by angilas » Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:52 am
Best thing about this film as with Final Wars, it can be used to pad the title monster's stats when it comes to online discussion battles. Final Wars as ridiculous as it was had Godzilla's upper limit of him beating 10 kaiju in one day (if you can include forcing X to transform), knocking out 3, killing the rest, before needing a boost from the Gotengo to beat his strongest foe yet, able to pinpoint a meteor headed straight to earth and survive the annihilation it causes and still fight etc...
SMG shows Showa Gamera taking on 6 kaiju and 2 space ships in one day before taking himself out to destroy the last, and thats his upper limit and fully cements his masochistic tendencies, Kaneko picked up on for the heisei trilogy. Apparently the lead super alien hero was a tough wrestler at the time too, kinda like Don Frye who was picked up for Final Wars was.
Still by far one of the worst films ever made, probably because they just wanted to capitalize off of Gamera after Daiei managed to survive the 70s barely, and it was just intented to appeal to children. The films themselves had fallen steeply since Gyaos, and probably the high point was the first 2, But this took it off the deep end. The turtle scene reminded me of the Brave in a way, but I appreciate that film and the battle in Nagoya 10x more after this. That Godzilla poster falling over towards the end where controlled Gamera is rampaging might be the closest we get to a crossover for a while if ever.