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Godzilla stomping back to theaters
Godzilla stomping back to theaters via Legendary
By Ace Fernandez Well, well, well ... look who's getting back in fighting shape. Everyone's favorite gigantic, havoc-wreaking lizard, Godzilla, is on his way back to the big screen via Legendary Pictures, which has acquired the rights to develop and produce a new feature based on the iconic Toho Co. character. Warner Bros. will co-produce, co-finance and distribute through its deal with Legendary, and Toho will roll out the film in Japan. Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Brian Rogers are also producing; Yoshimitsu Banno, Kenji Okuhira and Doug Davison will be executive producers on the project. The last major Godzilla outing, an American, New York-set version from Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, grossed $376 million worldwide in 1998 despite fielding equally major criticism. Toho quickly produced "Godzilla 2000," in which the big beast took on an evil UFO, the following year. But the Godzilla franchise juggernaut has survived decades of permutations (he first appeared in 1954), dozens of films, books, video games and merchandising tie-ins and seems perpetually ready to rear up again for new audiences. The new film is shooting for a 2012 release. "Godzilla is one of the world's most powerful pop culture icons, and we at Legendary are thrilled to be able to create a modern epic based on this long-loved Toho franchise," said Thomas Tull, chairman and CEO of Legendary. "Our plans are to produce the Godzilla that we, as fans, would want to see. We intend to do justice to those essential elements that have allowed this character to remain as pop culturally relevant for as long as it has." Added Jeff Robinov, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, "Godzilla is emblematic of the kind of branded, event films for which Warner Bros. and our partners at Legendary are best known." The two companies have partnered on such global properties as "Batman Begins," "The Dark Knight," "Superman Returns" and "The Hangover," which have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. Together, they have a remake of "Clash of the Titans" stomping into theaters Friday. |
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Do they show the funny little snippets before the show? What's cool is, they are themed to whatever movie you are going to watch. Spiderman, Captain America, whatever.....
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Yeah. I went to Capt. America, and they actually showed an old Capt. America TV episode. Some of it is really interesting and/or funny.
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I've heard this is solid in 3d
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05-16-2014, 01:19 PM | #443 |
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I liked it quite a bit, great 3D experience. Godzilla is still a beast.
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I dunno if you've seen it in many years, but I will say that I USED to hate 3d, but the latest generation of it is quite good. Once you learn to sit reasonably straight up and not watch the screen at a bad angle, headache issues (which I used to have and have heard about others having) seem to resolve themselves as well. I'm a fan of it now.
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It was fantastic in IMAX 3D
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It is. The cgi is believable and very well done and the 3D added and didn't distract from the film. After a while you just get use to it and kind of forget it's in 3D.
Comments without any spoilers: 1) The reason people's comments are short is mostly due to the fact you just can't talk about hardly anything without spoiling something. For the most part the surprises that come are positives. 2) This movie is not slow to start - there's action from start to end - it's just not always giant monsters dominating the scene. As the film goes on the action increases and becomes more and more intense. This "slow build" is not something that would irritate adult viewers but younger kids (12 or younger) might get impatient waiting for longer monster/fight/destruction scenes. I think the descriptions that monster action doesn't happen until the end/2nd half isn't entirely honest. It's more like a small leak that gradually grows and grows and grows until the pipes burst. 3) Some reviews stated that there were comedic moments that just missed and weren't funny. I never got the impression there were any comedic moments. This movie takes itself very seriously. These were simply misunderstood scenes/moments were things were implied but IMO not made obvious enough. This film does not beat you over the head with commentary or a singular message - it's understated. At times too understated. 4) This is such a departure in tone from other Godzilla films I'd compare it to the difference between the last Batman trilogy and any other Batman film. It's that different. 5) There a at least two tips of the hat to his previous film Monsters, many to previous Toho Godzilla films/moments, and what appeared to me to be a big **** you to the 98 American film. 6) This movie shows - it doesn't tell. The scenes tell the story and not a bunch of lengthy exposition. You'll gather meaning from a collection of scenes and how the story unfolds or you won't.
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This movie really can't be good, can it? I mean it's freaking Godzilla. The corniest movie franchise in the history of the world. And, I'm going to be pissed if I see it, and there isn't little Chinese people dialogue that doesn't match their lips
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Great flick. They totally got "Godzilla". Im not gonna spoil anything here yet until most have seen it. Its full of small surprises. Loved the look and scale of this thing. Lots of long shots to give you that epic scale. oh...and very little of that shaky closeup cam stuff. The design of the MUTOs and Godzilla himself was pure awesome.
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