I think you are confusing Ryuhei Kitamura and Jun FukudaLamangoKaijura wrote: ↑Fri May 14, 2021 5:43 pmCause he literally said there was no good Godzilla movies until 1974, then until 2004. That, and his other movies skreeonking suck twice as much.Yeah, I don't get the hate against the director. I've seen some of his other movies and they're heavily stylized, and ironically I think a lot of people on this site would probably love him. I'm not a big fan of GFW, but I don't get the antagonism towards Ryuhei Kitamura.
http://robojapan.blogspot.com/2014/04/r ... -wars.html
“In fact I loved the Godzilla movies back in the ’70s, but not so much the ones released in the 1980s and ’90s. Godzilla movies back in the ’70s were never just monster movies… There were always messages and themes that reflected the time and world within which they were made, and they combined this so well with straight-out entertainment. They lost that touch in the ’80s. I’m an honest guy and that’s what I told the producer in the first meeting. Strangely, the producer liked what I said and I was hired to do something that was not only new, but also classic in a sense.”
http://www.davmil.org/www.kaijuconversa ... fukuda.htm
DM: Which of the Godzilla films you directed are your favorites?
JF: None of them.
DM: Are there any with which you are especially unhappy?
JF: Many.
DM: Do you feel that Toho should not have produced any sequels to GODZILLA - KING OF THE MONSTERS?
JF: I don't think that any sequels to the first Godzilla movie should have been made.
Also some fans like to make it sound like everything in the film was all Ryuhei Kitamura forcing what he wanted into the film and caused it to be the last film for a decade. Here are plenty of examples of that not being true.
The Mutants were part of the 1st draft of the script before Kitamura started working on the film
https://vantagepointinterviews.com/2019 ... inal-wars/
BH: Let’s talk about the original script as it was written by Mr. Tomiyama and Mr. (Wataru) Mimura. When you read the script, what were your initial thoughts about it? What did you like? What didn’t you like?
RK: I don’t remember that much. First, we began with the synopsis, which was basically Godzilla versus everybody. Some (of the characters were) the Xiliens, this new breed of hybrid human. That was all there. We started talking about it. Mimura-san wrote the first draft, I believe.
Wataru Mimura still worked on the script even after Kitamura started tweaking the story.
BH: So even after the original script was written, Mimura-san and Tomiyama-san were still collaborating with you and Mr. Kiriyama.
RK: Of course. We knew how important and big the franchise is, and Mimura-san and Tomiyama-san know more about the franchise than Kiriyama and I. We always collaborated, and we discussed everything. That’s how we did it.
The film series was being put on hold for a decade before Final Wars even premiered
http://www.tohokingdom.com/people/shogo_tomiyama.htm
“By 2003, though, the series had once again gone stagnant at the box office with the lackluster performance of Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.. Tomiyama had big things in store for the following year, though, as he stepped up to become the president of Toho along with co-writing and producing the most expensive Godzilla film to emerge from Toho: Godzilla: Final Wars (2004). Preceding the film's release, Tomiyama commented that Godzilla would go into a decade long retirement following the release of the 2004 film, and, after surveying the disappointing box office receipts for Godzilla: Final Wars (2004), stayed true to his word.”
Wataru Mimura on Final Wars Script
https://vantagepointinterviews.com/2015 ... the-big-g/
BH: How did you get hired to co-write Godzilla: Final Wars?
WM: Toho decided it was going to be the last Godzilla movie, so my writing team joined the plot, planning about one year before the actual production. It was Mr. Tomiyama’s idea. When the plot was completed, I wrote the first scenario. After that, Mr. Isao Kiriyama from the team of Mr. Ryuhei Kitamura, director of the movie, co-wrote the revised scenario together with Mr. Kitamura. The story line was not changed, but the nature of the characters and some words changed, according to Mr. Kitamura’s taste.