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Godzilla Films from the 1990s to the Present: Rankings?

Goji said:
Far and away the two best films since the end of the original series are GMK (2001)
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I have that one, and it's a standout movie to be sure. VERY good FX, and VERY tense atmosphere. As good as it is though, it's just not a favourite. I usually want cool monster action, not something that serious.
"Godzilla Final Wars", which is just ADD-fueled mayhem that made me honestly cringe as I watched it. It's the worst, by far.
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ADD-fueled mayhem is a BAD thing???:vulcan::rofl:
Final Wars rocks the casbah for the very reason you dislike it.:cool:
 
Chrisisall said:
ADD-fueled mayhem is a BAD thing???:vulcan::rofl: Final Wars rocks the casbah for the very reason you dislike it.:cool:
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Final Wars is a very divsive film. I do love it for being so over the top. What bothers me more is the fan base is so vocal in their hatred of both Final Wars and the American Godzilla that I am getting to the point where I want to begin to just keep my feelings about those two movies to myself.
 
Gojira said:
Final Wars is a very divsive film. I do love it for being so over the top. What bothers me more is the fan base is so vocal in their hatred of both Final Wars and the American Godzilla that I am getting to the point where I want to begin to just keep my feelings about those two movies to myself.
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The American Godzilla film is a really GOOD movie, it's just not a really good GODZILLA movie IMHO. Godzilla movies have a particular cheese factor that Americans have a difficult time replicating. ;)
And I'm not into the 'hate' thing with Godzilla. Like with Batman or Bond, there are films I like more than others. I prefer to concentrate on what I like about a film series.
 
Chrisisall said:
Gojira said:
Final Wars is a very divsive film. I do love it for being so over the top. What bothers me more is the fan base is so vocal in their hatred of both Final Wars and the American Godzilla that I am getting to the point where I want to begin to just keep my feelings about those two movies to myself.
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The American Godzilla film is a really GOOD movie, it's just not a really good GODZILLA movie IMHO. Godzilla movies have a particular cheese factor that Americans have a difficult time replicating. ;)
And I'm not into the 'hate' thing with Godzilla. Like with Batman or Bond, there are films I like more than others. I prefer to concentrate on what I like about a film series.
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That is a good attitude to have! I do like the American Godzilla film and I see it as a fun giant monster movie even though it isn't the Japanese Godzilla. I also tend to focus on what I like in movies too. Too much negativity around the world!
 
Chrisisall said:
The American Godzilla film is a really GOOD movie, it's just not a really good GODZILLA movie IMHO.
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I tend to agree. I don't think it's "really GOOD," but it's a reasonably entertaining monster movie as long as you accept that it's not a movie about Godzilla. And the film itself contains evidence suggesting that this is the case. In the Emmerich film, the first character to witness the movie's star kaiju is an elderly Japanese fisherman who refers to it as "Gojira," and later, other Japanese characters also recognize that name. This implies that Japan has had prior experience with a creature called Gojira or Godzilla (which are both valid transliterations of ゴジラ although the latter is in an older transliteration scheme). However, it's pretty clear from the movie that its star creature has only recently emerged. So the film itself implies that its title creature is merely named after/mistaken for an earlier, original Godzilla.

And the Toho film GMK supports this. That film is set in a timeline where Godzilla hasn't been seen since the original 1954 incident, a lot of the details of which were classified, so that the public doesn't remember a lot about Godzilla (some even consider him a myth), and when other kaiju such as Baragon appear, some people mistake them for Godzilla because they don't know any better. What's more, early in GMK, there's a reference to a possible, unconfirmed Godzilla sighting in New York a few years earlier -- an in-joke reference to the American film, meant to distance its "Godzilla" from the original one, but it meshes perfectly with the events of that film.
 
Christopher said:
What's more, early in GMK, there's a reference to a possible, unconfirmed Godzilla sighting in New York a few years earlier -- an in-joke reference to the American film, meant to distance its "Godzilla" from the original one, but it meshes perfectly with the events of that film.
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Nicely thought out!:techman:
 
I didn't find 2000 to be bad in any particular way, just rather nondescript. It was supposed to be the start of an experiment in alternative Godzilla continuities, but it wasn't different enough from what came before to feel like there was much point to the changes -- yet neither was it similar enough to the Heisei universe to feel like a continuation. So it was neither fish nor fowl, kind of caught in limbo. And like I said, it's the only Godzilla continuity from Japan that doesn't explicitly count the original film as part of its history. If anything, it treats Godzilla as a fairly recent phenomenon, a creature that's been attacking long enough that the culture has adjusted to the attacks the way they'd adjust to typhoons or volcanoes, but is still very poorly understood by science.
 
I just watched Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah for the first time- wow, what a badly written, silly movie.
But, lots of fun!:techman:
Great FX, awesome music, and a really good-looking Big G. I must thank Sumogorilla for a good clean copy of this movie that is so hard to find.
Funny, all aliens & peeps from the future seem to be up to no good.:rommie:
 
RAMA said:
Watched Godzilla 2000 recently, it was 10 times worse than Godzilla 1998.

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Really? I like Godzilla 98 and I also really like Godzilla 2000. I really enjoy it. Ireally enjoy the visuals. When Godzilla is first rampaging the city and the sky is rd I think those are very well done.
 
Chrisisall said:
I just watched Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah for the first time- wow, what a badly written, silly movie.
But, lots of fun!:techman:
Great FX, awesome music, and a really good-looking Big G. I must thank Sumogorilla for a good clean copy of this movie that is so hard to find.
Funny, all aliens & peeps from the future seem to be up to no good.:rommie:
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This movie has one of the strangest plots but it sure is a lot of fun!
 
Personally I love Godzilla VS King Ghirdorah it was an awesome action, adventure movie, the story might've had problems but then so did T2 whch came out the same year.
 
Chrisisall said:
DWF said:
Personally I love Godzilla VS King Ghirdorah it was an awesome action, adventure movie, the story might've had problems but then so did T2 whch came out the same year.
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I liked it enough to order Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, a sort of sequel.. more monster action & more Akira Ifukube music!:techman: Can't wait.
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The '93 movie is one of the all best Godzilla movies IMO and I'm sure you'll come away with a crush on Shelley Sweeney.
 
My favorite thing about Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah is the idea that radiation can turn three animals roughly the size of cats into King freakin' Ghidorah. I mean, I know it's a Godzilla movie and all, but that's quite the growth spurt. And I thought radiation was scary when it just gave people horrible diseases.

Also, apparently neither Godzilla nor King Ghidorah breathe oxygen. Or they inexplicably have gills. And King Ghidorah can survive trapped on the bottom of the ocean for hundreds of years after getting one of its heads blown off. And the Godzilla dinosaur can survive for at least 10 years, possibly 50 (the wonky time travel in this movie makes it hard to determine if the "new" Godzilla was really created in the 50s or 90s) in the same location, after being critically wounded no less.

Kind of a weird movie, but fun (mostly, as I said earlier, in the second half). James Cameron must have felt very honored, if he ever saw it (unlikely). Shades of "The Terminator" and "Aliens" (Emmy's fight with Godzilla inside Mecha King Ghidorah always reminded me of Ripley in the crate loader, though I may be alone in that) in the same movie.
 
Goji said:
My favorite thing about Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah is the idea that radiation can turn three animals roughly the size of cats into King freakin' Ghidorah..
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My first impression was, NO WAY, DUDE!! :lol:
But then I went with it.
These movies are sheer fun, just like Bill & Ted.
Well, not AS good as Bill & Ted, but you know what I mean.
And mechagodzilla is an evil metal dickweed, no matter the film.:techman:
 
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