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Summary: Garbage!
Review: The Big G becomes The Big Sissy in this mindless, annoying, and totally unredeemable pile of celluloid trash. After years of bashing the Japanese Godzilla, America responds with a big iguana(Despite popular opinion, Godzilla is NOT a lizard! ) that runs from the awesome military might of the U.S. Army's elite BoneHead Corps. To pad out the 936 hour running time, Devlin and Emmerich throw out every crass one-liner known to man and then some. Mankind threatened by annhilation? Of course we have time for a tepid romance subplot and goofy jokes that children would scoff at. Why not just send the Three Stooges out after the creature? The results would certainly be a lot funnier. Here's a hint Hollywood; If you can't find a brain down in those deep pockets of yours, then just shut down and go home!
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Summary: This is the one!
Review: This remake is one of the best giant monster flicks around. In the 50's Godzilla movies FX were not hokey but over time has not dated very well. This is the one that brings it to our time, just as it was in its earlier time. The FX are state of the art and comparable in acheivement to the creatures in Jurassic Park. Its FX blow away the last two decades of Toho's FX work, despite the fandom's fringe elements telling us the contrary. The characters are all tongue-in-cheek analogues to their 50's counterparts. The creature is given motivation to its action, one that is nearly absent from its earler movies. The DVD quality is great, the features are rich. Some die-hard fans unfairly bash this movie in wait of G2000, which unfortunately has done TERRIBLY in its native Japan. Which has made them doubly bitter toward G98.
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Summary: Not the real Godzilla
Review: This movie isn't terrible, but it bears little resemblance to the Japanese version of Godzilla that became so popular all over the world. This version is part Jurassic Park, King Kong, Anaconda, and other similar movies. The producers of this film must have lost their focus somewhere along the way. Also, the 1998 "Godzilla" was incredibly overhyped, especially by gullible fans on the Internet who thought it would be a great film.
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Summary: Not bad, but it ain't Godzilla.
Review: Yeah, okay, this is a good, thrilling movie with cool special effects and a scary monster, but it is not Godzilla! At least, it's not to me. It doesn't even look like Godzilla, it looks like a giant iguana! If you want real Godzilla action, check out the old Japanese movies. They may be corny, but they're way better than this. Even "Godzilla 1985" is better. As a movie, it's not too bad, but as a Godzilla movie, it's nothing. It probably wouldn't hurt to skip this, or at least go in not expecting greatness. In summation: old Godzilla good, new Godzilla bad!
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Summary: The title character is not in the movie!
Review: I am 29 years old and I have been watching Godzilla movies ever since I was a little boy. And I can tell you that despite the title of this 1998 Devlin-Emmerlich movie, Godzilla does not appear in this movie. Oh, there's a creature that we are supposed to believe is Godzilla, but trust me, it's not Godzilla. This is one of the five worst movies that I have ever seen in my life. Fortunately, several of the real Godzilla movies are curetnly available on DVD, and you can purchase them from amazon.com. "Godzilla King of the Monsters" and "Godzilla vs. Mothra" are both currently on DVD and I recommend them both. And I am hoping that "Ghidrah the Three Headed Monster" will be issued on DVD soon. But whatever you do, please, out of respect for the real Godzilla, keep away from this horrible 1998 film!
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Summary: Plain and simple, not every song is worth listening to
Review: This album was made to appeal to a broad range of music fans, mostly rock, and a little bit of pop and rap. I'd say that no more than 40 % of these songs are worth listening to, which comes out to a 2 star rating. Notables: Rage's great hard rock song "No Shelter", the funky dance song "Deeper Underground" by Jamiroqui, the ballad "Air", and lastly, the Green Day "Brain Stew" remix. The Puff Daddy-Jimmy Page collaboration was one of the worst rock-meets-rap songs I've ever heard. Noone has been able to make a good rap-rock song since Aerosmith and Run-DMC. The opening "Heroes" is very weak, and much of the album is just to take up time on the cd. Do not buy this CD! At best, just copy the aformentioned good songs from Napster. I'm out.
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Summary: No concept of what is contained in a Godzilla movie
Review: This is by no means a "Godzilla" movie per say. The film portrays itself as a Jurrasic Park Goes To New York. Has none of the flair that made those Cheesy Godzilla films so great. I was disappointed to see that Godzilla didn't have his radioactive fire breath. At no point did the creature go on the offensive, he/she just hid in the city. There wasn't even those 6 inch high japanese women from that Mothra movie. Some element of fantasy was missing from this film. Instead Devilin gave us a 'What if a giant iguana decided to nest in NY story.' The film I thought was very pretentious. The bit with the Roger Ebert look-a-like mayor was un-needed in the movie, and struck me as the director was saying, "This film is so great that no film critic will be able to say anything negative about it." Well you guys couldn't have been so wrong. Instead of portraying if Godzilla existed in the real world, it would have been better if we the movie go'er were taken to a world that world that doesn't exist. If Devilin and Co where to make a sequel (which I've heard is in the works), then I'd suggest beefing up on a plot, and perhaps watching all those Godzilla films that have come before it.
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Summary: "wimpzilla"
Review: This is not a Godzilla movie, hey devlin, Godzilla breathes fire! Attacks the army! Is invulnerable! get a clue!, The monster looked like the "Beast from 20,000 fathoms" He's an iguanna? He spent most of his time running away, instead of on the attack. This was a miserable monster movie
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Summary: A good movie.
Review: This movie was good compare to the classic ones.Godzilla is more real in this one.In the older one godzilla was some guy in a bad looking costume and the acting were bad real bad.In this modern version they show us what Godzilla was ment to be,a living breathing lizard.The special effect were great the picture and sound is what you would expect from a movie like this.The poeple that gave this movie a bad rated I realy don't know what they were expecting may be they were expecting a guy in a dumb looking costume walking around in a fake city fighting like a human being, come on people get real..Botton line:A satisfying movie.
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Summary: Enjoyable - Make sure you view in Dolby Digital
Review: I actually enjoyed this movie quite a bit. 2 key things is to (1) forget about the original Godzilla which this is not and understandably has upset Godzilla fans - think of this as something entirely separate (2) view this movie in Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Its Amazing and significantly enhances the film. When seen in this light the movie is a lot of fun, with good acting killer special effects.
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