How should Godzilla make his first appearance?

[Tokage]

A side note: I find it kind of funny that the 1998 TriStar Godzilla was dismissed and mocked several times in the Toho Millennium series (and rightfully so), but it still didn't stop Toho from copying a few visual elements of the TriStar movie, including the big "bulge" of water rising and rushing towards the shore right before Godzilla rises from the depths.

But yeah, the 2014 movie needs to not do that, even though it did admittedly look pretty cool in the '98 movie.

[mechabrent]

I would love to see the movie open with an old japanese man sitting in his home as the bombs drop on Hiroshima. The mushroom cloud rises and the old man sees in the second before the shockwave and radiation kill him a dark shadow in the center of the cloud, brought into being by the detonation, a dark godzilla shaped shadow, smaller than the godzilla we will see later on as he was just born. and glowing red eyes stares right out at the old man. Cue main title.

Or perhaps as many have said follow the one thing Zilla did right. Disturbances and reports. BUT mix it with the Pacific Rim opening. Have the opening credits intercut with news clips of disasters, start small with missing boats and build up to destruction of towns on islands and such. Have it being blamed on hurricanes and storms. Have the last news clip before the movie truly starts be a reporter covering some fluff piece interviewing a fisherman about the strange things people have been pulling up in their fishing nets, like Godzilla scales or chunks of whale blubber when the reporter stares offscreen and says what is that!? as the cameraman begins to turn the footage gets distorted by the radiation until its nothing but white.