| Scisca said: Aaron Taylor-Johson was terrible - end of story. His character was unbearable for me to be honest. Apart from him, the acting was really very, very good though. Still, you missed the absolutely most awful thing that constantly made me feel like throwing up. The immortal-ultimate-unbeatable-bad-ass-american-marines-who-save-the-world-as-usual. Like they are some kind of superhuman. It's just disgusting to me at this point. I turn a movie off when I see it, which I obviously couldn't do in a theatre (such a shame). This also goes to the navy and the absurd placement of ships, following Godzilla with just meters of space between it and massive ships. Everything about the navy was so ridiculous it made me annoyed. This has really devastated the fun I had with the movie. Though I have to admit that I loved the slow and long build-up (before the Ultramarines showed up), which is the part of every movie that I enjoy the most - it's when everything is still a mistery and everything is possibile. That's why I like Alien so much - it takes so long to even realize who the main character is ;) So this part was done very, very well. I also agree that the monster fights were too short and they switched to the human part for no real reason. To me - an absolutely average movie, but surely an above average monster movie. Could have been great, but showed too little of Godzilla and too much ridiculous super-Americans, which I just can't stand. |
ATJ wasn't terrible. He definitely is no Bryan Cranston, but he doesn't really have to be. I think they just made a mistake changing the focus from both the Brody men, to only Ford. It should have remained both.
And I don't know. I didn't really get the "immortal-ultimate-unbeatable-bad-ass-american-marines-who-save-the-world-as-usual" feeling you did. Nothing like other monster/disaster movies. I do think they focused on them more than they should have, but the only real competent thing they did was disarm a bomb, and several did die during the movie. Though, I guess Godzilla was lucky Ford decided to destroy the hive, while everyone else left. Which, again, real imcompetency on the Military's part. What if Godzilla didn't win? Now, you'll have dozens of those things to deal with. LOL.
