DystrVction Shindo was asking godzilla to kill him but that's not why godzilla was crying. godzilla was crying because he thinks Shindo is responsible for the attack on Lagos and shooting him to death. Godzilla had no clue what Shindo was saying to him back then and if you go back to the scene where the godzillasaurus is lying there nearly dead staring at Shindo there's a glare in Godzilla's eyes. The entire Lagos incident wasn't just to give godzilla a backstory but to give the reason why he's destroying Japan. Since look what happened to him, his home was raided and he was left for dead. Much like what he has done to Japan in the Heisei series.
MAXIMUMGODZILLA45 nice thought dude I grew up watching these movies but none of my friends had ever seen a toho Godzilla only the TriStar abomination !!
Fistopher Gecko K. No, it definitely has emotional weight to it. Besides, anything is better than that weird crush he had on that native girl in _Ebirah, Horror of the Deep._
I see Shindo's death by Godzilla is actually not because Godzilla was bad. I see it as Shindo letting Godzilla kill him to repay him for the pain that he had caused the beast several years before.
You know, while I do disagree with some of the more political jokes you've made, I think you're one of the best reviewers out there. Easily on the same level as the Nostalgia Critic! Keep up the great work, mate :) Also, while I'm no scientist, the fact that you point out that Plesiosaurs and Dimetrodons aren't Dinosaurs brings warm feelings to my heart. I'm glad that you adressed the accusations of anti-Americanism in this movie. I have to agree with you - while I can see why some people would get that impression, I don't think that the filmmakers meant any offense. By the way, Godzilla was never actually erased from history. The film does a poor job of explaining it, but essentially the Futurians always travelled back in time and dumped the future Heisei Godzilla in the Bering Sea, and he got irradiated anyway and did what he did in 'Godzilla' (1984) and 'Godzilla VS Biollante'. It's weird, I know, but it does work. Kinda.
I still love the idea that the M-11 actor had lobbied for in the later Heisei movies. He wanted M-11 to reappear... as the Heisei Jet Jaguar. That's just so over the top insane that it might have been awesome.
Hey, Decker, as a fan of your show and a die hard Godzilla fan, I'm going to try to clear up as many plot holes as I can - not all of them, obviously; this is a Godzilla film with time travel so I can't work miracles. From what I understand: -There were two Godzillas all along - the 50 meter original who was disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer, and the much larger second Godzilla that we've been following in every film ever since. I suppose they were both irradiated by the same H-bomb test in 1954 but went their separate ways. -This film focuses exclusively on the second one, which is why the events of the 1954 film are unchanged. After the villains teleported Godzilla #2 to the Bering Sea, the Russian nuclear sub sank in the 1970s and made him the 80-meter behemoth seen in The Return of Godzilla (1984) and Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), so the events of those films transpired exactly as they already had. -The reason everyone in 1992 initially believes Godzilla has vanished despite the fact that they clearly remember him was reportedly lost in translation. I don't remember where I read this, but supposedly, in the Japanese version, they never specifically say, "Godzilla has disappeared"; what they actually say is, "The Japanese Self-Defense Force has lost track of him." Remember, these were the same idiots in Godzilla vs. Biollante who sent their entire military to one side of Japan, only to have Godzilla show up on the other side, forcing them to depend on Miki Saegusa's psychic power to hypnotize Godzilla into turning around until they had time to fight him. So he never disappeared from existence; they just lost track of where he was and stupidly assumed he was gone. -I'm guessing the writer and Emmy were trying to stop Shindo from sending his sub because they figured Godzilla was already large and strong enough to face Ghidorah, and feared irradiating him more would make him that much more difficult to contend with once Ghidorah was finished. To their credit, they were right. -This is just my theory, but I don't think Shindo was trying to connect to Godzilla. I think the truth is that he kept Godzilla on a pedestal (metaphorically speaking of course) because Godzilla saved his life in WWII, and felt Godzilla did so on purpose, saving Shindo so he could rebuild Japan. Unfortunately, once he saw his "savior" destroying everything he was only able to build because his life was saved, he realized that the dinosaur didn't save him on purpose; the dinosaur was only trying to save itself, and Shindo and his men just happened to profit by coincidence. It was too much for Shindo to take and decided to die the way he should have died 48 years earlier: at the hands of his so-called "savior". I'm just as confused by the other plot wholes, like why the bulk of the film takes place in 1992, meaning that Ghidorah wandered around without destroying anything for 48 years before they controlled him with their computer, or why Emmy didn't know about the plan for the dorats, or how they new the three would merge into one and grow so much larger than Godzilla despite him having a massive head start in size. However, this is still one of my favorites. I love the soundtrack and special effects. Even if the film is a mess, its ambition is admirable. Shindo's story is practically a Greek tragedy. M-11 is a joy to watch. The dialogue is easily some of the funniest in the franchise. And I'm a huge fan of the "Alliance of Convenience" cliche ("The enemy of my enemy is my friend"), and this movie uses it to the Nth degree. Japan teams up with the villains to eliminate Godzilla, then they have to depend on Godzilla to save them, then they have to rely on Mecha-King Ghidorah... They just can't catch a break, and I love it.
