Godzilla US version

[thetyrantlizard]

Technically not a dinosaur, but close enough I suppose--I watched the latter part of Godzilla, the US version. Although I've heard it received horrible reviews, I think actually it wasn't half-bad--it certainly doesn't have the glorious campiness of the Japanese versions--Godzilla is too realistic-looking for that--but it was exciting enough. Plus Hank Azaria and Jean Renaud (sp?--the French guy) are far better characters and actors than anything in the entire JP series. It's not a tyrannosaurus, but if it were I certainly would place it higher than any of the JP movies (except the wonderful San Diego scene in TLW, which was itself a deliriously funny homage to the giant monster tradition--did anyone notice the sign in the movie rental store with Arnold Schwarzenegger's King Lear ;D, which manages to skewer Mel Gibson, Schwarzenegger, and Shakespeare in one strike?)

[Thorondor 33]

Ah yes, Godzilla 98. I love that movie as well.

[giganotoigauana]

thetyrantlizard said:

Technically not a dinosaur, but close enough I suppose--I watched the latter part of Godzilla, the US version. Although I've heard it received horrible reviews, I think actually it wasn't half-bad--it certainly doesn't have the glorious campiness of the Japanese versions--Godzilla is too realistic-looking for that--but it was exciting enough. Plus Hank Azaria and Jean Renaud (sp?--the French guy) are far better characters and actors than anything in the entire JP series. It's not a tyrannosaurus, but if it were I certainly would place it higher than any of the JP movies (except the wonderful San Diego scene in TLW, which was itself a deliriously funny homage to the giant monster tradition--did anyone notice the sign in the movie rental store with Arnold Schwarzenegger's King Lear ;D, which manages to skewer Mel Gibson, Schwarzenegger, and Shakespeare in one strike?)

i think that 98 version butchered godzilla. The whole point of godzilla was to metaphorically identify with a destruction force during the war of japan. Godzilla in a sence was a bomb that destroyed japan. I really think that if it was made over that it should take place in japan.