What If?

Maybe, but I saw Gareth Edward's other movie Monster and it was pretty good for a low budget movie. Sure I didn't get the beginning and end because the beginning is a flash back of the end, but it was still pretty good.

There is ALWAYS a chance that a movie that looks like it'll be good turns out to be horrible.

No matter what the trailers make it look like, no matter how good the cast, there are always movies that bomb at the box office because they spent too much time on visuals, too much time on an overly developed and incoherent plot, etc,.

This movie, so far, seems to be on the right track to becoming a solid film. Since we haven't seen any full scenes or heard and full fledged dialogue snippets, there's nothing that tells us whether it's going to be amazing or not. Small and simple snippets of dialogue and brief cuts of scenes can actually tell you quite a bit about the course of the moment which is being displayed. But, for now, we have nothing to go on. Godzilla looks quite good, the cast seems to be well outfitted and into their roles, and the production team is solid.

I've got high hopes for this film, but until I have a better idea to go on, I'm going to withold judgement.

I'm pretty sure this film will be a Blockbuster, If anything alot of effort went in to post production to make sure this film does not become irrelevant like the Tri-Star Godzilla film. I wouldn't worry let's just enjoy the ride.

I'm kind of relieved someone made this thread. With all the stupid comments floating around about how people think this will be the best Godzilla movie without seeing it, questions like these force people to check their expectations.

I don't think this movie is going to be bad, but lets face it, Gareth Edwards is largely an inexperienced director and he's never been tested in Hollywood. This is his first attempt.

Lets also not forget that an early draft of this script was written by David Callaham who wrote such trite as Doom and The Expendables.

But Edwards is a visionary filmmaker, as proved with his movie Monsters, and I love it when studios hire new blood. Plus Max Borenstien and Frank Darabont also wrote later drafts, and that bodes well.

Plus the cast is fantastic. Everything we've seen so far deviates from Blockbuster norm and the '98 flick.

So we have plenty of hope that the movie will be well done. But I'm glad a thread was made about some doubt. It's one of the more realistic things said around here.

i dont think this wont happen, but if it does, it will be 1998 again. you guy known how that turned out.

There's always a chance it could be bad but I agree with the commenters above, it has all the ingredients to make it a success. Gareth Edwards is inexperienced but everyone has to start somewhere and this is his chance to really shine and to make a name for himself in the mainstream. The fact he comes from a special effects background gives me more faith that he's the right guy to be at the helm of this movie. Still can't get enough of that shot of Godzilla from the halo jump, he looks immense. My hopes remain high.

My reasons for optimism were fueled by the cast, trailer and tone that is set for the film, however...

There's always the "movie-can't-live-up-to-expectations" factor, which can make it nearly impossible for a movie to deliver.

The one thing different on this case is how conscious Gareth Edwards is of not 'screwing this up', and the near-universal animosity over the '98 abomination...

I don't have all that much of a problem withe the 98 movie so I doubt I'd care all that much if it wasn't as good as most people are expecting.

As long as it's at least slightly enjoyable I'll be okay