Godzilla

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Summary: Not for those with intellectual tendencies.
Review: I rented this movie because, well, it was Saturday, the week-end, you know, and because I had always liked the Godzilla movies before this one. This was a real clunker. I wish Matthew Broderick would have quit acting after "War Games". What a dry, boring performance. And that girl. I can act better cutting my toenails than she did in this movie. I did like the new Godzilla better than the rubber suited lizards of the past, thought they too have their charm. Why did Godzilla have to die in the end? I would have liked for him to have stepped on Matthew Broderick and his ditzy girlfriend and finished the movie giving a huge roar of triumph as he destroyed NYC. No big loss in my opinion. And the story...STORY? What story. The best scenes were of Godzilla running around the city dodging the military's finest. All, in all, I would like to edit out all the humans and just have Godzilla destroying things for two hours. He was the best actor in the film!

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Summary: Godzilla goes to the city to lay eggs but causes trouble.
Review: I thought the movie was great espically the special efects. I liked the part in Madison square garden. I also liked the part of the french head guy. I think there is going to be a sequal.

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Summary: Exhilerating film. Simple and to the point.
Review: What I liked about "Godzilla" is that it had no limits. The director seemed to know what he wanted and the special-effects are excellent. The action sequences are wildly inventive, especially the cab chase. This movie was the most fun i've had all summer. What I also liked was the plot wasn't so complicated like "mission:impossible" two years ago. You could actually work with this material. "Godzilla" definitely didn't fall short of my expectations.

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Summary: Adding insult to injury
Review: What were these morons thinking when they made this film? Not only is this brain dead, it's an incoherent, Jurassic Park rip-off, and it utterly destroys the original Godzilla legend/theme. The original "Godzilla, King of the Monsters" is about more than a giant lizard stepping on people and buildings, it's a metaphor for the horrors of war, anti-nukes, pro environment, man and his machines are destorying life, etc, etc. What is this movie about? A retarded mutant reptile that doesn't even do that much damage (it eats fish and the army is responsible for destroying half the city). Come on, Hollywood, do something crazy: make a new, fresh, original film!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: It's a monster movie...what did you expect?
Review: For all those out there that trashed this movie, I have to ask you...what did you expect? Dean Devlin and Roland Emerich have no originality whatsoever (witness Independence Day.) They simply take good old fashioned 50's Sci-FI movies and doll them up with 90's special effects. Godzilla looked great...much more like a dinosaur then that ridiculous costume the Japanese insist on using. He was fast, agile, and neat to see. I'll agree that he wasn't exactly what I expected; Godzilla with no atomic breath weapon is just, well, not Godzilla. And the "Jurassic Square Garden" scene with the babies was ludicrous. These guys should have done 3 things to make this a really great film: 1) Get rid of Matthew Broderick. Sorry, but he came off looking really silly. (I understand that Dean and Roland wanted him for Independence Day and Stargate...get over it, you guys!) 2) Give Godzilla his atomic breath, and 3) have a little bit of authenticity in the depiction of the military and there equipment. I don't know where all this stuff came from, but it isn't current US Army issue. Furthermore, no WAY would a lowly Sergeant be taking direct orders from a Colonel in defending the Big Apple. Where were the officers? I'm not trying to be too picky, but I spent 9 years in the military and some protocol and military bearing would have been nice. But these faults aside, the movie was great, if you think of it as what it really was...an old, cheesy science fiction movie given a face lift.

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Summary: It's GREAT for What It Is...
Review: This movie is based on 20-odd, cheesy, Japanese monster movies featuring an actor walking around in a giant rubber suit, smashing cheesy models of Tokyo and military hardware. So, for what it is--an updated version with an INCREDIBLY-ARTICULATED, computer-generated creature, but a cheesy storyline and plastic human characters--it's a GREAT step forward on a stale movie series! Sure, there are a bunch of disappointing moments (he only breathes fire twice, go figure!), but overall it's a fun flick. I got a good chuckle out of the obnoxious French agents, led by Jean Reno; I even cheered when the baby Godzillas got a taste of their first French food in Madison Square Garden! Buy it, enjoy it, watch it, and goof on it with a bunch of friends; it's destined to be a good party movie!

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Summary: Please, watch paint dry- this is a wretched film.
Review: Wow, all that money and they forgot...a plot! Poor actors! poor audience! The 'monster' was cribbed from Lost World... You can, to stave off boredom, count the numerous cliques, or plot holes...or better yet- take a nap- a more effective and enjoyable use of time.

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Summary: Yawn!
Review: Boring! People can't kill Godzilla one way, they do it again, and kill him! Bad jokes! However, the graphics were good, but I still hate the new Godzilla from the old one.

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Summary: For Academy Award winning performances - buy GWTW
Review: Yea, yea, critics panned it. So it wasn't original and character development didn't. If you watch a movie called "Godzilla" expect it to be cheesey, FUN and cheesey, with FUN in all caps.

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Summary: Great atmosphere, good effects, but acting? Story?
Review: The summary kind of says it all. Nice try, but the producers would've been better off spending a little more on the writing and the director should've shown up for work.