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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 6307947" data-attributes="member: 55178">I'm actually surprised that there are so many positive responses to this movie.  I didn't hate it, but "crushing disappointment" probably sums up my feelings pretty well.I think a lot of it was because the two trailers I had seen had  convinced me that I was going to be watching a different movie.  I was  expecting a Bryan Cranston lead disaster and horror movie, and I was  super confused when he died instead of springing back so that he could save the day and so that he and his  son could finish patching things up.I loved the monsters, I loved the fighting, I loved how everything looked (oh my god that opening credit sequence), but every time there was a person on the screen aside from Cranston or his wife, I couldn't figure out why they were there.  The exposition just felt empty, and every time someone explained why they were doing something, it just dragged me kicking and screaming out of the film to wonder why in the hell they'd possibly come to that decision.Honestly, if the human beings had done absolutely nothing at all the entire movie, everything would have happened exactly the same way except that fewer people would have died or been threatened with death.Except that it didn't.  I really wish that Hollywood would move away from this version of EMPs.  It doesn't turn off electronics till the monster walks away, it fries electronics and makes them stop working till they get repaired.  And what harm would a realistic EMP have done to this story?  I was expecting them to find a sailboat, not hotwire a fishing boat.The scifi in this really kept yanking me out of my suspension of disbelief, and it was totally the fault of them trying to explain away something I had already wholly accepted.These monsters exist because the earth used to be 10 times more radioactive?They're predators and parasites that don't predate upon or act parasitic on each other?The thing sprouted wings, why the hell did they keep insisting that it was terrestrial?  It was supposed to be Mothra, right?  Why didn't they start calling it Mothra?Was there a scene missing or something with a monster caterpillar crawling away from the old Godzilla skeleton and attacking the power station?Huh this thing is eating radiation, better feed it more.  Oh it hatched into a monster and is still eating radiation, better feed it more.The MUTO leaves Yucca mountain, which is still absolutely BRIMMING with radioactive waste to eat.  The military decides to lure all three of the monsters 20 miles off the coast by strapping a bunch of nukes to a train and driving it straight through monster town instead of putting it on a plane and flying around monster town.Why is the Navy happily sailing alongside Godzilla when they're still operating under the assumption that he's a bad guy monster that they need to kill?I forget the exact numbers, but he's passed out in a boat that has 5 minutes to sail 20 miles so that San Francisco won't be caught in the blast radius.  That means that the boat has to travel at least 240 miles per hour, right?  WHY PUT NUMBERS THERE IF THEY DIDN'T WANT IT TO BE A MATH PROBLEM!?!One part of the mishmash of story that really managed to confuse my son is that he is operating under the assumption that the radiation from the power plant somehow turned momma Brody into Godzilla.In the end, I guess that I'm happy that it was at least not as bad as the 1998 Godzilla reboot.</blockquote>

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