10 Movies Which Refused To Give Fans What They Came For

If there is one thing the 2014 Godzilla movie did right, it was scale down the number of monsters on screen. With the titular lizard as the anti-hero, and two MUTOs as the awakened antagonists, audiences new to the Godzilla mythology weren't showered with too many beasts to remember.

But much like the Transformers films, Godzilla thought audiences needed a human element to care about - and thus the Brody family stepped forward and took that bullet.

For a lot of the film, Godzilla and the MUTOs are teased with a tail here, a foot there and a grunt through smoke a little later on. When Godzilla finally makes his seismic presence known to the MUTOs, the film cuts away so it can catch audiences up on what the Brody family are up to. However, the one compelling character played by Bryan Cranston would die after the first act, and all investment in human characters went with him.

Fans of Godzilla paid for monster-on-monster carnage and while they did get it in the end, the film didn't deliver on what it committed to. Don't show audiences two colossal creatures roar toward each other, only to cut away to Elizabeth Olsen looking mildly upset.