GODZILLA 2000: MILLENNIUM, Toho Pictures’ latest Godzilla film, has some tough acts to follow, namely a twenty-two film backlog produced in its homeland of Japan and a Hollywood remake that was one of the most financially successful films of 1998. In term...
There were two sounds emanating from Japan in 1954 which have had an indelible effect on science fiction ever since. One was the roar of Gojira—better known as Godzilla to American audiences. The other was the music that accompanied the majority of his e...
For fans of Godzilla, last year’s Tri-Star reworking was perhaps the biggest disappointment in the 45-year history of the preeminent giant monster’s career. Despite a huge box office receipt, reviews were poor and fan consensus was that the film’s creatur...
It’s been fifteen years since a new Godzilla film was last released on U.S. shores (the 1998 American production does not count), and the American distributor TriStar seems to have gone out of its way to rekindle unpleasant memories of Godzilla 1985. As w...
Premiering at the 13th annual Tokyo International Film Festival this past Friday, November 3, was Godzilla X Megaguirus, the 24th entry in the series. Godzilla movies first hit the screen forty-six years ago, giving Japan’s preeminent mutant dinosaur the ...
Japanese people do things to great extreme. In an everyday sense, they work hard and play hard with little given to the in-between. This cultural point can be seen in Godzilla movies as well. Bounding between weighty social critiques and childish, action-...
...staple of Godzilla films. Lifting a tank, he commented on some of its details with one of the film’s model builders.Walking across the vast floor, I came upon the mainstay of any kaiju effect set: the miniature city. Elevated a half-meter off the floor...
The first Toho-produced Godzilla film to reach U.S. movie screens since Godzilla 1985, TriStar’s release of Godzilla 2000 is being met by kaiju fans with a bliss akin to that experienced by their Star Wars counterparts last year when Lucas Films released ...
The folks at Japan's Toho Studios decided to celebrate the 50th birthday of their biggest star in a really big way. News releases carried on wire services worldwide detailed the rerelease of the original GODZILLA to theaters, the installation of a new sta...
For this 2002 entry in the long running Godzilla series, the aim of Toho Studios seems to have been to reproduce past success by incorporating elements that worked in the past. First of all, movies that pit the mutated dinosaur against favorite monsters s...
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