 okay I'm about to get on the bike head over to the nearby cinema see the first showing of Godzilla as soon as it's done I'll come back here and let you know what happened okay it's over with I can give you a summary in three words not enough Godzilla but I'll take the bike right home and tell you more about it see in a few okay now I'm back home after thinking about it on a bike ride here and very nearly getting run down in the street and now I'm worried about how stupid my hair looks well anyway this is we're mid-May 2014 and I think this is only the second movie this year that I've paid money to see in a theater I don't like going out to movies and spending money on movies because I never liked them I'm always disappointed and I was prepared to be really disappointed with with this movie I was prepared to really really hate it I hmm ultimately I was disappointed let me start off by saying that the beginning of the movie though was amazing you're always concerned with movies like this that there won't be enough action that there'll be too much character building and world building and it'll be slow and be concentrating on people that you don't care about well this movie started with action the during the opening credits there was action it moved right along Brian Cranston was introduced very early he and his family in his situation and it moved along it wasn't boring they they did well with that a number of things happened that surprised me and that by itself is is interesting and then the middle of the movie started to drag I mean it really started to drag just really really really dragged there was scene after scene after scene of of military men standing in control rooms looking at at view screens saying ominous things to each other just one after another after another the kind of thing you would expect in a sci-fi channel miniseries as I said when I left the theater there was not enough Godzilla there just wasn't enough during the climactic battle scene where the monsters were fighting the action was almost 100% concentrating on the soldiers who had skydived in like you saw them in the in the trailer I don't care about these soldiers I don't care what they're doing I want to see Godzilla I want to see monsters fighting but those of us I think this is true for everybody but it's especially true for those of us who grew up with Godzilla movies the reason we watch Godzilla movies is because we want to see Godzilla and we want to see Godzilla fighting with other monsters and when Godzilla actually is fighting with other monsters we want to see that we don't want to see the people running around at their feet doing other stuff that we don't care about we don't care when it comes to the monster fight scenes I had the same problem that I have with so many modern CGI movies they're everything was gray everything was too dark the the camera was zoomed in way too much way too close you were seeing shoulders and feet and claws and you weren't seeing the monster you weren't seeing what they were doing and the camera was shaking too much I there were there were too many moments where I couldn't tell what was happening you know what good is it to spend all this time and all this effort and all this money to animate this gigantic monster fight when you can't tell what's happening and and everything was gray everything was just gray gray gray I never saw the Roland Emmerich Godzilla movie and I'm never going to I did not see Pacific Rim I never saw anything in any trailer or any review that made me interested in seeing Pacific Rim everything I saw about Pacific Rim looked gray everything was just gray gray gray gray the same thing happened in this movie everything was gray like I was saying before the the beginning of the movie the first half hour the movie or so was great they got the origin of Godzilla right this is the first time I've ever seen anybody in modern times get the origin of Godzilla right and they got it exactly right they revived the old great idea of Godzilla that he comes from a time before there was other life on earth when it was still molten rock so that Godzilla and the other monsters are basically elemental gods while this was being explained near the beginning of the movie I was saying yes yes yes those of us who are Godzilla fans this is what this is how we think of Godzilla and and Brian Cranston did an amazing job Brian Cranston makes everything he does so believable everybody else I I didn't care about but that's all we got so the beginning of this movie was very promising and very interesting and very surprising the last half of the movie though it might as well have been cloverfield it just it just wasn't interesting this didn't it didn't look like Godzilla to me it didn't sound like Godzilla it was just another modern CGI mess the climactic moment of the monster battle happened so suddenly and without buildup and then it was just over and you were feeling that way that's it really and then the the final scene of the movie the very tail end of the movie I was saying to myself really did they really just do that really the I mean it was bad enough that the movie was so non-Godzilla oriented and so dull and so colorless and then to tack on this last minute that was just really really dumb so yeah ultimately this is a disappointment wait for it to show up on cable TV seriously don't spend money on it don't encourage bad movies don't it's important that you not spend money on bad movies it really is important because when you spend money on bad movies they make more bad movies don't encourage bad movies unfortunately this turned out to be a bad movie okay bye