Godzilla now has a rating from Rotten Tomatoes and it's good!

RatedRex-Don't mean to pile into you, but I have to agree with GMAN, its not really correct to say Godzilla are all box office duds in the US. Certainly the recent examples haven't done well, but not all of them if you go back to what GMAN said.

The reason why monster vs monster action hasn't done well of late is that the story wasn't well executed, not because the inherent concept has no appeal. Alien vs Predators attracted alot of attention from fans and had decent returns. But the movie wasn't well received. They had a crappy director and an uninspired script. The studio was to blamed for picking the wrong people for the job. Simply saying the idea doesn't work is just for them to deny responsiblity for their own fault. 

In any case, I think the focus on critic reviews is over-blown. Yes, some movies will do well thanks to positive reviews, but not always. And not just the rare exception necessarily. Transformers never enjoyed particularly good reviews but they always had decent box office returns. Why? Because there is a core group of fans that enjoyed it. Likewise, a movie may have relatively good reviews but still sink without a trace at the box office. Take Dredd for example. It had relatively decent reviews but diasppeared from the box office. 

Likewise, a movie may be greeted initially with a hostile reception from critics but later re-examined in a better light. Predator, when it first came out in 1987, wasn't well received at all. But it as underwent a rehabilitation of sorts from critics since then. So even if Godzilla 2014 has an overall negative rating from rottentomatoes or metacritic, that may not endure in the long-run. The key is whether it entertains as a film to the fans that matter...

Godzillatheking123

I don't mind you piling on.  You guys are Godzilla fans (like I am).  You have an obligation to support the Godzilla franchise

I did not say all of the Godzilla movies were flops, I said they did not do well. I went to the theatre to see  the Godzilla movies in the 60s.  The distributors made a little money off of them, but just a little.  By the 70s the genre had collasped.  When Godzilla 85 came out, I couldn't wait to see it, it was decent, but the movie ranked 126th, according to Box Office MoJo.  Godzilla 1998 eventually made money from cable and video rights.  All the Godzilla movies in the 00s flopped, which is why ToHo put the franchise in mothballs.

Did you read this article I found today?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/siliconangle/2014/01/23/hollywood-is-godzilla-the-john-carter-of-2014/

Regardless of the past, lets hope this Godzilla does $1 billion dollars.  I would love to see a remake of King Kong vs Godzilla.

 

 

BTW GMAN2887:

You seem to be talking worldwide gross for the Godzilla franchise, while I'm talking U.S. dollars.

It is difficult to ascertain how much movies made, worldwide, prior to 80s.

They did the same with Ang Lee's Hulk. It's an odd comparison, but kind of makes sense... especially with general audiences. HULK (the film drawing from King Kong funnily enough) focussed on the human story for the first 2/3s, albeit with the absolute best editing to date for a comic book film. No other comic book film to date matches such editing/directing. Anyway, most thought it was boring and it bombed at the box office (even though the last third was nothing but action). Could be Godzilla ends up the same. People go in expecting a monster brawl ala Transformers and instead they get a character focused drama. Which could hurt it, especially with X-Men coming out next week. And yes, this is a plug for HULK. It gets a lot of hate. It focuses on the human side and the titular beast doesnt show up until the second half. Best editing ever though. Gareth Edwards Godzilla just might fall into the same category.

RatedRex- Yes I've read the article and I don't buy his argument. Pacific Rim did alright overseas. Even if you factor in all the ancillary cost involved, if you add in the DVD sales, Pacific Rim I don't think made an actual loss. The author is confusing genre popularity with how the actual film was made. I mean, if a big budget superhero movie in the near future becomes a flop, would it be correct to say the superhero genre is a flop? I don't think so. 

If all the recent Godzilla movies are flops as the author claims, Toho would never have made the millenium era Godzilla movies. After all, they would be all be losses. So the author's logic is flawed.