My Godzilla Marathon

Titan of Water - It's good that you're getting to watch these movies, especially seeing them for the first time. I like that you've taken the time to give your thoughts on each one after you see it. I look forward to hearing your review, as well as everyone else's, of G:KOTM in three weeks.

I enjoy these reviews even though I don't agree with most of them. That's probably why I am enjoying them as much as I do.

I really have to get going on mine. I'm only two movies in but I'm only doing a small marathon basically just watching all of the movies up to Monster Zero. I might watch some favorites after that, but that's the main thing I'm focusing on. 

Gman: You bring up some good points,I still don’t like the movie but it was cool too see another side.

Titan of Water Yeah, Ebirah Horror of the Deep's not worth the time, but I still hold it in my heart because it was the first ever true Godzilla film that I ever saw, and this was back in mid-2014. [Because 1) the first one I ever saw was the 1998 film, but I didn't know it was "Godzilla" (quotes are for G.I.N.O) because it looked like a giant dinosaur, and 2) I missed out on seeing the 2014 movie in theaters or on DVD, and I didn't see that one until mid-2017 on rental.]

Godzilla vs Gigan:

This movie is sort of a mixed bag for me. None of the characters are very interesting, though I did get a few laughs out of the main character once and awhile. A big problem with the plot is that it’s already been done to death (another alien invasion) in the previous movies, and you could probably see the “twist” a mile away if you saw the previous movies. The movie also looks sadly cheap. There is A LOT of stock footage and the new models we see don’t look near as grand or detailed as previous ones. Ghidorah is incredibly stiff for a good chunk of the movie, and the Godzilla suit they’ve been using since Destroy All Monsters seems to be on it’s last legs. I did see some positives in this movie though. I honestly think they presented their anti-pollution message a lot better here. Unlike Godzilla vs Hedorah they don’t bombard you with it and it’s only in the movie for a couple minutes, but still gives audiences enough to chew on, or at least me. Though I will admit I kinda cringed when one of the characters spelled out the message at the very end like the audience is two years old and didn’t know the message. Though brutally beat up and worn from years of filming, the Godzilla suit used in this film still has a nice design and I put it on par with the MosuGoji suit, from its freshness in Destroy All Monsters to its wearing out in this movie. I honestly think Gigan was well done and is a very creative concept. Anguirus looks good too, though like Godzilla a bit worn since he was used in Destroy All Monsters a few years back. Ghidorah’s design was the only one I had a problem with. It looks like his suit from previous films was used in some shots but personally I think it looks a lot more worn and beaten down than the others. The monster fights scenes are pretty decent in my opinion. But really, it can quite boring most of the time and to me not really worth watching unless your a really devoted fan. I give it a 2/5

Update tomorrow.

Terror of MechaGodzilla: For a filmed that bombed at the box office, it sure is a good film. Ironically, the villains are more entertaining than the main character, who, as you’ve already probably guessed, is very bland. Katsura, though, is a very complex character. She’s goes through an emotional roller coaster, torn between her father and what is right. Add to the fact that she struggles to use free will cause the aliens keep on reprogramming her and manipulating her emotions. Dr Mafune, while he can seem like nothing more than a cliche evil scientist sometimes, he his moments. It seemed laughable to me that he went crazy cause no one believed his theory about a dinosaur, but then learning about his poverty and the death of his wife made me realize he was already a deeply broken man and the Titanosaurus incident was the straw that broke the camels back. While he certainly isn’t a good guy, he truly did love his daughter. You can really see it when breaks down sobbing after he finds out that the control for MechaGodzilla is inside her. The aliens are delightfully over the top evil and hammy. MechaGodzilla looks nice and so does Titanosaurus, though I found his roar a little annoying. Godzilla looks good and menacing, though his grimace can seem over the top and a little comedic at times. The monster action is very well done and the destruction scenes are almost apocalyptic with the combination of MechaGodzilla’s mass arsenal and Titanosaurus’ hurricane force winds from his fins.

I give this movie a 4/5.

I always felt Katsura was the main character: The movie opens with her, it's her journey we generally follow and it closes with her dead in someone's arms. She has the full arc in the film.

I suppose due to the Romeo & Juliet style nature of the story, it's easy to lump both characters as joint leads.

Gman: That very well might be the case.

