Godzilla

[Kaeb]

Damn... honestly never thought about it. *checks mirror for wrinkles and grey hair* Feel old, brah. Kaeb. Hold me. Not to tight though. My sciatica will start acting up.

kiss me where it smells funny

 

[Johnnysaurus Rex]

kiss me where it smells funny

Jersey?

 

[Kaeb]

Nah, Cork.

 

[Blaxican]

[video=youtube_share;ECUbuBrbP1g]http://youtu.be/ECUbuBrbP1g[/video]

I want to see it just to watch San Francisco get ****ed.

 

[Saul]

[video=youtube_share;ECUbuBrbP1g]http://youtu.be/ECUbuBrbP1g[/video]

I want to see it just to watch San Francisco get ****ed.

*Spoiler Alert* It's secretly a Batkid movie.

 

[Sovereign]

The trailer looked cool when I saw it, but I have to say, I wish studios would stop with the “mystery” trailers. In the Godzilla one, we see his destruction, which makes sense since it shows the scope of the film, but then they have Godzilla hidden behind a cloud of dirt or smoke or something, and you can only see his silhouette. Why? Why do we keep seeing trailers like this, as if we don’t know what they’re showing us? It doesn’t make us more interested in seeing the film.

Why didn't Spielberg show us the shark in Jaws?

Bac doesn't understand cinema.

 

[Kaeb]

Why didn't Spielberg show us the shark in Jaws?

Bac doesn't understand cinema.

Truth.

It's the basic movie monster rule.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

The point I was making, in a conversation from over two months ago that I really have no interest in re-having (so this will be my last post about it), was about a marketing tactic. The reason they didn't show the shark in Jaws is to heighten suspense. The aforementioned trailer, which has since been taken off the web because it was a bootleg, wasn't about suspense. It was about how they're marketing the film and the monster.

Anyway, new trailer looks cool. It's a bit jumpy and chaotic but that's to be expected from a monster movie like this.

 

[Kaeb]

The marketing here seems to be all about scope, awe and suspense to be honest with you mate.

Movie monsters rule 101 is leave the full reveal of your monster to the latest possible moment if your story requires it. That's just how it is, plain and simple.

 

[jpchewy01]

Please tell me I'm not the only one holding out on watching the trailer until it runs with The Hobbit in IMAX 3D.

 

[Brandon Rhea]

I wouldn't be surprised if you were the only one holding out to watch Hobbit 3D period.

 

[Cortan]

Thats more a modern trend I'd say, given the original trailers for Godzilla and all.

The main thing is mainly about building hype though, getting people to go 'well I wanna see what it ACTUALLY is' or 'I wanna see more!' either in more trailers, or in the full movie itself.

That said, I'll agree, actually liking the look of the new trailer. Whilst it appears to be set in America rather than Japan, the tone of the trailer rings fairly well with me. I really want Legendary to succeed here and make themselves the modern monster movie studio, because if they've get this down, then they'll have nailed the two main varieties of giant monster in tokusatsu, and that would be really, really cool for the future of the industry.

Just need the movie to be legitimately good and not just have good marketing.

EDIT:

So I found this website - http://www.mutoresearch.net/

Messing around with the access thing is fun if you know your Godzilla references - as a free one, type in Jet Jaguar.

 

[Phil]

Some people were upset with Roland Emmerich's Godzilla design. If they showed in clear view that this Godzilla looked more akin to how is is supposed to look and away from the 1997 one, I'd be fine with that. We've already seen Godzilla before, so just show him again. It's not a new monster, it's a monster that was from 1954. Anyone who does not know what that Godzilla looked like is just uneducated. It'd be like not knowing what Batman or Superman looked like.

That rant aside, I liked the trailer, and really hope this film is good.

 

[jpchewy01]

I wouldn't be surprised if you were the only one holding out to watch Hobbit 3D period.

Ouch. I'm sure there are other die hard Peej fans out there.

 

[Intratec]

I'm just waiting for Mothra to descend upon Godzilla again.

 

[Kaeb]

Some people were upset with Roland Emmerich's Godzilla design. If they showed in clear view that this Godzilla looked more akin to how is is supposed to look and away from the 1997 one, I'd be fine with that. We've already seen Godzilla before, so just show him again. It's not a new monster, it's a monster that was from 1954. Anyone who does not know what that Godzilla looked like is just uneducated. It'd be like not knowing what Batman or Superman looked like.

That rant aside, I liked the trailer, and really hope this film is good.

Dumb post is dumb.

 

[Icaro]

Dumb post is dumb.

the dogs in your signature are snapping along in time to biggie and i giggled for a solid minute.

related -

idk bout all this godzilla business, seems stupid as ****.

 

[Lucid]

the dogs in your signature are snapping along in time to biggie and i giggled for a solid minute.

related -

idk bout all this godzilla business, seems stupid as ****.

basically this.

 

[Kaeb]

To anyone who liked or was at the very least intrigued by this trailer, you should check out the directors first film Monsters, very similar tone and mood to it.

 

[Johnnysaurus Rex]

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.