# New Godzilla Trailer (#2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2014, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247 "2014-02-25T20:03:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/21 "2014-02-26T09:02:20Z")
Oh look, the monster is grey! ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/22 "2014-02-26T16:10:32Z")
**Marley** , I’m going to charitably assume that was meant sarcastically. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/23 "2014-02-26T16:53:34Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > OK, sign me up. But they have some big shoes to fill if they’re comparing themselves to the original: the “worm scientist” jokes, Jean Reno as that badass French army guy, the awesome Siskel and Ebert running gag with the mayor… easy to see why it’s considered a classic! My fave eyerolling moment in that one was when, after Godzilla had wrecked half the city, some army guy yelled at Matthew Broderick’s character for revealing to the public that a giant monster was on the loose. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/24 "2014-02-26T17:17:26Z")
So it looks like there’s a whole line up of monsters in this one. That’s got to be Rodan or Mothra taking out the jets, and there’s a weird glowing claw smashing into the ground that definitely isn’t Godzilla’s. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/25 "2014-02-26T17:40:07Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > So it looks like there’s a whole line up of monsters in this one. That’s got to be Rodan or Mothra taking out the jets, and there’s a weird glowing claw smashing into the ground that definitely isn’t Godzilla’s. I heard that they are all new kaiju, so no Rodan or Mothra (allegedly). ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/26 "2014-02-26T17:55:07Z")
[Empire magazine has the best picture of Godzilla yet.](http://i.imgur.com/Qh0sonA.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/27 "2014-02-26T19:04:40Z")
I’m a sucker for Godzilla movies; I could do my own two day film festival I own so many of them. So please understand that I have some background with the franchise and a perspective that may be more in-depth than most people, and I’m not trying to ruffle any feathers here, but I have to say that to me, this looks freaking awesome. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/28 "2014-02-26T19:29:21Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > I saw some of _Pacific Rim_ at a friend’s. I cannot believe it was a pet project of DelToro, it was as bad as Deavlin & Emmerich’s 1998 abomination, just with better CGI. > > I said this about superhero movies recently, and it goes double for monsters: _ **It only works if you take the material seriously!** _ Kinda silly to compare this to Pacific Rim, because they were clearly going for something different with that movie. Same for Cloverfield. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/29 "2014-02-26T19:34:11Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Kinda silly to compare this to Pacific Rim, because they were clearly going for something different with that movie. Same for Cloverfield. Not to mention that no recent filmmaker has taken “giant monsters/robots” \*more \*seriously than del Toro did with Pacific Rim. Gritty != serious. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/30 "2014-02-26T20:08:53Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I’m a sucker for Godzilla movies; I could do my own two day film festival I own so many of them. > > So please understand that I have some background with the franchise and a perspective that may be more in-depth than most people, and I’m not trying to ruffle any feathers here, but I have to say that to me, this looks freaking awesome. It’s too bad you can’t come to my city in May, the first weekend is when there’s the Godzilla/kaiju fest. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247/31 "2014-02-26T20:21:06Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Kinda silly to compare this to Pacific Rim, because they were clearly going for something different with that movie. Same for Cloverfield. It’s not silly if you’re operating under the idea that there is an ideal tone to strike for the best possible giant monster movie. These days, it seems the visual effects are going to be competent-to-great across the board. What’s left for discussion is the approach. That’s where, for me, this looks to leave the others in the dust. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-godzilla-trailer-2/682247.md?page=1)