Sure, I never miss one, and this one looks interesting. But, in general, if I had my druthers, I would leave Godzilla to the Japanese who do the movies in the right spirit.
Kihei may be this board's resident film expert, but he may've just met his match. No one knows more useless franchise trivia than The Nemesis... and all of the above is simply "off the top of [his] head" .
Kihei may be this board's resident film expert, but he may've just met his match. No one knows more useless franchise trivia than The Nemesis... and all of the above is simply "off the top of [his] head" .
I liked Anno's Shin Gojira. The lasers were a bit much, but other than that everything was spot on.
Actually I could give him a run for his money especially since he claims Godzilla was using his atomic breath to fly in Megalon when it was the Hedorah film that him do that. In Megalon he glides along on his tail for the mother of all dropkicks.
Megalon is sick. Hope he makes an appearance.
Megalon is terrible. Its body looked like they just dragged a poncho through the mud and slapped it on the actor.
There are at least a half dozen better and more interesting monsters besides the 3 that will be in this movie that I'd want before Megalon.
None of which have drills for hands.
Gimme Megalon over all of those.Gigan has scythe hands and a buzzsaw in his chest. Instantly better.
Mogura has drill hands, though it wouldn't appear on the list of better monsters.
Monsters I would rather see than Megalon (in no particular order, and excluding Mothra, Rodan, and Ghidorah):
Anguirus
Gigan
Mechagodzilla (the alien-controlled fake-Godzilla version from the older movies, not the new-era anti-Godzilla piloted mecha verison)
Biollante
King Ceasar
Orga
Destroyah
Japan is not blameless when it comes to awful bastardizations of the "spirit" of Godzilla. Off the top of my head:
That's basically 1/3rd of the Japanese canon.
- Godzilla Raids Again (stupid cliche love triangle plot sandwiched around some monster fights. And this is the second movie they ever made. So they couldn't even make it to a count of 2 before going off the rails)
- All Monsters Attack (Soulless, creatively bankrupt clipshow of a movie cross-pollinated with a saturday afternoon "very special episode" kids morality tale about a latchkey kid standing up to bullies where the morality is quite literally dispensed through giant monster fights)
- Son of Godzilla (because "Son of ______" was a reasonably popular thing. Co-starring Scrappy-Doo if he were a doofy looking bipedal creature that can't possibly be related to Godzilla instead of a stupid little dog)
- Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (I'm pretty sure Godzilla wasn't even supposed to be in this movie originally, but the studio decided they liked money.)
- Godzilla vs Megalon (Hey, kids like Ultraman, right? So let's make the "real hero" of this movie basically be Ultraman in a separate, legally distinct sort of way while also "tastefully" totally-not-ripping-off Mazinger at the same time. And also worse than Ultraman in every possible way. Also Godzilla can use his atomic breath to fly. Sure, why not.)
- Godzilla vs Hedorah (what happens when you have the writing room drop acid before they churn out the script)
- Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla (we've stopped trying. As evidenced by the lazy villain being a Godzilla suit with crystals on it for no explainable reason whatsoever, and called "SpaceGodzilla" because it was time to break for lunch)
- Godzilla: Final Wars (Godzilla if it stopped being a Godzilla movie halfway through and turned into a shameless hybrid rip-off of The Matrix and a generic Sentai show)
- Shin Gojira (aka Godzilla Resurgence) (Godzilla through the creepy, mind-screw lens of the Evangelion guy, turning the titular character into a disproportionate tumor monster that barfs blood and shoots purple lasers out of orifices placed haphazardly all over its body for no other reason than to play up the cosmic horror angle that Anno was hellbent on re-imagining Godzilla to fill.)
I get it. Godzilla is like any other long-runner franchise is going to change and morph and be different. We live in a world where Batman has been Adam West dancing the batusi, George Clooney in a suit with nipples, Christian Bale with throat cancer, and Ben Affleck affirming his commitment to crossfit. Why can't Godzilla be serious metaphorical sci-fi, silly kids fare, and slam-bang popcorn action. But if there's a unifying "spirit" to Godzilla that Japan apparently gets, I'm not seeing it. If anything they've only "gotten" it more because a) they made the franchise and b) they have more chances to get it right on volume.
They also threw in during that movie that he was still growing. Seemed like a way to make it so they can make him even bigger for when he eventually goes up against Godzilla.Promising. But no more battles being filmed in the dark please. And let's not go an hour without Godzilla making an appearance. At least they have some classic monsters in this one. Always liked King Gidorah.
Now I know why they ridiculously super-sized Kong in Skull Island. No way KK could hang with any of these beasts.
Promising. But no more battles being filmed in the dark please. And let's not go an hour without Godzilla making an appearance. At least they have some classic monsters in this one. Always liked King Gidorah.
Now I know why they ridiculously super-sized Kong in Skull Island. No way KK could hang with any of these beasts.
They also threw in during that movie that he was still growing. Seemed like a way to make it so they can make him even bigger for when he eventually goes up against Godzilla.
They're really going to be stretching that explanation to make it close. Apparently Skull Island Kong is supposed to be about 100 feet tall.
That's still about 50% shorter than the smallest incarnation of Godzilla (most versions from the Showa era movies(1954 through 1975)) and less than one-third the size of the 2014 movie version that he would presumably be matched up against.
The super-ginormous 2017 version is from a set of anime films on Netflix (which I haven't seen, so don't ask). We're looking at the 2014 version that's about 3rd from the right.
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