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The last time someone tried to rework Godzilla, the classic Japanese monster born from the nation's post-atomic anxieties, in America we got 1998's Godzilla, a film that made a lot of money but disappointed just about everyone who saw it. Now Godzilla's on his way back, via Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Good news? Bad news? That's all the details we have at the moment.
Even after his humiliation in America, Godzilla stayed active in Japan, where he continued to appear in films up to Godzilla: Final Wars in 2004, after which Toho Studios declared the character "retired" until an unspecified future date. Looks like that date will arrive in 2012, when the film is slated for release.
I didn't really mind the American Godzilla movie. Sure it had a bad story really, but is that any different from most of the movies they've been putting out for the last 10 years? The last three movies I saw were all really good to awesome to me, despite all three having lack luster At Best stories. Avatar, 2012 and Ninja Assassin. Great entertainment, but nothing I'd get on DVD because they're not worth rewatching on the small screen.
Cloverfield was how Godzilla should have been done.
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Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Cloverfield was how Godzilla should have been done.
No it's not. AT ALL. Godzilla is a metaphor for a bomb that killed lots of people and totally reshaped a portion of the world. By becoming a "good guy" later on it expresses a national sense of redemption and working towards being at peace with a culture that seems intent on destroying it's own habitat. Mix in some cool monster fights and you have a masterpiece buried under the guise of something simple. When you look at Cloverfield you have the intellectual-level equivalent of a reality TV show. I have to completely disagree.
Not to mention cloverfield was built around suggestion and the idea that what you can't see is more scary. What kind of godzilla movie is it when you hardly see godzilla?
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The American Godzilla is an interesting comment on how Americans perceive Godzilla, as a giant lizard rather than as a metaphor for Japan's relationship with nuclear power.
If they want a good 'look' for Godzilla, the Godzilla suit of "Godzilla 2000" and "Godzilla vs Megaguirus" is a great place to start, particularly any scene where Godzilla is setting fire to something. If they could use CGI to convey the weight and flexibility of a heavy rubber suit, then they could change his gait and skeleton to something less like that of a man - no motion-capture though, this needs to be animated from the outside in.
A recent gozilla movie had him as the bad monster and Ghidorah as the Earth's defender, it was strange seeing the roles reversed.
And whilst you're pointing and shouting at the boogeyman in the corner, you're missing the burglar coming in through the window.
Well, Duh! Because they had a giant Mining ship. If you had a giant mining ship you would drill holes in everything too, before you'd destory it with a black hole
Other then Inspector Gadget...... I mean Godzilla 1998, I really didnt even know they made those after the 80s lol. I used to like them when I was a kid, so maybe I should go rent some. I thought our version was decent at best, I own it on tape (yes tape, not dvd, couldnt find myself paying for a dvd lol) and watch it everyone in awhile. But a nicely done redue would be pretty cool for sure.
I think i am the only guy on the planet who liked 1998 movie... but i was a kid back then... Oh and i think the Godzilla design is 5000000 times better than that japanese.... thing...
Soladrin wrote:I think i am the only guy on the planet who liked 1998 movie... but i was a kid back then... Oh and i think the Godzilla design is 5000000 times better than that japanese.... thing...
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The worst part is that the intro gives half the billing to this frickin' deformed godzooky and then 2 seconds to the human cast and five whole seconds for the boat they go on adventures with.
I would love to know what they we're smoking when they made this. Anyone who lived then, can you give me a list of drugs that would induce a Godzilla cartoon like this?
Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Cloverfield was how Godzilla should have been done.
Agreed. Cloverfield, putting the oh crap back into "OH CRAP that Monster just knocked over that building!"
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Seriously, I cared for nothing in this movie except for Godzilla's awesome looks... and I actually liked the caring mother bit of it.
