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

I just so happened to peek at my baby brother's bed and saw this... thing.
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A 2007 BabyGodzilla plush. What.
 
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Godzilla@1989 said:
Hell, since the multiverse is all the rage nowadays, maybe Toho would do a legacy sequel set in either the Showa timeline or Heisei timeline.
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Just keep Gen Urobuchi away from it this time. The anime trilogy was so stupid.
The dimensional stuff with Singular Point ain't much better.
 
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Godzilla@1989 said:
When is Toho going to make another Godzilla movie where he fights a new monster?
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Aren't they planning on making new Godzilla films? History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man Toho always has Godzilla fight original monsters before they bring out the usual suspects, (King Ghidorah, Mothra, Rodan, Mechagodzilla), to bolster lower ticket sales whenever they reboot the franchise.

Godzilla@1989 said:
And while we’re at it, can we also have a new Godzilla design where he isn’t slow and thick all the time?
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By that logic we would end-up with Zilla who was pure DEX vs. normal Godzilla who is a STR END build. I guess the only time the Big G has ever been agile and wasn't slow and thick was this scene:

Godzilla@1989 said:
Hell, since the multiverse is all the rage nowadays, maybe Toho would do a legacy sequel set in either the Showa timeline or Heisei timeline.
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I now want a multiverse Godzilla crossover just because the height differences between the different eras could be used for comedic effect. Showa Godzilla is 164 ft tall, Heisei is about 300 ft tall, Millennium at his largest was 328 ft tall, and Reiwa and Legendary are close to 400 ft tall. The newer Godzilla's are more than twice the size of the original Godzilla. You could milk a lot of humor out of people being scared of the original Godzilla before they see the newer ones approaching from behind and declaring they need a new change of pants. Or have Showa era monsters stare-down their Godzilla before modern Godzilla's pick them up and throw them over the horizon. Maybe have Showa Godzilla climbing up modern King Ghidorah or Mechagodzilla, Shadow of Colossus style to fight them. Point is there could be a lot of humor and potential from having the different era Kaiju interact with each other.
 
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Godzilla@1989 said:
When is Toho going to make another Godzilla movie where he fights a new monster? And while we’re at it, can we also have a new Godzilla design where he isn’t slow and thick all the time?
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I'm sick of theo's obsession with trying to make Godzilla dark and serious all the time have a little fun dammit stop trying to emulate the handful of genuinely serious movies and have some fun wit the ones that were lighter and more willing to have actual fun with the premise
 
Godzilla1984 said:
Just keep Gen Urobuchi away from it this time. The anime trilogy was so stupid.
The dimensional stuff with Singular Point ain't much better.
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Gen is a mixed bag when it comes to his content. Thuderbolt Fantasy, Psycho pass, and his masterpiece Kamen Rider Gaim are his best works.
The rest is...ehhhhh with a few being legitimately terrible such as the Godzilla Anime trilogy.
Godzilla@1989 said:
Hell, since the multiverse is all the rage nowadays, maybe Toho would do a legacy sequel set in either the Showa timeline or Heisei timeline.
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I wish Toho would do a universe series with each movie focused on one or two monsters, like a movie about Mothra and Rodan, Baragon and Manda, etc. This weird esoteric shit is not working.
 
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Tsukasa Kayoda said:
Gen is a mixed bag when it comes to his content. Thuderbolt Fantasy, Psycho pass, and his masterpiece Kamen Rider Gaim are his best works.
The rest is...ehhhhh with a few being legitimately terrible such as the Godzilla Anime trilogy.

I wish Toho would do a universe series with each movie focused on one or two monsters, like a movie about Mothra and Rodan, Baragon and Manda, etc. This weird esoteric shit is not working.
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They should seriously just do what the monsterverse films did post 2014 and just make everything a fun monster romp first all that other dumb shit second and especially no esoteric shit like you said
 
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King Ghidorah said:
I'm sick of theo's obsession with trying to make Godzilla dark and serious all the time have a little fun dammit stop trying to emulate the handful of genuinely serious movies and have some fun wit the ones that were lighter and more willing to have actual fun with the premise
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I wish Godzilla was back to fifty meters and was agile and durability as hell. The newer ones are just him being a billion feet tall and firing a tiny atomic breath.
 
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Godzilla@1989 said:
I wish Godzilla was back to fifty meters and was agile and durability as hell. The newer ones are just him being a billion feet tall and firing a tiny atomic breath.
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That's mostly the Japanese interpretations as of late Godzilla earth was the worst offender but shin Godzilla was pretty bad about it and singular point Godzilla too
 
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Newman's Lovechild said:
You had to go and bring up what was running through my head when I typed up my last post. I can't understand filmmakers who have to give inhuman creatures - especially reptiles - human expressions and gestures - like smirks - to convey what they might be thinking or feeling, and I can't understand filmgoers who have to have it spelled out for them to that degree.

Kong swinging and flinging about Hong Kong like he was made out of marshmallows and strong farts is another thing that comes to mind when I think about the unintended benefits of older, clunky suitmation vs. the best, slickest, most expensive movie magic that modern Hollywood has to offer. There's no weight to these absurdly huge creatures. I don't want them to be crushed to puddles by their own sheer size as if it was a dull, grey examination of real world physics and I did kind of like a few moments of Kong swinging through the tunnel in Antarctica but these hulks were effortlessly suspended higher than my sense of disbelief. No gravity, no gravitas, it just boils down to a big monkey shaped cloud of pixels bouncing spastically around the screen, and a director rubbing his pecker raw.
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Yeah, because you can really feel the impact when Godzilla dropkicks Megalon - not once, but twice.

 
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Trying to own me with some of the goofiest moments of the goofiest Showa films, the era that almost killed the Godzilla franchise, and that the Legendary series cribbed most of its themes and tone from.

Okay then.
 
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The Nothingness said:
I do love the creativity of combining elements of the Showa films with the MonsterVerse.

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Compare it to this clip:

Its amazing how music can change the entire tone of a scene where a giant monkey chops a robot dinosaur into bits with an axe.

Tsukasa Kayoda said:
I wish Toho would do a universe series with each movie focused on one or two monsters, like a movie about Mothra and Rodan, Baragon and Manda, etc. This weird esoteric shit is not working.
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So go back to their roots of making individual monster movies and later throw them all together for a cinematic crossover? I'd be down for that.

Irrational Exuberance said:
Yeah, because you can really feel the impact when Godzilla dropkicks Megalon - not once, but twice.

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They knew they had struck gold with this scene that they just had to do it twice. In their heads they knew how epic this scene was and the joy it would bring to men and women, children, janitors, robots, and Minnesotans of all ages.
 
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