You're completely correct come of it was due to somewhat poor writing that this wasn't is easily understood in the movie. They're going for a bootstrap or grandfather paradox idea with this.
I feel like Godzilla before the sub hit him was still 80 meters, if anything I'll assume most of the radiation cured his ANEB infection and the little bit was to turn him 20 meters taller
It's far worse than that, they created the crap future they were trying to change. Think about it, they said Japan became an economic power despite all of Godzilla's attacks, how. At the end of the movie they left Mecha Ghidorah at the bottom of the ocean which they salvaged and used to make Mecha G and Moguera. In fact, at the start of the movie, we see them finding Ghidorah's corpse, so who is to say they didn't get the idea for the plot from that. Heck they may even have used its cells to make the Dorats making Ghidorah a living bootstrap paradox. And as for why Godzilla suddenly 'disappeared' that's because, as had been shown before in the Heisei series, Big G is notoriously hard to track underwater. Basically they screwed up so bad...
Sol Zen It’s because Teresawa’s book wrongly assumed that Godzilla ‘54 and Godzilla ‘84 were the same creature. That’s why their whole plan was faulty.
I remember watching this when was 11 years old using VHS. This was actually my first Godzilla movie. I was lucky to watch it at such a young age, it allowed me to enjoy it and not be a bitch about most if its "obvious flaws".
10:55 the solution to the time travel inconsistencies is that by moving 1944 proto-godzilla to the bering sea thy put him in the eventual path of a soviet submarine disaster in the early 80's, thus creating the godzilla present in "the return of godzilla (1984)" which in turn was still the second chronological godzilla of the new timeline (the first being the 1954 one killed by the oxygen destroyer) and the godzilla of the hesei era. Despite altering the timeline, the alterations had already 'happened' and created the hesei series timeline where there was no godzilla between 1954 and 1984. There is a single, very confusing shot in the film that tries to explain this when the writer looks up a news article reffering to the Russian submarine (the same one from return of godzilla (1984). This shots close proximity to the destruction of a japanese submarine makes it seem like a dubbing mistake. The japanese submarine was sent to 're-empower' the godzilla dinosaur, but is instead attacked by an already mutated godzilla. this is because of the hesei timeline phenomenon described above. Also, King Ghidorah only appeared in 1992 because that was when the futurians were there to control him. But i do appreciate that any Kaiju film that requires this many cliff-notes could have done with a simpler plot
The main problem is how it was explained. They never erased Godzilla from the timeline they moved him to a different spot. It just unfortunately had a nuclear sub waiting for him to sleep near. So everything proceeded the same way just with a more aggressive version of Godzilla. But then people ask about Ghidorah, well he wasn't activated yet. The future people had him sleep as he grew.
That picture at 3:08 is a real photograph, known as the 'Zuiyo-maru Carcass'. It was caught by a Japanese fishing vessel off the coast of New Zealand in 1977. A lot of people originally thought it was a Plesiosaur but study of tissue samples suggests it was actually the rotting carcass of a Basking Shark (the actual carcass was dumped back in the ocean, after samples and photos were taken, so as to not spoil the haul of fish they were carrying). It created a bit of a craze at the time, and some people still maintain it was a prehistoric creature.
In the Japanese version Shindo has cancer and wants Godzilla to kill him as one final favor. Also, there are TWO separate and distinct Godzillas in the Heisei continuity, just as there were in the Showa continuity. The 1954 Godzilla in both continuities was killed by the Oxygen Destroyer. Had the Godzillasurus of Lagos Island been left there, he might have eventually evolved into the Showaverse's Godzilla II (aka Gigantis). But by dumping him in the Bering Sea, the Futurians inadvertently created the Heisei timeline. The revived and mutated Godzillasaurus of Lagos is the one who attacks Japan in 1984
hi my friend i have been binge watching your videos over the past few days and i have to just go ahead and subscribe..its only fair..thanks this review is highly amusing!
Hey Decker there's a video that explains the whole time travel plot of this movie. I can't remember what it's called but it explains how Godzilla vanished, while everyone still remembered him.
I guess while Shido remembered Godzilla saving him and his men in WWII and believed they had a connection, Godzilla remembers him as the guy who left him to die. Gee, I wonder which one has a good memory.
Thanks for the entertaining review. It was awesome. You're one of the best movie critics ever. I was just wondering, since you like to review a lot of Kaiju movies. I was wondering if you can review The Pacific Rim where humans piloting giant mecha robots fight against giant Kaiju monsters. If it's okay with you. If not, no worries. You're still one of my favorite critics.
