What Made You a Godzilla Fan?

Hi there! I’ve been a Godzilla fan since I was four years old. I loved dinosaurs as a tyke, so my parents got me a Godzilla tape from somewhere, and it’s been a lifelong relationship ever since. My very first movie was Godzilla vs Gigan, and I used to be afraid of the giant cockroaches! I still have my first Godzilla toy from K-Mart.

OMGodzilla, I was very lucky and was there at the beginning of 2 awesome movie franchises, Godzilla and James Bond.  I was 5 in 1962 and saw Godzilla fight King Kong.  I had seen the original King Kong movie along with the first 2 Godzilla films prior that.  I grew up as a big fan of the Godzilla and had the thrill of being an Atlanta Extra filming on The King Of The Monsters due out May 31st.  I met Kyle Chandler and Vera Farmiga and we shot on a huge outdoor set all night long.  

Atlanta Extra,
What days were you there? Was it the Norcross street scene?

My dad made me a fan, I remember when I was four he showed me GMK and I was in love ever since.

Saturday movies on TV from late 60's on...I watched all the giant monster movies, and loved 'em all.  But Godzilla...truly the king of them all.  And now my entire family loves him.  Such a huge geek-pride feeling when I took my oldest to see Godzilla 2000 at the theaters :)

Been a G fan all my life! Excited for King of the monsters and Godzilla Vs. Kong and can't wait to see if the Monsterverse continues. Hopefully, Toho lets them if the movies do well and maybe they could even join in on the creative front and help out!

I was born in the mid 70s and the first toy I ever remember owning was the Shogun Godzilla with the launching fist. My dad was and still is a big fan. Now I am passing down the love of Godzilla to my boy.

First movie I actually saw was Shin Godzilla back in 2017... dunno why it took me so long to watch one, I absolutely love dinos since I was a kid, and from there started to like giant monsters, of course I'd love Kaiju movies!

Big lizard with atomic breath? Love at first movie! Especially with Kamata-kun in there!

Hi ever since I was old enough to remember I was watching Godzilla movies.  I loved it, so cool seeing these guys battle it out. As a kid I took it all seriously and hated when Godzilla would lose even if he was the "bad guy" in the movie. Now as an adult having these movies come out is so cool, I'm hoping for more after kong. And maybe some Mecha King Ghidorah.

I became a fan as a little guy back when NBC had the Hanna-Barbra's Godzilla power hour cartoon around 1079-80 ish time frame. 2 years later I went to Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla in the theater. I was hooked when I saw it. 

I think my first exposure to Godzilla was the Blue Oyster Cult song, as strange as that sounds. I just remember listening to it as a kid and wanting to know more about the creature that the song was about. Then one day, at a local Blockbuster, I found a copy of Godzilla 1985 on VHS and asked my mother to rent it for me. Came home and watched it and I have loved Godzilla ever since. I still remember my mother trying to tell me how Godzilla was "mean and a bad guy" but I didn't care lol After that, I would try to find more tapes at the video store, but there wasn't a whole lot to choose from. TNT's Monstervision helped though as they had a marathon of Godzilla films and I tried taping them all on video. Now I'm just trying to collect as many of the DVDs and BluRays as I can.

Hmm...The earliest memory I can recall is playing with a '98 Zilla figure from a bin at the senior center my sister worked at, I must have been 3 of 4 at the time. A couple years later I got one of those big Imperial Godzilla toys from a cousin, and finally my first movie was Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster, which I caught on TV one Sunday afternoon. As an avid dinosaur enthusiast practically since birth, Godzilla was the natural evolution of that fascination with giant reptiles, and so I was hooked. For years after that all the media I had was the Gamecube game and whatever G-flicks my brother would borrow from the library, but I latched on to those with a passion and spent hours pouring over any information I could find. Finally a couple years ago I found a little site called Wikizilla, and there was no going back.

I guess just the fact that they were giant monsters was what attracted me in the first place. The idea that a monstrous-looking dinosaur could be the hero instead of the villain was a dream come true for me, and the more I learned about Godzilla the more I grew to adore the other aspects of the franchise as well. The MonsterVerse is in every respect the culmination of my years of being a diehard fan, and I couldn't be happier I stuck with the franchise as long as I have.

