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Why do i think Godzilla fans take Godzilla too seriously.

posted 9 years ago by nightwing60
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Godzilla fans seem to act like Godzilla is Batman or something. There nothing deep or psychology complex about Godzilla as a character. Other than the original 1954 movie. Which was a metaphor for nuclear weapons. I would hardly regard most Godzilla movies as Highbrow. Most Godzilla movies go something like this. A monster attacking the city. Then Godzilla comes in fights the monster and then everyone cheers saying "Godzilla saved us". While millions have been killed by the destruction. Now i love me some Toho Godzilla movies. But lets be honest. 98 version is no where near the worst movie with the name Godzilla on it. Son of Godzilla and Godzilla vs the Smog Monster is way worse. I mean sure its no Masterpiece. But at least it didn't hire a great actor for the lead role. Only to kill him of in the first 30 minutes to leave you with his boring ass son.

[–] herbsuperb 9 years ago

There nothing deep or psychology complex about Godzilla as a character.

Very true. I don't think too many Godzilla fans really feel that there is. Godzilla is very much the backdrop of the story, rather than a character prone to deep analysis. The story centers around humanity's response to Godzilla. Godzilla himself is a product of human short-sightedness. Nothing really to analyze about him.

ow i love me some Toho Godzilla movies. But lets be honest. 98 version is no where near the worst movie with the name Godzilla on it. Son of Godzilla and Godzilla vs the Smog Monster is way worse.

Absolutely. I've not seen all of the Toho Godzilla films. But I would say that Godzilla's Revenge, Son of Godzilla, Smog Monster, Gigan (though I really love Gigan), were worse films than the 98' Zilla one.

I think the reason people (specifically Godzilla fans) were so very offended by this film, was that it was so different from anything that they identify with as Godzilla, that it could have been called something else completely. This film did NOT need to be called Godzilla. So little of it is anything like Godzilla. If called something else, it would still have been a terrible movie, but at least Godzilla fans wouldn't have been suckered into seeing it based on the title. If Emmerich was going to make a film called Godzilla, then he does bear at least some responsibility to observe existing character traits, plot elements, and the like. He didn't. He called it Godzilla to get people into the theaters, but didn't even really try to deliver an experience commensurate with the title.

That was what bothered people.

[–] Omegamorph 9 years ago

Godzilla 98 is better than most - if not all - other Godzilla films in basically all fields, except for perhaps the very original one

I saw worlds burning. I saw more; I saw the birth of a star.

[–] phillipsdan83 9 years ago

That's debatable, though for the VERY little it's worth, the 1998 GODZILLA IS in fact better than GODZILLA VS. GIGAN, GODZILLA VS. MEGALON, GODZILLA VS. SPACE GODZILLA and GODZILLA FINAL WARS.