_Sir, a second hellfire missile has hit the Chrysler building_

@russellthander3850

Ай бұрын

Bruhhh

@jtgd

Ай бұрын

“Ahhh”-helicopter pilot

@slendertv3616

Ай бұрын

When you miss the automaton with your precision orbital strike stratage

@KolonelCeanders

Ай бұрын

@@jtgdyour honor I claim oopsi daisy

@TheSolidSnakeOil

Ай бұрын

@KurtusOldroyd That's some classic spam right there.

My favorite thing about Zilla was that Toho briefly made him canon so that Godzilla could pancake him in Final Wars.

@AnythingMachine

Ай бұрын

Zilla is actually one of the most powerful Kaju - she's lighter and faster, and rapid hermaphrodite breeding means she'd out populate and outnumber her opponents in the long run who are all mostly the last of their kind. What's Godzilla going to do against a thousand Zillas?

@kingrat2122

Ай бұрын

​@AnythingMachine actually use an atomic breath, lol

@AnythingMachine

Ай бұрын

@@kingrat2122 Zilla is still a hundred thousand ton Kaju who is able to move around with the durability that implies... I don't doubt an atomic breath blast would kill one but you'd need to hold it on her for a few seconds, and in that time 999 other Zillas have swarmed Godzilla. However Zilla works has to include the same basic adaptations as any Kaju. Zilla at 180 feet is 3x taller than any animal which ever walked on land. He has whatever adaptations other Kaju have minus nuclear metabolism, e.g. he has metallized or similar bones to withstand the sort of stresses skyscrapers have, and some unusually super efficient metabolism like all Kaju so even if he's weak, he's much stronger than a T rex naively scaled up to that size would be, albeit not to the incredible levels of Godzilla. Remember square cube. To add to that, Zilla is 15x taller than a T rex and therefore masses around 27k tons. Less than Godzilla, but still the mass of a navy destroyer running around on land at motorway speeds. He's not using a normal skeleton or metabolism so even though no atomic breath or similar he's still not using normal processes internally. Presumably even the baby Zillas have similar internals.

@WTFisTingispingis

Ай бұрын

It was really funny to see that.

@kingrat2122

Ай бұрын

​@@AnythingMachinethey kill The Zilla with conventional military arms

There is no doubt in my mind that the military would kill Clifford if he suddenly appeared in some city.

@flattire4243

Ай бұрын

Either kill or capture to make profit 😆🤣

@alaskamark4562

7 күн бұрын

Humanity first, mutants last.

@HowToChangeName

7 күн бұрын

The iron giant nuke it to oblivion style

@blakesheffield2423

4 күн бұрын

Nah but the ATF would

@11jerans

4 күн бұрын

I would want them to. Are you kidding me? A 20 foot tall bright red canine? This thing, even if it’s entirely benevolent, is a danger to everyone and everything around it.

The most astonish fact about this movie is that somebody actually bothered to search which coutry tested more nuclear bombs to the date and that that resulted to be the french is incredible to me, like, they could easily said that Zilla was product of the russians or some asian country, like american movies tend to do, I always wondered why they chose France as the main culprit

@briancolwill3071

Ай бұрын

France tested enough nukes in (the paradise!!!) of the South Pacific I'm surprised the water isn't glowing Cherenkov blue

@DuvalSt1

29 күн бұрын

Well Emmerich is German. Not surprised he wanted to poke at the French ego.

@kameronjones7139

23 күн бұрын

​@@DuvalSt1European favorite past time

@belstar1128

20 күн бұрын

its actually quite realistic in the 1990s context France did one in 1996 in a tropical region china did one too but that region was a desert so it doesn't fit the story India and Pakistan started doing them in 1998 and had a minor cold war. but i think they already started working on the movie in 1997 or earlier or maybe it was even already out when the tests happened France was the biggest nuke tester in this era

@optillian4182

9 күн бұрын

​​@@kameronjones7139Making fun of Fr*nch "people" is one of the few things that unites Euroeans and Americans.

The fact that Roland Emmerich was able to make a career out of making the same film over and over again makes me feel better about my own prospects .

@toainsully

Ай бұрын

"Those guys at Toho may be smart, but I'm sure they couldn't see that far into the future. If they could, they never would have gave Roland Emmerich the rights to make a Godzilla movie." --- NES Godzilla Creepypasta

@Sarafimm2

Ай бұрын

The JJ Abrams of the 1990's.

@ballerswagbro9k611

Ай бұрын

@@Sarafimm2 *Sips Tea Aggressively*

@mackenziecarver6807

Ай бұрын

It makes you wonder how the guy still gets work today. All his movies have been under performing as of late.

@MatanVil

Ай бұрын

@@mackenziecarver6807 China I guess. Independence Day Resurgence and Moonfall have a lot of China jerking

big iguana

@AnythingMachine

Ай бұрын

Well known fact that nuclear radiation carries sufficient energy to increase your mass from a couple of kilos to 400,000 tons

@ogfortify7674

Ай бұрын

​@KurtusOldroydbot

@JohnWickJovanovich

Ай бұрын

why dad left you: Making fun of bots : kzread.info/dash/bejne/o3-Mudp8opOqn84.html

@ratoh1710

Ай бұрын

Biguana

@ogfortify7674

Ай бұрын

​@@JohnWickJovanovichbot

I personally love the idea of Zilla being a Godzilla opposite. He's small and weak but fast and can multiply. He's primitive in comparison, and acts defensively compared to Godzilla's aggressive behavior.

@projekttaku1

18 күн бұрын

So your telling me its a "Bizarrozilla"?

@filipbitala2624

12 күн бұрын

@@projekttaku1me am bizaro

@loljewlol

Күн бұрын

Ironically, Zilla is actually the average size of pre-Legend Godzilla. The original Godzilla, and almost all of them before 2014, were 50 meters tall, the same height as Zilla.

the book series Godzilla: Apocolypse does point out that Zilla is the hardest to fully get rid of, because it reproduces so fast, and even 1 egg can restart the process

@nothisispatrick4644

9 күн бұрын

The Godzilla earth prequels give so much love to many different Kaiju's, Zilla and Gigan to me are the standout ones.

"You can't really root against him" That's funny because when I was forced to watch this movie at the theaters at age 8, I distinctly remember crying at the end that they killed Godzilla. He didn't do nothing wrong, leave him alone!

@magneto228

Ай бұрын

same.

@Trefox87

Ай бұрын

I completely blocked out Zilla dying for some reason and was thinking, oh yeah, he was chased back to the ocean

@MrTigracho

Ай бұрын

Her

@kiryuthedragonwarrior2746

Ай бұрын

I remember also crying because they killed him "No no hes not suppose to die that way no they cant kill Godzilla"

@darnokx9277

Ай бұрын

Same. I just felt so sad at the end.

They wanted to avoid a suit with a human in it, so they ironically gave the monster proportions that closer resembled a human, with long skinny legs and arms.

