Godzilla
I don’t think any movie could have lived up to the hype built from this trailer. It was going to be disappointing no matter what. I felt like I was trying to convince myself that I liked Godzilla while I was watching it because I felt like I should have liked it. Don’t get me wrong, every scene involving the titular monster was awesome. Unfortunately, he is not on screen for the entire two hours, which makes every scene with any human character make the film’s pace drag like nothing else. None of the human characters are that particularly interesting (except, arguably, Bryan Cranston’s character, but he’s wasted in what is essentially an extended cameo). I’d hate to say that if I was forced to choose to re-watch either this Godzilla or Roland Emmerich’s atrocious 1998 version, I might choose Emmerich’s version. At least that one is entertaining.
