24 Reasons Godzilla (\'98) and Godzilla (2014) Are The Same Movie

CouchTomato,
Many of the complaints about the '98 film had little to do with the plotting of the movie and more to do with the style, execution and handling of an iconic character.

Outside of the franchise it's still easier to malign for being a blueprint of everything 1990s blockbusters did wrong. It is responsible for ending the extreme advertising that helped springboard event movies and in turn it might also be responsible for making event films less "eventful".  

It takes more than specific plot points to "equal" another movie. According to Christopher Booker there's only seven different plots that any given story has-- So with that logic, most movies equal each other. What makes them different is the voice that's telling them, the style that brings them to life and the excution of that style in how it's envisioned. All of which are quite opposite in the two films compared in the original post.

Hahaha even one of the opening bomb shots were the same footage. I do hate 98 though