A Retrospective on Godzilla (1998)
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- Опубликовано: 24 окт 2017
- We all have those movies we remember from when we were younger that we think back on with fond memories, regardless of the quality of the film itself, and for me
one of those movies has always been the 1998 version of Godzilla. I've mentioned in the past that this was one of my personal favorite guilty pleasures and I figured
I'd revisit the film and actually analyze it for the sake of the channel having something different for a change of pace. After viewing the film again,
I have a lot to say about it and thought you guys might like to hear my thoughts. When this thing came out it was advertised all over the place and a lot of kids like
myself were super excited to see a new version of Godzilla, with the Special Effects of Jurassic Park. Now back in that time of my life, I would stay up late some
nights and watch TNT's MonsterVision, which would show a ton of Godzilla movies every now and again. These old Godzilla movies got me really interested in the series
as a kid and I can remember getting a ton of Godzilla toys from the Japanese Heisei movies being made in the 1990's that same year the American remake came out. I
thought Godzilla was cool! He was a big dinosaur that smashed cities and fought other monsters. Nothing more and nothing less really. When it came time for me to
watch the new movie in theaters, I left pretty happy with what I had seen. Now nearly 20 years later, revisiting it from a critical standpoint is pretty interesting.
A lot of Godzilla fans seem to hate on this movie for being so radically different from the old Godzilla movies they used to love from the 60s and 70s. I sort of
understand why, but at the same time I don't find that as a valid argument when discussing something that was inherently made to be Americanized...especially in the
way this movie presents itself as somewhat of a satire.
These are my quick thoughts on Godzilla 1998 and I do not show the Godzilla 1998 Trailer and just give a Godzilla Review or more like a Godzilla 1998 Review with some of the Godzilla 1998 Commercial stuff from this Godzilla Reimagining featuring the Revenge of Godzilla with a Remake of Godzilla back in the day. The movie has the infamous Godzilla Dies Scene and would probably have been on Godzilla Monster Vision today in a Retrospective of Godzilla but than we must remember the weird Godzilla P Diddy song and why some people say Godzilla 1998 Sucks but that Godzilla 1998 Reaction is a bit forced and the Godzilla 1998 Scene I always loved was the one with Godzilla 1998 Fire which is better known as the Godzilla 1998 Fire Scene from the film. Not to mention the Godzilla 1998 Eggs and the Godzilla 1998 Babies or the animated shows Godzilla the Monster Wars and other keywords I could tag. 
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Great video. It's a guilty pleasure of mine also.
Im a hardcore Godzilla fan and to be honest, i never hated 98! Godzilla
meets Jurassic Park and Friends, i always liked the Zilla movie.
Bastizilla Interesting comparison he makes between this film and "Friends." I never watched a lot of "Friends," but I can see why Klayton here sees the human characters here that way.
Bastizilla i do tp
I don't know I don't like it that much you just not the original Godzilla with the atomic breath and all the powers like the other Kaiju and I even had to change the name to Zilla LOL that should tell you something
I agree with you
That movie made me love zilla
I met the actor that was in the Gojira suit in the first Japanese films while seeing the newest Godzilla film opening night in Japan. He sat about 5 seats down from me in the theater and clapped and cheered. It was a great experience, and may he rest in peace now.
That’s a lot of fish
I wouldn't call it a guilty pleasure, I can say without a doubt that I truly loved this movie!
Godzilla 98 and The Lost World were definitely movies I loved watching when I was a kid. Re-watching them now, I see the flaws and gripes people have with them and agree, but damit do they still give me that 90s nostalgic feeling. All I can think of when I watch them is how many times I rewound those VHS tapes.
Dude. 100% agree with you. It’s not a great movie but it is entertaining. Honestly, I feel like the 2014 Godzilla movie portrays the character of Godzilla better, and overall is the better movie, but this one is genuinely more entertaining. I have to be in a certain mood to watch the 2014 Godzilla because it is so long and you don’t see Godzilla that much. At least this movie gives you consistent action.
