Reviews

Watching these two movies side by side without having any attachment to the original monster movie left me with the extremely unpopular opinion that the 1998 Godzilla was the better movie.

Im likening this film to Reign Of Fire (remember that Dragon movie with Christian Bale?) the CGI and sets are tremendous and its great to see the proper looking Godzilla get a big budget turn on the big screen after Roland Emmerich went in favour of a T-Rex looking Godzilla.

Though the 1998 version's decision to show off Godzilla quite frequently throughout its running time was a major contribution to how much of a mess it ultimately was, at least it meant that you got a lot of Godzilla as a result of seeing a movie called Godzilla.

The title of the film should have been: Cloverfield Monster vs The American Army plus Godzilla.

Unlike Roland Emmerich's 1998 abomination, which featured a story that was an insult to the original movies and a Godzilla that looked more like an over-sized Tyrannosaurus Rex than the King of Monsters, Edwards's Godzilla features a loving, honorable, reverential portrayal of the titular monster.

Cardboard characters are to be expected in a monster flick....but aren't monsters expected to be in monster flicks?

It really appeared it was going to do something different with the audiences expectations of a Godzilla movie.

Director Gareth Edwards described Godzilla as an anti-hero: "Godzilla is definitely a representation of the wrath of nature.