When I was young, my world was extremely limited. I was afraid of a lot of things, things that would scare me would become my nightmare for years to come. I hated the things in this world that serve no purpose but to give good scares and high thrills. I hated things that would destroy mankind's place in this world, because I believed we didn't deserve it. I hated giant monsters. I hated Godzilla. 

I avoided watching anything Godzilla related throughout my childhood; giant monsters, unstoppable killing machines, unbeatable plagues (or a combination of the three). I loved watching Jurassic park and it's sequels, at least the animals were smaller. (the raptor ambushing the hunter was not my favourite part). It became clear that I would never acknowledge Godzilla ever in my life, that I would never encounter the big G and what he stood for in American and Japanese audiences. But something changed.

Cloverfield. This movie captivated me the first time I watched it back in 2010, 2 years after it was released. It was the first time I watched a found footage film and it immediately caught my attention towards its style and its tone. The monster scenes still scared me as I still did not like monsters destroying mankind and its cities. As the film progressed, I felt more sympathetic to the characters and their struggle to find the main character's lover in a city besieged, reminiscent of the 9/11 attacks. As the military was trying to stop the monster with rifles, tanks, artillery and airstrikes, I never thought I would have these feelings as I was watching a monster movie: the sheer amount of joy. Humanity was not allowing the creature to destroy their city without a fight. I felt a sense of pride for my fellow man, even if it was still futile. That day I changed my view on monster movies, I wanted a sequel that gave me that same joy I had while watching it. I was hungering for more. 

I had to wait 4 more years before I can satiate my Kaiju action. I heard there was a new kaiju movie that would return a cultural icon back from hibernation. It sounded promising.

Godzilla was finally introduced to me when I was 17. It was one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Ever since then I watched the Heisei and Millenium movies. Godzilla X Mechagodzilla is without a doubt my favourite from the millenium era, as well as its sequel and GMK. My love for the Big G became a passion, a near obsession. I was a Goji fan. I waited patiently for 5 years for King of the Monsters, watching and rewatching Godzilla 2014 over and over again until my brain memorised each of the characters and the roars and sounds of the monsters. It was absolutely worth all the wait. 

I had godzilla 1998 on VHS as a kid, I would watch it in bed at night as I failed to sleep due to insomnia, I was too lazy and indecisive to pick a new tape to watch every night so I would just rewind the same godzilla tape and rewatch it every night, it was my favourite movie for my entire childhood (coincidentally it is on tv right now as I type this)

then a little later in life around the age of 10 I saw King Kong vs Godzilla on a movie channel and I loved it though thought it was cheesy and terrible but I loved it all the same, that same channel would play that one godzilla movie constantly and me and my grandmother would watch it together, laughing and cheering during the fights

in the end though what really won me over and made me seek out the rest of the Toho godzilla movies was seeing all the different incarnations of the monsters and seeing how many unique monsters there were, it was like pokemon but giant and I loved that

I became a Godzilla fan when I was about 5 years old. my first movie was Godzilla VS. Space Godzilla. I Remember my dad just randomly putting it on and I was hooked. after I watched it he just slowly introduced me to the other kaiju monsters and by the time I was 8 my ultimate favorite was Mothra. She will Always be My Favorite out of all of them. I think the other monsters are cool as well but I'm a Mothra Fan forever.  

I first became a G fan in the 90s during the heisi series. I loved the destruction and fighting and I've always loved Godzilla since I was 4 I just loved Godzilla and I still do. 

I was 9 years old and I chose watch Godzilla 2000 rather than go to a party

Hey everyone! My name is Joey, and Ive been a fan of Godzilla for as long as I can remember. When I was 4 or 5 I saw Godzilla vs the Smog Monster with my father and I have been addicted to kainu movies ever since. 

Im currently hosting a podcast called King of the Minutes, and on it various guests and I analyze the Godzilla films minute by minute. You can find it on most podcasting sites, and Im always looking for new guests! 

