It's a fun read, but it could've done with another pass in editorial, to be honest. Quite a lot of typos and errors in this one. It's sloppier than I've come to expect from this site.Henson said:Quote under original Gojira: "makes a lot of it more interesting to analyze than to analyze", needs fix.
This Week: The Heisei Series (Godzilla "eras" are generally named for the emperor of Japan at the time of their production), i.e. the original run of Godzilla installments that ran from 1954 to 1975.
Apparently this week and next week are the Heisei series! Even more confusing because the text for Terror of Mechagodzilla refers to these movies as the Showa era, so I've no idea how that mistake at the beginning got through.Next Week: The Heisei and Millenium series.
You seriously don't consider Godzilla 1985 great?MovieBob said:(there wouldn't be a truly great installment again until the 90s)
That was my very first Godzilla movie ever as a very young child. Hedorah's design and the images of smog and polluted waters left a lasting impression on me. Time to watch it again along with a bunch of others.JCAll said:Godzilla vs the Smog Monster has always been one of my favorites in the series. That movie is bananas.
I don't mind dated effects and I don't mind movies that are "so bad they're good", but specifically Godzilla's Revenge, just like Bob said in his article, is a shitty japanese PSA against bullies that happens to include Godzilla in it (and Manilla... god I hate that mother fucker) and pretty much 90% of the film is stock footage of previous better films, with the other 10% composed of a kid having hallucinations (even while being kidnapped by robbers) of Godzilla and... *sigh* Manilla talking to him.Jim_Callahan said:In fairness, if there's one distinguishing characteristic of the genre itself beyond "big monsters wreck shit" it's basically "you don't have to be a GOOD movie to be an AWESOME movie". Pretty much all of them (with maybe the exception of the first) are terrible in the production values, writing, acting, etc senses, but a good 3/4 of them are entertaining despite that.SupahGamuh said:Interesting enough, the Cinema Snob's latest review is of Godzilla's Revenge and it truly seems like a facepalm-inducing stinker.
Kaiju movies are to the larger disaster/horror genre basically what kung-fu tournament movies are to the larger action movie genre. They're not really the subgenre you look to for 'quality', they're the genre you look to for extremely narrow niche appeal. Giant monsters wrecking shit for no apparent reason is just their version of 'twenty minute hand-to-hand fight scene for no reason'.