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Now, I am a BIG Godzilla fan, but is it just me, or does Godzilla - Mothra - MechaGodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S sound a bit... flat?
Granted, Mothra hasn't faced MechaGodzilla before, and that might be interesting. But aren't there other Godzilla monsters they could be using? Like Rodan, or maybe Gigan. Hell, I'd take the Smog Monster or the Sea Monster. Or the Gimantis.
Dunno, dunno, dunno. Doesn't matter much; they haven't been bringing the moives over here anyway
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Well, there's a load of problems with this.
(1) MechaGodzilla is quickly catching up to Mothra as the most overexposed non-Godzilla monster in Toho Studios. All this does is help Mothra maintain her lead. Like Cullen said: use the underused. Angilas! Manda! Varan! Rodan! People were delighted to see Baragon again. Better still: new monsters. (It's tough at this stage, now that we have giant monster roses and such, but it can be done.) Best of all: take the ones that sucked and soup them up. The Heisei Series did this: they basically adapted Megalon to Mothra's forms and life cycle and gave us Battra. Destroyah appears to be based on Hedorah. Imagine what could be done with Gezora, Ganime, and Kameba.
(2) Was "Godzilla X MechaGodzilla" such a smash hit? It got slapped around critically, and I was under the impression that it's box-office take was not nearly as grand as that of "GMK: Daikaiju Soukougeki." It certainly didn't LOOK like a great entry. If Toho wants to do a sequel to one of the Millenium Series, it should be "GMK."
(3) Toho, am I ever going to see "Godzilla vs Gamera?" Is there even a chance of that?
(4) The last time there were two MechaGodzilla movies in a row, the series died screaming and didn't come back for ten years. And even then, it was "Godzilla 1985."
Well, I am a huge Godzilla fan, and last I heard Gamera vs. Godzilla was being negotiated but I really have no desire to see it. I just do not like Gamera that much.
Godzilla X MechaGodzilla was indeed uncalled for, we need another monster but as long as Godzilla makes movies I guess I am okay with that.
What they really should do is bring these things to America. I have seen up to Godzilla 2000 and that is it!!!! I want new ones dammit.
The Godzilla series really has been flat anyway for the past two decades with some exceptions anyway. GMK I thought was really good and there are a few others I liked but compared to the older series they don't come close to the originality that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. They really do need to stop using the same old monsters and bring back older misused ones (angurius), not take it so seriously and then we might see some interesting movies.
Yeah Angurius! He's cool he hasn't been seen since Mechagodzilla ripped open his mouth in Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster (poor guy). No what about the return of Jet Jaguar and Megalon huh? That'd be awesome! (Both have appeared in one movie)
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Squishy wrote:
> (4) The last time there were two MechaGodzilla movies in a
> row, the series died screaming and didn't come back for ten
> years.
That's not true. Mechagodzilla didn't have anything to do with the "end" of the series. In fact "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla '74" was the most successful of the 70's films. The series ended basically ebcause Japan was in a depression and kaiju fans could get their fix on telelvision for free rather than paying for Godzilla movies. Tomoyuki Tanaka tried to make more Godzilla movies including "Godzilla vs. Gargantua", "Space Godzilla" (no relation), and "Godzilla vs. the Devil", but none of them were able to get off the ground. Tanaka then himself wrote a script called "The Return of Godzilla" in 1980 and it took four years of development for it to finally become "Godzilla '84".
Yes, very nice, thanks, I know all that. I was just trying to write colorfully.
Anguruis is...in truth...the Biggest second banana in movie history. Even Tom Arnold is just paste between his toes.
Hey, you know Peter Jackson is making King Kong? Now, since he is so in to trilogies, I wonder if it would be feasible he could do a remake of Godzilla Vs. King Kong. Now that would rock.