10 Dumbest Movie Reboots Ever
6. Godzilla (1998)
Leave it to American producers to make sure that even the Godzilla reboots sucks.
Whereas the original films were at the very least fun, Roland Emmerich's film goes out of its way to be the dumbest and most boring film about a giant radioactive lizard one could possibly make. Which is just such an egregious sin against humanity, especially when said film is starring Ferris Bueller!
Instead of focusing on the film's namesake, Emmerich opts to focus much more his usual repertoire: disaster. There are all kinds of long, drawn-out shots of the carnage Godzilla causes but little of it actually remember to focus on Godzilla's actions. He literally disappears from the film for entire stretches of time. It's as if the writers were so concerned with getting to the destruction within the first act that they forgot to even pay an ounce of attention to what the rest of this script would be afterward.
So they just write the absolute dumbest thing imaginable and have Godzilla hide in the sewers of New York City. IN. THE. SEWERS.
When the film isn't shoving stuff like that down our throats, it's focused on giving us some of the blandest human characters to ever be documented on film. It never devotes any time to developing the characters past some basic annoying quirks, which is exactly why Matthew Broderick character may as well be simply named 'the worm guy' in the script.