Sentences with phrase «godzilla remake»

After the success of the 2014 Godzilla remake directed by Gareth Edwards from Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., it was only a matter of time before more monster movies would make their way back to theaters.

Despite the current lawsuit that producers Dan Lin and Roy Lee brought onto Legendary Pictures, the newly hired scribe Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Mist, The Walking Dead) has been hard at work on revising the script for Gareth Edwards» Godzilla remake.

I think all the hype and great reviews stem from our memories of comparing it to Roland Emmerich's much hated 1998 Godzilla remake.

I have total faith in director Gareth Edwards whose Godzilla remake did not get the credit it deserved.

The American Godzilla remake wasn't any good, but so to be honest were the many Japanese Godzilla movies, including this one which started it all.

Director Roland Emmerich, who had loads of practice destroying major landmarks in Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and the Godzilla remake, will direct this disaster movie based on the ancient Mayan prophecies foretelling the end of the world in the year 2012.

Like the 2014 Godzilla remake, ultimately it comes down to monster - on - monster action, with the human characters pushed to the margins, relegated to the sidelines to give the visual effects team free rein to do what they do best (hint: It doesn't involve animating human characters).

Anonymous is directed by Roland Emmerich, the schlockmeister behind such films as Independence Day, the Godzilla remake, The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 B.C., and the stupid, stupid end - times fantasy 2012.

But many of those films appear to be major question marks (for both quality and financial success) from this early vantage point, including the upcoming LEGO Movie, the Wachowskis» Jupiter Ascending, Tom Cruise vehicle Edge of Tomorrow, a new Godzilla remake, and Wally Pfister's Transcendence.

Not exact matches

I even dug Peter Jackson's 2005 remake, as well as recent iterations of the King of the Monsters both in Gareth Edwards» 2014 American version («Godzilla») and Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi's 2016 Japanese version («Shin Godzilla»).

As a childhood fan of watching Godzilla and Gamera flicks on Saturday afternoons, I went into Pacific Rim excited yet nervous that one of my favorite genres would be destroyed in the same way Roland Emmerich bastardized Godzilla with his 1998 remake.

There are times where it becomes a giddy giant monster frolic in the vein of the Toho Godzilla epics made over the past six - plus decades; at others it feels like an idiotic offshoot of that ghastly Roland Emmerich remake released in 1998.

«Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah» was made to basically reboot the series since it only pays attention to the original 1954 film and the (terrible) 1998 remake.

But 14 years after Roland Emmerich's forgettable «Godzilla» remake, Del Toro's «Pacific Rim» constitutes a large - scale attempt to bring Japan's beloved Kaiju movies — their monster films, of which Ishiro Honda's 1954 «Godzilla» is the most famous — to American shores.

That fanfare softened in 2014 with his remake of Godzilla starring Aaron Taylor - Johnson and Bryan Cranston which most enjoyed, though few seem to talk about to this day.

Here's another selection, this time featuring Jose Padhila's ROBOCOP remake, Francis Lawrence's THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, Bryan Singer's X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST and Gareth Edwards eagerly anticipated GODZILLA!

No harsher condemnation of the Hollywood studio system exists than Roland Emmerich's misbegotten remake of Godzilla.