The Return of Godzilla: We finally leave the campy kawaii Godzilla to go back to his dark and somber roots. Weirdly, Kraken gives a preface saying that the views expressed in this film don’t necessarily reflect theirs. I don’t get what was so offensive, I think not wanting to get nuked in a Soviet-American War is pretty reasonable to me. Some characters were good but other felt a little undercooked to me. The main character is interesting because he has somewhat of a grey morality. He’s certainly willing to help people, but at the same time he takes advantage of people and seems to care more about his job than anything else. The prime minister is by far my favorite character. He has great internal struggle over whether or not to use the atom bomb. In the end he choose his own convictions rather than give into the pressure of America and Russia. He was able to stay calm in very tense situations that I think would make most others crack. I know some people find him annoying, but I dig the hobo guy. Seeing him trash talk a monster that could easily step on him and probably didn’t know what he’s saying was just really funny to me. If we count both America and Soviet Russia as “characters”, I liked how neither side of the Cold War was really vilified. Both are sort of grey like the main character. Both pose a threat with the use of nuclear weapons and both use Japan for their own gains, but at the same time they do some good in the film as well. The Russian guy tried to stop the nuke from launching and America helped stop the nuke from destroying Tokyo. Other than that, no characters really stood out to me. Dr Hayashida was semi-interesting with his past history with Godzilla as well as the girl whose name I can’t remember when she is exploited by the main character, but other than that they feel kinda static to me. Another example of wasted development was the brother. They could have easily dove into the trauma he must be dealing with because of the horrific killings of his friends he witnessed by the sea louse, and they kinda did that a little bit but it’s barely shown and instead most of the time he pulls a Haruo and goes on about how he hates Godzilla. I’d like to point out that while some characters didn’t seem interesting to me, I though most of the actors acted pretty well, whether the character they were playing was interesting or not. The models are finally back to the high quality and must of took a lot of time and work. We also see the affect the destruction has on the people again and your left with the same grim feeling from 54. If I had one major complaint, it’s Godzilla’s appearance. I like the cybot Godzilla, it looks good, and the suit looks okay from some angles but at others he just looks awful. He looks incredibly derpy and looks like he got stoned or something. But besides that I really liked this film, I give it a 4/5.

Godzilla vs Biollante: This movie is probably the greatest of the Heisei series, it even kinda feels like a completely different movie than the others. The main character was interesting cause he seemed to be the only voice of reason through the film. We get a lot of deep talks about the ethics of genetic engineering through him. He kinda serves as a similar character to Serizawa. Both are afraid to use a weapon to kill Godzilla because it could fall into the wrong hands (the Oxygen Destroyer and ANEB), but both decide to use them anyway to protect their people. While not the main message of the movie, he learns a good lesson by the end of the film that no place in the world is perfect and he need to do with what he’s got. I actually think the romance is really good in this movie cause the main character dates a girl who’s father is in direct conflict with his ethics. The girlfriend also actually contributes to the plot, so that’s a plus. Dr. Shiragami is quite a complex person. He’s arrogant and has a scant regard for nature, but at the same time he loved his daughter and did everything to try to keep her alive, if in a really messed up way. After seeing the abomination he created, he slowly but surely realizes his fault , and the consequences of playing God. But in the end, even after realizing his fault, he still pays for his deed by getting killed. It kinda reminded me of a Shakespearean tragedy. Gondo is a really fun character. He actually WANTS Godzilla to come back cause he’s bored. He has a lot of great one-liners and a lot of great action scenes. He goes out like a boss by mocking the King of the Monsters himself, that takes balls! As for Miki Saegusa, I might get a lot of hate for this, but I didn’t think she was really interesting in this movie. She didn’t become interesting to me until Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla 1993, then in SpaceGodzilla she was just really annoying, being really whiny and self-righteous. She became interesting and bearable for me again in Destoroyah. Here in Biollante, similar to the princess from Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster, she seems to only be used for exposition and move the plot around. The Godzilla suit for this movie was really good, very fierce and menacing. It was so good they used the same basic design for the rest of the suits in the series! All the models and sets are high quality and  I was surprised with how detailed a lot of them were. This makes the destruction scenes even better and you’ll be left satisfied with them. Biollante looks amazing, she’s really an achievement for the special effects guys. She’s so huge I’m surprised they made he able to move. The fights between the two monsters  are actually pretty messy, ferocious, and violent for a Godzilla film, which is good to me cause it’s more realistic and varied. Better enjoy the tooth and claw while you can though, cause starting with Godzilla vs King Ghidorah the beam spamming begins. I give this film a 5/5.

