>Cloverfield for boomers.
>Rains all the time
>Comfy.

>>211698908 (OP)
The sheer amount of Simpsons voice actors who have speaking roles in this also adds a lot of charm. It's a great time capsule of the late 90s.

>>211698908 (OP)
>great soundtracks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0J602X53c&list=PLOKfQ2dxS6KLgGad0HpRJiUcUkmy1bR21

>>211698908 (OP)
Thicc pregnant godzilla gave me a boner and may have ignited my giantess fetish

This was the first movie where I thought "wow this is kind of a dumb movie" when godzilla jumped into the Hudson and it made that little splash.

>makes weebs eternally seethe
based Emmerich

The book is way better

>>211699657
there is a book? kino

>>211698908 (OP)
i had this on vhs growinp up and must have watched it at least 10 times

>>211699734
Same, it was my first Godzilla movie. The second was Godzilla 2014.

>>211699572
>weebs
its been a punching bag for general audiences ever since. no one likes this movie except for contrarians and nostalgiafags

>>211699734
I loved the film. Had toys, lunchbox, backpack all godzilla.

>>211698908 (OP)
>P. Diddy and Jimmy Page collab on the soundtrack

Just imagine what they got up to together

>>211699045
they say he produces asexually so we dont really know if Godzilla is female. you may or may not be gay

>>211698908 (OP)
Jamiroquai ending theme
> I'm going
> I'm going
> I'm going deeper underground..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIUAC03YMlA

>>211698908 (OP)
>great cast of engaging characters
>great use of New York City as a setting
>dark and moody atmosphere throughout
>original take on an established franchise to reinvent it for a then modern audience
>kino soundtrack
This movie was great. Autistic nerds hated it simply because it wasnt derivative Godzilla slop.

>>211698908 (OP)
It’s fun for what it is and think the tide is turning on it. Most people I hear today seem to think it’s decent when it’s not constantly compared to the source material (which lets be honest has its fair share of stinkers). In nigga words “this movie be fire when you don’t got a Kajiu bitch crying in your ear

>>211699845
Nice cope, weeb. Godzilla (1998) mogs the gay ass japanese puppets, and burgers loved it

>>211698908 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x2q0w9Pw5s

It was a better time.

>>211705365

Yeah.
I adore this woman's nose and NewsRadio tummy.

1998

(CONS!)

> Lack of classic Godzilla's aggressiveness & invulnerability.

> Arguably too much time playing Jurassic Park with the babies (I was fine with it)

> Arguably too much time spent on romance (didn't bother me the last time I watched it)

> CGI for the babies doesn't hold up.

(PROS!)

> God tier score & opening credits.

> Great first attack on NYC, handled in a realistic disaster manner similar to how Gamera 3 handled it although less bleakly.

> Fantastic submarine battle.

> Good Helicopter chase.

> Cool military porn that isn't ever "America fuck yeah-ish"

> Godzilla's death scene is extremely well done regardless of the disappointment of him being killed by normal missiles.

> Godzilla's classic nuclear origin & nature remains intact they just swapped America for France.

> Decent to good overall cast. Reno is solid. Broderick is a bit meek but still a likable enough non annoying lead.

> Zilla's design is solid just not for being Godzilla.

> CGI for the adult Godzilla holds up reasonably well.

> Practical effects for the babies is decent (their heads are a bit oversized).

(External opportunities it presented & took advantage of!)

> Spawned the fantastic animated series.

(External opportunities it denied us!)

> It assfucked us out of the beautiful looking Stan Winston (rip) Godzilla movie.

>>211705365
The toy company Trendmasters went bankrupt specifically because people hated this shitty movie so much that the toys shelfwarmed like they were Rose Ticos at Ollie's.

I still don't understand why Godzilla purists hated it. It's a giant monster wrecking shit. How is it unfaithful?
>it's bad movie
so are all the other ones
>>211710007
i had a Godzilla toy. if you pressed a little grey button on its hip it would play the iconic Godzilla roar from the movie. it was a good looking toy too, looked just like the movie version

>>211698908 (OP)
ah, back when they weren't afraid of high key lighting with blownout highlights

>>211710322
>How is it unfaithful?
For my money, it is that it treats Godzilla like a giant deer that accidently wandered into Manhattan.
Also, the movie sliding into blatant scenes that Emmerich saw in Jurassic Park in the latter half does not help it at all.

>recast Matthew Broderick's character and the blonde love interest (absolutely terrible actress)
>better CGI, it's miles off from Jurassic Park which was ~5 years older
>get rid of the JP influences in the 3rd act
>cut the petty fuck you to Siskel and Ebert
there, it's now an extremely solid American Godzilla movie

I still remember going to see this movie with a friend from school. His mum took us and they had one of those cars where the two back seats actually faced backwards so the entire trip to and from we were making faces at cars behind us. Then afterward we played N64 at his house.

I jacked off to the scene where the guy almost gets stepped on and ends up between Godzilla’s toes more than once.

>>211699043
>In response to the song's absence from the 1998 Godzilla soundtrack, Blue Öyster Cult members Eric Bloom and Buck Dharma created their own parody called "NoZilla"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIqQMnGAyfc

>>211698908 (OP)
the movie is too stupid to enjoy at all BUT
i do remember the taco bell commercials from the time where the dog says "aye theenk aye need a beeger box". now that was kino

>>211702361
Did you get the cup holder from taco bell?

>>211710322
Because the military are the ones that do most of the city wrecking while the giant monster runs away like a little bitch since it can't take a hit because Emmerich thought it would be an ebin subversion of expectations to do a Cat and Mouse story where the Mouse is 150 feet tall.

>>211704538
All audiences hated it. It made dick money.

>>211711360
>Siskel and Ebert

Qrd?

>>211722485
They named the mayor and his assistant after Ebert and Siskel because Emmerich was butthurt about their negative review of ID4. But it was ultimately a pointless joke because as Ebert pointed out in his review of Godzilla 98, Emmerich didn't even have the monster step on him or eat him.

The animated series spin-off was pretty kino. Every time I watch the movie I have to remind myself that Randy, Monique, and NIGEL aren't actually in it and Craven and Elsie are barely even characters and I get sad.

>>211698908 (OP)
I like this film and that Godzilla design, I prefer what we have in the Monsterverse though

>>211698908 (OP)
Best designed Godzilla ever on screen