Godzilla (1998) - What Happened?

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  • @MattMcMuscles
    @MattMcMuscles  5 років тому +216

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    • @sirnuketon6554
      @sirnuketon6554 5 років тому +1

      I say do Mad Max Fury Road next. Didn’t care for it

    • @ManaAdvent
      @ManaAdvent 5 років тому +1

      Definitely do Mars Need Moms that basically killed Robert Zemeckis's animation department.

    • @inquisitorthyx8119
      @inquisitorthyx8119 5 років тому +2

      How about Final Fantasy: Spirits Within? While I personally think its an okay movie in its own right, "Wha' Happun'?" to get the Final Fantasy name attached to it?

    • @chrisokeeffe3895
      @chrisokeeffe3895 5 років тому +1

      Batman V Superman.
      You will have so much content to work with because they tried to do a Batman v Superman movie in the 90s.
      Seriously, now that it's been over 3 years I do believe someone should objectively talk about that film and the production leading up to bvs Dawn of Justice

    • @MattMcMuscles
      @MattMcMuscles  5 років тому +9

      Which Mad Max was that? The one that was incredibly well reviewed, won awards and made lots of money?

  • @ZanzibarJunker
    @ZanzibarJunker 5 років тому +2097

    I had to pause the video and calm myself at the "it's just two monsters fighting" quote.

    • @ShadowknightEX
      @ShadowknightEX 5 років тому +66

      QJ89 you could almost pass without using the heat vision. I would think we would need Superman to fly at some point however

    • @BullseyeRey
      @BullseyeRey 5 років тому +17

      @@Xenosaurian And it sucked.

    • @MegaNovaShizzle
      @MegaNovaShizzle 5 років тому +84

      FUCKING SAME! Actually, I did just pause it at that and went to go look at the comments. Omfg, talk about completely missing the point, and shitting on the source material!

    • @venomrulesall
      @venomrulesall 5 років тому +84

      Well to be fair, most Godzilla reboots had him being solo. The first movie he was alone. The first 90's movie, he was alone. And in the newest Toho movie, he was also alone. The movie could have been just fine with only Godzilla in it.... the problem is that it was not Godzilla. His name was just slapped on because it was popular, and they ruined every single thing that makes Godzilla what he is. He's not called GODzilla just to sound cool. They dropped the ball big time and almost destroyed Godzilla's reputation. In short, this movie is the Dragon Ball Evolution of all Godzilla movies.

    • @bradleyrenfroe2776
      @bradleyrenfroe2776 5 років тому +16

      @@ShadowknightEX he didn't have heat vision in the Golden Age. His only powers then were jumping really high (eventually flying in 1941), power breath, x-ray vision and super strength and that was it. His other powers did not come until the silver age and, woa I got way off of this video's topic talking about Superman on a Godzilla subject.

  • @BloodyAltima
    @BloodyAltima 5 років тому +1516

    The saddest thing to me is that Zilla is actually a perfectly solid giant lizard monster design. It's just not a good Godzilla.

    • @michaeljason2593
      @michaeljason2593 3 роки тому +33

      Nah. His design doesn't scream monster you can't defeat, just an animal you can destroy with your own hands and any weapon you have on hand.

    • @BloodyAltima
      @BloodyAltima 3 роки тому +153

      @@michaeljason2593 Neither does OG Godzilla. OG Godzilla is a trundling fat idiot lizard, that's why people love him! But he does not look particularly indestructible beyond the movies having coded people to pretend a thing made of living matter can do anything but die horribly upon missile exposure.

    • @BloodyAltima
      @BloodyAltima 3 роки тому +56

      @@lucyditee Personally, I think the comparative sleekness is part of what makes it a compelling design- it gives it a fairly unique profile among giant monsters and conveys a sense of speed that such beasts lack. It makes for a different experience, and that's something frequently missing in a lot of monsters.

    • @BloodyAltima
      @BloodyAltima 3 роки тому +25

      @@lucyditee So large bulky animals like elephants and hippos *can* run faster than you'd think, but the truly fast animals that want to use speed as a major part of their plan need a certain degree of leanness to them, and they'll always be faster than the former. Cheetahs, obviously, but big cats and big dogs/wolves in general. Runners need muscle, yes, but it needs to be lean where possible- the laws of aerodynamics are merciless.
      Its also less about speed, in the sense that the work just says that the monster is going really fast, and speed in the sense that it *feels* like the monster is going really fast. A Heisei film can say Godzilla's going as fast as it wants, that still won't help the fact that the design looks more elephantine than komodine.
      I personally find that Zilla makes a decent balance there- its clearly muscular, but its lean muscle, plenty streamlined for ease of zoom (and no wonder; everything I've seen indicates that Zilla was more directly based on actual monitor lizards than Godzilla ever was).
      This concludes me talking for way too long about the design of a long-forgotten misbegotten 90's Godzilla adaptation.

    • @michaeljason2593
      @michaeljason2593 3 роки тому +2

      @i want to commit literal genocide. Kid, this is just how he views Zilla as her own monster. Yes while Zilla was still killed by missiles designed to blow up battleships, which in my mind should have knocked her the fuck out, and her design is shit to look at, I think it could use tweaking to make it look intimidating.
      But personally, I would have Zilla look like an actual iguana. Her therapod stance would be at 70 meters and her upright stance would be 92 meters tall. She would have muscles to give her serious strength for her lifts and strikes while her tail would be powerful to send light weight enemies flying while staggering heavy weight ones and unleashing a shockwave with her whips to hit any opponent that is too far away from her.
      She would have strong jaws to help her bite force crush metal and stones with bones strong enough to resist ocean pressures. She would also have a sonic hurricane blast and a gamma ray beam if her physical strength isn't enough.
      As for her attitude, she would fight her opponent to the death and would rather die fighting where she stands as opposed to running away at the first sign of danger. And be durable to take man made weaponry alongside alien technology and other monster attacks while feeding on gamma radiation to power herself up.

  • @kanseiyamazaru435
    @kanseiyamazaru435 5 років тому +1683

    So Tristar let a bunch of idiots who don't like Godzilla from the get go have total control of the whole film. MAKES PERFECT SENSE!

    • @andrewgan557
      @andrewgan557 5 років тому +61

      @@DrZuluGaming a bunch of whackjobs to make a movie which they don't like the main character the kaiju? Great.

    • @stephenramos2824
      @stephenramos2824 5 років тому +55

      Having non fan's making the film worked for wrath of Khan....just those weren't idiots.

    • @russellbrown6888
      @russellbrown6888 5 років тому +112

      @@stephenramos2824 They weren't fans, but they were good filmmakers and were managed well. Godzilla 98 was made by people that weren't fans and were mediocre filmmakers. You really couldn't ask for a better recipe for disaster.

    • @MissCircle616
      @MissCircle616 4 роки тому +44

      *YEAH THAT MAKES SENSE*

    • @Tareltonlives
      @Tareltonlives 4 роки тому +16

      @@stephenramos2824 Yes, but non-Fans also made Trek 2009...and they were utter incompetents

  • @Em-nj4uu
    @Em-nj4uu 5 років тому +904

    Godzilla 1998: Size Does Matter
    Also Godzilla 1998: Smaller than the heisei Godzilla

    • @thebichocr7659
      @thebichocr7659 4 роки тому +15

      🤣😂

    • @TheEmperorHyperion
      @TheEmperorHyperion 4 роки тому +46

      And only taller than the Showa version by ten meters, some of the Millenium incarnations by five, and the first three forms of Shin Godzilla.

    • @MinecraftWorld1954
      @MinecraftWorld1954 3 роки тому +6

      Irony

    • @calebprescott440
      @calebprescott440 3 роки тому +11

      The 1998 movie will always be ZILLA not godzilla

    • @goldedrag111
      @goldedrag111 3 роки тому +2

      Also smaller than Godzilla Earth, Final Wars Godzilla, and Monsterverse Godzilla.

  • @Blastinus
    @Blastinus 5 років тому +1370

    "We forgot everything about the original Godzilla" could have been the movie's friggin' tagline.

    • @vla1ne
      @vla1ne 5 років тому +81

      It was at that moment that every single fan of the franchise knew... They were destined to fuck it up.

    • @bradleyrenfroe2776
      @bradleyrenfroe2776 5 років тому +43

      I wasted my whole third grade year anticipating this movie and enjoying the mysterious marketing. I was disappointed when I saw the movie because I was a Godzilla fan since 1993 having seen many Godzilla films and having five on VHS. This Movie touched me when I was a kid and I cannot show you where.

    • @Lucivius27
      @Lucivius27 4 роки тому +5

      @@ainsley8149 It could give low morale to the US army.

