Even though the monsters, truth be told, are a very small part of this story, this is still one of my favorite Godzilla movies to this day.
This film has one of the best city-destruction sequences in the entire series in my opinion and it's definitely my favorite part of it, although there are many, many other aspects of it I like as well. And yet, even though I initially didn't like the idea of him causing destruction himself, as time went on and I got older, I came to enjoy seeing Godzilla and the other monsters cause destruction as much as I as did seeing Godzilla beat up other monsters. It wouldn't be until I got more into the films that I learned their chronological order and that Godzilla started out as a villain who gradually became something of a good guy as the films went on. I was far too young to understand the idea of mind control, even though my dad told me that was what was going on, so I thought he'd just had a massive heel turn.
Granted, he's doing so because he's, along with Rodan and Ghidorah, are under the control of the aliens but still, when I first saw this movie as a little child and Godzilla, whom I'd been idolizing as a hero, suddenly started destroying stuff, I was rather shocked and a little hurt. As I said during my review of the previous film, this was my introduction to King Ghidorah and it was also the film where I discovered that Godzilla was not always a noble monster hero as he most certainly was in that first one I saw but that he could also cause destruction. Besides being one of the very first Godzilla movies I ever, Monster Zero is important in the history of my Godzilla fandom for a couple of other reasons.
Monster Zero was the one I immediately gravitated towards and so, I asked my dad to rent that one for me without a second thought. After finding the section where they were kept in the store, Godzilla vs. After watching the VHS tape that my grandmother had of the first one that I saw over and over again to the point where my family probably got sick of it, I discovered that there were more films featuring Godzilla and that our VHS rental store had several of them. Anyway, big thanks go out to August for agreeing to be part of this panel Hopefully it’s an entertaining listen!Īnd and one more word on the commentary itself.This is a very special Godzilla movie to me, mostly because it was the second one I ever saw. so you may have a little more trouble discerning between us and the film. Just a word of warning on the audio quality: I didn’t have the control I normally do so the actual film audio is pretty loud. I was wiped out, but it was fantastic to sit down and talk about my favorite Godzilla film with my friend August. After a long day of prep and panelling at the convention, this was the last piece of the convention’s programming of the day. This is one of those crazy ideas we came up with and I am very glad that G-Fest accepted the panel. And during his last visit, well-known kaiju historian and author of Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters, August chatted with me about what we could do as a future collaboration. Here it is, folks! The commentary that August Ragone and I recorded at G-Fest XXII is now available to download. So basically, I wanted to do something special and different for my favorite movie, Toho’s 1965 epic creation: Godzilla vs.
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