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

TVB said:
Except Emmerich initially never wanted to make a Godzilla movie and was hoping to continue on with two more Stargate movie sequels (the latter two would end up being retooled as a SG-1 TV show for Showtime and Syfy). He was a director for hire just a month before Independence Day was even released resulting a complete rush job filming and also a rudimentary creature design that would ended up being approved anyway. It's a shitty movie but with a very interesting production history for sure, and Emmerich has since then regrets making it. Though, he did make 10,000 BC and such so I don't know what to think
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He wanted to make a meteor movie before Zilla 98


Makes me wonder if went and did that, does that mean Michael Bay doesn't make Armageddon? Or what if Hollywood went to Michael Bay in 1996 instead to do Godzilla?
 
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iirc wasn't part of the impetus to make G2000 being butthurt about how crap GINO was?
So if there's no Zilla that would have serious fallout for the Millenniums and beyond
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
He wanted to make a meteor movie before Zilla 98


Makes me wonder if went and did that, does that mean Michael Bay doesn't make Armageddon? Or what if Hollywood went to Michael Bay in 1996 instead to do Godzilla?
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It's also why Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich had both turned down their respective directing duties for the 2001 Planet of the Apes remake which was in development hell and had a lot of other directors turning down before Tim Burton came by
 
Clown College 2nd Year said:
Speaking of G movies we'll never see. Here's a fan edit of all the released footage for Wolfman vs Godzilla from the 80s. It was released last year. Interesting how the director used two different suits.
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i love how peak showa it all looks

the chonky af first godziller suit looks like the 62 godzilla got really fat

and the second suit looks like an emaciated 68-72 godzilla

the wolfman looks completely retarded it's wonderful

the human-sized wolfman and other non-kaiju footage looks like it was deliberately made to be as 70s japan b movie as possible
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
iirc wasn't part of the impetus to make G2000 being butthurt about how crap GINO was?
So if there's no Zilla that would have serious fallout for the Millenniums and beyond
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It just means Toho makes another Godzilla after a decade. I am curious now what a Michael Bay Godzilla would be like, if he doesn't do Armageddon and goes for that instead.
 
PS1gamenwatch said:
I am curious now what a Michael Bay Godzilla would be like, if he doesn't do Armageddon and goes for that instead.
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It would not be different from most other films from him, had Bay directed Godzilla. It would've been like the Bayformers movies, but with a giant lizard fighting other monsters. Actually come to think of it, it doesn't sound half-bad, it might be kino, but I dunno.

I could see Simon West directing a Godzilla movie if he wasn't exhausted after directing The General's Daughter or Lara Croft Tomb Raider (but he was also going to direct Black Hawk Down before Ridley Scott took over due to the same reason)
 
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TVB said:
Except Emmerich initially never wanted to make a Godzilla movie and was hoping to continue on with two more Stargate movie sequels (the latter two would end up being retooled as a SG-1 TV show for Showtime and Syfy). He was a director for hire just a month before Independence Day was even released resulting a complete rush job filming and also a rudimentary creature design that would ended up being approved anyway. It's a shitty movie but with a very interesting production history for sure, and Emmerich has since then regrets making it. Though, he did make 10,000 BC and such so I don't know what to think
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Not at all related to Godzilla, but SG-1 is fucking great.
Until season 9.
 
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YouTuber Geekdom101, who to be honest deserves his own thread on this website IMO, is so obsessed with Godzilla -1 that he’s seen it 6 times and is claiming it’s the “greatest movie of the century” when we’re not even a quarter way through said century and movies like 1917, All Quiet on The Western Front and Iron Claw exist.


Has the film industry gotten so bad that when a movie like G-1, a good movie, is made out to be a cinematic masterpiece on par with To Kill a Mockinbird, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Stagecoach and The Wizard of Oz?

Jim Morrison was right…People are Strange.
 
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CyrusHowler said:
YouTuber Geekdom101, who to be honest deserves his own thread on this website IMO, is so obsessed with Godzilla -1 that he’s seen it 6 times and is claiming it’s the “greatest movie of the century” when we’re not even a quarter way through said century and movies like 1917, All Quiet on The Western Front and Iron Claw exist.


Has the film industry gotten so bad that when a movie like G-1, a good movie, is made out to be a cinematic masterpiece on par with To Kill a Mockinbird, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Stagecoach and The Wizard of Oz?

Jim Morrison was right…People are Strange.
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That's because Hollywood is all about nepotism and less about good storytelling. The whole entertainment industry has been hellbent on reviving IPs from the dead and trying to make a cinematic universe, and most of which had failed hard. Sure, movies such as Iron Claw, Baby Driver, 1917, Whiplash, The Lighthouse, etc. have their respective moments in the sun for a short while, but that's the thing, they are overshadowed by a heap of mediocrity that people forget about shortly after we walk out of the cinema, especially those that are based on intellectual property.

Last year, 2023, saw people finally realizing that capeshit and other pieces of unoriginality are not worthy to watch in theatres, yet something like Godzilla Minus One manages to be outdoing the majority of movies based off IPs that came out all year, so much so that even the industry is finally taking notes.

I do recommend watching two of EmpLemon's videos regarding two iconic 1999 movies and the dying and decaying ruins of Hollywood
 
Saw Godzilla Minus One, Minus Color.
I'm a little conflicted. On one hand the B&W made some of the okayish CG look worse on Godzilla in a few short scenes, but on the other it made some scenes look amazing
the scenes with Noriko and Akiko cooking dinner, and the scene with Noriko telling Shikishima she got a job in Ginza had an almost angelic look to them, with the light being warmer and the darks being softer
. Overall, does the B&W make it better? I'd say so, but then again I'm a softie for the original 54 film.
I'll also admit a few scenes in retrospect on a second viewing made me choke up a bit, especially with Akiko crying for Noriko (which did a great job in making me and everyone else actually HATE Godzilla. Yamazaki did such a good job making Godzilla an unlikeable, murderous bastard that you want to see dead by the end of the film)
In conclusion, kinda better than the OG version. If it comes out on Blu-Ray here in burgerland, I'd recommend it.
Edit: removed repetitive words because repetitive lol
 
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Crossposting, but look at what TV Tropes has to say about people like us enjoying Minus One.

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