GODZILLA: Tristar Godzilla Film (1998)

[Showa Gyaos]

- It was designed with careful detail, and the CGI monster was realistically made, even for this time period.

- The movie spawned the Godzilla Millennium series.

- The movie was a worldwide success, grossing over $300,000,000 in theaters worldwide.

[Ethan]

The music is excellent, a very worthy addition to the series.
The scene where Nick tells Audrey "Good luck with your new career, I really think you have what it takes!". She had it coming.

- The movie was a worldwide success, grossing over $300,000,000 in theaters worldwide.

I'm so tired of hearing this. GINO was a commercial failure of epic proportions. I don't get this "worldwide success" so many people are strung up.

[Showa Gyaos]

I'm so tired of hearing this. GINO was a commercial failure of epic proportions. I don't get this "worldwide success" so many people are strung up.

Okay, I worded it wrong. The movie didn't do well in America, but the worldwide revenue was something that never happened before. How many Godzilla films ever received such revenue, let alone have a worldwide release?

[HeiseiGodzilla117]

I hate the idea of Godzilla being asexual. It's the perfect example of people not being able to except something very simple and having to make it 'realistic.' He found an egg. It's another member of his species. He's the only one around, so he takes care of the little guy. Nope, that's silly bullshit. Let's make him a she-male! That's cooler than atomic breath and a monster fight!

I'm totally with you on that.

[Xx_The_Masquerade_xX]

They set there expectation's to high for the first movie, They expected Godzilla to open with a 90+ million weekend surpassing ''The Lost World: Jurassic park'' which was there first mistake. It only opened with 40$ million, not to mention the dreadful or disappointing reviews an word of mouth... To be honest im glad it bombed an i hope any involved with this lost there job because they only cared for the money an not the product an it showed.

While Godzilla might be an established franchise this was the 1st American film an should not have been expected to surpass a sequel to a popular franchise. It was as stupid as someone saying ''Godzilla 2012 will Surpass Batman 3 or Star-Trek 2'' it won't no matter how good it is.

Anyways the only good thing Zilla 1998 did was bring in a lot of New Fan's onto the Japanese Franchise, an gave me a funny Taco-Bell commercial. Other then that it was a complete disaster.

[Legionmaster]

Also Lost World: JP made more money then G98 did since it was a sequel to a very popular movie, and the first JP is known to be a great movie. But $40 million on a opeaing weekend is still a lot of money neverless, and better then most late 90's movies made.

? $40 million is an ok opening. Not great, but not a flop.

[Primevalgodzilla V2]

#3. The special effects were (obviously) much better than any of the Toho Godzilla films.

'Cept for GvsBio (and a few tohers actually). Frankly, Biollante is at least as intimidating and realistic a creation than GINO. And the movie was made on 1/15 of GINO's budget,

[ZigraDude]

Those are some cool pictures you found Tyler. Granted, the movie is still garbage but those are some cool behind-the-scenes photos.

[JVM]

I'd like a mod to close this topic. After rewatching the film for the third time in two weeks, I'm proud to declare there are officially no positives to this movie. Not a single one.

[JVM]

I see no point on locking this thread?

No point? It's pretty simple - because there ARE NO positives in this movie.

[JVM]

That may be for you, but not for everyone else.

Look at the posts, lol

Everyone pretty much agrees Jean Reno's performance is the only redeeming aspect, and even Reno's performance didn't quite hold up this time around.

And besides, I started the thread. I can ask for it to be locked if I wish.

[gojira012]

Well if not for the cartoon, old Zilla's image would really forever live in disgust. I mean Zilla jr triumphed where movie Zilla didn't work out to well, of course I do find it weird that the millenium series tried meld it into GMK and Final Wars

[strahl86]

The only thing I can think of is that it spawned a pretty decent cartoon. Other than that...

[GodzillaDude]

Another positive for me was that it spawned Godzilla the Series which I like a lot.

[JVM]

GTS has virtually nothing to do with the movie. It's not a positive. And most of this thread is people saying 'GTS'.

Just more proof this pile of shit is irredeemable.

[GodzillaDude]

GTS has virtually nothing to do with the movie. It's not a positive. And most of this thread is people saying 'GTS'.

Just more proof this pile of shit is irredeemable.

It takes place after the movie.

[JVM]

GTS has virtually nothing to do with the movie. It's not a positive. And most of this thread is people saying 'GTS'.

Just more proof this pile of shit is irredeemable.

It takes place after the movie.

That's about it though. While it's a loose sequel to the film, it's not a part of the film.

To me, this is the same as saying Godzilla vs. Megagurius is awesome because we got GMK.

[Mini-Godzilla]

That parallel doesn't quite work, since GMK is not a sequel to Megaguirus. More like, "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II and Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla are good because they led to Godzilla vs. Destoroyah."

[JVM]

That parallel doesn't quite work, since GMK is not a sequel to Megaguirus. More like, "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II and Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla are good because they led to Godzilla vs. Destoroyah."

You're right, that's a good point. I mostly picked on GxM because it's one of the least popular movies on the boards, lol, while GMK is definitely the second best in the series.

[Mini-Godzilla]

So definite that I totally disagree!