What does /tv/ think of Godzilla? - /tv/ (#211882045) [Archived: 1156 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:08:23 PM No.211882045
Godzilla
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I gave a couple of Heisei movies a shot and.. honestly I can't get past the dialogue. It's WAY too cheesy. If there was a Godzilla movie that has zero dialogue, just monsters duking it out, then I might watch it. Otherwise, I'm not very compelled, sorry.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:12:18 PM No.211882156
Don't forget to take Prep today, hon.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:14:12 PM No.211882212
>>211882045 (OP)
The dubbing of the Heisei films is notoriously bad apart from G85 and Biollante. You're better off watching versions with accurate subtitles.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:16:04 PM No.211882285
>>211882045 (OP)
Thats been the godzilla format since day 1. You have humans in a room trying to come up with a plan and then godzilla shows up for a few minutes to wreck the place, then back to humans.
The original godzilla, and the reboots of the first movie all play that pretty straight.
All the other movies the price of entry is watching goofy dumb humanshit until its time to have guys in foam rubber suits to fight.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:20:59 PM No.211882477
which ones did you watch
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:27:47 PM No.211882714
>>211882212
Even the sub sucks. Dialogue and the storyline is way too corny. They could have just had "2 monsters fight each other for no reason" and that would have unironically been more tolerable.
>>211882477
vs King Ghidorah (the one with time travelling android shenanigans) and vs Destroyah
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:29:50 PM No.211882777
>>211882045 (OP)
>If there was a Godzilla movie that has zero dialogue, just monsters duking it out, then I might watch it.
The closest thing is Godzilla x Kong, which intentionally minimized the human characters but still has them participating in the monster plotline.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:31:48 PM No.211882833
>>211882714
Stick to transformers movies then.
Jesus christ imagine getting filtered by godzilla.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:34:28 PM No.211882908
>>211882714
>corny
Dude you're watching Godzilla.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:35:22 PM No.211882943
>>211882045 (OP)
GO GO GODZILLA
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:37:19 PM No.211883027
Shin Godzilla
Shin Godzilla
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>>211882045 (OP)
That would be boring, trust me. Peak Godzilla is Shin Godzilla.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:40:00 PM No.211883107
>>211882045 (OP)
Heisei is the worst era. I don't know why you didn't start with the original, you must be a stupid person.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:45:06 PM No.211883277
>>211882908
I guess my point is, the way the characters act and are portrayed just don't feel natural at all.
>You're watching a movie where a giant nuclear fire breathing dinosaur battles a three headed dragon.
I know, go figure. To put it succintly, the human dialogue and storylines feel like they were written by a seven year old.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:46:52 PM No.211883340
>>211882714
King Ghidorah is one if not the silliest movie in the series, and weirdly xenophobic. Destoroyah isn't very good but it's held up by nostalgia and the weight of Godzilla dying. Neither are great entry points.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:52:37 PM No.211883527
>>211883340
>weirdly xenophobic
Not gonna lie, pop culture depictions of WW2 Japan in a sympathetic light feels a bit uncomfortable to watch after learning about the kind of stuff they were up to during that time.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:56:26 PM No.211883683
>>211883277
>the human dialogue and storylines feel like they were written by a seven year old.
As >>211883340 said, you should take into account that out of the 30+ Godzilla movies you ended up watching one of the silliest ones in the series.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 9:58:54 PM No.211883791
>>211882045 (OP)
in the mid 90s i had the chance to watch some of em on tv, i liked the idea of it. i liked the idea of being an alt guy with some knowledge of offbeat kitsch but ironically sort of cool movies. it was a cool character to dream of. but the actual movies were so dog shit i couldnt get into it for real even ironically. its a question of patience i guess. i sort of hoped godzilla 1998 could fix this but nope, just a insta forgettable film.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:01:02 PM No.211883855
>>211883027
Idk i feel like shin godzilla doesnt hold up on a rewatch. Minus one is kino althoghbeit
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:02:09 PM No.211883900
>>211883527
Godzilla vs KK isnt on the nose as GMK or Minus One but its not straight up sympathetic to Japan in the war. The soldiers' nostalgia for the war is misplaced just like their sympathy towards Godzilla, the one guy even gets killed by him
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:13:14 PM No.211884310
>>211882045 (OP)
My own rankings

Shin Godzilla
Minus One
Godzilla vs Kong
Godzilla 1954
The other monsterverse movies
Godzilla 98
that's all I've seen
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:16:19 PM No.211884410
>>211883900
meant to type Godzilla vs KG
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:17:24 PM No.211884455
>>211882045 (OP)
These movies don't really offer anything if you're not a nostalgiafag
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:19:02 PM No.211884521
>>211883107
>Heisei is the worst era.
im not necessarily disagreeing with you, but im always unsure whether millennium or heisei is the worst. what makes you think millennium is better than heisei?
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:24:33 PM No.211884730
>>211884521
Heisei is too samey, Millennium shakes the flavor a lot more, even with half of the movies being made by the same director. A lot of Heisei feels really empty, like the movies just exist to be blockbusters.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:25:21 PM No.211884762
Is it reddit to like Gamera?
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:26:19 PM No.211884806
>>211883791
>ironically sort of cool movies. it was a cool character to dream of. but the actual movies were so dog shit i couldnt get into it for real even ironically.
We seem to share the same mindset. I like the concept and the character. A nuclear fire breathing old school dinosaur ravaging through a metropolis and battling other monsters sounds cool. That's why I even decided to sit down and watch a Godzilla movie. But the movies themselveves were kinda lacklustre.
>>211883683
Guess I'll give the others a try.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:27:28 PM No.211884853
>>211883107
>Heisei is the worst era.
Retard.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:07:04 PM No.211886496
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>>211884730
heisei does have kino kaijus though, moreso than millennium
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:09:50 PM No.211886604
>>211884730
The Heisei era had way more original stories and creatures. The Milennium era spent most of its time rehashing the Showa movies. Badly. GXM,T:SOS, and FW are three of the worst movies in the series.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:27:34 PM No.211887347
>>211886496
Heiisi has
>Biollante
Kino
>Battra
evil Mothra, meh
>Spacegodzilla
Really lame take on a space Godzilla, low effort
>Destoroyah
Pretty cool
And King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, and Mothra. Heisei has 4 new monsters, two of whom are Godzilla variations and one being a Mothra variant.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:31:58 PM No.211887533
for me, it's the Against Mechagodzilla / Tokyo S.O.S. double feature
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:35:17 PM No.211887675
>>211887347
whats your point? millennium has even less original monsters
>orga
>megaguirus
>monster x
also you forgot mecha kg, and godzillasaurus if you want to count it as original
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:38:31 PM No.211887808
>>211887675
Yeah but Heisei was 7 movies over 11 years and Millennium was 6 movies over 5 years
>mecha kg, and godzillasaurus
Holy shit why was Heisei so fucking unoriginal
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 11:47:52 PM No.211888165
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>Final Wars
>Godzilla against Mechagodzilla and Tokyo S.O.S
>Giant monsters all out attack!
Millennium is kino for these four movies alone, even if Megaguirus sucked and I don't remember anything about 2000 besides orga vore