Godzilla 2014 - Every Monsterverse Movie Ranked & Reviewed

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We rank and review Godzilla 2014.
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00:22:20 - Plot
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[@divinevirus6074]

The way Tim feels about Fast and Furious. The way Greg feels about Superman. Is the way I feel about the Godzilla franchise. Let's go guys! GvK hype!

[@PimpinPenguin96]

This is a perfect way to put it!!

[@MechaFrankzilla]

I'm a big Godzilla fan, and this was the first movie I saw in Imax and when Godzilla first appears at the airport I cried.

[@gzz8551]

I cried but it’s cos my eyes water when I yawn. And this movie makes me yawn a lot.

[@kevingallagher717]

The biggest problem for this movie is that they didn’t have a P Diddy song to go along with it. Such a missed opportunity.

[@Allups]

they had Eminem at least

[@maynardofthejungle8031]

The HALO jump scene with the 2001 A Space Odyssey music playing is one of my favorite scenes in a modern film. Gareth Edwards is a very capable director with a great eye for eye candy shots, the fight scenes are exciting and brutal and awesome and the human plot is as serviceable if not a little more than the human plots in early Toho films.

[@austinkeller7171]

This guy gets it. This movie lives through its almost playful direction, Gareth Edwards nailed it.

[@maynardofthejungle8031]

@@austinkeller7171 It's the playfulness that make this and Rogue One as good as they are

[@austinkeller7171]

@@maynardofthejungle8031 oh man and what does it say that Disney saw a Godzilla movie and said here make the last good star wars movie please

[@maynardofthejungle8031]

@@austinkeller7171 I just want more weird directors for SW, this is exactly the process I want

[@austinkeller7171]

@@maynardofthejungle8031 he did 2 blatant Jurassic parks in this movie the man is a treasure for sure give him all the projects

[@paulsabo5777]

After all of this please watch Shin Godzilla!

[@justinbaker2883]

Thanks for pointing out that Godzilla screen time is low in Godzilla movies. I hated that was erebodys big gripe 'not enough Godzilla bro', they did the same thing in the first american movie. They tease until the final fight. Problem with this movie is the lack of fun human characters (like andy said), cranston should have been in it the whole time. Halo drop was dope, las vegas destruction was cool and that rise in water when he comes on the beach so great.

[@MRayGames]

Lack of godzilla isnt bad necessarily, what fucked me off though was that you get multiple shots throughout where youll get a glimpse of godzilla about to do something and then it cuts away. At that point its not building hype towards the final showdown but rather diminishing the impact of anything we do see off it

[@kerrodjohnson5098]

I just came out of the cinema from watching Godzilla vs Kong and I'm happy to tell you he is in it for a very decent amount of time

[@Allups]

the in review I didn't think would ever happen but I'm here for it lets go boys

[@kylerpolson4811]

I was really hoping Andy would do the plot song with the Blue Oyster Cult song ending with PLOTZILLA!!!!

[@Gbomb82]

I second this

[@adamteeee]

Consider this thirded

[@Horus1688]

Fourfed

[@divinevirus6074]

dare I say, 5th'd!

[@marklindsey6175]

6ixfth

[@AngadSharma]

Wanda Pietro 🤝🏻 Alabama Can't wait For Loki and Captain Marvel

[@GunJam_]

Loki 💜 The Ancient One

[@UnklJakk]

Ah flashbacks to when Wanda and Pietro had an incestuous relationship in Ultimates 3. What a dumb comic decision that was.

[@taylorjack2130]

Me and my friends fucking LOVED this in the cinema. The sound design and cinematography alone was masterful

[@gzz8551]

Where you not bored through the other 110mins!?

[@taylorjack2130]

@@gzz8551 noooo loved the tension build up. The following ‘monsterverse’ movies were like 100mph video game movies and I’m not a fan of that

[@gzz8551]

@@taylorjack2130 Did you love the “family scenes” and the whole let’s-watch-Godzilla-fight-on-the-news thing?

