So Glad you regard Blue Ruin as well as you do! One of my favorite cinema experiences of the year. I'm very excited to see what this director and cast do next!
I'm really pleased Under the Skin made it onto the list. I saw it last week and I thought it was amazing. It is unlike anything else I've seen and it stayed with me for ages after. That is a sign of a great film.
With all the praise you gave to Godzilla, it really makes me wish I saw it when it was playing at the theater. At least it'll be out on home video soon over here in the states.
So funny how people hate on Godzilla. Most people just didnt get it saying its boring, think that says more about them tbh. Glad Mark liked it as its a really good movie.
Top ten as it currently stands: 1. Boyhood 2. Tony Benn: Will & Testament 3. Intruders (South Korea) 4. Displaced Perssons 5. Cold in July 6. Under the Skin 7. Hellion 8. X-Men: Days of Future Past 9. The Green Inferno 10. That Guy Dick Miller
Fair enough Mark - I enjoyed Godzilla too! My current top films of 2014 so far: 10. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) 9. Exhibition (Joanna Hogg) 8. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers) 7. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese) 6. Enemy (Denis Villeneuve) 5. Joe (David Gordon Green) 4. A Touch Of Sin (Jia Zhangke) 3. Her (Spike Jonze) =1. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer) =1. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) Adjusted (removed last year's awards contenders, documentaries and non-UK releases): 10. The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord & Chris Miller) 9. The Raid 2: Berendal (Gareth Evans) 8. Godzilla (Gareth Edwards) 7. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) 6. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) 5. Calvary (John Michael McDonagh) 4. Exhibition (Joanna Hogg) 3. Joe (David Gordon Green) =1. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer) =1. Boyhood (Richard Linklater) Special mentions: The Immigrant (James Gray), The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai), Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho) Still to see: The Railway Man, Stranger By The Lake, The Zero Theorem, The Rocket, Starred Up, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Past, Noah, Locke, Magic Magic, Child of God, The Wind Rises, The Two Faces of January, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Omar, Edge Of Tomorrow, 22 Jump Street, Lilting, Cold In July, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Guardians of the Galaxy, Mood Indigo etc REALLY excited for: The Rover (David Michôd), Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt), Mystery Road (Ivan Sen), Life Of Crime (Daniel Schechter), A Most Wanted Man (Anton Corbijn), Gone Girl (David Fincher), The Babadook (Jennifer Kent), Fury (David Ayer), The Interview (Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen), Mr Turner (Mike Leigh), Interstellar (Christopher Nolan), Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy), The Drop (Michaël R Roskam), Kill the Messenger (Michael Cuesta), Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller), A Most Violent Year (JC Chandor) and in early 2015...Birdman (Alejandro Iñarritu), Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson), Cyber (Michael Mann) and Chappie (Neill Blomkamp)
If you liked Transcendence, have a look at the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back". It deals with similar ideas, but I think it handles them much better. It deals with the consequences and is very clear not to make the sci-fi elements too powerful, but it's always tied into the human characters of the story, who are well-written and believable, so the differences between the computer and the human are much clearer.
Only seen six films so far from this year - 1. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 2. Godzilla 3. X-Men: Days of Future Past 4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 5. Edge of Tomorrow 6. Non-Stop
1. The Raid 2 2. Boyhood 3. The Story of Yonosuke 4. Under the Skin 5. Heli 6. A Touch of Sin 7. Ida 8. Locke 9. The Wind Rises 10. The Grand Budapest Hotel Following Mark's rule of no awards season movies, if not then Inside Llewyn Davis and 12 Years a Slave would be there.
I'm ASTONISHED Mark hasn't seen The Raid 2. This guy was banging on about that film back in December, saying it was one of his most anticipated movies of 2014. Also he was regularly being updated on the film's production through Twitter xD
1. Under The Skin 2. Calvary 3. Frank 4. The Grand Budapest Hotel 5. The Double 6. Locke 7. The Raid 2 8. X-Men: Days of Future Past 9. Blue Ruin 10. Noah
I hope you go see Guardians of The Galaxy, one of the best Marvel films and James Gunn's most fun film to date. Also whatever you do just wait until after the credits trust me, it will all be worth it!
