Thread:M1ndr1d3rs/@comment-22439-20150127131803/@comment-397235-20150128003955

Oh, and things were going so well, and then you had to ruin it.

I despise gore in horror films. The end of a human life should have more impact then spectacle and shock value. That's just lazy. Another is more of a thriller anyway; it doesn't rely on gore for most of it (right up until the end, which I hated anyway).

I'm kind of a purist when it comes to Godzilla. I came up watching old Showa era films and those are far and away my favorite. I really hated the Heisei series, particularly Biollante, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, and Godzilla vs. Mothra II. With GvB it's most just the absurd plot and the music, coupled with the idiotic subtitles the DVD got; it's one of the few movies I own where I prefer to watch the English track rather than am only indifferent to it. The Saradian assassin's habit of lightly tapping things and saying "Damn...is Gozilla" has become something of a meme with some of my friends though.

I have to say my favorite film is GMK. It's the closest to the original in most respects, and on top of that it has a fantastic soundtrack (Ko Otani also did the music for the three Gamera movies the same director made in the 90s, and of course, he also scored Another).

I wished G14 had more Godzilla in it than it did. It's not a bad movie, but it's not fantastic either. I'm one of the few people who has a positive opinion of G98, and as a standalone kaiju film it edges out ahead just a bit. They're both better than Pacific Rim, though.