21 Monstrously Stupid Pieces Of Writing In Godzilla
5. Conveniently Placed Doors
Whether its the doors closing just when were about to see a kick ass fight or the inexplicably placed wooden doors leading to a crater in the ground the director used the same big reveal technique so often for it to utterly ridiculous. Are we really to believe that the doorway stood firm and that there was no other way down? The ta-da nature of the direction is childish at best and incompetent at worst. If you want to reveal something like that to the audience the best way is a close up on a characters reaction following by a camera pan to show what they were reacting to. But at least mix it up a little rather than using the same thing 12 times throughout the film. Honestly, was this his first movie or what?
4. Eggs Placed Perfectly
Big momma digs herself a hole in the ground, accepts a nuclear pressie from her suitor and starts laying eggs in the ground, presumably unfertilised as Simon noted. But the main bug-bear here is that instead of just being dumped in a big hole, the eggs somehow end up arranged perfectly in a nice web structure. All in the space of about 5 seconds. How on Earth did the creature manage this? There are no doubt creatures in nature that will lay their eggs in a fractal pattern or in some form of structure but they would take their time doing it. What we have here, then, is a creature who can excrete a work of art in under 5 seconds. Complete nonsense.
I.T. Consultant, technophile and Doctor Who fan. I like to talk about tech, take films apart and make excuses for Doctor Who's continuity errors. No other show has the power to make me feel like a big kid.