10. Mistaken for Strangers 9. X-Men: Days of Future Past 8. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 7. Her 6. The Grand Budapest Hotel 5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 4. The Lego Movie 3. The Raid 2 2. Edge of Tomorrow 1. The Wolf of Wall Street
My top 10: Under the Skin Guardians of the Galaxy Inside Llewyn Davis The Double The LEGO Movie Grand Budapest Hotel Edge of Tomorrow Days of Future Past Jersey Boys (I liked it!) Godzilla Honourable mentions; Blue Ruin, Jump Street, Wolf of Wall Street.
My speculation on Part 2 of this listis that it will feature: Boyhood Frank The Grand Budapest Hotel The Lego Movie In some sort of order accompanied by something like Belle or Muppets Most Wanted
Godzilla is a weird one for me. I enjoyed it on a basic level, plenty of pulpy action and some nice cinematography, but the lack of meaningful character development and ropey dialogue stopped it from being anything more than average. I felt exactly the same way about Pacific Rim and Kermode really liked that too. Maybe there are just certain tenets of action/genre cinema you have to live with, but I felt like both films wanted to be taken seriously, and were more laughable as a result.
Boyhood holds the title for my favourite. DON'T WATCH THE TRAILER! I watched it without seeing any promotional photos minus the poster and it was a one in a lifetime experience watching the characters age. It's a unique piece of fiction that can ONLY be communicated through the medium of film.
I personally thought it was very good, all technically very impressive and an incredibly ambitious idea, but none of it really stuck with me or struck me as being absolutely great, very good film, and certainly one of the top ones thus far this year, but it didn't seem to quite be absolutely great.
The Love Punch is an absolutely preposterous movie on every level of critique Mr. Kermode. I wept, because I too am a fan of both Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan, it was really uncomfortable to watch them in such a clumsy project.
My top 10 are (10) The Book Thief (9) Captain American: The Winter Soldier (8) How To Train Your Dragon 2 (7) The Raid 2 (6) Nymphomaniac (5) Godzilla (4) Edge Of Tomorrow (3) X-Men: Days Of Future Past (2) Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (1) Under The Skin
It always bothers me when someone says something like "This is my list! If you don't like it go some place else!" There is no need to be so defensive and an asshole about it.
Really hated Noah and Godzilla. I highly recommend Locke. I enjoyed Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and Edge of Tomorrow. Guardians of the Galaxy was fun too. It was a mixture of 2 of may favourite TV shows, Farscape and Firefly.
Man, for the first time in a good few years, my list bears little resemblance to Kermode's. Thought both The Lego Movie and Frank were seriously overrated. But I do have to stick up for Godzilla (despite it not being in my top 10 so far). I saw the original at a screening in Edinburgh last month and next to Gareth Edwards's version it is honestly is quite poor. Yes, I know it was made in the 50s and its the original but that doesn't automatically make it better - which it isn't. Edwards's remake is monstrous defined, in a positive way.
Sadly Studio Ghibli, the production company behind many of Miyazaki's animated classics is closing it's doors. I sure hope they don't go ahead with it :(
1 guardians of the galaxy 2 lego movie 3 grand budapest hotel 4 wolf of wall st 5 jodorowsky's dune 6 22 jump st 7 the square 8 bad neighbours 9 blue ruin 10 the raid 2
I watched The Babadook based solely on the recommendation of this guy. Maybe I watch too many movies but I was not impressed by this movie, and the lead actresses groan became highly annoying after the first 10 times.
Only seen 12 films so far this year. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is tops followed closely by The Grand Budapest Hotel. The only other good films of note that I've seen are 13 Sins and Bad Words, but both look like honorable mentions at the end of the day. Only seen one film that was pure rubbish and that was the Robocop remake.