    • @Betapvnk
      @Betapvnk 4 роки тому +6

      I thought it was 😂

    • @Sonichero151
      @Sonichero151 3 роки тому +4

      *this was the first mistake*

  • @williamhinson2863
    @williamhinson2863 4 роки тому +451

    "the last half was two monsters going at it and I didn't like that"
    *Everybody disliked that*

    • @mrroboshadow
      @mrroboshadow 3 роки тому +17

      I know this is super old but when i saw that quote i was reminded of this one
      "What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. [...] Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

  • @Mr.Foxhat
    @Mr.Foxhat 4 роки тому +746

    *Hears that this movie ruined the careers of 2 directors*
    Me: Awe, poor guys.
    *Learns they had complete creative control.*
    Me: I put all blame on you.

    • @Gojiragon
      @Gojiragon 3 роки тому +20

      Not really… Ruined for Emmerich. Most of his movies (until recently) were actually pretty lucrative. It’s only with his last few pictures did they actually bomb.

    • @tetraxis3011
      @tetraxis3011 Рік тому +11

      @@GojiragonEmmerich is good at making goofy ahh disaster films. They are REALLY dumb but they are entertaining.

    • @randomguy6679
      @randomguy6679 7 місяців тому +4

      @@tetraxis3011I don’t know man, I feel like they don’t fully commit to being goofy and feel tonally inconsistent.

  • @TrentVandal
    @TrentVandal 5 років тому +515

    From IMDB: "Dean Devlin aggressively defended the movie on internet message boards, at times telling the Godzilla fans "to hell with you" if they had a negative opinion over it. The official Godzilla message board was shut down soon thereafter due to all the heated arguing. Years later, Devlin has admitted to recognizing the movie's faults and apologized to the fans in various interviews." :p

  • @Fuzon-S
    @Fuzon-S 5 років тому +746

    Took me a minute to realize that GINO is an acronym for "Godzilla In Name Only".
    Just calling it Zilla is simple enough.

    • @dadanishpastry4569
      @dadanishpastry4569 5 років тому +31

      Lo Wang: Fuck Zilla

    • @Zombieflesheaters123
      @Zombieflesheaters123 5 років тому +45

      @@dadanishpastry4569 I thought the animated series was pretty cool. Zilla Jr. even had atomic breath.

    • @StoutShako
      @StoutShako 5 років тому +20

      Ohhhh. I get it now. Thanks for explaining.

    • @Houston7001
      @Houston7001 5 років тому +35

      Oh...he said he didn't need to explain that nickname, but he really should have.

    • @missmoanypants
      @missmoanypants 4 роки тому +20

      .....I didn’t understand what Gino was until I read your comment. 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @khamankhoma8232
    @khamankhoma8232 5 років тому +1106

    Godzilla: [ famous for throwing down with other monsters at the climax of practically EVERY film ]
    Roland Emmerich: "Ugh! That's dumb. Who'd pay to see that?"

    • @gratuitouslurking8610
      @gratuitouslurking8610 5 років тому +106

      I mean, nothing new there. Roland Emerich just makes one disaster movie after another.
      BUT ENOUGH ABOUT HIS CURRENT BOX OFFICE HIYOOOOO!

    • @Nathan-ti9pm
      @Nathan-ti9pm 5 років тому +29

      @Ivan Ringle Its also very metaphorically political but in a good way and is very upfront with its horror aspects at least the original one was not the US dub and Emerich was kinda disrespectful to the og Godzilla suitmation believing that Japan didn't know how to use stop motion even though they clearly did but they used the suit because stop motion would have taken too much time

    • @turogamer-oi4nq
      @turogamer-oi4nq 5 років тому +66

      Roland Emerich 1998"who would pay to see two monsters fighting"
      List of movies since 1998:
      •godzilla 2014
      •power rangers 2016
      •Kong skull island
      •Godzilla King Of The Monsters
      •predators
      •Rampage
      •pacific rim
      •pacific rim uprising
      •Hell boy
      •Hell boy 2 the golden army

    • @Ob1tuber
      @Ob1tuber 5 років тому +11

      um, EVERYONE DEVILLON AND EMIRICH

    • @josethebeast8709
      @josethebeast8709 5 років тому +9

      Everyone under the sun

  • @ShapCast
    @ShapCast 5 років тому +875

    I think we can all agree that Zilla Jr from the Godzilla Series has earned the title of “Godzilla”

    • @laval1016
      @laval1016 5 років тому +53

      AMEN!!!!!!!

    • @AstroGodzilla23
      @AstroGodzilla23 5 років тому +33

      Yeah

    • @julianpagano1659
      @julianpagano1659 4 роки тому +31

      Fuck yeah

    • @jrand2148
      @jrand2148 4 роки тому +34

      Ima have to disagree with you there. While I did enjoy the series (I still play the game boy game from time to time) it's still no Godzilla. Just a better representation if what GINO was capable of if given a better opportunity to shine.

    • @mrspeigel3593
      @mrspeigel3593 4 роки тому +30

      Umm..no but the cartoon show was goid.

  • @OMGitsTerasu
    @OMGitsTerasu 5 років тому +332

    I thought zilla wasn't bad.
    Then again, in '98, i was 6.

    • @coyoteboy5601
      @coyoteboy5601 5 років тому +30

      I understand, and i'm glad you enjoyed it. I was 40, and I wanted to cry.

    • @worldofthought8352
      @worldofthought8352 5 років тому +11

      Yeah I was in a similar view, I was a kid and never really seen the original design. Though I thought a number of characters and the whole 'drawn to fish' was mundane and boring as anything given a advert for the film had it stomping on a skeleton T Rex.
      When i got older and became more aware of the internet and social media did I note how much of a drop Zilla was to *GOD*ZILLA (I figured the directors for the 98 flop would pick up on that bit!)

    • @CommonSenseless1993
      @CommonSenseless1993 4 роки тому +6

      I was 6 as well and thought it was boring as hell. Even at that time I hated the design of Godzilla. The hype for the movie was real back then though lol

    • @M-o-s-u-r-a
      @M-o-s-u-r-a 4 роки тому +1

      In 98, I was 2 so I didn't even knew about this flick.

    • @Kaleestraza
      @Kaleestraza 4 роки тому +10

      The movie may have been shit, but the toy line it spawned was amazing for the bunch of stupid 5 year olds we were haha!!

  • @shards-of-glass-man
    @shards-of-glass-man 5 років тому +629

    The animated series was surprisingly good indeed. I was always slightly confused why Zilla Jr. was so much more of a Godzilla than its parent though. Maybe Zilla was a runt?

    • @ThePhoneix999
      @ThePhoneix999 5 років тому +18

      It was written by gen the butcher

    • @shards-of-glass-man
      @shards-of-glass-man 5 років тому +116

      @Baron o SpiralsCome to think of it, Jeff Kline and Richard Raynis had a very good track record when it came to adapting movies into animation. Godzilla, Men in Black, Extreme Ghostbusters, Jumanji...

    • @Max501
      @Max501 5 років тому +15

      The 1st movie is about a giant lizard trying to survive against humanity. The cartoon has other monster which the giant lizard fights which a better setting.

    • @vladtepes2667
      @vladtepes2667 5 років тому +2

      @@GamerGuysReviews Cyborggodzilla was awesome.

    • @Uhlersoth77
      @Uhlersoth77 5 років тому +7

      @@8Kazuja8 Fil Barlow was the creature designer on Godzilla the Series and Extreme Ghostbusters. He really had a knack for putting together monsters, and is still one of my favorites. Heck, his concept art for the Mighty Ducks cartoon were wicked, but I think Disney thought they might be too grotesque. It's a shame that the last time I checked, he hadn't been involved in any projects for a while.
      I guess I don't have to say I was a fan of the show. Even the humans characters were better written than the film, but then again a Sat morn cartoon can get away with being a little...well, cartoony.

  • @Maxdemon98
    @Maxdemon98 5 років тому +642

    "Moth Goddess"
    Thank you. Thank you Matt

    • @MegaNovaShizzle
      @MegaNovaShizzle 5 років тому +56

      She's the best

    • @helloitsme4538
      @helloitsme4538 5 років тому +11

      Yes yes yes yes YES

    • @Ravenfellblade
      @Ravenfellblade 5 років тому +13

      *Creepy fairy twins intensify*

    • @M-o-s-u-r-a
      @M-o-s-u-r-a 4 роки тому +26

      @@MetalGearRaxis Because she's the only Kaiju who has always been a protector, the only reasons she has attacked humanity is because some guys kidnapped her priestesses and later because she was controlled by aliens. She is a benign kaiju, and is immortal, always being reborn through her egg.

    • @Raccon_Detective.
      @Raccon_Detective. 4 роки тому

      YES YES YES.

  • @At0micPunk90
    @At0micPunk90 2 роки тому +74

    You don't necessarily have to be a diehard fan of something to be qualified to make an adaptation of it, but you should at least understand why people like it and respect it enough to want to do it justice.
    The team behind Godzilla '98 did neither.

