10 Movies You Wish Were Made Differently

10. Less Humans, More Monsters - Godzilla (2014)

Though Gareth Edwards' Godzilla remake was broadly praised by critics, the response from fans was decidedly more divisive, with many complaining that the $160 million blockbuster simply didn't feature enough of the titular monster stomping around San Francisco doing his thing.

The film's climax notwithstanding, the majority of the movie sees Edwards frustratingly cutting around Godzilla while focusing more on a rather boring array of human characters.

After unceremoniously killing off the most compelling meat sack, Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston), in the opening 20 minutes of the movie, we're saddled with his son Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) for the remainder, a whitebread dullard with all the personality of a raw potato.

Edwards' mistake was in trying to transplant the minimalist style of his directorial debut Monsters onto a colossal blockbuster movie without a sufficiently interesting human element.

At the end of the day this is a Godzilla movie, and people are paying their money for lashings of ludicrous monster mayhem, so it's generally best to train the focus there and keep the character work to a necessary minimum.

Though the recent sequel Godzilla: King of the Monsters certainly delivered more bang for its buck, it ultimately pigeonholed its plentiful action between even more tedious human gasbagging.