People take the word 'realistic' too literally

First off, I'm having some trouble reading this. When in forums I highly suggest you use periods to seperate your sentences and create multiple smaller paragraphs so people can read what you're trying to tell them.

Secondly, I don't think we can say yet if they're gills or not. Personally, I'm in the gill corner. They look like gills to me and I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. However, I can't claim to know if they are or not because I haven't seen the movie yet and that information hasn't been officially revealed.

We'll all have to wait and see what's the deal with those large layered scales on his neck.

yeah it is hard to read at some points, but i get your point, some fans have been taking the realistic part too far and acting lie it is fact, for example they belive that godzilla atomic breath will be the steam from the early showa becuase 'it's realistic' even though the reason he had a steam breath was becuase of the limitations of special effects and that the atomic breath will be red becuasue 'that's realistic'.

also the recent 'atomic roar' toy has shown that godzilla will fire his atomic breath (the position he uses won't probably be in the movie) but the atomic breath itself is unrealistic, no matter if it is a gas or beam.

i've been trying to tell those fans to think what the realism part really is, i have always said that really it's not the look that will be the realistic part, it is the effect of the creature, godzilla will have a 'slight' realistic design (like how somepeople claim zilla is a realistic design) but it is his effect on civilisation and the world reaction to him that will be realistic, same thing with the atomic breath, it is not the look that will be realistic, it is the effect that will. not only will objects be obiterated, but it will melt objects around the breaths attack. 

people are losing their faith in the MUTO monsters beccause an 'undetailed' toy had what looked like a ''unrealistic design'' and 1 person even went so far as to saying that it is shit becuase it's unrealistic, honestly HOW THE FCK are you going to make a menacing monster that is realistic.

LMFAO. Unbelievable. "My friends father looked at them and said they're not gills therefore they're not gills." THEY. ARE. GILLS. LOL. 

So what if godzilla has gills what wrong with that? Is godzilla a realistic  idea, hell no, that being said that doesn't mean they can't add realistic elements to godzilla . Also I think the realistic part comes from the destruction godzilla brings

can we just stop with this stupid gill thing, i'm sure they are there to add detail in the design, you guys will probably not see the gills when watching the movie unless there will be close up shots of godzilla.

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That's the default profile pic for those that don't choose profile pics. It used to be Godzilla behind the dust cloud from the original teaser but they've updated it.

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The heat in this thread is getting a little high fellas. Ease up on each other.

Pure speculation here. Maybe it's an exhaust system type thing for his atomic breath. they might be air vents to cool down his mouth and throat after he uses his atomic breath. I'm not exactly sure how it's works but it must be extremely hot in his mouth after he use it so airvents would make a little sence

I made a realistic Godzilla movie once. The military couldn't attack Godzilla because PETA complained. Then politicians used Godzilla as a stepping board for whatever weird agenda they were carrying. After that, people started blaming Godzilla for the economy. Finally Godzilla was arrested for sharing files over bit-torrents.

After that Godzilla go this GED and turned his life around, got a reality show where he married adult honey booboo.

OMG! Could we all just shut the atomic breath up about the gills?! Its already obvious that godzilla has gills and your proof to prove us wrong is poor. And just because your friend thinks godzilla has gills ( which he does) that hes not a true godzilla fan? I THINK I SMELL BS! I think you need to learn to let godzilla evolve and adapt to modern day standerds and if godzila has gills there is nothing wrong with that. Also oxegen tanks don't carry unlimited oxegen...they run out eventually.

Gareth has also stated that in making it "realistic" he was also refering to the idea of "what if it actually happened". How would the military respond, the population etc.

On a side note Mutozilla, your post reads like the dude on facebook that does crap simpsons pictures:

"happy valentines day to everyone in the world and i hope that you are having a lovely day for yourself and you probably already know that i am a really romantic guy so i have had a draw of some of my most romantic tips for you to have for yourself so you can use them to have the most romantic day of your life and when it was in the morning time this morning i did the best valentines day trick ever and i grabbed the postmans hand through my letter box when he was putting a letter into my house and i kept on kissing it so much when i was grabbing it and the postman was shouting for me to let go of his hand and it was so funny because i was just kissing it and kissing it and loads of my spit was going on to his hand and his wrist and under his watch because i couldnt even swallow because i was laughing and kissing it so much and i really do hope that you and your true love have the best valentines day of your life because you both deserve it especially after everything that you have been through recently. love from your friend Chris (Simpsons artist) xox"
http://www.facebook.com/TheSimpsonsArt

The realism is probably referring to the humans perspectives as if the natural disaster actually happened. You can't really turn Godzilla into *realism*. That was the problem with the 1998 film. He just looked like a giant velociraptor 

Well, we all know that Gareth is referring to the world around Godzilla and his adversaries in terms of "realism". It's just that us fans like to speculate on how we can formulate "realistic" explanations for the creatures themselves. It's just supposed to be fun and thought-provoking, but often times, fans will try and take it too far.

Personally, I've come up with theories that to me are quite realistically plausible in terms of explaining various aspects of what people consider the "unrealistic" aspects i.e. Godzilla and his foes and their individual traits. I just like to do it because it makes me appreciate our hero a bit more, you know? Some people try and state it as fact, I like to state it as plausible fan-fare.

a oint i would also like to make, considereing that gareth edwards has never seen the heisei and millenium movies, i doubt that he will have the atomic breath in red or orange as that is too far distanced form godzilla classic atomic breath (neon blue and white), and considering the classic breath colour is unrealistic is NOT true, go type up chekov radiation and you may think that the blue colour is more realitic for a radiation type attack.

i don't even think they cared about the realism of the muto monsters, i'm sure they mostly focused on their design and their point in the script to give a scary appearence on screen