Ranking the Mechagodzilla Films - the Sequel!

[tbeasley]

I feel they make up for the other's faults in a way so I can't choose. Against Mecha-G has a better human story and I don't know why those characters weren't carried over for the sequel and explored more... meanwhile Tokyo SOS gets to jump to the monster action much faster thanks to established world building (minus the new Mothra elements). The only problem is the human drama is largely a repeat with Kiryu being knocked over during the final battle again with someone sent in to repair him.

But both films have such great openings and scores, with SOS having some of the best effects in the series. I've warmed up to both over time.

[Rodan]

No-contest vote for Against Mechagodzilla, but both are among my least favorite entries in the entire series.

SOS but just barely. They are both two of my least favorite (as well as most boring and lifeless) films in the whole series. Right down at the very bottom with G14 and Megaguirus. While I strongly dislike GxMG and Megaguirus, SOS I'm just pretty indifferent towards. I don't really dislike it per say but its not all that great or memorable either.

You take that back about Megaguirus right now.

[Zarm]

No-contest vote for Against Mechagodzilla, but both are among my least favorite entries in the entire series.

SOS but just barely. They are both two of my least favorite (as well as most boring and lifeless) films in the whole series. Right down at the very bottom with G14 and Megaguirus. While I strongly dislike GxMG and Megaguirus, SOS I'm just pretty indifferent towards. I don't really dislike it per say but its not all that great or memorable either.

You take that back about Megaguirus right now.

You take that back about G14 right now.

[Rodan]

You take that back about G14 right now.

Take the five hours of my life I've spent watching wooden actors and less-than-half-drawn characters deliver ludicrously deadpan and expository dialogue in G14 back right now. Please.

[Zarm]

You take that back about G14 right now.

Take the five hours of my life I've spent watching wooden actors and less-than-half-drawn characters deliver ludicrously deadpan and expository dialogue in G14 back right now. Please.

Take the hour-and-a-half of my life I've spent watching wooden actors and idiotic plotting atop cartoon physics and sloppily inept filmmaking in Megaguirus back right now. Please.

[eabaker]

You take that back about G14 right now.

Take the five hours of my life I've spent watching wooden actors and less-than-half-drawn characters deliver ludicrously deadpan and expository dialogue in G14 back right now. Please.

Take the hour-and-a-half of my life I've spent watching wooden actors and idiotic plotting atop cartoon physics and sloppily inept filmmaking in Megaguirus back right now. Please.

I neither love nor hate either of those movies. They're both pretty uneven, with moments that pull me in (in very different ways) and stretches where I usually tune out completely. I like how both movies start out, and I enjoy the monster action in both, but neither one features my favorite characters or plotting.

Now, Tokyo SOS? That's a movie I might just say that I hate, except that I usually tune out so much of it that it loses the power to offend me.

[Zarm]

Now, Tokyo SOS? That's a movie I might just say that I hate, except that I usually tune out so much of it that it loses the power to offend me.

I know, right? It's just kind of... nothing, until the last few minutes. Like I'm not sure where the actual runtime goes, somehow, because it doesn't seem to account for the actual amount of time expended.

[Rodan]

You take that back about G14 right now.

Take the five hours of my life I've spent watching wooden actors and less-than-half-drawn characters deliver ludicrously deadpan and expository dialogue in G14 back right now. Please.

Take the hour-and-a-half of my life I've spent watching wooden actors and idiotic plotting atop cartoon physics and sloppily inept filmmaking in Megaguirus back right now. Please.

"Let us fight."

There are very few Godzilla movies I'd say I dislike more than like, but both Tokyo SOS and '14 are on there. It's hard for me to rank them beyond saying '14 is a vastly more competent movie.

x Mechagodzilla lies probably just one rung above; it has interesting ideas, but everything about it is super half-baked. It might have one of the worst conception-to-execution ratios in the series.

Now, Tokyo SOS? That's a movie I might just say that I hate, except that I usually tune out so much of it that it loses the power to offend me.

Weirdly, this is how I feel too, which is the only reason it even has a chance of shaking out higher than my other disliked entries ('14, DaM, '98, SpaceGodzilla, maybe one or two others) when I think about how I'd rank the series. It's a gigantic bland blur instead of being actively frustrating, but I can't decide if that makes it better or worse.

[GodzillaFreak99]

Gotta go with Godzilla x Mechagodzilla/Against Mechagodzilla (which ever you prefer) Mostly because it's one of my personal favorites. don't get me wrong, s.o.S is great too though.

[Mechagigan]

I really strongly dislike both for reasons that can be summed up by two phrases; "bland" and "overused trope".

However, I guess I'd go with the first of the series. TSOS is just a bloated episode of a what ought to be TV show, right down to looking like one.

[Tyrant_Lizard_King]

All of Tezuka's Godzilla films look like bloated TV episodes.