Really Big Lizard

[geonuc]

Godzilla, I mean. Saw the movie and thought it fairly good. But a couple of things bothered me - not big spoilers, so worry not.

One, God didn't get much screen time considering he's (or she's) the marquee attraction. I do know the original was that way too - the monster was rarely fully on screen. But I want more!

Two, why do sci-fi/monster/disaster flick moviemakers hold onto this bizarre notion that whoever the senior military officer in charge of the immediate scene when the monster/disaster first occurs must necessarily continue in that role until the bitter, bloody end? Seriously, do they really think the military command structure is such that a two-star admiral commanding a carrier group in the Western Pacific is going to be in charge of coordinating the military response to protect the entire US west coast? We do have a few four-star officers hanging about needing something to do, ya know. It's worse in some older sic-fi movies where a colonel basically becomes commander in chief of the US military. I have the same complaint sometimes with disaster movie scientists.

Both are minor complaints. Godzilla rocks.

[Morrolan]

our 7 year old liked it a lot. i mean, what's not to like: a fat lizard with a really bad case of radio-active morning breath, cathedral sized monsters that feed off radiation and invariably choose cities to fight each other...

i couldn't help but laugh out loud at some of the scenes. not because they were intentionally funny, though.

[Sigma_Orionis]

The Remake of the Remake of a Japanese Monster movie, what's not to like?

I suppose that some day they'll show it on cable......