King Kong vs. Godzilla

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Summary: Good movie, Bad CD
Review: I got this DVD for Christmas. While the movie is still really fun to watch, the actual quality of the DVD was pretty much the same as VHS. So, save some money, and this on tape. Your not missing much.

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Summary: Mabye the worst Godzilla film ever made
Review: First off, I'd just like to note (for you MST3k kids out there), that this film was released by the Universal International, the same people who brought you the big screen victim of our favorite space captives "This Island Earth". Small world when it comes to bad movies, no?

The main event of the century, LIVE! from the rosemont horizon in Chicago, Ill, it's GODZILLA .vs. KING KONG!

The cheesy odd-ness of this movie cannot be described fully by my vastly inept voocabulary. We've got UN news corrospondents, UN news crews... like the United Nations have ANY sort of power of anything... ha. And they keep showing this satillite link-up thingy, so we have to -wait- for the signal to make it from continent to continent, and all we can see is the bloody satillite. So here's the gist of the movie: Godzilla has broken free from an iceberg in the ocean, and starts weraking havoc on everything he sees whilst on his merry way to Tokyo. Ya see, they've found fossils of Zilla-like creatures there, so he must be going home. Throughout the movie we're tossed from sub-plot to sub-plot, one involving a TV exec who wants a giant monster for ratings (enter King Kong), and one with a girl who's boyfriend's plane crashes... she heads to the town it crashed in, only to find it torn apart by Godzilla, so he (of course) shows up to saves her. We're also introduced to some small red berries that are said to produce "a non-habit forming narcotic effect" and which Kong seeems to be addicted to.. way to contradict yourselves fellas. Of course, Zilla loses because Kong is an american creation. Making this movie automagically suck. I mean COME ON. King Kong was 100 feet high in the first movie, and got killed BY BULLETS. Godzilla is 30 stories tall, and has atomic breath. Seems a bit of a mis-match on paper, dosen't it? But of course, Kong somehow is the same height as Zilla, and is unaffected by his fire breath of DOOM. So join me now in saying, Fuck America. Avoid this movie, it dosen't even have the kooky charm of the other 90 Godzilla movies.

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Summary: A good idea gone to waste
Review: Kong vs Godzilla. East vs West. America vs Japan. Sounds like a flick you just gotta see right? NOT! What a stupid movie, and this is coming from someone who loves stupid movies. Watching this movie is like sitting in a dentist's chair and listening to Rod Stewart during a root canal.

Godzilla came off OK, but is that really supposed to be King Kong? It looks like Ron Jeremy got splattered with play-doh. The closeups of Kongs face are ludicrous. When he's drinking the berry juice that the South Pacific Islands offer to him, it looks like a child's project gone horribly wrong. The acting in the movie is decent, but what everybody cares about is the fight right? So here goes.

Godzilla is running amock, so let's get Kong to fight him and cause even more damage than Godzilla could cause on his own. They fly Kong to Godzilla with weather balloons as Kong sleeps stiff as a 2x4. OK now here's where it gets silly. Kong is an ape, just an ape keep that in mind. For the movie Kong grew from 50 ft. to 100 ft. Of course this can be overlooked. Could you imagine a midget in a monkey suit fighting Godzilla? Right OK so anyway. Godzilla as we all know is a radioactive monster, and Kong is what? That's right just a giant ape. So why is it that Kong needs lightning to strike him to gain strengh and fight harder? I can see that working for Godzilla, but Kong? Who thought that up.

This movie needs to be redone with modern techniques. Make it a joint project. Let the Americans do Kong, and the Japanese do Godzilla. A Japanese version of King Kong is as bad as an American version of a compact car.

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Summary: A great film butchered.
Review: Those insidious American distributors strike once again! This film was an INTENTIONALLY funny satire of rampant capitalistic greed in its original version. What we have here is a film that comes across as just plain stupid. Scenes with American "actors" were added, other scenes were either shuffled or deleted, and the vast majority of the score was removed and replaced by stock music from such films as Creature From the Black Lagoon. What remains is still entertaining, though in a more juvenile fashion. This is a good, entertaining film that will no doubt take older viewers back to his/her childhood. Perhaps, one day, the original Japanese version will be commercially available in the US.

