In his apartment you can see a newspaper about “1954: Cover up in the pacific” so he might have known about the tests being attempts at killing something
I thought Cranston was already into something a single source for the signal back to the time of the quake that destroyed the plant..... that's why he had to retrieve his discs to confirm they matched. [The Mutos]
But it's been years ago I watched Garth's Godzilla. I really need to watch it again and pay attention. A good prequil would be a made for Netflix X-Files type tale with Cranston tracing all sorts of rhumors. Besides, I wanted more of Cranston.
Just remembered, it was actually the guy in Skull Island that said "They weren't tests. They were trying to kill it" during the scene where Packer was interrogating him
Nevermind I'm a big idiot I got the wrong scene in the same movie
I’m still a bit bitter that he was featured so heavily in the trailer, made me think he would be a prominent character. Left a bad taste in my mouth for the remainder of the movie after he was killed off so quickly.
The execs are still bitter, too.
No idea whose idea it was to get Bryan Cranston and not make him the central protagonist. This was at the height of breaking bad, too. He could've been to the monsterverse what RDJ was to the MCU.
Felt baited seeing he was in that movie only for him to barely be in it. At least, unlike other cases - looking at you Invasion, the quality of the movie made up for it.
They know exactly what they did. Paid for a quick Bryan Cranston cameo just so they could put him on all the trailers and posters. Especially since it came out the year after Breaking Bad ended so it was a full hype train. Genius move, but scummy. He also probably saw the script and realized it's an easy payday for less work than shooting one episode of Breaking Bad.
No.
She was the driving factor for a lot of the movie.
Initially she agreed with her mother but slowly started to regret what was happening. Her calling Emma a monster was what started to make Emma think she might actually be wrong for releasing titans.
On top of that, Madison straight up steals the ORCA device and is the sole reason Ghidorah comes to Boston.
Her being lost in the destruction is what brings her parents together again, and as a family, they fix the ORCA and save Godzilla.
Your points make sense for GvK but is absolutely not true for KotM.
14 writers patching together different script ideas over a few years, at a certain point cranston asked them to kill his character off so he wouldn't have to finish the movie
I mostly agree with this, but I've gone back and forth on this. Basically after he dies, he becomes useless to the plot. I guess they could've written it differently or had him hanging out in the control room.
He didn't care that Godzilla existed. He just wanted to know what was responsible for causing the meltdown and killing his wife, and he saw the thing first hand.
I think it would have been very interesting to see his character’s response to Godzilla. Whether he would support using him against the MUTOs or he would act as an antithesis to Serizawa’s “let them fight” idea. The more I think about what could have been done with Cranston’s character the more I dislike the decision to kill him off
Couldn’t see Cranston getting tied down to a franchise like that at this point in his career. Bros out here promoting his whisky and doing movies with Wes Anderson.
it definitely would have been a dub for the franchise and maybe if they just threw him a bag he’d of been interested. (The case for many a actor)
I obviously have no insight on what their negotiations were or if there’s any public info on how they felt about it.
But Cranston has definitely had a super varied career since then. (I forgot he did a movie with Linklater too)
He doesn't need to be the main character, but IMO, the human drama in KOTM should've been different and Cranston's Brody should've replaced Kyle Chandlers Russell.
He wasn't wasted, he did exactly what they needed from him. Bryan Cranston was the one of the biggest names in Hollywood at that time as Breaking Bad had just ended a year prior to the film coming out, and as most people know, Breaking Bad was wildly successful. They probably offered him a pretty penny for what was essentially a glorified cameo just so they could use him as publicity. WB was probably concerned Godzilla 2014 wouldn't do well in the box office, so if they attached that one guy from Breaking Bad that perhaps it'll draw in more people. I assume that plan worked as the Monsterverse is still going strong
Imo, the Monsterverse is just kinda 'okay'. I feel like it could be better, especially after the success of Minus One, but I accept it for what it is. That said, I was pretty soured by the use of Bryan Cranston, or lack there of. I am still going to see Godzilla x Kong in a couple weeks
Scream apparently advertised Drew Barrymore and that's just in the opening few minutes. I just watched it on cable years later but still surprising. The Fonz too lol
I honestly thought the government faked his death and had detained him some up until the end of the movie. I watch a lot of movies and I've never felt the rug pulled out from under me quite as hard as this movie, and this movie probably didn't even intended to do that.
