Having the kids be the stars of a film doesn't automatically make it terrible. I didn't say that, I didn't even call Son of Godzilla terrible. My point was it tends to not work in franchises that already exist, I wasn't speaking of stand-alone films or franchises that always had kids. I think with the exceptions of Aliens and Terminator 2 when a child is thrown into a franchise as a main character that film inevitably either sinks the franchise or is at least considered one of the worst entries. It does depend on how it's done, though, see my problem is with a film franchise like Godzilla kids already love it, so why try to gear it more towards them? It's almost like they're insulting their fanbase by claiming what they want are these way dopier movies than what came before when kids already loved it. Some movies do survive this idea, though, like Daniel in the animated Transformers film, that said they did try to treat him as a surrogate for the children watching and the problem is any kid watching wanted to be Hot Rod not Daniel so it doesn't really make sense.Godzilla 1995 wrote:So, if having kids be the stars of a film automatically makes it terrible, please explain why Super 8, Up, and other films starring kids have done critically well.
Genuinely serious here.
I'm fine with the other two posts, you guys make good points/arguments, I'd just say to eabaker that for me these films appeal comes from the monsters, effects, action, music, atmosphere and all that and not at all from the human characters/story which I find more appealing in other films, tv shows or whatever else. A lot of it is the language barrier, I can't get invested in the performances/characters as well because I'm constantly having to read what they say and the subtitles are sometimes poor translations that make the dialogue seem dumber than it actually is, this is a lot of why I expect to be a big fan of the story/characters for Godzilla 2014 like I never was for the others.