What is Your favorite Godzilla Continuity?

M O N S T E R V E R S E

It's not even close....

As long as Godzilla is there, I'll like it

The Showa era timeline! It’s one of the first cinematic universes, what more to say

Showa, Showa and Showa. But not because of any connective tissue that makes up the concept of a "continuity". Rather the movies are just the best.

In terms of tight continuity that makes the best use of the concept, including great, stand alone movies, the Godzilla series falls pretty short. The Gamera Trilogy on the other hand is probably the best example of a kaiju continuity utilized with top tier quality.

I like the (tiny) tristar Godzilla (not really Godzilla) 1998 movie and the follow up series, (I still need to watch it)

kiryu saga.

Mosterverse is tied with the tristar one. 

In all honesty, I'm just satisfied that the MonsterVerse managed to execute their general idea well...I think it's not as good as the MCU but it's still pretty great since I like most of the MonsterVerse's movies (with the sole exception of Godzilla 2014).

@sonictiger, you don’t like Godzilla 2014?

Also, don’t forget that TECHNICALLY GMK is part of the TriStar universe.

Oh really?

I haven’t seen Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidora

I don't really like Godzilla (2014), the 2nd act dragged.  The first 40 minutes were interesting enough but I got really bored at the hour mark and went to the third act.  It's a slog of a kaiju movie, while I do appreciate it's realism and darker tone.

KaijuBuildz,
More of a retroactive thing.

The 1998 movie is part of its own continuity.

GMK just includes the 1998 garbage in its own continuity, due to the joke made at the beginning of the film.

So they're still two continuities since one doesn't include GMK.

Is it best to skip the 1998 one btw?

It's just that I want to make sure I'm not wasting my time...

I cringed at the word garbage but ok

The kyriu saga is good as well,

sonictiger

I think it’s a close competition

@sonictiger. Many people don’t like 1998 but I do and I don’t think you should skip it. 

sonictiger,
I'm an advocate for watching everything to make your own decision. So watch it.

...but it's a train wreck stock piled on sewage to blueprint everything wrong with 1990s blockbuster filmmaking. Let's just say there's a reason marketing campaigns have not been as over the top since this thing. There's also a reason Maria Pitillo didn't have a career after this movie...

The taco bell campaign. 

...but it's a train wreck stock piled on sewage to blueprint everything wrong with 1990s blockbuster filmmaking. Let's just say there's a reason marketing campaigns have not been as over the top since this thing.

Ok, by saying, “everything wrong with 1990s blockbuster filmmaking,” do you mean that the original Jurassic park is bad?

Well, maybe I read it wrong. 

SarcasticGoji,
The shelves and shelves and shelves of unsold merchandise and toys that point the Trendmasters toy company out of business...

Die-hard Spino Fan,
No. I mean the cliches of bad 1990s blockbusters were funneled into it without remorse.

Ok, because I'm probably going to watch some of the more important Goji films.

What I'm going to watch:

Godzilla (1954)

Mothra vs Godzilla

Rodan

Ghidorah

Destroy All Monsters

Godzilla vs Megalon

Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla

Godzilla (1984)

Godzilla Vs. Biollante

Godzilla vs Destroyah

Godzilla (1998)

Godzilla 2000

Godzilla x Mecha G

Godzilla: Final Wars

Shin Godzilla

Rewatch: King Kong Vs. Godzilla (1962), Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of The Monsters, and Godzilla Vs. Kong

Gman

oh ok

sonictiger

I don’t think it’s correct to classify certain films as more important than others

@sonictiger, how much time do you have on your hands to watch all of those movies?

Just the ones that are more talked about....

And I have the summer...

But I'm not doing this until KOTM and GVK return to HBO Max...

I thought they still are?

No, but they're returning in either August or September....

SarcasticGoji,
Maybe, but there's certainly a precedent for it. That's practically what the Criterion Collection is based on. (And there's a reason they only wanted the Showa Era.) But to not classify GMK as important seems odd since it was the most successful and talked about Millennium film. And watching Godzilla x MechaGodzilla without Tokyo SOS is odd. Frankly at that point, just watch all of them.

hmmm. That’s weird because I watched KOTM and GvK on like April 28 or something and they removed it that quickly? Shame on them. 

Yeah, I'll probably just do the entire Kiyru saga just for continuity's sake... 

They removed them on May 1st

I’m watching thess films when I get time. 

Godzilla Raids again

King Kong vs Godzilla

Mothra vs Godzilla

Ghidorah

Invasion of the Astro Monster

Ebirah Horror of the deep

and many other showa movies. 

Their harder to get to watch now, (at least for me)

SarcasticGoji,
Well if you have the money I'd spring for the Criterion set. It's expensive, but worth it.

Otherwise, I think the majority of the titles you mentioned are on various forms of streaming, including HBO Max.

Off-Topic question Gman, but has my Stranger Things article been approved?

If not please do so....

Heisei and Showa.

As much as I like the Millennium series my biggest problem with it is the fact that it kept resetting the timeline and never had a strong continuity (a problem that the Reiwa series also has). What I like about the Heisei series, the MonsterVerse, and parts of the Showa series is that the movies feel connected to each other, with the events of previous movies setting up the story for future movies, like Mecha-King Ghidorah's remains being used for Mechagodzilla or the Oxygen Destroyer killing the original Godzilla and creating Destoroyah. It makes the world feel more interesting. 

As for 1998, I'm a bit biased towards it as it played a big role in my childhood. It was the first giant monster movie I ever saw and helped make me the fan that I am Today, so I could never truly dislike it. As a Godzilla movie it fails, but as a dumb entertaining monster movie I don't think it's that bad. I don't think that it deserves the intense hatred that a lot of fans throw at it (seriously it's been 23 years, get over it). The animated series is actually pretty good and is much more faithful to Godzilla's legacy, so I would recommend it.      

sonictiger,
I'm not sure which site that article that's linked to and who spends the most time running it, so that's going to have to be either Chris or someone else that approves it once it has been looked at.