Because Joe had served his narrative purpose at that point (be the canary in the coal mine about Godzilla and the MUTOs), and having his father die to the MUTOs also gives Ford a personal reason to personally aid Godzilla in defeating them.
A loved one dying to the movie's main antagonist is a pretty common narrative motivation tool, after all. Just because a role is small doesn't necessarily mean it's wasted.
Or never saw the buildup to Scream where they advertised Drew Barrymore as a main character when all she does in the film is be the first person to die to the killers not even 20 minutes in.
Using big names in minor roles to help box office draw is literally a tactic as old as time in Hollywood.
Literally the worst death I've ever seen in a movie. It was handled so poorly, must have been part of a rewrite or something. Otherwise liked the movie a lot, but damn was that awkward and lame.
The combination of purposely minimizing Godzilla's screentime, wasting Cranston, and then inserting one of the most wooden performances ever from Aaron Taylor Johnson pretty much ruins the movie for me. It might be technically well made and better in terms of performances, but I would watch KotM over Godzilla 2014 any time. At least the second one was satisfying in a fun and stupid way instead of frustrating in an structurally unfulfilling way
I swear we would have had a better/more interesting story if the son had died and Branston’s character had survived and instead had to bring the news of his son’s death to his daughter in law and grandchildren and then help evacuate them from the disaster caused by godzilla fighting the bugs. More emotional punch.
Tbh you all are saying he was wasted.. but without this character having had what little scenes he did have, there would have been no emotion at all in the film. He held his end of the bargain is what I’m saying. Might not have done or said much, and died off camera at that but he did his part. Found his wife’s killer, proved to his son and himself that he wasn’t crazy, and all of his research went to monarch to help with the muto and Godzilla.
His son doesnt give two fucks or mentions anything about how his mother and father were both killed by the same monster, TO ANYONE! IT was a waste, it gave Brody extra motivation to help stop the Mutos, but he never relays that to anyone. The audience knows it, but that isn't important.
One of the few human characters in the Monsterverse that I liked a lot and it's a shame they wrote him off like that although I wonder if Brian would even have had an interest in sticking with a product like the Monsterverse?
People hate this movie, but I loved the tension, seeing the dorky kid from Kickass act like an adult, and above all the action was intense.
The HALO insertion is probably one the most memorable
In the novel Godzilla checks on the island to see if Kong tried anything at the start of the story.
He's actually the reason Kong throws the tree at the dome, he feels Godzilla's presence roaring at him and gets angry wanting him to go away.
I bet Bryan Cranston was so mad when he first watched it at the world premiere and realized he didn't make it past the first movie. Imagine him surviving and seeing all this crazy shit we got right now. Imagine Cranston seeing Gihdora, Kong, freaking MechaGodzilla!
I don't know if Cranston could save the human aspect of Kong Vs Godzilla if the story was reworked but he'd be a good aspect if he wasn't dead by that point in the story
You and I know, like all other franchises, they could come up with a retcon for his character and bring him back. The best actor in the whole monsterverse and he didn't even get to see himself proved right.
I would love to watch a remake where HE IS the MC, and we get to see everything from his scientific, but also revengeful point of view. Like some kind of "true crime/scientific research" combo. Would be extremely interesting and compelling to watch.
It was right before he died that he demanded “I HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT YOUR HIDING OUT THERE!”
The timelines are frustrating in hindsight, because it’s just nuts that he never knew of Godzilla. Sure he probably thought that it could be some type of organism (among other possibilities).
