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Post by GL on Nov 28, 2006 16:10:14 GMT -5
And I'm really, really sorry for admitting to this GL, but I have to fess up to liking the US remake of 2000??? ... mainly because my 9 year old thinks it's so cool. Next step is to get him into the real stuff. Don't be. I thought it was decent enough and just as good as his 70s movies, but I would've liked it more had he acted more like the Japanese one, or even still, just changed his name to something else. That's the main point of beef I had with it, although there were others to be sure. Change the name and I would've been happy with the film.
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Post by jasonx on Nov 28, 2006 17:14:05 GMT -5
I agree. I liked the whole scene where he takes out the helicopters. But it wasn't really "Godzilla", it was just a giant reptile. Plus, all the scenes with the baby reptiles got boring.
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Post by GL on Nov 29, 2006 11:12:29 GMT -5
And completely ripped off from the Raptors in the Jurassic Park films.
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Post by emma on Nov 30, 2006 16:41:36 GMT -5
I like "Godzilla". It's got some fun action sequences in it. I cried at the end though. I'm such a baby.
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Post by GL on Nov 30, 2006 16:52:30 GMT -5
Godzilla vs. Destroyer has a much sadder ending than this one, but it's not a better film.
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Post by Conan on Nov 30, 2006 16:57:02 GMT -5
I ain't watched a Godzilla movie that I liked in years.
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Post by emma on Nov 30, 2006 16:59:20 GMT -5
I havn't really seen many but I'll look it up. Thanks. I remember seeing a couple several years ago.
The only ones I have ever seen is:
The American Godzilla: 5/10 The Origional 8/10 Godzilla vs Mothra 7/10
There was one other one I saw where Godzilla was fighting a giant plant which was very good.
I heard that they got very violent after a while and I havn't really watched any of these.
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Post by GL on Dec 1, 2006 11:23:34 GMT -5
They're not very violent at all. I prefer those kind more to the ones where it's just a constant back-and-forth of shooting off energy rays. As impressive as they look, they get boring after a while and a more realistic style of fighting is much more nice looking.
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Post by jasonx on Dec 1, 2006 16:08:05 GMT -5
Godzilla vs. Destroyer has a much sadder ending than this one, but it's not a better film. One of the best Godzilla films, in my opnion. Very sad. BTW, the one with the giant plant is "Godzilla vs Biolante". For xmas, I'm getting Godzilla vs Megalon. I know it's not a good one but I want to see all the movies.
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Post by GL on Dec 2, 2006 11:28:11 GMT -5
Technically, it's Biollante. There's two "l's."
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Post by abraxas on Oct 15, 2010 13:31:32 GMT -5
Godzilla is a 1954 Japanese science fiction film directed and co-written by Ishiro Honda, produced and distributed by Toho Company Ltd. In 1956, a heavily edited version was released in the U.S. as Godzilla, King of the Monsters!. The original Japanese version is now available in the US under the title Gojira (pronounced Go-Zirra).
The story is simple, the testing of atomic weapons gives birth to a terrible monster, or at least that's what the US version leads you to believe. The reason for his arrival is never really made clear, but soon he is stomping around Japan destroying everything in his way. Nothing can stop the monster, not electricity, missiles, tanks, eventually a way is found to destroy the creature. A device/chemical known as an oxygen destroyer is used. Godzilla for the purpose of the film was viewed as a mutated dinosaur, which looked like a cross between a Tyrannosaurus Rex, an Iguanodon and a Stegosaurus. Godzilla had radiation breath, sometimes mistakenly thought to be the ability to breath fire, Godzilla's spine would light up as he used his deadly breath.
Godzilla is essentially a guy in a monster suit, walking through a miniature city scape rigged with explosions and collapsible buildings. The film is shot in black and white, this actually lends a sense of realism to the scenes of the man in a suit. Force Perspective is also used masterfully in this film, with the black and white working particularly well with the method. Ironically some of the later movies have never matched the level of the effects in the first film.
One of the biggest differences is that the explanation for the existence of Godzilla is slightly different in the original version. The US version says that Godzilla's ancestor, an intermediate creature, lived in what is known as the Jurassic period. Whereas in the original it is more clearly stated that this intermediate creature was born between the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The US version indicates that some unknown phenomenon brought the creature to life, in the original however it is stated that the creature had been living in some isolated niche of the ocean since the cretaceous period.
The detentions of atomic bombs dislodged this creature from its habitat and it absorbed the radiation, this would indicate that in the original version Godzilla was already as he is now, the US version suggests that the radiation is what created him. Godzilla is said to be 400 feet tall in the US version while in the original he is only about 145 feet tall.
The big myth of this film was that it was so anti-American that it had to be drastically changed in order to show it to American film goers. In reality the movie was edited simply because it was a foreign movie and to make it more palatable to the masses it was heavily edited. Additional scenes were filmed with Raymond Burr in them, this was accomplished by using doubles for the Japanese actors, many of the shots were done over the shoulders of the other characters.
There is some truth to the idea that it was anti-American if you will, at least anti-war, the main difference between the two versions is that the message was toned down. In the original version there was much more about the unfortunate violent nature of mankind and the futility of war. Even though Godzilla is killed in the original film there is a warning given at the end, as long as humans flirt with atomic energy there is a chance that another Godzilla might appear.
In todays world this would have been a perfect set up for a sequel.
5 out of 5 roars for this one
So ends my review of the entire Godzilla franchise
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Post by GL on Oct 18, 2010 10:58:52 GMT -5
Good review, can't state I agree with it more.
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