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New American Godzilla Film 2012

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Make sure to give Godzilla a giant monster to fight. Godzilla vs the inadequate military is tired not to mention you can still have that while Zilla fights some giant monster.
 
I liked Godzilla 98, there I said it. I even watched it last year and still enjoyed it. The old Godzilla movies are crap, unless you just love watching cheese in it's most pasturized form.
 
I've always thought the design of the Japanese Godzilla was kind of stupid; particularly because it's too anthropomorphic. Obviously this is for technical reasons, but still I think the American CGI Godzilla was much more cool looking.
 
Every design posted in this thread looks the same to me except for Super Godzilla, which looks like a six year old's DBZ-Godzilla crossover fantasy.
 
The old Godzilla movies are incredibly cheesy and too out-of-touch to be enjoyed as mainstream cinema (In my opinion) They're only worth it for their ridiculousness, and the classic Godzilla design is not great. He's too stiff, and too silly looking to buy as a genuine threat, atomic breath or not. One of the main issues is his face. His goofy eyes, his stoic expressions. He always ends up looking brain damaged...
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Or like a serial rapist...
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The movies are still enjoyable for their camp value, as long as you don't take them too seriously.
That brings us to Roland Emmerich's craptastic movie. He tried to make Godzilla a serious, viable threat, and he failed miserably. He managed to make a giant atomic dinosaur destroying NYC a boring, tedious experience and filled it with his own brand of cheesiness. Someone needs to take Godzilla (The new design looks decent) and make him a terrifying monster again. Imagine you're in your apartment and you look out the window to see your neighbors' building getting ripped apart by a giant dinosaur. That is horrifying. These movies haven't embraced that since the original, and instead moved towards melodrama. Part of the reason I enjoyed Cloverfield so much is because they treated the situation as a disaster, which they should.
 
Stan Winston's design is what a new Godzilla should look like.

As far as "Zilla" goes... well, just look at the Godzilla vs Zilla fight in "Godzilla Final Wars" for the answer to that. (shit quality - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkoCOcvHAb8)

This guy in the comments summed it up well:
Godzilla is estimated 300+ feet tall, Zilla was 200.
Godzilla feeds on nuclear energy, Zilla feed on Tuna
Godzilla destroys army's, Zilla runs from them
Godzilla breaths radio-active breath, Zilla does not.
Godzilla is an unstoppable force, Zilla died from 12 missile's
Godzilla crushes tanks, Zilla can't catch a cab
In King Kong vs Godzilla, Kong was a lot bigger to make the fight fair.
Godzilla is not King of the Monsters for Nothing.
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Americans need to stop making Godzilla. They're doing it wrong!
 
Well, after the '54 original (the Showa series), the movies were mostly made for kids. I mean, to say, "don't take them too seriously" doesn't cover it. You can't take them seriously at all IMO. People that argue that the originals aren't realistic enough or are too cheesy is like saying the Three Stooges were too silly.
 
kazuo said:
Stan Winston's design is what a new Godzilla should look like.

As far as "Zilla" goes... well, just look at the Godzilla vs Zilla fight in "Godzilla Final Wars" for the answer to that. (shit quality - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkoCOcvHAb8)

This guy in the comments summed it up well:


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Americans need to stop making Godzilla. They're doing it wrong!
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The guy summed it up just right.
98 Godzilla was not good. If it was named a different monster, it woulda been more enjoyable.
 
People think I'm crazy when I say the 1998 Godzilla is one of my favorite movies. I've seen it a bunch of times and everytime it's just as awesome. Jean Reno better be in it too!
 
This art clearly indicates that the new Godzilla will look like a fat jerk, which makes me very happy. I hated how the Emmerich version tried too hard to make G'zy believable and sympathetic. Just give me a giant, chubby-thighed asshole who smashes cities because he's pissed off at the world and I'll be happy.
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
The old Godzilla movies are incredibly cheesy and too out-of-touch to be enjoyed as mainstream cinema (In my opinion) They're only worth it for their ridiculousness, and the classic Godzilla design is not great. He's too stiff, and too silly looking to buy as a genuine threat, atomic breath or not. One of the main issues is his face. His goofy eyes, his stoic expressions. He always ends up looking brain damaged...
23w8hsm.jpg

Or like a serial rapist...
9husz9.jpg

The movies are still enjoyable for their camp value, as long as you don't take them too seriously.
That brings us to Roland Emmerich's craptastic movie. He tried to make Godzilla a serious, viable threat, and he failed miserably. He managed to make a giant atomic dinosaur destroying NYC a boring, tedious experience and filled it with his own brand of cheesiness. Someone needs to take Godzilla (The new design looks decent) and make him a terrifying monster again. Imagine you're in your apartment and you look out the window to see your neighbors' building getting ripped apart by a giant dinosaur. That is horrifying. These movies haven't embraced that since the original, and instead moved towards melodrama. Part of the reason I enjoyed Cloverfield so much is because they treated the situation as a disaster, which they should.
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I don't know if it's because I'm at work, or what, but that just hit me at the right tim eand I could not stop laughing.
 
Lionel Mandrake said:
Eh, that just killed most of my interest. Unless of course they use...
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Really? That's 99% of the Godzilla franchise. Did you only like the original and the one from 1984?
 
sphagnum said:
Really? That's 99% of the Godzilla franchise. Did you only like the original and the one from 1984?
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I enjoyed the battles for their camp value, but that's about it. I don't think that will translate well in an American production. I think the best way to handle it would be to try to replicate the horror style of the original.
 
This is the only image that has been seen thats apparently the direction they are going.
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This came directly from Legendary Pictures
 
Glad to see this is moving forward. I had given it up for lost after not hearing anything. Not a big fan of the Monsters director helming it, though. But, I guess I'd like to see what he can do with a larger budget.

As for the older Godzilla movies, Sony Movie Channel ran a bunch of them recently, and got me back into the series. Does anyone have any good recommendations of box sets to pick up? I've looked and there doesn't seem to be one set that encompasses all the films.
 
Duderz said:
I liked this (rumored) design they had better.

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That thing is unbelievably bad ass.

Was that a rumored design for the current godzilla movie or for the the travesty that was Emmerichs movie?

Damn I love godzilla.
 
Surprised people here dislike the original Godzilla (2000) hollywood movie. I thought it was pretty good stuff.

My favourite scene is when Jean Reno is in the car and says 'oh thank you very much' in Elvis' voice. Gets me every time. :D
 
-viper- said:
Surprised people here dislike the original Godzilla (2000) hollywood movie. I thought it was pretty good stuff.
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It's not really that bad on it's own but...it just doesn't really feel like a Godzilla movie at all.
 
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