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

9. Nobody Can See Gigantic Things Just There

There seems an unwritten rule in monster movies that nobody will be able to see a giant monster unless they're looking right at it, and they will especially fail to spot where it actually goes after the initial attack. For all of its faults, the 1998 Godzilla dealt with the issue nicely, having the over-sized lizard hide inside buildings, but in Edwards' case, monsters are apparently able to just lumber about with impunity between the early set pieces, and manage to take on the ninja-stealth attributes of the T-Rex at the end of Jurassic Park. On more than one occasion, trained soldiers fail to notice that there's a gigantic, probably very smelly monster mere feet away from them because they're not moving: and for their part, the monsters fail to make even the slightest of noises until the camera points at them. It's silly, shlocky genre nonsense, but that doesn't mean it's not occasionally laugh out loud dumb: like the moment where the second, much bigger MUTO escapes the underground nuclear waste unit and the idiot charged with spotting where it went looks through his binoculars to find a more than 300 foot insect dragging itself across the ground, LEAVING A MASSIVE TRAIL, and plainly visible with normal human eyes. Instead, he comically swings his binoculars left and right until we see the beast, prompting the audience to actually laugh in real life.