[@taylorjack2130]

@@gzz8551 Gotta have lows to appreciate the highs my man

[@gzz8551]

@@taylorjack2130 Certainly plenty of lows. 😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Orson_Welp]

Bryan Cranston seems like a crazy person in this because he is acting SO PASSIONATELY with dialogue that doesn't make any sense. Still easily the best human character and it's a shame they wasted him. What's the point of killing off his wife if he's seemingly the only person who cared about her and he dies 20 minutes later?

[@YourGFsFavoriteBF]

“Do you like Godzilla? Well we have Godzilla!....on a dive diner tv! Do you like MUTO’s?! Well how about watching them thrash a city....wait for it.....through a camcorder!!!!” This movie has moments of really cool shots and artistic choices, brought down by puzzling choices for action scenes. And killing the Cranst off so early, was numbingly stupid.

[@xavierjuarez3439]

The guys making the intros have been killing it lately!

[@skyler9249]

Isn't Monsters Inc the next Pixar movie KF is reviewing? Y'all planned this, didn't you?

[@ryeguy2256]

The ultimate monsterverse review

[@MrJellyton]

Awesome intro as usual!

[@HadoukenX]

Watched Godzilla 1984 last night. I really enjoyed it.

[@Roberto-Blanco]

I liked it! I never saw it in 2014 and was unaware of all the talk around it and didn’t even know Bryan Cranston died. LOL! Definitely could have been shorter and better if Cranston had survived. Great visuals, cool climactic fight scene... yeah. Can’t wait for the next few.

[@msmeraglia]

You guys should include Shin Godzilla in this in review

[@maddoggnick96]

I want an In Review for Shin Godzilla so bad. Especially with Shin Ultraman coming later this year.

[@MrJellyton]

@@maddoggnick96 holy shit. Shin Ultraman?! Hopefully i can go to a theater at that time.

[@maddoggnick96]

@@MrJellyton me too. It’s coming out in Japan later this year, so it’ll probably take a while to come to other countries anyway.

[@rafaelochoa9776]

I second this motion! Shin Godzilla was just dumb fun. Ugh so many board meetings lol😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@maddoggnick96]

@@rafaelochoa9776 I could honestly see Nick complaining “there’s too many characters, too many boardroom meetings!” Lol

[@bobshigity]

Really sucks they arent doing Shin Godzilla, which is great

[@ToastyBunsMcGee]

Literally watched it for the first time 2 weeks ago. It’s amazing!

[@adamteeee]

It's the best Godzilla movie, especially for modern audiences. Perhaps if we comment about it enough, they will?

[@dps0610]

@@adamteeee I think it is really good, but the best modern to me is All Out Monsters Attack. It has everything that the series could be, all in one.

[@bobshigity]

@@ToastyBunsMcGee Right! Its, IMO, the best Godzilla movie

[@bobshigity]

@@adamteeee That would be cool but i doubt Tim would do it, which sucks cuz hearing all the stuff that they like in this review, I feel Shin Godzilla does great

[@NavAK_86]

I'm so fkng happy Greg went back to check if Godzilla actually protected the children and only went through the bridge after the missiles hit him!

[@Gbomb82]

I wish Tim could have gotten to see this when it comes out in 4K because the standard is so damn dark. Regardless I love these movies and I'm excited to hear Nick rip them to shreds lol. Rock on KF and thanks for the great content as always!

[@adamteeee]

Ditto 😂😂😂

[@cortezwiley]

I would be fine with Nick rippin em to shreds if he didn't always misremember scenes. He says things don't make sense, but if he was actually paying attention he would understand 🤣

[@starfang7]

The 4K release really cleans up the coloring!

[@gumgumleobazooka]

I’m here for this!!

[@besighyawn]

I didn't see any announcement but godzilla was on HBO Max today and finished it before catching up on this. It was crazy to me it wasn't on there before that

[@TrimblyWimbly]

I had to rewind to see Tim’s reaction to wild and crazy dogs. Best moment

[@josephgrigsby]

The music, sound design and imagery in this movie are dope.