Also the animated series that spawned from this movie is actually pretty great.
That's actually a pretty good way to see it.
Love Godzilla 1998, my childhood right there
NM Desertadventure Mine too.
The real highlight of this video is taco bells old mascot may they bring it back one day.
not with current pc culture but maybe once it dies down will see it
But he passed
I actually found the cartoon series that followed to be quite entertaining :-)
I agree! I thought it was a very good show actually!
Sounds like you have good judgement :-) I also followed you on Twitter (I think?), when I noticed your post about the new RUclips system. And if that is you, trust me when I say I feel your pain in that area.
I liked it too...
MythicTyrant yeah I remember watching it as a kid
Same goes for me
the movie was good to me in my opinion
honestly, I really only liked the movie because of the "Jurassic Park" style you mentioned. because back in 2002, I had seen all three Jurassic Park films (and was desperate for a forth to come out) so Dinosaurs where heavy on my mind, when my dad brought home a movie for is to watch called "Godzilla" I was overly excited that the movie felt kinda like a installment in the Jurassic Park franchise, (I used to do fantasy battles between baby Godzillas and Velociraptors) we still have that original DVD that my dad bought all those years ago. In the bonus features there was a pair of trailers for the 1991 and 1992 Godzilla films. that was when I first learned about the other Godzilla films that had been made (I thought the rubber suits looked so cheesy) , so I really have to thank Godzilla (1998) for introducing me to one of histories most famous fictional monsters.
At least they didn't kill Walter White after selling him as the lead. Crystal Chef was at least worth two hours on film.
The Heisei Godzilla series is my favorite, i grow up with the last 3 Heisei movies. My favorite of all time is Godzilla vs Destoroyah.
I used to own Godzilla vs King Ghidorah on VHS back in the day and around '97 saw Godzilla vs Biollante in a WalMart and begged to get it! I loved the Heisei series in the 90's!!!
Godzilla vs King Ghidorah is in my Top 10, the scene where Godzilla kills Shindo is a really awesome moment.
Tokyo S.O.S. for me; great remake of "Godzilla vs Mothra", I thought, with Mecha-Godzilla thrown in for good measure (Terror of Mecha-Godzilla being another fav of mine. For satire, though, you can't top "King Kong vs Godzilla".
Bastizilla amen to that. Destroyah is my Boi
There is no guilt when i watch this movie it is genuinely my favourite godzilla film. I remember my parents got me the movie on vhs and i would always lose it but every time i found it hidden away wherever i would instantly grab it and watch it again.
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who keeps this film as a guilty pleasure.
I'm ashamed to say when I saw first this in theaters I chickened out when the baby Godzilla's started attacking but I went back the next day when my dad told me Godzilla survived the torpedo attack. I also watched the movie on vhs so many times I could quote the movie word for word. I got the whole cartoon series on dvd as well.
You should review Godzilla 2014 and the upcoming Godzilla Netflix Anime
Eventually I'd love to find time to talk about all of them but it will have to be here and there as Jurassic Park is the bulk of what I do here haha!
Don't forget Shin Godzilla.
I hate Godzilla 2014, at least with the 90s version you get to see the monster throughout the movie.
Ancient Hoplite that's so true and it's badass how the military fights zilla
Whoops I forgot about shin gojira yea thanks assassinwarrior he should review that movie too
I'm a little surprised you didn't go into how this Godzilla got renamed Zilla in Japan and was used in the movie Final Wars and introduced into the comics. Or how one Godzilla movie references this as "there was a monster attack in New York. They thought it was Godzilla but it wasn't."
This was just my thoughts on this individual movie. I may talk about some of the other Godzilla movies in the future and how they treat this one retroactively but this particular video was just on the American Remake.
Godzilla 98 is definitely one of those movies where you watch as a child and have fun, then years later come back to it with a lot of nostalgia and appreciation for the movie, but at the same time ask yourself: "......holy crap I LIKED this as a kid?!"
TVJUNK85 I still love the film and never question it.
