Godzilla 1998: The "Worst" Godzilla Movie

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

Sir, a second hellfire missile has hit the Chrysler building

Actually Siskle and Ebert weren’t as offend as you may think. If anything they were disappointed that they’re counter parts weren’t eaten. They were like if you’re going to insult us and makes use look bad in a monster movie then have use get eaten.

28:50 Funny thing Godzilla in Shin Godzilla (the latest Godzilla movie from Japan before Godzilla Minus One) involves Godzilla rapidly evolving into various forms (some of which are really bizarre) only to end up somewhat defeated in the end, then it's revealed in the final scene that it actually can now turn into a swarm of smaller humanoid Godzillas (an evolution happening specifically to counter humans), which is quite creepy and terrifying af ... hope you do review that movie and Godzilla Minus One alongside the Monsterverse movies.

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 .

big iguana

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!

I've always had this thought, 98 Godzilla was so weak because it was simply a mutant marine iguana. But it's offspring, Series Godzilla was stronger and more durable because it was born like that, it was never mutaed in its embryo state unlike its parent. Remember what Nick said, 'The dawn of a new species', 98 Godzilla was the foundation, Series Godzilla was the perfected form. Bigger, faster, possesses an actual atomic breath, able to tank conventional weapons even in its adolesant state. Overall, i believe that 98/Series Godzilla has potential in the long run.

"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!

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

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

"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*

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.

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.

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"

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."

I'm pretty sure every piece of media at the time (movies, video games, TV shows etc) portrayed New York as dark and always raining. I remember asking my parents as a kid "why is New York always raining?" just because of how common it seemed.

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.

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