21:59 sorry Decker but something like that is hard for me to believe. Because one Sentai series Gingaman had a monster roar like Godzilla. I mean I'm not sure what Toei had to do to use it but there you go. A Super Sentai series used the Godzilla roar. To bad it's American counterpart Power Rangers Lost Galaxy didn't have it.
Both the '54 Godzilla and the '84-'96 Godzilla were never truly erased from history, if anything, the Futurians actually created the latter Godzilla unintentionally. It's called a paradox.
yeah that was kinda the problem with their "we want everything bigger and more menacing then the showa era" approach, resulting in multiple suits that were too heavy and bulky for the actors to move in effectively making the close combat of the monsters pretty much impossible to do to the degree they were in the showa era.
The way I understand the whole time travel stuff in this movie is, there are two Godzilla's. the original 1954 and the one that appeared in 1984, when they went back in time they didn't touch the original 54 one, but moved the 84 one and in return actually created him causing the event of 84 and so on. When they sent the sub they sent to create him caused him go from 80 meters to 100 meters.
18:50 Actually it’s not him connecting to him It’s him recognizing him as the bastard that he left behind... to put it in perspective a man fought a war with his other 5 buddies for nearly 30 years, he was told his commander would retrieve him when his mission was done or when the war ended. His commander believed he was dead and the people only found out about the commander due to a person surrendering. The commander fulfilled his end and told the men the war ended a very long time ago.
Also agh the english dub messed up so much. Terasawa is emmie's grandpa. that's why she says " I only like it here because you are here" though with the English dub instead at the end she says "we are related" and that's it. The original version actually told you who she was to him.
Decker, you forget, in the Hesei era they admit there was more than one Godzilla. The first Godzilla that attacked Japan was a female, the one that repeatedly attacks Japan was her mate.
There's an explanation for why godzilla still was remembered after the time travel shenanigans. The idea is this godzilla was a different one that came about in a different way from the other. I think it was like a statement that no matter what humanity does he cpmes about anyway.
Fun Fact: There really was a dinosaur named after the original name for Godzilla named _Gojirasaurus_. Its' a early dinosaur from the Triassic period in New Mexico. It was 18 feet (5.5 meters) long and 330-440 pounds (150-200 kilograms).
Perhaps this trivia is only important to those of us who were alive in the 1960s, but Akiji Kobayashi, who played Yuzo Tsuchiashi, played the Captain in the original Ultraman TV series in the mid 60s.
What happened was that the 1954 Godzilla did die, and the dinosaur from WW2 was teleported to a area full of nuclear waste and turned into the Godzilla from 1984, thus the scene where Emmy claims she feels the same presence of Godzilla from Godzilla 1989 and Kurosawa investigating newspapers of areas in the ocean with nuclear waste. It gets confusing when the villains and the government thinks it was a Godzilla that's just been reborn.
You should check out Omni Viewer's 3 part review of GvKG. The second part talks about the movie's Pro-Imperialist theme, and the third part is just one long rant about the movie's time travel.
the movie fails to explain the time travel, you see... they never erased Godzilla, instead they changed his mutation process, and not only that, the 54 Godzilla still exists as he wasn't a mutated Godzillasaurus, rather a natural specimen of the Godzilla species. to sum it up, they changed Godzilla's origin area and gave birth to king Ghidorah at Lagos as well (Ghidorah being mutated earlier.)
They could totally do a new 2020 Godzilla film where Humans come back in time to just after the events in 2019's Godzilla film after the army uses the "Oxygen Destroyer" and say that, Since the scientist from the 1954/56 Godzilla film destroyed the Oxygen Destroyer's Manufature Notes, that they actually re-created a bomb that wasn't as powerful because miscalculations, which is why it didn't outright kill king gidorah or godzilla from 2019's, but killed life forms in the ocean like small to large aquatic life, but in a larger radius, causing the extinction of soo many water life species that the oceans became toxic and parts of the earths land died off or became barren. Leaving Wars for resources a big priority that killed 10's of millions of Human Beings, Letting Godzilla and the other Kaiju to fight and take over the remaining inhabitable lands, leaving the remaining humans to scrape by and desperately trying to change the past to help the future. The Future Humans think to bring a plant that can help bring the earth's plant life back and thriving, which brings in Biolante Kaiju for Godzilla to Fight !!! .... Where's my Oscar ?? lol
i like to think all of the Godzilla monsters we know lived on the same island as dinosaurs and then the atomic bombs mutated them into what we see in all the movies
I think in hindsight the time travel mechanism makes sense in a weird way. Reality is altered while the time travel engine itself is present and the effects of it only take place then. So Ghidora was created in the 50s but that only took affect when the engine travelled back into the future which also caused Godzilla to vanish at the moment they return. So it only changes events in the time in which it exists based on actions its undertaken - as if its realigning a past timeline it has created with the current one without changing anything it didn't do directly. Its a bit confusing but its honestly a way to fix time travel and to make sure the events all occur on a single timeline without any paradoxes. it doesn't make sense *how* it does that but narratively its a pretty ingenious way to write time travel without just saying it creates a brand new timeline.
