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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joker" data-source="post: 6307530" data-attributes="member: 826">Saw it, loved it.Personally I would classify this as a disaster movie, not a monster flick.  But no matter how you categorize it, humans have to be central to the story in that what happens to them is important to see.  This movie gives us just that.  What happens to us and how we react to disastrous happenings that are completely out of our control.  Seeing giant monsters fight during a two hour movie becomes a dull affair if I don't see what effect it has on bystanders.  If you leave out or gloss over the human element all you've done is scaled up a bar fight.  With the bar turning into a city and the furniture turning into the buildings.This is why I think that when you compare Godzilla to Pacific Rim, the former is so much the better film.  Great pacing, well and timely delivered action sequences and wonderful set pieces.  I love most about the fights between the monsters is that they're short.  Too often do we see enemies, small and gargantuan, hurl each other through buildings for minutes at a time, completely without effect.  Here, the action is short, bloody and brutal.The one thing I didn't like about it was the blandness of the lead.  It's become a trend in big budget action flicks to have the male lead portrayed with as little personality as possible.  It has something to do with the male audience members being able to identify with him.  He's like a character sheet of stats without a back story.  Useful and able to the job but missing out on being able to develop.  That's my only qualm.  Other than that, it was a good disaster movie.8/10</blockquote>

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