Godzilla (2014)

[King 277]

Just leaked, a new teaser trailer

http://vimeo.com/76176358

[DC 536]

Nice.

[Guest John Hancock]

I'm down. I like the respectful touches to the original, like the Japanese painted writing, the nuclear bomb references and giving him a really good noise. This is the sort of remake or reboot I can get on board with.

[DC 536]

When I watched the teaser, the first thing I said to myself was "at least they've got the roar right".

[Guest John Hancock]

Exact same thing I thought. All lazy remake cynicism was gone when I heard that noise.

[Guest The Beltster]

Man, lets hope Godzookie is in it!

[Guest John Hancock]

Guillermo del Toro has already put his hat into the ring for Godzilla vs. Pacific Rim as the sequel. I approve, the world's ready for big budget monster movies again.

[Guest Jamster26]

Is this a follow on from the original Godzilla film?

[Guest John Hancock]

Seeing that Godzilla dies in the original, I doubt it.

[Guest Jamster26]

Well, at the end, we see one of the Godzilla eggs hatching, so thought it might be a follow on from that?

[Guest John Hancock]

Are you talking about the 1998 American version? If so, that's not the original, the original Godzilla was made in Japan in the mid-50s (1954 I think?). I think we can safely say that 1998 version is about as dead and buried as Batman Forever in terms of it getting a sequel.

[Guest Jamster26]

Ah, my bad then.

[Maxximus 353]

That roar gave me a boner. My brother is a huge Godzilla fan and when I showed him this he lost his shit. I've been keeping it from him that they're doing another one. He hated the last one with a passion. I can quote him directly as saying, "That bullshit is NOT Godzilla!"

[Guest John Hancock]

Seriously though, that bullshit was NOT Godzilla. Godzilla has to have his weird little electro-gurilla-whale noise.

[Maxximus 353]

Yeah and no legit atomic fire breath? WTF?!

[DC 536]

Guillermo del Toro has already put his hat into the ring for Godzilla vs. Pacific Rim as the sequel. I approve, the world's ready for big budget monster movies again.

GdT wanted Godzilla to be the last Kaiju to emerge in Pacific Rim.

[dsrchris 190]

That roar gave me a boner. My brother is a huge Godzilla fan and when I showed him this he lost his shit. I've been keeping it from him that they're doing another one. He hated the last one with a passion. I can quote him directly as saying, "That bullshit is NOT Godzilla!"

 

That Godzilla film was more Jurassic Park than Godzilla.

 

The hugeness of this Godzilla genuinely excites me. He looks mahoosive!!

[Guest]

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[Guest John Hancock]

That reveal, out of the dust and smoke, is so f*cking cool. You just see a spiky back, and you know exactly what's going on. I love when movies do stuff like that, it makes you remember just how iconic Godzilla is, you don't need to see full concept drawings, you see a spiky back and you just instantly know, because he's so awesome that it's just there, in all of our brains.

 

I marked out for the roar... again. It's so perfect, a little update to keep things up to date, but nothing revolutionary. It keeps the weirdness of the original, it's not a roar or a cliched monster noise, it's so unique. The little Japanese sound at the end was really cool too.

[King 277]

I can't wait for this, looks freaking awesome.