  • @rndmpinkiepie64
    @rndmpinkiepie64 4 роки тому +199

    "Pollution crap monster"
    Hey, just because that's an accurate description doesn't mean you can say it like it's a bad thing

    • @MagnusTonitrum117
      @MagnusTonitrum117 4 роки тому +28

      Poor Hedorah

    • @rndmpinkiepie64
      @rndmpinkiepie64 4 роки тому +10

      @@MagnusTonitrum117 hedorah was an awesome kaiju and could've beaten Godzilla if it weren't for human interjection

    • @SFforlife
      @SFforlife 3 роки тому +6

      Hedorah was and still is badass!

    • @rndmpinkiepie64
      @rndmpinkiepie64 3 роки тому +11

      @@SFforlife completely agree. It doesn't get the praise it deserves. Gigan may have been the first to make Godzilla bleed but Hedorah gave a NUCLEAR POWERED kaiju a CHEMICAL BURN. That's impressive

    • @SFforlife
      @SFforlife 3 роки тому +6

      @@rndmpinkiepie64 Oh yeah, he’s such a super cool and interesting design too. Love his multiple forms. He’s much more dangerous and powerful than just a toxic sludge.

  • @Gggmanlives
    @Gggmanlives 5 років тому +837

    I actually saw this in the theatre as a kid. You know a Godzilla movie is bad when even a 12 year old isn't interested in it.

    • @MattMcMuscles
      @MattMcMuscles  5 років тому +205

      Yeah, the movie has fish and bad CG, and all of that sHIIIIT

    • @MiraSubieGirl
      @MiraSubieGirl 3 роки тому +42

      I was 10 and lovedddd it.
      Looking back? Yikes... 😬

    • @michaeljason2593
      @michaeljason2593 3 роки тому +18

      As a general monster movie, I feel like if the guys behind the series made this film it would have been awesome. Or if it was directed by Michael Bay or Zack Snyder, the story and action would be better than what Emmerich gave us.

    • @SergioLeonardoCornejo
      @SergioLeonardoCornejo 3 роки тому +12

      I was 8-9 when I watched it. I liked it because... Well. It has a giant monster. After turning 10 I got familiarized with the real Gojira and my views changed.

    • @MiraSubieGirl
      @MiraSubieGirl 3 роки тому +6

      @@SergioLeonardoCornejo Yep same... I thought it was super cool as it was the first Monster movie I saw!

  • @OmegaPlum
    @OmegaPlum 5 років тому +735

    Toho: What? Where is the Godzilla spirit?!
    Tristar: *_Gone, reduced to atoms_*

    • @Dabajaws
      @Dabajaws 5 років тому +31

      Atleast toho killed zilla

    • @moiseslugardo8501
      @moiseslugardo8501 5 років тому +53

      Toho: Look at how they massacred my boy...

    • @pile-o-nonsense3688
      @pile-o-nonsense3688 5 років тому +2

      Gone, when they made the incarnation of the power of an atom bomb into a hero for child movies.

    • @zm_azathoth8797
      @zm_azathoth8797 5 років тому +2

      *i saw that reference*

    • @louiswebtser
      @louiswebtser 5 років тому +7

      Omega Plum the spirit is in the Godzilla animated Series

  • @rooislangwtf
    @rooislangwtf 5 років тому +89

    Damn, those Stan Winston Godzilla designs looks pretty good

    • @victorhernandez8723
      @victorhernandez8723 4 роки тому +19

      They would have been perfect for the movie! How dare they scrap Stan Winston’s proposed designs for Godzilla in favor of Devlin and Emmerich’s T-Rex design?

    • @GaiusIntrepidus
      @GaiusIntrepidus 3 роки тому +3

      The only issue I have is the bright color and fat lower-half, overall it could've been great to see it in action

  • @guttsu
    @guttsu 3 роки тому +208

    They went the Zack Snyder route: "hey, you know all they things people love about this character? What if, get this, we do NONE of that? Won't it be great???"

    • @therestofus3506
      @therestofus3506 3 роки тому +6

      I actually really loved Zack Snyder's DC movies. Man of Steel and BVS is what really got me into comic books and the dc fandom.

    • @marcoantoniosalazarmatamor9496
      @marcoantoniosalazarmatamor9496 3 роки тому +10

      Snyder wouldn’t have crapped out this badly. Would have crapped out somehow, just not THIS badly.

    • @ilikepancakes2368
      @ilikepancakes2368 2 роки тому +2

      How did Zack Snyder ruined the justice league again? All it seems to me he added his own interpretation while still remaining loyal to the original source material. Seriously, it’s funny how some of you want character development and yet you still expect Superman to be this perfect super hero on his first movie.

    • @stevensteviepryde5888
      @stevensteviepryde5888 2 роки тому +3

      @@ilikepancakes2368 I think this comment was posted before Snyder's cut of Justice League was released.

    • @Fingleberrys
      @Fingleberrys 2 роки тому +9

      @@ilikepancakes2368 His Batman was a murderous lunatic. How is this true to source material

  • @thesexybatman263
    @thesexybatman263 5 років тому +331

    Something else worth noting: in Final Wars, Zilla is the only monster in the movie made entirely with (intentionally) bad CGI instead of an actor in a suit, as an extra layer of mockery to the creature.
    Also, please do any of the live action Street Fighter movies (1994 or 2009).

    • @TheThingKing
      @TheThingKing 5 років тому +28

      Not sure the CGI for Zilla in Final Wars (2004) was intentionally done bad. There are other moments when Toho used CGI for Godzilla in the millennium series, and the CG is pretty poor for those scenes too. The only time when Toho got the CGI to a respectable level for Godzilla is for Shin Godzilla in 2016.

    • @wilcowen6284
      @wilcowen6284 2 роки тому +3

      @@TheThingKing but zilla was only in cgi which no other kiagu in that film was

    • @TheThingKing
      @TheThingKing 2 роки тому +10

      @@wilcowen6284 I know but there are brief scenes scattered of Godzilla in the millennium series that have the actual Toho Godzilla himself rendered in CGI. They looked crap.

    • @Spider-Complexion
      @Spider-Complexion 2 роки тому +1

      Woahwoahwoahwoahwoah when tf did a SF movie come out in 2009 and how did I not hear about this when I was a kid???
      It must’ve been *that* bad

    • @anueutsuho7425
      @anueutsuho7425 2 роки тому +12

      @@TheThingKing It was done badly on purpose, at least this time, but they didn't exactly need to try too hard to make it look bad. Iirc Zilla was a scanned-in toy.

  • @Beforezzz
    @Beforezzz 5 років тому +313

    Jean Reno: What did you see, old man?
    Old Man: Gojira??? I think? Wha happun?!

    • @dexterjones849
      @dexterjones849 5 років тому +4

      @@GBDupree And Zilla is actually a Good monster if you ask me.

    • @abadenoughdude300
      @abadenoughdude300 5 років тому +16

      @@dexterjones849 That's the thing. If they went full on with creating their own brand new kaiju and called him something like Raptoid or wtf, they'd end up with a pretty fun monster flick. But no, they had to get the license only to ignore it and do everything to not be what they licensed. Stupid idiots.

    • @andrewollmann304
      @andrewollmann304 5 років тому

      William Lowery He was also good in Hotel Rwanda.

    • @RubberDucky757
      @RubberDucky757 5 років тому +1

      I have confirmed reports that was in fact the President of Toho after he saw Zilla!!

  • @TheDuckyDino
    @TheDuckyDino 5 років тому +149

    Tristar: lets ruin godzilla!
    Toho: Don't make me come down there you little punk!
    And thats how we got the 3rd generation of godzilla films

    • @michaelbandada9887
      @michaelbandada9887 4 роки тому +17

      All it took for Hollywood to make a proper and decent Godzilla movie is to let Legendary Pictures handle the film and make Godzilla do what he does best... raise hell and burn everything to the ground

  • @dariusq8894
    @dariusq8894 3 роки тому +91

    I actually didn't mind the Zilla design but running away from military and being vulnerable to missiles was a huge slap in the face. The lack of a radioactive beam was the final insult.

    • @Chaotic42Kami
      @Chaotic42Kami 2 роки тому +15

      That was always confusing to me in this film.
      I mean, two times it looks like it has a "fire breath" but, at the same time, it actually looks like it just roars and the ubiquitous taxis in this film would just ignite like they're in a Michael Bay movie.

    • @zoeadkins9095
      @zoeadkins9095 Рік тому +4

      Apparently, Zilla is meant to have "flammable breath" that ignites when the flung cars explode. Why the said cars even explode or how this flammable breath doesn't come into play with all the ballistic detonations going on in and around its big, ugly mug is a total mystery. I've heard that the scenes were stitched in towards the end of production in an effort to placate inevitable fan backlash from the lack of any kind of breath-based attacks.

  • @letthatchildalone7843
    @letthatchildalone7843 5 років тому +285

    I would love a "Hulk (2003) - What Happened?"
    I watched that movie all the time when it came out, but looking back at it made it clear that it had some issues. It'd be awesome to see you take a look a Shrulk the Ogre and tell us exactly wha happuned.

