Upcoming: Godzilla (Teaser Trailer)

It's been since June since I've done an update for the upcoming 2014 Godzilla reboot. I'm posting this one in commemoration of the recently released official teaser trailer. Take a look.

I think this looks pretty promising. I very much like how they're keeping Godzilla's appearance more or less a secret and it seems that the approach they're going for is fairly minimalist. I mean, sure, it's still a damn Godzilla movie, but the few explosions I saw weren't CG and I didn't catch any overly intense gun-fights or something of the sort. Also, the general lack of music and sound is a key point to this end.
Also, something to note, this may just be turning into my dream film as it seems that Gareth Edwards, the director, is passionate about visual quality. All of those long, sustained shots of the gray skies and citywide carnage as the plumes of red flare-smoke descend into it. The way the dust and rubble tumbles across Godzilla's body as he rears his head to be caught in the sun's back-lighting. I think it's safe to say that this film will be a great visual treat.

Hopefully we won't be getting that cop-out of an ending as we did in '98 where the military force is able to stamp out the Godzilla menace. Whereas in literally every other Godzilla movie ever, the military can barely hold a candle to Godzilla, if you've ever seen the '98 American version, you know he was killed by jet-fire. I think that happening again would be unlikely, but I'm not holding my breath.

And y'know what? I'm not at all surprised that Godzilla is completely CG, matter of fact, from the couple of glimpses we get of him, I think he looks fucking awesome. It's an updated version of him, which is fine because his looks are changed every couple of years, but it doesn't look wholly un-Godzilla like the '98 Godzilla did, who was actually acknowledged and renamed "Zilla" in the Japanese series. Matter of fact, Gareth Edwards stressed that it was important that this Godzilla felt like the Toho Godzilla.

This is the clearest shot we get of him.

As far as the other monster goes, not much is known. However, it's rumored that the foe will look something like this:

I've never seen that thing before so there may actually be a decent chance that the enemies featured in this one will be totally new. That may or may not be good news to you (Ghidorah's out of the running) but hell, at least it's something.

Godzilla has a release date set for May, 16th, 2014 so clear up your fucking calendar in advance because this looks promising.

Keep checking the Aculeus and I'll keep you guys updated with whatever comes my way.