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  1. Duke Togo
    LOL, not in the least.
  2. Duke Togo
    I don't get the "kid friendly" part (when I saw it there was a couple in front of me with a child under 10, and he was terrified at several points in the movie), but were you really expecting Godzilla to be the bad guy? It's been 60 years, and we come to expect certain things out of watching the Big G, the biggest of which is that we come to cheer for him.
  3. Duke Togo
    True, but it's not hard to make assumptions regarding such things.
  4. Duke Togo
    Until you adjust for inflation...
  5. Duke Togo
    Man of Steel sucked. Oh, look, same people developing this one.
  6. Duke Togo
    Well, who knows who takes over from here. I wonder if this project was just taking way too long. They can't have been on schedule.
  7. Duke Togo
    Beat me to it. Here's /Film's take: http://www.slashfilm.com/gareth-edwards-star-wars-spin-offs/
  8. Duke Togo
    If you're running around in the ground, you're doing it wrong.
  9. Duke Togo
    You forgot Hannibal Smith
  10. Duke Togo
    The title is trying to be too many things at once. Then again, so is DC.
  11. Duke Togo
    What makes him a bad director? I'm not a huge fan of his work or anything, but he's hardly incompetent. The problems I've had with his work have almost always been story related.
  12. Duke Togo
    I have yet to see a single X-related movie that was worth a second viewing. I am beyond skeptical about the praise for this one.
  13. Duke Togo
    I'm curious how Batman fighting Superman leads to justice.
  14. Duke Togo
    It's being produced by Kathleen Kennedy and co-written by Lawrence Kasdan. What else do you want? Should we resurrect Orson Welles to direct?
  15. Duke Togo
    Wait, Batman V? When did Batman IV come out?
  16. Duke Togo
    "Listening to the fans" would likely have left us with another forgettable film a-la Pacific Rim, and they wouldn't be fast-tracking a sequel. Godzilla has it's share of problems (Aaron Taylor-Johnson perhaps the greatest among them), but it's heart is in the right place and it got the essence of what we love about the Big G right.
  17. Duke Togo
    A1, if you didn't get the "cites" on this page, I'd weep a little for you.
  18. Duke Togo
    I really, really want this movie to be good. I almost need it to be good. This and Godzilla were the only two summer "tent pole" movies I really needed to be good. Godzilla delivered, now this has to. Please, please please be good.
  19. Duke Togo
    There's more monster action in Godzilla than in Gojira.
  20. Duke Togo
    I'd say less.
  21. Duke Togo
    Then apparently you have a very poor memory.
  22. Duke Togo
    I take it you've never seen the original.
  23. Duke Togo
    It's ok, we're back to calling them monsters again with Godzilla.
  24. Duke Togo
    They took the Jaws/Alien approach--it's the slow burn. The problem is Aaron Taylor-Johnson can't carry the film through it's second act. He has zero charisma and shows no emotion. Where Roy Scheider's Brody shines in Jaws, Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Brody fails in Godzilla, and it's glaringly obvious. Still, the slow burn pays off in spades in the third act.
  25. Duke Togo
    Awesome. I actually teared up with the first roar. And then again at the end. I had a huge smile on my face through a good chunk of the movie. Sure, most of the human characters are forgettable and inconsequential (not surprisingly, Ken Watanabe is the best of the bunch, and he doesn't waste his screen time), but we aren't there to see them. I cheered and laughed and really enjoyed it. Miles better than Pacific Rim. That was totally me several times in the movie.
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