Yeah, no.Getting slightly more interested in it. Not sure how I feel about them going super serious or gritty with the material. I get that Godzilla is supposed to be some giant monster movie, but the movies a bit before and the weird 90s one seem to just paint it weird for me. Suspense and terror don't really come to mind when I think of giant monsters anymore. Could just be my anime background, but now I just keep asking where the giant robots are.
Apparently there are supposed to be other giant monsters to fight Godzilla so I will just hope that is where the entertainment comes from.
The original Toho film back in the 50's was intended to be a completely serious picture, reflecting on the nature of nuclear research and the arrogance of man when it comes to his manipulation of nature. They did the best they did with what they could at the time, it was only as the franchise progressed from that point forward, that Kaiju cinema began to incorporate it's campy and more obtuse elements.
Gareth Edwards has talked in interviews recently about the fact that in designing this new iteration of the monster, he tried to imagine that the original Toho film makers actually saw this beast, and that the original costume was just a low rent, low budgeted attempt to depict what they saw on film, with this new monster being what they actually saw. So yeah, it won't be the exact same design, this thing is going to be enormous, which I would wager is another reason why they've chosen to reveal him so scarcely, it's as if the viewer simply cannot comprehend the shear scale of what they are witnessing.
There will also be other monsters in this film, a good few from all reports I've read so far. Edwards has described Godzilla's role in the film as "a force of nature" and interestingly "an anti hero", which makes me even more interested to see just how the hell he is going to get that across with this more thematically serious and realistic interpretation of the material.