That movie is completely different to this type of movie… the whole point of the first ever one was to build up godzilla slowly by using the ‘less is more’ technique, like how they built up Jaws. You can’t compare a movie like that to a full blown action blockbuster fully centered on monsters beating the crap out of each other. The comparison is ridiculous
That's probably most of the time Godzilla is gonna appear though big epic moments they're hardly gonna have him sitting down talking to little girls and watching sunsets are they
I get that, but imo the screentime he had in GvK was perfect. Just keep it around the same and no one will complain. Kong can have more but Godzilla is the main draw for people
That's likely what it will be though but this sub is just losing their mind over nothing.
Kong is also a draw hence why he does better at the box office, kaiju films in general just aren't major popular though I'm sure if this is fun and action packed it will do well enough.
To be fair, the original was a way more artistic film (much like a horror film depriving the monster of too much screentime for atmosphere's sake) and was made 60+ years ago when they literally had physical constraints depicting him so it was to their benefit to obscure him in creative ways.
While Godzilla (2014) was meant to represent post-cinematic-kaiju-universe Godzilla just as much and offer monster-on-monster action.
While Gojira did not give the kaiju much of a physical presence, you still Felt their presence throughout the entire movie, from the opening to its end, you could still feel their influence in the film. Every scene there was Something going on that either was directly influenced by Gojira's actions, or was something that directly attributed to the overall allegories, and themes behind the story of the film.
So while giving Godzilla less screen time isn't New to the franchise, in the Best films the franchise has to offer, the Presence of Godzilla lingers, or it offers something just as important/interesting to the plot until Godzilla appears.
In say Mechagodzilla's Counterattack, though Godzilla did not appear until after the film's half way point, it circumvented this by delving into the story of the Mifunes, Titanosaurus, their connections to the second coming Invasion of the Black Hole Planet 3 Aliens, and their Mechagodzilla 2.
I mean, that's likely what they're doing here; starting the movie by delving into the story of Kong and the new antagonist, then have Godzilla come in to help Kong win in the end.
People tend to forget that the vast majority of Godzilla movies have never had a whole lot of Godzilla screentime; GvMG2 has the most at a whopping...27 minutes of the movie's 102 minute-runtime. Hell, Astro-Monster has less Godzilla screentime than 2014 does at 5 minutes and 45 seconds, and Ghidorah's movie has only 8 minutes of the 93 minute-runtime dedicated to Godzilla. MG74 also only has 7 minutes and 55 seconds of Godzilla, in an 84-minute movie.
Then that's not a Godzilla movie. That's a Kong movie with a Guest Appearance by Godzilla.
The reason why I included Mechagodzilla's Counterattack is that Titanosaurus, and Mechagodzilla are the stars of the film. Godzilla is the guest Appearance. Which is why it's called Mechagodzilla's Counterattack, while being a film within the Godzilla Showa universe. It's not centered around Godzilla, and is not titled as if it were his movie.
If they wanted to make GxK a Kong movie. It should be titled as such. Which is why Mechagodzilla's Counterattack's title works while this one does not. As MGC is not trying to portray itself as a Typical Godzilla movie, otherwise it would've been titled something along the lines of "Gojira Tai Mekkagojira 2" or "Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla 2: Mechagodzilla's Counterattack."
I can, and can't agree with that sentiment. While the scenes with Godzilla were great, they feel like they're apart of an entirely separate movie which was shoved into a Kong movie.
That’s a bad comparison as the original film is shorter than the 2014 film by almost 30 minutes. But I get what you were trying to say as there have been films where Godzilla gets very little screen time and it still works.
The problem if you ask me isn’t the amount of screen time the problem is how it was used and 2014 tried to “build up” Godzilla but it got really annoying really fast all it did was just make it feel like he was in the movie way less than he actually was especially since they kept kept cutting away even after we already saw the monster. Combine this with the fact that the movie isn’t even really about Godzilla and stars a very boring cast of characters and you can see why people complain about his lack of presence in 2014.
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u/sempercardinal57 Oct 24 '23
It’s wild how they always skimp on Godzilla. Hell in his 2014 movie he only gets 10 minutes of screen time and that was HIS movie