And then, boom, Toho drops the spiciest teaser ever: their next movie has Godzilla — AND HE’S ACTUALLY ACTING LIKE A MONSTER!
While Legendary’s reimagining of Godzilla as a cooperative saviour of humanity might have made big bucks at the box office, the franchise’s die-hards have been starving for the behemoth to return to his roots as a champion of indiscriminate terror. Not only did Toho’s latest
After suffering through the silly (and unreleased lesser-known sexy Godzilla arcs), everyone's favourite giant radioactive lizard, Godzilla — or Gojira, if you're feeling fancy — roared into Japanese theatres, and then in the US shortly after. Fans went bananas and practically raced to see the beast in all its atomic-breathed glory. Sadly, many countries, including India, missed out on the big-screen experience.
However,
A lot is being said about the latest version of the franchise — mostly good things. While the director
However, amid all of this praise, there are some fans who weren’t, well fans, of Godzilla Minus One. Even as we remain steadfast loyalists of the franchise, here are some unpopular opinions on the recent re-telling of the OG monster.
While GvK did not succeed in winning any Oscars, Minus One won the Best Visual Effects at the 96th Academy Awards. This has received some criticism from netizens, with some alleging that the Legendary film had far better CGI than the Toho film.
“How did this receive an award for CGI? It looks like an early 2000s ScyFy channel movie,” one user commented on Rotten Tomatoes.
Meanwhile, other online critics brought up the fact that the graphics failed to make Godzilla expressive enough, something the audience had gotten used to with the recent Legendary releases.
“I know they didn’t have a big special effects budget but Godzilla looked like the puppet originals, with a lack of expression and I thought they try to give it more realistic expressions with CGI,” another user notes on the same platform.
However, many fans weren’t exactly looking to be moved by the human elements. They just wanted to watch Godzilla doing what he does best — terrorise.
For example, one
“I liked the Godzilla scenes a lot and it did have some memorable characters but there was way too much humans and not much Godzilla. And the human scenes were boring and slow,” wrote another.
“It's okay but I would not call it a masterpiece,” said a user on Reddit.
Some had stronger opinions about the pacing, the dramatic storytelling, and even the plot. Here is what some other Redditors had to say:
“Pacing was seriously all over the place, acting was oozing with cheese and most of the dramatic scenes didn't add anything to the plot. Some Godzilla scenes were all right but still... "BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME", 8+ on IMDB and 98% on RT, seriously??....”
“With mediocre CGI, forced acting, and sluggish pacing, almost everything about this monster movie is painfully dull.”
“Its plot is pretty generic and predictable and the acting was quite cheesy and resembled a soap opera. Some of the political overtones of the movie were also weird, like how it was essentially a redemption arc for a kamikaze pilot.”
These viewpoints just serve to show that as long as there is art, it will be criticised. But did any of these opinions resonate with you?