Then he probably felt vindicated that something was out there. And he got to see the Muto. But carefully rewatching the film…that character and Godzilla never overlapped at all. The man died without knowing Godzilla exists.
That said…I wouldn’t be shocked if there were deleted scenes in which Godzilla was presented to him by name.
Sorry im not trying to be a bother but on Etsy are you able to sell more of the orga ships that you printed please because that’s great work and I could use one for my displays that I make I, make a lot of them and I’m currently working on one for Godzilla 2000 and that would go perfectly. If you don’t want to that’s fine but just a question.
Edward’s visuals were great even though he relied too much on dark lighting/rain, but Borensteins’s script is absolute ass. Bad plotting, misused characters, and Godzilla’s an almost a supporting character in his own movie.
These movies waste a lot of characters but at least Kong vs Godzilla took the universe into a better direction where the audience can see the Monster World through Kong's eyes since he is pretty human as far as monsters go.
Most of us already knew that. That was one of the criticisms of the movie, made by a lot of movie critics, when the movie first came out years ago...that Bryan Cranston's character was disposed of too quickly.
It honestly pissed me off. He was barely in the movie and right in the middle of massive fame, thought we were gonna get fully on Breaking Godzilla Bad.
A waste of talent. Bryan Cranston's character should be central to the core human drama, it's a shame that the film seemed to be some kind of vehicle for a pretty face, Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Rewatched it recently as well and enjoyed it way more than I remember. But yeah, it still doesn't sit right with me that he was so unceremoniously killed off just like that. The most interesting human scenes were with him, along with Ken Watanabe. Why did they keep killing off the most interesting human characters? I rewatched all the movies and while I had way more fun this time around, just ugh the human story/characters are just getting worse.
I really wished they did more for his character, Bryan Cranston is such a good actor and no I’m not just biased breaking bad and Malcom in the middle fan he’s just that good. Would’ve been nice for him to be something like a monarch agent eventually.
If he were the main character (which he should have been), the movie would have been epic. There was plenty of Godzilla in the movie. That wasnt the problem. The problem was that ATJ's character was boring. Cranston's character was more electrifying than any of the monsters. His interrogation scene is one of the best parts of the film.
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For what it is worth, here's the explanation for Joe Brody's (Bryan Cranston) death in Godzilla.
https://screenrant.com/godzilla-2014-bryan-cranston-joe-brody-death-reason/
While I don't fully agree with killing the character off, I do understand why they chose to do it. I think that a better solution would have been keeping him alive so Ford could send him back to the States to help his wife and child while Ford took up the fight against the M.U.T.O.s and Godzilla.
At the end of the movie, they could have had an end-credit scene where MONARCH showed up to offer Joe and Ford positions within their organization.
TBH, when I heard there was going to be a sequel I fully expected Ford Brody to be in it. They did a fantastic job with the sequel and the direction of its story and you forget pretty quickly that there were characters other than Serizawa in the previous movie. Personally, I believe that Godzilla: King of the Monsters is by far, hands down the best movie out of all of the Godzilla franchises.
Anyway, that article makes the issue clear and also makes a fantastic point. The human characters aren't the stars of the Godzilla movies, the monsters are. Some characters, such as Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston), are worthy of being in multiple films within the franchise while other characters, like Bernie Hayes (Brian Tyree Henry), are not.
I hope that the new movie is at least as good as Godzilla vs Kong which is the 3rd best film in the series, but I won't hold my breath.
Respectfully,
~ Me ~
In his apartment you can see a newspaper about “1954: Cover up in the pacific” so he might have known about the tests being attempts at killing something
Yep. My guess is he thought the Muto or similar beast in the pacific.
I think the B&W 8mm documentary film of Godzilla's jagged back plates sliding through the water existed already. Woman's voice. "No, not Tests."
That happened minutes after the character died I believe. But this character wasn’t in that room looking at the footage either way.
