SHOULD MAX BORENSTIN BE FIRED?

Which scene did Frank Darabont do?

And I still think they should use Max for the sequel?

^The 1999 Janjira plant scene.

And I want Max gone, when he took over, the character scenes saw a noticable drop-off, yeah, because he was writing the rest and he doesn't know proper characterization, or at least he failed to show me, the viewer.

^ what he said 

I want new writers. All the way. Those who wrote the first did not impress me. At all

Going to agree with Akio123. Nothing grabbed me about the writing or the characters. Any of it.

Joe's character grabbed me. He was the most engaging character in the whole film.

I concur with an entirely new writing staff. It looks as if Borenstein is at least doing the first draft. I wonder if more writers will be brought in to shape up his script though or even commandeer it as a whole much like Callaham's draft was.

Godzilla having ten minutes of screentime in two hours didn't bother me, it was that his presence wasn't felt and he was barely mentioned. The military vs. the mutos was the movie and Godzilla was the subplot. I want a writer who puts Godzilla front and center and with THREE toho monsters for the sequel I feel he'd do the same again. My favorite G film is Biollante. I really wish they'd take a cue from that. Yes he fights another monster but Biollante is really in the background. Thats what it should have been with the mutos. I did enjoy the film but to be honest the halo jump trailer sold a much better film than we got. It should have ended with Godzilla killing the mutos easily and than the military trying to take down Godzilla for the last twenty minutes. I second Frank Durabont.

^I don't really agree with a lot of this. I felt like Godzilla's presence was more god-like due to the long build up given to him and Serizawa's pandering. It was as if his absense dictated something too good to exploit and the MUTO's involvement were underminded by how often we saw them. A sort of backwards psycology.

I also think defeating the MUTOs "quickly" and shifting the film to the military fighting Godzilla would result in an anti-climactic third act; much in the vein of Godzilla Raids Again which falls flat on its face as soon as Anguirus is defeated.

And, personally, some of my favorite and arguably Godzilla movies are the ones with Godzilla as a background plot device. Monster Zero and Terror of MechaGodzilla utilize Godzilla as either a tool or an excuse to give protagonists a fighting chance. I don't think the new film works it out nearly as well as those two, but I don't think Godzilla being front and center is a necessity at all times.

I agree the movie had a plethora of issues, but I can't say anything you mentioned there were of the more glaring problems. Nor do I agree those are the ways to fix them.