Back and disappointed.
Some thoughts on the experience:
-Thought it was off to a good start with creative opening credits (fast newsreel montage and censored text)
-Mostly all down hill from after Kick-Ass is all alone
-Thought about walking out midway through
-Not fun, not enough levity
-Not enough Bryan Cranston
-Vanilla characters all around
-Uninspired sequences and use of visual effects (filmmakers like Spielberg and Jackson come to mind as almost polar opposites)
-Someone really liked the design of the Cloverfield monster
-Throwdown at the end was kinda memorable, particularly Godzilla's "final smash" move
-Flare skydiving sequence was the best part for me but most of that was already in one of the trailers
-And yeah, fat Godzilla
-I'll get a lot of flak for this, but I prefer Emmerich's '98 film - more fun, more interesting characters, more imaginative sequences and far better Godzilla design
-A lot of this version felt like the last act of Man of Steel, endless and wanton citywide destruction
-Too dreary for a concept as campy as Godzilla
An example of how the skydiving sequence could have been significantly improved:
Show more of the skydivers land around the dueling monsters. Some lengthy and intricately choreographed shots of the marines landing past such treacherous conditions would've fit perfectly. And some marines make it safely after narrowly avoiding the fallout of the battle while others meet their doom by an errant tail or meat hook-looking thing. That part could have been easily infinitely better in the right hands.
And as for, "You like Bay so you like explosionz!"? Eh... no.