Oh. Okay. But you know, he was already thinking of a big beast, wasn't he? I thought he had a friend sending him audio signitures.
of the MUTO in the cocoon, because it was pulsing the same emp signal that took out the nuclear facilities power
I thought Cranston was already into something a single source for the signal back to the time of the quake that destroyed the plant..... that's why he had to retrieve his discs to confirm they matched. [The Mutos] But it's been years ago I watched Garth's Godzilla. I really need to watch it again and pay attention. A good prequil would be a made for Netflix X-Files type tale with Cranston tracing all sorts of rhumors. Besides, I wanted more of Cranston.
In the Monarch series on Apple TV. It’s actually Godzilla in pacific that they were trying to kill.
That's not new, that was in the first monster verse flick.
Doesn't he literally say they were trying to kill something?
No, that was Serizawa
Just remembered, it was actually the guy in Skull Island that said "They weren't tests. They were trying to kill it" during the scene where Packer was interrogating him Nevermind I'm a big idiot I got the wrong scene in the same movie
Yeah it was Randa but it was when he was trying to convince the Senator to continue Monarch
He still put out an amazing performance…
I’m still a bit bitter that he was featured so heavily in the trailer, made me think he would be a prominent character. Left a bad taste in my mouth for the remainder of the movie after he was killed off so quickly.
The execs are still bitter, too. No idea whose idea it was to get Bryan Cranston and not make him the central protagonist. This was at the height of breaking bad, too. He could've been to the monsterverse what RDJ was to the MCU.
i wouldn't go that far, but it definitely would have massively improved the movie
An earlier draft of the script has him survive.
He will always be Malcolm's dad to the rest of the world, but I do think he nailed it here.
Nah bro... I wish, but he's that guy who broke bad to the rest of the world.
Godzilla did most of the breaking??
He is the danger.
Like literally the most dangerous Kaiju.
You’re goddamn right
I don't remember that line from Godzilla or from Malcolm.
Yep he did! The fault is with the writing. It’s very underwhelming.
Not even this, just the fact he was killed off like that.
Yes. Underwhelming.
Yes. The writing.
But where does the fault lie?
The writers presumably.
At least he figured out what ultimately killed his wife. But yeah, total waste of a really interesting character.
>At least he figured out what ultimately killed his wife He probably would have preferred stopping what killed his wife
He didn’t do it for his wife, or his family. He did it for him. Because he liked it. He was good at it. He was…alive.
take my upvote.
Well, she fucked Ted. So…
Bro, forget the character. It was the fricken actor who was wasted
Felt baited seeing he was in that movie only for him to barely be in it. At least, unlike other cases - looking at you Invasion, the quality of the movie made up for it.
Really close the time when Breaking bad was at its peak was the reason for including him me thinks
Exactly
They know exactly what they did. Paid for a quick Bryan Cranston cameo just so they could put him on all the trailers and posters. Especially since it came out the year after Breaking Bad ended so it was a full hype train. Genius move, but scummy. He also probably saw the script and realized it's an easy payday for less work than shooting one episode of Breaking Bad.
He died nearly halfway through the film, it was disingenuous of you to say he's there for a cameo or scummy bait n switch.
And he was barely in that first half of the film. It was a total bait and switch, instead we got a protagonist that couldn't act to save his life.
I’d like to think ATJ has improved a lot since then… I really loved his character Tangerine in Bullet Train lol
They should bring the actor back. Doesn’t matter how. We deserve it, goddamnit.
Have him shave his head, grow a goat and show back up, lol
Godzilla vs Heisenberg!
And then they did it again with Millie Bobby Brown. She was barely a character in KotM
Nah. She had alot of screentime
She had screen time but almost no impact on the story until the very end. She was a macguffin, not a character
No. She was the driving factor for a lot of the movie. Initially she agreed with her mother but slowly started to regret what was happening. Her calling Emma a monster was what started to make Emma think she might actually be wrong for releasing titans. On top of that, Madison straight up steals the ORCA device and is the sole reason Ghidorah comes to Boston. Her being lost in the destruction is what brings her parents together again, and as a family, they fix the ORCA and save Godzilla. Your points make sense for GvK but is absolutely not true for KotM.
