| Ryuu96 said: Imo, I didn't really like the human drama for KOTM or GvK, G14 was maybe the best for me cause it made Godzilla feel like a true force of nature, something terrifying from the humans perspective, it kept a consistent tone and it had Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe. For KOTM I really only cared about Dr Serizawa but they killed him off so...Also the tone felt a bit off, one minute it was super serious then it was comedy, then it was super serious, the mothers reason for being a terrorist was ridiculously stupid and felt like a weak plot twist, I don't really remember anyone else except from Charles Dance but even he felt like he was just going through the motions. Also the amount of times they cut back to the humans during the fight scenes was super annoying, hell the saddest scene in KOTM was Mothra's sacrifice, saving Godzilla's life knowing she didn't have a chance against Ghidorah, Godzilla's reaction to it. I couldn't have cared any less about the mothers death, her redemption felt unearned, I just wanted her out of the way so I could go back to seeing big monsters fight again. Also would have preferred if it was Mothra who gave Godzilla that win. Godzilla vs Kong I don't really care about anyone except the deaf girl and her mother, everyone else and their plots were either boring or just extremely stupid (Team Godzilla breaking into the highly secure facility with ease, finding out who the conspiracy theorist is by asking a few shops, defeating MechaGodzilla with whiskey). The biggest mistake these Godzilla movies have made for their human side is killing off Bryan Cranston and Ken Watanabe's characters cause I couldn't care less about anyone else. Skull Island has the best human drama of the monster movies so far and again here it was Kong's side who had the best human story. They should bring in the Mothra twins. @Jaicee You forgot about Son of Godzilla and All Monsters Attack for Tier 1. |
Totally! 
Well actually the sad conclusion of Son of Godzilla has always gotten to me a little in a weird way. Yeah, I'm a sap, I know. But I know what you mean. 
All Monster's Attack...like that's just a clip movie wherein the best parts are actually the third-rate human drama about school(-related) bullying. Most of us I think had a Gabara in our lives at some point or other. It probably didn't involve being inexplicably kidnapped by bank robbers to make the women in the audience feel bad for working though. Seriously, why are they after this kid?? What is their deal? Yeah, that movie ranks near the bottom of my list. But at least the movie doesn't pretend to be more than what it is.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) is my absolute least favorite entry in the Godzilla franchise. I can see why the filmmakers highlighted the inclusion of Millie Bobby Brown in the promotional material, as she seemed to be only actor capable of giving her terrible script an almost-organic flow. I hated everything everything else about that movie, but most of all its pretense of having some kind of profound message about God and spirituality and all of that on offer with the cross imagery and Godzilla posing like he's an American wrestler when in point of fact the viewer struggles to even comprehend the utterly directionless motion of events transpiring before them. It's all dour, but about what? Why? Why is the apocalypse happening again? What is the grand spiritual metaphor in play here? Why am I supposed to care about these assholes? What is this family drama involving terrorism going on here? Why is this happening? Why why why why why whyyyyyyyyy????!! This movie presents itself as a powerful human drama with monsters anecdotally thrown in on the side. In actuality, it's a DC Films grade melodrama about nothing that would probably actually do better to have more monster scenes to make up some of the difference...if the monsters in those scenes came off as either awesome or believable on some level enough to be interesting. ...I don't know, it just feels like something that was crudely thrown together to cash in on the box office success of the previous entry in the trilogy and presented as an art film. The thing about art films is that they have art. This is the most American Godzilla movie I've ever seen before and I mean that in the worst sense and way. It's insufferable and in no way feels like an organic installment of this franchise.
Godzilla vs. Kong is the tonal opposite of the 2019 King of the Monsters. It's a movie about having awesome kaiju action fun. Is this a deep purpose? No. But it is a direction. At least this movie has the self-awareness to know what it's about. This makes it a substantially better and more enjoyable movie.
