GODZILLA (2014) BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed! | Godzilla Kong Rewatch
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Gareth Edwards kicks off the modern MonsterVerse era with 2014’s Godzilla. This film would reintroduce the world to Godzilla and set the tone for the cinematic universe that followed. From setting up Project Monarch to popularizing the term “MUTO”, there is a lot world-building happening in this film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen and Bryan Cranston. Jessica Clemons is here to kick-off our MonsterVerse rewatch series with a frame-by-frame analysis to point out all the Easter Eggs and hidden details you might have missed!
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My favorite part was when Kong finds out Godzillas mom is named Martha too.
Hahaha
WHY did you say that name?
Mothra** lol 😂
Ah yes. Bryan Cranston, the most terrifying Kaiju.
The Titan that Knocks
Possibly, next to Producer John....
He is the danger..
The Meth Kaiju
We learned that from his appearance on the original power rangers lol
33:24 That's not an iguana. That's a Jackson's Chameleon.
I was gonna say the same 😂
Thank you
Cool
thank you glad i wasn't the only one to notice that
That’s what I said 😂
Gotta love this Monsterverse. 2014, pretty much our world. 2019, giant flying airbase. 2021, anti-gravity vehicles! What's next?
2024, Monkey thunder punch gun and SpaceGodzilla apparently.
I love how we all are suspending our belief because well. Monster… and who can blame us
@@mikeyfightz in the immortal words of Hulk "but ,big monster!"
@@WashedOutBanshee69wrong lol
Not gonna lie, I never thought the Monsterverse would outlast the DCU.
You Mean The DCEU/Snyderverse
Godzilla is the cinema goat lol
Monster verse doesn’t just shit out movies every 2 seconds though, people aren’t sick of these legendary monsters just yet, so they’re still exciting! It’ll be better if they don’t just use Godzilla and Kong though
Ignoring how long and large the Godzilla lore is, the DCU is a bunch of standalone films being big held together by a glue stick. The damn Dark Universe has more cohesion and it was restarted three times!
@@wxo_5057 ah yes don't use the two most iconic monsters in a universe tailored for them you make total sense buddy
I imagine that bit about "men in rubber suits" is a call back to the earliest Godzilla movies from Toho where that's how they did Godzilla at the time. Lol
22:05 This is hilariously fitting, considering in the Ultimates comics, which the MCU is loosely based on, Pietro & Wanda had an incestuous relationship, which other characters in said comic even voiced concern over
Whats to be concerned about? They're essentially Royalty.They should be keeping that powerful blood in-house
@jeffdroog That's just how the other characters reacted in the comic 🤷🏻♂️ Surprisingly, Cap was the only one open to it, even pointing out his time displacement as a factor why he was. I've never thought of the royalty angle, that's cool, I like it; it's also been a while since I read it.
19:47 Yes, Gary Chalk voiced Optimus Primal in Beast Wars, but the footage used is from Rise of the Beasts, where the character is voiced by Ron Perlman. We should also not discredit Garry Chalk's work as Optimus Prime throughout the Unicron Trilogy
The rubber suits line is a reference to when Toho used rubber suits to create Godzilla that always changed depending on the film Toho produced in the different Eras of each movie, this was years and decades before Godzilla was created by animators
Yes!
I know lol
I love that someone is finally taking the time to read through the redacted credits because they chose to hide a whole story somewhere most people would miss
Everyone always misses that the redaction on Bryan Cranston’s name leaves only the words “Walter” and “white” after. So for a second the only words on screen by Bryan Cranston’s name are “Walter White”
Jessica pleeeaase, it's killing me the way you're saying MOTO instead of MUTO 😭😭
Halfway through they start saying it correctly
Gareth Edwards is the perfect director for the next JURASSIC PARK As long as he receives a decent material to work with
he did and it's from David Koepp who is also the Original Writer for Jurassic Park and Lost World
I don’t think he’s doing anymore blockbusters after doing this and Star Wars and saying he had bad experiences working on both films. He doesn’t like studios controlling what he does.
@@ayjay579perhaps he changed his mind cause dinosaurs
You'd never see the dinosaurs and they'd not be the focus it would be done bad love story.
Did Jess just call a jacksons chameleon an iguana? 😂
I cant wait for Godzilla kotm breakdown!!!! Those Easter eggs are gna be fiyyaaa❤️🔥🔥
2014 Godzilla was the best Godzilla movie till date. Everything was so grounded and related to technology we have right now.
8:40 also a nod to Godzilla started as stunt performers in rubber suits in Japan, a genre of film making preserved till this day through Ultraman and Kamenriders series
This coming out the same day ERB drops Godzilla v Kong is peak
Thank you for mentioning 'Godzilla Minus One '. Now, that movie was something else. 👌
8:42 men in rubber suits is a easter egg on how they shot godzilla back then.
