Talkback Thread #9: Destroy All Monsters (1968)

[NebulaMSpacehunter]

I've never been a big fan of CGI, the technology itself seems itself take the life out of the monsters(or whatever it is) and it's often abused to the point where it makes me numb to the (SUUUPPPERRR EXTREME CG) action and detaches me from the suspence

[Showa Gyaos]

IMO, CGI restricts imagination.

How so? I'm not against suitmation, but CGI can display realism more effectively.

[Living Corpse]

Again I ask, what wrong with a blend of both?

[Godz]

Again I ask, what wrong with a blend of both?

Nothing, but until Toho (and moviemakers in general) regain their lost spirit/imagination, we'll get shit like Final Wars that no amount of special effects trickery can improve..

[edgaguirus]

How so? I'm not against suitmation, but CGI can display realism more effectively.

The right CGI can. I've seen some terrible CGI effects.

[Shazam14]

^ That was Zilla who did that (according to GMK and GFW)...but yeah that is kinda funny.
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Yeah funny that Godzilla attacks NYC in this movie in year 1999, and in 1998 the American Godzilla attacks NYC. It's like one year later, NYC gets attack by the real Godzilla .

Has anyone noticed that Minilla's 32 frickin years old in this movie and he's still a baby. Son of Godzilla takes place in 1967 and Destroy All Monsters takes place in 1999.

[Space Hunter M]

Has anyone noticed that Minilla's 32 frickin years old in this movie and he's still a baby. Son of Godzilla takes place in 1967 and Destroy All Monsters takes place in 1999.

Because we all know that continuity is one of the Godzilla franchise's strongest points.

I believe there is already a topic addressing this issue.

[Shazam14]

Has anyone noticed that Minilla's 32 frickin years old in this movie and he's still a baby. Son of Godzilla takes place in 1967 and Destroy All Monsters takes place in 1999.

Because we all know one of the Godzilla franchise's strongest points is continuity.

It would have been cool to see what Minilla would have looked like as an adult. Maybe he'd be less hideous.

[Lord Gappa]

Has anyone noticed that Minilla's 32 frickin years old in this movie and he's still a baby. Son of Godzilla takes place in 1967 and Destroy All Monsters takes place in 1999.

Because we all know one of the Godzilla franchise's strongest points is continuity.

It would have been cool to see what Minilla would have looked like as an adult. Maybe he'd be less hideous.

We don't know exactly how giant monsters age and grow.

[Shazam14]

Still 32 years? Junior has been growing since he first appeared. Hell, even Sanda grew pretty fast.

[Lord Gappa]

Still 32 years? Junior has been growing since he first appeared. Hell, even Sanda grew pretty fast.

I have two explanations;
1. Since animals have different ways of being affected by radiation, its likely for Junior and Minya to have the different symptons of radiation dose.
2. Minya and Junior are different species, thus have different life spans.
Thats my two cents.

[Shazam14]

Still a 32 year old baby. xD

[NSZ]

Still a 32 year old baby. xD

Considering we really don't know the full extent of either Godzillas' mutations in the Showa timeline, and with natural, gargantuan, prehistoric monsters like Varan, Manda, Baragon, and Rodan running around, and one of those monsters posessing a beam weapon of their own, it's quite possible that in the Showa timeline, the Godzillas only suffered radiation burns from our atomic tests. So maybe with Minilla's egg being so close to the surface, unlike the Godzillas who were in the dark depths of the ocean at the time when the H-Bombs went off, the radiation from the failed test effected his future development as a growing individual.

And I'm sure the premature hatching by the Three Stooges didn't help any.

[Irys X]

I think hes actually a bastard child of the pillsburry doughboy and barnery, but Godzilla got stuck with him for a while because toho promised him a REAL baby in 1993. Shame they replaced it with Minya's brother in 1994, and then when Godzilla finally got an actual descendent who was almost fully grown, Destroyah killed him. Cruel. Even more cruel that Godzilla got Minya back for a 50th birthday present. Oh well. Hes good for some things. Like strangling King Ghidorah.

[Shazam14]

This is why I love Godzilla. You can put so much imagination into the series.

[Tyler]

He's Andy Milonakis with a tail.

[NSZ]

This is why I love Godzilla. You can put so much imagination into the series.

Well, the Showa timeline anyway.

Everything else was sledghammered into this ground-like thing called 'Reality' and run over for good measure by a freight-train known as 'Poor Writing'.

[Shazam14]

I honestly never really bothered too much with the story. I use to watch Goji movies for the battles first. Then I'd watch again for the story.

[destroyah1985]

this is the only Godzilla DVD I don't have but I have seen this one twice, It is quite boring untill all of eath's monster team up against King Ghidorah then it was good my favorte part is when Godzilla stoped on Ghidorah's neck.

[GotengoXGodzilla]

I feel differently about Destroy All Monsters than I have in the past. During the attack on Monster Island (after the Killaks had taken over), I found myself saying, "Could you please get to the good stuff already?" Then when the military was attacking Godzilla and Anguirus, I was saying the same thing.

Nowadays, I think Destroy All Monsters is very repetitive and becomes eye-rolling at a couple points. Some scenes serve no purpose other than to have an action scene, like the attack on Tokyo, and others just repeat what other scenes have already done, like the whole Fire Dragon thing at the end of the film. To be fair, the acting is decent and I enjoy most of the characters, but that's all that needs to be said about that. And, obviously, the fight against King Ghidorah is still amazing to watch. The problem, though, is that you have to sit through a lot of the same scenes to get to that moment of awesomeness. The question I was asking myself at the end was, "Was the monster fight worth the wait?"