Appreciate the love for Biollante and finding some good messages.

Empty H: Thank you, I was just about to do a review for Godzilla vs King Ghidorah!

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah: It’s an okay film, but I see it as a big downgrade from Biollante. The only two characters I found interesting were Shindo and Emmy. Shindo, like Dr. Shiragami, is a tragic character who pays for his warped views. He is extremely disillusioned about Godzilla, thinking of him as some kind of spiritual guardian of Japan just because it unintentionally saved his life long ago. But in the end, he is proved wrong right after Godzilla defeats King Ghidorah, when his “savior” continues the rampage his opponent started. Being responsible for leaving him for dead on the island which allowed the Futurians to send him to the bearing sea were he would be mutated, and causing him to be even more mutated by his nuclear sub, Shindo feels that the only way to atone for his deeds and disillusionment is death. Emmy was something of a grey Anti-Hero, which is interesting because that doesn’t seem to be the case for a lot of Godzilla characters. She is just as guilty of deceiving Japan as her partners, but instead of plotting on destroying Japan like her partners she only wanted to use King Ghidorah as a warning. In the end she chooses to help Japan, thereby allowing it to become at corrupt superpower, rather than live with the blood of millions of lives on her hands. That would be a hard choice since neither one would result in a happy ending. None of the others characters stood out to me, and honestly I think Emmy should have been the main character. I’d like to point out that King Ghidorah seemed a lot more sympathetic here than in previous movies. It’s never implied he was the sadistic genocidal monster of the Showa Era, but rather an innocent creature who was mind controlled to do his dark deeds. It feels sad when he meets his fate at the hands of Godzilla. Both Godzilla and King Ghidorah have good designs, but like many suits in the later Heisei era Ghidorah’s regular form and Mecha form are incredibly stiff because the suits were so heavy. As for the fight scenes, the first one is decent. There was a lot more beams than usual but still just enough physical attacks. The second fight to me is semi entertaining because Mecha King Ghidorah is an awesome concept but mediocre however, because it’s almost completely beam spamming. This movie loses two stars for lacking interesting characters and the interesting characters that are in the film have less screen time, and good but not as good as they could’ve been fight scenes. This movie is a lot better if you understand the time travel. If you want a really good explanation of how it worked, go to Wikizilla.com, they explain it really well. I give this movie 3/5.

13 days remain, or in other words, 13 movies remain..... Good luck man! Must be fun traveling through Godzilla history!

It is.

Godzilla vs Mothra: King Ghidorah was decent, but this one is just bad! Almost all the characters are extremely annoying and unlikable to me. The main character is a scumbag, the ex-wife is a bossy self-righteous know-it-all, the guy who works for the super-duper evil corporation is slimy and a hypocrite, and the little girl is just irritating. The only character I liked was the boss of the super-duper evil corporation because he was so over the top. While not as bad as Godzilla vs Hedorah, the extreme preachiness and shoving of messages down the viewers throat through the entire movie is pretty awful. If I had a drink for every time someone talks about the environment I would be dead. Mothra looks like a plush instead of an actual insect. The original movie was able to make her look cute but recognizable as an insect but they completely failed here. Battra looks way to over the top edgy. Both the imago puppets are so incredibly stiff it’s laughable. Godzilla’s suit is good but it doesn’t seem as expressive as the previous movies. Even the monster fights are boring. Look, I like a good beam attack EVERY ONCE AND AWHILE, but they use them so much cause the puppets can’t move and it becomes like watching paint dry. The plot feels way to disjointed. It seems to start as a original version plot (besides the painful Indiana Jones reference), but then it suddenly becomes a reboot of the original Mothra movie, then Godzilla and Battra are suddenly thrust back into the plot. Godzilla has very little screen time, and you know what, he shouldn’t even be in this movie. The title treats it like a Godzilla movie but it’s a Mothra movie. They should’ve just scraped him and made it Mothra vs Battra. For some positives, though not as good as the originals, the new renditions of the Mothra songs are very well done. All the models look decent and the first fight in the sea is just okay cause there are actually some physical attacks. But besides that, it’s a very skipable movie, even devoted fans will have a hard time keeping their eyes open. I give this movie a 2/5.

Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla 1993: It’s better than Godzilla vs Mothra, but in the end it’s still just a meh movie. Let’s start with the positives. Miki Saegusa finally starts to become an interesting character when she has an internal struggle over killing Godzilla. Similar to Serizawa, she ends up begrudgingly attempting to kill Godzilla instead of following her own personal convictions. It’s a nice contrast, since many characters in the Heisei series ended up following their convictions rather than pressure from other people. I really liked the relationship between Azsuma and BabyGodzilla, I think it was well written and it gave me a Hiccup-Toothless vibe. The lead pilot of MechaGodzilla was entertaining because he was so over the top angry all the time. It was interesting to see Rodan become a somewhat more benevolent creature, being fiercely protective of his half-brother BabyGodzilla and giving his energy to Godzilla right before his death. BabyGodzilla looks so much better than Minya, and actually looks cute this time! Besides that, everything is just kind of meh. The main character is alright, but to me he just seems to be a generic goofball/loser/outcast type with not a lot of depth. My main complaints from the movie actually mostly stem from the monster scenes. Rodan’s puppet is extremely stiff like Mothra and his movements don’t look realistic at all. However, I actually liked his fight with Godzilla cause there were actually a lot of physical attacks. MechaGodzilla is the most stiff however. The effect guys need to stop making their suits so big, it can barely walk! Because of that, the beam spamming during the MechaGodzilla scenes are in full force, and it just becomes agonizing after awhile. And it may sound weird saying this, but I think they actually showed to much Godzilla. He’s on screen way to long and you start to lose that feeling of awe and dread when he’s usually on screen. It seems this movie is plagued with filler from the monster scenes cause they couldn’t figure out anything interesting for the human characters to do. However, if their is one thing that keep me going, it’s Akira Ifukube’s music. It’s just so good and it’s quality is way better than the rest of the movie. Overall, it’s just an boring okay film, which I give 3/5.

Kawakita's inability to convincingly show monsters flying doesn't improve. If there's a monster in-flight during the Heisei series, it looks like a stiff, slow prop.

Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla: Oh boy, this movie. So far the bad films in the Heisei series have just been boring, but at times this one can be infuriating. The only positives I can say about this movie is Godzilla design looks good and LittleGodzilla looks cute. Absolutely none of the characters are interesting or have depth. Yuki is almost an exact copy of Haruo and the two main guys are extremely bland. Mrs Gondo takes Miki’s role of being an exposition piece rather than a character. The obviously evil guy who kidnaps Miki has so little and such a cliche motivation it’s laughable. When Miki asks why he’s doing it, he literally says what almost every poorly written villain would say: power. I said this movie infuriated me, but the only real reason was what the writers did to Miki. Where do I start with her?! She suddenly has some kind of bond to Mothra through some earrings, but they never showed this at the end of Godzilla vs Mothra or through the entirety of Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla 1993. Her ESP is suddenly so powerful now that she can move stuff like a Jedi. It has never been indicated that any psychics were able to do this. Their powers only extended to mind control, being able to feel the presence of things far away, and prophecy. This sudden new ability feels like total plot armor. But the worst thing they did to her is how she reacted to people who disagreed with her about Godzilla’s right to live. Now I agree with her that humanity should find a way to make peace with Godzilla rather than try to kill or control him. But instead of trying to make them see her point of view, she just insults, belittles, or goes on a tirade on somebody who disagrees with her. It feels so self-righteous and holier than thou. Let’s also not forgot she had the opinion of killing Godzilla only a year prior. She completely forgets why people still justifiably want Godzilla dead. Even though after MechaGodzilla 1993 he hasn’t caused destruction and just hanged out with his son, the scars of the destruction and death he caused in the past are still their. She should have been able to see both sides which would allow her to better get people on her side because she understands . But instead she just whines and puts down anyone who disagrees with her. Also, the fact that the fairies say that she saved earth is a complete lie. She did absolutely nothing. The most confusing thing she says in the film is that SpaceGodzilla had the same “feelings” as Godzilla. No he didn’t! Godzilla only ever killed or destroyed out of anger or instinct, but SpaceGodzilla seemed to be a truely malevolent and malicious entity. Speaking of SpaceGodzilla, like a lot of monsters in the Heisei series at this point, he suffers from the same extreme stiffness disorder as his predecessors. Because of that, the beam spamming is at its worse. Good luck keeping your eyes open during the monster battles. Moguera is completely pathetic and shouldn’t have ever been called “the ultimate Godzilla killing machine”. The models have seem to got a lot worse. The most egregious instance is the Space battle. You can see the strings on SpaceGodzilla and Moguera and the meteors don’t even move. This movie is only for the the really hardcore fans who don’t mind going through pain, I give this garbage fire a 1/5.

