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GTBETTA35 : The encounter window version is the final design..The only differences is the angle and the more subtleness of the picture..

"the damage has been done."?! WHAT KIND OF NEGATIVE TALKING IS THAT?! There hasn't been any damage done to this film, it just starts its marketing like any other big budget film would. I remember the 2005 King Kong film starting it's marketing in December of 2004, and Pacific Rim's marketing did the same thing in 2012, so this isn't any different. You are apparently confusing the difference between movie marketing and how a movie is executed, depenging on what direction the director is going for. Big budget films ALWAYS makes their first trailer debut in December, and I'd be lying if I didn't say I sorta knew Godzilla was going to make his first trailer debut in December. But overall, no damage hasn't been done to the movie, it's just all the false speculations that made you think like this.

Godzilla has 60 years of fanbase, we can't let them win!

That sounds like an awful idea.

i agree that they both look similer but these are the differences between them                           2014:bigger,little fatter, grey spines, spines are a little small and atomic breath (hopefully blu)                                                       2000:too bulky, spines purple and oversized,green skin and atomic breath(orange)

This.. this is the biggest bunch of bull shit I've seen in awhile
What?
VOTEEEE~!

I don't think they'll kill him off. I'm pretty sure this movie is supposed to be a reboot.

Please explain what the hell you're talking about? Godzilla has a lot.. a lot of hype, and there is not even a official trailer released on TV yet.

I think a metal version of radioactive would be good.. not gonna lie

Godzilla got a few more votes now but not alot

No, they were for trailer use only. They were revamped and edited from the 2012 comic con trailer.

I feel you are making an odd distinction here... you seem to be assuming that what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander.  What I mean by this is that a company advertises it's product during the Super Bowl to promote it's product and increase it's awareness/popularity/sales/namebrand/etc.  The same could be said to apply to movies.  Movies are products that are sold in the form of tickets.  They are a commodity much like beer, cars, etc.  Showing a memorable enough trailer could do for Godzilla what advertising does for Chrysler, budweiser, etc.  Sure the creators of Star Trek think they made a mistake premiering the trailer there... then again they premiered a very short trailer that didn't show much.  I actually remember the teaser trailer for Transformers 2 premiering during it's Super Bowl and being actually quite impressed with that one.  Now yes you are correct it wouldn't be a premiere... yet they could premiere something big enough to draw attention, such as showing Godzilla or one of the MUTOS or a battle of some sort that would draw more attention.  I agree not having one will hopefully not break the movie... however I'm not terribly sure when they will premiere the actual trailer.  300 seems too far out from now/too close to Godzilla's actual release and I can't think of any other big WB/Legendary movies coming out between now and then so it's going to be interesting... I almost feel like Legendary waited too long to release the teaser that came out with the Hobbit. 

@KaijuGroupie84

I agree they have to cater to modern audiences, but they have to do it in a way that's appropriate for the movie. There's nothing in the mood piece or first trailer to suggest they're going for a pop/trendy route of promotions. They're selling it like a horror piece. Imagine Dragons and Radioactive are a far cry away from any sort of horror.

Godzilla has gone up by 4% in the past few hours... I say keep it up! upset the balance of MTV!!!

No show or show runner EVER has hard factual evidence that they will get a return on what they spend their money on.

Very true. That's why the Nielson ratings system exists. It gives them a worked (albiet, flawed) factsheet that tells them if they should continue or not. 

Let's say an advertiser spent the premium, 4 million dollars per 30 seconds, for air time for a two minute trailer.  That would be 16 million dollars on what could easily be a return far exceeding that if it helps the movie bring in say $500 million or more (and let's face it, many many media outlets are placing this at the top of their most anticipated lists the number of which was last seen with the Avengers which brought in over a billion if I recall correctly).  It's high risk high reward that's the point. 

But the problem is there is no way to determine if a Super Bowl ad had anything to do with a movie raking in those kind of numbers. There is no system able to determine if a Super Bowl ad helped a movie get to $500 million or not. In the case of Paramount Pictures, Star Trek into Darkness didn't perform to the expectations they had hoped. There was a Super Bowl ad for that movie and they later admitted fault to spending the dough on that. All it did was put an already expensive movie further into a hole. $16 million is a great deal of money. Some smaller movies are made on a budget like that and it's simply not worth risking that much on something like a Super Bowl ad.

As for those ads, I'll have to take your word for it, but I don't remember them being quite as long. It'll be interesting to see which ads do run long for the Super Bowl this year and how much certain companies spent on them.

The Super Bowl is viewed by over 100 million people.  The point of advertising, as I'm sure you know, is to promote your product to the largest audience possible.  The more you promote a good, strong, message to the more likely you will receive a fair if not excellent rate of return.

Very true, but the fact that 70% of that 100 million remember the comercials you posted over movie trailers in the last year isn't encouraging for film studios and they're going to need harder evidence to make that kind of leap. By all means, I'd love Godzilla to have a Super Bowl trailer, but it's not something that will break the movie. And it's certainly not something that will propel it to boxoffice gold either. At most, it would just raise some awarness and that's just not worth $8-$16 million when that amount could be more appropriately spread to various TV spots and other media promotions closer to its release.

Interestingly, I could see Transformers going for a minute long spot. The difference simply being that Transformers has already proven to make an annoyingly large amount of dough three seperate time and that this is the movies first trailer. That's a much bigger deal than a secondary trailer or TV spot. But again, there are also hard numbers in Transformers favor. Not a lot of risk there.

