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I like Zilla’s design, but that’s it. Is Baragon Underrated? Because he’s also a favorite.

I think that people like the idea, but Godzilla fighting a bunch of ants in interesting 

Hm, I really like your enthusiasm! I was making a Godzilla crossover awhile ago, but I like to procrastinate and I'm bad at story writing...

Xeno, YES, yes, Zilla is also a favorite

how did i forget z i l l a?

Probably Dorako. Gigan seems to have been largely inspired by the monster, yet it was 42 years before we got a proper version after his original appearance. Wish we'd see more of him.

That said, while I acknowledge the Re-Dorako as a mild curiosity, I largely can't stand him in comparison to his initial form.

Do you know what the exact words say, because loop holes are my specialty 

Please no

Marvel and Godzilla should never be in the same movie

From Shin Godzilla Japanese promo:

"The latest in 12 years. Finally, the strongest Godzilla in history."

From the Japanese trailer of Godzilla vs. Kong:

"The God of Destruction"

"Vs. the Guardian God"


Godzilla has been called The God of Destruction in marketing materials for various films including Godzilla 2000, Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, Shin Godzilla, the Godzilla Anime Trilogy and now Godzilla vs. Kong. SpaceGodzilla was called the God of Destruction in trailers for Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla.

"Guardian God" is a title usually given to Mothra in various media--Now used for the Monsterverse Kong.

sonictiger,
Shin Godzilla, easily. He feels more like Godzilla than the Monsterverse one which is basically just the Heisei Gamera.

@MechaniKong1223

I hope that is true, I love Monsterverse Godzilla

I like Monsterverse Mothra's design but I really loved the Toho Mothra design but I can see why they changed her design to be more wasp-like in the Monsterverse. I think it was to make her more fitted for combat over cute and benevolent.

@SarcasticGoji
Its a Dilophosaurus unless you are talking about the blue guy then I don't know. Also Legendary/Monsterverse Godzilla FTW, Shin Godzilla reminds me of a Space Godzilla + Biollante + Destoroyah + Orga type villian than a proper Godzilla

would be awesome if they add Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah in the monsterverse

Varan is cool looking but I need to watch his movie before I can add him as a favorite but mine is Zilla and Desghidorah

1) Kong: Skull Island

2) Godzilla: King of The Monsters

3) Godzilla (2014)

TBD) Godzilla Vs. Kong

STAND DOWN, FOR I AM THE ALMIGHTY C H I C K E N

Thought Scylla was ok I guess

kinda liked the idea of an arachnid with Cthulhu mouth

I like Ebirah hes neat

also Baragon is my son

I was hooked after watching the trailer for Godzilla: King Of The Monsters.  High stakes, giant monsters, brilliant visual effects, Millie Bobby Brown, and watching Kong: Skull Island was enough to hook me on.  And I liked KOTM!  And Godzilla Vs Kong looks awesome, so now I'm extra-hooked!

Yes! Shin Goji is my favorite! 
 

Behemoth....was fine, I guess.  And I don't like Scylla.  But everyone else looks awesome!

Anyone up for Shin Godzilla vs. Legendary Godzilla?

Is one of them a Chicken?!?

Also Xenotaris, I’ve been trying to identify the theropod on the picture below your statements, (please remind me what they’re called), I thought it was a juvenile Dilophosaurus, but now I’m not sure

I think it’s unfair to say on special effect is better than the other. Comparing the two and saying which is better does not make it a fact, but a statement of opinion.

In my opinion problems I have with CGI,

- Often Not done well,

- Over used in certain films, and you can tell there is no set. 

- So big and loud that it detracts from the acting

- Even done well, you can still tell the difference

My Problems with Tokusatsu,

- More expensive 

- limited flexibility 

- Sacrifices logic and believability 

- Not that expressive 

- Suits are prone to breaking and decay

I think that used together,

CGI and Tokusatsu could be amazing.

The art style is great. I noticed how the mains look like hardened lava.

