compared to the last Godzilla outing, this is so much better but this doesn't mean Godzilla 2014 anyway the best giant/monster/destruction movie.  The 1998 is just painful to watch.  this one is good but don't expect to come out feeling the same as a kid watching rubber suit monster wrecking havoc.

Well, I dont know why so serious about the theme, sure they use godzilla for the 98 movie, but as long as it's an entertaining movie, why not? I mean i can named it Mutated Lizard or monster attack, but the important is the content.....


Now talking about it, there is lot of facepalm moment.....

Movie remaking and rebooted, i never know spiderman got Stacy Gwen.... instead of Mary Jane....

Director tend to stir thing up to make it more enjoyable, of cause not on the fan but to the open public.....

If staying true to the original, why not just rubber suit than CGI?

But i understand you feeling, i am a fan to some other movie too and got piss when it ran far off the track from the original, but take it open-mindedly, it just a movie, as long as it got and entertaining plot and characters, is good for me.

HAhah.... for me, movie entertainment is the most important....
Originality is always 2nd especially in today era of filming....

Cant help how it would looks like if they made an ultraman movie lol...

Is ridiculous 

There's a few exception though. Like The Ring (2002) is superior than the Jap version IMO.

As gruesome as KR Shin

i'm getting all the jap version of godzilla now, they are 10 times better than this American feces.  i grew up with this monster and i expect nothing less.  re-watching the jap version all over again just to erase this horrible american comedy Godzilla / army recruitment advert.

so the spoilers are out, lol.......

but seriously, i can't agree more, after he's gone (one of the main attractions of the film if the director wants to put the "human element" into Godzilla) there's NO MORE "human element" anymore because everyone else doesn't matter at all.  and u are right, if there are nobody we care about after Joe died, Godzilla should be the main "actor" but he is NOT.  instead we see a lot of people (that we don't care about) screaming, running, getting killed, shooting a huge beast with a mini gun (their THAT stupid...) and so on.
lol, Godzilla to US soldiers:"we're bros man!"

we all loved the jap Godzilla because we feared it and loved it at the same time, because he's unbiased and totally kicked axx.  anybody / anything that gets in it's way is asking for it.  this american.......thing is just that, an american that does MINIMUM damage on american soil......
not "hardcore", just a fan.  people keeps banging on about this movie's relevance to the ori / first Godzilla movie but it's not at all about that, it's supposed to bring back the relevance of ALL the previous Godzilla films (jap ones), and i'm not seeing any of it being done.

i am talking about the 'feel' of the movies, not the physical elements.  the human struggle to keep him at bay or to destroy it, but at the same time to protect humans from the other Kaijus, some of them created by humans to destroy Godzilla.  We need Godzilla to defend against human errors but at the same time we need him gone to survive.  not to mention that the Kaijus / monsters from the jap version were more terrifying than these 2 in the american version, the jap concepts were totally weird AND scary.  at first, this new movie's kaiju (before they came out of their spore or cocoon) is so awesome, the artists who designed the spore and sound effects got it right, after they came out it's just a national geographic kind of thing......