The Godzilla Thread - Plus other giant monsters, no matter how popular or obscure

Well, here are my thoughts on some of the upcoming Godzilla projects:

  1. Godzilla vs. Megalon short film: I LOVED Godzilla vs. Gigan Rex, so I am down for this. It looks great. These short films (both animated and live action) have been very enjoyable.
  2. Godzilla: Minus One - It looks fantastic, but I am a little worried that Toho is content making standalone monster films for Godzilla. They haven't done a proper monster fight extravaganza since Final Wars, almost 20 years ago. Shin was great, and this looks good too, but Toho, can we get some monster battles again? I like standalone monster films too, but a large part of Godzilla's legacy is him fighting other monsters, so it'd be nice if the parent company gave us that.
  3. Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - This also looks great, but I don't expect Godzilla to be in every episode. I think he's going to be a big guest star to pop up in a few scenes, but this is going to focus more on the history of Monarch and the many monsters they've encountered. That list includes Godzilla, but I don't expect him to be a main focus. Still, it'll probably be better than that Skull Island animated show that kind of missed the mark.
  4. Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - I expect goofy fun from this and as long as they let the monsters do their thing, its hard to imagine this not being enjoyable.
 
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RumblyTumbly said:
Godzilla: Minus One - It looks fantastic, but I am a little worried that Toho is content making standalone monster films for Godzilla. They haven't done a proper monster fight extravaganza since Final Wars, almost 20 years ago. Shin was great, and this looks good too, but Toho, can we get some monster battles again? I like standalone monster films too, but a large part of Godzilla's legacy is him fighting other monsters, so it'd be nice if the parent company gave us that.
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If it ends up being successful, which I know it will, then we could actually see more films in the Minus One era
 
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RumblyTumbly said:
Godzilla: Minus One - It looks fantastic, but I am a little worried that Toho is content making standalone monster films for Godzilla. They haven't done a proper monster fight extravaganza since Final Wars, almost 20 years ago. Shin was great, and this looks good too, but Toho, can we get some monster battles again? I like standalone monster films too, but a large part of Godzilla's legacy is him fighting other monsters, so it'd be nice if the parent company gave us that.
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Honestly after Final Wars Godzilla had been a mixed bag for me. The monsterverse is OKAY but I cannot stand the design of Godzilla. Shin Godzilla was great, almost as good as the original. The anime trilogy was the first major misfire from Gen Urobuchi (whose best works IMO were Thunderbolt Fantasy and Gaim), and now -1 looks incredible.
I would LOVE it if Toei made an anthology series instead using the tired cinematic universe approach to Godzilla. Maybe have a Mothra movie set in the 1850s with Samurai, or have a cutting edge Sci-Fi movie with Moguera and Gigan.
And for god(zilla)s sake enough with King Ghidorah. Put in Bagan or Destroyah again.
 
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RumblyTumbly said:
I am a little worried that Toho is content making standalone monster films for Godzilla
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I'm not actually. Idk if -1 is confirmed just him no other monsters (or two godzillers) or not yet, but I assume so. I loved Shin quite a bit but I would be lying if I didn't walk out a little pissed after seeing my first Godzilla movie by Toho since a child in 2000 with a group of friends and there was no other monster fights. I was also disappointed when I heard about Anno's Shin 2 thing that was just going to be monster fights basically and we didn't get it. That being said, Shin was such a radical take on him character-wise although I would have liked to see him fight some weird ass shit, I get why we didn't go there. Plus the movie as a highly political critical darling would have been weird to follow up with purple lazer godzilla fights something. the other thing was we knew Monsterverse G2 & GvK was coming out and Toho probably was probably in no rush to do similar shit. However with this movie, from what's been shown this is literally just regular ass Godzilla. Scary again, sure but this is for all intents and purposes a modernization of '54 in the opposite way that Shin was. Now, I hope Toho doesn't have early 2010s MCU fever and think I need Rodan -1, Mothra -1, whatever the fuck before we get to a sequel, but Godzilla's design alone makes me think we have a high probability of once this one gets out of the way, doing more classic Kaiju stuff with him. idk if that will be a sequel and they'll go the route of this monster eventually becomes heroic, or just the other monster is a bigger evil, or if they'll just reboot again after but this feels like a reintroduction to the more typical godzilla to me.

