godzilla.
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Manchu wrote: No need to hope, given these trailers. I usually am for fantasy and sci fi films taking a lighter approach, given how gloomy and deadpan all of them tend to be nowadays - but Godzilla is the exception because for many people he is just a joke. Now, I'd be all in favor of a pulpier Batman or Superman film, as those characters have been portrayed way, way too seriously, and that tone is not really in keeping with their origins.
I'm on board with your statements about sci fi and the DC heroes. I also recognize that Godzilla needs to stay relevant and artistically vital, so this new film should be good for the franchise. I can wait for the inevitable Godzilla vs _________ cash in films.
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