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The problem with nearly all of the giant monster movies is that they are boring. A good chunk of the movie is going to be focused on humans due to budgetary reasons but the writers rarely come up with anything interesting for them to do.
Another problem is that special effects just aren't that special anymore. Seeing King Kong fight dinosaurs and climb the Empire State building in 1933 had to be mind blowing. Seeing a beautifully rendered CGI Godzilla fight a beautifully rendered CGI Kong in a beautifully rendered CGI Tokyo is...boring. Too many movies have billion dollar effects budgets and it's made the audience jaded.
Why rehash Gojira 1954? Older movies basically all had the same plot - monster pops up, wrecks some shit, boring humans screw around for 80 minutes until they come up with a plan monster is defeated.
Who needs another MCU? Giant angry monsters don't have a lot of personality and god knows the writers aren't going to put any effort into creating interesting human characters of even a semi-coherent storyline so why bother?
They should try doing something different, I think. Give me a giant monster movie in a futuristic sci-fi setting. Give me a an alternate history story about Godzilla being awakened during WW2. Give me a post apocalyptic story about a world decimated by kaiju. Give me a space opera story retelling of Moby Dick with King Ghidorah in place of the whale. Give me a mythological quest story with all the classic gods and monsters replaced with kaiju.
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