Jaicee said:
Knowing another language is impressive! I thought Godzilla vs. Destroyah was surely the end of the franchise! Three generations of installments later...nah, Godzilla will never really die. They'll always find a way to keep him going. It's too important to too many people. Speaking of the effects, that heat breath is what made a lot of the difference from other Godzilla movies in terms of the stakes here, I think. It's always been a staple feature of Godzilla movies (...except well that American one from '98, but let's just pretend that didn't happen), but not like this. They lengthened the build-up and like 10-upped the power of it compared to how it's normally portrayed and that made any situation where Godzilla's building up toward unleashing it feel a lot more threatening; like everything could potentially end here. That's working smarter, not harder. |
Thanks! To be honest, my Japanese is pretty basic, I know enough to get by as a tourist or to have simple conversations, but anything technical and I am totally lost haha.
Yeah I remember crying at the end of Destoroyah. Then there was the ten year gap between Final Wars and Godzilla 2014 that felt like an eternity, where I really did worry that we'd never see him again. Glad we're so spoiled for choice now, with both the Legendary Pictures series and new entries from Toho. Speaking of which, are you watching the Monarch show?
I loved how absolutely terrifying his breath was in this one, and how they made the nuclear connection literal by having it effectively act as a tactical nuke. Brilliant stuff. I know this might be recency bias speaking but I feel like this might just be my pick for the best film in the whole series.