GODZILLA 1998 is a great movie. The thing is that it's totally different than the normal Japanese Godzilla and Jurassic Park movies it's compared to. It's just simple fun with no hidden big picture or anything. I LOVE IT.
End of The Lost World meets an episode of Friends is a PERFECT way to describe this movie. Lol. And looking at the time it was made and the way Hollywood is. I could easily see that description being tossed around in early board meetings about the movie. “Jurassic Park meets friends with a little bit of Independence Day thrown in there.”
lol so true!
Is it the worst godzilla movie? Hmmm... (godzilla jr talking) hahaha
GODZILLA SAY I SHOULD LEARN TO FIGHT LONG BATTLES
i laughed so hard on that one
One of my favourite movies as a kid. The animated show was cool too.
Yeah I was a big fan of the show when it came on back in the day.
This spawned a cartoon didn't it? The animations on it looked awesome!
Yeah it was a pretty great show!
This channel is nostalgia overload, time to binge videos on movies I haven't watched In over a decade!
lol Thanks! haha
I’m a die hard Godzilla fan along with my parents. But we still love and appreciate this movie.
When I was a kid I F-ing loved this movie. Saw it 3 times in theaters. As a adult I like it for what it is. Stupid fun. Nothing more.
always loved this movies as a kid and never kknew why people disliked it
Because the only connection to the franchise is the name, it's awful, it disgrads Godzilla as a character and the movie that could've been... Search Godzilla '94 to see what I mean.._
Malarky96 yeah, right?????people are weird
I really love this movie we my brother and i seen it on the big screen. Its still fun to watch over and over, ive grew up watching the classics Godzilla movies as a little kid. Yes its not that original Godzilla, hell even the new American version hardly shown Godzilla. This film is a great joy to watch over and over! I cant say that to other Godzilla movies..
When I was very young I legit thought it was a JP movie... (I still liked it more than JP 3 lol)
As a kid I love watching Godzilla and Jurassic Park those two movies I love so much when I was growing up
This was definetely the only godzilla movie I enjoyed watching :)
I really did have a massive love this movie growing up as it was my first kuiju movie and my first 'godzilla' movie but looking back I may just be recalling the brief animated series that tristar made. which having watched the whole series a few years back, 2012 or 2013 if I recall correctly it has aged surprisingly well, as apposed to other cartoons of that time. but I'm glade that you've given 1998 a far shake
Oh, my god. YES! You nailed it, it’s exactly the end of the lost world meets friends. That’s one hell of an awesome analogy.
Thanks lol
As a kid I was honestly sad when Godzilla died in the end.
Klayton! You're a genius! I couldn't describe this film better myself! I hated the movie at first when I watched the bootleg in 98. But, I began to enjoy it with each rewatch. I love how you encapsulated it completely with Lost World meets Friends. It is so true!
Thanks for the New insight! As always, take care!
It falls under the 90’s “disaster movie” theme more than a Godzilla movie. And when you think of it like that it’s a lot more enjoyable.
That’s Roland Emmerich’s thing isn’t it? Disaster movies
It's a rom com that just so happens to have a giant fire breathing dinosaur in it. Still really enjoyed it as a kid though.
The Zilla classification has always worked for me. The problem the film had was being called GODzilla, if it was just called Zilla and like you said if the tone of the movie was more consistent than this could have been a classic. The scenes that work, and hold up do so magnificently.
One of my favorite guilty pleasure films, I think you nailed it with all your thoughts in this video.