@disposable_income_andy

Ай бұрын

genuinely look at the behind the scenes for the raptor suits in Jurassic Park, it's basically the same

28:28 - You saying that "Zilla's like a Bizarro Godzilla" just reminded of a particular funfact. Godzilla 2000, the next Japanese Godzilla movie, introduced Orga, a reptilian kaiju with some of Godzilla's DNA. Its head and posture were modeled after '98 Zilla, with the designers cheekily saying something like "It was so Godzilla could defeat the American Godzilla." I've always liked the designs for Zilla and Orga, so the connection between the two was fascinating to me.

"RUN!! ITS GODZILLA!!!" "It might look like Godzilla, but due to Toho buying this design and renaming it into Zilla, its not" "STILL WE SHOULD RUN LIKE IT IS GODZILLA!!!" "No it isnt 😏" **scream**

@adams0123

Ай бұрын

That Austin Powers reference always gets me!

@adamg4336

Ай бұрын

*though it isn't

@psychomammoth9640

Ай бұрын

That about sums it up

@QuintheQuesadilla

Ай бұрын

I literally just watched Goldenmember yesterday 💀

@kalroy1230

Ай бұрын

@@adamg4336super important distinction ngl, good job

The single memory burned into my brain brighter than any other regarding this movie, is Zilla going Kool-Aid Man through the Skyscraper purely to slap an Apache. There are some great dumb lines and cool scenes and all, but that one moment is the first thing I think of whenever I think of the movie. Also yes I would 100% love to watch World War Zilla. That sounds amazing.

@disposable_income_andy

Ай бұрын

Given how non-confrontational Zilla is in the 98 movie I'd be surprised if that was even remotely intentional, or if that pilot even died. I don't know if Zilla is responsible for a single death in the movie, I genuinely don't. Final Wars Zilla would match in a World War Zilla or Godzilla vs Zilla swarms scenario much better, that thing charged right in looking for a fight even if it got wiped in 12 seconds

@ChupacabraRex

6 күн бұрын

I agree with your opinion.

a zilla cameo in the monsterverse would be fun

@disposable_income_andy

Ай бұрын

given how well Legendary and the monsterverse have handled Godzilla while simultaneously branching him off from being just "Amercan Godzilla," i think that possibility genuinely becomes more and more real by the day

The best part about the whole Siskel and Ebert bit, is that Ebert seemed to be annoyed by it, but Siskel said something along the line of "they didn't even have godzilla step on us, what a waste, at least do something with the bit"

@andrewmeyer3599

Ай бұрын

Iirc, both of them dogged on how the cameo was lame and barely used

@halfmettlealchemist8076

Ай бұрын

Siskel was so real for that actually

@toweypat

Ай бұрын

Here's what Roger Ebert wrote in his review of "Godzilla": "they let us off lightly; I fully expected to be squished like a bug by Godzilla. Now that I've inspired a character in a Godzilla movie, all I really still desire is for several Ingmar Bergman characters to sit in a circle and read my reviews to one another in hushed tones."

@HellecticMojo

Ай бұрын

More I learn about Ebert, more I just learn how much of a no fun grump he is.

@VictorIV0310

Ай бұрын

@@HellecticMojoThe same guy who claimed that video games will never be art and only changed his mind after getting tons of responses from people sharing their own positive experiences with video games and how it is, indeed, art.

I think it's pretty funny that the tagline is "Size Does Matter" and the monster is pretty tiny by Godzilla standards.

@Oswin2642

Ай бұрын

By Kaiju standards as a whole, in fact

@Cody-ps3wy

Ай бұрын

That’s one thing that really confused me the scale of Zilla is pretty inconsistent, some sources say it’s the original 50 meters some say it’s 70 meters some say 60 and then there’s others that say 55 meters and below it’s all just confusing I need an accurate measurement can someone please help me before my brain explodes into mush

@dimitrescu182

Ай бұрын

​@@Cody-ps3wythen there's that one scene in the sewer where Zilla opened its eye and it looks gargantuan.

@sbatou87

Ай бұрын

@@Cody-ps3wy There is no accurate height, as most films fall under eras. In the Showa Era, Godzilla is about 50 meters tall. In the Hesei era, Godzilla starts around 70 meters, and due to time traveling aliens (I’m not kidding), he grows to 100 meters. 

 The Millennium era, its films self-contained, unless it’s a direct sequel. His height in those films changes between 55 to 100 meters.

 Due to his evolving nature in “Shin Godzilla”, Godzilla goes from 28 to 118.5 meters.

 In the Monsterverse era, Godzilla’s height changes due to general growth and power-ups. He starts out around 108 meters at the start. By Godzilla vs. Kong he’s at 120 meters tall. There is no official height for Godzilla in “New Empire,” but it’s estimated to be about 130 meters.

 Please note that this does NOT count animated films, such as Godzilla Earth and Singular Point.

@abdellnunez1403

Ай бұрын

​@@Cody-ps3wy the short answer is that Godzilla is as big as he needs to be to look huge in his surroundings. If the tallest building in a city is 50m, he's about 60m; if it's 190m, then he's about 200m or so.

4:14 For those who don't know, Kaiju literally translates to "Strange Beast" he literally wanted Godzilla not to be a Kaiju

@TheGrammarPolice7

21 сағат бұрын

Why no period after "Strange Beast?" You were clearly done with your first point there and started a second point after it ("he literally wanted Godzilla not to be a Kaiju"). You need a period there.

Honestly, I love how TriStar Godzilla wasn't forgotten or just ignored like alot of bad reboots are, but rather he was taken and added into Godzilla's enemies list as just "Zilla." The community opened their arms to Zilla because he wasn't pretending to be Godzilla anymore, he was just his own thing entirely, and people are more willing to let him into the fandom then

The thing about Roger Ebert is that he does have a sense of humor, his number one complaint about the character based off him was "why didn't you kill me in a humiliating way? Have the monster step on me while I was on the toilet or something."

@LyleVSXyle

Ай бұрын

That’s one of my favourite quotes by him

@williamkarbala5718

Ай бұрын

Lol you know your a great critic when even your criticism of the jokes about you personally are on point

@kylenielsen5083

Ай бұрын

@@williamkarbala5718 I remember hearing somewhere that the reason he couldn't die is because Toho said Godzilla doesn't kill

@sk8paradoxity

Ай бұрын

yeah but then that would be too much of a rip from Jurassic Park. lol

@MisterSandmanAU

Ай бұрын

​​@@kylenielsen5083 thats BS because he goes out of his way to kill people in the 1954 film and godzilla vs king ghidorah

"You caused more damage than that thing did!" I wonder if this is commentary on the U.S. military or just them being goofy and accidentally striking gold.

@chrisbrasel8060

Ай бұрын

Both? You can't really tell at times.

@j.2512

Ай бұрын

nuanced commentary about zionism

@CoolSmoovie

Ай бұрын

Taking a jab at the military was almost a requirement in these generation of movies. Pre 9/11. It was popular.

@gratuitouslurking8610

Ай бұрын

@@CoolSmoovie Yeah pretty much, especially non Air Force. Desert Storm was fresh in everyone's mind giving the Air Force a bit of slack, but the US military had been seen as kinda a joke prior thanks to Korea and Vietnam, and thus bumbling military was a somewhat common trope until a near u-turn for 9/11.

@clarkmichaels822

Ай бұрын

Basically the opening scene of Team America: World Police. Except that was post-9/11 and this was pre-9/11.

