So I finally saw Shin Gojira (Courtesy of Pink-Storm/Squirrel Girl) · 9:19pm Dec 3rd, 2016
Since everyone else talked about it after seeing the Fathom Events release, I'll just give a small run down.
The moral: Among the issues of tsunami's, volcanos, and earthquakes, the Beurocracy takes too long to react, the troubles pile up, and soon everyone gets involved.
The pros: Has a very similar feeling to an anime series (granted this was from the director of Evangelion, which I haven't seen). The use of Akira Ifukube's scores (including the Monster Zero March).
The Cons: Godzilla is way too overpowered and is ridiculous. Self-evolution, sure, I can accept that. We've seen transformations in other media. But the use of his atomic breath from his spines and his tail, and the ability to reproduce by skin cells is just too much for me. It does need a better sound designer; While the 2014 film doesn't get the pacing right, it at least tries something new for the Big G such as giving him a new roar vs reusing a stock sound. They could also have used the Symphonic Fantasias for some of the soundtrack (The Godzilla theme in "Terror of Mechagodzilla" might be a remaster). Sometimes, the characters would talk in fluent English. That's fine for the scenes with the US personnel, but between two of the main characters, it's just jarring.
So overall, it's not a bad movie, and it did make me feel uncomfortable, just some areas need to be ironed out.
Still a vastly superior movie to Godzilla 2014. And most other Japanese Godzilla movies if we're being honest. It's pretty high on my top ten, anyway.
And the Title is just Shin Godzilla, even in Japan.
I didn't see this as a problem. Honestly, I liked it. It helped solidify Godzilla as an omnipotent force of nature.
This is just an odd complaint that I just don't get.