    • @tydyman2003
      @tydyman2003 5 років тому +10

      I like it for what they were trying to do which was make it a comic book like as possible, but god that movie was a mess

    • @letthatchildalone7843
      @letthatchildalone7843 5 років тому +13

      @@tydyman2003 Yeah, the comic book-esque transitions were unique, but they weren't implemented well. The only thing I can confidently say I like about the film is Hulk's size. That baby-faced mofo is *LARGE.*

    • @TSDT
      @TSDT 5 років тому +21

      I haven't seen it since it first came out but I actually liked it for just how it was so unapologetically arthouse. Maybe not the best Hulk movie, but not an outright stinker.

    • @letthatchildalone7843
      @letthatchildalone7843 5 років тому +7

      @@TSDT It's definitely not an AWFUL movie. Hell I wouldn't even say it's the worst Marvel movie. But it took a lot of risks that didn't pay off.

    • @letthatchildalone7843
      @letthatchildalone7843 5 років тому +7

      @@AbbeyMarieEsp The far-off reaches of your brain are correct, Abbey. There was, in fact, a Hulk poodle. I also remember Hulk punching one of the dogs in the dick after they bit his. Such wacky hijinx.

  • @the123joker
    @the123joker 5 років тому +149

    A 'Wha Happun' for Hellboy (2019) would be interesting

    • @Aliens1337
      @Aliens1337 5 років тому +1

      jonny jonman Is it bad? I have seen mediocre review, but doesn’t seem like a disaster

    • @CurtisAlfeld
      @CurtisAlfeld 5 років тому +7

      @@Aliens1337 Let me me sum it up for you: in one scene, a plot point is introduced that adds some much needed tension to the film. That plot point is solved in the very next scene. They didn't even take the time to pretend like they didn't know how to solve it. "Oh no, this bad thing happened! What are we going to do?" "I know a guy." It's like someone said "we can't go five minutes without Hellboy shooting something".

    • @noeneszvecsko7621
      @noeneszvecsko7621 5 років тому

      @@patoren3gou653 No, the trailer was a very cliché summer blockbuster movie trailer with cheeky "jokes" and some music that creates an "action packed but harmless fun" mood. That is nothing like JoJo, not in style, not in atmosphere, not even close in any way.

    • @Karvosh
      @Karvosh 5 років тому +2

      Tbch I actually really liked that movie.. it was enjoyable and had a lot of bits clearly meant to be shout-outs to fans of the comics. It was kind of "all over the place" in terms of plot, but at no point did I actually feel upset at the movie? It was a fun romp, but that's just me.

  • @oroboros2432
    @oroboros2432 5 років тому +337

    “I didn’t want anything to do with the original Godzilla, I wanted to make my own.”
    This is where the movie became shit. Also, YOUR Godzilla is inferior and isn’t the real Godzilla and I’m glad it got 2 shot by the real Godzilla in Final Wars.

    • @CyberneticHamster108
      @CyberneticHamster108 4 роки тому +41

      I Like to think Zilla had it's neck snapped by the first tail swing. Everything after was just insult to injury

    • @garouuchiha4041
      @garouuchiha4041 4 роки тому +4

      he roasted himself, LOL!

    • @mrspeigel3593
      @mrspeigel3593 4 роки тому +18

      My favorite red flag quote by them was " Godzilla is a great monster but hes never had a great movie"
      Piss off Emmerich and Devlin.

    • @sealduck2739
      @sealduck2739 3 роки тому

      I liked the show

  • @izumishion6267
    @izumishion6267 4 роки тому +109

    "We forgot everything about the original Godzilla right there."
    It was at this moment that Roland knew, he f**ked up.

    • @TrexTamer
      @TrexTamer 4 роки тому +14

      and he had no regrets

    • @LadyoftheDreamless14
      @LadyoftheDreamless14 4 роки тому +7

      Some one that self centered doesnt fuck up... Everyone else is wrong. Man id love to slap this man. (Not you the directors, just clarifying)

    • @calebprescott440
      @calebprescott440 3 роки тому

      I hate roland emmerich

  • @arthurr739
    @arthurr739 5 років тому +254

    I have too many recommendations so I'll just cut it down to a few:
    The Last Airbender
    AI: Artificial Intelligence
    Catwoman

    • @onigames7309
      @onigames7309 5 років тому +5

      Those are good ones.

    • @MrDogsniper
      @MrDogsniper 5 років тому +25

      Dragonball Evolution

    • @arthurr739
      @arthurr739 5 років тому +1

      @@ForkknifeBattlePass Definitely agreed on that one

    • @Ascendedninja6
      @Ascendedninja6 5 років тому +4

      We do NOT speak about the last airbender

    • @razor-backfrogger4256
      @razor-backfrogger4256 5 років тому +2

      You have great taste in profile pictures.

  • @HoundofOdin
    @HoundofOdin 5 років тому +229

    Godzilla 98: What if it was Godzilla but also a Jurassic Park rip off?

    • @KameKame27
      @KameKame27 5 років тому +8

      King Kong*

    • @william_coduks
      @william_coduks 5 років тому +2

      I thought it was awesome

    • @NTEDOG561
      @NTEDOG561 5 років тому +1

      Waffles _ *jurrasic park

    • @boomstickcritique902
      @boomstickcritique902 5 років тому +3

      I wonder if the film would be better viewed as a stand alone

    • @AstroGodzilla23
      @AstroGodzilla23 5 років тому +3

      So nobody cares that Godzilla Millenium did the same thing?

  • @fang609
    @fang609 4 роки тому +265

    At least the 2014 movie was an improvement and the 2019 version is a love leter to kaiju fans. Henstly the only good thing about the 1998 movie was the animated series, at least Zilla Jr tried to live up to the expectetions of the old Godilla's.

    • @OvertheHedge06
      @OvertheHedge06 4 роки тому +7

      KOTM was a beautiful looking film but my God were the human characters so fucking dumb (they somehow wasted Eleven meeting Tywin Lannister), Godzilla 2014 I think is the better film for it's darker atmosphere and succeed in making it grounded but the human characters were boring but at least they were smart (but they killed off Walter fucking White in the lamest way possible), so in my opinion Kong: Skull Island is the best Monsterverse film. Yeah the human characters are forgettable but John C. Reilly, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Goodman are fun as fuck to hang around, it looks beautifully, has a nice soundtrack, the Kaiju action is glorious and the human characters actually fucking help out.

    • @spinyslasher6586
      @spinyslasher6586 4 роки тому +17

      @sgt dornan Well you clearly haven't seen 90% of the Godzilla films because pretty much all of them except for a few are Godzilla going at it with a bunch of other monsters.

    • @thisprofilepicisakittyboi9831
      @thisprofilepicisakittyboi9831 3 роки тому +3

      Plus they were a great way of celebrating Godzilla’s 60th (2014) and 65th (2019) anniversary

    • @granmastersword
      @granmastersword 3 роки тому

      @@johnnyr2646 that's partly the fault of critics who tried to review both Godzilla 2014 and KoTM not for what they are, fun monster movies showing tribute to a pop culture classic, but for what they wanted and expected all movies to have, human character focus and some deep story to follow that revolves around them.
      Alongside the people who weren't used to movies like classic era Godzilla and were more used to the usual human character driven stories with at times some deep theme to follow

  • @silentkill450
    @silentkill450 3 роки тому +345

    This movie is the equivalent of a Twitter Artist making fan art of something and saying “There, I made it better”.

    • @TheStarBot
      @TheStarBot 2 роки тому +18

      Expect atleast Twitter artists could have made something more inserting and creative than this

    • @Tiago_dsD
      @Tiago_dsD 2 роки тому +31

      @@TheStarBot I really doubt it...

    • @somerandomguy6767
      @somerandomguy6767 2 роки тому +14

      @@TheStarBot *X to doubt*

    • @ulqinaku8471
      @ulqinaku8471 2 роки тому +8

      @@TheStarBot not really

    • @CommanderShepard341
      @CommanderShepard341 2 роки тому +11

      Roland Emmerich: "fiXeD uR ShIt gOdZilLa!"

  • @Mashmarriner69
    @Mashmarriner69 5 років тому +112

    I personally love the design of the 1998 Godzilla as anything but Godzilla.

    • @Ghidorah96
      @Ghidorah96 5 років тому +17

      Mashmarriner69 it's a decent indominus rex

    • @victorhernandez8723
      @victorhernandez8723 5 років тому +16

      If it was given a different name, it would have been more acceptable.

    • @phantomspaceman
      @phantomspaceman 5 років тому +9

      It's too close to the Alien for its own good. Imagine the head extending backwards instead of down.

    • @ndr2q
      @ndr2q 4 роки тому +16

      The creature design was actually very well done ... athletic, menacing, and less like a guy in a rubber suit. But the movie they made for it was garbage. Total dumpster fire.
      Just my two cents.