The Lilo and Stitch connection oh my god🤣🙌🏼
Having multiple Godzilla-verses going at once is awesome. Been a fan since I was a kid watching the old Toho films. I hope we keep getting more and more
I love this Godzilla /monsterverse, I hope they keep making them because they have so much content and stories to go through
Also why am I so bugged by how you say “Ronda” and not “Randa” as well as saying “MOTO” instead of “MUTO”?
Halfway through the swap and search MUTO correctly
Very cool to see Aaron, Elizabeth and Andy work together besides in Ultron
This is a surprise break down from New Rockstars and I love it please break down all of the monster verse movies
19:44 you said beast wars, but you showed Rise of the beasts, where primal is voiced by Ron Perlman
Thank you for breaking this movie down! It's so underrated and it deserves so much more praise!! 🙌🙌
Happy 10th Anniversary to MonsterVerse!
19:42 Gary Chalk played the original Optimus Primal not the ROTB one
49 minute Monsterverse video. Hell yeah 👏
Except Jess is in it so booooo
39:39 Edwards not the name of the plane, but it's indicating which base it came from. All USAF planes have some signifier on the tail indicating which base it's out of, and this particular plane spells out the name of the base.
Operation Lucky Dragon is a reference as well. Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't the only inspirations behind Godziilla. There was a third bomb drop later on during testing that had some unfortunate victims on a fishing boat. That boat's name was....the Lucky Dragon #5.
Also the boat name from the opening of 54
🎉🎉🎉 Been waiting for sooo long for this😢😢😢
Been waiting 10 years for this reaction
It’s hilarious how juxtaposed the tone of this movie is to the recent ones such as Godzilla v Kong 😂
“Godzilla getting double teamed” is wild please never say that again 😂
Desplat's compositions adapt several of Akira Ikufube's leitmotifs and themes from the 1954 Godzilla. Included in the orchestration are several traditional Japanese musical instruments. The flute like Shakuhachi & Shinobue, and stringed instruments like Biwa & Koto.
I wish they would have just shown more of the Honolulu fight
The best movie out of the monster verse
Agreed
The halo jump is one of the best looking stills from a film ive ever seen
43:50 Godzilla kong of the monsters. Yes my favourite movie
Have I ever seen 2014 Godzilla? No Do I follow the monsterverse? Not at all Do I plan to? Nope Do I wanna listen to Jessica talk for 49 minutes? Absolutely
Then what are you doing bruh, watch the movies 😂
11:00 You can still see it's painted on the side, ackshully🤓
I always loved the vibe of this movie. It was a nice, different take on Godzilla.
The military scene in the main street was filmed in my home town :)
Godzilla is the hero we deserve but not the one we need … in a Kong movie
Loving these rewatch videos
I love this movie so much, I just really wish they used Brian Cranston longer
Hercules fighting a titan/kaiju is such a cool concept
The Esoteric Order of Dagon is an H. P. Lovecraft short story, and it's awesome 💯
Was actually waiting for this !
Edwards is the base the c17 is stationed at specifically the 412 Test Wing.
4:07 actually that’s Perseus fighting Cetus, not Heracles. Heracles was born 4 generations after him, making Perseus Heracles’ great great grandfather. Also Heracles fought the hydra, geryon, orthus, the Cretan bull, the Hesperides dragon (not really), famously the nemean lion, and the gigantes alongside the olympians.
Why does the military always try to attack something that isn’t even trying to attack them. Like it doesn’t make sense.
They fear what they don’t understand
Movie that brought life back to Godzilla franchise. All Thanks to Monsterverse and Legendary
That Godzilla scream-making class sounds cool
I mean, I can't blame fans who were waiting for a Godzilla film to come out. It has been a decade between Godzilla Final Wars and this Godzilla film after all.
Who else wants Legendary to eventually introduce the Monster-Multiverse by confirming that the 1998 Godzilla film takes place in the same universe as Peter Jackson's 2005 King Kong film. Imagine seeing these two versions of Godzilla and Kong fighting it out 😅
Problem: Jackson's Kong was 25 feet tall. Godzilla 98 was 196 feet tall. You'd have to size that Kong up seven times to make it fair.
@25Erix not really, I would love to see a 25 ft Kong swinging, punching and jumping all over a tall, lanky Godzilla. You could also make Kong a bit bigger like 30 or 35 ft. then make Godzilla a bit smaller (because this Godzilla is the offspring of the one that died in that movie).
@25Erix Just imagine PJ Kong standing in 1998 Godzillas mouth propping it open with his own body, like what he did to the V-rexs just scaled way open. He would be trynna break Godzilla jaw from the inside basically...
