![]() He can only stomp so many buildings before we get bored. When the focus is on Godzilla there is less room for dynamics. And then, yes, the monsters fight and it’s cool. The humans are there to discuss Godzilla and help us figure out the other monster. An opponent gives the movie something to be about. The fighting stuff is cool, but the better argument for their necessity involves plot. Godzilla: 1984 is super boring, and no one likes the first American remake. The original should be an obvious exception. Thankfully, there aren’t a lot of examples to prove this, but Godzilla movies where he doesn’t fight another monster tend to be awful. That doesn’t work so they try to figure out a different approach. Godzilla steps on buildings, so the army shoots back at him. He mutates into our main man Godzilla later. A googly-eyed quadruped monster starts bugging Japan. No one ever went to a Godzilla moving hoping for lots of talky office scenes, but they always have some. ![]() Instead, we get a lot of board room meetings. Given that this return to the series comes with its own sense of celebration and anticipation, you would think a focus on Godzilla would be something of a priority. I can’t tell you the reasoning behind Godzilla’s limited screen time in Shin Godzilla. ![]() And also because it gets boring just watching the guy walk around for two hours. A great many of them use this tactic not to raise tension but simply to save money. There’s a real precedent for keeping Godzilla offscreen more often than not in these movies. I recommend anyone who shares that opinion stay far, far away from Shin Godzilla or Godzilla Resurgence or God Godzilla or whatever it’s actually called. When Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla came out in 2014, many complained that Godzilla was hardly in it.
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