HAPPY 62nd BIRTHDAY GODZILLA!

Darth Shiro

Today is Godzilla's 62nd birthday!! His grown so much. Japan celebrating this by putting:  Godzilla 1964, Godzilla 1984 and Shin Gojira in the theaters to watch. Well the weird thing is that Gojira 1954 isn't their but...IT'S GODZILLA'S BIRTHDAY :D!!

Durp004

Here's to 62 more years.

Darth Shiro

Mhm,

G. H. (Gman)

Beat me to it. I always tend to watch a film on his birthday, although I haven't decided what I'll be viewing tonight. Last year I watched my favorite, Monster Zero. Not sure what I'll throw in this year yet, but it's always a special day.

Love the fact so much fan art has come from celebrating his 62nd Anniversary.

Darth Shiro

Cool! I watched GMK today.

Sci-Fi King25

Pretty busy today, but I'll watch some clips of the movies. Might watch Godzilla vs Destoroyah (my favorite) if I have the time.

The King of the Monsters

I was  planning on going to see Shin Godzilla one more time for Godzilla's birthday since my theater is still showing it, but unfortunately none of the times it's showing worked out for my schedule. I'll probably have a double feature with my glorious Godzilla 1954 Criterion Collection Blu-ray and the Kraken The Return of Godzilla Blu-ray instead.

Malzilla

I usually just end up watching one movie and drinking, and it was also GMK! Neat! Last year I did Gigan, 2014 I just drank a lot because I really thought it was the end, then before it was Biollante, which it usually is, and it gets fuzzier from there.

Interesting to hear about what other folks do. So it's common that folks just watch one or two of the movies? Anyone else have any fun traditions?

Something I was thinking about during the movie: Godzilla's role in the movies is usually split down the middle with the ones where he's a threat and the ones where he's the good guy. But when he's a threat it's never malevolence, it's more like a metaphor for war or a force of nature, while when he's a good guy whether he's reluctant or not he's still clearly made out to be a hero. This is the only movie where he acts with genuine hatred and spite, like the opposite of the 70's Godzilla. How wild would it be to watch the Monster of Justice go up against the vengeful spectre of Tojo's war crimes? Now THAT'S some tonal whiplash~ Good thing in real life these movies were separated by 26 years x3c

Also you know as cool as GxVBA would have been you have to admit making Anguirus a non-radioactive kami-esque guardian beast makes almost no sense while having Ghidorah be explicitly a pre-mature Orochi is kind of perfect.

So what did you guys end up doing, Gman and Sci-fi King?

Darth Shiro

Bro how you sure have drunk a lot!

Darth Shiro

Gman also in the 2nd fan art you showed us, their are some humanoid figures on the top left and right corners. What are these?

I Meme Everything

Gman that's awesome!  Love both fanarts!

I Meme Everything

Let me guess, in the second pic Gman posted, the four Godzillas are:

1954 Gojira

FW Gojira...?

Legendary Gojira

and, obviously,

Shin Gojira

G. H. (Gman)

Lord Tyrant,
The Godzilla on the right is the Heisei Godzilla, not Final Wars. Seems to be modeled after the BioGoji.

I Meme Everything

^oh thanks for clarification

GG

The sizes are wrong in the artwork though. Godzilla 2014 is only four meters or so smaller, the art has him on the same size as Heisei. Can't be legit.

I Meme Everything

^Legendary Godzilla is also up to Shin Gojira's lower jaw

GG

^Indeed Heisei is the smallest of the three.

I Meme Everything

^I do like the other image, with the original Gojira on the left and his most recent incarnation on the right

G. H. (Gman)

While 2014 is about 10 meters shorter than Shin and Heisei is about 8 meters shorter than 2014, I don't think the image was necessarily going for correct scale, but symmetry.

Darth Shiro

Gman what's those humanoid figures on the top right and left corner of the second fan art?