I enjoyed that.

Gman: Thanks. I just can’t repeat enough how badly the writers ruined Miki. It was the thing I hated most in the film.

While it's not the thing I hated most, as I've never been much of a fan of her, the film is one I deem the worst of the series--For much of the same reasons you went through... Among many others.

Godzilla vs Destoroyah: It’s not perfect, but I think it’s a satisfying conclusion to the Heisei series. I know I said Miki became interesting in this one, but rewatching I didn’t feel the same way. None of the characters are really standouts, but they are all at least decently written, so you won’t be bored out of your gourd. I’d like to say that even though no characters stood out to me I thought the acting was phenomenal, especially from the actress who played Miki. It would be hard to try to pull off sobbing for a dinosaur but the actress did exactly that. The actress who played the news reporter did a really good job conveying fear when she was attacked by an aggregate Destoroyah. The movie is the second darkest movie to me, besides the original 54 film of course. It’s filled with creepy scenes. The fish slowly disintegrating, the aggregates prowling through the dark hallway, and the one aggregate shrieking as it burns alive come to mind. The aggregate form for Destoroyah itself is really creepy and gross, and it make his scenes all the more terrifying. While the flying and perfect form LOOK nice, they are unfortunately very stiff like the other monsters from the Heisei series. The fight with junior is your typical Heisei series battle, lots of beam spamming and little physical interaction. However, the fight with Burning Godzilla is actually really good. It uses a lot more physical attacks and beams are used more sparingly. It’s actually quite an intense and somewhat brutal fight, there is actually a decent amount of blood shed (albeit yellow and white blood). I know a lot of people complain that the end of the fight sucks because Godzilla didn’t finish Destoroyah off, but I actually agree with decision cause it allows for a more poignant and dramatic death for Godzilla. The Burning Godzilla suit actually looks very well done and I consider it a accomplishment on Kawikita’s part. The steam coming out was a nice touch and I’m surprised they were able to pull it off. I heard that the poor suit actor fainted from the steam more than once. Points to him not only for that, but I think he did really good portraying Godzilla’s sorrow after the death of his son. Godzilla’s death feels very tragic. His son was everything to him, and he lost him, and then he himself died a slow and a incredibly painful death himself. Ifukube’s soundtrack is even more spot on than usual, especially the opening. Overall a pretty good film but it still has some problems. While decent the characters don’t really stand out so it can kinda drag on in some places. Also, the quality for the effects have seemed to go way down. Besides Destoroyah’s stiffness the models look a lot worse than they did at the beginning of the Heisei series. However, I still think it’s a good film, I give it a 4/5

Update coming tonight!

Rebirth of Mothra Trilogy: It was cool to see Mothra have her own individual films again, but having said that there was a lot of wasted potential in this trilogy. None of the human characters in any of these movies are interesting, they are either extremely bland, generic, irritating, or a combination. I actually liked Belvera cause she was super hammy like the wicked witch of the west or Rita repulsa. Both of the Elias actors are good, but their acting can be a little over the top at times, especially when Mothra/Mothra Leo gets hurt. Sadly, Mothra’s stiffness hasn’t improved at all and as a result the beam spamming is in full force. The only fight that I enjoyed throughout this entire trilogy was between Cretaceous Ghidorah and Mothra Leo cause they actually had a lot of physical attacks. The scripts are full of problems. Every movie feels like a rehash of the previous, the pacing can be nonexistent at times, and also lots of plot holes, not to mention a really immature and childish tone. I think people should only watch these films if their big Mothra fans and have the virtue of patience. My rankings for the films are:

Rebirth of Mothra: 2/5

Rebirth of Mothra II: 1/5

Rebirth of Mothra III: 3/5

Unfortunately, I don’t have Godzilla 1998. I hoped to watch it on Netflix but it got taken down. So the next review is for Godzilla 2000: Millennium.

