Movie Defense Force: Godzilla

[Jigero]

It's really not a good film by any standards. It's boring as hell, the CGI looks hideous, hence why it's raining all the god damn time in the movie so they could try to hide how terrible it looked. Not to mention Roland Emmerich's fetish for the Military and destruction porn is blatantly obvious though out the entire movie. It's easily Ronald's worst film and that's fucking saying some thing.

Also who cares if Jean Reno is in it, he gets horribly under utilized in the movie, all he does is stand around and be french.

 

[SAMAS]

Sounds like Jim had a lot of trouble with this one.

So what, is Zilla Godzilla's brother in law or something?

No, more like the movie happened exactly as it did, but notice how in the movie, Zilla is only called "Gojira" or "Godzilla" by a shell-shocked sailor and that one asshole reporter respectively?

That's pretty much the explanation given in Godzilla 2000: People took them at face value, and by the time someone who actually knew Kaiju debunked it, the rumor had already spread.

 

[TheUnbeholden]

This movie is godawfully mediocre. You can say one good thing, you can say one bad thing about it.. it's stupid, there lapses in general common sense in how that monster could hide, how the heat seeking missiles could miss. Smashing things apart and fighting military is decent and that is the only thing you could say.

This along with Alien Resurrection, is really hard to defend because I didn't find that movie funny or scary or interesting. It just seems like Jim is trying to hard now to be controversial now.

Atleast he agreed with me that Godzilla is way to long.

 

[Subject7]

I loved the heck out of this movie.

 

[Matthew Abbott]

My problem with the film wasn't so much that "it wasn't Godzilla," at the time I first saw this I'd only ever seen two Godzilla film, one of which was Godzilla vs. Megalon in which Godzilla teams up with a Ultraman-looking robot named Jet Jaguar (so I can take silliness). My problem was that it was just not a very good movie. The acting was sub-par, the movie drug one WAY too long (I don't think you emphasized that enough), and the entire time I was watching Zilla destroy shit I was just thinking "why are they getting close enough for the big lizard to bite them? Why don't they just fly higher? How can the big lizard dodge missiles like that? Missile go too fast to dodge. How is this thing not under surveillance every goddamned second?" Mostly I was just frustrated with what I saw as stupidities in the execution of the plot.

Also, the reason why Zilla was accepted once it was rolled into Godzilla canon was less because "oh, it's a different monster, so now it's cool" and more because in his one canonical appearance the real Godzilla slung him into the Sydney Opera House and blasted him to fuck with his atomic breath.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I watched this movie when I was 10 and I loved it. I had literally no prior exposure to the genre but I loved dinosaur stuff so this fit right in. I've not seen it in the last 10 years though so who knows what I'd feel about it now. I just know I have fond memories of it.

 

[ACE1918]

Could you please do Godzilla Final Wars? That one was cheesy but likable.