Entertainment Weekly: Godzilla Rises

Super-hero movies learned their lesson (for the most part, with some exceptions) that Hollywood needs to stick to the basics and stay true to the source material.

Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. seems to have taken this to heart with their up coming Godzilla. The blockbuster epic will be opening in theaters in eight days and there are more articles coming out that appears to celebrate Godzilla, rather than denigrate the monster.

Entertainment Weekly posted another such article which lauds the work Legendary and Warners have done with a "prestige cast and grim marketing." They also note the failure of the Sony/TriStar flop of 1998.

They wrote:

Guns. Missiles. Atomic bombs. A three-headed dragon that shoots lasers out of its mouths. Since the first time he rose, radioactive, from the depths of the sea to terrorize Tokyo in 1954, Godzilla has survived all of these. Then, in 1998, the King of the Monsters was finally leveled by his deadliest foe yet: moviegoers.

The article goes on to say that the Roland Emmerich's and Dean Devlin's Godzilla "left audiences cold." The problem with that movie was that Godzilla didn't look like Godzilla, nor did he act like Godzilla. Emmerich and Devlin strayed too far from the source material. Plus, they just made a lousy movie

The article recognizes the main essence of Godzilla as a monster:

But if Godzilla movies have taught us anything, it's that the monster is always plotting a new attack.

Emmerich's and Devlin's Godzilla fled from the military, ate an enormous amount of fish and, had an arena full of babies. There was no atomic breath to fight back with.

From all indications thus far, Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., hopefully, got it right this time. Entertainment Weekly asks: "Does Godzilla still have the mojo to crush the box office?" We'll see.

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