Godzilla '14: Good, But Sadly Disappointing (Spoilers, Duh)

[adriane23]

curl-6 said:

adriane23 said:

Balance in nature means that predators hunt and eat other animals. Where in nature does a predator just show up to beat up other animals just because nature is out of whack?

No, they used echo location with their voices to communicate. Echo location is a sound wave, not an electromagnetic pulse. They were communicating in the beginning of the film over long distances when they were in those cocoons without using EMP blasts. Otherwise, how would they have communicated without knocking out the city's electricity every five seconds?

You misunderstand, it's got nothing to do with a predator/prey dynamic. Godzilla represents nature; the Mutos were not meant to be awakened into today's world, so him eliminating them restored balance.

And they didn't communicate with their voices; they were communicating from Japan to Nevada. That's impossible with sound. The pulses they used to communicate aren't always strong enough to disable electronics; like the characters said, the waves were increasing as the male got closer to hatching. The male was apparently smart enough to realize that his"cries" disabled these annoying new enemies he found himself surrounded by after hatching, and only after that did he start using it as a weapon.

I didn't misunderstand anything. It sounds like you took Ken Watanabe's character too literally when he described how nature balances itself out. That balance he was speaking about is the predator/prey relationship. Godzilla did not represent nature itself, he represented half of the relationship.

In theory, that isn't impossible with an animal that size, actually. Blue whales can communicate up to 1000 miles disregarding noise pollution. Even if you take into consideration the speed at which sound travels through water as opposed to air, the MUTOs could've been communicating wih sound over that large of a distance seeing as how the smaller MUTO was 2-3 times larger than a blue whale. An EMP powerful enough to travel that far would disrupt eletronics everytime they tried to communicate. A low energy EMP wouldn't make it that far, and an EMP strong enough to travel that far is essentially a nuclear explosion each time.