"GODZILLA ATTACK!" Reads Hacked San Francisco Road Sign



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I'd really like to see them resurrect some of the other kaiju, like King Ghidorah.

Witness the endless Marvel superhero flicks.

Still, I would love to see the oldies.

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I just don't get it. On a long drive a week or so ago I heard a lengthy NPR piece on the whole Godzilla film history and there were all these callers who sounded like addicts to the Godzilla thing...I guess there are ardent fans of anything (I plead guilty to a near-obsession with art), but I really don't get it, except as a strange fascination...

I'm interested...just tell me what you know...thanks!

Godzilla was created after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the movie is a metaphor for the dangers of nuclear war. I have not seen the new film yet, but I hear the updated version but I heard that there are climate change metaphors throughout. Godzilla may appear to be a dumb monster movie on the surface, but it actually does have something to say if you look beneath the surface.

I get the history and that is interesting from a sociological point of view, but the NPR show didn't talk about anything more than just that and the special effects...

as a phenomenon though, its pretty powerful. The movies within the "Godzilla" franchise should be taken on their own merits, some sucked, others were excellent, such as the original 1954 version. Others were made for fun and they didn't' take themselves too seriously, indeed, pretty much all the later ones fit this category. They are just fun, special effects are secondary, especially considering that 99.9% of the time, its guys in suits.

Kaiju movies in general are like this, as are many monster movies of the west and monster movies the world over. Some have heavy themes, usually revolving around the environment. Some are about character development and personal stories, whereas others are about the larger social implications, and yet others are just mindless destruction for the sake of destruction.

I'll give a contrast between two movies, neither Godzilla movies though of similar molds, being "monster" movies. I like both for different reasons.

The first is "The Host", no not the Stephanie Myer abomination, no its a South Korean film that revolves around pollution causing a mutated creature to terrorize a city and kidnap a little girl, and the story is mostly about her family having to fight against the government and the creature to try to get her back.

The second movie is "Eight Legged Freaks", this movie is, simply put, a homage/parody of creature features and monster movies in general. It is a horror/comedy, doesn't take itself too seriously, and, despite its many flaws, love this cliched mess for what it is, mindless entertainment.

I would also recommend "Rogue" for more mindless entertainment, a film about a rogue saltwater crocodile, from what I can tell from it, the special effects are good, and they didn't need any mutations or other science fiction explanations to create this creature, though I'm hoping its behavior is unrealistic! Sometimes monster are real, lol.

For other types of Kaiju movies, "Pacific Rim" is awesome, as a homage to them in general, "Monsters" is a really excellent low budget film done by the director of this one, though more mindless space aliens.

Its a science fiction genre that includes both the really stupid and really excellent in filmmaking, Godzilla just happens to be one of the longest running(outside of King Kong) and most popular franchise within the genre.

When I heard about them making a Godzilla movie I was pretty skeptical. A good monster movie should be scary, and what is more scarier than a huge hulking creature walking though the city, stepping on things, and destroying buildings...casting radio activity all over. The American godzilla movies up to this point were not very good, but THIS ONE...looks like it might even top ANY that has been before, with the exception of the classic 1954 Gojira film. (Without Raymond Burr sliced in, and much of the original sliced out.)What made that movie spectacular was it was in black and white, and that made the creature hard to see. When you can't see it well, your mind fills in the blanks. Eventually you see the creature in whole.

I agree with you on The Host. There is a sequel I would love to see of that film, that is out now, somewhere on dvd. The South Koreans did a great job with that movie.. and some where I have it in my collection.

I am looking forward to the new Godzilla film, though I found it funny, that the Japanese said that this Godzilla looks too FAT... (And of course they said it figures, because in general Americans are over weight.) Still.. It should be an awesome movie if it reflects the tone of the trailers I have seen. I look forward to hitting up the IMAX and buying my small tub of popcorn!

screening and the people there loved it.

I want to see the Host 2 as well, saw a trailer for it, looks awesome.

I won't spoil the first movie, but it has the best "take that" against a monster in any film I ever seen. You can tell that family just had enough, it was awesome.

I use awesome too much, lol.

a possible awesome movie and using awesome can not be used enough with Gojira! RRawrrrr!!!

Godzilla was made right after some Japanese fishermen were caught out in the middle of a nuclear weapons test over the Pacific. The outrage was still fresh when then movie was released.

have you seen any of the trailers?

He's a force of nature, etc.

I'm speaking to my motivation, and others', to watch Godzilla do it. In a movie, anyway.

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There's no telling if he's frustrated or feeling any other emotion. He's a reptile.

I mean, I'm guessing it's because we have a deep fear of reptiles and they are ugly and scary looking, but do you see a deeper meaning? I know about the nuclear thing, so if that is the answer, as in "unleashing terrible powers of destruction on the world", then I think I get it. We brought it on ourselves and we deserve to be destroyed. Sort of the same vein as "Planet of the Apes."

People getting a comeuppance they have coming to them is kind of the story, or the moral. If only on the surface. If you think about it, once Godzilla's on the loose, all human responsibility ends. We're helpless to do anything about it. The outcome returns to fate.

As with most films, I think the appeal that most draws the audiences is tactile, sensory if you will. In this case the thrill is that people enjoy watching all this order and predictability and social-behavioral facades and repressions of their own terrors get smashed up by an invincible big lizard. Long as society's still there in reality when they exit the theater (or, as is now more often the case, switch to the next entertainment at home).

we like to be frightened but only up to a point.

And radioactive materials are found where people are found.

IOW, we brought it on ourselves.

Man's recklessness coming back to bite him in the ass.

now I get it. So it IS like the theme of Planet of the Apes...

was your reference to Rubens?

I really can't tell you why. Watching back then I didn't realize how cheezy the monster costume really was, so it seemed really scary to me. But I loved it then and still do. My husband and I went to see the new one this afternoon and we went for the whole extravaganza--IMAX 3D. (And I have only done that for LOTR/The Hobbit) I loved it and will undoubtedly buy the DVD when it comes out.

I'm not expecting Shakespeare or cinematic excellence when I go to see this kind of movie, so I usually get my money's worth, This version did have the background story about the government lying about early nuclear tests and the folly of trying to control nature. I'm sure there will be people that hate it but I'm not one of them. I'm hoping for sequels!!

You'd think ''the people" would rise up and do something about it. Oh, I forgot .. it's just Hollywood ..or whatever. Is there no imagination left? Do we have to return to 'B' level monster movies? Yet, people flock and the movie companies make big profits. Says something about our culture doesn't it. Sorry but not at all interested in this one.

1. Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) A dark movie by any standard.
2. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
3. Destroy All Monsters (1968)
4. Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S.
5. Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

Great little movie. Too bad it will be totally drowned out by Godzilla.