SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED?

Nearly every film is under embargo now. The Hobbit Desolation of Smaug and Captain America Winter Soldier recieved overwhelmingly postiive reviews, yet there was still an embargo. We'll find out in a few days if we should be concerned or not when the embargo ends.

take a moment to gather your breath. the secrecy is a clever marketing technique to provide suspense and make people want to see how it goes. I wouldn't worry to much about it failing, it looks promising.

I think that reality is finally hitting us fans. Our expectations were way to high and now there is no way back. Prepare to be left disappointed, unfortunately. Only hope the fight scene is good atleast.

Well to be fair, OTHER reviews from pre-screeners did not note anything about Aaron Taylor's acting, others thought Ken was cheesy. Others thought there WAS enough Godzilla action and pacing was good. Right now it's mixed really, hard to tell.

@JohnSmith, I doubt disappointment will strike me.

it aint over till its over, wait and we will suceed.

it aint over till its over, wait and we will suceed.

it aint over till its over, wait and we will suceed.

I can only speak for myself as a 43 yr. old grown man and lifelong Godzilla fan I only want the movie to be good. I don't want to be burned again with a lackluster Americanized Godzilla movie. I know that our country has brilliant craftsmen of film and if taken seriously and respectfully we could make a very good Godzilla film that would step of the genre a bit. Ever since I was a young boy I wanted to see this happen. I thought it would happen in 1998 and we all know how that went. Now here we are 2014 and a young filmmaker with considerable talents and heart comes along and attempts to give us what we want an adult take on our favorite monster. Now cryptic reviews are beginning to surface and most of what we are hearing is that it's too slow, not enough of Godzilla in the film, poor, acting by the lead character yadda,yadda,yadda. It's not like I expected this movie to be the second coming or anything foolish like that I just want it to be good. So maybe we can get a franchise started by a cutting edge U.S. studio and one day see what they could do with access to most of TOHO Studios beloved characters. Maybe I want too much but I gotta be honest it's important to me and to all of you that this movie is not another flop.

I hope that there's a sequel and that it would turn out to be a batman begins - The dark knight sort of thing, Where I did not particularly like batman begins that much, But The dark knight was just awesome.

So far, reviews are mixed but leaning towards a more positive note towards Godzilla.

I'm wondering how many repeat topics we'll go through titled "I'm concerned" or "I'm worried" before reviews start pouring in.

It's called a Review Embargo, guys. Rumored not to lift until next Monday. Chill.

Thank you Gman give the people some hope! They need to stop being so negative, and start being positive, whining is for babies, you are soft. It's now time to turn this moosh into muscles!

For what it's worth, I spoke with a friend via text after he saw a press screening last night in NYC...I asked for no spoilers and he wasn't about to give any anyways...his quick review was as follows: "AWESOME...a must see film!" He did warn about not watching all the content being posted online lately, as it contains things that would be better left to learn while watching the film for the first time. Anyhow, there you have it. Now back to monitoring my blood pressure until next Thirsday night's 9:00 PM IMAX 3D showing here in DC. Stay calm and stay the course, my fellow G-Fans!

What the fuck are you people talking about!? The guy who claimed that ATJ's acting was bad STILL thought the movie was good. You can't expect every review to be all rosy like "the film had zero flaws!" Having people cite the negative parts while still calling the movie good is actually a good sign; it proves that the pre-screeners didn't go in and say that the film was "easily the best film ever just because it has Godzilla". And WTF is all this talk about "mixed reviews"??? ALL of the reviews I have read said that the movie was really good, despite the fact that it has its flaws (come on, EVERY movie has flaws... So stop crying about it)

ZAFFZILLA, After reading these early pre-screen reviews, Though be it done by non-professionals, There is bound to be some negativity because what the reviews suggest isn't something any fan would want to hear. Being and staying positive won't make those problems pointed out by these reviews just disappear.

Well in my opinion no matter how bad this movie is, it is Impossible for it to be worse than the 98' movie

Ok, some of you may already know that I worked in marketing for a major movie studio for 20 years.  And I got pretty high up.  So I sort of know what I'm talking about.

Usually the studios don't mind early reviews for a good movie.  Contrary to what has been written here, Spider Man 2, and Captain America 2 were reviewed weeks before they premiered because the studio believed they had good movies.  Avatar, Titanic, The Avengers and The Dark Knight had reviews out long before the movie.  Avatar and Titanic had 60 Minutes do segments on the movies a month before they opened.  If Legendary is holding professional reviews until next week, then they must have a reason.  Because with X-Men coming out the following week they need as much word of mouth as they can get. They need to make their money quickly while they have a large percentage of the market to themselves.

I could explain to you how the studios look at reviews, but that would take some time.  But I will say early reviews tend to be much more positive than later reviews, which is why a lot of movies that get rave reviews, in the beginning, often turn out to be dudes once you get around to seeing them.

People are really starting to get uptight here. All pre screening reviews have been positive, even the ones with negatives. I think you guys are looking for reasons to be negative. The movie's almost a week away, be EXCITED!