@@breyten_paleoman Zilla still has the size and strength advantage. There is no universe where a 25-foot-tall gorilla is defeating something seven times its size. Especially when said lizard is able to open his mouth wider than that version of Kong can. Stop trying to make it work because unless you size Kong up, he's hopelessly and hilariously outmatched in this scenario. Doubly so if you put him against Junior from the animated series because, unlike his father, Junior has an atomic breath.
@25Erix in what universe does a 25ft gorilla exist in the first place... You could give Kong unnatural strength and maybe later on in the crossover film some electric powers to even the power difference. Also I wouldn't use Junior from the animated series specifically but I would use him as a model for the newer Godzilla. Also I was on the other side of the argument when the made Kong the same height as Godzilla in GvK. I really want to see a smaller gorilla swing from dorsal fin to dorsal fin, jump and right hook a giant lizard. Using buildings a cover, hiding inside building s then breaking out to surprise Godzilla. I think it could be cool but would never happen.
Some answers for the Hawai’i scenes (since I live there): There wasn’t a tram system leading into the airport at the time this movie was filmed. However a track has been constructed since then, BUT that part of the line is not operational yet. The street that gets flooded by the wave is Lewers Street & there is NO direct access to the beach at the end of that road. The shot was staged in the early evening, & filmed in the late hours. The suggested path of the MUTO from the forest area on O’ahu to the airport crosses the most densely populated area of the island. Iguanas are not easily found on the island (if at all), & they are considered illegal. Jackson Chameleons (as many have pointed out, is the actual animal in the shot) have thriving populations in the wild especially in rain forest areas on the island.
I'm secretly training to be able to scream into my enemies' mouths until their heads fall off as well. Great minds think alike.
*BEST ONE BY FAR🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*
33:23 IGUANA?! BYE ✌🏻
Just now noticed how they implemented the actors names in the intro... that’s sick
The HNL scene is actually SFO. The AirTran and Westfield parking garage in the backdrop gave it away
Kong of the monsters??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂love you Jess!
That is not a iguana it is a Jackson’s chameleon.
I just hope, one day, we'll get a live action Justice League vs Godzilla vs Kong. They could probably milk an entire trilogy out of it.
Weird seeing Lizzie and Aaron so sensual towards each other in this!
I thought those weird scratchy radio signals in the beginning was a seismograph for Earthquakes.
Wow did not expect to hear the name Ultraman on this channel!
I always thought the Mutos were supposed to be giant Cockroaches lol and i’ll stand by it
Hey Jess! All Air Force aircraft have what base they come from. Edwards Air Force Base does have those C-17 aircraft there so not necessarily Gareth connected.
Can’t wait to see Gareth edwards take on the Jurassic universe
i will always love this movie. also its "mue-toes". it was getting on my nerves.
This movie is still so underrated.
quicksilver and wanda kissing each other in this movie are mental.
Yes you should definitely do Pacific Rim too!
Well this is the first im hearing of godzilla minus one.
Didn't know chameleons are iguanas.😂
Tiny pet peeve of mine, Dagon is pronounced Day-gone, it was the name of a Mesopotamian God, and a god worshipped by the fish people of the fictional town of Innsmouth from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadows Over Innsmouth."
This
Y’all been talking to the ERB crew?
Ik I saw it 2
5:32 well Godzilla also knows how dig underground really fast
Awesome video. I love Godzilla 2014
Great review!!! ❤❤
The animal you called an iguana was actually a Jackson's chameleon
This movie was meant to watched in a theater. What an experience.
Godzillas skeleton structure is based off a squirrel
That is not a Iguana that is a Chameleon .
Have you seen the rio lately? That place has gone down with age
This was everything! Loooooove!!
The only inconvenience that still bugs me is when godzilla comes from the ocean you never see him drag title waves in his wake. Idk its more a physics thing for me that I wish was carried over in the other movies.
Loved this ❤ 🔥 👏 💪
4:08 Heracles didn't fight Cetus, Perseus did (Cetus was the monster that was going to eat Andromeda)
That wasn't an iguana it was a Jackson's chameleon
I had a pet one for years so it was obvious to me
I wished they used an iguana 🦎 instead they used a horned chameleon
Hi Jessica can u please tell me what brand/style ur glasses are? Thanks.
hey just so you know that's not Sally Field, it's Rita Wilson. I think you meant Rita in the script...
Idk why but this Godzilla movie is probably my favourite monsterverse film, the majority of the movie just has that particular feel that kong skull island also kinda has yk? Idk if that makes sense but if it does then yk what I’m on about
Not all the Butterfly references are for Mothra, a lot could be for “monarch” as in the Butterfly
None of the butterfly references are towards Mothra lol The MOTH references are a nod to Mothra...