Godzilla Media Mentions

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When GINO was coming out I had the most fun seeing Godzilla mentioned in the media: on TV and in magazines, mostly. The funny thing was that details of GINO were kept under wraps, so in order to mention Godzilla they had to talk generally about the Godzilla series and often used photos of the classic Godzilla. It was more about our old Godzilla than this new, unknown (and now very derided) Godzilla. I was ten, so I had to pester my mother to buy me, say, the latest Disney Adventures or Nickelodeon Magazine because Godzilla was on the cover.

Anyway, websites have largely replaced magazines, and I've seen lots of Godzilla related articles. Some neat, some cute, some really stupid.

This thread isn't for articles that just serve as news for the new film. This thread is for the more general Godzilla articles and ephemera that the interest for the new film is generating.

This segment from Fox New's Red Eye should be about the whole "Japanese fans say American Godzilla is fat" thing, but it really becomes about how two of the guys (it's that guy from Who's Line is it Anyway!) are Godzilla fans:

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/b ... la-too-fat

Two days ago I saw the tail-end of an MSNBC show where the host closed by describing the plot to Godzilla '54 and talking about how pop culture can be cathartic for society dealing with real problems. I wish I could find that right now, because I'd like to follow a Fox News link with a MSNBC one!

io9 has a few...

about the increasing size of Godzilla through the years:
http://io9.com/a-marine-biologist-expla ... 1571810591

about the unmade 'Volcano Monsters':
http://observationdeck.io9.com/the-firs ... 2/+bricken

The 'weirdest' giant monster movies:
http://io9.com/the-weirdest-giant-monst ... 1573573555

The Dissolve, a movie review site manned by former AV Club writers, did a review and roundtable write-up of Godzilla '54:
http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-o ... c-anxiety/
http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-o ... -godzilla/

[lhb412]

Popular Mechanics fluff-piece on Godzilla's impossible anatomy - complete with their own version of the now-legendary kaiju cross-section illustrations.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technol ... =pm_latest

NPR piece on Godzilla '54

http://www.npr.org/2014/05/02/308934760 ... la-endures

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The AV Club has been spotlighting classic Godzilla flicks all week, with Godzilla '54, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Monster Zero, and (today) Godzilla vs, Mechagodzilla.

http://www.avclub.com/search?feature_types=watch-this

[XvGojira]

Rooster Teeth Podcast talk about Godzilla acting like we do to insects, NSFW language.