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With regard the remake GZ, this seems appropriate...

Best part of that movie. Or maybe second-best. Katana-wielding Action-Stalin is not to be missed. If we get a Godzilla mini, we should eventually get one of him too.

"a bit pricey" is an understatement !
Looks good though.

I guess that clip explains any Australia based hate towards The Original!

There is only one Godzilla, and inside him is a sweaty Japanese man having the time of his life destroying a Tokyo made of plaster and firecrackers.

All I see is an Emperor Titan counts-as.

When speaking of GINO, both the creature and movie were terrible.

If the creature GINO was marketed as something other than Godzilla, it would have been fine. But since it wasn't, it will always be remembered as an inferior creation. Maybe not fair to it's design, but that's the way it is, and will always be.

warpcrafter wrote:There is only one Godzilla, and inside him is a sweaty Japanese man having the time of his life destroying a Tokyo made of plaster and firecrackers.

Preach it brother!

Oh wow, that is truly awesome. If I ever win the lottery, I'll be buying that.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:

As an Australian, I have no problem with Sydney being destroyed if it means the end of Zilla.

What dissapoints me the most about the 1998 Godzilla, is that he doesn't have the Super Beam(or whatever it's called when Godzillas back lights up and he annihilates everything.)

I mean, come on, that's one of two powers he has, the other being really, really big. So in essence, they took out half of Godzillas awesomeness in that movie.

Mike Noble wrote:What dissapoints me the most about the 1998 Godzilla, is that he doesn't have the Super Beam(or whatever it's called when Godzillas back lights up and he annihilates everything.)

I mean, come on, that's one of two powers he has, the other being really, really big. So in essence, they took out half of Godzillas awesomeness in that movie.

He also had the ability to magnetize himself, he was a great boxer and he could suplex King Ghidorah.

depending on the incarnation, his back spines always lit up when he used his breath weapon.

Ahtman wrote:When we say we liked the American version better are we talking about the creature design or the movie itself? The person who brought it up seemed like they were talking about the creature design and everyone after that seemed to be referring to the film itself. I thought the design was actually pretty interesting but the actual movie itself was terrible.

The creature design.

Some background is needed perhaps to put my opinion in perspective.

I freaking loved dinosaurs as a kid, wanted to be a paleontologist and everything. However whenever a dino flick came out I could never see it. I was not allowed to go to the movies as a kid, I had no allowance and my parents were a bit overprotective of their dear son (I could only watch PBS as a kid).

However my grandparents had no such reservations. Every chance I got I would spend the weekend with them and a pile of rented movies. I would sit in my underwear (Barney themed because my parents were bound and determined to humiliate me) and watch the latest VHS releases of whatever the heck had been in theater the summer before. I did this while eating a lot of ice cream.

It was on one such weekend that a young me sat and watched a film in which a ginormous scaly temptress tore the gak out of some city. I was enthralled, my ice cream forgotten and melting as I watched the film several times through committing it to memory. Never before had any creature etched its likeness so deeply into my little heart.
The wonder was not eclipsed until I saw the miniseries “Walking with dinosaurs” several years later.

Good rule of thumb: If Matthew Broderick can pimp slap down your monster.... it's not really a monster

Platuan4th wrote:

Ma55ter_fett wrote:How bad of a person would you all consider me to be if I were to say that I liked the Americanized version better?

You go ahead and like that wuss.

I'm gonna continue to enjoy the fact that the REAL Big G killed him in under 5 seconds when they met.

I believe you refer to this match, right?


It's from Final Wars

And yes, I wouldn't call it Monstrous, I'd call it BEHEMOTH.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
I wouldn't call it Monstrous, I'd call it BEHEMOTH.

Darn! I really wanted to be the first one to post the Godzilla vs. Zilla match!

MightyGodzilla wrote:Do you the Godzilla community and Toho both refer to the American Godzilla from 1998 as G.I.N.O.?

Godzilla In Name Only.