10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - First 90 minutes enthralling, final act a bit perfunctory and disappointing. 9. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Incredibly thought-provoking, apes are beautifully characterised and performed. Too bad humans are so boring. 8. The Wolf of Wall Street - A little lengthy and obvious, but utterly raucous. 7. Boyhood - Narrative flaws can't fault the sheer audacity and revelatory nature of this project. 6. Edge of Tomorrow - Whip-smart sci-fi film. Perfect script let down just a tiny little bit by Cruise's presence. 5. The Grand Budapest Hotel - Hilarious with a wonderfully sinister undercurrent. A pity it ends so abruptly. 4. The LEGO Movie - Potentially the funniest movie since Airplane!. 3. Inside Llewyn Davis - Tragic and incredibly moving for anyone who's tried and failed at showbusiness. Coens at their best. 2. 12 Years A Slave - Ejiofor offers one of the greatest performances ever. Fassbender and McQueen are also on top form. 1. her - Simply the most tender romance ever put to film, and so deeply insightful about our world. A classic.
Sorry, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes was vastly better than Godzilla. I love Marks reviews but I was bored to tears watching Godzilla, it was extremely cliche and predictable, how he managed to sit through 3 screenings of it i'll never know. Just seems odd how someone can love a film like Godzilla but despise Devils Rejects, a film that's better on every level.
Godzilla was painfully average in my opinion. I thought the writing was really poor and cliche. The first 10 mins were pretty good but the whole middle of the film was really boring. We had loads of random scenes with military and that was just rubbish. The monsters looked cool but the one fight scene they had was just meh. Monsters fighting just isn't that interesting. Overall, pretty much the whole film (expect from 2-3 cool moments) was just average, boring, cliche, hollywood rubbish.
Godzilla? Oh dear. I didn't hate it..actually I found elements of it very impressive..but as a whole it was seriously lacking. For one, the lead was bloody useless. I've thought Aaron Johnson was fine in other roles, but here he was not in the least bit engaging. There were also some unintentionally hilarious scenes with the exposition doctors -- and seriously, was Ken Watanabe's character an ex Kaiju or something? The guy had preternatural understanding of the monsters for the whole film. Silly
Godzilla was the worst film I've ever seen in the cinema. The only good bit being good because it stole 2001 vibes with the Ligeti piece. The whole thing was just connect the dots cliches that made me actually groan out loud.
So Glad you regard Blue Ruin as well as you do! One of my favorite cinema experiences of the year. I'm very excited to see what this director and cast do next!
I'm really pleased Under the Skin made it onto the list. I saw it last week and I thought it was amazing. It is unlike anything else I've seen and it stayed with me for ages after. That is a sign of a great film.
With all the praise you gave to Godzilla, it really makes me wish I saw it when it was playing at the theater. At least it'll be out on home video soon over here in the states.
So funny how people hate on Godzilla. Most people just didnt get it saying its boring, think that says more about them tbh. Glad Mark liked it as its a really good movie.
Mark is still fighting Transcendence's corner hard.
Top ten as it currently stands:
1. Boyhood
2. Tony Benn: Will & Testament
3. Intruders (South Korea)
4. Displaced Perssons
5. Cold in July
6. Under the Skin
7. Hellion
8. X-Men: Days of Future Past
9. The Green Inferno
10. That Guy Dick Miller
Fair enough Mark - I enjoyed Godzilla too!
My current top films of 2014 so far:
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
9. Exhibition (Joanna Hogg)
8. Inside Llewyn Davis (Coen Brothers)
7. The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)
6. Enemy (Denis Villeneuve)
5. Joe (David Gordon Green)
4. A Touch Of Sin (Jia Zhangke)
3. Her (Spike Jonze)
=1. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
=1. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Adjusted (removed last year's awards contenders, documentaries and non-UK releases):
10. The LEGO Movie (Phil Lord & Chris Miller)
9. The Raid 2: Berendal (Gareth Evans)
8. Godzilla (Gareth Edwards)
7. Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier)
6. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch)
5. Calvary (John Michael McDonagh)
4. Exhibition (Joanna Hogg)
3. Joe (David Gordon Green)
=1. Under The Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
=1. Boyhood (Richard Linklater)
Special mentions: The Immigrant (James Gray), The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai), Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
Still to see: The Railway Man, Stranger By The Lake, The Zero Theorem, The Rocket, Starred Up, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Past, Noah, Locke, Magic Magic, Child of God, The Wind Rises, The Two Faces of January, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Omar, Edge Of Tomorrow, 22 Jump Street, Lilting, Cold In July, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Guardians of the Galaxy, Mood Indigo etc
REALLY excited for:
The Rover (David Michôd), Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt), Mystery Road (Ivan Sen), Life Of Crime (Daniel Schechter), A Most Wanted Man (Anton Corbijn), Gone Girl (David Fincher), The Babadook (Jennifer Kent), Fury (David Ayer), The Interview (Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen), Mr Turner (Mike Leigh), Interstellar (Christopher Nolan), Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy), The Drop (Michaël R Roskam), Kill the Messenger (Michael Cuesta), Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller), A Most Violent Year (JC Chandor) and in early 2015...Birdman (Alejandro Iñarritu), Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson), Cyber (Michael Mann) and Chappie (Neill Blomkamp)
If you liked Transcendence, have a look at the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back". It deals with similar ideas, but I think it handles them much better. It deals with the consequences and is very clear not to make the sci-fi elements too powerful, but it's always tied into the human characters of the story, who are well-written and believable, so the differences between the computer and the human are much clearer.
