10 Dumbest Things In The Worst Summer Movie Season Ever

10. Bryan Cranston Dies In The First Act - Godzilla

The Scene: When one of the MUTOs hatches and begins destroying the secret facility that Joe (Bryan Cranston) and his son Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) are inside, Joe is wounded in a bad fall, and later dies from his wounds. Why It's Dumb: Why were we so stoked about seeing a new Godzilla movie? Sure, Gareth Edwards is a talented director and we'd take anything to erase those traumatic memories of the 1998 Roland Emmerich disaster, but Bryan Cranston's casting as the assumed protagonist, in lieu of his Breaking Bad fame, was enough to convince a lot of people the movie was worth seeing. Still, he dies at the end of act one, leaving the pic to fall on the shoulders of the considerably less-likeable, less-charismatic Taylor-Johnson. Cranston was in many ways the heart and soul of the movie: we'd seen his character's wife painfully taken away from him in the prologue, and we instantly cared about him and his son as a team trying to bring the beast down. By contrast, seeing Ford trying to take down Godzilla while his wife and son were simply idle pawns wasn't nearly as emotionally involving: Johnson isn't yet capable of carrying a big-budget blockbuster on his shoulders (or at least, not this one), especially one in which the titular beast's run-time is relatively brief. It's still a damn fun film, but with Cranston in a bigger role, it could have been a classic.