Just thought I'd share, cuz after all, I am Mighty

I heard Toho was a little easier on, and maybe even liked the Godzilla from the animated series that was based on the American film, though. I might be wrong about that but I thought I read somewhere that they almost considered him to be worthy of the name.

And if you see the recommended videos at the end of the video MGS posted you'll probably see a clip from the animated version where "Zilla Jr." fights the resurrected alien cyborg version of the America Zilla, and wins, making Zilla look even more pathetic.

Mike Noble wrote:What dissapoints me the most about the 1998 Godzilla, is that he doesn't have the Super Beam(or whatever it's called when Godzillas back lights up and he annihilates everything.)

I mean, come on, that's one of two powers he has, the other being really, really big. So in essence, they took out half of Godzillas awesomeness in that movie.

YEAH, that pissed me off, too! There's that one scene where it kinda looks like it's breathing fire or something but it was so lame in comparison. Which they also "fixed" in the animated series, Zilla Jr. had a "super beam" attack where it's back plates light up, just like the real Godzilla does. I liked the design of Zilla though, but like most others in this thread I thought the movie itself was bad.


Anyway, I saw this thing a few weeks ago. It's awesome, but Christ that's a lot of money.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:

Ahtman wrote:When we say we liked the American version better are we talking about the creature design or the movie itself? The person who brought it up seemed like they were talking about the creature design and everyone after that seemed to be referring to the film itself. I thought the design was actually pretty interesting but the actual movie itself was terrible.

The creature design.

Some background is needed perhaps to put my opinion in perspective.

I freaking loved dinosaurs as a kid, wanted to be a paleontologist and everything. However whenever a dino flick came out I could never see it. I was not allowed to go to the movies as a kid, I had no allowance and my parents were a bit overprotective of their dear son (I could only watch PBS as a kid).

However my grandparents had no such reservations. Every chance I got I would spend the weekend with them and a pile of rented movies. I would sit in my underwear (Barney themed because my parents were bound and determined to humiliate me) and watch the latest VHS releases of whatever the heck had been in theater the summer before. I did this while eating a lot of ice cream.

It was on one such weekend that a young me sat and watched a film in which a ginormous scaly temptress tore the gak out of some city. I was enthralled, my ice cream forgotten and melting as I watched the film several times through committing it to memory. Never before had any creature etched its likeness so deeply into my little heart.
The wonder was not eclipsed until I saw the miniseries “Walking with dinosaurs” several years later.

If you loved Dinosaurs so much, then you should have preferred the original better, because he's actually a dinosaur. Zilla/GINO is an Iguana.

Behold the mighty Godzillasaurus!

Wow! I still have a rather large Godzilla from my childhood (the one that has wheels built in to his feet, and shoots his fist much farther than they'll let any toy shoot anything these days), and this one's even bigger. Unfortunately, it's bigger than my wallet, what hope is there for humanity?

As a bit of an aside, if you had money to burn and a toddler, I bet you could shove them inside for the coolest Halloween costume ever. Then, you could bid a fond farewell to not so awesome terrain pieces that you don't use any more. Heck, at that point you have money to burn. Destroy the good stuff.

And film it, and post it on Youtube as an American (or whatever country you live in) Godzilla sequel, and watch commentors squirm.

I actually liked the American version better. in all forms.

Watching it as a kid it was great. the movie is cheap now days but i had a great experience when it came out in theaters.

warpcrafter wrote:There is only one Godzilla, and inside him is a sweaty Japanese man having the time of his life destroying a Tokyo made of plaster and firecrackers.

One time when I was in Japan I was privileged to catch an in depth TV interview with the first "sweaty Japanese lady" to suit up as Godzilla and wreak small scale havoc.

It was the mid to late 90s and I think it represented an important step forwards in women's liberation.

Or it could have been an excuse to interview an athletic young woman wearing a tight spandex suit.

(Another show I remember from the time was "New Year Miss Hot Springs Bath -- Oops, my towel has fallen off!".)

People have posted some nice 'zillas but nobodies referred to the best of them all.

He's massive, he has the super beam type thing and he gets the chicks....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tpMcyda86I