cleazer wrote:
...Besides stuff other people have mentioned, one of my biggest disaapointments was with the kaiju. They're completely formless and forgettable. I can picture King Ghidorah in my head right now, I know exactly what he looks like, but the 15 or so kaiju in this movie might as well be shapeless blobs. There was nothing to distinguish them and none of them stood out as remotely memorable. That's just disappointing.
And after trying to establish the giant scale of these battles (despite the scale seemingly changing depending on what various background Hong Kong locations they wanted to use), they ruin the final battle by having it take place underwater, thus completely removing any sense of scale whatsoever. The combatants in that final battle could have been 6 feet tall or 6 miles tall, you wouldn't be able to tell. Fail.
Exactly. Just take a look at this minute clip from the original, and still best, Kaiju film ever - GOJIRA (1954). You CLEARLY see what Godzilla looks like. You CLEARLY see what he's doing to the city. You CLEARLY see the scale of his size and the city. And, you can CLEARLY hear the music (and it's actual music, not just clanking noise). You don't get any of that in the 2 1/2 HOURS of PACIFIC RIM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5BdVuBoUGc