    • @Beedo_Sookcool
      @Beedo_Sookcool Рік тому +2

      Yeah, it's a great creature design, but it just ain't Godzilla.

  • @ARMIV4
    @ARMIV4 5 років тому +384

    Its utterly astounding just how much Emmerich and Devlin loathed the source material, and it's even more astounding how there are Godzilla fans who still defend these clowns.

    • @greyideasthetheliopurodon4640
      @greyideasthetheliopurodon4640 4 роки тому +13

      Dean liked Godzilla actually

    • @thedx266
      @thedx266 3 роки тому +62

      Actually, truth is, they aren’t just clowns... they’re the *entire circus.*

    • @silfes3036
      @silfes3036 3 роки тому +8

      @@thedx266 nice reference, take my like

    • @atiredfloridian777
      @atiredfloridian777 3 роки тому +20

      ...there are defenders?
      Huh, learn something new every day.

    • @AbgHadi
      @AbgHadi 3 роки тому +8

      @@vortexthecomplex5369 YOU AGAIN?!???
      (Also,I like Godzilla 98 as a monster movie,but not as a Godzilla movie.Also,who's your favourite Ultraman?)

  • @adrianarias6418
    @adrianarias6418 5 років тому +91

    In some years, when truth finally comes to light we will have: "Game of Thrones: Wha hapuun".

    • @markosimunic4770
      @markosimunic4770 5 років тому

      I never watched game of thrones. Only some scenes, mostly about the white walkers cuz i found them to be cool (HAH puns).
      So after the latest season and reading peoples reviews on it (the holy comment section) here how i think its pretty much went.
      Season 1 : the white walkers......a myth.....
      Season 2 : creatures with teriffiyng powers......
      Season 3 : who were defeated and banished in the frozen wastelands....
      Season 4 : a great wall was build to keep them away.....and after many years the were forgotten...
      Season 5 : Just as the walls original purpose was forgoten and now serves as a sort of prison...
      Season 6 : But nobody knew that the same threath from so long ago would return...
      Season 7 : as the night king destroys the wall and sets its sight for conquest.....his motives unknown.....
      Season 8 : He dies and so do all other white walkers, so after that in kings landing.....
      Season 1-7 : wait what?!?!?! dude we just hyped him to be the greatest threath in the land.....
      Season 8 : *HE DIED* moving on!!!1
      Season 1-7 : dont we have a say in this...
      Season 8 : you are all over sooooooo....no.
      Season 1-7 : wait why is kings landing on a desert its suposed to be surounded by forests and hills.......
      Season 8 : global warming caused this. Now let me just go to the toilet i have to shit out the rest of the episodes.

    • @strifenineteen
      @strifenineteen 4 роки тому +6

      The two guys behind it were going to do a Star Wars tv show so they fast tracked the last season. Fortunately/unfortunately the show was canceled before it even started which means GoT got the Mass Effect Andromeda treatment

  • @thebestcentaur
    @thebestcentaur 4 роки тому +54

    "I didn't want to make a traditional Godzilla. I wanted nothing to do with it. I wanted to make my own."
    And roll credits. We're done here.

  • @CappuccinoSquid
    @CappuccinoSquid 5 років тому +259

    14:12 and there it is, there's the entire problem.
    Japan: "We created a monster as a metaphor to contextualize nuclear destruction."
    US: "We can kill a nuke metaphor with our guns and missiles, HOORAH!"
    Japan: "...have you ever *been* nuked, US? Do you know what it's like to have multiple major cities purged in hellfire?"

    • @FallingPicturesProductions
      @FallingPicturesProductions 5 років тому +43

      US: "We burned down some hollow paper cities with nukes back in the 50's, does that count?"

    • @robertdelgadocapetillo8684
      @robertdelgadocapetillo8684 5 років тому +1

      Ooooh damn that is harsh.

    • @LostShipMate
      @LostShipMate 5 років тому

      Eh.

    • @Tridd666
      @Tridd666 5 років тому +10

      The us can body Godzilla precisely because of that though
      "We control the nukes, so we control the crude metaphors for nukes"

    • @CappuccinoSquid
      @CappuccinoSquid 5 років тому +10

      @@Tridd666 The US isn't the only one with nukes, a more accurate depiction of the situation would be a Mexican Standoff of MANY Godzillas, and the second one makes a move they'll all make a move and destroy us all, regardless of the team jerseys any given Godzilla is wearing.

  • @cmaej28
    @cmaej28 5 років тому +83

    My first reaction to the movie:
    "Is that the guy from Onimusha 3?

    • @michaelbandada9887
      @michaelbandada9887 4 роки тому +6

      Jean Reno? He’s in the first Mission Impossible film, Nikita (the film), Ronin (featuring Bobby de Niro and Sean Bean who doesn’t bite the dust) and of course, Leon featuring Natalie Portman and Gary Oldman whose notable line is...
      EVERYONE!!!!!!!

    • @plasticflower
      @plasticflower 3 роки тому +3

      @@michaelbandada9887 Yeah he might have had some minor roles, but he's mainly known for being the guy from Onimusha 3!

    • @sabithsaqlain1367
      @sabithsaqlain1367 3 роки тому

      Same here

  • @ifeeldead463
    @ifeeldead463 4 роки тому +244

    Agent: Okay, Goji, so here's what's gonna happen
    Godzilla: Okay, I'm all ears
    Agent: You can't fight other kaiju
    Godzilla: oka-
    Agent: You can't use your atomic breath
    Godzilla: wha-
    Agent: You can't be nigh immune from human weaponry and artillery
    Godzilla: Excuse m-
    Agent: And you can't be thicc
    Godzilla: Rude
    Godzila: Okay but what /can/ I do?
    Agent: Uhh. . . Run really fast
    Godzilla: uhh-
    Agent: And have babies?
    Godzilla: With who???
    Agent:
    Agent: No one but yourself :,)
    Godzilla:

    • @wyzasukitan
      @wyzasukitan 4 роки тому +7

      I Feel Dead this comment didn’t get enough love 🤣🤣☠️

    • @aylasabatini7122
      @aylasabatini7122 4 роки тому +7

      The real Godzilla managed to do that last part with Minilla and Godzilla Jr so...that's slightly accurate.

    • @ifeeldead463
      @ifeeldead463 4 роки тому +3

      @@aylasabatini7122 point but if i remember correctly Minilla is adopted and im not sure abt BabyG so he might either be adopted as well or Goji really is the dad

    • @aylasabatini7122
      @aylasabatini7122 4 роки тому +4

      @@ifeeldead463 Hey, adoption is still technically having kids with yourself.

    • @Mr.Pallanza
      @Mr.Pallanza 4 роки тому +15

      *_And you can't be thicc_*
      My heart broke. :C

  • @Godzillatronus2021
    @Godzillatronus2021 3 роки тому +56

    "The less said about the Anime Trilogy...the better." This guy knows his stuff😂

  • @GSP413
    @GSP413 5 років тому +147

    Best Thing that came out of this Shitfest? *Godzilla: The Animated Series* .

    • @kabuto1859
      @kabuto1859 4 роки тому +30

      Somehow a cartoon was better than a film

    • @ssj4jason737
      @ssj4jason737 4 роки тому +13

      As well as getting the Heisei films in America

    • @robnibblesonallenmolandsba6189
      @robnibblesonallenmolandsba6189 4 роки тому

      Yup! Because Toho didn't do anything better themselves

    • @dragonstormx
      @dragonstormx 4 роки тому +4

      @@kabuto1859 Well the cartoon was handled by a team of competent creative people who actually knew how to create a story with giant monsters people would want to see.

    • @MasuxAnderson
      @MasuxAnderson 4 роки тому +2

      I haven't seen it in ages, but I remember liking it as a kid. And just to be clear, even as a kid I didn't like the 1998 film. My disdain for it has only grown with time.

  • @godclothshango1194
    @godclothshango1194 5 років тому +108

    Kinda feel bad for Zilla, was killed, came back and killed again by Godzilla then brought back as a cyborg and killed by his child.

    • @stranger59
      @stranger59 5 років тому +37

      But at least he/she/whatever got to see that her one surviving boy got to be STRONG. Real durability and radiation breath, intelligent enough to make moral decisions... Jr. had it all!

    • @LostInTheInternet93
      @LostInTheInternet93 5 років тому +12

      Yeah, only redeeming quality of the movie, the following cartoon was Saturday morning gold.

    • @RobsonRoverRepair
      @RobsonRoverRepair 5 років тому +6

      Agreed. The cartoon was absolutely spectacular, but lost in a typical kids cartoon show slot.
      Was certainly better than those woeful cgi Godzilla films this year.

    • @stixstar
      @stixstar 5 років тому

      Godzilla 1998 and the Final Wars Zilla are 2 different creatures.

    • @gageunruh3574
      @gageunruh3574 5 років тому

      @@stixstar keep telling yourself that pal.

  • @thatguywithemail1431
    @thatguywithemail1431 4 роки тому +52

    There's a version of this that literally cuts out every mention of the word Godzilla.

