Best performance: Bryan Cranston. Also, took a while to recognize Juliet Binoche

Did they need to skip the fight in Hawaii? It'd set-up the tenor of the rematch in SF. Also, how'd he get to the female before the male reappeared? And his scales didn't light up in last blast

Was there a reason why the set-up scene couldn't have been set up in 1991, re: Pinatubo? Less nuclear plants?

I guess the US troops didn't get the memo of don't get in the way. Also, the clockwork was set for 90 minutes, so everything including the five-mile freefall happened in an hour. Time wonked there

Setting up the freefall is what took the most time I think, but same issue: Cranston didn't have to die, he was the best human in the film, and yeah, show the Hawaii fight please.

regardless, thoroughly enjoyable?

If you don't consider what as left out, sure - which includes pithier "bought the airline" level quips from Ken Watanabe, who I suspect was there to make the lead actor look good, by which I mean Godzilla

When Male!MUTO gave Fem!MUTO the warhead, I said to D, "Look, love. That's like, every girl on her period." =)))

Likely accurate. Lucky no onscreen Mothra lovin'? They are siblings, y'know

Mothra babies

Fairly sure kinilabutan si elf_chan nung sinabi ko nung lumipad si Male!MUTO "mukhang ipis"

^ YES. Us too.

I was thinking 'ohshit! we don't have slippers big enough to kill that thing.'