Griffin Gower Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla came out THREE YEARS after this film. However to answer the question that you were adding onto yes and no. Decker has not yet reviewed Godzilla vs Biollante or the movie that preceded it.
Ok, so apparently, if I’m getting this right, the Futurians actually created the Heisei Godzilla we saw back in 1984, when that sub mutated him in the 70’s.
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The time travel does make a lick of sense. The original Godzilla dies in 54. They try and stop the creation of the second Godzilla IE Raids Again Godzilla. When he was moved, they stopped the rest of the Show Era films from happening and instead causes the events of Godzilla 1985. This film creates the Heisei Era timeline. This explains it in detail: www.scifijapan.com/articles/2007/08/16/godzilla-vs-king-ghidorah-time-travel-and-the-origins-of-godzilla/
Actually, Shindo was quite literally asking Godzilla to kill him, hence the roar of despair when Godzilla did.
DystrVction Shindo was asking godzilla to kill him but that's not why godzilla was crying. godzilla was crying because he thinks Shindo is responsible for the attack on Lagos and shooting him to death. Godzilla had no clue what Shindo was saying to him back then and if you go back to the scene where the godzillasaurus is lying there nearly dead staring at Shindo there's a glare in Godzilla's eyes. The entire Lagos incident wasn't just to give godzilla a backstory but to give the reason why he's destroying Japan. Since look what happened to him, his home was raided and he was left for dead. Much like what he has done to Japan in the Heisei series.
MAXIMUMGODZILLA45 Not quite how I interpreted it, but an interesting theory nevertheless.
MAXIMUMGODZILLA45 nice thought dude I grew up watching these movies but none of my friends had ever seen a toho Godzilla only the TriStar abomination !!
It was just a reason to give the film a phony emotional moment, dont read into it too much. Its not the only time godzilla has singled out a victim
Fistopher Gecko K. No, it definitely has emotional weight to it. Besides, anything is better than that weird crush he had on that native girl in _Ebirah, Horror of the Deep._
I see Shindo's death by Godzilla is actually not because Godzilla was bad. I see it as Shindo letting Godzilla kill him to repay him for the pain that he had caused the beast several years before.
Ummm, I think this was given a "homage" in King Kong Vs Godzilla. When Mechagodzilla blasted the guy in the room.
@@nodinitiative eh...
doesn't have the same punch to it
I'm a simple man
I see Decker review a Godzilla movie
I drop everything to watch
TheRed Hawk same here
TheRed Hawk as soon as I saw the alert pop up I took my lunch break to watch it!
Hey Deker can do a let's play of Alien Isolation please?
yup if theirs home work and I see decker Godzilla movie review I drop my shit and watch the review
He did a walkthrough on alien isolation 25 parts of walkthroughs
You know, while I do disagree with some of the more political jokes you've made, I think you're one of the best reviewers out there. Easily on the same level as the Nostalgia Critic! Keep up the great work, mate :)
Also, while I'm no scientist, the fact that you point out that Plesiosaurs and Dimetrodons aren't Dinosaurs brings warm feelings to my heart.
I'm glad that you adressed the accusations of anti-Americanism in this movie. I have to agree with you - while I can see why some people would get that impression, I don't think that the filmmakers meant any offense.
By the way, Godzilla was never actually erased from history. The film does a poor job of explaining it, but essentially the Futurians always travelled back in time and dumped the future Heisei Godzilla in the Bering Sea, and he got irradiated anyway and did what he did in 'Godzilla' (1984) and 'Godzilla VS Biollante'. It's weird, I know, but it does work. Kinda.
I still love the idea that the M-11 actor had lobbied for in the later Heisei movies. He wanted M-11 to reappear... as the Heisei Jet Jaguar. That's just so over the top insane that it might have been awesome.
Hey, Decker, as a fan of your show and a die hard Godzilla fan, I'm going to try to clear up as many plot holes as I can - not all of them, obviously; this is a Godzilla film with time travel so I can't work miracles.
From what I understand:
-There were two Godzillas all along - the 50 meter original who was disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer, and the much larger second Godzilla that we've been following in every film ever since. I suppose they were both irradiated by the same H-bomb test in 1954 but went their separate ways.
-This film focuses exclusively on the second one, which is why the events of the 1954 film are unchanged. After the villains teleported Godzilla #2 to the Bering Sea, the Russian nuclear sub sank in the 1970s and made him the 80-meter behemoth seen in The Return of Godzilla (1984) and Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), so the events of those films transpired exactly as they already had.