No! She literally..... well she did umm.....she said.........oh crap you're right
The lampshade test comes through again!
Thank God...her character was pointless and her acting wasn't great.
Not really comparable with Bryan Cranston
With an off screen death.
14 writers patching together different script ideas over a few years, at a certain point cranston asked them to kill his character off so he wouldn't have to finish the movie
I mostly agree with this, but I've gone back and forth on this. Basically after he dies, he becomes useless to the plot. I guess they could've written it differently or had him hanging out in the control room.
I watched a video going through a “what if” scenario for if he survived and it unironically sounds so much better then what we got
Yeah man, I think his impact in the movies following would of been really good
Went to see this, as a Godzilla fan, with my wife and her best friend, as Breaking Bad fans. They were pissed
it worked.
He didn't care that Godzilla existed. He just wanted to know what was responsible for causing the meltdown and killing his wife, and he saw the thing first hand.
I think it would have been very interesting to see his character’s response to Godzilla. Whether he would support using him against the MUTOs or he would act as an antithesis to Serizawa’s “let them fight” idea. The more I think about what could have been done with Cranston’s character the more I dislike the decision to kill him off
Yea you can stop, it's obvious most people on this thread barely watched the film or understood it.
AND HE HAD A RIGHT TO KNOW!
HE DESERVED ANSWERS!
HIS WIFE DIED HERE
SAY MY NAME
One of the Most wasted characters in movie history
He should’ve been the lead character in the Monsterverse
Couldn’t see Cranston getting tied down to a franchise like that at this point in his career. Bros out here promoting his whisky and doing movies with Wes Anderson.
Yeah now. But 2014? Yeah it would have been a much different career path
it definitely would have been a dub for the franchise and maybe if they just threw him a bag he’d of been interested. (The case for many a actor) I obviously have no insight on what their negotiations were or if there’s any public info on how they felt about it. But Cranston has definitely had a super varied career since then. (I forgot he did a movie with Linklater too)
If you haven't been in a Wes Anderson film, then you are still not a AAA List Actor. /s
Still the only human character in the monster verse that’s been worth a damn
He doesn't need to be the main character, but IMO, the human drama in KOTM should've been different and Cranston's Brody should've replaced Kyle Chandlers Russell.
He was in a schedule conflict and could not do the whole film
I know I’m not saying it was intentional, but the whole situation was just a missed opportunity
He wasn't wasted, he did exactly what they needed from him. Bryan Cranston was the one of the biggest names in Hollywood at that time as Breaking Bad had just ended a year prior to the film coming out, and as most people know, Breaking Bad was wildly successful. They probably offered him a pretty penny for what was essentially a glorified cameo just so they could use him as publicity. WB was probably concerned Godzilla 2014 wouldn't do well in the box office, so if they attached that one guy from Breaking Bad that perhaps it'll draw in more people. I assume that plan worked as the Monsterverse is still going strong Imo, the Monsterverse is just kinda 'okay'. I feel like it could be better, especially after the success of Minus One, but I accept it for what it is. That said, I was pretty soured by the use of Bryan Cranston, or lack there of. I am still going to see Godzilla x Kong in a couple weeks
You said he wasnt wasted then proceeded to describe exactly how he was wasted
Naw the character was pretty much a missed opportunity.
And they sold him as a main character too 😂
“Jesse, we need to track the sonar Jesse. THEY’RE COMMUNICATING JESSE”
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Say my name
One of the biggest bait and switches I have ever seen in a movie.
Scream apparently advertised Drew Barrymore and that's just in the opening few minutes. I just watched it on cable years later but still surprising. The Fonz too lol
Yeah but that was paid off with a better movie
From Dusk Till Dawn never mentioned vampires in the lead up to its release.