Godzilla 2000 Millennium: It’s okay, but it’s nothing really spectacular. The main character actually interested me a little bit. He has a past at a college that practiced unethical science, he has a friend who works on the opposing side, and he had an interesting sub-plot about using Godzilla’s cells for medical purposes (sadly it went nowhere.) Besides that however, he mostly felt like a a underdeveloped character to me. The female reporter was kind of annoying, she spent 90% of the movie complaining and moaning. The daughter is by the far the most bland character. She has very little screen time and her acting is almost as emotionless as Hayden Christiansen when he was in the SW prequels. I laughed when she was supposed to have an emotional moment with her dad after the blowing up tower scene, cause I could not believe they expected me to get teary-eyed over this girl. I love Katigiri, he’s just so over the top. He is just so over the top evil and he always had these big bulging eyes. Can you say ham? However, I though he would have worked better as a grey anti-villain rather than pure evil since considering his role as the protector of Japan. I will say Godzilla looks really good in this movie. It’s different but not too different. The green skin and purple dorsal plates go really well to together and the suit seems to be able to express a decent range of emotion (not as good as the Heisei suit though). I really didn’t care for Orga. He just seems like a combination of tropes of foes from previous Godzilla films. He does have a decent design, but I didn’t really see it as spectacular. The fight between Godzilla and Orga itself good, but it drags on way to long and I just wanted it to end after awhile. Overall, this movie is just kinda meh, 2/5.

Godzilla vs Megaguirus: I find this one meh as well, but maybe a little bit worse than 2000. The main character is a Haruo type, only thinking about Godzilla and always saying how much she hates him and wants to kill him. The self-employed scientist guy was just your average comic relief, nothing really special about him. Look I know he was just a kid, but that little boy was an idiot. Did he really think taking the egg with him was a good idea? And worse, the main character says that the Meganula invasion wasn’t his fault! Uh, yea it was! Also, everyone seems so calm and sure that the black hole plan will work. It’s a BLACK HOLE! Don’t they realize how easily wrong it could’ve gone. I don’t care if it’s miniaturized, it still could’ve made untold death and destruction if it went wrong. If you want to know a scene that I actually though was really good, it was the back ally scene. It was kinda disturbing and reminded me of the aggregate Destoroyah Scenes. Megaguirus herself looks really creepy looking, but that effect is sort of lost because for the millionth time the wings are stiff. The fight between her and Godzilla itself is good, but like Millennium it drags on too long. Honestly this movie bored me to tears in some places, and I remember almost falling asleep during one scene. Watch this film only if you have the endurance. 2/5.

I was really hoping for an agreeing opinion on the mediocrity that is Destroyah. I will continue to wait for that day.

Destoroyah as in the character or the movie?

Final Update this Saturday.

Titan of Water,
The movie.

EmptyH,
I got you. I enjoy the flick, but it's not particularly as great as the fandom at large tends to see it.

Whenever you can't figure out who the main character is, you have serious problems.

It definitely still has problems. It’s not even close to Biollante in terms of quality. What I was trying to say with a 4/5 rating was that it was good but not great.

Okay, this is the final update. Because I have a lot of movies to cover and I really want to do an in-depth review of KOTM, the reviews for GMK-The Planet Eater will be very short. Expect lengthy reviews for these movies through the coming months.

GMK: It has a great cast of characters, a new and refreshing plot, well done fight and destruction scenes, and the use of a message, while not very subtle, is still handled very well in my opinion. 5/5.

Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla: Great practical effects and a great main character. The fight scenes are way better than MechaGodzilla 1994 cause MechaGodzilla can move and use more than just projectiles. 4/5.

Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S.: It has a main character not very interesting compared to the previous movie but he is tolerable for me. The fight scenes are even better than the previous movie and are a blast to watch. Mothra is very well made, a blend of classic and realistic. Kiryu is hands down the best MechaGodzilla cause he actually has a personality. 4/5.

Godzilla Final Wars: It certainly isn’t deep like the 1954 original, and quite nonsensical, but honestly, that’s what makes this movie so fun. There is tons of monster action and the human scenes are just as entertaining by how dumb and campy they are. Honestly I had a blast with this movie. 3/5.