Movie Review: Godzilla (2014) – 3.5 stars

Godzilla (2014)

3.5 out of 5 stars

Watched opening weekend (May 17, 2014)

My husband and I watched Godzilla on opening weekend at our favorite local movie theater, taking advantage of their VIP seating.  One recent change to their pricing has me a bit rumbled.  The Legends 14 Theater’s matinee pricing stops at 4:00 p.m. now, instead of the traditional 5:00 p.m.  This means the main attraction, like Godzilla, only has one matinee per day in the large screen theater.   I prefer matinees more for the time slots than the cost savings (since I’m paying extra for VIP service anyway), but still.  Irksome.

I had read a couple of reviews before deciding to watch this movie in theaters.  I have many fond memories of Godzilla week on the local Kansas City television stations in the 70s.  I’d come home from school and the after school movies would feature Godzilla classics from the 50s and 60s.  My forty-year foggy memory doesn’t recall much of the plots, but I do remember them being entertaining.

This latest iteration of Godzilla took me a bit by surprise.  Continue reading “Movie Review: Godzilla (2014) – 3.5 stars”