resurgam40 posted:

This actually provided the biggest laugh of the night in my theater. The moment the guy said "Aw, my noodles got soggy" it was worth a chuckle on its own, but this girl down the row from me yelled out "Your entire capital city is on fire!" Cue even bigger laugh!

And that is my "soggy noodle" story.

Verisimilidude posted:

this movie was a trash fire

the story was garbage, almost every scene was just expository dialogue explaining what was happening to the audience, and worst of all the giant monster fights were genuinely bad, short, and lacked any impact or spirit

I'm a huge godzilla fan and this movie was just terrible. my expectations weren't particularly high, I'm not some godzilla purist or anything, I just wanted a dumb movie where monsters fight and it looks cool

this was rotten. it has no redeeming qualities beyond the trailer

Violator posted:

Makes sense and roughly what everyone thought. Not sure what the need for a biological skeleton is but I’ll go with it. I’m not super excited about MG being in it at all but they’ve already gone down the wacky rabbit hole.

Magic Pus posted:

I love ‘Destroy All Monsters’! The global monster rampages and Ghidora getting absolutely wrecked are pure gold and the alien plot is fun, IMHO.

Now- it’s ‘All Monsters Attack’ that just totally blows. That glorified ‘clip show episode’ HAS to be the consensus choice for worst of the Showa Era, right? It’s the only one I don’t like. Having all your monster fights take place entirely within a kid’s daydream is bad enough but the majority of them are just recycled from ‘Son of Godzilla’ and ‘Ebirah’! I like those movies for their light, breezy feel but they were janky enough without being repackaged into an after school special. I DO kinda like Gabara’s design, in a ‘rejected Kure Kure Takora suit’ kinda way...

Sobatchja Morda posted:

Vs Mechagodzilla is a weird case where I think the concept is cool, but everything it does is done better by Terror of Mechagodzilla. Still, you can't have one without the other, so...

Asterite34 posted:

robot roll call posted:

I got Super 7 Ultimates Godzilla and I thought that would be of interest to some of you:



I love him. He is enormous, beefy, heavy and about as poseable as you'd think (not very), although the tail, neck and arms are pretty decent. The jaw is not articulated but it comes with a roaring head that also looks great. He also comes with a few hand options and the vines Biollante wraps around his neck. I've never owned a Monsterarts so I don't know how it stacks up but the NECA 60s Godzilla vs Kong Godzilla I have goes up to his shoulder and has fairly similar articulation. Godzilla vs Biollante is my favorite big G design and this captures it perfectly.

Arc Hammer posted:

It's impressive how the Monster Planet trilogy manages to have both the worst Mechagodzilla and Ghidorah.

chiasaur11 posted:

.Speaking of other Godzillas, finally got around to seeing Destroy All Monsters after all these years, despite seeing Godzilla Vs Megalon on VHS before I was in kindergarten and playing the hell out of Destroy All Monsters: Melee on Gamecube.

It's not very... good, is it?

I don't mean in the Godzilla Minus One or original style good, either. I wasn't expecting a moving tale of guilt and redemption contemplating Japan's place in a post-war world. I mean as a gloriously stupid story of big monsters stomping on people. Because there's some good scenes of that, including the final curbstomping of Ghidorah, but it's spaced out between a bunch of nonsense with aliens that's much less fun than it sounds on paper. The protagonists scarcely have a personality trait between them, running into Godzilla on foot has no sense of danger, and the reaction to monsters destroying every world capital after decades of peace is less extreme than you get for a local sports team losing.

In its day, the spectacle was probably enough to be exciting, and some of it's still there (man, there are a lot of suits in this), but time has not been kind. Not the worst or anything, but a bit disappointing.

Arc Hammer posted:

https://twitter.com/14_kaiju/status/1737570814344691996?t=tVpF1kqKhEPGD6gJ6c3UCA&s=19

Mantis42 posted:

The other thing that annoyed is how, for a film that apes so much of Spielberg, it employed little of his cinematic language to make Godzilla's appearance impactful or suspenseful. He just appears in the frame. They don't even bother to score him until halfway through the move. When he comes out of water he doesn't even make waves. This is the least awe inspiring Godzilla has ever been in a solo film. Less so than the 98 film, even.