@baby-boo:
Hopefully is will have what I thought Pasific Rim lacked: the right atmosphere. Where you have so many monsters at one it it loses its excitement. But if you build up this one monster proper, I think the payoff will be better.
For me, I'm on the contrary. That's what I loved about Pacific Rim. It didn't waste time spending the whole movie as a build up to the first Kaiju release, and then a build up to the Jaeger project getting proposed, then built, then put into action for the climax.
The best part was that it covered all of that in the first 5 minutes.
I came in thinking the movie was going to follow the formula I just mentioned, and after the first 5 minutes I didn't know what to expect plot-wise. Plus, it allowed room for some surprises, such as the higher category monsters. Although category 5 was kinda useless… but the others were still great.
Different "monster" movies like PR and Godzilla always have a different take on how they want to approach their monsters, and I definitely see the benefits of the "slow build-up," but I definitely think PR is better off the way it is, since it allowed us to get right into a battle between Jaegers and Kaiju in no time, because that's what the movie aimed to do, after all.
But Godzilla… Not sure I really want a slow momentum to a monster that everyone already knows, but that could be fun.
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@Sander:
Speaking of the reviews, a couple of the negative ones went on to rave about how Godzilla is supposed to be campy and that the new movie being serious about it's self is just "Nolanification". One even said something like "the makers of this movie clearly haven't seen the original Godzilla which became loved because of it's camp". Now I don't know about other critcisms, but those reviews in particular are really full of shit.
Not only do I find this type of criticism annoying, but I hate the concept of "embrace the campiness".
If they mean camp as in the campiness of Superman wearing red underwear on the outside of his costume, then yeah, I can deal with that. But if it's campiness as in bad special effects… No. That's stupid.