Between my Blu-ray of the first one, the channel and now TCM, I’ve seen all of them except King Kong vs Godzilla, which local library has, so I’ll probably catch it soon. They vary a ton in quality, but I was fully on board with the profoundly demented qualities of Hedorah (for example) but merely rolled my eyes at Megalon’s low budget ineptitudes.Big Ben wrote:May I ask how many Godzilla films have you seen? This is pretty standard and well, if you're not going to buy into the low budget aloofness (And I mean no offense in this statement) you best save your money. I wonder sometimes how much of Godzilla's success was because of genuine interest and how much was driven by it simply existing as a know money making quantity (Ex: Endless Slasher sequels) that people would simply go out to because it was a way to spend an afternoon. Don't get me wrong I love this type of stuff but I would be incredibly dishonest if I were to try and argue that all Godzilla films were quality films.movielocke wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:37 pmWow, Godzilla vs Gigan is incredibly terrible on its own (lack of merits) but also terrible even relative to the other films in the series, at one point, they put two Barbie dolls in a medium shot in one of the fake buildings being destroyed as though that were the same as human extras. Glad TCM aired it, because I was quite curious about the films not on the channel.
Godzilla vs Megalon for instance was shot in three weeks and I think it really shows.FrauBlucher wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 5:24 pmThe Godzilla movies that came out in the 70s were pretty awful.
But Gigan stuck out like a sore thumb as the worst film—However my dislike of Gigan could well be watching it after the mechagodzilla films, whereas megalon was on the heels of the cheesy “home alone” Godzilla movie, so at least it was return to form and not fifty percent recycled footage (and Gigan certainly recycles a lot of the Ghidorah footage as well, gotta reuse that hilarious lightning to the crotch shot!)