-The reason everyone in 1992 initially believes Godzilla has vanished despite the fact that they clearly remember him was reportedly lost in translation. I don't remember where I read this, but supposedly, in the Japanese version, they never specifically say, "Godzilla has disappeared"; what they actually say is, "The Japanese Self-Defense Force has lost track of him." Remember, these were the same idiots in Godzilla vs. Biollante who sent their entire military to one side of Japan, only to have Godzilla show up on the other side, forcing them to depend on Miki Saegusa's psychic power to hypnotize Godzilla into turning around until they had time to fight him. So he never disappeared from existence; they just lost track of where he was and stupidly assumed he was gone.
-I'm guessing the writer and Emmy were trying to stop Shindo from sending his sub because they figured Godzilla was already large and strong enough to face Ghidorah, and feared irradiating him more would make him that much more difficult to contend with once Ghidorah was finished. To their credit, they were right.
-This is just my theory, but I don't think Shindo was trying to connect to Godzilla. I think the truth is that he kept Godzilla on a pedestal (metaphorically speaking of course) because Godzilla saved his life in WWII, and felt Godzilla did so on purpose, saving Shindo so he could rebuild Japan. Unfortunately, once he saw his "savior" destroying everything he was only able to build because his life was saved, he realized that the dinosaur didn't save him on purpose; the dinosaur was only trying to save itself, and Shindo and his men just happened to profit by coincidence. It was too much for Shindo to take and decided to die the way he should have died 48 years earlier: at the hands of his so-called "savior".
I'm just as confused by the other plot wholes, like why the bulk of the film takes place in 1992, meaning that Ghidorah wandered around without destroying anything for 48 years before they controlled him with their computer, or why Emmy didn't know about the plan for the dorats, or how they new the three would merge into one and grow so much larger than Godzilla despite him having a massive head start in size.
However, this is still one of my favorites. I love the soundtrack and special effects. Even if the film is a mess, its ambition is admirable. Shindo's story is practically a Greek tragedy. M-11 is a joy to watch. The dialogue is easily some of the funniest in the franchise. And I'm a huge fan of the "Alliance of Convenience" cliche ("The enemy of my enemy is my friend"), and this movie uses it to the Nth degree. Japan teams up with the villains to eliminate Godzilla, then they have to depend on Godzilla to save them, then they have to rely on Mecha-King Ghidorah... They just can't catch a break, and I love it.
Well said! This explains a lot
You're completely correct come of it was due to somewhat poor writing that this wasn't is easily understood in the movie. They're going for a bootstrap or grandfather paradox idea with this.
I just thoroughly enjoyed reading your interpretation while GVKG review played in the background. Thanks for the interesting few minutes!
I feel like Godzilla before the sub hit him was still 80 meters, if anything I'll assume most of the radiation cured his ANEB infection and the little bit was to turn him 20 meters taller
There are 2 godzilla's, the futurians accidentally created godzilla 84 in the proces, without erassing godzilla 54
Jesus Ramirez Romo This is why time travel fucks everything up.
a lot...
It's far worse than that, they created the crap future they were trying to change. Think about it, they said Japan became an economic power despite all of Godzilla's attacks, how. At the end of the movie they left Mecha Ghidorah at the bottom of the ocean which they salvaged and used to make Mecha G and Moguera. In fact, at the start of the movie, we see them finding Ghidorah's corpse, so who is to say they didn't get the idea for the plot from that. Heck they may even have used its cells to make the Dorats making Ghidorah a living bootstrap paradox.
And as for why Godzilla suddenly 'disappeared' that's because, as had been shown before in the Heisei series, Big G is notoriously hard to track underwater.
Basically they screwed up so bad...
@@patroclusilliad233 according to the novelization the dorats were made using the cells of a dead ghidorah found on Venus.
Sol Zen It’s because Teresawa’s book wrongly assumed that Godzilla ‘54 and Godzilla ‘84 were the same creature. That’s why their whole plan was faulty.
To quote James Rolfe, "The good news is Godzilla's back. The bad news is Godzilla's back!"
Insane aliens/time travel plot aside, this is honestly one of the best Godzilla films ever made.
I remember watching this when was 11 years old using VHS. This was actually my first Godzilla movie. I was lucky to watch it at such a young age, it allowed me to enjoy it and not be a bitch about most if its "obvious flaws".
Dude me too, I just loved watching it when I was younger that I didn’t much care for the flaws, I notice them now but it’s still something I enjoy now
@@NucleicRoze hello...this is present day me lol
Godzilla get resurrected by electricity at the end. Great now he's Jason Voorhees.
Xephix sun dun dun DUN DUN DUN DUN do do do do do do do do
didn't even think of that xd
Xephix Jason takes tokyo vs godzilla. make it happen hollywood
naw he is just Jason's pet now
I think you'll find it's likely the other way around lol
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10:55 the solution to the time travel inconsistencies is that by moving 1944 proto-godzilla to the bering sea thy put him in the eventual path of a soviet submarine disaster in the early 80's, thus creating the godzilla present in "the return of godzilla (1984)" which in turn was still the second chronological godzilla of the new timeline (the first being the 1954 one killed by the oxygen destroyer) and the godzilla of the hesei era.
