Godzilla: 13 Moments That Prove It's The Stupidest Great Film Of 2014

10. The Casual Disdain For Human Life

The good thing about monster movies is that they're usually mostly harmless: sure, property always takes a bashing, and there is inevitably some collateral damage when it comes to army men, and people in uniforms who know what they're getting into when they sign up (Day One Training: Godzilla Attack) but the general public are allowed to stand just out of the danger zone and watch and scream a bit. That's not the case with Godzilla though, which has a kill count that would make Arnold Schwarzenegger look like Captain Cuddle Bunny. Yes, that's authentic, and it would be likely that many, many people would die if three gigantic monsters converged on an inhabited area, but that's not the point. The issue here is that probably thousands of people are wiped out in the blink of some big fiery eyes, and nobody seems to care. There is no explicit moment where we see anyone actually cast a second thought about the people who died, and the break-neck speed of the sequences means the audience has no emotional pause point either. So when the Godzilla-created tsunami kills a coast worth of people, we're supposed to just sort of shrug it off, because 'Zilla is on our side in the end: which entirely robs the human element of the story of any poignancy.