XPost: alt.movies.monster   
   From: gryn.1@NOSPAMosu.edu   
      
   Good overview, thanks.   
      
   On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 01:58:49 -0400, Wolf wrote:   
      
   > The Good:   
   > - Godzilla's a bad-ass again. He takes a shot, glares, and makes something   
   > pay. It doesn't really matter what. He hasn't been this... vicious since   
   > GvsBiollante where he calmly removed a tentacle from his hand [ow.],   
   > snarled, and torched Biollante. Loved the scene where the military unloads   
   > on him and he pauses after the explosions, turns around, and removes the   
   > annoyance. That's what Godzilla should be!   
      
   Agreed. This is much closer to the original Godzilla: the beast which comes   
   and destroys like a natural disaster.   
      
   > - Godzilla's got tactics. Godzilla never *had* tactics. He's always sort of   
   > jiggled it, been smacked around a bit, and then either body-slammed or   
   > beamed something into submission. This time, though, he had a sense of   
   > priority and tactics. He learned from opponent's attacks. Nothing worked   
   > twice. He dodged flying opponents. He used the beam effectively against   
   > flying opponents. The old boy needs to get possessed by dead souls more   
   > often. They do a body good.   
      
   Smart villains are always more interesting to watch, though I guess they're   
   harder to write for, since you have to come up with smarter ideas for the   
   good guys in order to win.   
      
   > - Godzilla's got mis-direction! Like calmly staring at the navy before   
   > turning his head at the last second and torching a terribly surprised   
   > Mothra, who had successfully used that attack for 38 years.   
      
   That one did take me by surprise, and after so many kaiju movies I'm   
   guessing its very hard to come up with a new twist. Nice job.   
      
   [...]   
   > - Monster emoting. Amazingly, they got suits/cheap CGI to show emotion.   
   > Godzilla looked seriously pissed for most of the movie. Just evil. Baragon   
   > looked and sounded really desparate late in his fight w/ Godzilla, where he   
   > was wailing and trying to climb up the hill, knowing full well Godzilla was   
   > gonna get him ebfore he could. He knew he was gonna die and couldn't do a   
   > thing about it -- and it showed. Good job.   
      
   I did feel sorry for him in a beaten-up-puppy kind way.   
      
   [...]   
   > The Bad:   
   > - Loss of continuity. Godzilla, who has been shown to be pretty bright all   
   > movie long, sees that his beam attack is now shooting out of his shoulder   
   > and self-destroying. So what does he do when he sees the sub he wants gone   
   > an arms-length away, and slower in the water than he is? He fires his beam   
   > again. Why? Come on guys...   
      
   Guess they had to find *some* way to finish off the Big Guy, and it was too   
   late in the movie to introduce another monster.   
      
   > - Innerspace ending? Come on... What happened to Godzilla's super-healing?   
   > Did they forget he is seriously radioactive? Apparently not, for it cropped   
   > up in the ending...   
      
   Remarkably cool and blaze-free inside for something that breathes what The   
   Big G. does...   
      
   > - Ghidorah never really worked in this movie.   
      
   I espected to see a lot more of his lightning-breath attack than we did; I   
   think we only saw it once? Until that point, I was thinking this particular   
   incarnation could only "light it up" when it was biting something, not   
   long-distance.   
      
   Couple of other thoughts:   
      
   - Nice to see the Japanese Self-Defense Forces now have radar-guided   
   munitions, but do they really only have 5-6 fighter jets in their whole   
   arsenal? Or was the idea "well we tried that, didn't work"?   
      
   - Much as I love Ghidorah and MechaGodzilla, surely there's someone at Toho   
   who can come up with an original and interesting foe for Godzilla?   
   Otherwise, they're just going to wind up cycling through "the usual   
   suspects" again and hitting the reset button.   
      
   Tom G.   
      
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