I feel like if Roger Ebert were alive, he would've complained that the first movie didn't have enough Godzilla.
His chief complaints about the first X-Men movie and Transformers was that they didn't have enough of what the title was supposed to be about. Surprise surprise, he really liked X2 (but that 2nd TF film, tho... eh....)
I was really disappointed by the first movie, so I’ll happily take too much monster fighting and weak plot any day. It’s a freaking Godzilla movie!
A lot of factors could be going into it’s less than stellar opening. Aladdin is performing almost better than expected. It got some negative reviews (but again what the hell were they expecting?!? The Godfather? It’s a giant monster movie!). Avengers is still making money. Plus John Wick and Rocketman as more recent competition. The first movie disappointed some fans.
Possibly all of the above.
WB must really be scratching their heads after Godzilla: KotM and LEGO Movie 2 failed to live up to financial expectations. Both seemed like a sure thing.
Last edited by Robotman; 06-03-2019 at 12:35 PM.
You probably got this from some meme floating on Internet making fun of critics
Critics have said the monsters were the best part of the movie but sadly movie constantly cuts away from epic Monster fights to boring cliched humans.
The complaint is human characters not monsters and we see them a lot just like 2014 one sadly.
Last edited by Geraldofrivia; 06-03-2019 at 10:11 PM.
If that's the case I'm glad to stand still liking KOTM, after watching it twice I didn't end up disliking any of the human characters that much while enjoying the movie (compared to the G-Man in Rampage who did his best to ruin almost every scene he was in, or the comedy relief moments in The Meg, or even the previous Godzilla characters who had lot less to do with bigger monster stealing time). And I thought reducing the number of monsters directly fighting each other also helped the movie in the end, which apparently also annoyed some because of marketing.
Either way gotta pay for this kind of theater fare while one still can and hope that Akira project next goes some length.
Oof, Dark Phoenix might be heading for this thread.
Will have to wait and see how it plays out really before I can post about it. Like i had to wait a month for totals to come in for Dumbo.
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