Godzilla (1998)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

One of the best films i have seen

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This is one of the worst remakes ever. From the opening scene that virtually doomed it right from the beginning with an iguana watching before a nuclear explosion, to the fools behind the camera tossing everything the Toho told them to do, this is just one dumb movie. They actually filmed it near where I work, so I did get some nice pictures of the tank equipment. But the movie is a flop. Miscast, poorly written and just dumb, it's the worst Godzilla movie ever made. I'm glad Toho made fun of it in Godzilla final wars when the real Godzilla wipes the matt with this Jurassic Park cast off.

Not really a review, just an opinion from seeing it 20 years after it was released. I never cared too much to see it as I thought it looked a little fake from the previews that I saw back in the day (although I did buy the soundtrack back then for the songs). Decided to watch it and although I cringed at a lot of parts - some of the direction, sometimes the acting or the dialogue that was written, plus a lot of the CGI - there was a lot that could have been better. It wasn't a good story. The CGI wasn't great, even for the time. Character interactions were shocking at times. But, I still found myself watching to the end and I had a good time. The more recent 2014 Godzilla was outstanding in my opinion and this '98 mo ie does not touch that. But, I just viewed it as an over-hollywoodised monster film and just enjoyed it as a B-Grade movie in a better budget. That way I could laugh in some places. I don't really recommend the film. But it wasn't a total disaster. It really did remind me of how a lot of films were done in the 90's - the style in which they wrote I mean. We've come a long way.

In between the post-Hiroshima anxiety of Gojira (1954) and the retributive-Gaia wonder of Godzilla (2014) there lies this Roland Emmerich disaster film, appropriately adapted to his action/comedy intensive priorities. Now let's talk about Zilla or GITO (Godzilla in Name Only). Creature designer Patrick Tatopolous (sound familiar?) was aware that Jan de Bont's cancelled Godzilla film had been rejected in-part because of disagreements with Toho concerning the character concepts. Tatopolous distanced his design from Toho's and De Bont's mostly out of his respect for the original Japanese monster. This distance pays off, visually. A problem I'd long had with Tsuburaya's monster was (relative realism considered) just how bottom-heavy he is. GITO is much more mobile than old Thunder-Thighs, which properly matched Emmerich's vision of a high-speed chase with a titanic reptile. Any Emmerich fan can at least appreciate the ways that this film avoids simply trying to one-up an already established cinematic mold.

Weird script, bad acting, didn't feel anything like godzilla.