I’m glad you brought up the Cloverfield comparison. As soon as you mentioned “it’s just a scared animal”, I immediately thought of the poor (baby?) Cloverfield just getting harassed by the military as it unintentionally wreaked havoc on NYC. Ironically, tho, despite Zilla being portrayed as a villainous existential threat to humanity, audiences could tell that it was just a scared animal; and while Clover was clearly acting like a lost & scared animal, for the protagonists & audience, it’s basically just another kaiju wrecking the city.

The most realistic thing about this movie is a romantic interest ghosting, coming back saying they've changed, and then ghosting again.

A slight correction about Zilla's "fire breath," it's actually called Power Breath, and it's achieved just from the methane gasses from him eating fish reacting to the exploding cars which give him that fire breathing look. I wish I was joking and I am fucking glad they fixed that in the Animated Series.

@it.is.here.

Ай бұрын

yup my brother explained like this to me when we watched godzilla almost a decade ago I'm 20 now lol

@MusicoftheDamned

Ай бұрын

Gods the animated series for this terrible movie is/was so much better than it had any right to be. All these years later it still feels weird for that to be the case somehow.

@captainmarvelous7673

Ай бұрын

I’d even go far as to say that the way how the Animated Series breath is charged is one of the best in the franchise. Like the animators genuinely made it stay consistent and it looked so cool.

@CollinBuckman

Ай бұрын

So he was essentially just burping, got it.

@arturoaguilar6002

Ай бұрын

Oh, so it just belched methane... brilliant!

Ironically the Zilla swarm was part of the prequel novel for the anime trilogy with the Zilla species being one of the easiest Kaiju to kill but hardest to get properly rid off, a constant infestation of hungry giga iguanas.

@r3dr4te963

Ай бұрын

Yea, Zilla seems good for swarm attack, win by quantity over quality, like zerglings

@Vashkey

Ай бұрын

​@@r3dr4te963 certain large lizards use mob tactics irl too. It fits

@coolgreenbug7551

Ай бұрын

If they ever make a Godzilla game Zilla would be the perfect mob to fight in between bosses

@brickphone8069

Ай бұрын

@@coolgreenbug7551Do you mean like a Godzilla RPG cuz there’s like a hundred Godzilla games

@Ulcerbloom

Ай бұрын

Giguanas?

There are two things I would like to say: 1. Dumb/bad movies are entertaining as hell, and that's the entire point of watching a movie. 2. That's alot of fish!

@Peaceful_Gojira

13 күн бұрын

_"Dr. Neeko Topabudopudopabopapopooobopalis?"_ _"....it's Tatopoulos..."_ Classic.

@TheGrammarPolice7

21 сағат бұрын

Before you say two things, make sure you know how to say them. It's "a lot," not "alot." There's no "alot" word in English.

This film is closer to the original Godzilla of 1953 called "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" by Ray Harryhausen. So this is the reimagined Rhedosaurus that attacks New York.

Fun fact. It’s canon that the Zilla species are the only form of Goji that don’t destroy buildings. This is because the military accidentally destroyed the buildings first.

@connorgolden4

Ай бұрын

But they do tho…’98 and jr both destroy buildings?

@connerdo4325

Ай бұрын

@@connorgolden4 They can't destroy SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY DESTROYED BY THE MILITARY!!!

@BonquequeBetter

Ай бұрын

@@connorgolden4Was supposed to be a joke.

@AMediumSizedKodiak

Ай бұрын

@@BonquequeBetter in his defense, jokes are also supposed to be funny.

Fun fact about Zilla's career as his own thing: he is canon within the anime trilogy universe. In the first prequel book, Zilla basically reenacts the events of the 98 movie, except that the military fails to kill all the babies so the city just eventually crumbles to an invasion of Zillas of different sizes and strategies.

@motherurck7542

Ай бұрын

Wait, there is a prequel book? And the fact you said first one, meaning there is more than one?

@gojiratar1132

Ай бұрын

@@motherurck7542 the second one mostly goes over their Mechagodzilla's artillery and how Godzilla just destroyed it before it could ever get into battle

@arnahunas4048

Ай бұрын

And it took over Paris instead of NYC IIRC

@gojiratar1132

Ай бұрын

@@arnahunas4048 yeah I couldn't recall the City. Ig it makes sense as a reference to 98 being mutated from French bombs

@AAZ-yu5ss

Ай бұрын

I wouldn’t reccomend watching the Anime Trilogy. It has almost zero Kaiju fights (With the one fight against Godzilla and Ghidorah sucking bollocks) or any non-Godzilla monsters for that matter, has an obnoxious MC who is an Eren Yeager rip-off, and it has crappy & clunky cgi animation.

“Would the army too have gunned Clifford the big red dog down in the street?” No but the ATF would.

@notgray88

Ай бұрын

LMAO

@tjbarke6086

Ай бұрын

Any average SWAT officer would...

@scarecrow559fresno

Ай бұрын

TRUTHSAYER

@kevinw6814

Ай бұрын

Pfffftttthahahaha

@Tony27654

Ай бұрын

LMFAO F the ATF

This movie wasn't my first association with Godzilla, but living on the west coast it WAS my first association with Madison Square Garden. So every time I see or hear Madison Square Garden, the only thing my brain can think is "I want you to BLOW UP Madison Square Garden!"

I'm amazed how with every video you make, you are able to express essentially the same opinions and feelings on these pieces of media that I do. I'm glad someone around my age is making high quality content about these properties while also staying chill and enjoyable to listen to. It's basically how I talk with my friends about this kind of stuff. Your work is incredible man, I really appreciate all the work you put into this.

Zilla appears in the second issue of the comic "Godzilla - Rulers of Earth" where the military asks for radio what's the name of the monster, the other soldier tries to warn them that godzilla is approaching but due to interferences he only hears "Zilla" so they assume the monster is called like that, eventually Godzilla and Zilla have a pretty nice fight where Zilla obviously loses but survives the fight and rans away to the sea. Eventually at the end of the comic, Godzilla and other kaijus are fighting an alien invasion, Zilla joins them and helps Godzilla in the fight. It's a pretty nice comic that shows that Zilla, as his own kaiju, works great.

the cut from the dog jumping away from the explosion and the person being instantly disintegrated was funnier than I could have ever expected beforehand

@paleoph6168

Ай бұрын

17:28

I don't hate the design of Zilla. Never did, never will. Yeah, it's not really appropriate for "Godzilla", but I do think he's a neat looking monster on his own. Even if he is just a giant lizard, giant lizards are still kind of cool. I see him more as like a distant cousin to Godzilla, has some genetic relation, but just very far removed.

@disposable_income_andy

Ай бұрын

I like the big chin, honestly. Zilla looks like a Monster Hunter boss or something. If this was fan design rather than something official that got killed on screen twice in both of its film appearances, people would eat it up. Hell, Zilla appears in the IDW comics and is basically that, even teaming up with Godzilla by the end.

