Godzilla 2014

Rating: 1/10 (2 August 2017)

I found it hard to know what was going on in this film as the lighting is often dreadfully poor. We tried turning the lights off but found we were just in a dark room with lots of noise coming out of the TV.
I like the Toho Godzilla films and I like Roland Emmerich's Godzilla too. I really do not like this Godzilla.
First of all the monsters are all implausibly big. I get how fun is derived from giant monsters, but not only do these monsters have their heads in the clouds, the tone of the film is incredibly serious. I felt like I was watching Cloverfield a lot of the time. Seriousness and skyscraper-sized monsters don't go well together.
Dialogue is poor, characterisation is tired and off the hook, poorly designed and executed monsters all round, witless, dead-serious, and with no character whatsoever, this is not a film for me.
What it has done is provoke me into buying earlier Toho Godzilla films to be watched on my Region 1 player. There are some great ones to check out if you haven't already, such as
Godzilla vs The Smog Monster, Son of Godzilla (BRILLIANT MONSTER EFFECTS!!!), Godzilla vs Gigan; Ebirah, Horror of the Deep; Return of Godzilla etc.
I feel like they got me out of the coma Godzilla 2014 put me under.
Also I would like to know why the film was met with rave reviews from critics? It has been treated as an art film that explores the non-exhaustive facets of society. Is this because the original Godzilla was about nuclear weapons and how terrible they are? So therefore this film must have some serious message to get across?
It doesn't. If anything it seems to be for everything the original film was against.
I'm tired of darkly-lit, implausible, thick-headed, dim-witted, CGI-ridden, factory-produced let-downs like this. Let it be forgotten about in time. Bryan Cranston has moved on so the rest of us should too.