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thismeintiel on 19 May 2014
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curl-6 said:
thismeintiel said:

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.

Have you watched those films recently? I think you're really underestimating how much Goji shows up in the new film. There's quite a lot of him throughout the final act, plus  there's his earlier scenes like the Golden Gate bridge.

Let's take Final Wars for example; besides a short appearance in the intro, he doesn't even show up until an hour in, and it too shows a lot of the human story while Goji fights. In the original film, we spend much more time with scientists and other human characters  than with Goji.

We don't have to see the entire final fight uncut from start to end to know that he's fighting the whole time, to see him getting beaten up two on one, and to see him get a building dropped on him. It's very clearly shown that he's been through a lot and is tired as a result.

And I think you're really overestimating it.  If fans and general audiences are complaining about the lack of Godzilla, something is wrong.  This was to not only be a movie for the fans, but to get new fans onboard.  you don't do that by barely showing what got many of us to become fans in the first place. 

Also, I don't care how long it takes to get to Godzilla.  Most Godzilla movies take awhile to get to Godzilla.  Like I said, I prefer that if they are starting things off.  But, once he shows up, it needs to allow Godzilla to shine and do his thing.  NOT tease that he's about to do his thing, and then cut immediately to something less interesting.  The Godzilla series would have failed if the older movies were like the new one.