I love that you used the Toca 2 menu theme for the first few seconds. ❤️

“They let us off lightly; I fully expected to be squished like a bug by Godzilla.” -Ebert

@KairuHakubi

Ай бұрын

I think the bridge too far was calling him Ebert. Even Animaniacs had the taste to make them "Hisskel and Eggbert"

The idea of the last vestiges of humanity desperately trying to hold back a horde of Zillas and/or baby Zillas is actually so good though. I could see a sort of Pacific Rim-eqsue type story, where humanity develops advanced tech to counter the hordes.

@thelastholdout

Ай бұрын

Oh man, like power armor or smaller mechas, Starship Troopers style? That would be killer.

@pedroescalona3842

Ай бұрын

There is an anime Godzilla movie trilogy that's literally that.

@Quillian

Ай бұрын

​@@pedroescalona3842 And that was dogshi 😂, the ending really didnt sit well in my mind

@mkis007

Ай бұрын

@@Quillian The ending just sets up the cartoon...it's not a dreary ending when you learn that.

@dracodracarys2339

Ай бұрын

and then, amidst the mayhem...the TRUE Godzilla awakens. damn, imagine if this happened in the Monsterverse and it's just Godzilla and Kong teaming up against a legion of Zillas invading the hollow earth. That would be dope.

As a kid who was completely obsessed with dinosaurs (and the Jurassic Park movies especially), this was one of my favorite movies of all time. It was also my first introduction to the concept of Godzilla as a whole. I know it's an absolute mess, but I'll be damned if it doesn't hold a giant iguana footprint shaped spot in my heart to this day.

i had no idea this movie existed until you mentioned the baby raptors, then it clicked on me that "that one weird dinosaur movie" i watched a long time ago was actually a godzilla movie lol

I recall Siskel said something along the lines of: "If you guys are going to put us in the movie to mock and get back at us, then why didn't you have your monster kill us at least?"

@Thobeian

Ай бұрын

Missed opportunity

@MrStath1986

Ай бұрын

He did. It's just such a weird wasted opportunity.

@JimmyC1994

Ай бұрын

Roland Emmerich: a man who can't even be petty correctly 🤣🤣

"Zilla is just a big T-Rex that gets lost in New York." Missed a big chance to segueway to that scene in Home Alone 2 where Kevin encounters Marv and Harry outside of Duncan's, but their faces are covered by Zilla, Devlin and Emmerich respectively.

@magma_fire_bagwan

Ай бұрын

Wait what lmao

@XdeadsoulXful

Ай бұрын

Okay calling this a big chance is a stretch, this is remarkable specific and niche

@ClussyPomni

Ай бұрын

Fun fact:Zilla was the first femboy,im not kidding.They went with this design so viewers could feel attracted or mesmerized by it but since its a lizard its hard which is funny since today you can technically make everything look like a femboy.

@lordwacko958

Ай бұрын

the “ue” in segue is already pronounced “way” so you basically just said segwayway lmao

@omegaluliguess3238

Ай бұрын

​@@ClussyPomni What

I never had a block buster just a local movie gallery in my little town so seeing that photo at the start of the video just unlocked some deep memories

As a small child back in the day I actually loved this movie. As an adult I can say that yeah it really had some issues. It is what started my love for the franchise though and was what got me looking at all the originals where I really fell in love

When he mentioned 9/11, I'm surprised he didn't mention that one line that aged VERY poorly: "In what city officials are describing as the worst act of destruction since the World Trade Center bombing..."

@QuickQuips

Ай бұрын

To be fair that happened in 93 and was accurate. Biggie Smalls mentioned it too. Thankfully he's not around to see what Diddy did.

@worldofdoom995

Ай бұрын

Yeah i remember nostalgia critic poking at that one.

@mkultra2456

Ай бұрын

@@QuickQuips That was a test run for the real thing. Bush did 9/11. He had explosives placed at the bases of the towers. Then on 9/11 he pretended that like 4 planes were hijacked when really we just rerouted them from Pennsylvania then flew two military jets into the world trade center filled with more explosives and shot down all the witnesses in flight 93 with an F-15 after blowing up the Pentagon with a cruise missile.

@vorpalweapon4814

Ай бұрын

@@QuickQuips Out of every other reference to the trade center bombing made in the 90s why would you pick Biggie Smalls?

@DamienDarkside

Ай бұрын

@@vorpalweapon4814 Because we were alive during the time and Biggie was popular? That's the equivalent of someone saying "Yeah I even saw Eminem post on X, slipped it into his latest diss track."

Im gonna be honest, the French being the ones who made godzilla is one of the best godzilla lore changes ever.

@occam7382

Ай бұрын

Now all we need is a French Godzilla movie set in Tahiti. ...Yes, I'm serious about this. Make it happen.

@fluidthought42

Ай бұрын

I keep upvoting and downvoting your comment, that's how conflicted I am

@raventripp6181

Ай бұрын

That's why this Zilla is so good at parcore she was trained by the French special forces from egg.

@soleenzo893

Ай бұрын

There are so many good french animators, this could actually be a relaly cool serious animated series combining Kaiju, nuclear warfare and fallout themes, all set in beatiful french polynesia ahaha

@gabrielsantosbastos5257

Ай бұрын

Now it makes sense that The Spy wanted to kill it so badly

Your comparison of this movie to Cloverfield is super apt, even down to the way the monsters are portrayed. The tones are wildly different, but in both the kaiju is imagined as just a scared animal doing what it has to to survive. There's even a weirdly overlapping theme of parenthood between them, Zilla being a mother kaiju and Clover being a child. Great observation.

@disposable_income_andy

Ай бұрын

The only thing I'd say is off is Clover being a child since there's not really much alluding to that in the first movie, at least not if you aren't paying much attention to that. The parental aspect is still definitely there though, albeit Clover and the spider parasites rather than whatever would be this things mother. These movies are both the pinnacle of "2 sides of the same coin," even down to them both just doing what's popular at the time (Independence Day and found footage)

The part where Harry Shearer calls the Zilla attack the "worst act of destruction since the World Trade Center bombing" is one of my favorite movie moments that have aged poorly.

Zilla as a pack hunter would indeed make an EXCELLENT Godzilla villain. Fully embrace the Jurassic Park velociraptor angle, make them fast, make them smart, and have a lot of them. If Godzilla's a bear, make Zilla a wolf.

@taptiotrevizo9415

Ай бұрын

-smash cuts to finals wars where Godzilla dismantle ones in less than 30 seconds Yeah, that fight time like 5 can definitely hold a movie.

@jacobwismer1512

Ай бұрын

@@taptiotrevizo9415 did you actually *see* Final Wars? Godzilla curb stomps half the kaiju in that film, including heavy hitters like Hedorah

@TheWorstPartyMember

Ай бұрын

@@taptiotrevizo9415 ONE, my dude. I'm thinking a dozen, minimum.

@GreenGimmick

Ай бұрын

Yeah Final Wars was pretty horrid. In may ways as terrible or more so then this one

@kade-qt1zu

Ай бұрын

​@@TheWorstPartyMemberThat's like putting a T-Rex against a dozen velociraptors. Sure, it's a dozen velociraptors, but you're putting them up against the most powerful theropod.