I think that was my favourite episode of Season 2.
Only seen six films so far from this year -
1. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
2. Godzilla
3. X-Men: Days of Future Past
4. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
5. Edge of Tomorrow
6. Non-Stop
What a range of films you have there..
Goldifying I was thinking the same.
Lol
Goldifying Never said I did... but then again thank you so much for your judgmental comment...
Darren Turner Thanks and yh the third has a lot to live up too.
For me,"Under the Skin" has not only been the best film of the year, but is one of the best films of the past 20.
The 'Halo sequence' at 2:30 is actually scored with Ligeti's _Requiem_, not _Lux Aeterna_. #Pedantic
1. The Raid 2
2. Boyhood
3. The Story of Yonosuke
4. Under the Skin
5. Heli
6. A Touch of Sin
7. Ida
8. Locke
9. The Wind Rises
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel
Following Mark's rule of no awards season movies, if not then Inside Llewyn Davis and 12 Years a Slave would be there.
expected godzilla and blue ruin to be higher in your list but good to see them included regardless, two of my personal faves of the year thus far
I'm ASTONISHED Mark hasn't seen The Raid 2. This guy was banging on about that film back in December, saying it was one of his most anticipated movies of 2014. Also he was regularly being updated on the film's production through Twitter xD
For me it's a tie between The Raid 2 and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Thanks Mark, I love your lists even though I don't usually agree with them.
I hadn't even heard of Blue Ruin. I'm going to check it out :)
I have a bad feeling that The Grand Budapest Hotel is in the part 2.
I loved Locke, I was so hoping for a detailed Kermode Review :(
Loving those film choices so far. :)
1. Under The Skin
2. Calvary
3. Frank
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. The Double
6. Locke
7. The Raid 2
8. X-Men: Days of Future Past
9. Blue Ruin
10. Noah
I hope you go see Guardians of The Galaxy, one of the best Marvel films and James Gunn's most fun film to date. Also whatever you do just wait until after the credits trust me, it will all be worth it!
1. Blue ruin
2. Boyhood
3. Raid 2
4. Cold in july
5. Under the skin
Locke is probably my favorite so far! Really enjoyed Edge of tomorrow too.
10. Mistaken for Strangers
9. X-Men: Days of Future Past
8. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
7. Her
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
4. The Lego Movie
3. The Raid 2
2. Edge of Tomorrow
1. The Wolf of Wall Street
Loved Under the Skin.
1 Guardians of the Galaxy
2 Grand Budapest Hotel
3 Boyhood
4 Lego Movie
5 Fault in Our Stars
You still haven't seen The Raid 2 yet? Chop chop, Mark.
Just a quick guess: the lego movie will be in your top 5. I could be wrong but not suprised if I'm right.
1. The Raid 2
2. Edge of Tomorrow
3. The Grand Budapest Hotel
4. The Lego Movie
5. Godzilla
Loved The Raid 2, worked as an excellent date movie
Godzilla is my FOTY so far. I haven't enjoyed a big budget film like that in years.
Has Mark seen Winter Sleep (this year's Palm d'Or winner) yet? I thought it was terrific, definitely needs to get a wide release soon
My year so far, 10 - 6: Lego Movie, Tim's Vermeer, Edge of Tomorrow, Godzilla, The Raid: Redemption.
