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thismeintiel on 18 May 2014
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curl-6 said:
thismeintiel said:

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."

He's not "barely in it", he's the first thing that's introduced, he ravages Honalulu, he smashes his way into San Fran harbour despite dozens of ships and tanks trying to stop him, and he spends the film's final act fighting and eventually beating both Mutos. His screen time isn't that far removed from some of the Japanese movies; the 1954 original, Godzilla vs Mothra '92, Godzilla Final Wars...

And there's clear reasons for him to be tired; he's been in a protracted fight where he was outnumbered two to one, and he had a building dropped on him.

You HAVE got to be kidding me with that line.  His screen time is probably half of what it is in those films.  At MAXIMUM, 3/4 of his screentime in whichever one of those shows him the least.  There's also the added benefit that the movies actually felt like they focused on him when he showed up.  They didn't just keep cutting to the humans right before Godzilla was about to fight a monster or destroy something.  Godzilla was allowed to have the spotlight, not be relegated to a background character in his own film.

And again, because we don't see those fights and he seems fine when he starts fighting for the 3rd time in the end, we don't get the sense of anything.  You can infer it if you wish, but it's not shown in his face or actions until the very end.