"That's a lot of fish." - Matthew Broderick 1998

@VikingTeddy

Ай бұрын

Broderick was a weird choice, but I bet he was affordable. I'm low key offended how Jean Reno was snubbed. "This movie has mostly tv-stars". Even shows him in several shots while going through the b-listers, only to ignore the most succesful of the bunch. For a movie reviewer, that's a bit of an "oopsie" 😅

@Lopez_the_heavy

Ай бұрын

@@VikingTeddyHe’s “just some insurance guy.”

@VikingTeddy

Ай бұрын

@@Lopez_the_heavy You're just some insurance guy! 🙎

@Itcouldbebunnies

Ай бұрын

​@@VikingTeddy A bit odd maybe, but not nearly as weird a choice as letting him play Phillipe 'The Mouse' Gaston in Ladyhawke.

@VikingTeddy

Ай бұрын

@@Itcouldbebunnies Now there's a blast from the past. I've been meaning to watch some golden oldies from my childhood that have gone unloved, thanks for the reminder.

In the comic Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, we made sure to have Zilla literally run circles around Godzilla, it made for a fun fight. I wish we had the opportunity to lean on the "Zilla Swarm" concept as well, what a cool idea!

@alpacaofthemountain8760

Ай бұрын

You worked on it?

@marrvynswillames4975

Ай бұрын

@@alpacaofthemountain8760 Matt Frank is one of the main artists of the IDW Godzilla comics

@Brazils-only-hope

Ай бұрын

yoooooo, I grew up reading those comics

@sk8paradoxity

Ай бұрын

I have a few ideas they should rebrand "zilla" and give it a new name. Koyomasu, blending the Japanese words for Cayote (Koyote) and Barracuda (Kamasu). Kitsania, blending the words for Fox (Kitsune) and Pirahna (Pirania) Okasame, blending the words for Wolf (Okami) and Shark (same)

@scaper8

Ай бұрын

The prequel novels for the Polygon Godzilla anime trilogy do have a swarm of Zillas infesting and destroying Paris. They don't have any translations that I know of, but they've been summarized by many. I know WikiZilla's KZread channel has a few video summaries, for example.

20:12 may someone explain what this is

That’s crazy, you had an experience similar to mine when it comes to this movie. I remember seeing the marketing for this movie EVERYWHERE as a kid and nothing sticks out in my mind more than the eyeball poster that was all over the place back then. For whatever reason that poster always unnerved me too. But I never actually gave it a watch until I was an adult because even as a kid I got used to seeing the old Toho films on AMC. So after seeing it finally in my 20’s, it’s such a weird movie. It’s fun as a time capsule of the 90’s but it’s not my Godzilla. The soundtrack had a couple bangers on it by Jamiroquai and RATM atleast too

13:45 You kinda hit the nail on the head there. Zilla's not a bad monster but his core characteristic is that he's a relatively normal animal that wants evade conflict rather than engage in it. Perfectly sensible but as a Godzilla movie you couldn't have picked a more opposite characterization. Godzilla is like the rocks of the eternal shore, he's gonna beat your ass no matter what. So making him this flaky raptor that reproduces asexually is not only peculiar, it shows a willingness to actively not respect the source material. And rip off Jurassic Park.

@j.2512

Ай бұрын

the movie is also incredibly cheesy but that was par on course for the 90s

@toweypat

Ай бұрын

Not exactly a great villain.

@jvbon646

Ай бұрын

It's basically "lets take Godzilla and turn it into King Kong"

@Kaiju-bm4ts

Ай бұрын

​@@jvbon646 kind of ironic you say that when toho did that with ebirah horror of the deep which was meant to be a kong film but they just added godzilla in there for the sake of it and at one part, godzilla was gazing at this island native woman in the same vain kong would and he attacks mothra despite the 2 being established as allies by that point. But at least it's not as bad as this film

@ColonelGrande

Ай бұрын

Its a more realistic take on Godzilla which I don't mind. Godzilla surfacing to trash an entire city for shits and giggles is fun but doesn't really make much sense. At least in this movie his actions are "somewhat" logical

I feel this is the perfect example of a movie BAD under an already existing IP while being GOOD as an indipendent work

@Dzztzt

Ай бұрын

That's the name of the game nowadays

@hlibushok

Ай бұрын

I kinda wonder if there are any other examples of this, 'cause I can't think of any.

@adblue8955

Ай бұрын

​@@hlibushokI'd put pacific rim 2 in that category. Maybe the newest Star wars movies too

@quakethedoombringer

Ай бұрын

Bayformers 1 and 3, Stallone's Dredd, literally any "bad" Pixar sequels

@chriswilbur1356

Ай бұрын

The new d&d movie ​@@hlibushok

I love the sudden realization of how many Nuclear tests France actually did and them trying to cover it up lol

Im a South African and our tv broadcasters were so obsessed with playing this movie, i cant say how many times ive watched this movie because there wasn't anything on tv, thank God for Netflix and internet tv we were screwed with no other choices 😭😭😭

we got sam's dad from transformers, fin from sharknado and roland emmerick. it all comes full circle

@rockettbennett

Ай бұрын

It’s all connected.

I always felt sorry for Zilla as a kid. Sure, he wasn't exactly the Godzilla people wanted, but there was just something emotional and realistic about him being portrayed more like an animal.

@chrisgomez1262

Ай бұрын

Nope did it better kinda

@dracodracarys2339

Ай бұрын

Honestly he deserves his own name. Maybe rebrand GINO (Godzilla In Name Only) as some sort of proper acronym like Giant Irradiated Nautical Organism or something

@flyingstonemon3564

Ай бұрын

​@@dracodracarys2339 This or the fan beloathed name is good, I wouldn't mind Zilla to come back

@pengwin_

Ай бұрын

The way the Cartoon re-invented some of the godzilla monsters was really cool (like having MechaGodzilla be a Cyborg or turning Hedora into a collection of Nanomachines.)

@chrisgomez1262

Ай бұрын

@@pengwin_ the nano bots were not hedorah they are a anti hedorah as it eats pollution

I saw this in theaters as a kid with my mom. I am 38 now. I remember it vividly. I don't hate this movie either, I was mad that my mom made us leave before the ending after the baby raptors were all gone because she thought it was over and she had to work at 8pm that night or something.. but for a long time I loved this movie. The sequence in Madison Square Garden with the tiny Godzillas actually scared me as a kid and was very tense, but now I find it comical, as is the entire movie. Back then as a kid though I did find it very scary and fun to watch. The CGI sadly doesn't hold up very well though today. Edit: I also love Independence Day. That movie scared me so much as a kid when all of the cities 'vanish', but now I just enjoy the ride. I love that line of "New Yorkers still don't care that Godzilla is attacking New York" Like when I saw a video of New Yorkers just walking by a garbage truck on fire and no one looked at it except the camera man and the garbage guy. I honestly thought one day they would make a Godzilla 2 sequel where some babies survived or that one egg at the end survives and they multiply and its World War G. I waited many years for that movie to come out, it never did. 18:18 made me laugh a little too hard.

Zilla - "Godozira kunnn" Godzilla : "Zirara Chan" That's so cute tbh.