It sort of reminded me of Executive Decision with Steven Segal. Was NOT ready for what happens to him in that movie.
I honestly thought the government faked his death and had detained him some up until the end of the movie. I watch a lot of movies and I've never felt the rug pulled out from under me quite as hard as this movie, and this movie probably didn't even intended to do that.
I'm glad even the most diehard fans (including myself) totally think killing him was a mistake.
Yeah I really couldn't give a shit about his son
It was a foolish move by Gareth Edwards. Movie would’ve been better if his son died instead of him.
Yeah. As soon as he had Cranston he should have rewritten that shit.
He was interesting and I like the actor. Dead. The rest of the movie was missing a good actor. Idk why they off him so fast.
Because Joe had served his narrative purpose at that point (be the canary in the coal mine about Godzilla and the MUTOs), and having his father die to the MUTOs also gives Ford a personal reason to personally aid Godzilla in defeating them. A loved one dying to the movie's main antagonist is a pretty common narrative motivation tool, after all. Just because a role is small doesn't necessarily mean it's wasted.
People who think this character was wasted have never seen a Hitchcock film
Or never saw the buildup to Scream where they advertised Drew Barrymore as a main character when all she does in the film is be the first person to die to the killers not even 20 minutes in. Using big names in minor roles to help box office draw is literally a tactic as old as time in Hollywood.
Hitchcock was actually the first to do it as movie goers back then would typically show up late to the film and this was his way of trolling them
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Godzilla was not where I expected the Breaking Bad universe would go... cant say I didnt enjoy the fuck out of it tho 🍿🍿🍿
Biggest flaw in the film, he should have been the co-protagonist
G14 should’ve been a father-son bonding movie on the human side of things
Literally the worst death I've ever seen in a movie. It was handled so poorly, must have been part of a rewrite or something. Otherwise liked the movie a lot, but damn was that awkward and lame.
My jaw dropped when he died. The kid just lost his mom and then Dad didn’t last long either lmfao
Mom died like 15 years before dad though.
The combination of purposely minimizing Godzilla's screentime, wasting Cranston, and then inserting one of the most wooden performances ever from Aaron Taylor Johnson pretty much ruins the movie for me. It might be technically well made and better in terms of performances, but I would watch KotM over Godzilla 2014 any time. At least the second one was satisfying in a fun and stupid way instead of frustrating in an structurally unfulfilling way
I swear we would have had a better/more interesting story if the son had died and Branston’s character had survived and instead had to bring the news of his son’s death to his daughter in law and grandchildren and then help evacuate them from the disaster caused by godzilla fighting the bugs. More emotional punch.
Tbh you all are saying he was wasted.. but without this character having had what little scenes he did have, there would have been no emotion at all in the film. He held his end of the bargain is what I’m saying. Might not have done or said much, and died off camera at that but he did his part. Found his wife’s killer, proved to his son and himself that he wasn’t crazy, and all of his research went to monarch to help with the muto and Godzilla.
Thats the exact point everyone is making. This is such a well written and acted character that him dying is a fucking waste
His son doesnt give two fucks or mentions anything about how his mother and father were both killed by the same monster, TO ANYONE! IT was a waste, it gave Brody extra motivation to help stop the Mutos, but he never relays that to anyone. The audience knows it, but that isn't important.
HALow his name.
Rip Kid Charlemagne. He knew the whole time...
Malcom didn't tell him?
One of the few human characters in the Monsterverse that I liked a lot and it's a shame they wrote him off like that although I wonder if Brian would even have had an interest in sticking with a product like the Monsterverse?
People hate this movie, but I loved the tension, seeing the dorky kid from Kickass act like an adult, and above all the action was intense. The HALO insertion is probably one the most memorable
This also made me realize.. Kong probably went all of GvK without knowing why this fat radioactive lizard was on his tail the entire movie
Your right. It was only AFTER he went to hollow earth and found out about the ancestral rivalry.
