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From: jjhawks@comcast.net
Agreed, if they keep this up will end up with a mecha ghidorah!
O wait nevermind.
"T. Gryn" wrote in message
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> 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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