[@austinkeller7171]

My take on this movie is it's criminally underrated

[@josephgrigsby]

@@austinkeller7171 if we enjoy it, that's all that matters. 🙌🙌

[@austinkeller7171]

@@josephgrigsby some of my earliest memories are watching Godzilla. Maybe growing up loving this stuff is what it takes. This movie is more than a love letter to paying respect to Godzilla and the small plight of humanity. This is the Jaws of Godzilla movies.

[@josephgrigsby]

@@austinkeller7171 We're gonna need a bigger boat. Well said bro

[@1EndlessDream]

Didn’t realize y’all were doing the Mosnterverse!!! Let’s goooo

[@Amouroso]

We are in an ‘in review’ renaissance 😭

[@CalebJenei]

The intros never miss

[@goodspeed9914]

Kevin’s thoughts on this are all over the place.

[@MrGeoff-iv6re]

Like most times he gives his opinion.

[@CRTurtle]

Nick 🤝 Level 5

[@Trejammelforbes]

This just proved how Andy got the fucking flow!

[@justinbaker2883]

The Kaiju Kids, Godzilla Guys, Monster Men are reviewing Godzilla?!? V exciting. You should review the older ones too just for funzies. OG Gojira, Godzilla vs Mothra, Godzilla vs Destroyah.

[@TheMiloDavis]

lmao was Kevin okay this episode?

[@harryjackson2215]

Intros are too good!!

[@johnsantisteban7362]

First off KF Crew great job as always and thanks for giving my boy Godzilla a chance Second did anyone peep that Nick actually said something that happens in the King of The Monsters and it was completely by mistake? 🤣

[@TheFlannelDeath]

Am I alone in thinking Kaiju in Review should be all of the Kaiju? I was hoping when Andy said that, that they would be ranking Godzilla against the MUTO

[@jasonc2341]

Best movie they have reviewed so far!

[@ToastyBunsMcGee]

Andy’s facial hair is at its peak in this.

[@bryanpotteiger6422]

So to address Kevin’s question about nuclear waste disposal around 49:00, the reason why shooting it into space/the sun is considered too high of a risk because of the potential of the rocket to fail. Space travel is still risky and relatively new in our understanding and there is still the potential of rocket failure. By trying to use a rocket to eject nuclear waste into space, there is the potential for it to come back to us in our atmosphere should the delivery system fail at any point. Then we could potentially face a severely crisis of random nuclear debris falling back to earth without time to address or control. We had an issue a while back in which we had a piece of old space debris that had nuclear material on board that had to be shot at with an F16 to ensure it wouldn’t affect us. Though with that incident, we had time to prepare and make the necessary calculations to react. This is not to defend current disposal methods because we currently have no good solutions at this time for nuclear waste.

[@Megacon64]

Definitely add Shin Godzilla to this In Review after Godzilla vs. Kong! Godzilla 1998 review would also be hilarious to watch.

[@angeldemon00]

I know you guys are only doing the Legendary Godzilla movies but you gotta make an exception and do a review of Shin Godzilla

[@watermelonslipstream5467]

How has die hard in review not happened? Or have I missed something

[@davidmoreno7525]

Oh god I imagine nick on a bicycle peddling for his life with godzilla in the background fucking shit up

[@TonyMezaXD]

I had a classmate in Kindergarten, named Ashley, that was a super-fan of Godzilla, I have never met another kid with that particular interest, which is why I still remember him.

[@MikeHeldTheWorld]

1998 Godzilla would've been a lot of fun.

[@dx0887]

It’s crazy how much they learned from this movie to the next. So great. Lol

[@LowSkillPlays]

For me, I really like that we only see glimpses of Godzilla until we get the "big reveal" it feels like a bunch of little teases leading up to the big moment. The main thing I have an issue with is what everyone else does. The human component of this movie is just boring. They have so many great actors but the focus is on Aaron Taylor Johnson, who is the least capable in the movie. Brian Cranston dying so soon was just a silly call especially after he just finished Breaking Bad and was red hot they just wasted him in this film.

