curl-6 said:
thismeintiel said:
curl-6 said:
I'd have to disagree with just about all of this.
- The final battle did NOT last 5-10 minutes, more like 15-20 all up.
- 5% of a two hour movie would be 6 minutes of Godzilla. There is much more than that.
- Godzilla has been knocked out in action before; in Godzilla 2000, Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla, Terror of Mechagodzilla...
- Godzilla needing a distraction/assistance to get the upper hand has happened before too; in Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II, Terror of Mechagodzilla, Godzilla Final Wars...
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IF you include the human scenes, yea, it's probably 15-20 mins. You just count the time Godzilla is on screen, then no, it probably falls somewhere around 5-10 mins.
She said seemed, not being literal. It was the impression she was left with, as was I, when we left the theatre. Sure, he's technically on screen for more than 6 mins, but it doesn't change the fact that he's barely in the flick, nor is he a main focus of it. More like he just shows up to fix the problem at the very end, not to be a big part of the film throughout after the halfway point.
Yea, he was knocked out. But, did he just faint twice in one battle? Nope. Again, it should have been once near the end, and we should have been able to see those previous fights and get the impression he was getting tired out. Not just faint because the script said he does.
Not refuting that. But, it doesn't even seem like a fight, more like a beatdown. Godzilla barely got any hits in and then he started getting his ass whooped. At least in other fights, they have a little back and forth before they start whooping his butt. Of course, this complaint is mainly due the briefness of the fights and/or lack of them. Had the last one been longer OR we got to see more than one (as well as seeing that he was becoming tired after two prior fights), then I probably wouldn't have had a problem with this.
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According to IMDB, 327 of the film's 960 effects shots are of Godzilla. For there to be just 5 mins of him, the average shot of him would have to be less than a second.
I don't recall him fainting until after he had killled both Mutos, after being 2v1'd for hours and having a building dropped on him.
And it seemed pretty well establiished to me that he was getting tired; in the scene where he faces Ford in the streets, his expession practically screamed "yeah, I'm havng a shit day too", haha. He looked very tired after the protracted battle. And I do recall him curbstomping the female Muto's head at one point before her boyfriend jumped in to uneven the odds, it wasn't a total whooping.
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Lol, you're still getting technical with it. It doesn't change the impression people will get that Godzilla is barely in it. Or that he's not a major focus of the film. And there is a lot of shots of Godzilla. Of course, a lot of them are him swimming and preparing for a battle that doesn't happen onscreen. He does get knocked out by a building for awhile, so I guess he does only faint once. However, it still doesn't change that we, as the audience, see no reason for him to tire or see him become tired. He just beats the MUTOS, starts to walk away, and then faints cause the script calls for it.
And I did say he got a few hits in. Of course, the reason it looks like he's getting his ass whooped goes to my main point about the fights either not being there, or in this case, being so short that they don't have time to show a back and forth fight and/or establish well that he was tiring. It's more like, "They're fighting. Quick get that scene over, people want to see what the humans are up to."