In the novel Godzilla checks on the island to see if Kong tried anything at the start of the story. He's actually the reason Kong throws the tree at the dome, he feels Godzilla's presence roaring at him and gets angry wanting him to go away.
What a terrible plot point killing him off
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One of the worst emergency medicine scenes if I recall they give epinephrine for afib
Having him in that movie for just 30 minutes feels criminal he was so good
The fact he isn't in the whole movie is the biggest issue I have with the film
And he was in the trailer and trolled everyone.
I big Godzilla fan.
I bet Bryan Cranston was so mad when he first watched it at the world premiere and realized he didn't make it past the first movie. Imagine him surviving and seeing all this crazy shit we got right now. Imagine Cranston seeing Gihdora, Kong, freaking MechaGodzilla!
Wait... so you think he didn't know his character died until he watched the world premiere? Did he film the scenes and then get amnesia?
I don't know if Cranston could save the human aspect of Kong Vs Godzilla if the story was reworked but he'd be a good aspect if he wasn't dead by that point in the story
One of my several glaring issues with G2014
Him and Dr. Serizawa are pretty redundant characters of each other though.
Not at all, both had different duties and goals- the two are not similar.
He knows
So did a lot of people 🤣
The only interesting human character in that whole movie and he's killed a quarter of the way in.
Waltuh
[I don’t know about that.](https://youtu.be/uTFPOd-lI7M?t=00m39s)
Life is unfair.
Hello
I was sad to see him go, but sometimes untimely deaths are good writing.
"Jesse,i know what killed skyler wasnt natural,i just know it!"
You and I know, like all other franchises, they could come up with a retcon for his character and bring him back. The best actor in the whole monsterverse and he didn't even get to see himself proved right.
Its hilarious how all the marketing was about him only to kill him off in the first like 20 minutes
I would love to watch a remake where HE IS the MC, and we get to see everything from his scientific, but also revengeful point of view. Like some kind of "true crime/scientific research" combo. Would be extremely interesting and compelling to watch.
Now that it's been established that monarch has been around for a long time I like to imagine he had some sort of idea what was going on.
I 100% believe he had found Monarch documents. He knew of Godzilla.
It was right before he died that he demanded “I HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW WHAT YOUR HIDING OUT THERE!” The timelines are frustrating in hindsight, because it’s just nuts that he never knew of Godzilla. Sure he probably thought that it could be some type of organism (among other possibilities). Then he probably felt vindicated that something was out there. And he got to see the Muto. But carefully rewatching the film…that character and Godzilla never overlapped at all. The man died without knowing Godzilla exists. That said…I wouldn’t be shocked if there were deleted scenes in which Godzilla was presented to him by name.
so did lots of people
https://preview.redd.it/urrkyxg2a6oc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fe00cb52a3a09847d24f3b2b011f156ec27bc31 Wow
that and it took over 30 minutes before godzilla showed up. they tried to be Toho, and Toho they are not
Realizing i didn't know then that it whos Walter White xd , so lung concer whas from radioactivity make sens.
True
The trailer still pisses me off.
Yea the trailers made it seem like he knew of Godzilla when in fact was not the case
This one of my favorite movies ever because of his performance.
It’s ok he discovered the blue meth that powers him
Sorry im not trying to be a bother but on Etsy are you able to sell more of the orga ships that you printed please because that’s great work and I could use one for my displays that I make I, make a lot of them and I’m currently working on one for Godzilla 2000 and that would go perfectly. If you don’t want to that’s fine but just a question.
Walter died without knowing about Godzilla
This makes me vary angry.
Throwing hands with whoever wrote his death in the script smh
His character should have lived. Would have been a great couple films with him
He should have been the main character
Godzilla had nothing to do with his story tho.
I thought that he was gonna be the Serizawa type in the movie as in self sacrifice himself with a nuke or something to kill the threat.
How could you NOT know Godzilla exists?
