Sam and I saw it in a small theater, so I didn’t feel motion sick at all. I thought the Bourne movies were much worse as far as motion sickness goes, but I saw the last one of those in a huge digital theater and sat wwwwwwaaaayyyyyyyy too close.

On to the review: who cares that it wasn’t scary? Godzilla movie != horror movie. The last thing I want is a campy fright fest. (FWIW it scared Sam )

I loved the silly romantic storyline too, mainly because you don’t care about it at all. That was perhaps the most brilliant thing about the move: the main characters were simple plot devices to guide you through the experience of a Godzilla attack. I think its an ingenious way to re-tell the Godzilla story uniquely. Instead of following legions of soldiers hopelessly firing rocket after rocket, you follow some helpless 20-somethings trying to find true love.

(Of course I’m a sucker for sappy love stories, so that probably helped me not mind its presence.)

I also loved that there were probably only 5 total minutes of film with Godzilla in it. (I’ll concede that Godzilla looked pretty silly, but so did a guy in a rubber suit in the originals.) My imagination could just fill in the blanks. So many action movies pride themselves in making 95% of the screenplay contain explosions so you can shut off your brain and just soak it up. Thats fun, but with something as campy as Godzilla, I enjoyed letting my mind do the imagining instead of being spoon fed unoriginal action sequences.

And you’re so wrong about the end. Godzilla could have easily slipped back into the ocean. (I suppose it was obvious that the main characters would all die, but like I was getting at earlier: who cares? Godzilla just destroyed all of Manhattan!)

RAWR!