Despite altering the timeline, the alterations had already 'happened' and created the hesei series timeline where there was no godzilla between 1954 and 1984. There is a single, very confusing shot in the film that tries to explain this when the writer looks up a news article reffering to the Russian submarine (the same one from return of godzilla (1984). This shots close proximity to the destruction of a japanese submarine makes it seem like a dubbing mistake. The japanese submarine was sent to 're-empower' the godzilla dinosaur, but is instead attacked by an already mutated godzilla. this is because of the hesei timeline phenomenon described above.
Also, King Ghidorah only appeared in 1992 because that was when the futurians were there to control him. But i do appreciate that any Kaiju film that requires this many cliff-notes could have done with a simpler plot
Apologies to the people who already posted a version of this below
Also fun fact for ya, the submarine, plus absorbing spacegodzilla's energy is what caused godzilla to eventually die in 1995.
The main problem is how it was explained. They never erased Godzilla from the timeline they moved him to a different spot. It just unfortunately had a nuclear sub waiting for him to sleep near. So everything proceeded the same way just with a more aggressive version of Godzilla. But then people ask about Ghidorah, well he wasn't activated yet. The future people had him sleep as he grew.
It always makes my day when the notification pops up for a new video
Finally someone pointed out that godzillasaurus sounds like gamera
That picture at 3:08 is a real photograph, known as the 'Zuiyo-maru Carcass'. It was caught by a Japanese fishing vessel off the coast of New Zealand in 1977. A lot of people originally thought it was a Plesiosaur but study of tissue samples suggests it was actually the rotting carcass of a Basking Shark (the actual carcass was dumped back in the ocean, after samples and photos were taken, so as to not spoil the haul of fish they were carrying). It created a bit of a craze at the time, and some people still maintain it was a prehistoric creature.
In the Japanese version Shindo has cancer and wants Godzilla to kill him as one final favor. Also, there are TWO separate and distinct Godzillas in the Heisei continuity, just as there were in the Showa continuity. The 1954 Godzilla in both continuities was killed by the Oxygen Destroyer. Had the Godzillasurus of Lagos Island been left there, he might have eventually evolved into the Showaverse's Godzilla II (aka Gigantis). But by dumping him in the Bering Sea, the Futurians inadvertently created the Heisei timeline. The revived and mutated Godzillasaurus of Lagos is the one who attacks Japan in 1984
At 17:23 Godzilla's Like: "Hey You're In No Parking Zone!"
wow...i remember when this channel had 1000 subs. this channel has come a long way
Josue Mendez Well deserved in my opinion
hi my friend i have been binge watching your videos over the past few days and i have to just go ahead and subscribe..its only fair..thanks this review is highly amusing!
Thank you decker! I really enjoy your Godzilla reviews.
Maybe make it a monthly theme? (Month of Mothra but more like... G'day of Godzilla?)
One of the best of the Heisei era.
Hey Decker there's a video that explains the whole time travel plot of this movie. I can't remember what it's called but it explains how Godzilla vanished, while everyone still remembered him.
The time travel made no sense to me until I actually researched it. It actually makes sense now. Their actions actually created Godzilla.
16:44 "Make my day!"
LMAO gold.
Will we get to see your Clint Eastwood reviews?
14:37
"Bitch, I don't care if he's Donkey Kong! No one does that shit to my car! I'm gonna fuckin' whoop his ass!!"
I laughed for ten solid minutes.
the dorats are most underrated, unmentioned lil creatures of cinema history
I guess while Shido remembered Godzilla saving him and his men in WWII and believed they had a connection, Godzilla remembers him as the guy who left him to die. Gee, I wonder which one has a good memory.
As a kid this was one of my favourite Godzilla movies... but now I realise this one is convoluted and crazy ..... and I still love it
Great video Decker :)
19:00 "..... turning an old friend into abstract art......" -- I cracked up so much.
You are extremely charasmatic and do a fantastic job with your reviews brother. Can't go wrong with Godzilla :-)
The BEST hair with the BEST reviews!
Hey decker do you have any plans to review the godzilla movies on Netflix
Oddly enough this was my first Kaiju movie. I recall being completely lost by the plot but having a good time.
I was hoping you would review this movie. Good video.
Btw, R.I.P. Anna Nakagawa.
Thanks for the entertaining review. It was awesome. You're one of the best movie critics ever. I was just wondering, since you like to review a lot of Kaiju movies. I was wondering if you can review The Pacific Rim where humans piloting giant mecha robots fight against giant Kaiju monsters. If it's okay with you. If not, no worries. You're still one of my favorite critics.
00:40 The kitty says WTF?!
21:59 sorry Decker but something like that is hard for me to believe. Because one Sentai series Gingaman had a monster roar like Godzilla. I mean I'm not sure what Toei had to do to use it but there you go. A Super Sentai series used the Godzilla roar. To bad it's American counterpart Power Rangers Lost Galaxy didn't have it.
