Monsters, Gareth Edwards.
I loved his Godzilla, a lot. That's why I was really curious about this movie, which I thought would be like Godzilla on a low budget. Well, it is. The problem with this movie is that basically nothing happens. Like we literally see the monsters (I didn't like their design, they're like Chtulhu's dumber brothers) maybe two times throughout the whole movie. These are the best parts of the movie, Edwards obviously knows how to show a monster on camera and their apparitions are always cleverly shot. Unluckily, like I said, the monsters get maybe 5 minutes of screen time.
"Henry ahah, you silly guy, the movie is about a boy and a girl in a difficult situation!". Well, to that I answer that the guy and the girl are so poorly written that I couldn't care less about them. Ok, at least the girl is hot, but the guy has literally no reason to exist. It's basically Godzilla's same problem, but Godzilla had a million tons of awesomeness in it that this movie does not possess. Also, I just won't believe that Edwards wanted to make a movie about the relationship and personal growth of two guys: he obviously likes monsters more than humans. He just didn't have enough money to do everything he wanted, and I'm glad the big guys sitting in leather armchairs smoking cigars gave him a lot of money to go make Godzilla a couple years later.
oh bah I read that it was even more low on budget than I thought. Like Edwards did the visual effects all by himself with his own computer, the crew was made by seven people and only the two main characters were real actors
What the hell, I'll up the rating to
, anyone with this much passion deserves at least one bonus popcorn bag.
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