It was 1985 and I had just barely turned 5 years old. My family had ran the "Monsanto Rec. Club (swimming) Pool" since 79',  year before I was born as my Gpa was the night Superintendent over the local (then still) Monsanto plant in Alvin, TX. After the 79' flood receded, my family cleaned up and took over running the pool facility every summer until 2002 when the rec club (by now the plant was "Solutia" with Monsanto being long gone from the area) but I digress. My brother (who was but 3 1/2) and I were out at that pool every day with various family members who did everything from running the concession stand to lifeguarding to keeping the local wild life that would wander up from Chocolate Bayou (that was just meters away) out of the area. The radio was constantly on and I even remember the main station "Power 104" I remember hearing about Godzilla 1985 all summer from the ads between songs and it had an effect on me. By the end of the Summer, Godzilla 1985 was now a new release on VHS. My aunt invited my brother and for a sleep over at her place and asked what movie we wanted her to get. We almost in unison said "Godzilla 1985" (those radio ads apparently did their job!) I remember it had just been released on VHS to rent(back then the rental places got it weeks before you could buy it...at least here anyway) and she told us she got the last copy. They were out but a guy turned it in right before she was about to choose another movie (Lady and The Tramp...God how to I remember this?!) So we all watched Godzilla lay waste to Tokyo. My jaw hit the floor several times and I was just totally fascinated by Godzilla. I mean he was pretty much the "bad guy" in this movie but I didn't care. It started my love for the big G that has only strengthened over time. They can keep their "Superman's, Spiderman's, Batman's" and "X-MAN'S" while I still liked them, they couldn't polish G's boots in my eyes. He was my hero. I liked them all but the brooding and dark misunderstood Godzilla who eventually became somewhat of an "anti-hero"(Of course I'm referring to Heisei) was my favorite. I saw and got as much Godzilla as I could after that but it was all Showa (other than 1985 which later became Return Of Godzilla when the original Japanese English dubbed version was released in the states). I had thought for many years that Heisei Godzilla had only one movie that he had burned alive  until one day I was at a Sam Goody in the mall one early Fall day in 1994 and saw Godzilla VS. Biollante for sale on VHS. I had never even heard of this movie as internet was just now at that time starting to become a "thing". I bought it and when I saw what it actually was....I was so happy I almost had tears in my eyes. I had cried seeing Godzilla die in Mt. Mihara MANY times...his screams of terror and pain as he was(what I had assumed) being burned alive. My first G movie that still 9 years later, had a profound effect over me. Even at 14 years old, it still brought me to tears seeing Godzilla die in that volcano. Now here was a movie I had no idea existed and I see that same (yes the design was different but still) Godzilla ALIVE and EMERGING from Mt. Mihara! My love for Godzilla had never died but it had waned as I got older...this Movie revitalized my love for G and my obsession started all over again. I ended up getting Godzilla VS. King Ghidorah a few years later, followed by all that followed. I am a die-hard G fan and I will remain a die-hard G fan until I die. Long live  THE  ****ing KING!

I have been a Godzilla fan since I was young, my mon who is in her 70's introduced me to the King of the Monsters Godzilla along with Rodan, Mothra, and King Gidorah.   I have all the movies even the original one with Raymond Burr, I cannot really say which one is the best as they are all different and introduce many different Kaiju.    My mom would say that back in her day Godzilla was considered a Horror/Monster Movie.      I have to say that the part that got me hooked about the reboot was how the redid all the monsters and when I took my daughter to see Godzilla 2014 she was almost out of her seat when the flame scene came on, that was exciting and everyone cheared in the theatre.    I hope that there is plenty of more movies to come in the future

I'd have to say watching the movies with my dad can't remember the first one i watched just that i would stay up late to watc marathons of old monster movie's and Godzilla was always my favorite. Nothing beats just watching them with my dad back then.....

I am older now but Godzilla was literally the first movie I remember as a kid and it was Godzilla 1985 on BETA.  I am so happy America tried and succeeded in making a Japanese style Godzilla.  The whimsy was there for this one.  Proud and disappointed that it’s not doing so well in the box office.  I’ve seen it 5 times and counting.  Any ideas on the upcoming movies plot?  Think Kong and him will team up.  Any thoughts???

My dad introduced me to Final Wars and I fell in love.