King Ghidorah won an Oscar for this one.
"Best use of primer cord in a motion picture"
Fun fact, the male lead of this movie, played the remote control pilot of the Super X 2 in the previous film, Godzilla VS Biollante.
Both the '54 Godzilla and the '84-'96 Godzilla were never truly erased from history, if anything, the Futurians actually created the latter Godzilla unintentionally. It's called a paradox.
"Once he is properly subdued, they break all kinds of laws of physics and fly him out of tokyo" XDD i cackled
"The fight between the two mostly consists of them throwing special effects at each other"... basically the Heisei series in a nutshell lol
yeah that was kinda the problem with their "we want everything bigger and more menacing then the showa era" approach, resulting in multiple suits that were too heavy and bulky for the actors to move in effectively making the close combat of the monsters pretty much impossible to do to the degree they were in the showa era.
The way I understand the whole time travel stuff in this movie is, there are two Godzilla's. the original 1954 and the one that appeared in 1984, when they went back in time they didn't touch the original 54 one, but moved the 84 one and in return actually created him causing the event of 84 and so on. When they sent the sub they sent to create him caused him go from 80 meters to 100 meters.
Michael N/A That's what I also thought. Not to mention the Oxygen Destroyer killing Godzilla in 1954 was mentioned in Godzilla Vs Destoroyah.
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Actually it’s not him connecting to him
It’s him recognizing him as the bastard that he left behind... to put it in perspective a man fought a war with his other 5 buddies for nearly 30 years, he was told his commander would retrieve him when his mission was done or when the war ended.
His commander believed he was dead and the people only found out about the commander due to a person surrendering.
The commander fulfilled his end and told the men the war ended a very long time ago.
Could you do Godzilla 1985 next, please?
And tear the shit out of the American character that was brought back from the first one.
RockMyFace I agree with both of these suggestions
Eat Pray Love he did the 2001 version
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
the cyborg super speed effect looked pretty awesome.
3:09 that wasn't a plesiosaur, they actually fished up a decomposing basking shark.
(but that doesn't matter anyway, it's a Godzilla movie)
This was always one of my favorite Godzilla movies from the Heisei series.
At 17:28 Glen And Wilson Disappeared
Also agh the english dub messed up so much. Terasawa is emmie's grandpa. that's why she says " I only like it here because you are here" though with the English dub instead at the end she says "we are related" and that's it. The original version actually told you who she was to him.
The twist where the Japanese lady said that she was the main guys realitive made me giggle so much
Can't wait to see Decker Shadow do a review on the new Shin Godzilla and see what him and his fans have to say about the very controversial ending.
You ever going to review the Saw series? Supposed to be another one coming out later this year...
+ed sheeran r u the real one?
Well, good news (three years after your question lol)
Decker, you forget, in the Hesei era they admit there was more than one Godzilla. The first Godzilla that attacked Japan was a female, the one that repeatedly attacks Japan was her mate.
This will always be one of my favorite Godzilla movies
The one flick before Godzilla 2014 that I watched in theaters....way back in Manila, 1992. Good times.
Yeah, I'll say it. This Godzilla is fuckin adorable
There's an explanation for why godzilla still was remembered after the time travel shenanigans. The idea is this godzilla was a different one that came about in a different way from the other. I think it was like a statement that no matter what humanity does he cpmes about anyway.
Fun Fact: There really was a dinosaur named after the original name for Godzilla named _Gojirasaurus_. Its' a early dinosaur from the Triassic period in New Mexico. It was 18 feet (5.5 meters) long and 330-440 pounds (150-200 kilograms).
if i am ever in a movie i am stealing that line decker
I'm used to watching his old videos where he doesn't have his mustache and it scared the shit out of me
0:39, "meow"
Perhaps this trivia is only important to those of us who were alive in the 1960s, but Akiji Kobayashi, who played Yuzo Tsuchiashi, played the Captain in the original Ultraman TV series in the mid 60s.
What happened was that the 1954 Godzilla did die, and the dinosaur from WW2 was teleported to a area full of nuclear waste and turned into the Godzilla from 1984, thus the scene where Emmy claims she feels the same presence of Godzilla from Godzilla 1989 and Kurosawa investigating newspapers of areas in the ocean with nuclear waste.
It gets confusing when the villains and the government thinks it was a Godzilla that's just been reborn.
It's not a Godzilla review without that long haired creepy guy.
You should check out Omni Viewer's 3 part review of GvKG. The second part talks about the movie's Pro-Imperialist theme, and the third part is just one long rant about the movie's time travel.
14:19 "Terminator Style!"
the movie fails to explain the time travel, you see...
they never erased Godzilla, instead they changed his mutation process, and not only that, the 54 Godzilla still exists as he wasn't a mutated Godzillasaurus, rather a natural specimen of the Godzilla species.
to sum it up, they changed Godzilla's origin area and gave birth to king Ghidorah at Lagos as well (Ghidorah being mutated earlier.)