    • @lucyditee
      @lucyditee 3 роки тому

      Of what? The 1998 Movie?

    • @alexander1055
      @alexander1055 3 роки тому

      @@lucyditee No, this UA-cam Video.

  • @mops515
    @mops515 5 років тому +48

    Growing up here in Canada, my childhood was Godzilla 2000 and Godzilla: The Series cartoon. They were the reasons why my brother and I became fans.
    Didn't see the 1998 film until years later, and didn't like it. Still it was the reason we had the animated series, so at least some good came out of it

  • @Venowtron
    @Venowtron 5 років тому +41

    Speaking of that design, I forget what home media release this on but one of the designers on the Transformers brand said "When giving a character a new look, you have to keep familiar design elements in, so people can reconize and accept that as the character." (i.e. Optimus' color scheme and window moobs)
    Which I think Zilla so revered because it has nothing in common with the big G outside of the dorsal fins and being reptilian.
    Side note: Godzilla 2014 was so successful in Japan it wae the only non-Disney movie that was at #1 at box office that year...for a week

    • @gwell66v2AnimeReviews
      @gwell66v2AnimeReviews 5 років тому +5

      When you said Zilla is revered did you mean to say reviled?

    • @katie6666
      @katie6666 4 роки тому +3

      Optimus was literally the only character that resembled his original source material, well there was shockwave in dark of the moon but that was horrible.

    • @Tareltonlives
      @Tareltonlives 4 роки тому +2

      And they seem to ignored that for the Transformers films

  • @MrAl360
    @MrAl360 5 років тому +159

    _sniff_
    _sniff_
    Anyone else smelling that incoming Godzilla week?

    • @cybernurgle6413
      @cybernurgle6413 5 років тому +4

      Oh yeah. It smells like hype

    • @DemonicRemption
      @DemonicRemption 5 років тому +6

      @LuchaDandy
      Hey with King of The Monsters coming out, I welcome it...

    • @Dektoonics_inc.
      @Dektoonics_inc. 5 років тому +2

      @@cybernurgle6413 it smells cashing in

    • @TheJboy29
      @TheJboy29 5 років тому +7

      Whassat smell?
      The sweet kaiju...
      Oh it sings to me.
      It's enough to make a man hype.

    • @ibrahime927
      @ibrahime927 5 років тому +4

      @@TheJboy29 Bloodborne references are always appreciated

  • @Xylarxcode
    @Xylarxcode 5 років тому +158

    I actually really liked the cartoon series that followed this disaster of a movie. Call me crazy, but Godzilla: The Series was (and still is) an enjoyable show to watch. I have the whole series on DVD and rewatch it every so often and it's still good. At least, I think so, but I have a huge soft spot for cartoons so it's probably just bias talking.

    • @ForrestFox626
      @ForrestFox626 4 роки тому +53

      Probably because the creators knew what Godzilla was about.

    • @Tareltonlives
      @Tareltonlives 4 роки тому +23

      Oh, it's a lot of fun

    • @anonamouse2780
      @anonamouse2780 4 роки тому +5

      The Gameboy Color game was a blast too

    • @WannbeSomeGuyWithLongHair
      @WannbeSomeGuyWithLongHair 4 роки тому +8

      I know right, it took a long time for me to even get into it because the movie really really sucked ass

    • @jx915
      @jx915 3 роки тому +2

      Yes it was awesome

  • @TinnieTa21
    @TinnieTa21 4 роки тому +42

    I'll be honest, the ending of this movie gave me chills. It gave me hopes of a really good sequel as a young naive child lol.

    • @DasNordlicht91
      @DasNordlicht91 4 роки тому +9

      I’d like to believe that the short-lived cartoon sorta-continuation on Fox Kids was the sequel.

    • @infinitybro2277
      @infinitybro2277 4 роки тому +1

      Same lmao but nothing ever happened

    • @Gojiragon
      @Gojiragon 3 роки тому +5

      They actually released the entire story that was going to be the sequel online a while ago. Call it the worlds biggest overcorrection ever. Remember how Roland Emmerich said “he didn’t like two giant monsters fighting?“ Well, the movie has two giant monsters fighting. It has its own version of monster island with its own unique set of original monsters. Godzilla actually has its nuclear breath, Albeit it is green.They introduced to the idea that the reason why Godzilla doesn’t have all of the signature abilities is because each generation of Godzilla develops a new one. The ones that hatched in movie 1 received the breath and the idea was that the baby in movie was going to develop the indestructibility when it reached maturity.

  • @WaffleAfterHours
    @WaffleAfterHours 5 років тому +101

    Geez, no wonder Toho had the Big G bodied Zilla in Final Wars.

    • @Scazoid
      @Scazoid 5 років тому +12

      @@patoren3gou653 the music is straight roasting zilla

  • @Hydrogoniise
    @Hydrogoniise 5 років тому +81

    Oh you're doing films? You're now legally obligated to cover Shyamalan's The Last Airbender

    • @MixMasterLar
      @MixMasterLar 5 років тому +15

      I would say it's been done to death but I never tire seeing people shit on that piece of shit. World watch another video on it for sure

    • @angrybidoof847
      @angrybidoof847 4 роки тому +3

      I think the what happened no is just shyamalan, he is what happened.

  • @hunterkiller1440
    @hunterkiller1440 5 років тому +76

    The Independence Day makers happened.

  • @wetroaches1641
    @wetroaches1641 5 років тому +95

    Godzilla 1998: **Exists**
    Japanese: *Swiggity swag, I’m going to put you in the bag*

    • @angrybidoof847
      @angrybidoof847 4 роки тому +10

      A body bag

    • @michaelbandada9887
      @michaelbandada9887 4 роки тому +2

      I wonder how many Hollywood executives have to commit seppuku or cut their pinky fingers in order to atone for their misdeeds in handling Godzilla

  • @sleepyeyedplumber
    @sleepyeyedplumber 5 років тому +64

    How soon before he makes a "Wha Happun" of Dragonball: Evolution?

    • @toastwings9358
      @toastwings9358 4 роки тому +12

      that would be very interesting since the writer for that film issued a public apology like 7 years after the film came out, saying he only took the job for the money and not out of passion

    • @caldw615
      @caldw615 4 роки тому +8

      Evolution is also interesting because in a way it led to the revival of Dragon Ball we have now. Toriyama was so unhappy with how badly represented Dragon Ball was for that movie that he decided he would bring the series back with Battle of Gods and be more directly involved with the production.
      So without Evolution being as bad as it was we wouldn't have got Battle of Gods, Resurrection of F, the DB Super Anime, the DB Super Manga continuation or the new Broly movie. Not to mention all the new stuff for Dragon Ball games too like FighterZ or Kakarot.

    • @billyweed835
      @billyweed835 3 роки тому +1

      The day came.

  • @derpmaycry2885
    @derpmaycry2885 5 років тому +12

    The initial script by Ted and Terry is kinda funny to me knowing that it's way more in line with Gamera instead of Godzilla.

  • @user-jl7cz2pe6d
    @user-jl7cz2pe6d 3 роки тому +6

    "Toho has declared that any subsequent appearances of the 1998 character will be under the name "Zilla," because according to Shogo Tomiyama it "took the 'God' out of 'Godzilla.'""
    Damn.

  • @raymondjones7423
    @raymondjones7423 4 роки тому +42

    The real tragedy is that this concept really could have been done well. If you look at today's Godzilla they balanced the grounded approach with the fantasy elements, ie they made the absurd notions into reasonable pseudoscience. The design of Godzilla wasn't awful in this film , but the whole premise of Godzilla is that he's well ... A God or Godlike creature this Godzilla was so animal like that we didn't get to fear him or get the thrill of seeing this Godlike creature defend the earth ( literally the only two plots Godzilla movies have). I honestly felt sorry for Godzilla and that's not what we should feel about Godzilla. Godzilla should either bring us fear , in the process making us afraid of the forces of nature or the dangers of nuclear power, or we should be inspired as we breathe a sigh of relief that this God like creature has come to save us either from an alien threat or even from ourselves.
    It's just sad really all around , but at least we got the animated series,

    • @tentaclesmod
      @tentaclesmod Рік тому +8

      I think TOHO's own Shin Godzilla is a good example of what you say. Is easily one of the most distant from "core" Godzilla experience, but it succeeds by playing the "unstoppable force of nature" and "godlike being" angle very hard. Heck, they even decided for that movie that Gojira meant "Incarnation of god".

  • @rappingbeaniedog347
    @rappingbeaniedog347 4 роки тому +74

    I'm not even a huge Godzilla fan (from lack of seeing anything related to it even though the concept itself sounds amazing) but those guys and how they decided to handle the big guy seriously pisses me off. The mentality they had of "oh, this is stupid regardless of how beloved and popular this franchise is so I have the answer on how to change it for the better" always leads to giant heaping piles of diarrhea that stink for decades on. Give people who wanted nothing to do with Godzilla to make a movie about him, such a wonderful fucking idea that was.

