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Originally Posted by ThaVirus
I've actually thought Legendary has done a great job of spicing up these monster battles.
In Godzilla (2014) they had the parachuting scene with the red smoke which was so well done. Plus, I mean, the Atomic Breath down the throat of the MUTO? ****ing awesome.
I thought they did a great job of making the Titans seem almost mythical in King of the Monsters as well. All of those monster fights were top notch.
Godzilla vs Kong was pretty standard but I did really enjoy the part where they had Godzilla on all fours kind of slithering toward Kong like a lizard.
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2014 was good because Edwards had done Monsters, and had an idea of what he was doing. He focused largely on developing a sense of wonder at the size of the creatures, and their impact, and it worked. But it came at the expense of other things, rather than along with them. Some obvious examples of real problems in that movie are:
- Choosing Aaron Taylor Johnson as the lead
- The design, and use, of the M.U.T.O.s (and this was made even worse when the M.U.T.O. deferred to Godzilla at the end of King of the Monsters).
- The female having about a bazillion eggs, which meant that just one successful lay would result in the end of the world due to the need for food.
That sort of stuff was relatively easy to overlook since it was the first Godzilla we'd had in a while, but it was still there.