Oh look, the monster is grey!
Marley, I’m going to charitably assume that was meant sarcastically.
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.
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).
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.
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.
It’s too bad you can’t come to my city in May, the first weekend is when there’s the Godzilla/kaiju fest.
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.