10 Films That Don't Live Up To Great Premises
1. Godzilla (1998)
"His Foot is as Long as This Bus" was just one of many slogans and ads all over major U.S. cities promoting the release of Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's 1998 re-imagining of Godzilla. Already at the height of their disaster movie popularity following Independence Day, it only made sense they'd bring Japan's most reliable import to America, and anyone who remembers that summer remembers being inundated with TV ads, sides of the bus posters, billboards, none of which revealed the full scale of the beast.
Emmerich and Devlin were as secretive as J.J. Abrams about creature design, so we were shocked to buy our ticket and reveal that it looked like...a slightly altered T-Rex. Something happened between 1954's Godzilla and 1998 and that thing was Jurassic Park.
Hence, why the last act of the film is the cast on the run from Velociraptor-sized baby Godzillas. There's nothing about the film that isn't derivative. The original film played on the very real fears of the Atom Bomb. Here, our only fear is that we've interrupted a Simpsons cast re-union in the near future.