What made me a Godzilla fan? I guess lame answer would be the whole giant monsters are cool to m thing but in reality Godzilla got me through a rough time. it got me through the fact that I feel hated. maybe that's the reason why I'm addicted to kaiju in general. There cool and well known for being misunderstood and hated maybe that's what makes me like them so much but yea just love the Gman he was and still is my hero.

Well, it took me a while to join fandub, but I needed something that would make me sure, and what made me realize that I wanted to be in this fandub, was the story, the characters (Mothra as I want it xD) 

(By the way I actually speak Spanish xD)

Well, I had been wanting to belong to the fandub for a while, but recently I became a fan of this beautiful saga, and what made me definitely belong to the fandub was both the story and the characters (Mothra is my favorite Kaiju :3)

(by the way I speak Spanish xd)

I was raised in Akron, Ohio. In Akron, we had this place called Quaker Square. It was this former train station that was owned by Quaker Oats. It was turned into a shopping center. There was a restaurant there where you could sit in old train cars. But, in the entrance to that restaurant was this big mechanical display of King Kong. At the push of a button, Kong would roar as planes flew past his head. Trains and cars would flee in terror. I loved pushing that big red button. I was amazed every time it came alive and I was transfixed to the large beast causing all this destruction. This was the seed that fueled my lifelong obsession with monsters.

I’d catch the odd MST3k of a Godzilla film, but it wasn’t until 1998 that I saw a giant monster film from start to finish. I remember loving it. I was just a kid with very little knowledge of Godzilla so I had not much of an idea about how unfaithful and disrespectful of the source material it was. But, it was good fun for a young child just being exposed to giant monsters, and I still contend to this day that while it’s not much of a Godzilla film per-say, it’s entertaining. I had limited access to actual Godzilla films growing up. Every once in a while I would check one out from the library if I found one. The first I remember seeing from start to finish was 1992’s Godzilla vs. Mothra. After seeing it I was inspired to write a short adaptation of it that I started but never finished, and it’s been long since lost.

Over time as I got older, I began collecting films of my favorite movie monsters: Kong and Godzilla. It’s easy to own all the Kongs. There are only 8 and the distribution rights are owned by big distributors like Universal, Warner Bros., and Paramount. Godzilla, on the other hand, was a tad more difficult, distribution split up between many companies. I began with some box sets and some individual DVD’s but many films in the series were out of print by the time I started collecting them. So, I took to eBay and second-hand shops. Some were more expensive than others. As luck would have it there have been some fairly recent Blu-ray releases of the harder to find films. With the release of Shin Godzilla in 2016, I was finally able to say that I have seen and owned every live-action Toho film to date. Everything on Blu-ray where available. It’s one of my favorite collections that I have. All 29 Toho Godzilla films, plus Rodan and Mothra and the Mothra trilogy, plus the 2 American films. Right next to my Kong collection.

I have watched all the Godzilla films many times, often marathoning them. There is not one that I do not like. It’s a good time to be a Gfan these days. I might not really like the latest American outing all that much, but I am deliriously excited for Godzilla vs. Kong. My two favorite monsters duking it out on the big screen in front of my eyes will be a transcendent experience. I’ll probably cry.

What made me a Godzilla fan? well, I guess it would be the giant monster action. But really just think all the monster action and multiple Monsters around the world in deep slumber but when Godzilla king of the monsters had been realized in the cinemas. It's now on full out Monster action in with Mothra, King Ghidorah, Rodan and most of all our main monster Godzilla. And now most of all the main thing I really like about  Godzilla is the size, looks, abilities, and most of all his role of being the king of the monster or maybe the god of the monsters while Mothra being the queen. And that what makes me a fan of Godzilla his iconic looks, size, abilities and his role of being the king of the monsters. And I would respect the Gman for that. And he will always be one of my heroes.

I was a little kid, about 4 y.o at home often because I was sick much of the time. They showed a bunch of old monster movies in the afternoons and Godzilla was on a lot. I have to admit that Mothra and Son of Godzilla were my favourites until I got a bit older (Godzilla kind of scared me at that age). But when I did, I began to appreciate and eventually fell in monster-love with Godzilla. 40 something years later and he's still my favourite movie star.

