Time to finally revisit and evaluate
Roland Emmerich's
Godzilla film, to see how whether it is bad or underrated.
Starts with a nuclear test site on a beach, and a bunch of lizards (I think) get struck by the radiation and die, except for one egg that survives. Then we cut to... a military fishermen ship?
Godzilla isn't an urban myth to them, it is a real threat that attacks their ship, and that terror was cut to abruptly show
Matthew Broderick's character (
Niko Tatopoulos) singing 'Singing in the Rain' (He is good singer
), under the rain, to electrocute Earthworms (none which goes by the name;
Jim).
Jean Reno: "Ask that one survivor of that ship about what he saw"
Doctor asks in
Japanese, gets no response
.
Jean Reno *lights his lighter and flails it over his head
*: "What did you see?"
Japanese man answers the
Frenchman asking his question in
English:
Gojira.
Lighter fire brings one's attention to remember giant claws.
And then we cut to
Tatoupolis again pretty soon after that moment.
I don't know whether the editing deserves to be blamed for writing that rushes between scenes or not.