What Made You a Godzilla Fan?

Just seeing Godzilla destroy cites. I started with Final wars.

Just seeing Godzilla destroy cites. I started with Final wars.

The way I became a godzilla fan was because one day I was playing my tablet and saw a godzilla movie and immediately thought I have to watch this godzilla movie. That is why I became a huge godzilla fan. 

I remember since a young age watching godzilla the series on netflix when it was on there. The giant monster fights were amazing, and having that feeling of seeing a giant unstoppable lizard king. After that i had an old godzilla movie marathon to get to know the true history of the king of the monsters. I am excited for Gareth Edwards to continue and keep this amazing franchise going.

^Gareth Edwards isn't part of it anymore, brother.

I enjoy the screams of the helpless people as they stare up at the force of nature that they can not stop.

The thing that made me a godzilla fan was the moive Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla 2,I was 7 when I watched the moive.I was so interested with Rodan and Godzilla,How they acted like Brothers in arms. 

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.