What did Sony better than LP and WB

I agree with you. Most people around me don't even know that this new Godzilla movie is the real deal, they think that it is a sequel to Emmerich's 1998 film, God Dammit! Some of them even believe that Zilla 1998 is the original Godzilla (!) and that the real japanese Godzilla is actually a ripoff of that movie (!!).

That's just how ignorant lots of people are. I can't just stand listening to people talking about movies and hearing them say "OMG, You read the Avengers 2 news!", "Holy shit! You saw Spiderman's new trailer", "Michael Bay perfectly directs Transformers movies!", "You saw the Transformers 4 superbowl trailer!", "X-Men is going to be epic!", and when I tell them about Godzilla they're like "Really? I didn't knew they were making a new movie!" or "Great! I always wanted to see a sequel with that huge IGUANA", or even "I wonder how they're gonna kill him this time".

There's also some kind of rejection of Kaiju films within the media, a lot of comentators and writers just seem to despise the genre or at least they see it as something silly without any blockbuster potential. Do you remember the days when it became a fashion to say that Pacific Rim was going to flop? Well, the  bloody bastards are doing the same, AGAIN, but this time with Godzilla!

I will be very pissed if the day comes when they will laught at us and tell us (for a second time), "We told you!" as they did with Pacific Rim. Ah! Sorry guys, I'm just really frustrated with this. I've always had faith in this film as a Godzilla film but I'm already fed up with this.

i am really giving up on faith of the gfan community if they keep bitching at lp and wb just beacuse a website gave out false infomation.

@GODZILLAFAN1995 I understand your opinion. I personally am very annoyed at the fact that WB and Legendary just make official announcements every 3 or 5 months and then completely disappear for those periods of time without even posting some images (like those they were uploading to the official Facebook page when the Godzilla Encounter was taking place) or just a simple message.

I'm not saying that they should reveal anything about the movie, just curious facts about the Godzilla franchise, commentaries about specific Godzilla films or historic facts are enough, but that long silence they have been keeping becomes really annoying after a while.

they could at least keep updating the muto site with more hints or something. nothing major. just small tid bits to feed us until its finally released. that would be nice

^This. That would be enough to keep fans calm until the films release. It would have been really nice of them if they had done that.

look it's not too late for them, infact they can invest a lot into the marketing nearer to the movie, they can go over the top as well becaus they haven't used much of the promotion bugeting yet, also march is a good time to rlease the 2nd trailer, really you guys should compalin after the 2nd xmen trailer is released before the g trailer, have faith in them please, if warner bros wasn't confident in this movie then they wouldn't sandwich it with the spiderman and xmen movies

also you guys should be angry with the lebonese website that gave out that false info, they even whent so far as to claim they are partnered with wb, be angry and rage at them, they started that rumor

WB and LP are treating Godzilla as a stepchild! Come on you let start the movie close to other 2 big movies and then you're doing nothing for the success for the movie ?! This means they don't care ! It's not the first time that a studio buy the rights for a movie , pay a lot for the production and in the end the don't care if the movie has success so the don't waste Time to promote it.

1. We will loose a lot of viewers because they think this is Godzilla 2 from Emmerich....

2. We will loose a lot of viewers because until may the people will have no idea that a new Godzilla movie starts and then it will be to late because they will prepare themself for the X Men and Spider Man movie so there is no place for Godzilla...

3. The fact that Godzilla starts close to X Men and Spider-Man proofes that they want see the movie crash at the Box Office.

4. 1 month ago a guy from WB said on FB that WB don't need to promote the movie, The Godzilla fans are promoting it already.. Sounds like they want save money...

the he movie will have the same end like john carter, I think in the US the movie will have a box office of 50-60$ and in the rest of the world 100-150$ so total around 150$ - 210$ with a budget of 160$ this means no sequel and never again a American Godzilla movie...

you guys will remember my words

How bout u all quit whining about the marketing, and how bout u think of the movie basically for G fans only.

Seriously, the way u all are argueing and being against the marketing is showing that you want this movie be super popular.  Too bad, if its not happening, then ur not getting it.

Looks like im the only one here who doesnt care of the marketing and just wanna enjoy the movie myself here?

I like reading people complain about marketing who have no background or research on what film marketing really is today.

Yes GINO was marketed very differently and it still wasn't the financial success Sony hoped it was going to be. For that reason it's also one of the last movies that was marketed so aggressively like that. It just doesn't happen like that anymore guys. Deal with.

1998 was 16 years ago. The way movies are marketed is different today, for starters. Yes, some movies have had their trailers out before Godzilla. Yes, we are seeing more about some other movies. But that doesn't equate better marketing.

Most movies, especially in comparison to GINO, keep things under wraps more these days. Movies don't stay in theaters as long as they did in the 1990s. There's no reason to blow that energy and money on an event movie when event movies are a dime a dozen now.

Marketing and film have changed. And they will again in another 16 years. And when that happens I'll most likely be out of a job.