Which Is Your Favorite Toho Film?

[Scott]

The TOHO company is a special one that has produced many fantastic films. Which one is your favorite?

[Doc Daneeka]

I'm going with my favorite G-Film, the best in my opinion, is Terror of Mechagodzilla

[Shadow]

As much as I love entries in the "Showa" series of Big G flicks, I gotta go with 2001's GMK. I can watch that one back to back to back...and then some.

[Dennis]

For me the original Godzilla is and will always be my favorite, after that I couldn't chose between the rest for the #2 spot, they're all great classics.

[Andrew]

My longstanding favorite has been "Godzilla vs. Monster Zero."  There are three monsters who duke it out more than once, the aliens are really strange (I love the line about the computers, "You fool, adjust them to normal!"), and you have Nick Adams trying to figure out what he should do on a planet full of women that all look alike.

[BeyondTheGrave]

I went with Godzilla Vs MechGodzilla. Its one of the first movies I remember that my grandmother bought me and I still have the VHS copy.

[RCMerchant]

How can there be any doubt! DESTROY ALL MONSTERS!!! After that,its a tuff choice-I bought my kid ALL the Godzilla movies(I watch them more than he does now).I really love YOG-Monster from Outer Space-fond memory of seeing it in the Strand theatre back when i was a youngin. Love GODZILLA vs. the Smog Monster too-and Mechagodzilla-and Mothra-and Ghidra.Whatta choice!!!! Too many !!! All Good!!!
WAR of the GARGANTUAS is a GREAT fight fest!!!

[daveblackeye15]

Tough choices so I went with best done than 'funnest."

And that was The Return of Godzilla. I love how grim it is and never again is that seen in a Zilla movie. I know the original is grim too but '85 did it differently. '85 is still in my top ten list and is one of the first G movie's I've ever seen.

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Antything with Ghidorah.  I have a soft spot for the Big G's favorite whipping boy.  I picked "Destroy All Monsters" for my specific favorite, a huge Kaiju Slam Fest.  I still need to watch Final Wars, too cheap to buy it.
-Ed

[Andrew]

Antything with Ghidorah.  I have a soft spot for the Big G's favorite whipping boy.  I picked "Destroy All Monsters" for my specific favorite, a huge Kaiju Slam Fest.  I still need to watch Final Wars, too cheap to buy it.
-Ed

I can suggest "Godzilla: Final Wars" for a kaiju fan, with no reservations.  The plot hideously steals ideas from other movies (everything from "The Matrix" to "Independence Day"), but I loved the return to advanced science.  Flying battleships, ray guns, and super humans abound.

[Scott]

My pick for favorite is DESTROY ALL MONSTERS. There are a number of favorites here, but this one was my childhood favorite and I must go with that.

[Just Plain Horse]

I'm fairly fond of all toho films- I've never seen one I hated... but if I had to pick five... and why, here's mine:

1. Rodan

To me this is the only time I felt that horror and Kaiju have ever been brought together well in a movie.


2. The Mysterians

A great space opera- which could be read as an allegory about war- and you get kaiju to boot.


3. Godzilla: Final Wars

While a bit excessive in the human combat scenes (and a bit short on the kaiju battles), this film has soo many images I can't get out of my head. Great performances, too.


4. Matango

Creepy, yet very interesting study of humans in a time of crisis (treads the same ground as Goke, Bodysnatcher From Hell -minus the silly, gooey aliens- but does it much better). All the characters are well played, and the ending- while not a shocker- is impressive.

5. Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster

If there's one thing I can say I love about the older generation of Kaiju films, it was the attempt to give each and every monster a personality (Moguera was clumsy, Gabara was a bully, Gigan was a coward, Ghidorah was an engine of destruction)... and never have I felt a film better exemplified this than this one. Watching Godzilla and Ebirah fight could teach any up-and-coming filmmaker how to inject personality into a rubber suit, and perhaps even a CGI creation... plus you get four monsters for the price of one.

[peter johnson]

There's really only one worth mentioning:
"Ghidrha!:  The Three-Headed Monster!!"
I saw this on the Big Screen in Kilmarnock, Virginia, along with a buch of other 9/10/11 year -olds -- back in '68 or so --
We all loved it, even though we had no freaking clue what the whole deal with the tiny women singing "Mo-Ta-Rah!  Mo-Ta-Rah!!" was all about.
Anyway, you have this three-headed dragon fighting Mothra, Gohjhira, and Rodan all at once -- shooting fire & huge explosions, etc. etc.
I really don't care what the outcome is on this survey -- Hai!! 
This is the best . . .
peter kaiju/denny rodan

[Just Plain Horse]

I suppose I'd have liked Ghidrah more if I hadn't first seen it in the godawful Belucci productions dub... yes, that right, the same ones that dubbed "Prince of Space".