Yes Please! · 7:34am Apr 15th, 2016
Toho, you bunch of magnificent bastards! Welcome back! Show 'em what a Godzilla movie is supposed to look like.
Okay...more seriously, just by looking at this trailer, you can tell that this Godzilla movie is gonna be a whole other beast from the Legendary one. The tone looks considerably different. Godzilla appears to be genuinely on his own this time around, which would make it his first true solo outing in a while (since the beginning of the Heisei era, I think).
I don't want to jump to conclusions, but it looks to me like Godzilla is actually going to be the feature of this film, if the big action set-pieces they're setting up are anything to go by. Granted, Legendary pulled a fast one on us by packing a bunch of Godzilla money-shots in their trailers and then having him barely show up at all in his own movie. However, I think Toho has a better appreciation for actually putting the monster on the screen and playing his presence for all the impact that it's worth, instead of going for a slow-burn Jaws-style approach that the director then aborts and starts over at least twice over the course of the same movie.
Godzilla's design is...interesting. On one hand, I'm a huge fan of some of his earlier incarnations, particularly his Heisei design. On the other hand...there's clearly a lot more to this Godzilla than there were to previous ones. His teeth are on full display, which gives him a more vicious, savage look, clearly telling us that this is not the friendly muppet-style Godzilla of the later-era Showa films. While it could be easy to discount the glowing red emanating from beneath his skin, it certainly does showcase the nuclear power burning away inside of him, as well as lending him a scarred, mutilated appearance that befits a monster spawned from the reckless testing of atomic bombs (assuming that his origins haven't been changed, which they might have been).
All told, this is only the second trailer released for this film and I'm already way more excited for it than I was for the Legendary one...if only because I'm hoping that they won't pull the same gaffs that Gareth Edwards did in his film.
Eeyup, it looks to be an interesting movie.
he looks scary
the little t-rex arms kinda bug me but thats a minor nit-pick