Written: Sunday. January 24, 2021.
A few months have passed since the last Godzilla movie I've watched. Reason being is because I got bored trying to watch the Gamera movies, and so I ultimately stopped watching Godzilla movies for a while. But now, I'm back at it again.
- This was a return to the 'serious' Godzilla.
- The few Godzillla movies before this (starting from Gigan, to Megalon, to Mechagodzilla, and terror of) were complete shit. It felt mediocre, the new monsters weren't that great (I mean, why place an Ultraman ripoff in a Godzilla movie? Lookin' at you, Jet Jaguar). King Caesar made sense, cause it's based off of a mythological or religious creatures or something.
- This movie was overall okay. It's only okay. It isn't great, it's a stretch to say that it's good. It's just okay.
- Point being, since they went the serious route, we got to see and feel the trauma that Godzilla emits whenever he terrorizes humanity. But we also get to see the dangers of using nuclear weaponry against this monster. The movie focuses on the debate of whether they should even use nuclear weapons against Godzilla (they don't, but somehow a missile still gets sent out, so they deal with it by sending out another missile, so both would hopefully collide with each other while they're still in space. Godzilla was asleep at that time, but once the red sky emits lightning and shoots a bunch towards the sleeping Godzilla, he awakens and continues to terrorize the city. Luckily, hibernation, or Godzilla's magnetic sonar [or whatever mcguffin device they thought of], caused Godzilla to go to this volcano, where the earth's defense force has rigged it with explosives, and Godzilla ultimately falls into the conveniently active volcano).
- All of this was just...okay.
- The romance was fairly utilized.
- I get that in order for a kaiju movie to be great, the human characters/plot must be convincing or rather engaging. If we can't empathize with the humans in the story, the kaiju fights are non-sense. Cause we're either supposed to be rooting for one side (either the humans or the kaiju), or preferably both (take a look at what they did in Invasion of Asto-Monster. Perfect example of an equally balanced story regarding humans and kaiju).
- I saw a few veteran faces in the cast.
- some of the older gentlemen in this movie playing either a government official, a professor, etc., were actors who've played several roles in the Godzilla mythos (or maybe even in the other Kaiju movie franchises; I haven't seen them yet, so I don't know), and I appreciated that.
- Franchise-wise, this movie only acknowledges the first movie.
- the whole setting of this movie is that Godzilla hasn't been around attacking cities for 30 years. It also shows photos of the original black and white movie, and never acknowledges other movies, and also the other monsters that have been around the world and have been sighted multiple times. It's as if Godzilla is the only monster in this movie's reality, and that nothing else happened the past 30 years until the beginning of this movie.
- It doesn't particularly make this movie bad, it just feels as though it lacks that bit of world building that has been set up by the other past movies following the first Godzilla movie in 1954. As though the Heisei era opted for a clean sleight.
- Can't get enough of the ending song (Goodbye Godzilla).
- This is probably the only Godzilla movie I've watched so far that has a good ending credits song.
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