[@Harabusa200]

the funny thing is that Bryan Cranston is shown in Wandavision when Wanda is watching Malcolm in the middle.

[@Redbeard_]

Totally agree with most of the criticisms of this movie, but I loved it anyway.

[@josephgrigsby]

Godzilla is the keeper of peace and balance among the monsters. Not a protector of people or an enemy. Once the threat is neutralized Godzilla returns to the belly of the earth, doesn't stick around to smash cities. Haha

[@jabrak1]

I remember watching this in theaters and being really excited in the beginning, but then it got sooo boring. Me and one of my friends fell asleep and only woke up during the train scene. He went back to sleep, but I enjoy my little nap. I haven't seen it since and honestly this podcast doesn't make me want to change my mind. I don't think a rewatch will help, if anything I can just turn it off I guess lol

[@Simplify4453]

Pleasantly surprised that Tim and Greg were as much of a fan of this movie as I am. Seeing in 2014 in IMAX was kind of a disappointment, but the HALO jump was worth the price of entry, personally. Upon rewatch, I enjoyed it way more knowing that it's a slow burn. Kong Skull Island is a way better time though. Can't wait for GvK!

[@Joshuavancruz]

I'm with Andy on Aaron Taylor Johnson. I've never seen him in anything where I like him, not even Kick-Ass. I wonder if Nowhere Boy could change my mind.

[@joshuacameron5333]

I’ve never understood the hate for this movie. I’m not saying it’s perfect but I’ve always had a fun time with this movie. Is it because I grew up on Godzilla or just different expectations? No idea.

[@PatrickMusilek]

I wonder if they will mention the HORRENDOUS BluRay transfer that was so dark you couldn't see what was happening half the time.

[@PatrickMusilek]

You guys really should watch Shin Godzilla as well!

[@amiciprocul8501]

The way they zip his body up in the body bag, it's almost comical.

[@Abefroman3]

KF Review : I wanted more realism in my monster movie

[@MrGeoff-iv6re]

Andy is so wrong about Aaron Taylor-Johnson. He is a fantastic actor.

[@phammo]

When they created this new Godzilla roar, they blasted it from their studios and could be heard for miles. People thought Godzilla was real haha

[@adamteeee]

Returning Post viewing for another comment: You know what, I did not give you guys enough credit, you didn't shit all over this movie 😂 Shout out to Nick's inability to pronounce Serizawa, and I quote "Sherizhowa". Great job guys, Can't wat for Kong skull Island and Shin Godzilla! Wink wink

[@adamteeee]

Can't wait to listen to this... I love these movies but I know you're all going to tear these apart 😂 It's been mentioned a few times, but you need to watch Shin-Godzilla (Godzilla resurgence). It's the perfect modern day Godzilla movie, using the titular beast as an allegory for the Fukushima nuclear disaster and prior earthquake. Particularly looking at the almost hilarious hurdles the government have to jump over before taking action. DO NOT WATCH THE DUB! It's terrible and ruins the frantic pace of the human scenes. It's meant to be frantic.

[@nicktiznado8492]

I like this movie, but this drag a lot longer than I remembered.

[@TrimblyWimbly]

The real battle isn’t KvG it’s Kevin vs this layout lmao

[@MRBarton369]

Ok guys... now that this has happened its time to know... When will a Terminator In Review happen

[@JusGo_]

They did do an In Review for the first two Terminator movies in Fall 2019. But not the whole series

[@MrJellyton]

"...Let them fight..."

[@robertvasquez4564]

Science with Kev fails us today. "Just shoot them into the sun"

[@hashammukhtar4046]

Ads: 40:05 - 42:22

[@ZeroScore]

...was Nick implying that Sally Hawkins deserved more to do in this movie from 2014 because of the Oscar she won in 2017?

[@JGess-wr3bh]

I think he was saying that her Oscar was evidence of her talent, and that she deserved to do more because she is so talented.

