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

8. The Endless Close-Ups

This is not a complaint against the technique of close-ups in film-making: they're great and traditional close-ups are the easiest and most expressive way to convey human emotions with emphasis, but in Edwards' monster movie, he uses a different kind of close-up too many times. At least three times in the film, a giant monster leans down to human eye level to peer into the face of Aaron Taylor-Johnson, despite the fact that they've been callously smashing every other living thing within reach without so much as a second thought. Not only does Godzilla basically give Ford "The Nod" to tell him he has his back (and then seems to convey that he's going for a mid-battle nap under a skyscraper the same way), the mother MUTO also gives him evils at his own eye level when he kills her babies. It's stupid, as if Edwards is attempting to validate the importance of the character without the courtesy to back it up, and all you end up wondering is why Godzilla seems to have been appointed humanity's saviour, but ESPECIALLY this one guy.