The gamera bit was awesome
They could totally do a new 2020 Godzilla film where Humans come back in time to just after the events in 2019's Godzilla film after the army uses the "Oxygen Destroyer" and say that, Since the scientist from the 1954/56 Godzilla film destroyed the Oxygen Destroyer's Manufature Notes, that they actually re-created a bomb that wasn't as powerful because miscalculations, which is why it didn't outright kill king gidorah or godzilla from 2019's, but killed life forms in the ocean like small to large aquatic life, but in a larger radius, causing the extinction of soo many water life species that the oceans became toxic and parts of the earths land died off or became barren. Leaving Wars for resources a big priority that killed 10's of millions of Human Beings, Letting Godzilla and the other Kaiju to fight and take over the remaining inhabitable lands, leaving the remaining humans to scrape by and desperately trying to change the past to help the future. The Future Humans think to bring a plant that can help bring the earth's plant life back and thriving, which brings in Biolante Kaiju for Godzilla to Fight !!! .... Where's my Oscar ?? lol
I honestly can't wait until Shin Gojira gets reviewed. I don't care if it takes 8 years. I just can't wait!
i like to think all of the Godzilla monsters we know lived on the same island as dinosaurs and then the atomic bombs mutated them into what we see in all the movies
I was just watching this a couple days ago and I was like, "Oh hello Gamera."
I think in hindsight the time travel mechanism makes sense in a weird way. Reality is altered while the time travel engine itself is present and the effects of it only take place then. So Ghidora was created in the 50s but that only took affect when the engine travelled back into the future which also caused Godzilla to vanish at the moment they return. So it only changes events in the time in which it exists based on actions its undertaken - as if its realigning a past timeline it has created with the current one without changing anything it didn't do directly.
Its a bit confusing but its honestly a way to fix time travel and to make sure the events all occur on a single timeline without any paradoxes. it doesn't make sense *how* it does that but narratively its a pretty ingenious way to write time travel without just saying it creates a brand new timeline.
Subbed!! Awesome vid!!
I saw this movie couple years back, good review.
Now we get Godzilla
That thumbnail isn't the most flattering picture, lol
Wait you didn't keep in the Spielberg reference
Decker, did you skip over Godzilla 1985 and Godzilla vs. Biollante?
NooneofImportance and Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla
Griffin Gower Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla came out THREE YEARS after this film. However to answer the question that you were adding onto yes and no. Decker has not yet reviewed Godzilla vs Biollante or the movie that preceded it.
Have fun buying Godzilla vs Biollante. Its $100 to buy the DVD version on Amazon right now.
@@World_Eater1954 oh
Just saw Death Race 2050 in Wal-mart thought about picking it up but want to see what Decker thinks of it first
Has he done big ass spiders?
Isn't this the movie with the famous line: "Take that, you dinosaur!"
YEEEESSASSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
DO GODZILLA KING OF MONSTERS when u can pls
This video is already out.
The 2019 one isn't even out on DVD or bluray yet
oh, oh! do Godzilla vs King kong! That one's my favorite Godzilla movie!
Mine, too. It's far too entertaining to not like.
You mean king kong vs godzilla
@@Godzilla-tu2cd 🙄
I will always have a fondness for this film, as it was the very first Godzilla film I every saw.
will you do a movie review of Halloween????
hey decker it's me again do a mogwai/gremlin and graboid bilogy video please who else wants them to be made
Ok, so apparently, if I’m getting this right, the Futurians actually created the Heisei Godzilla we saw back in 1984, when that sub mutated him in the 70’s.
Am I the only one who thinks the dubbing is shite?
Rapperjosh13 no
of course it is, it's the 90's and not animated.
Rapperjosh13 and I thought the voice acting in The House Of The Dead was shit
But that's why we prefer to watch the Sub instead x3
Rapperjosh13 All Godzilla movies are horribly dubbed.
“At the least you’d get more than one Godzilla out of the deal”
Lol, like Godzilla, Godzilla Junior and the first Godzilla? 😂
BTW there is a Deathrace 2050 now
hey there is this thing you can download on pc or mac or i phone or any android that is called popcorn time
they have shin godzilla 1080p and when you watch it it downlods the movie i alredy have it in my pc is esay do it if you want to review shin godzilla
The time travel does make a lick of sense.
The original Godzilla dies in 54. They try and stop the creation of the second Godzilla IE Raids Again Godzilla.
When he was moved, they stopped the rest of the Show Era films from happening and instead causes the events of Godzilla 1985. This film creates the Heisei Era timeline.
This explains it in detail:
www.scifijapan.com/articles/2007/08/16/godzilla-vs-king-ghidorah-time-travel-and-the-origins-of-godzilla/