[@slappydoodle]

I actually kinda like this movie it's not great it's just ok

[@vinnybastos]

I think I could've forgiven a lot of bullshit from this movie if they had given us that Godzilla v. MUTO fight in the airport! Cutting from that was like a bucket of cold water...

[@TrimblyWimbly]

I tree, overall I don’t mind the use of Godzilla in this movie but the cut to the kid watching on tv just kills the momentum.

[@CheefChaos]

Wild N Crazy Kids referenced lmaooo

[@TrimblyWimbly]

I think the worst thing this movie did was kill off Cranston so early. The human drama should have revolved around him continuing to try and help solve the “mystery”. The second worst is the sound editing, why is everything muted? Why can’t I hear the fucking damage happening to the city?!

[@ekrigin]

Is this movie on any streaming service?

[@KratosRager]

You can rent it on Prime

[@ekrigin]

@@KratosRager thanks.

[@gzz8551]

KZbin has every minute of Godzilla himself….skip the rest of it.

[@Timmy2Pistols]

Level 5

[@HEmmerich89]

Tim my man! Lookin good, I know you said Gia has been crackin' ya into shape, its noticeable! Still red, still blonde, but fat is one thing the guys cant make fun of you about being.

[@esloquees3854]

Tim looks like hes losing weight, more power to him!!

[@ryanjordison5277]

Guys what about the 1998 Godzilla?!

[@gzz8551]

It’s not part of “monsterverse” whatever that is.

[@StuartDesign]

I vote for the original 1954 Godzilla review. Its dripping with social commentary worthy of months of dissection.

[@j.thomaswilson3543]

Also watch SHIN GODZILLA

[@Kal-El_138]

They were Wanda and Pietro in Captain America: The Winter Soldier before Age of Ultron.

[@cjspyker]

the halo scene

[@gzz8551]

What about it?

[@warcriminalinseveralplaces7033]

I have never googled reviews or godzilla. Why, youtube?

[@cameronpitcher6562]

Is this the first in review that is shorter then the actual movie??

[@gzz8551]

There’s less to talk about to be fair.

[@lilgimpboy]

fun fact: i knew the guy who edited the trailer for this movie, and he was indeed sick of it.

[@ieyke]

I wrote this back in 2014 when this movie came out: "So, we've got three different kaiju movies on a scale of how they approach the concept. Cloverfield - (Good movie) Really gritty and personal movie all about this group of friends trapped in a city, helping their friend save the girl he loves/their friend, in the midst of the frantic kaiju rampage and military attempt to kill the monster. The movie is all about the people, and the monster is just the hell they're enduring. Pacific Rim - (Fantastic) Straight up action movie, comic book/anime style, a group of beleaguered heroes scraping together a team and resources for a last stand against a kaiju alien invasion. The story is directly humans vs kaiju and how these humans are going to deal with the kaiju. Everything is integrated, everything gets screen time. Godzilla - (Good movie with problems) It tries to mash together the two approaches. There's a Pacific Rim movie happening between Godzilla, the MUTOs, and Ken Watanabe....and then there's Cloverfield happening with Bryan Cranston's family. And in theory that's fine. Hell, in theory that's great... ...except that Pacific Rim is awesome to SEE, and most of the kaiju stuff in Godzilla happened off camera until the end, so the "Pacific Rim" part of the formula is kind of hamstringed....which means the "Cloverfield" part of the formula had to pick up the slack and carry more of the movie. That would've been fine...except that Bryan Cranston was the only member of his family that you cared about, and he dies early in the movie. Cloverfield only works if you care enough about the characters to be worried about them. By killing Bryan Cranston, they sent the message that no one in the movie is safe, and anyone could die because they're not afraid to kill anyone....but when Cranston was the only character you cared about, that doesn't work. You have to have a surviving character or characters who you can be equally invested in and worried about. And that's the catch. Cranston's son (Soldier Guy) wasn't boring when Cranston was alive. Cranston seemed deranged and crazy, and Soldier Guy was the voice of reason trying to reel him back in. You don't realize that he's boring until his dad is gone and that context is gone. Had they kept Cranston alive and killed his son while his son seemed to matter, THAT would've made for a MUCH better movie (and an even more grief-filled, tragedy plagued Cranston, as opposed to just Soldier Guy's "Dang, my estranged weirdo dad was right, and died" sort of non-response...). Soldier Guy would still matter enough at that point in the movie for it to seem like "oh shit, they're willing to kill anyone", and then you go on feeling bad for Soldier Guys wife and son, and worrying about how Cranston will survive. And then Cranston trying to get back to save his son's family after his son died "because of him" would be a compelling plot. Not to mention that keeping Cranston, the scientist who identified that all of this (something huge) was going to happen, being alive gives him a solid reason to hang out with Ken Watanabe - the scientist guy who is actually familiar with Godzilla, who studies and follows Godzilla, and the one other real interesting human in the movie who OBVIOUSLY has a whole lot more fascinating stuff to say, but is never given the chance. Having Cranston and Watanabe traveling with the military and being near the action would still make perfect sense, and Soldier Guy's functions could all be fulfilled by whatever random soldiers happen to be hanging around the area. So yea, you could say it's obvious that the main characters were boring in this movie and there wasn't enough Godzilla, but somehow that's different from putting together how those things correlate, and how it could've been with slight changes. Godzilla could've been the perfect middle ground between Cloverfield and Pacific Rim, but they just did it wrong.