Master’s in Biology here. Some lizards do reproduce asexually by parthenogenesis (snakes, insects, fish and crustaceans too). Some species have an all females population since they reproduce strictly like that, like the New Mexico whiptail. Since they are basically cloning each other, the offspring is identical to the mother. Not all of parthenogenesis cases are exactly clones, in other species like Bees, they always lay males unless fertilization occurs because of the genetic process behind it. It’s an interesting subject and yeah, nature finds a way indeed haha.

@theangrysuchomimus5163

Ай бұрын

Yeah, but apparently Zilla is a male, so he can't do partenogenesis. But then again, we're talking about a giant radioactive bipedal iguana rampaging through New York so who knows.

@oneillwinchester6658

Ай бұрын

@@theangrysuchomimus5163 true, to be more biologically accurate it has to be female or at least female at some point maybe some sequential hermaphroditism or something. But like you said, giant radioactive iguana lol

@YouBredRaptorsMusic

Ай бұрын

This

@rickmarrs4452

Ай бұрын

Herpetology guy here. A close look at the post cloacal tail region shows that there are no hemipenile bulges. Therefore, Zilla appears to be female. Since Zilla is supposed to be a species of iguanid, the sexually dimorphic features would be well-defined.

@spacegoat0133

Ай бұрын

@@theangrysuchomimus5163I think it was female

One thing you have to remember is that this was the first mainstream appearance of Godzilla in the west. You said it yourself: "it works as an independent kaiju movie". If you saw this in a movie theatre in 1998, that is exactly what it was: an independent kaiju movie. That's why many people look back on it so fondly.

@ralphwarom2514

Ай бұрын

LoL. I love this movie. I watched it over 20 times as a kid. And it always made me feel good. XD

@neilwhisenant9758

Ай бұрын

Exactly! And for me and a lot of other people this was the Gateway into the Godzilla franchise

@ClockworkCrow7

Ай бұрын

What'w funny, it would even work great as a remake of "the creature from 20,000 fathoms" film. They referenced it so hard it's closer to that than to Godzilla.

@Replicaate

Ай бұрын

@@ClockworkCrow7 that is exactly how I view it, as a remake of that movie, not Godzilla. On that point it’s much better.

@braddarr5314

Ай бұрын

nah...godzilla 1985 was totally released all across the US back in the day and at 8 years old even i knew it was trash. to this day its still the worse US godzilla movie ever.

14:11 I always thought it was funny how the military just shot up apartment buildings in NY, not caring ab the people they just murdered. The apaches were just flying around blasting civilians and homes without a care in the world haha

This is probably the best video essay on the movie

The knowledge that Matthew Broderick's character eventually animorphs into Finn from Sharknado is a priceless gift, and I thank you for sharing it.

You know I've always felt that Godzilla 98 was, almost, an accidental critique of the war on terror. This is a movie about the US army responding to an attack on New York, bungling it horrible, and then thinking they've won despite experts telling them the threat has not yet passed.

@moritamikamikara3879

Ай бұрын

Sounds more like a Russian thing tbh. You know the one incident in the school...

@toweypat

Ай бұрын

But there was no "war on terror" at that time.

@DonVigaDeFierro

Ай бұрын

​@@moritamikamikara3879 That doesn't narrow it down, sir.

@evanthompson7494

Ай бұрын

@toweypat That's why I said accidentally. It's impossible for their to be any intent, but coincidentally, the connections are there.

@VikingTeddy

Ай бұрын

I only just realised. The helicopter fires a missile, THAT GUIDES ITSELF IN TO A BUILDING! (At 14:24) Was the building on fire? Or did the pilot lock the building with radar? You can watch an Emmerich movie over and over, and find new stupid every time. It's impressive, you can't fuck up so much with just ignorance, it takes effort.

29:01 this is quite literally the relationship between Zilla and Godzilla in Vrahno's "Godzilla gets a youtube award"

Nobody talks about the true greatest disaster movie, Pixels 2017 featuring Adam Sandler.

Siskel & Ebert roasted the movie for including parodies of them but not doing something cool like other movies by having them blown up or squished or SOMETHING Somehow they managed to waste potential at every level of this movie.

@chrisbrasel8060

Ай бұрын

It was right there and they didn't even do anything to them but mock them only. Pretty bad the people your mocking are saying you didn't mock them enough.

@RipOffProductionsLLC

Ай бұрын

"You put parodies of us in your monster movie and didn't have the monster eat us? Disappointing."

@DIEGhostfish

Ай бұрын

I seem to recall one expressed gratitude at not getting squished, rhen the other poijted out that it would have been way funnier if they HAD been squished and the 1st changed his mind to agree.

@mikhaelgribkov4117

Ай бұрын

Nah, parody route is actually more funny.

@toonboy2041

Ай бұрын

Thank you for pointing this out. Your comment should be pinned

Ok the Cloverfield comparison is actually super on point and I’m shocked I’ve never actually heard it before. Also interestingly both movies also had an infestation of smaller monsters too, but where the raptor like mini Zillas were just kinda goofy and all got blown up. The little monsters in Cloverfield were these horrible abominations that if they so much as scratched you, you suffered a slow agonizing death and right at the last minute just get blown up from the inside out by whatever biological attack they had that kills you.

@rodrigobogado8756

Ай бұрын

Those damm things were more scary than Cloverfield itself

@Comradeatticus

Ай бұрын

Those bastards could be the stars of there own monster film

@jimmyseaver3647

Ай бұрын

I know Roanoke Gaming had a really good explanation on it. Apparently it was some kind of natural secretion that had a nasty reaction once inside the human body, resulting in rapid pressure buildup and bursting. On the plus side, at least they weren't some kind of deep-sea Xenomorphs.

23:32 I know that I'm a huge fan of those two but seriously? You guys hated it? Come on guys if i were on your situation at least i will be *THANKFUL* cuz the director decided to satirize me and make fun of me in a good way

I hope you realize that calling Zilla "Godzilla's Wario" implies an alternate reality where Zilla also gets two of his own spinoff series, both of which having almost no ties with the actual Godzilla franchise besides sharing Zilla as a character. And honestly, I think I want to see that now.

Tristar throwing away a decent Godzilla film made by people who loved Godzilla in favor of the one we actually got, which was made by people who actively held a negative opinion of Godzilla and just wanted to cash in on the success of Jurassic Park, just because the latter was headed by known faces and the former wasn't really is a microcosm of the demented state Hollywood's been in for the better part of a century now.

@chrisbrasel8060

Ай бұрын

The fact we didn't get that version of the movie dispite it having all the right people and stuff and the studio instead settled on the wrong people and stuff that ended up killing off the character's western push for a decade till Legendary got Zilla right in 2014.

@frick_____you

Ай бұрын

If it makes you feel better, Godzilla was an Atlantean Bioweapon in that script.

@AtomicTitan1954

Ай бұрын

What's funny was that Roland didn't wanna make it at first, and then TriStar rejected the other director's Godzilla movie because it would've costed too much to make, and then they brought Roland into it and then proceeded to make a more expensive movie that became the classic beloved film that we all know and love.

@bigboi5545

Ай бұрын

@frick_____you Hey, it worked for Gamera lol

@totalNERD-eo7wx

Ай бұрын

@@frick_____you Oh God No

Dude the cartoon they made based on the movie actually rules so much, it’s crazy.