    • @wib6044
      @wib6044 Рік тому +3

      I glued to the screen as a child watching the old films. I even had the toy.
      🦖
      Was crushed when I saw the movie…🦎 that is not Godzilla!

  • @taterboob
    @taterboob 4 роки тому +12

    I did a rewatch of this about a year ago when I marathoned the entire Godzilla series from ‘44 to Shin in anticipation of King of the Monsters, and while it might have been completely nostalgia talking, I found it charming in its own way.

    • @feathero3
      @feathero3 Рік тому +1

      Oh hey i also did a marathon of every Godzilla movie ever last year myself.
      I actually really like Godzilla 98, and while it's not my favorite, I found it much more entertaining than some of the other movies.

  • @tregrenos8615
    @tregrenos8615 5 років тому +12

    I did like in the Final Wars movie when Zilla appeared the song "We're All To Blame" by Sum 41 was playing in the background. I thought the presence of English music, rock to counter Godzillas otherwise orchestral score, was a fantastic contrast to reveal Zilla with. I like the big "G" (Godzilla was my childhood) and could appreciate the American Godzilla Movie at the time for what it was (not what it pretended to be) and enjoyed the jab Toho had taken toward Zilla for the art that it was. It was like, "Dude, Godzilla just killed Zilla! Senpai has noticed us!"

  • @7thDayAdventures
    @7thDayAdventures 5 років тому +12

    I knew the guy that got hired to be Godzilla in the suit. He used to preform for schools where I grew up. He told us a story from the audition. He said that another actor was likely to get the part because he had been a gorilla in Congo and was well known. He said the only reason that guy lost the part is that he picked up the director to show off his strength.

  • @SpoonMan999
    @SpoonMan999 3 роки тому +9

    I used to work for Rob Fried (Pronounced like Freed by the way, not that it really matters). One time in a meeting a new hire wanted to kiss ass by saying "I loved the Matthew Broderick Godzilla by the way" and that meeting went from a "state of the business" meeting into a 2 hour rant on why this film represented everything wrong with Hollywood.

  • @sogesnake
    @sogesnake 5 років тому +53

    I think a Wha Happun on Megaman Legends 3 would be interesting.
    Y’know... that game that Capcom told fans was their fault for not releasing?

    • @ligtningdog6399
      @ligtningdog6399 5 років тому +5

      It'll be a great topic to cover. But there is very little info about it other then Capcom didn't think it would of sell 4 million units (that was their magic number for a LOT of projects back then) and canned it.

    • @PhyreI3ird
      @PhyreI3ird 5 років тому +2

      @@popplio7891 I don't remember who, but I remember hearing a higher up at Capcom said he didn't mind that it didn't sell as well as past Resident Evil games because they'd come to understand that good games lead to better sales in the future and bad games lead to worse sales - basically implying they knew that's why it didn't do as well as it 'should have'.
      From what I heard the company didn't shame it for 'failing to meet expectations' or anything.

  • @alexaliennerd3990
    @alexaliennerd3990 2 роки тому +4

    Emmerich may have fans of his early work but there really are a lot of quotes you can dig up that show a bizarre ideology... I can't think of the right word. Like one of the things is that the Godzilla was designed with that colour scheme in mind to blend in with the New York Skyline... Except stealthy is the last word anyone thinks of when they think Godzilla.
    Emmerich also hates superhero movies yet his most famous and beloved movie is, simply put, "Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum kaboom the big bad aliens" so there isn't a high horse there.

    • @maureenobrien4968
      @maureenobrien4968 2 роки тому

      Emmerich: Makes a movie where the President flies an F/A-18 and leads all the world’s fighter jets into battle against aliens
      Also Emmerich: “Giant monsters fighting is just too outlandish.”
      WTF was wrong with this guy?

    • @alexaliennerd3990
      @alexaliennerd3990 Рік тому +2

      @@maureenobrien4968 He said he didn't like it which I think really needs to be elaborated on why when you consider his repertoire. Like his first movie was superhuman Jean-Claude Van-Damme and Dolph Lungren chasing each other across the desert and duking it out for over half the movie.

  • @angrybidoof847
    @angrybidoof847 4 роки тому +4

    The thing I don't get (with this and many adaptations) is why do these companies go to such lengths to get their mits on an IP, while, at the same time, apparently want nothing about the IP that people like.

    • @KryptKicker5
      @KryptKicker5 4 роки тому +2

      Yeah, I never understood than mentality either. At that point you might as well commit fully to creating a new IP.

  • @Gunnumn
    @Gunnumn Рік тому +8

    This film seemed closer to the beast from 20,000 fathoms more than godzilla, which imo isnt a bad thing. Watching this 20 something years later and its great nostalgia.

  • @7graywolf7
    @7graywolf7 3 роки тому +14

    The unfortunate part is that the redesigned image is actually pretty cool. You totally could have made this a giant monster in any other movie, like a fantasy adventure or a science fiction planet exploration thing... Anything else at all really. I could even imagine it fitting in in Star Wars

  • @LostSoulSilver
    @LostSoulSilver Рік тому +4

    17:38 This quote stuck with me for how soul crushing it is in terms of wasted opportunities. They took a jewel and turned it into dust
    How many times have we seen that happen, things that could have been great

  • @jackmills7758
    @jackmills7758 5 років тому +12

    Unpopular opinion but I like this Godzilla's design

    • @MiraSubieGirl
      @MiraSubieGirl 5 років тому

      Woulda been cooler if they just confused it with what Japan called Godzilla. But was just a Kaiju in its own right.

  • @averyparsons1885
    @averyparsons1885 5 років тому +43

    mortal kombat annihilation
    just going to leave that there

    • @jwnj9716
      @jwnj9716 5 років тому +1

      Fuck that movie, watch Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, a better sequel.

    • @tydyman2003
      @tydyman2003 5 років тому

      lol I love that movie

    • @jwnj9716
      @jwnj9716 5 років тому +1

      I'm just saying its more of a mortal kombat movie than annihilation. Plus comedy gold.

  • @Mattkeyz1
    @Mattkeyz1 5 років тому +9

    The saddest thing about this is, I was 5 when this came out and had a whole Godzilla themed birthday where I got the VHS as my main present.
    I fell asleep during the movie. Woke up the next morning and watched the VHS collection of classic Godzilla films my grandparents got me and have never to this day seen this Godzilla movie that I still have action figures of boxed away in a storage unit.

  • @howaitonero1286
    @howaitonero1286 5 років тому +13

    1:16
    By buying the right to Zilla and murdering it in a instant in Final Wars. Ah yes i like to watch that part on loop

    • @anonymousoff-brand7538
      @anonymousoff-brand7538 4 роки тому +5

      they didn't "buy the right" - they owned the rights from the get-go.

  • @TheGoldenKing20
    @TheGoldenKing20 5 років тому +80

    Rob Fried: "The Sony Executive Team that took over Godzilla was one of the worst cases of executive incompetence I have observed in my twenty year career."
    Kathleen Kennedy's LucasArts: "Hold my brandy."

    • @jmjedi923
      @jmjedi923 4 роки тому +19

      @@theangryholmesian4556 well it's more of the fact that she ran a beloved franchise into the ground

    • @jmjedi923
      @jmjedi923 4 роки тому +17

      @@theangryholmesian4556 did I say anything about women or other races in the films?

    • @jmjedi923
      @jmjedi923 4 роки тому +17

      @@theangryholmesian4556 temper tantrum? All I said was she ran it into the ground. I didn't even use an exclamation point or swear or even insult you.

    • @Tareltonlives
      @Tareltonlives 4 роки тому +3

      *Lucasfilm
      -once they hired JJ Abrams at the last second, things spiraled.
      But they made a lot of money, so....success ?

    • @liboud22
      @liboud22 4 роки тому +4

      @@theangryholmesian4556 That's the best job she will ever do.. Be a worthless *co* producer, while a vastly superior producer and director like Spielberg makes all the important decision.

  • @monstercombo007
    @monstercombo007 5 років тому +13

    -Fant4astic
    -Hellboy (2019)
    -Pixels
    -The Cat In The Hat
    -Son of the Mask
    -Batman & Robin
    Those are my Options

  • @luisjaime2567
    @luisjaime2567 5 років тому +21

    Good thing legendary pictures and Warner Bros Got Godzilla

  • @Daredevilsprmcy
    @Daredevilsprmcy 4 роки тому +8

    I love this iteration of Godzilla. I remember kids getting action figures and there was even an animated show with Nick Teutopolis.

  • @oddball87
    @oddball87 5 років тому +41

    It'd be COOL if you did a Wha Happun about the CHILLY reception that greeted Batman and Robin!
    ...I'll see myself out...