Finally, someone that don't just trash the movie.I like the movie, grow up with it, I understand that is not a good Godzilla movie and that fans can dislike it, but the monster and the scenes he is in the movie are great and very fun to watch.A guilty pleasure, grew up with this and Jurassic park and I still love both of them.
man does that movie bring back childhood memories. Loved it. Don't care what anyone says
Definitely a guilty (but not really guilty) pleasure of mine, too! I actually first saw this movie because it happened to be on TV and I noticed Matthew Broderick was in it and I was a big fan of his for a while when I was a teenager. I remember thinking that Matthew Broderick plus epic giant moster was one of the best things ever lol. Even then I never took it seriously, and the awkward "human plot" side of it was hilarious to me, in a "so cheesy and terrible it's good" kinda way. I love "monster movies" of all varieties, so I became immune to low-quality CGI effects pretty early on. That's always made it super easy to just sit back and enjoy the '98 Godzilla film and basically take it at face value; I'm fairly easy to please so long as a movie has cool creatures and action and explosions xD I mean, I love a good plot and characterizations, etc. but the more simple (and seemingly stupid, at least to some) movies tend to be my go-to feel-good favorites :)
Zillas aesthetics are beautiful, as a dinosaur lover it's perfect
I used to love this movie as a kid, then I got on the hate train due to how it varied so much from the original Godzilla, then I began to re-appreciate it. I decided to look at it without putting it next to the other Godzilla films, and found out I really enjoyed it.
This was the first godzilla movie I ever saw and It's my 4th favorite godzilla movie. It slowly always goes up. Always loved it and always will
subbed after this. I've been enjoying your stuff more and more :)
littlebrennan3 thank you!
This was the movie that got me into Godzilla when I was young so I have a heart for it. Plus I loved the design of him. But after he was renamed Zilla, I just look at it like it's own monster movie that the characters in the film confused for Godzilla.
This is a totally guilty pleasure for me. It came out when I was still in primary, and for someone who grew up with the Jurassic Park films, this is something I can put on and just laugh my way through it. It's popcorn entertainment, plain and simple.
I'm not a die-hard Godzilla fan. So I can't see what all the fuss is about. But Godzilla 1998 is a spin back to better times in my life, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
The fuss is from Godzilla fans who mainly know the source material and felt like this movie has no respect for it (which they’re pretty much right about, because the director blatantly said he never had respect for it in the first place), but that’s a whole other discussion and I won’t burden with it...
I saw this in theaters & enjoyed it as a fun monster movie. There were even 2 Godzilla animated series. One was based on the 1998 movie.
This movie was my entire childhood
Struggled with it for years. Realised Jean Reno was the real main human character. Watched a few Emmerich movies with his commentary... Suddenly understood.
And I think, this vid nails it.
Thanks haha!
I loved this movie as a kid, my parents showed the movie to me.
I want more retrospectives! This was awesome!
More to come...someday lol! Glad you liked it haha :D
I'm with you on this! always been a pleasure for me and wasn't anything guilty about it until I realized how critically panned it was. even to this day I really enjoy it for all the right and wrong reasons!
*and this from a major OG Godzilla fan
To me this movie has gotten a better reputation over the years and yeah it was a guilty pleasure for me as well. It's pretty fun when you don't take it seriously since few Godzilla following the first are truly any good. G-man is fun so just enjoy yourself and don't take it seriously.
I liked this movie very much at least. It's nostalgia for me.
A fresh subscriber here! I totally agree with your analysis and enjoy your content a lot. You sure got me with the "raptors" part there :D
Thank you! :D Welcome to the channel!
As a Hardcore Godzilla fan and collector, I enjoy this film. It’s definitely not the worst Godzilla film and it is certainly NOT the cheesiest.
Dude, love your videos! You should start doing some more Godzilla videos as well, since he's coming back in many different mediums and popularity. Maybe do a Shin Godzilla review?
Jacob Williams I have seen that movie...soooo maybe in the future lol! Thanks for the support!
As a hardcore Godzilla film who has watched Godzilla 1998 I'll say this.
The plot is pretty much the standard Solo Godzilla formula but with a 90s American twist to It.
If Godzilla wasn't killed or killed so easily it would probably have had better reception at least from fans.
And this is the first I've ever heard of the humans being copies of the 'Friends' characters and it's true as well.
