Mini-Godzilla wrote:I tried revisiting this flick last night, and I was pretty disappointed. The first ten minutes or so are great, and the ending is pretty solid as well, but for most of the runtime, it's a bore. I do like the characters when they're actually allowed to be human beings and not exposition machines. The movie might have worked better if it had stuck with Godzilla all by his lonesome and scrapped the UFO. Oh, and keep the Big G out of the daylight! The modern suits (i.e. post-Showa Gojis) always look a little shabby when overlit, but with this particular costume design, it's especially egregious. He looks every bit like he's made out of rubber.
I.... Heavily disagree. I'd say G2000 was one of the most realistic suits, and looked miles better in bright light than any of his Showa counterparts. The texturing of the skin, the pain, the eyes.... All vastly superior to most of Heisei and pretty much all of Showa, imo.
Also, insofar as story goes, I'd say this was one of the most human, grounded, well-executed Godzilla movies made. At its core, the human storyline is about a family, and its respective members, trying to heal old wounds, except new members, and accept the loss of old friends.
Compare that to most of Heisei, which was generally "MonSTERS?? in JaPAN? ANd They are K I L L I N G ONEANOTHEr wiTH SPARKS". Or Showa, which was solid half the time, and basically the film equivelant of Mad-Libs the other half. It might not be the single best Godzilla film insofar as solid story goes, but it's pretty far up there.
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