    • @jmjedi923
      @jmjedi923 4 роки тому +1

      Cool it mr freeze
      Wait shit

  • @tastyloaf5487
    @tastyloaf5487 5 років тому +33

    7:15 _"[Tatopolous] was hired to design the legendary monster."_
    I heard that as: _"[Tatopolous] was high when he designed the legendary monster."_ 😶

  • @miyu1960
    @miyu1960 5 років тому +6

    This movie is always a hit or miss with people. I love it for some reason and when I asked my boyfriend if he liked it and when he said yes I was so freaking happy! We both even like Batman and Robin...yes...that Batman and Robin...my dad wasn’t proud but he loved me 😭

  • @Drac0blade16
    @Drac0blade16 5 років тому +19

    I personally love the idea of Zilla being more surmount to a subspecies/cousin species than an actual Godzilla. Like Big G is the T-Rex and Zilla is a Raptor. I wouldn't mind seeing Zilla in the Monsterverse at some point. Even if just as a mention of being a similar species that died out.

  • @CyberdarkHellKaiser
    @CyberdarkHellKaiser 5 років тому +11

    The only redeeming feature of those Godzilla was that while a constant theme of the older Godzilla movies is that nature ultimately rules mankind, mankind can still cause destruction of nature through pollution and extinction and Nick feeling remorse about sending the Zilla species to exctintion was an interesting take.
    Shin Godzilla did it better though

  • @KichiMiangra
    @KichiMiangra 4 роки тому +30

    Me, 7 years old watching Godzilla 1998: "Where's Godzooki?"
    *Sequel bait at the end of the film*
    "THERE'S GODZOOKI!"

  • @dr.sommercamp3435
    @dr.sommercamp3435 4 роки тому +2

    Ey! There are only two things good about this trainwreck: The score by david arnold and the monsterdesign! And Jean Reno of course...

  • @PR0MAN01
    @PR0MAN01 5 років тому +45

    Yo that cartoon was great though. At least they got something right.

    • @Mysticgamer
      @Mysticgamer 5 років тому +7

      It's weird how cartoon writers can make better scripts than movie writers.

    • @stranger59
      @stranger59 5 років тому +10

      I love that a lot of it is due to the cartoon guys only having the most vague descriptions of things. Nick Tatopoulos, for one example, is a classic man of action in the cartoon, with no weird quirks from the movie version. It's actually a lot like how General Grevious was portrayed as cool and silent in the Clone Wars animated shorts, only to be a bumbling fool in Episode III. Sometimes cartoon staff just make things cool because no one told them to ruin it.

    • @ryannixon4138
      @ryannixon4138 5 років тому

      It was though.

    • @Kiyosuki
      @Kiyosuki 5 років тому

      The cartoon's writers obviously actually liked the source material.
      I mean, the elements of this movie, which I guess were the same as the series, were questionable but not unsalvageable. What this whu huppon made painfully clear was that what really make this movie an embarrassment was that it was made by people who couldn't have given less of a shit about the source material it was being adapted from. That can kill anything.

  • @RGEGaming16
    @RGEGaming16 5 років тому +61

    You should do a 'Wha Happun' on the movie known as Cool World, if that is possible.

  • @Whatevsman27
    @Whatevsman27 5 років тому +6

    “Hey, y’know this thing the Godzilla movies have been famous for? Yeah, fuck that shit.”

  • @SteampunkCreeper
    @SteampunkCreeper 3 роки тому +4

    2:59 is surprisingly wholesome, I dunno if that is on purpose but I always loved the wholesome side of godzilla, like going on dates, holding a guitar, being made a citizen of japan, he is their rock star, and you gotta love how they treat him.

  • @SeanGokuu
    @SeanGokuu 5 років тому +16

    I personally loved Scott Pilgrim, and was saddened when it flopped. I would love to see what happened to cause it to bomb at the box office.

    • @otherhand
      @otherhand 5 років тому +9

      Scott Pilgrim is a movie about Canadian hipsters having a romantic spat who randomly happen to exist in the world of an old school beat-em-up game. (I love showing it to people who aren't expecting the fighting.) I think it's great, but it's just too wacky and genre-bending for a lot of people. It'd be news to me if anything actually went wrong in production!

  • @GaiusIntrepidus
    @GaiusIntrepidus 3 роки тому +4

    I gotta love how brutally savage the Millenium series can be on the 1998 film
    Godzilla 2000: has Godzilla fighting a alien based off Emerich's film Independece day, who then becomes Orga a monster who resembles Zilla and is trying to be Godzilla, then get's blown away by the real deal as a message that the 1998 film can never understand, the spirit of Godzilla
    GMK: Has 2 kids roasting the film by doubting if that was even godzilla
    Godzilla Final Wars: named him Zilla, added him with the worse CGI possible, can't even last a second and dies to the Real Godzilla

  • @Dr._Mantis_Toboggan_Md.
    @Dr._Mantis_Toboggan_Md. 3 роки тому +5

    Man, that Emmerich quote about the original script's ending still makes me beyond furious. The fact that there is no studio meddling to blame for this shitshow is even more infuriating. It's all Emmerich's and Devlin's fault.

  • @kasjachrum
    @kasjachrum 3 роки тому +3

    Orga from Godzilla 2000 had his face modelled after 1998 Godzilla. The sculptor later said the team wanted fans to see the real Godzilla beating the impostor.

  • @rosehearttoxic1691
    @rosehearttoxic1691 5 років тому +19

    I loved watching Og Godzilla destroy Zilla, it made me as a fan of the series extremely happy 😁

  • @AleBanjo
    @AleBanjo 5 років тому +20

    You could make a long and detailed Wha Happun? on Alien 3.
    There's a lot of info about how the studio screwed over David Fincher and about how many ideas and scripts they went through for that film.

    • @kaggykarr
      @kaggykarr 5 років тому

      @@trustno173 The lips are in the movie, it was actually proposed to Giger by Fincher. You can clearly (to an extent) see them when The Dragon makes his first appearance as a full grown runner and in that iconic "Ripley face to face with an Alien" scene.

    • @Kiyosuki
      @Kiyosuki 5 років тому

      I have to agree that the lips are a bit...much. Even the best artists are gonna drop a dud idea or two.
      But yeah that was the least of Alien3's problems. There's been a lot of documentaries about it on youtube but I certainly wouldn't mind a whu happon about it too.

  • @DarrenJSeeley
    @DarrenJSeeley 4 роки тому +16

    Well, at least we got "No Shelter" from Rage Against The Machine.
    Somewhere I still have the Taco Bell cup holder. It holds my beer.

  • @allenmacias273
    @allenmacias273 4 роки тому +9

    At least the person who designed this Godzilla had good intentions

  • @PainCausingSamurai
    @PainCausingSamurai 5 років тому +22

    Not gonna lie: this was one of my favorite movies as a kid, right up there with Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park 2, and Gremlins 2. Still think the design was great seperate from the original design.

  • @GenericSoda
    @GenericSoda 5 років тому +14

    God my stomach lurched when I saw Waterworld in the opening reel
    I've been subjected to it so often that it's a reflex at this point

    • @meWASHER
      @meWASHER 5 років тому +3

      GenericSoda Waterworld is a pretty decent flick though.

    • @stranger59
      @stranger59 5 років тому

      How did you get subjected to it that often? Are you in the stuntshow?

    • @GenericSoda
      @GenericSoda 5 років тому +1

      @@stranger59 lol no
      When I was younger my brother and I would watch movies when we visited our grandmother because she had a big shelf stuffed full of VHS tapes and he just
      Kept bullying me into letting him pick Waterworld. I stopped watching movies with him entirely after awhile.

  • @yoshibfc
    @yoshibfc 4 роки тому +29

    “They took a jewel and turned it to dust “
    Star Wars .....

    • @coreylineberry8557
      @coreylineberry8557 4 роки тому +2

      Series was already dirt.

    • @yoshibfc
      @yoshibfc 4 роки тому +6

      Corey Lineberry was it perfect no. But it had room to grow before Disney turned to ash.

    • @edslushie570
      @edslushie570 3 роки тому +3

      Hey, calm down, everyone.
      You’re all wrong.

  • @TheBestAsbestos13
    @TheBestAsbestos13 3 роки тому +6

    As someone with no awareness or investment in the storied history of actual Godzilla, '98 'Zilla is a perfectly functional monster movie with a nice creature design, better effects than Jurassic Park 3, and just the right amount of campy humor for a light popcorn-flick. One of my most-degraded VHS tapes back in the day.

  • @agiammarco94
    @agiammarco94 5 років тому +18

    Yo that first version of Godzilla would have been interesting to see. I think after some time it would be a good idea to do one of these for that new hellboy movie

    • @Em-nj4uu
      @Em-nj4uu 5 років тому

      ARGiammarco 27 I would love to see that first version redone into a new movie

    • @Gojiragon
      @Gojiragon 5 років тому

      HahaCorckondile LeaveBedding While that isn’t going to happen (although technically it did, the 2014 movie has some of the same script writers, who just basically took the old script and rearranged it.) there IS or WAS a comic being produced.