Ford Brody saving children, running from giant monsters, and disarming bombs for most of the film. The script felt more like a 90’s action flick instead of a modern Disaster/Giant Monster epic and as a result, we are given the heroic efforts of the always well placed Mr. The dialogue between characters comes off as cliché and sort of cheesy, events have little to no weight behind them because of poor use of a great first act, and characters are just thrown into situations for no other reason but to be in the action. Borenstein hasn’t really penned anything worth noting, and the same goes for Godzilla. There are something’s that I didn’t understand about the way that Max Borenstein wrote his characters but I’ll cover that in a moment. The film could have played better if Edwards could have created the films own identity, rather than borrowing so heavily from Jaws. Yes, it was a cool idea to look at Godzilla from the perspective of humanity dealing with a natural disaster, but that shouldn’t have pushed the creature that everybody wanted to see into the background. It really leaves you wanting more Godzilla, and less Ford Brody.
#CINESCOPE GODZILLA FULL#
Why spend so much time keeping the principal attraction in the shadows when the entire world already knows what he looks like?Įdwards tries to make his film almost too much like Jaws, rather than giving us long shots of Godzilla tearing apart his enemy and reducing San Francisco to rubble after his full reveal, we are given more Ford Brody, the United States Military, and the human story with Godzilla and his battle to balance nature as the background for humanity’s struggle to deal with, and accept what nature was actually throwing at them. This is especially upsetting because in the digital age we live in, we were subjected to A LOT of pictures of Godzilla in full and glorious view which rendered the tension building, while well done, pointless. The moment was well done and built up to perfectly, but this is where Edwards starts to falter.Īfter the big reveal, Godzilla returns to tease the audience with short segments of footage until the climax of the third act, we almost see the other creature more than we do Godzilla. Gareth Edwards shows a heavy Spielburg influence during most of the two hour and three minute runtime giving us teaser shots of Godzilla here and there, building up to a full reveal at A Hawaiian airport where he faces his opposing creature on the runway. Tune in for all the screaming and splashing, starting on July 14 on TCM.While Godzilla ended up being just an entertaining and satisfying film overall, it was actually kind of average. The films that round out Deep Sea Cinema include: Mysterious Island (1961), the original Godzilla (1954), Hammer Film’s The Lost Continent (1968), The Monster that Challenged the World (1957), Roger Corman’s Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961), The Giant Behemoth (1959), and the original Moby Dick (1930), to add some prestige to the last night of programming.
The last night on July 28 continues with a sea monster theme, sure to satisfy long-time creature feature aficionados. The night starts with a deep sea diving adventure Below the Sea (1933), before going whole hog into science fiction-style monsters in the Ray Harryhausen stop-motion fear fest It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), which continues in the wild Tentacles (1977), and the gonzo Warlords of Atlantis (1978) that features a giant octopus as a threshold guardian to a hidden civilization. The second night of programming on July 21 swaps the shark for the octopus, with a wide variety of takes on the many-tentacled creature. The action begins promptly at 8:00 pm each Thursday, with the first Thursday showcasing “realistic” depiction of sharks such as Howard Hawks’ Tiger Shark (1932), The Sea Chase (1955), The Sharkfighters (1956), Killer Shark (1950), Shark’s Treasure (1975), and the “shark-adjacent” films, The Last of the Pagans (1935) and Death Curse of Tartu (1966).
Starting on July 14 (and running on subsequent Thursdays in July), Deep Sea Cinema brings all manner of denizens of the deep to the forefront, particularly movies featuring sharks and squids. During the hottest month of summer, Turner Classic Movies is going to do their best to keep you out of the ocean with their month long Deep Sea Cinema series.
0 kommentar(er)
