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Godzilla (2014)
The adventures of idiotic, boring people with a quick cameo of Godzilla
The trailers made me think this was gonna be good, interesting, with some thought put into the script. It was none of those things.
The script was completely idiotic all the way through. All the human characters, every last one of them, were stupid and annoying. I hated them, couldn't stand them. It was one face palm after another, at all the stupid things they said and did. Unfortunately, it turns out, that's what the majority of this movie is about, showing us what all these boring, annoying people are up to.
The paper thin, useless human characters wouldn't be such a big problem, if the movie lived up to its title and gave us a movie about Godzilla. But this movie is 95% about the people, and only 5% about the titular monster. Sure, the 5% of Godzilla scenes are good, but if 95% of your movie stinks, you've got huge problems.
When they finally give us a glimpse of Godzilla, things pick up, especially when Godzilla and MUTO are about to fight, but then suddenly they cut to a kid on a sofa! After a soul crushingly boring first hour spent with some of the most annoying characters I've ever seen in a movie, your film is on the verge of maybe, just maybe, having the first good scene, and instead you give us a shot of a kid on a sofa! Who thought this was a good idea?
At that point it became clear the whole film itself was designed to be just as annoying as all the characters in it.
The HALO jump about 1 hour 30 minutes into the movie is one of the only bright spots. It's an interesting looking scene with a good atmosphere. Unfortunately it's short, and has absolutely nothing to do with the tone of the rest of the film.
Finally, in the end, they give us maybe 5 minutes of Godzilla vs. the MUTO's. But it's way too little, way too late.
I read somewhere here, that they modeled the teasing of Godzilla on Jaws. What they SHOULD'VE copied from Jaws, is how to give us interesting and likable main characters we can care about, if that's who you want us to spend 95% of your movie watching. To call the family "Brody" in this film, was an insult to Jaws.
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007)
Finally, some new B5 to watch
It's been 5 years since we saw anything new from the B5 universe, and 9 years since the original series ended.
These are two small stories that feel like they've been found from the script archives and dusted off for fans to see. As such they're not the greatest episodes of B5 ever, but they would definitely hold their own among seasons 1, 2 and 5. And with the updated CGI, B5 has certainly never looked better. The somewhat low budget does seem apparent at some points, such as the lack of people on the station, but that doesn't make or break these stories. The new title sequence is excellent, and Chris Franke's music sounds even better than in the series.
A must-buy for fans, so we can look forward to more adventures on DVD, and perhaps even the eventual feature film at some point.