@NostalgiaFan Just finished the American version of Godzilla.
Was better than I expected. Gets like an 7/10 from me.
My bones to pick with it are.
-The movie being narrated like a documentary took me out. One of the good parts about the original was that you get invested in the narrative and how it feels like it's happening at the same time your watching.
It being narrated changed that into feeling like something that already happened which lessened the impact.
-Audio seemingly being muted. It wasn't noticable in the first half, but during the scene where the mother is crying with her children during Godzilla's rampage, I could barely hear anything, this isn't a problem in the original version so I'm pretty sure this was the movie.
-Serizawa's role being reduced. He went from a soldier who lost an eye in WW2, who then became a scientist to do some good in the world only to find something just as bad as a nuke. To Martin's scientist friend.
It wasn't a lot but the movie omitted the fact that he fought in WW2, which was where he lost his eye and him suddenly deciding to show Emiko his research when in the original Emiko questioned him a bit before he did.
-cutting Yamane's final line about how nuclear testing may give birth to another Godzilla. Very corny yes but it's an important line that harkens back to the themes of the movie, removing it is basically omitting the original theme of the movie.
-Finally, Ohto Island residents all being shown as superstitious natives when in the original Godzilla was only a folktale that a single person still believed.