To Gareth Edwards: The Direction Style of Godzilla 2

OK just to make sure I'll give you the time frame of godzilla rising up from the sea at birth island, all the way to when he is going back into it

rises up roughtly 22.42

leave for japan: 41.55

That's a 19 minute difference, but just to give you the benefit of the doubt i'll start the timer when he confronts spacegodzilla at 38.02.

So that's almost a 4 minute time span right there and I'm not counting what is literally 2 minutes of watching his leave the water and walk onto the beach. Then there are the scenes he's in with yuki trying to shoot him and him going through the island, not to mention him destroying a city on his way to Fukuoka and running into MOGUERA. This of course all happens before that 30 minute fight even takes place.

 This isn't about agreeing this is about pointing out you're using made up stats. If you got them from something give me the link as I just scrolled through the movie and there's no way you're 14 minute time frame(which was 12 before I pointed out that was in no way correct so you added 2 more.)

Durpoo- If you count him walking form the city to the ocean as actual screen time then fine, he is in the film for 18 minutes. I dont know what your problem is, whenever we have an arguement you find the most obscure things and use them to spite me, i have a stopwatch and i just went through all the Heisei films screen time.

Here is the outcome.

The Return of Godzilla- 9:20

Godzilla vs Biollante- 8:05

Godzilla vs King ghidorah- 7:12

Godzilla vs MechaG2- 14:25

Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla- 17:48

Godzilla vs destoroyah- 15:48

Most of these screen time jumps is from him just walking onto land or leaving, only 8 mintues or lower is the actual fight.

In Godzilla 2014 atleast the majority of his screen time is him actually doing things.

Guys, why do we continue to do this stuff? I shake my head everytime i see these things, it really is saddening.

GG, I appreciate your thoughts on Godzilla 2014. I liked it for what it was but with the dvd and blu-ray release i couldn't see the best parts of the movie at all.

@Everyone else,

Please lets all try to get along. Thank you.

Pike, great to see you again buddy. :)

^ This.

It seems everyone forgets that throughout the whole movie the Mutos are usually in the scenes, and they are by FAR the one of the most interesting monsters I've ever watched in a kaiju movie. Everyone seems to forget that they exist though because all they wanted to see was Godzilla Godzilla Godzilla Godzilla. I also think that a lot of the negativity comes from a bandwagon state of mind, or a very pessimistic and analytical state of mind. If you watch a movie analytically, of course you're not going to enjoy it. That's your fault. 

@the-true-barman-yes, some of us expected to see more Godzilla. After all,the movie is called Godzilla. The MUTOS where okay,and better than some Toho monsters, but for me, didn't carry the film. We get some nice shots, but they just didn't excite me. Perhaps if they nixed the whole EMP thing, and we got a nice military battle,I would have dug it more. And I don't get your whole being analytics thing. Are we supposed to enjoy whatever is put in front of us because having fun is more important than having an opinion? Man,that would make life more easy....I guess if there is a movie you've seen that you didn't like, you ought give it another shot. Perhaps you're just being too analytic after all. 

And hello Big Bad Ben! Yeah, I don't hang around too often anymore. I wanted to see people's take on the blue-ray. Now I remember why I left. I leave the boards to people like GG. They know enough for all of us.....

^I get what y'all are saying, but you gotta understand: the reason for all the cutaways was because it only had a $160 mil budget which, while not exactly cheap, by any stretch, isn't enough for them to just throw money at the screen especially with the extensive care put into the CGI for the monsters, every second they were on screen was money eating away at the production budget. The sequel I surmise will have a bigger budget (Cap 2 got a $40 mil budget increase from the first Captain America film, and it made a lot less than this, so yeah, a bigger budget is definitely in the cards for Godzilla 2), so they won't have to do that as much. Relax.

Yeah, they could've maybe fit a few more minutes of Godzilla into the first movie if they wanted to, but "a few extra minutes" wouldn't be changing anyone's mind, let's be honest.