@three_frogs_in_a_trench_coat

Ай бұрын

Oml yes, that thing is amazing

@echoesofpast678

Ай бұрын

Nope, the show was amature, and filled with animations errors. Nothing good came out from this 1998 movie, that's the truth some people try to ignore in virtue of blind nostalgia.

@three_frogs_in_a_trench_coat

Ай бұрын

@@echoesofpast678 brother I wasn't born in that time and I think it's awesome

@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat

Ай бұрын

@@echoesofpast678man star trek TAS is a piece of shit, that piece of shit is so much fun

@j.2512

Ай бұрын

@@echoesofpast678 it didn't have a bunch of black lesbians, that alone makes it better than todays slop

Hot take: I actually enjoyed the design of Zilla. I liked that they went for a more "organic" or "animalistic" approach, as a creature that is a monster, not a monster that is a creature. So, instead of a mutated embodiment of the atomic bomb, we got a mutated wild animal, who's just trying to survive living in the (at the time) modern world. This all said, is it the best Godzilla movie made in the US? Heck. NO. But as you put it so astutely, it's nostalgic, and just plain charming. The acting was goofy, the scenes were goofy: all of it had that goofy charm to it, which (in a sense) nods to the older Showa-Era Toho films, in this respect alone. I think, honestly though, the VFX for the time were SO incredible, which is what encapsulated me as a kid watching this movie: the effects were so jaw-dropping. In fact, I hadn't seen Independence Day until I was a high schooler in 2010-14, which is crazy because Zilla '98 used the exact same VFX techniques from that movie, which again: for the time, was stupendously done. Best scene from the whole movie is the emergences of Zilla, from the Hudson River, and from the underground in front of Nick...these 2 points in the movie were amazingly done, and shot so well...I love it to this day. But yeah, Final Wars Godzilla needed to really slam Zilla into the Sydney Opera house and just obliterate it entirely, Toho needed that closure, haha.

I just binged every one of your videos in one night.

I'm a 36-year-old husband and father, and I was a preteen when this movie came out. I was absolutely obsessed with it. And not in that modern internet exaggeration of "absolutely obsessed". I mean its much more literal, Oxford English Dictionary definition. I had toys of Zilla in all sizes--the larger ones lit up and made noise. I had coloring books. I had dog tags I wrote "Godzilla Force" on top of in the same green and black sharpie markers to match the box art AND I wore them around. I had the Gameboy Color game based on the animated series based on the movie. I cut out and tore out advertisements for this movie from magazines that featured both promotional and concept art for the movie. During the animated series, I used an electronic typewriter my mother gifted me for Christmas and wrote the first three or so pages of a script for the sequel to the movie. Hell, I even repurposed this old silver-colored license plate frame my dad had laying in his closet to tape a sheet of printer paper inside of after I had written "Godzilla Force" in the same green and black sharpie markers and hung that above my bed. In hindsight, it was rather embarrassing, but man did I enjoy the fuck out of this movie and every bit of merchandise and media it spawned.

@V1nce_man

Ай бұрын

Quickly, GET THIS MAN MORE MERCHANDISE!

@kriskovichvaleria9108

Ай бұрын

I watched this film when I was 5 or 6. Destroyed VHS with the amount of times I rewatched it.

@iguana6513

Ай бұрын

This is the level of fan Godzilla just installs in people, it rocks absolute shit!! I grew obsessed in middle school to the same degree you did!! It ended up I had diagnosed autism but man was it easy to find a huge group of people online who were also mega Godzilla fans. A lot of my friends who I grew up with and I'm still close to are huge Godzilla fans too. It honestly has such a power to foster such a community, and I love how the 98' had that same effect too. Do happy to hear you had such a good relationship with it!!! I hope you kept some of the merch to this day!!

@disposable_income_andy

Ай бұрын

Fun fact: if you owned that giant full body trendmasters 1998 Godzilla (i believe just called ultimate godzilla?), then you own the singlehandedly most accurate piece of 98 Godzilla merch, because that toy was the one that was digitally scanned to create Zilla's CGI model for Godzilla: Final Wars.

@kevinw6814

Ай бұрын

​@@V1nce_man pfffftttthahahaha

You managed to provide two epic movie ideas in a single video: World War Zilla, and Gojira Vs. Zilla. Also, anyone else laugh at 22:00? Like, she ghosted him, came back to get a story, stole a VHS labeled "Top Secret" (which manages to get him fired), and then is like "You never said it was off the record." I mean, that's some top-shelf Audacity if I do say so myself.

Man, you could easily combine the two ideas you had for a whole new Zilla movie Make it so the cartoon version of Zilla layer eggs in the Panama Caribbean jungle, and make the swarm army fight the real Godzilla And showcase their differences in fighting and design. Now I want this to be a thing

This movie may have damaged US/Japan relations worse than Pearl Harbour, but I will always love it.

the funny thing is that Toho did the "silly Americans confused the giant T-Rex with Godzilla" joke twice; they also had that conversation in Shin Godzilla of all movies also, yeah the Cartoon series is great

@agustinvenegas5238

Ай бұрын

Wait fr? I watched that movie like half a dozen times and don't recall that😂

@Artista_Frustrado

Ай бұрын

@@agustinvenegas5238 yeah, it was a super quick line during one of the Briefings one of the characters whispers to another that the Americans also reported Godzilla sightings & the other tells him they probably saw a giant lizard or something

@teotlcipactli7530

Ай бұрын

Wait, that happens in GMK, but not in Shin, im pretty sure the whole thing in shin is than "nothing that big can be on land" so there's no presedent of a kaiju attack until Shin Godzilla appears

@TheIdealofGreed

Ай бұрын

​@@Artista_Frustrado I think that's from one of the Kiryu Mechagodzilla movies, isn't it?

@twoods265

Ай бұрын

@@teotlcipactli7530yeah I’m pretty sure the line in Shin is when they were naming him Godzilla. They said in a meeting “Godzilla is an American term for it. We’re calling it Gojira.” Or something to that extent.

Kevin Dunn, the actor for Sam Witwicky's dad is also in Godzilla 1998. Now my headcanon is that Sam's father experienced Godzilla, changed his name, and settled down with his wife and had Sam and now his son is cursed to suffer the same fate of trying to survive giant entities destroying shit. The Witwicky family curse.

@merrittanimation7721

Ай бұрын

The Witwickys aren't just cursed to deal with transformers, but all giant creatures

@nickthebabba7767

Ай бұрын

Godzilla VS Shia LaBeouf Who’s coming out on top?

@gormold4163

Ай бұрын

I was going to comment on how we have evidence in the transformer movies that the Witwicky family goes back for centuries, but then I remembered that every movie retcons the transformers origins, so it would only be fair to do that to the humans too.

@kylenielsen5083

Ай бұрын

The Witwickans will never leave them be.

@geekymetalhead5112

Ай бұрын

​@@nickthebabba7767 OPPPTIIIIMMUUUUUUSSSSS

16:00 Is wild, cause that's literally what Godzilla did in Godzilla 2014.

I don’t know if you read comics, but Zilla appeared in rulers of the Earth. Yeah Godzilla mopped the floor with him, but Zilla pulled his weight with the other Toho monsters when Earth was invaded by aliens. You can look up his other appearances in wikizilla.