*Joe Bob Briggs lives in my neighborhood. He is my favorite Texan celebrity. I must have asked him to autograph hundreds of items by now. He is a fucking genius and a hell of a nice man.*
I remember loving the romantic aspect of this movie (I was 12 when it came out and still very into the movie romance lol). I LOVED your analogy of a cross between JP: TLW and Friends! Brilliant!
This movie is definitely a guilty pleasure movie. I should watch it again! Thanks for this video. Top notch like always!
Natasha Mooney thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Love your channel!
Thank you! I appreciate the support! :D
Hi, just stumbled upon your channel after a dozens of Jurassic Park arcade games bingewatching!
I really enjoyed your Jurassic Park Universe trivia videos!! Good work!
This Godzilla 98 AND The Animated version were also my guilty pleasures! It's just that this version of Godzilla is in my opinion, waaaay cooler than the original, bulky, slow moving one.
Thanks for the compliments man! And I really appreciate the support! I'm glad you like my stuff and this movie too haha and I have to agree, this Godzilla interpretation is the coolest in my opinion as well
I feel very nostalgic about this film. Remember seeing it twice upon release, having the toys, the VHS. Don't think it's that bad, just silly and cheesy and as you say very self aware. I can revisit it every so often and have fun with it. It's my absolute favourite guilty pleasure. Oh and Jean Reno's performance is outstanding.
Awesome video. This movie along with Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen are my absolutd favourite guilty pleasure movie of all time.
I'm glad that there are fans like me who love this movie and accept it for what it is, thank you you rock keep up the good work!
Robert Savageau thanks man!
Klayton Fioriti You're welcome!
The sounds effects from this movie are the silver lining in my dreams. I still think about a fleet of fishing trawlers getting dragged away all the time 20 years later. That wasn't cool?
I remember watching this as a kid. My dad asked me what dinosaur it was and my brother and I were debating on what it was. Then when I heard the military say "Godzilla" I realized that it was Godzilla. My reaction was, "this isn't what Godzilla looks like". But I still enjoyed it either way.
That cartoon that came from it and the storyline for the canceled sequel were actually pretty good.
Agreed
I loved 1998 Godzilla it was the 1st Godzilla movie I was introduced to and got me totally interested in the Godzilla franchise and the animated series was awsome to
My favorite Godzilla
Awesome video bro
Thanks man!
I am one of the few Godzilla fans, where this was my first Godzilla movie, and I LIKE it.
I love your videos brother!!! Keep it up !!! 💯💯💯💯😁😁
Thanks bro! I really appreciate hearing stuff like that!
HI I have been here since you had 200 subs I am so happy you got 9k u really hope you get 10k soon
Thank you! I really appreciate you sticking around and I'm seriously thankful you continue to watch my content! It really means a lot! Again, thank you!
Klayton Fioriti man your content is so good I can't stop watching it hell when I first saw your channel I went back and watched all of your vids
I'm glad you like my stuff! Its so awesome to make all these videos and have people react positively and enjoy seeing them!
Very apt description. Good dumb fun! I still enjoy it.
I love the content on your channel. I remember going to see this when I was 12 or 13 in the theater and had fun watching it. I had never seen a Godzilla movie before and just enjoyed it for a big dumb popcorn flick. I agree when Godzilla was going against the army was probably where it was at its best. I never thought about the human characters being like a Friends episode, but man are you straight on point on that. I still enjoy it as a dumb action movie to this day and just wish Godzilla had eaten Siskel and Ebert. Lol
Shawn Conder lol that would've been hilarious! Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad you got the friends analogy hahaha!
This film got me into Godzilla and as a kid this movie was awesome. As an adult well I agree it is deeply flawed but that doesn't bother me, in fact I never looked at it in a satirical way but that makes a lot of sense. I get why hardcore Godzilla fans don't like this film (also I can respect everyone's opinion) but for me it's my favorite out of the series and a fantastically fun guilty pleasure. I'm into filmmaking and I am in Montclair State University (and all the film school's on campus) and in the future I wanna remake this film and give it a badass approach with good and fun characters with a good amount of destruction.
