There's not enough bitching

[Kaldrak]

You want a more detailed review?

And by review I mean bullet point list of the many, many missteps this movie took.

Just watched it myself with a couple friends of mine who are huge Godzilla fans. I found the movie moderately amusing. One of my friends loved it and the other was more nitpicky about things. What was so bad about it? Bear in mind that I'm not really a Godzilla fan.

[thepanda]

Let me start by saying I don't really care about the lore. I can even enjoy the Roland Emmerich version of Godzilla. My complaints are about how the movie is put together.

The pacing was terrible. Scenes are strung together in such a way that my jaw actually dropped by the leaps in logic the narrative had to take to string some of them together.

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 Especially with soldier guy in Japan after the kaiju broke out.

The score was bombastic to a fault. It is hard to build tension if you insist that ever single thing requires blasting music. There are just too many points in the movie where cutting the music would benefit the storytelling. They seemed to be doing pretty well at the beginning of the movie, but after the above spoiler point they gave subtlety the middle finger.

The acting was bland. Except breaking-dad, who chewed scenery left and right. The only child actor they get emotion from is the first one.

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Come to think on it, the bit before the time skip was handled well.

Anything they tried to explain with science made me shake my head.

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 Especially anything that had to do with radiation. Also didn't appreciated head Japanese science guy's sudden and inexplicable shift toward spiritualism. Wreaks of ethic stereotyping.

And was this movie white or what? Did anyone get more than two lines who wasn't white aside from Japanese main science guy, because I seriously cannot recall any at all.

The monster designs were drab. Is Hollywood is afraid of color or something? Like they got their idea of realism (in a giant monster movie!) from crappy video games. 'Needs more gray! Brown! Gray-brown!' Bright anything would have given that kaiju battle some much needed visual excitement.

And Godzilla and co apparently have a silencing charm or sep field or ninja training. I am convinced Godzilla has short range teleportation abilities in this movie.

I see what they were going for. There is the outline of a good movie here. And let's be real, it's still better than a lot of Godzilla movies. It just could have been so much better with some competent acting and pacing. But instead it was bland, which might actually be worse than a bad movie.

Also, how is Godzilla a background character in his own damned movie?

[Merc]

Also, how is Godzilla a background character in his own damned movie?

Blame the success of the transformers movies. Remember the stars of that? It sure wasn't the giant robots whose name is on the movie.

[Kaldrak]

My friends were in the military. One of the things they found hilarious?

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Hauling that mega nuke by hand. Seriously, those must be the strongest soldier's EVER and man did they move fast.

They did both agree that the military attitude was about right though, except

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that admiral who obviously didn't give a damn about any of his ships, having them as a freaking escort for Godzilla. Seriously, they were way WAY too close to him and it was a miracle none of them got sunk when he changed direction.

I really enjoyed some of the visuals, such as

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the HALO jump into the city where the giant monsters were fighting and the quarantine zone after fifteen years.

Basically I went in with no real expectations and didn't really take it seriously. I found it entertaining. Not as good as Cloverfield, but not a bad giant monster flick really.

[Dracos]

I broke a parallel continuation with a notification event on an object creation inside the continuation.

By reading a bool.

Error: Function taking invalid parameters that fatal errors on invalid parameters.

But only on packaged builds.  Not on the same code run through gamegui or visual studio.

Fuck that shit.  I draw legend of crazy bugs.

[Dracos]

Been feeling a bit poor lately.  Blargh.

[Anastasia]

It happens. Try taking a 'me' weekend. Do some fun things and rest up.

[Dracos]

Had a job review that was pretty much "You're awesome, but we've forgotten about promoting you".  Kinda furious.  They're looking into fixing it.

[Jason_Miao]

Saw Godzilla on Thursday evening, since friends wanted to see it.

I remember going "Argh" every 10-15 minutes because of something stupid.

A few of the more memorable ones:

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This monster emits EMP...but our navy ships and remote cameras still work (sometimes).
The enemy eats radiation.  We decided to store it in a nuclear waste facility.
We're airlifting a nuke, which the enemy is chasing.  Since it's airlifted, we can go in any direction...but let's fly it THROUGH San Francisco.

[Merc]

There is a ridiculous amount of rain today. Flood warnings and tornado warnings and yadda yadda yadda. Ah well.

[Rezantis]

Saw Godzilla on Thursday evening, since friends wanted to see it.

That movie was goddamn retarded.

Let me throw some other things out there.

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- The nearest source of radiation to the Phillipines is apparently not-Fukushima
- WATER. DOES. NOT. FUCKING. WELL. FLOW. LIKE. THAT.
- Megaton nuke a couple miles off of San Francisco is A-Okay (I actually assumed the protagonist was dead after that nuke went off, because survival was inconceivable)
- Apparently everyone forgot that, like, most naval vessels are nuclear powered, not to mention that surely nuclear power plants would get a lot more attention than a bomb.
- That one building in Hawaii with the tsunami-proof windows (lucky!)
- They vivisected the giant monster and then . . . dumped it . . . intact and still alive . . . with a bunch of nuclear waste? 

Honestly, I can't think of a scene without at least one jaw-droppingly moronic thing in it.

[Anastasia]

So I woke up after 5 hours of sleep and can't doze back off. Blarghfuckle.

[Yuthirin]

I have nothing to complain about.

[Anastasia]

So you bitch about not bitching, eh?

[Arakawa]

Why do I propose things at work? Then I have to actually implement the proposals.

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