I loved the designs of godzilla and the mutos. But the final fight was such a letdown because you can't see anything! Just imagine how much more epic it would have been in the bright sun and you saw all the destruction clearly. But I guess it was just cheaper be filmed at night. (Facepalm)
shareWell the difficulty is that neither Godzilla nor the MUTOs speak English, or any other known language for that matter, so it would have been very difficult to explain to them what time of the day they needed to have their battles. We are fortunate there were cameras present to record what happened, even though it was rather dark. I still found it interesting and entertaining. Especially since Godzilla kicked butt!!
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Well this is a movie you know? Godzilla and the MUTOS are fiction and computer generated. So they should have filmed the movie in broad daylight. Your comment is one of the worst examples of sarcasm I've ever read.
shareIn the theater it looked fine. On TV, I had to adjust my settings a little & then it looked ok. I usually watch DvDs with the room dark, but I still had to choose "Movie Mode" on my Viso widescreen TV set to get the right brihtness to watch this film. Try that.
shareIt sounds like you're all watching this movie on DVD...
shareI saw the final battle just fine and loved every minute of it.
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It's the transfer. Check out the special features and compare those exact scenes with their actual movie counterparts and you'll see a HUGE difference. Someone effed up the transfer
shareIts definitely a transfer problem. The Blu-ray release was horrible and has a murky tint on it. The special features on the Blu-ray, however, show some raw footage of the third act and it's astonishing. The detail on the monsters is incredibly clear and there is no tint on it. I have no idea how WB managed to botch the transfer of this film to such a disappointing degree. The film is probably watchable on most TV's, but it sucks to know that they really punched the die-hard fans who care about picture quality in the face with this transfer.
shareMy thoughts exactly
shareA daytime battle in downtown SF would have been more technically difficult and probably more expensive, they'd have to get downtown SF into every shot and show every building fall down or get damaged. But yeah, the nighttime scenes staged in Honolulu and the Sierra train tracks were much more successful, they should gave put in a day battle for variety.
A day battle in heavy fog would be my pick. It would be totally appropriate for the local, it would allow surprises and atmospheric effects, it would allow them to fudge background details, and since fog glows amazingly when lit by bright lights, it would look WAY cool.