My Godzilla Marathon

Very nice and planned!

Very nice! I'm planning a marathon myself, but I sadly don't own any of the Mothra movies, so the over 30 Godzilla movies will have to do lol

Hmmm.. I should do a marathon too.

Before the 2014 film I marathoned the entire Godzilla series along with , Rodan, The Mysterians, Varan, Mothra, Battle in Outer Space, Gorath, Dogora, Frankenstein vs. Baragon, War of the Gargantuas, Yog: Monster from Space and somehow suffered through the Mothra Trilogy.

This year I have far less time and now that there are five more Godzilla movies since 2014, I think I'll just stick with the series proper this year.

I wish I had the time you guys have for marathon watch. 

I think my marathon leading into G14 consisted of my favorite G and Toho films, as well as the '33 and '05 King Kongs, Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, Cloverfield and Pacific Rim.

Godzillatheking123,
I really don't. Which is why I started around day 90.

wow you dont waste time in you planning do you

Godzillatheking123

I really don't either, I'm just gonna binge everything in the two weeks between finals and the premiere 

Please update this thread every day with your thoughts after watching each film.

Titan of Water Two things:

1) Are you going to watch the after-credits scenes from these movies as well?

2) Is this just something with you and your cousin, or can we join in on the marathon, too?

1. Yes I’ll watch the post credit scenes.

2. If you mean by “join in on the marathon” giving my thoughts on each film, I’d be glad to share them on this forum. My cousin lives a bit away from my town so he is just going to see the new one with me. Ironically, his birthday is LITERALLY May 31st, so this movie would make a great present.

Hey guys change of plans. Due to things that have come up I’m not going to see avengers endgame until May 4, but I don’t think that will change the schedule much.

Review of 1954 tomorrow.

Godzilla 1954: It is a very bleak and sorrowful film, as it should be, with the ever looming threat and past trauma of the Atom Bomb making the Japanese feel bleak and sorrowful at the time. All the main characters are interesting, though Ogata is a little underdeveloped in my opinion. Emiko is very complex, whether having an affair behind Serizawa’s back yet still loving him as a brother, having to choose between her promise and her people’s safety, and even helping the wounded and grieving at the hospital. It was interesting to see Yamane’s inner turmoil about what to do with Godzilla. Even though he want’s Godzilla alive for research, even disowning Ogata for disagreeing with him, he ultimately allows Godzilla to be killed for the safety of his people. Serizawa of course steals the show though. In a world that has sort of demonized scientists, especially after the creation of the A-Bomb, it’s great to see a scientist who wants to benefit mankind instead of pursuing selfish ambition. His inner turmoil about using the oxygen destroyer to kill Godzilla is very believable through his actor’s performance. Godzilla himself is a very sympathetic monster cause he lost everything. He lost his home, his family, he became mutated, and died a horrible death by the Oxygen Destroyer. His appearance itself his very creepy, with these almost psycho looking eyes and scars. The fires paints a vivid picture of what it would be like to be caught in the blast of the Atomic Bomb, while the aftermath is very similar to the fallouts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki . We actually see many deaths in this one, which adds to the horror and depression. It was tragic to see a child be tested positive for poisoning and another watch her mom die before her eyes, which causes her to wail. While the main message of the movie is “Please, Please don’t use the bombs!!!”, I think another message to take away is that man must be careful what he creates and how he uses it, as exemplified through the atomic bomb and oxygen destroyer. Serizawa choose to use his discovery, against all odds, to help others rather than kill them, a lesson that many scientists still need to learn. To the surprise of no one I’m giving it a 5/5.

I will look forward to this thread every day.

Titan of Water I'm a bit late, but thanks for the review. But what I meant was that I thought it was some sort of reaction/commentary livestream that the entire Kaiju Kommunity can join.

Sorry for the confusion. The Godzilla Raids Again review will be delayed because of my busy schedule, but expect it tomorrow. In the meantime you can express your opinion on the film as well as leaving your thoughts of my review.

Welp, I changed my mind, I’ll review “Godzilla Raids Again”. Sadly I don’t have the Japanese version, so I was stuck with “Gigantis the Fire Monster”. This movie is a major downgrade from 54. The characters are either flat, annoying, or both. The main character’s only defining trait was that he thought he was a coward, and that’s pretty much it for him. His love interest spends 95% either crying or looking worried. They have only really one scene of chemistry together btw. I don’t remember how to spell his name, so I’ll nick name him the “best friend”. The best friend character was mega annoying, stupid, and unfunny. He definitely was the most egregious part of the movie for me. I actually cheered when he died in the final act. All the characters seems too unnatural to me as well. After Godzilla, oh I’m sorry, “Gigantis” and Anguirus destroy Osaka, the next scene, while at first sad, they all suddenly start jovially laughing at a dumb joke the best friend guy said. Their city has just been destroyed and millions of people have died, they should be traumatized, not laughing! A positive thing I can say for this movie is that I think the model sets for Osaka are good. I can’t say that for the monsters though. Both look like they were made with paper mache by some kindergartener who failed art class. Godzilla especially doesn’t look good, he kinda looks like Grover from Sesame Street. Their fight is alright, it cool to see a realistic animal-like fight, it’s just too bad it had to be sped up. The third act isn’t very interesting either, it’s just them dumping ice on Godzilla. Overall, not a good film, but I’m gonna give it two stars because nothing is bad to the extreme. I would have given it one star if all the bad qualities were amplified, but everything is just kinda meh here. So, as I said, 2/5.

Feel free to give your opinion of the film as well as give your opinion of my review and the review for 1954 as well.

Review of Rodan 1956: Rodan is a pretty good movie and I think I have more positive things to say about it than negative, so let’s just get those out of the way real quick. The characters are all kinda meh, they really don’t spend time developing them much in my opinion. The romance is better than Godzilla Raids Again but still lacks a lot of needed chemistry in my opinion, but hey, I’m not a good judge of romances, so take that with a grain of salt. Another complaint is the end of the final act. Like Godzilla Raids Again, they spend to much time showing them blow up the mountain, but I think that is just a minor complaint. This film does have a lot going for it. The pacing is fantastic, and there are some clever twists like the giant insects and the reveal of the mate. While a lot of the dub actors fall flat (I only have the dub), the main voice actor is pretty good in my opinion. They did good building suspense and the Rodans themselves look sorta menacing and majestic. Once again the destruction scenes and models are top notch. It was interesting to see a different kind of destruction of wind and hurricane than Godzilla’s stomp and burn technique. The ending is a bittersweet and moving one. You would expect the surviving Rodan to leave the other to her doom, since animals run primarily on instinct, but instead he decides to die with her. I think another message besides more anti-nuclear themes is that, would you be able to sacrifice yourself? Would you be willing to put another life above your own? It’s a scary question to ask, since we all do things we didn’t think we would do in the heat of the moment. All in All a good film, 4/5.

Feel free to give your opinion of this film as well as the previous ones. You can also feel free to give your thoughts/commentary on my reviews so far.