My top 10:
Under the Skin
Guardians of the Galaxy
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Double
The LEGO Movie
Grand Budapest Hotel
Edge of Tomorrow
Days of Future Past
Jersey Boys (I liked it!)
Godzilla
Honourable mentions; Blue Ruin, Jump Street, Wolf of Wall Street.
boyhood at number 1
1. Pompeii
2. Need For Speed
3. Non-Stop
4. 22 Jump Street
5. Trans4mers
1. Calvary
2. 12 Years A Slave
3. Frank
4. The Grand Budapest Hotel
5. Dallas Buyers Club
the good Doctors put as much effert into his shaving in this vid as Michel Bay and Eran Kruger put into the diologe for transformers lol.
I'm thinking Frank could be Kermode's pick for number one so far, and I'd be pretty happy if it is.
My speculation on Part 2 of this listis that it will feature:
Boyhood
Frank
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Lego Movie
In some sort of order accompanied by something like Belle or Muppets Most Wanted
I still say that The Zero Theorem is the best film of the year.
why hasn't the podcast been on the last 2 weeks?
Godzilla is a weird one for me. I enjoyed it on a basic level, plenty of pulpy action and some nice cinematography, but the lack of meaningful character development and ropey dialogue stopped it from being anything more than average. I felt exactly the same way about Pacific Rim and Kermode really liked that too. Maybe there are just certain tenets of action/genre cinema you have to live with, but I felt like both films wanted to be taken seriously, and were more laughable as a result.
Boyhood holds the title for my favourite. DON'T WATCH THE TRAILER! I watched it without seeing any promotional photos minus the poster and it was a one in a lifetime experience watching the characters age. It's a unique piece of fiction that can ONLY be communicated through the medium of film.
I personally thought it was very good, all technically very impressive and an incredibly ambitious idea, but none of it really stuck with me or struck me as being absolutely great, very good film, and certainly one of the top ones thus far this year, but it didn't seem to quite be absolutely great.
I have Under The Skin at #2, Blu-Ray arrived yesterday. Blue Ruin is #6. All my lists are kept here letterboxd.com/andyluvsfilms/lists/
The Love Punch is an absolutely preposterous movie on every level of critique Mr. Kermode. I wept, because I too am a fan of both Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan, it was really uncomfortable to watch them in such a clumsy project.
My top 10 are
(10) The Book Thief
(9) Captain American: The Winter Soldier
(8) How To Train Your Dragon 2
(7) The Raid 2
(6) Nymphomaniac
(5) Godzilla
(4) Edge Of Tomorrow
(3) X-Men: Days Of Future Past
(2) Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
(1) Under The Skin
I have to say I've not watch as many films this year as normally do.
It always bothers me when someone says something like "This is my list! If you don't like it go some place else!"
There is no need to be so defensive and an asshole about it.
The decline of Mark Kermode's "Cinema discernment" has got Simon Mayo written all over it...
Really hated Noah and Godzilla.
I highly recommend Locke.
I enjoyed Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and Edge of Tomorrow.
Guardians of the Galaxy was fun too. It was a mixture of 2 of may favourite TV shows, Farscape and Firefly.
I think Cavalry would have made it in if you'd seen it.
I really can't understand how you can criticize Transformers (rightly so!) and in the same time like absolute garbage like Noah or Godzilla.
You liked godzilla? I have no respect for u. Sorry
Man, for the first time in a good few years, my list bears little resemblance to Kermode's. Thought both The Lego Movie and Frank were seriously overrated.
But I do have to stick up for Godzilla (despite it not being in my top 10 so far). I saw the original at a screening in Edinburgh last month and next to Gareth Edwards's version it is honestly is quite poor. Yes, I know it was made in the 50s and its the original but that doesn't automatically make it better - which it isn't. Edwards's remake is monstrous defined, in a positive way.
Calvary
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Wind Rises
Under The Skin
Cold In July
Locke
Grand Budapest Hotel
Snowpiercer
Blue Ruin
you must be joking! noah?, transcendence?, godzilla¿
I loved under the skin, couldn't stop thinking about it, def not for everyone though
Sadly Studio Ghibli, the production company behind many of Miyazaki's animated classics is closing it's doors. I sure hope they don't go ahead with it :(
Warren Cash That's a relief. There were rumours circulating about it being the end of future Studio Ghibli productions!
