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.
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.