Frick

In any case, I may not seem like but I am a big fan of Tokusatsu-style special effects but I also a big fan of Stop-Motion, Puppetry, Go-Motion, Animatronics, and yes the big bad CGI. Special Effects are all awesome, beats watching a non-special effect movie

Of all the new material coming out lately, whether it be Singular Point or GvK, even Shin Ultraman, I'm looking forward to this the most.

Xenotaris,
We would've gotten far less Godzilla movies, many adored franchises, TV series and films like Super Sentai and Ultraman would not exist, the series might've gone on a hiatus even sooner with no garuntee of returning due to the fall of Japanese cinema in the late 60s & economic crisis in the mid-70s and a unique style of visual effects would not be included in cinema history.

Sounds boring.

Man I love the color schemes!

That design's really cool! I like the 'tusk' on his mouth. I made my own design a little bit ago that kind of emulated the concept art of 2014 (basically, more Tyrannosaurus-y in the snout and such) with fairly long arms.

well crocodilians in the distant past have achieved dinosaurian-like forms or at the very least bipedalism.

Initially in my homebrew setting it would be grounded closer to our reality as far as all non-avian dinosaurs would be extinct, so instead of godzilla mutating from a dinosaur, he would mutate from a crocodilian at a Japanese zoo during World War III's nuclear winter.


Logically a Salt Water crocodile would be the perfect Godzilla candidate but then I thought about my new Godzilla ending up with a longer snout than Toho's so I then thought about Godzilla mutating from an American Alligator for a more traditional Godzilla muzzle

okay I was wrong about the flop but imagine if they would have used stop motion rather than suitmation

From a scientific view, any fact has at least a small amount of bias. Plus as much as we love and respect the creators of Godzilla. We were not there. We do not truly know their thoughts and motivations. And Xenotarus chose to look at what happened in one way, while Gman chose another. Simply stating that something is used too much by producers or came from a tight budget does not get rid of any artistry that can be achieved. 

One thing also. Godzilla isn’t real. As much as we love characters, they don’t exist. They are not ours. The creators get ownership, Yet their lives did not just revolve around Godzilla or Ultraman. They had lives too. Evidence of this is after Ishiro Honda was asked to make another film for the Hesei era, he said something along the lines of, “Can’t you let me make something else?” I just wanted to say that people’s memories get fractured over time. We don’t know how much they remembered. I recently moved, and I thought it was life changing, but now I find it hard to picture the old house.

My point is, the people who created Godzilla, indeed are People. 

First Comment

Xenotaris,
You're half right. While Tsuburaya wanted to use stop motion special effects, he calculated before Godzilla was even designed that such a project would take exactly seven years to complete.

According to the book, "Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters", tokusatsu was developed as an art form out of the necessity of time. So while the style was developed due to resource constraints, Tsuburaya had no interest in turning back from it once the ball was rolling. Remember, after Godzilla '54 Tsuburaya had access to some of the most advanced visual effects technology in the world, including an optical printer of which only four existed by the time he got one. Tsuburaya founded a successful style, not unlike film noir of the 1940s or German expressionism in the 1920s and he wasn't turning back.

As far as "Gojira was a flop in japan" that is categorically, 150% false. I'm not sure where you got that idea, because literally every viable source speaks to the contrary.

According to Kogyotsushin, in 2021, the original film is the oldest movie in the top 25 most attended films of all time. It has an attendance record of 9.62 million which is higher than every Godzilla movie in Japan except for one. It was even more successful than Seven Samurai of the same year by 2.62 million tickets. The book, "Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film from Godzilla to Kurosawa" says, "The film set a new opening day record for a Toho feature," and explains how it sold out theaters. "Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters" also says it broke box office records becoming one of the biggest films of the year, earning awards and establishing Toho as, "the world's premier visual effects facility."

So while the 1956 cut, Godzilla, King of the Monsters helped Godzilla reach international fame, it was already a box office smash in Japan. There is no reason they would have fast tracked Godzilla Raids Again for a release three months later had it not been. There also would have been no insentive to green light Rodan and The Mysterians, both of which were completed before the American cut's release.