Personally I'd probably like them to just continue with sequels and maybe do loose reimaginings of some of the other classics as period piece things, but regardless I think the only way to move forward is doing more traditional Godzilla fights someone things. there's only so many times they can remake '54 in close succession in various ways before people stop caring. they don't have to lose the tone or scariness of godzilla in order for him to fight some other motherfuckers if they don't want to.

as far as Monsterverse stuff coming out, I doubt Godzilla will be in Monarch hardly at all, but I expect to like it. looks tonally more in my wheelhouse, love kurt russell. and GxK will be totally retarded and kill more braincells than the case of beer I'll be smuggling in the theater to drink watching it will, and I'll probably love every second of it. If you live anywhere there is a 4DX theater, go see it in that. I saw Godzilla KOM & GvK in it and it's sick the seats shake and vibrate and they spray water and shit at you in certain parts and some smoke effects and stuff and it made those movies way cooler than they actually were to watch. I've never seen anything else in the 4DX format because there is like nothing else I would imagine it would work the same way it did in those movies. I considered it for a few things but honestly the novelty only really works with large scale disaster stuff I imagine most movies have way less to do with the immersion besides just moving around.
 
DapperShark said:
New trailer for Minus One. It looks great, also kinda darkly hilarious that the setting is immediately after WW2, Japan just gone done getting absolutely mogged in the war and here comes a giant, walking, literal reptilian nuke right after just for the extra 'get fucked nips', shit's meaner than the original lol
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Holy shit, my reptilian nigga has gone full Postal Dude here. Sure, the original one was horrifyingly mean, but here in Minus One so far, he's downright pissed
Clown College 2nd Year said:
Gemstone is really upping their game with each new Godzilla short. I thought this was way better than the Gigantic movie.
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I love this short
 
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TVB said:
Holy shit, my reptilian nigga has gone full Postal Dude here. Sure, the original one was horrifyingly mean, but here in Minus One so far, he's downright pissed

I love this short
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Honestly -1 looks like it'll as good as the 54 original. I LOVE the design of Godzilla and the roar is honestly terrifying.
I'll be seeing this in a BIG D screen, so holy shit it'll be spectacular
 
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I just hope and pray it does live up to the hype, because so far, it looks so brutal yet incredible
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Making it a period piece should keep it, for want of a better word, grounded.
Pissed off Godzilla making his existence everyone's problem.
As it should be.
 
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The 1st issue of the justice league comic is surprisingly really good. It's mostly flavoring dc so far but I really love how it starts out as a classic superman/justice league story before Godzilla shows up.

also king Kong interacting with grod is hilarious
 
DapperShark said:
It looks great, also kinda darkly hilarious that the setting is immediately after WW2, Japan just gone done getting absolutely mogged in the war and here comes a giant, walking, literal reptilian nuke right after just for the extra 'get fucked nips', shit's meaner than the original lol
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Two Bombs Weren't Enough: The Motion Picture

Godzilla understands that anime must be destroyed at its root.
 
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Illuminati Order Official said:
No love for Project Jet Jaguar, following Hedorah from 2021 and Gigan from 2022?
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That was really good! I didn't even know about this short until a couple of weeks ago. I'm glad we're getting pretty decent content that seems to be produced with a lot more love and care then some of the other franchises out there *cough, cough* Marvel. Although I heard the Monarch series wasn't very good at all. I guess we shall see how good Minus One is, I'm fairly optimistic about it.
 
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Clown College 2nd Year said:
That was really good! I didn't even know about this short until a couple of weeks ago.
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It's third in a series (Final Wars Godzilla vs. monster celebrating their anniversary that year, so the first one was Hedorah, then Gigan in his Showa iteration and this year it's Jet Jaguar).
For some reason Toho removes them from their channel but I should have them archived somewhere if someone missed the old ones.
 
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This snapshot popped up in one of the 8 gabillion random Godzilla fan pages in my FB feed. Apparently, it's for the Dolby edition of the movie, I don't know about you Kiwi's, but this makes even more hyped up for this movie. That's a damn cool poster.

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Edit: Someone posted a higher quality version of the poster.
 
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Clown College 2nd Year said:
This snapshot popped up in one of the 8 gabillion random Godzilla fan pages in my FB feed. Apparently, it's for the Dolby edition of the movie, I don't know about you Kiwi's, but this makes even more hyped up for this movie. That's a damn cool poster.

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The Regal theater near me will be showing it on both standard and IMAX. I may go with the latter for that experience.
 
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