It is a master pieces, I like the mood all rainy and wet.
I love the design of Zilla. This is the movie that got me into paleontology because of the theropod like design of it. I am now in graduate school studying vertebrate paleontology. Literally thanks to Godzilla
Thats awesome man! haha
This is my absolute FAVORITE Godzilla. My only problem is that he doesn't breathe nuclear fire.
It's a guilty pleasure of mine as well... I have a sealed copy of the film sitting on my desk...
I’ve been a huge fan of the original Godzilla and honestly this movie wasn’t really that bad. I actually really liked it. I’m pretty sure if it had a different name, people would be praising the hell out of it, but since it’s named Godzilla, it’s still getting hated on to this day...
Idc what people say its good to watch when nothing else is on love your videos have a good day
Thanks man!
I’ve always enjoyed this flick. It was goofy and a little derivative but I was never bored. And it is true that people taking issue with the outlandish aspects or even the overtly earnest ones should watch the original films before passing judgment. They are filled with committed super serious moments and also some of the goofiest shit ever seen in a monster movie. Good video.
I could never hate this movie, I've always liked it as a kid and still do. Obviously, some of my views had chanced on this films but I might make my own video about that...whenever I get to it.
People say this is a bad movie, but personally it's my favorite godzillia movie
I am a die hard fan of the Japanese Godzilla, but I love the 1998 Godzilla. I think they did it just fine. Also I am fine with Godzilla not fighting anything in the movie. I mean this is a re-boot of Godzilla 1954. I also am fine with the way Godzilla 1998 died. It gave us something different, and that is why I love it.
It definitely was a cousin to the Jurassic family kinda feel. & I would say the look of Godzilla or “Zilla” was beautiful. In a way a bit sexier less bulky. I wish there was a sequel I feel like that definitely had a great chance to be a decent film tbh. Yeah the cartoon was fun but we’ll never know...
I haven't seen it in a while, but I had a blast with this movie, its like Pacific Rim, stupid yet fun
I really loved this movie as a kid! I remember being so excited for it, and my parents dropped a huge surprise bomb on me when one night they said we were going to grab fast food for dinner and ended up pulling into our local drive in movie theater and buying our "ticket" for the movie. I got the vhs for either my birthday or Christmas when it came out, and got a bunch of the toys. Now, I look back on it with fond memories, but I don't love it as much anymore. I've grown to seriously dislike movies that shoehorn in human sub-plots and ESPECIALLY romances. Like, gross, stop sucking face, get back to the monster/dinosaur! Also, man that commercial took me way back. I loved that little taco bell dog, and miss him.
I saw this as a kid in the cinema so i love it. There is a childhood nostalgia to it for me. Hell i still have my zilla comforter blanket with the twin towers on it
Admittedly one of my guilty Pleasures, and I had a really cool Time in Cinema back then.
one of my favorite Guilty Pleasure
This is pretty good. I love your retrospective of this movie, and I do mostly agree with your statements. As a Godzilla movie, it sucks ass, but as just a dumb fun, movie it's not that bad. Even I have nostalgic memories of this movie and I didn't really think that hard of it to compare it to Godzilla. Yes, like everyone else, I understand how terrible it is compared to the toho and legendary Godzilla films, but just looking at it as its own thing, it's pretty interesting and entertaining to watch. Certainly better than godzilla's revenge (I recommend watching that awful movie if you're on steroids). Anyways, I do like this retrospective view on this movie and I hope you do more of these, i wanna see you do a retrospective of Godzilla 2014 and the toho movies.
Don't forget super scary Saturday on TBS!
lol too cool man too cool!
A lot of people don't seem to like this version of the Godzilla creature, let alone the movie. I personally don't mind this one. In fact, I think I might like Zilla slightly more than the regular Godzilla. To draw parallels to Jurassic Park, if Godzilla (like the one in the 2014 movie) is like the T. Rex of the Kaiju, Zilla (Godzilla 1998) is the Velociraptor. It's even something they expanded upon in the follow-up cartoon series.