# Godzilla Reboot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973 "2012-07-31T17:05:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/21 "2012-08-01T08:13:52Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Three words. > > Godzilla. > > Versus. > > Transformers. Guillermo del Toro has a movie coming out next summer, [Pacific Rim](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663662/), about humans piloting giant robots to fight off gigantic alien creatures. So there you go. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/22 "2012-08-01T15:36:10Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Guillermo del Toro has a movie coming out next summer, [Pacific Rim](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663662/), about humans piloting giant robots to fight off gigantic alien creatures. So there you go. 🙂 That sounds anime-ish. I’ve gotta see it! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/23 "2012-08-01T16:03:18Z")
I would love to see a giant monster movie with photo realistic effects. Similar to the early scenes of destruction in Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (an underrated movie BTW). Cloverfield is close but from what I hear about this, it will be even closer. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/24 "2012-08-01T16:08:07Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > …Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (an underrated movie BTW). Reported for heresy. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/25 "2012-08-01T17:30:01Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Maybe if they somehow do it as a period piece they could make it realistic. But set today, I doubt it… we have so much more big, smart weapons to throw at …him? …her?, er, it. Two thouand pound laser guided bombs, fuel-air explosives, B-52 carpet bombing, MLRS, … The early movies showed Godzilla brushing off puny Japanese weapons. Even the shitty Broderick remake had basically nothing bigger. That’s an easy trick. Get Godzilla into a heavily populated area (Tokyo) they haven’t had a chance to evacuate, and the really big weapons are unusable. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/26 "2012-08-01T17:38:11Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Godzilla. > > Versus. > > Transformers. I always wanted to see a cut scene in The Venture Bros where Rusty calls his brother for some help, but Jonas Jr is a little busy at the moment and can’t talk. Because [Ventronic](http://www.venturefans.org/vbwiki/Ventronic)is busy fighting Godzilla. Of course, given how closely those bastards guard the copyright to Godzilla, it would never happen. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/27 "2012-08-01T18:02:22Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Similar to the early scenes of destruction in Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (an underrated movie BTW). And **what next** after **that** , HMMM? :dubious: _Battlefield Earth_, perhaps?!? :mad: \ ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/28 "2012-08-01T18:20:40Z")
Tough crowd 🙂 Not to hijack but I really like War of the Worlds. It works even better if you assume Tom Cruise’s character never escapes from the tripod and the entire movie after that is just a fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/29 "2012-08-01T18:28:28Z")
> [@bup](#): > > That’s an easy trick. Get Godzilla into a heavily populated area (Tokyo) they haven’t had a chance to evacuate, and the really big weapons are unusable. It might stop them from using nukes, but I doubt the military would even hesitate over anything less. Of course, they can write their hesitation into the script. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/30 "2012-08-01T18:29:32Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Tough crowd 🙂 Not to hijack but I really like War of the Worlds. It works even better if you assume Tom Cruise’s character never escapes from the tripod and the entire movie after that is just a fantasy. It would be a thousand times better if his screaming daughter was the first vaporized victim. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/31 "2012-08-01T19:10:56Z")
A good Godzilla movie also has overdubbed voices ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/32 "2012-08-01T19:29:56Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > A good Godzilla movie also has overdubbed voices …that don’t match the lip movements. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/33 "2012-08-01T19:36:52Z")
Which would be absolutely hilarious if both voices are speaking English, but the overdub voice is completely different, deeper, and isn’t saying the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/34 "2012-08-01T19:44:58Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > You left out the most important part of the quote. > > Because we all know that the whole US bombing of Japan thing was just a cover story to hide the existence of Godzilla. > > Sorry, a quote like that convinces me that these people are idiots, and gives me no confidence they can make a decent film. Some make the distinction between sci-fi and science fiction. The latter being more serious and grounded in reality than the former. I took the quote to mean that. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/35 "2012-08-01T19:58:53Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Which would be absolutely hilarious if both voices are speaking English, but the overdub voice is completely different, deeper, and isn’t saying the same thing. Every male voice should be Gilbert Gottfried or Bobcat Goldthwaite. Every female voice should be Victoria Jackson or Fran Drescher. This would make the audience feel good about Godzilla destroying them all. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/36 "2012-08-02T00:23:53Z")
I’ll go out on a limb and say that I believe that this movie will be all kinds of awesome. The director, Gareth Edwards, made an extremely low-budget movie with monsters in it (it’s called, strangely enough, Monsters) a couple of years ago that I unfortunately missed. I wanted to see though, based on the vague gist that it was more of an art-house relationship drama than a creature feature. It just happened to be set in a (modern day) world where monsters live. One person described it as Before Sunrise meets Godzilla, if that means anything to anyone. I laughed. Monsters seems to be one of those Love It or Hate It films. Its walkie/talkieness, sweeping vistas, stretches of silence, and the general lack of monster situations makes for TONS of 1-star “Boring! Worst movie I ever saw!” whining on IMDB. The same attributes cause many others to give it 8-10 stars. Any director who makes such a polarizing movie his first time out, for a pittance, is a director I want to watch. Btw, the reason I missed Monsters is because it only played in one theater here, a very expensive art house theater that I usually avoid. I had made up my mind that I was going to suck it up and pay full price to see it, bit closed! It only played a week. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/37 "2012-08-02T00:49:17Z")
> [@Brainiac4](#): > > If it does not have the real Godzilla roar (aka the Godzilla honk), then I’m not watching it. > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zhJljblPcY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zhJljblPcY) What’s the Godzilla honk? Is that when he does the first part of his roar and it’s really short? And he usually does that over and over? ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/38 "2012-08-02T00:56:41Z")
How do you keep it grounded without using sci-fi? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/39 "2012-08-02T01:06:37Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > The director, Gareth Edwards, made an extremely low-budget movie with monsters in it (it’s called, strangely enough, Monsters) a couple of years ago that I unfortunately missed. I wanted to see though, based on the vague gist that it was more of an art-house relationship drama than a creature feature. It just happened to be set in a (modern day) world where monsters live. One person described it as Before Sunrise meets Godzilla, if that means anything to anyone. I laughed. Monsters seems to be one of those Love It or Hate It films. Its walkie/talkieness, sweeping vistas, stretches of silence, and the general lack of monster situations makes for TONS of 1-star “Boring! Worst movie I ever saw!” whining on IMDB. The same attributes cause many others to give it 8-10 stars. > > Any director who makes such a polarizing movie his first time out, for a pittance, is a director I want to watch. > > Btw, the reason I missed Monsters is because it only played in one theater here, a very expensive art house theater that I usually avoid. I had made up my mind that I was going to suck it up and pay full price to see it, bit closed! It only played a week. Damn. I saw _Monsters_ “prerelease” on the HDNET Movies channel. The atmosphere and premise are interesting, but it really is pretty boring. And I’m not someone who needs every movie to be SMASH-BANG-BOOM! I like dramas as much as I enjoy action movies. The guy/girl subplot just doesn’t work that well. The movie is a good effort from a production standpoint–especially considering its budget–but the story is disappointingly mundane. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973/40 "2012-08-02T02:51:30Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > What’s the Godzilla honk? > > Is that when he does the first part of his roar and it’s really short? And he usually does that over and over? Yep. I love that part. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godzilla-reboot/629973.md?page=1)