[@Liam-wv7tf]

I can only imagine what it would look like if you guys did the Japanese Godzilla movies in Review

[@gzz8551]

Boy I love skipping those ads.

[@MrNicktkh]

I KNOW it's just the Legendary movies but guys, Shin Godzilla is the best one

[@jericojsays]

You know what I mean?

[@nerdculture6521]

Don't even remember Brian Cranston was in this movie

[@dps0610]

It’s sad. They literally just cashed in on his name, because nobody would have given a shit about the guy who married a woman twice his age, and the Olsen sister nobody knew at the time as the human leads.

[@twostepper5]

This is the only movie I fell asleep to in theaters. I started falling asleep during the train scenes and scared awake by godzillas big roars and screaming and then got immediately blinded by the helicopter lights or whatever

[@The_Bug0222]

“We’re... we have guns” AMERICA!!

[@CuzziP]

So many boneheaded decisions. Why keep cutting away from Godzilla fights? Why kill Bryan Cranston 40 minutes in? WHY SO LITTLE GODZILLA SCREEN TIME? Other than that ehh it’s a decent movie

[@msmeraglia]

yeah my hope with this movie from the trailer was that humans were going to do something (I thought it was going to be climate change/pollution/global warming related) that wakes Godzilla up and, like the trailer evoked, it was going to be more of a horror movie where hes just a force a nature that like "resets" nature by destroying stuff (similar to Shin Godzilla) and returns back to the ocean... but similar to the man of steel trailer... trailers can be deceiving...

[@bennetthasty7886]

I’m so upset the Peter Jackson King Kong is sooo much better than this one

[@dps0610]

I really hate this movie. They made the trailers specifically to make people think they were finally making an American equivalent to the 1954 movie, and it is just shit. Bad performances, too many humans, bait and switches us with Cranston. Americans don't get why Godzilla works over there, and we need to stop trying. Edit: I completely forgot the biggest issue I have with this movie! These movies do not work with Godzilla as a protector to the people. He may be a predator, and drawn to fight things, but purely as a territorial thing. He is a force of nature, a comeuppance for the follies of man and never, ever should be seen as a protector of humans. Humans mean nothing to him. Very much ant's to a human.

[@msmeraglia]

agreed, have you seen Shin Godzilla?

[@dps0610]

@@msmeraglia I have. It's weird as fuck, but I enjoyed what it was trying to do at least.

[@msmeraglia]

@@dps0610 haha same

[@dps0610]

@@msmeraglia other than the original, which is master tier for its time, All Out Monsters Attack is my favorite. Does some really cool stuff that is a kaiju battle movie, but also elevates Godzilla to kind of a “more than” ideal.

[@gzz8551]

Excellent summation mate.