Back when I was really really little, I'm talking like 2-3 years old, I saw Ghidorah: The Three-headed Monster on an old tape with my dad, and I was instantly in love. The action-packed fights and charming cheesiness and fascinating (at the time for me at least.) special effects of it all just completely drew me in and made me want to see them all. This sums it up perfectly. And from then until I was around 10, I saw pretty much every Showa Era movie from Toho, the films that my dad grew up seeing when he was my age. Tapes and DVD's from my local library, Netflix's old online-delivery service, thrift stores, and the old Blockbuster and other independent video store from my home town were my supply, and I had almost as much fun hunting them down as I did seeing them. Though unfortunately, by the time I was around 11, I had mostly moved on to other interests, and didn't pay Godzilla and his pals much attention anymore. Kinda makes me sad thinking about, once I got to that age I almost felt a bit embarrassed for liking Kaiju movies, I felt like it made me nerdy and I kinda abandoned it. But that all changed back when I finally watched the 2014 Godzilla with some friends back in May. It made me remember how I felt back when I was younger, watching in awe at these massive monsters battling each other. It felt really good, and helped me fall back in love like I am now. I'm only just now getting back into the game, this summer I've made a goal to watch every Godzilla film there is, I've gotten up to All Monsters Attack, and it's really brought back some great memories, and I'm really looking forward to catching up on the newer films, even if it seems like some are better than others, (1998). It's been great, and now I've just joined this forum to help with that, so hey, it's really awesome to be here, and thanks for reading I suppose. 

From the first time I saw the original USA Godzilla with Raymond Burr I was hooked.

A me gustó Godzilla al ver como este peleaba contra otros mountros igual que el y pues eso fue epico!! es cuando comencé a ver todas las películas que pudiera sobre el.

The thing that made me a Godzilla fan?I saw a movie called Godzilla vs King Ghidorah,i liked that movie,that brought me into Godzilla!

Think back, way back to when you saw your first Godzilla movie. What made you a fan of Godzilla initially?

- I became a fan after seeing Godzilla (2014). The killer soundtrack and the sheer spectacle of seeing a giant lizard throw giant buys through skyscrapers had my jaw on the floor, combined with the experience of seeing it with my friends. I've actually lurked here from time to time, but King of the Monsters was what actually got me to sign up. I was blown away! It took almost everything I liked about the first movie and kicked it up to 11!

I've been a fan of Godzilla since I was 6 years old. I'm 59 now. But what got me hooked was the original Godzilla: King Of The Monsters 1956 which starred Raymond Burr. But my 2 ultimate favorites are Mothra and King Ghidorah

What made me a fan were the Showa movies on tv back in the early to mid 80's. I love the hell out of them; Still do. What makes me not  a fan is the modern fan base. The people here seem to be ok but the ones on TK's forums are so dumb that I question if they can wipe their ass without a tutor present.

My first Godzilla film was probably Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla. I watched it when i was 4 and i instantly fell in love with the big G. I watched some more movies like Godzilla 2000, Gojira, GMK, Godzilla vs King Ghidorah, and Godzilla vs Megalon. I loved those movies too, and i started following Godzilla. Before I knew it, i became the G nerd i am today. GO GO GODZILLA!!    

Well, i'm almost new in kaiju topics. 

Guys, Kong needs each One of us.

Let's make Kong King again!

If memory serves, it was Saturday morning Creature Feature somewhere in the early 1970s and saw Godzilla for the first time. I was way into dinosaurs too, so it fit the bill. Creature Feature was a great show to get exposed to all of that stuff be it Godilla, Kong, Black Lagoon, Frankenstein etc.

I was a kid in the 70's. Cold winters in upstate NY. Grew up on the edge of a big swamp and woods where it seemed to a kid that Rodan, Mothra, Ghidora and the King of them all Godzilla could be battling. A local UHF channel used to broadcast Universal Horror, 50's Sci-Fi and Godzilla movies and I instantly fell in love with the Big Guy. Massive, awe-inspiring, powerful, courageous, relentless and fascinating Godzilla was better than Luke Skywalker, Evel Knievel and King Kong combined. He was the mightiest being the Earth has ever produced and he never shirked from a challenge or a struggle. Once I got my hands on some vhs movies and could watch them over and over again I was happily doomed and always will be. Looking forward to hanging out with all of you. Godzilla!!!!