What you want to see vs what you need to see.

Can we all just agree with one thing?
We all felt a surge of some sort chemical in our brains when we saw for the first time Godzilla?

So much build up for that. Granted, the scene lasted less than 5 minutes... but when I saw Godzilla roar for the first time, I felt my entire body shake with excitement.

There are some things that CGI has been able to do. Create magnificent things that our minds crave sometimes.

Remember "Pacific Rim"? One of the most strange films, yet satisfying films I've ever seen. It was something else to see monster after monster getting slayed by a giant robot with a sword. It creates (at least as a man) a rush of testosterone in our brains, that we just gotta get out there and do something.
Sometimes, directors know exactly how to deliver the strongest message. Or the greatest moment in a film.
Like in Jurassic Park. We wanted to see the T-rex, but we didn't get to see the T-rex until almost an hour into the film. But once he was on screen... BAM, it was something else. You felt like he was actually there and something so big and so magnificent was on the big screen.

Some directors DON'T know how to set it up. Transformers 4 The First one again, only without Shia The poster for this film had optimus prime on a freaking dinosaur spitting fire... I should have been like the dude in .gif above... but rather I was more like

I didn't care... no matter the awesomeness.
The question though should not be whether the thing being shown is awesome or not. It is whether what the directors needs you to see.
Some directors focus their entire story on building up towards the big reveal. And once the big reveal is out...then the entire film focuses on that. Going back to Jurassic Park, we wanted to see the T-rex, and we got to, and then it was running away from the T-rex.
They incorporated what we wanted to see with what we needed to see to make the story flow.
With Transformers, we didn't need to see how Optimus was riding that thing... it was secondary.
Therefore, the build up was not as big.


That's all I got...sorry, no big disagreement today...
Maybe next time...
Maybe next time I'll talk about the movies that EVERYONE wants me to talk about... the Hobbit films....

This will be tough