Godzilla

 I decided this weekend to go back and watch the 1998 American Godzilla that everybody seems to hate. I myself am pretty medium level Godzilla fan and I’ve seen a lot of them but probably not every single one. This one was also the first Godzilla movie that was not made by TOHO. Well this one starts off with the whole how Godzilla came to be which followed the Japan’s versions pretty well with the radiation from hydrogen bombs created Godzilla. This was also special because Godzilla was computer generated the whole time and usually it was some guy in a costume.

One major thing that made Godzilla fans angry was probably  the fact that they tried to make a Godzilla movie that’s realistic which you can’t really do without taking out some of Godzilla’s trademark characteristics. The big characteristic they took out was the atomic breath and made him have a huge sound blasting roar which doesn’t really work and next big one was how the original Godzilla’s slow walk that he stands while doing but in this movie he’s kind of hunched over, fast and looks like a giant T-Rex. Godzilla has a bunch of babies in this one which to me it didn’t really matter cause it helped the story plot except for that the babies all look like velociraptors because of there numbers and there cornering technique’s they use. The scenes where there running away from the babies reminds of distinct scenes from Jurassic Park.

One small thing that really doesn’t matter that much but I’ll mention it anyways is the fact that Godzilla eats fish when in the Japanese version they never told us so I thought it was an interesting thing to put into the movie. Another major thing that’s also a major spoiler to anyone who hasn’t seen the movie is when Godzilla dies at the end. Now in the original the army tries everything to kill Godzilla but nothing works but in this movie it only takes about 6 missiles and it’s dead when he’s supposed to be this big indestructible thing that can’t be killed. The Japanese didn’t like it at all and called it zilla and had it appear in Godzilla: Final Wars(good movie by the way) were Godzilla appears and quickly blasts the shit out of zilla.

I’ve heard rumor lately that they might be going to give us (Americans) another shot at a Godzilla movie which I think would be very interesting and would be great because when this movie came out I was 4 and didn’t get to see it in theater so it be great to see the king of the monsters on the big screen. Overall I thought this movie had a very good story plot but things like some of the acting was bad and I think Matthew Broderick was really the only good actor there and how it’s not really Godzilla but a dinosaur.