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Summary: 2 endings ?
Review: It has long been rumored that King Kong vs. Godzilla has two endings. One showing Kong as the winner for American distribution and another showing Godzilla as the winner for Japanese audiences. This is not true. Both the American and Japanese versions of the film end exactly the same except that in the American film you hear Kong's roar at the end and in the Japanese version you hear Godzilla's roar right after Kong's so that the audience knows that both monsters survived. There is no difference in the film itself, only the soundtrack. but a completely different ending have been discovered were indeed godzilla does win \ but this ver. is not avaible on home video even for the japanase today

so indeed there is not a seconed ending but a third

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Summary: One of the worst.
Review: This is, without a doubt, one of the worst Godzilla movies ever made. The play-dough they used in most sceans stood out and the Godzilla suit they used was the worst I've ever seen! It looked like a giant alligator standing on his hind legs! Keeping this in mind, beware when you watch this tape, you just might be disapointed.

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Summary: Kong vs The Champ!
Review: I thought that this movie was a really kool monster arena. Godzilla gets loose in Japan heading on a rampage. So the Japanese go to get another monster they heard about on an island in the South Pacific Ocean. So they bring the monster back not knowing the damage it will do so they set both of these monsters up. The Japanese think there getting rid of two horrible monsters, but their really heading into great danger. I rated this movie 3 stars because its a fight between the two most popular giant monsters.

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Summary: THE 8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD VS. THE KING OF THE MONSTERS
Review: This film was preety good. By the way, the rating refers to the Japaness version, which is far supioer to the Amerrcain one.

One thing I have to say, though, as a Gojiraolgist (someone who studies Godzilla), Godzilla did NOT win in the japeness version. It was a tie in both version.

By the way, to that person who said it was the only tie Godzilla had, you are wrong. He had a tie with Rodan in "GHIDORAH: THE 3 HEADED MONSTER" (1964); one with MechaGodzilla in "GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA" (1974); and one with MechaGhidorah in "GODZILLA VS. KING GHIDORAH" (1991) among others.

Other all, though, a preety good movie. Tristar's "GODZILLA" (1998) diffently pales in comprasion.

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Summary: Godzilla vurses a hairy, pot bellied, middle aged man
Review: This is the coolest Godzilla film of all 23 of them. The Godzilla costume looks the most like a reptile than all the rest of the costumes. He has a ferrowed brow and menicing eyes. His face overall just looks like a normal backyard lizard. He is huge and bulky, he is really a little too bulky, but that is made up by a great movie! On the other hand, the King Kong costume is awful! As talked about in the title, he looks like an overgrown, hairy, pot bellied, middle aged man who is worshiped by japanese natives. Director Inoshiro Honda said he wanted his costume to surpass the classic stop-motion Kong from the 1933 RKO Film. That wasn't the case at all. When the movie came to America it was dubbed in english and scenes were added with "reporter Eric Carter". When Godzilla first appears he destroyes the "Sea Hawk" submarine and rages onto land he seems like an unstopable force. Whatch for cheesy Godzilla hand puppet that blows radioactive breath and melts a tank. Then some japanese guys from a pharmacy company find King Kong on an island and want to use him as their mascot. So, they drug him and ship him off to Japan. He awakens and escapes {of course} and rages through Tokyo. Meeting in Nikko the two monsters battle and make their way to Mt. Fugi where the fight for a whole 7 1/2 minutes and then fall into the water. Only Kong surfaces, many Godzilla fans say that Kong was running from Godzilla's turf. Many King Kong fans say that Kong defeated Godzilla, thought his work was done and decided to head home. Either way this was a great film. Obviously Toho decided to let the fans decide who won. Personally, I feel that it was a draw. Both monsters are equal in strength and power and I can't say who I like more so, in my book, they both won.

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Summary: Goofy movie
Review: This movie was laughable. King Kong looked like a stuffed animal and him getting stronger from electricity was ridiculous. The fight scenes were funny. I wouldn't recommend this movie if you want to see a Godzilla movie with good special effects.