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Godzilla (2014)
Very disappointing. The trailer sold me a different movie.
A first tedious hour that adds nothing, with empty characters, zero interest, with topics and situations that lead to nothing. Come on, where is the relation between the boring family story and the theme of the film? Basics explained in any screenplay class!.
In the second hour comes the fight between monsters, but Edwards has a problem with the tone of the story and what is finally shown is not believable: that shoddy military stuff, the lack of large-scale of what is happening, the sometimes too calm reaction to those astonishing events. The director also seems to hesitate between subtlety and explicitness.
And the visuals were very disappointing, except two terrific moments: the parachute scene and the Godzilla roar scene accompanied with the piano notes. The rest is lacking in imaginative use of the camera, too 2D (and i'm not referring to the movie format), very little sense of depth and lack of physicality in the action. I couldn't believe anything, i was watching a render, not a movie!!!
I expected a more terrifying film and a more capable director for what was sold by the trailer.
Kyaputen Hârokku (2013)
A great opportunity is lost. It has everything except a good script.
The film was released yesterday, Oct 12h at Sitges Film Festival, here in Barcelona. This is a brief summary of my impressions:
The first half hour of film announces an awesome movie: with a great intro the movie is presented visually stunning with a wonderful soundtrack, interesting characters, great action, but soon deflated by the poor script.
Note that this is a Harlock film where Harlock is not the main character!
The resources and ideas in some of the action scenes are weary of repeated over and over again...
The cinematography is great until after the first 45 minutes aprox. , then the film becomes very explanatory , with many dialogues and voice- overs. It's from there when the script becomes poor.
The changes in the character of Harlock are very large and they even betray the original spirit. In addition, i was tired with that "dark matter", an element of the movie used as a deus-ex-machina over and over again throughout the film.
A great opportunity is lost because the movies is visually stunning and the artistic design work is very good. If they had wrote a simple script , elaborated but not so complicated and keeping the essence of the character, the result would have been much better.
It's a shame, but i had an entertaining audiovisual 3D experience and i could discovered a beautiful soundtrack that i want to listen again and again imagining my ideal Harlock film.