Worst SFX in a Godzilla Film

[TokyoVigilante]

If only we could get translated copies of the original screenplays!! I'd love to see vague instances like that only get clarified (and for the novelty of reading a golden age Godzilla script).

Did Gorosaurus break Ghidorah's back?

The "Han Shot First" of Godzilla fandom.

Getting his tail stuck in Tokyo Tower was not an accident and neither was Godzilla stumbling and falling into Nagoya Castle.

WTF is Tokyo Tower doing in Nagoya?

ALL OF JAPAN IS TOKYO, OKAY.

[NSZ]

Getting his tail stuck in Tokyo Tower was not an accident and neither was Godzilla stumbling and falling into Nagoya Castle.

WTF is Tokyo Tower doing in Nagoya?

ALL OF JAPAN IS TOKYO, OKAY.

I'm am so sigging that.

And for future reference, it's the Nagoya TV Tower.

[Space Hunter M]

The shuffling aggregate Destoroyah "toys" in GvD.
I just want to loop that shot over and over set to this music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-otEdq-Ozo

[RedZillaKing]

*Space Battle Between SpaceGodzilla and M.O.G.U.E.R.A.
*Mini Ghidorah and Gigan flying around Godzilla Tower
*Minya
*The puppet Godzilla in KOM
*The Varan puppet in DAM
*In Terror of MechaGodzilla when MechaGodzilla blows up a city block it just looks SO f*****g fake.

Couldn't settle on one, sorry.

[heiseisaegusa]

As godzilla fans we should see through some of the crappy effects but I will admit the sliding Godzilla jr robot that was used in Godzilla vs Destoroyah was pretty bad.

[Goji]

*In Terror of MechaGodzilla when MechaGodzilla blows up a city block it just looks SO f*****g fake.

You gotta be kidding me. It's not supposed to look "real" in the first place. That's some of the best destruction seen in the Showa films. You're nuts dude..

[Gojira-Fan]

*In Terror of MechaGodzilla when MechaGodzilla blows up a city block it just looks SO f*****g fake.

You gotta be kidding me. It's not supposed to look "real" I'm the first place. That's some of the best destruction seen in the Showa films. You're nuts dude..

I agree. It may not be visually convincing, but it is very visually appealing.

[Space Hunter M]

I agree. It may not be visually convincing, but it is very visually appealing.

Yeah, I agree too. They're colourful fantasy films in the first place anyway.
I hate it when movies throw out all creativity and imagination for "realism".

[Gigan X3]

*In Terror of MechaGodzilla when MechaGodzilla blows up a city block it just looks SO f*****g fake.

You gotta be kidding me. It's not supposed to look "real" I'm the first place. That's some of the best destruction seen in the Showa films. You're nuts dude..

That's one of my favorite parts of the movie.

[RedZillaKing]

Even when I was a child of six that was the only thing that stood out as fake looking to me. And now, as an adult that realizes how phony a lot of this looks it still stands out as poorly done. It just didn't do it for me. Is it supposed to look real and was just executed badly? You decide!

But the answer is yes.

[Gigan X3]

I DISAGREE WITH REDZILLAKING AS IF THERE WAS NO TOMORROW.

[Legion1979]

I DISAGREE WITH REDZILLAKING AS IF THERE WAS NO TOMORROW.

Same here.

[RedZillaKing]

I DISAGREE WITH REDZILLAKING AS IF THERE WAS NO TOMORROW.

WHY ARE YOU YELLING??? Love the rest of the movie, though. Oh, except when godzilla flys through the air in an upward swinging arc. I think it was when Titanosaurus kicked him.

Oooo what about Mothra's wobbly chicken legs in The Battle For Earth. Those sucked. And she looked pretty lame in general.

[Proofpoochie]

*In Terror of MechaGodzilla when MechaGodzilla blows up a city block it just looks SO f*****g fake.

You gotta be kidding me. It's not supposed to look "real" I'm the first place. That's some of the best destruction seen in the Showa films. You're nuts dude..

That's one of my favorite parts of the movie.

Same here. I love Terror of Mechagodzilla.

[Gigan X3]

I DISAGREE WITH REDZILLAKING AS IF THERE WAS NO TOMORROW.

WHY ARE YOU YELLING??? Love the rest of the movie, though. Oh, except when godzilla flys through the air in an upward swinging arc. I think it was when Titanosaurus kicked him.

Oooo what about Mothra's wobbly chicken legs in The Battle For Earth. Those sucked. And she looked pretty lame in general.

Because it was a strong disagreement.

[Goji]

Even when I was a child of six that was the only thing that stood out as fake looking to me. And now, as an adult that realizes how phony a lot of this looks it still stands out as poorly done. It just didn't do it for me. Is it supposed to look real and was just executed badly? You decide!

But the answer is yes.

The scene is anything but "poorly done", it just happens to rub YOU the wrong way.

[Kyono_Rei]

A lot of 1960s (also reused in 1970s) "tank and truck" scenes. They used very tiny (1:72 is my guess) poor looking models for the tanks and it really shows. I personally think they went cheap and used regular small toy models, instead of making larger studio-oriented 1:20 scale models of their own.

This is odd, as they also had some much better scale model scenes in contemporary toho films. Sometimes good scale model scenes are intermixed with previous very poor scenes (like in Godzilla vs Gigan).

Also I hate both Showa King Kong's (visually) with a passion. Especially the King Kong escapes one is a blaring "Guy in a bad monkey suit", as it is alongside of a pretty good IMHO Mechanikong.

[Tamura]

I think at least some of us can agree that the worst of the Showa effects are nowhere near as bad as the worst Heisei effects.

[Kyono_Rei]

I think at least some of us can agree that the worst of the Showa effects are nowhere near as bad as the worst Heisei effects.

Heisei films usually had a larger budget. So I wouldn't say that its the Showa effects that are so much better, as the fact that bad Heisei effects are harder to forgive than bad Showa ones.

[RedZillaKing]

The scene is anything but "poorly done", it just happens to rub YOU the wrong way.

The whole street moves over and everything just sort of falls down. There are many examples of well done city destruction in the Showa series (some in this movie) but this just isn't one of them. They might as well have stood next to a plastic city diorama and kicked it over saying "Blam! Boom! Destruction!". It would've been just as convincing to ME. BTW, italics work better when you're trying to put snooty emphasis on a word. Capitals just seem like yelling.

Didn't SpaceGodzilla have a low budget? I mean, the asteroid battle makes be throw up in my mouth and the last battle just looks like a sound stage.