Godzilla
1998 Directed by Roland Emmerich
Synopsis
Size does matter.
When a freighter is viciously attacked in the Pacific Ocean, a team of experts -- including biologist Niko Tatopoulos and scientists Elsie Chapman and Mendel Craven -- concludes that an oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan, destroying everything within its reach. The team chases the monster to Madison Square Garden, where a brutal battle ensues.
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Man in suit!!! Man in suit!!! Man in suit!!! Man in suit!!! Man in suit!!! Man in suit!!! Man in suit!!! Man in suit!!! Man in s.......hold on, what's that reject T-rex from Jurassic Park doing here?
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I know now you're all asking the question "why did Thaddeus watch the 1998 Godzilla?" Unfortunately the answer is fairly simple: I make a lot of bad decisions.
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There's never been a correlation between the name Roland Emmerich and subtle. I doubt there ever will be, and those brave enough to sit through his world ending explosion filled popcorn guff can truly say they've been treated to some amazing eye candy short on anything else.
Emmerich isn't big on character development. He really doesn't have to be as all of the crash bang wallop assailing your senses is meant to take your attention from the fact that any of his movie's characters have all the depth of a puddle and his scripts full of pages that say nothing but "in this scene something blows up and everyone dies except a dog."
In Godzilla, Emmerich made a big fucking…
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On the surface this should be a mildly entertaining blockbuster. But because it's so derivative, ludicrous, wooden, pathetic and just outright quite nasty, Roland Emmerich's Godzilla is one of the most contemptible blockbusters ever made.
What an utter, utter, utter piece of shit. Fuck you Roland, fuck you.
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Let's forget for a second that this is about a one of the most popular monsters worldwide, and think of it is a typical monster thriller. What a load of rubbish this was! And now let's remember that this is about one of the most popular monsters worldwide. What an even bigger load of rubbish this was! If Roland Emmerich wanted to make a bad monster movie than he should have made it with a nameless monster. To simply stick the name Godzilla on his work was never going to make it any better. It doesn't help that I really don't like Matthew Broderick, but this really was an unimaginative, lifeless piece of badly written dribble.
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After hearing that Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche may be joining the cast of Gareth Edwards Godzilla redux - www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=36632 - I thought it would be a good idea to revisit Roland Emmerich's "re-imagining" (remember the time that was a credible phrase in the movie world!?) of the movie monster legend. The question is: after 15 years has it improved upon its crapiness? The answer is a big fat NO. It's still a load of BOLLOCKS.
The most depressing thing about this Godzilla is that it even fails to make it into the "so-bad-it's-hilarious" category. The story is a simple set-up that screams big budget movie adaptions that a brain-damaged orangutan couldn't even mess up, until Emmerich and Dean Devlin came…
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A little bit Good but theres too much rain in these parts and none of audience seen Zilla in sunny daylight yet I didn't know that Kevin Dunn who did Ron Witwicky in Transformers series was in this film.
Not the least successful of all remake films but it does give Godzilla a new appearance to his spooty old fashion puppet suit self in the japanese monster films, When Godzilla: Final Wars finish the Franchise and TriStar Pictures has no chance to do sequels for Godzilla (1998 film) Warner Bros. & Legendary Pictures fulfill the reboot version of Godzilla next year.
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I like the film but it aint Godzilla folks
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There's never been a correlation between the name Roland Emmerich and subtle. I doubt there ever will be, and those brave enough to sit through his world ending explosion filled popcorn guff can truly say they've been treated to some amazing eye candy short on anything else.
Emmerich isn't big on character development. He really doesn't have to be as all of the crash bang wallop assailing your senses is meant to take your attention from the fact that any of his movie's characters have all the depth of a puddle and his scripts full of pages that say nothing but "in this scene something blows up and everyone dies except a dog."
In Godzilla, Emmerich made a big fucking…
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It's a terrible Godzilla movie, yes, but damn, if it isn't an entertaining monster movie overall. It's not great by any means, but it's a movie I'll watch from time to time just to turn my brain off for two hours and watch the city get annihilated by a giant creature. Not Emmerich's best, which still goes to 'Independence Day', but a "it's so bad it's good", fun film overall.
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roland emmerich's at it again
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On the surface this should be a mildly entertaining blockbuster. But because it's so derivative, ludicrous, wooden, pathetic and just outright quite nasty, Roland Emmerich's Godzilla is one of the most contemptible blockbusters ever made.
What an utter, utter, utter piece of shit. Fuck you Roland, fuck you.
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When I was very little, this was my favourite film ever. I had all the toys, I used to watch this almost everyday and I thought Godzilla was God. Literally, I actually thought God and Godzilla were the same thing. Either way, it was fair to say after I fell in love with this giant dinosaur sea monster motherfucker that I wanted to see more but my Mum never really let me see more and since I was without the necessary equipment to steal it all I had to make do with having my giant electronic Godzilla toy squash the little toy soldiers.
As a memory, this film would get 5 stars without a doubt - but here and now…
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Let's forget for a second that this is about a one of the most popular monsters worldwide, and think of it is a typical monster thriller. What a load of rubbish this was! And now let's remember that this is about one of the most popular monsters worldwide. What an even bigger load of rubbish this was! If Roland Emmerich wanted to make a bad monster movie than he should have made it with a nameless monster. To simply stick the name Godzilla on his work was never going to make it any better. It doesn't help that I really don't like Matthew Broderick, but this really was an unimaginative, lifeless piece of badly written dribble.
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Wow, this wasn't terrible!