Definitely. My biggest gripe about the Millennium series as a whole is the sort of 'senseless reboot for the sake of reboot' repetition. It just never felt like they used the reboots or newly established timelines to do too much beyond just providing a clean slate to build off of.eabaker wrote:G2K and GMK are definitely the winners in my book, as well.Chrispy_G wrote:Yeah for me....the US cut of Godzilla 2000 and GMK are the 'good ones'....I like a LOT of things about the Kiryu duo....but I could absolutely do without Megaguirus and Final Wars.eabaker wrote:
4 directors, one of whom had two relatively distinct takes.
I don't actually think, on the whole, that the Millennium series produced particularly good movies - only 2 out of 6 genuinely work for me - but I appreciate the spirit of invention and variety that set it in motion.
Megaguirus has a few good sequences, and some very ambitious - if awkwardly executed - spfx moments, but the movie is a structural mess, and the overall tone and look of it really grate on me.
Against Mechagodzilla is better looking, and its first half is stronger on concept and story, but it really doesn't follow through with anything. Those problems are only magnified in Tokyo SOS.
And Final Wars... I mean, I find it outrageously, obnoxiously bad, but at least Kitamura and company were willing to commit to what they were doing. The movie definitely has its fans.
Return of Godzilla, short of bringing in some of the original cast and characters, feels like a direct sequel to the original film in a lot of ways. All of the Millennium entries seem to just use it as a base by which to NOT do another Godzilla origin story. Just a roundabout of throwing different takes at the wall to see what would stick.