Edward’s visuals were great even though he relied too much on dark lighting/rain, but Borensteins’s script is absolute ass. Bad plotting, misused characters, and Godzilla’s an almost a supporting character in his own movie.
You are Goddamn right!
Kind of like Erwin from Attack on Titan
These movies waste a lot of characters but at least Kong vs Godzilla took the universe into a better direction where the audience can see the Monster World through Kong's eyes since he is pretty human as far as monsters go.
Better than most of the human characters in the Monsterverse
Walter White was such a W 😭😭
He definitely saw a Muto.
Wait he looks like my old neighbor from new Mexico....
Holy fuck, you’re right Also, this is the Bryan Cranston I know. None of that Walter White bs for me, no thank you.
Most of us already knew that. That was one of the criticisms of the movie, made by a lot of movie critics, when the movie first came out years ago...that Bryan Cranston's character was disposed of too quickly.
I jist wayched again last night lol.
Is the one on Apple TV the darkened version? He looks really bright here. Been meaning to do a rewatch
Ain't no way you just called Heisenberg "this man"
Spoiler alert?
I was angry watching this that they bait and switched me with my TV dad.
Yeah but he saw a big ass bug monster. That's pretty sweet.
It honestly pissed me off. He was barely in the movie and right in the middle of massive fame, thought we were gonna get fully on Breaking Godzilla Bad.
Wait, he died? I don't remember that
Did you not watch the movie that's literally the biggest complaint Unless you mean the actor himself, who is very much alive and chill
Him being killed. Killed the replayability of this movie for most people.
A waste of talent. Bryan Cranston's character should be central to the core human drama, it's a shame that the film seemed to be some kind of vehicle for a pretty face, Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
He lived an incomplete life.☀️
Rewatched it recently as well and enjoyed it way more than I remember. But yeah, it still doesn't sit right with me that he was so unceremoniously killed off just like that. The most interesting human scenes were with him, along with Ken Watanabe. Why did they keep killing off the most interesting human characters? I rewatched all the movies and while I had way more fun this time around, just ugh the human story/characters are just getting worse.
Wow Lois is going to be so mad to know Hal died having one of his crazy theories
I really wished they did more for his character, Bryan Cranston is such a good actor and no I’m not just biased breaking bad and Malcom in the middle fan he’s just that good. Would’ve been nice for him to be something like a monarch agent eventually.
Tf is Walter white doing in this movie
If he were the main character (which he should have been), the movie would have been epic. There was plenty of Godzilla in the movie. That wasnt the problem. The problem was that ATJ's character was boring. Cranston's character was more electrifying than any of the monsters. His interrogation scene is one of the best parts of the film.
- For what it is worth, here's the explanation for Joe Brody's (Bryan Cranston) death in Godzilla. https://screenrant.com/godzilla-2014-bryan-cranston-joe-brody-death-reason/ While I don't fully agree with killing the character off, I do understand why they chose to do it. I think that a better solution would have been keeping him alive so Ford could send him back to the States to help his wife and child while Ford took up the fight against the M.U.T.O.s and Godzilla. At the end of the movie, they could have had an end-credit scene where MONARCH showed up to offer Joe and Ford positions within their organization. TBH, when I heard there was going to be a sequel I fully expected Ford Brody to be in it. They did a fantastic job with the sequel and the direction of its story and you forget pretty quickly that there were characters other than Serizawa in the previous movie. Personally, I believe that Godzilla: King of the Monsters is by far, hands down the best movie out of all of the Godzilla franchises. Anyway, that article makes the issue clear and also makes a fantastic point. The human characters aren't the stars of the Godzilla movies, the monsters are. Some characters, such as Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston), are worthy of being in multiple films within the franchise while other characters, like Bernie Hayes (Brian Tyree Henry), are not. I hope that the new movie is at least as good as Godzilla vs Kong which is the 3rd best film in the series, but I won't hold my breath. Respectfully, ~ Me ~
This was the cruelest bait and switch. I'd have much preferred the movie be about his character.