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

[adriane23]

curl-6 said:

adriane23 said:

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.

It's not just about Ken Watanabe's line. Since his birth in the 1954 film, Godzilla has represented nature biting back, whether it be punishing man for our nuclear sins, or in this case neutralizing a monster we awoke. It is well established in canon across 60 years and dozens of films. It's not just a throwaway line, it's a reference to a core element of the character that has been well established in series lore.

And this being a giant monster movie, perfect realism is out the window from the start. But the pulses the male emits before birth are concluded by the characters to be communication with the female; they only become a weapon after the male notices that what was presumably a cry for help conveniently disables his tormentors. 

Now you're basically just repeating yourself. Just like you say that perfect realism is out the window in a monster movie, so is coherence in a franchise that's lasted this long. It makes absolutely no sense that a predator shows up just to fight other big monsters and not see them primarily as a food source. It's just ridiculous and a plot point like that would actually make the movie complete garbage, so why do you believe in it so much?. It's 2014, not 1954. That kind of plot just doesn't fly anymore, especially for a serious movie. In this movie, Godzilla is the predator and the MUTOs are his prey. That was specifically said and I really don't understand why this basic facet of the plot bothers you so much.

The pulses before birth were concluded to be a method of echolocation, yes. They were not EMP blasts as the electrical equipment didn't get shut down until the monster started to hatch or until the military tried to kill it (I forgot which happened first). Which goes back to my first point. To be able to communicate that far of a distance with EMPs would disrupt electrical equipment for several miles each time the monster wanted to say hello. But you know what, maybe the people that made this movie were that dumb in not understanding how EMPs work, even though they were trying to bring some semblance of realism to this genre of movies. That's entirely a possiblility, but I don't think it's likely.

This has to be the most pointless argument I've had in my life. Reply if you want, I don't care anymore.