@Sparkzilla14

The story for vs. King Ghidorah is a complete and utter mess, I agree, but it actually did aim to explain the origin of the Heisei Godzilla. All of the actions of the Futurians led to the Heisei Godzilla's birth in the 1970s and then he attacked in 1984. The only reason he got bigger is becaused he absorbed the radiation from a modern nuclear sub. (Which also doesn't make sense, but... why not.)

Did the origin of the Heisei Godzilla need to be explained? No. But it was a fun excuse to involve time travel for the first time in the series.

Kiryu saying "Sayonara" to the main character in Tokyo SOS as it was carrying Godzilla into the deep was stupid. As a matter of fact, the way that the human characters interacted with Kiryu as if it were human was just dumb.

@Ghostkaiju

I think you could've chosen a better example. Divergent is Wally Pfister's debut film. He's an Oscar winning cinematographer who worked with Christopher Nolan on all the Dark Knight movies and Inception. He has put together an impressive cast and Nolan-inspired script to create something far more original and less trendy than most of the other movies on that list.

Interstellar looks incredible, but I'm just as intrigued about Divergent and curious to see if Wally Pfister is as good of a director as he is a cinematographer.

I'm also not entirely sure what you mean about the advertising being poor for Godzilla. I know it's "trendy" for Godzilla fans to complain about this kind of thing, but the truth is the promotional work has been pretty standard to this point. It's released just as many trailers and incorporated just as much viral marketing as X-Men, Captain America...etc...  I also don't see any example of fans "having to take matters into their own hands," if anyone is arrogant enough to believe such a thing...

Nice catch! Although I don't think the Comic Con window version will be involved with the final design at all. That one looks a lot more crocodilian than the leaked Concept from the "Vishnu" teaser and the official trailer and official birds eye view picture.  And I actually liked the Comic Con window design more than any other concept art I've seen.

I too have wondered this. And the guy has yet to post the fully completed sculpt. A little interesting, but it's pretty likely that it is just a fanmade sculpt. 

well so far its split down the middle; however, some of us need to calm down and not get so damn worked up over nothing. 

and no, hes not a cat. he's also not a human being who is capable of comprehending that what he sees in front of him is his reflection and not another beast that can be a threat to him. maybe "flip out" was the wrong term for it, but i would think he would certainly have some kind of reaction to seeing his reflection for the first time. pretty much all living things do

Okay, but this thing is a massive joke, the Hobbit lost in round one to Tracers (a movie about a bike messenger who is being hunted by the mob)? Oh wait, Taylor Lautner is in it, that's why. Tweens must be flocking to the polls... Godzilla doesn't stand a chance in this mess. Now Godzilla is up against another tween vampire flick... It was over before it began.

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@LEEDELS The Godzilla Encounter was a special exhibit set up to celebrate all of the years of Godzilla. There was a bunch of memorabilia, and little hints as to what the latest incarnation of what the big G would look like. The video was from the highlight of the whole thing, when the people who went to explore the exhibit were told to evacuate immediatley. That's where this leaked video comes in.

@KYERO You do know that this is not the final design of Godzilla, right? His height could very well have been changed, in fact, you could be just as much in the wrong as the people who were speculating at 779+ feet are. 

VAMPIRES SUCK! GODZILLA RULES!

i agree with gojifan02. gabbara ewwwwwwwwww.

@LEEDELS Yes, they actually can. Godzilla 2000 did it, why can't Godzilla 2014? In fact, I think it'd be pretty impactful if the film ended with Godzilla setting all of San Francisco ablaze with his atomic breath, killing hundreds. 

"Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard." I completely agree. That is not a cool scene at all. It is quite stupid. Why would Godzilla seeing his own reflection make him flip out? He's not a fucking cat, in fact, he's not a normal animal that might react to its own reflection in that way. Seriously, I can't get over how ridiculous that sounds. 

Also, it says a lot about our society when Interstellar, a movie which looks like it'll be quite thought provoking and maybe even groundbreaking, is losing to something as commercial, corporate, hypocritical, trendy, and down right stupid looking as Divergent. The studios have figured it out, dumb teen fangirls pay in lots. 

I know that this site is filled with people from many countries,and not everyone can speak a good english,but you can use google translate for those words you dont really understand

I concur. We can't let Godzilla lose to what looks like the Warm Bodies of 2014. 

However, isn't pretty fucking pathetic that WB is doing such a piss poor job of hyping up this movie that we the fans have to take matters somewhat into our own hands?

THIS. IS. BULLSHIT!!!!!!  I am so sick of all these teen vampire fan girls prassing this vampire romance crap!!  My mom ay have had a point when she use to say this next generations will be our undoing.

PEOPLE!!! keep voting for Godzilla we can't let this blasphemy stand without a fight.

I especially agree with Ebirah, he most certainly deserves to be brought back

Hedorah is actually one of my top favorite kaiju. As for me I would have to say Godzilla's flying scene 

@ AKIO123 Yeah he is, it's quite a shame and Monster X is a really epic monster. GOJIRA2K I know trust me it was hard for me to only pick one but I'd have to agree with all of your choices. All the monsters mentioned here so far are ones I'd love to see revamped

What if........What if Legendary brings back the OXYGEN DESTROYER back but.........what if it isn't effective and it makes BIG-G stronger and bigger and better than before.

Yes, because Godzilla is a creture that lives in the water-(or at least every other movie)-and it would be wierd if the movie didn't.

Yes Gabbara is my worst nightmare, He's like Lavender Theme converted into a monster

what the hell is Godzilla losing????? like the trailer was awesome but vampires come on VOTE FOR GODZILLA BECAUSE GODZILLA IS MORE BTTER THEN STUIPED VAMPIRES!!

Worst Godzilla concept? No one's mentioned him flying and talking?