I mean, that many babies need a lot of food so... it kinda makes sense to lay eggs in a place full of easy prey.

@EvilOverlord1662

Ай бұрын

Yeah, a major city like New York! Or Tokyo!

@CapnShades

Ай бұрын

Or Los Angeles. Maybe even Seattle.

@eduardo_carvajal

Ай бұрын

Yeah, keep that copium rolling 😂

@theshlauf

Ай бұрын

Good theory. That would explain why it would lay it's eggs in the middle of a city. But it wouldn't explain why Zilla swam from the middle of the Pacific to the Eastern seaboard, ignoring the warmer waters and all the populated areas along the way.

@wkadams88

Ай бұрын

Come on man, the Knicks aren't THAT bad.

Man, 9/11 had a way bigger effect on cinema than I thought.

@freeamericanthinker558

Ай бұрын

You're now just realizing this?

@j.a.g.8689

Ай бұрын

What makes you say that

@WaallyOne

Ай бұрын

You'd be surprised on its effect with the whole world

@Juice8767

Ай бұрын

You must be young, that changed the culture of our country (assuming you’re American)

@williamdaviddiazcuchimaque7511

Ай бұрын

Deberías ver spiderman y Lilo y Stitch

26:15 Visual Design Consultant of the animated series has the same second name like Matthew Broderick in the movie. "Tatopoulos" Now that's some weird Trivia. 😂

I remember this movie was technically my first exposure to Godzilla. I had never actually seen it (still haven't lol) nor any others but I had this action figure of this movie's iteration of "Godzilla" and it took a long night of scrolling through Netflix for me to realize that that was who it was. edit: 27:19 that one that one right there that was the one i had

Roland Emmerich never fails to disappoint us in new and inventive ways.

@n3rdy11

Ай бұрын

It's weird how he has this terribad reputation nowadays, in the 90s his name was a really big thing that attracted people to the teathre, like Steven Spielberg.

@MusicoftheDamned

Ай бұрын

​@@n3rdy11It's pretty much his own fault given almost all his films after the IMO overrated but I guess still decent first _Independence Day_ have been rather crappy. His last actually good film was arguably all the way back when he (apparently) did _Stargate_ the movie, which just makes it feel like a fluke given everything that came afterwards. For all of Mr. Spielberg's own recent bad movies after 2000, he at least still has way more than only one or two good films to his name. It's even funnier when Mr. Emmerich basically was being hyped up despite clearly wanting to focus on a genre--disaster movies--that was already overall dying before he even came on-scene. And then basically the same genre died even more after 2001/09/11 but the guy just never really adjusted to that, instead choosing to repeatedly run already questionable ideas that likely woild have struggled with new climate further into the ground with awful writing. It says a lot that even that the closest to mainstream success his films got after 2000 was the conspiracy theory doomsday one that _2012_ was.

The thing I remember most from this era is the cartoon episode where some guy is mad at the world so he sits in his apartment seething so hard it creates a kaiju that Godzilla can’t even defeat. They basically give the guy a therapy session to beat the monster. Edit: Ok it’s called what dreams may come from season 1 and i misremembered it a bit. He’s mad and his dreams create the monster.

@totalNERD-eo7wx

Ай бұрын

What

@Cardinnall

Ай бұрын

the fuck?

@blkids2736

Ай бұрын

Huh?

@AnonymousSilence-nd3zb

Ай бұрын

The man snorted so much copium over failing in life, it created a kaiju LITERALLY out of thin air.

@pengwin_

Ай бұрын

thats VERY japanese.

The Jurassic Park arguement is a very good point. One I'd never thought of because I didn't watch Jurassic Park when I was a kid.

Yoooooo, that jab at that hack fraud Stuckman was great. Well done, sir!

THANK YOU for mentioning the animated series. That show was actually my introduction to Godzilla as a whole, and was a big part of my childhood. After my love for the series was rekindled by the Monsterverse, I was originally disheartened to hear that people didn’t like the 1998 version. Only to realize that they meant the movie, not the show, which made me happy to hear.

@Ryan-ld2nj

Ай бұрын

To this day, every now and then for some reason, I will say "and Godzooooooooookyyyyyyyy" The old cartoon was awesome.

"I still don't know how you got pregnant, you're entire suit's a big rubber!" - King Kong 2024

@toainsully

Ай бұрын

"CGI is tedious. No wonder I'm just a guy in a suit" - Final Wars Godzilla

@j.2512

Ай бұрын

@@toainsully it really is, 2024 and there's still no way to make a city crumbling feel impactful with cgi. There's no suspension of disbelief

@n3rdy11

Ай бұрын

@@j.2512 Pacific Rim came pretty close with the CGI, it also manages to add scale/weight that rubber suits don't do well in their tiny model cities. I wonder if the ideal is a mixture between CGI and practical effects, to get the best out of both worlds?

@awandererfromys1680

2 күн бұрын

@@n3rdy11 It is. There's a four-parter called _"NO CGI" is really just INVISIBLE CGI_ that kinda illustrates this perfectly. Well worth a watch.

BRO WHAT? THAT RAPTOR SCENE UNLOCKED A CORE MEMORY I THOUGHT THAT WAS A JURASSIC PARK MOVIE AS A KID NOT A GODZILLA MOVIE WHAAAAAAAT

Hi, self-professed Godzilla fanatic desperately resisting the urge to commission a Shin Godzilla themed toy with irradiated silicone from Bad Dragon here (because you just want to FEEL the burn sometimes), your point about showing Godzilla 98's design to someone unfamiliar with it or its history and them not being able to recognize it as Godzilla is spot-on. My wife watched a lot of Godzilla movies with me and has become fond of them over the years. At her workplace breakroom, there was a movie playing on the television, and she sat down to watch some of it on her lunch. She came home and asked me if it sounded familiar because she had no idea what it was. She described a dinosaur with weird spikes on its back digging tunnels throughout New York and everyone in the movie was an idiot. Then she said "it kind of roared like Godzilla." And I said "Yes, it did. Thats about all the Godzilla there was in that movie."

@albertoiii1205

Ай бұрын

Just use sri racha sauce as lube and pretend it's radiation

Watching this as a kid has left core memories in my brain. The Godzilla design might not be authentic but it was super cool to a 6 year old

@adamhastie8439

Ай бұрын

Didn't expect to see you here

@user-fl4el2mq2x

Ай бұрын

@@adamhastie8439same

(0:54) The *'That's a lot of fish'* line perfectly sums up this entire movie.

@nono9543

Ай бұрын

Before I even got to that part I knew what the line was gonna be

@tonythekillab8189

Ай бұрын

Same. Doug Walker's legacy is eternal

Dude how are all of your videos unbelievably high quality. You are crushing it!

@TheGrammarPolice7

21 сағат бұрын

If you have a question, you need a question mark. A period does not convey the appropriate tone of a question. "How are all of your videos unbelievably high quality?"

You can hate it and you can despise it all you want, but i vividly remember this movie as a highlight of my childhood, and to this day, i still love it. Granted, it may be through rose tinted goggles, but it’s still my first exposure to Godzilla, and damn it, I’m gonna enjoy it whenever i can.