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curl-6 on 03 June 2019
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KManX89 said:
Kowan said:

This movie was amazing. It was so ridiculous and over the top, I loved it! If you want a film that will just keep you on the edge of your seat, just grab on to you and never let go, and just entertain the hell out of you, I'd say watch this film. There was filler human drama in between, but the pace just kept on going really fast that I didn't mind at all.
I felt like I was watching Godzilla: Final Wars but in steroids and MUCH MORE BEAUTIFUL.

My only major complaint about this is that they put in too many human characters and most of them don't even get any development at all. (I especially found the twins story to be such a wasted potential). I mean yes, we're focusing on the Kaijus so why put so many supposedly important human characters then?

I never understood this "too much humans" argument in kaiju films. Human characters are pretty central to the plot of Godzilla movies and kaiju movies in general. Steph Cozza actually posted a review where she complained about humans in the movie and actually compared it to the humans in the Transformers films:

Nevermind that the Transformers can actually talk and move the plot forward just fine without humans, hence humans don't even need to be IN the Transformers films (!), unlike kaiju in kaiju flicks.

FFS, do they really expect 90+ minutes of kaiju fighting with little plot? Do these people even know how budgeting works and how expensive that shit would be given the CGI of the kaiju in this movie? FFS, KotM cost $170 mil (it needs in the ballpark of $450-500 mil just to break even) given the screentime that they were actually given, which this movie DID give us more kaiju fights/action this time around, fuckin' A.

There's just no pleasing some people.

PS, I thought the movie was great. Even the human characters were more interesting this time around. 

Yeah I've never understood this either. Even setting aside budget, you can't just show 90 minutes of monsters slugging it out. The people are necessary to provide the context. 

A giant monster by itself is meaningless. Even the fact that it's "giant" is only relevant in relation to our own human sense of scale. They might as well be five feet tall if there's no people around. Kaiju are given meaning and purpose through their interaction with humanity.

Yes, the monster fights are the main attraction, and this film wisely treats them as such, but a monster film with no people at all is like making a disaster film about a volcano blowing up on an uninhabited planet.