PS you do need to see Maleficent.
1. The Raid 2 full stop
1 guardians of the galaxy
2 lego movie
3 grand budapest hotel
4 wolf of wall st
5 jodorowsky's dune
6 22 jump st
7 the square
8 bad neighbours
9 blue ruin
10 the raid 2
how can you watch godzilla 3 times and miss other films that everyone is talking about!? 'mode is slippinn!
The Raid 2.
Eh, I think you should have watched Locke, Calvary and The Raid 2 before making a list. All of those films would be on my top ten list.
NOAH? I MEAN COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!! It's one of the WORST 10 of 2014.
I thought that Godzilla was very average.
Ouch. I really hate those high-pitched beeps. Please don't do that.
I watched The Babadook based solely on the recommendation of this guy. Maybe I watch too many movies but I was not impressed by this movie, and the lead actresses groan became highly annoying after the first 10 times.
Only seen 12 films so far this year. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is tops followed closely by The Grand Budapest Hotel. The only other good films of note that I've seen are 13 Sins and Bad Words, but both look like honorable mentions at the end of the day. Only seen one film that was pure rubbish and that was the Robocop remake.
Hes a hypocrite putting under the skin on there when he didnt like it
I liked Godzilla simply because supposed know it all fanboys didn't like it.
10. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - First 90 minutes enthralling, final act a bit perfunctory and disappointing.
9. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Incredibly thought-provoking, apes are beautifully characterised and performed. Too bad humans are so boring.
8. The Wolf of Wall Street - A little lengthy and obvious, but utterly raucous.
7. Boyhood - Narrative flaws can't fault the sheer audacity and revelatory nature of this project.
6. Edge of Tomorrow - Whip-smart sci-fi film. Perfect script let down just a tiny little bit by Cruise's presence.
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel - Hilarious with a wonderfully sinister undercurrent. A pity it ends so abruptly.
4. The LEGO Movie - Potentially the funniest movie since Airplane!.
3. Inside Llewyn Davis - Tragic and incredibly moving for anyone who's tried and failed at showbusiness. Coens at their best.
2. 12 Years A Slave - Ejiofor offers one of the greatest performances ever. Fassbender and McQueen are also on top form.
1. her - Simply the most tender romance ever put to film, and so deeply insightful about our world. A classic.
Sorry, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes was vastly better than Godzilla. I love Marks reviews but I was bored to tears watching Godzilla, it was extremely cliche and predictable, how he managed to sit through 3 screenings of it i'll never know. Just seems odd how someone can love a film like Godzilla but despise Devils Rejects, a film that's better on every level.
Said Godzilla so I switched off
Transendence is the worse film ever. Godzilla is a great choice though.
Godzilla was painfully average in my opinion. I thought the writing was really poor and cliche. The first 10 mins were pretty good but the whole middle of the film was really boring. We had loads of random scenes with military and that was just rubbish. The monsters looked cool but the one fight scene they had was just meh. Monsters fighting just isn't that interesting. Overall, pretty much the whole film (expect from 2-3 cool moments) was just average, boring, cliche, hollywood rubbish.
Godzilla? Oh dear. I didn't hate it..actually I found elements of it very impressive..but as a whole it was seriously lacking. For one, the lead was bloody useless. I've thought Aaron Johnson was fine in other roles, but here he was not in the least bit engaging. There were also some unintentionally hilarious scenes with the exposition doctors -- and seriously, was Ken Watanabe's character an ex Kaiju or something? The guy had preternatural understanding of the monsters for the whole film. Silly
Lol Transendence.
Godzilla was the worst film I've ever seen in the cinema. The only good bit being good because it stole 2001 vibes with the Ligeti piece. The whole thing was just connect the dots cliches that made me actually groan out loud.
Michael Bay's film will be one of his worst films.
Fatzilla !!!seriously I thought was rubbish. this is my opinion.
The Past was excruciatingly dull and overrated.
I loved under the skin, couldn't stop thinking about it, def not for everyone though