TALKBACK #13: Godzilla vs. Megalon

[jellydonut25]

[The Real McCoy]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Kaiju Nexus]

[Goji 84]

I'd say that GIGAN had just as much stock footage, if not more, than MEGALON. The later "made the most of limited resources" a bit better IMO, because they made four new costumes, while GIGAN only had one made, didn't have a new score recorded, and used an embarrassing amount of stock footage for the monster battles (as opposed to MEGALON using it mostly for the JSDF). In GIGAN's defense, it features a hell of a lot more (new) set pieces, which is certainly better than MEGALON's "barren wastelands". Children's Land and the refinery sets, both look fantastic.

Don't get me wrong, I love both movies to death, and I'm not arguing which one is better, but while the score to MEGALON is grating to some, and the slightly more 'goofy' shenanigans make it seem like the cheaper made of the two, I'm not quite so sure that's really fair to say. They're both "poverty-level" Godzilla films, but MEGALON probably had more new (monster) footage in it overall.

Ultimately though, it doesn't really matter. Both are very entertaining, and none of the stuff that people generally complain about (stock footage, MEGALON's music, lack of familiar actors, etc.) bother me in the least.

[jellydonut25]

what strikes me the most is that Megalon could have used its budget more wisely, i think. Four new costumes and an all-new score...but still an overabundance of stock footage and that score...it stinks.


Gigan at least featured some city destruction that wasn't stock, which I prefer to seeing Megalon go on Ghidorah's rampage.

[Goji 84]

[eabaker]

[kiryugoji04]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Gman2887]

[eabaker]

[Gojilove]

[msunz27]

Happy 40th J.J. and Megaro!

[Jorzilla]

I recently watched a Japanese version of this film, and it was waaay better than I remembered (previously I only had a dubbed Pan&Scan VHS copy). I was surprised how violent the film was with the human cast. There were even boobies!

The monster action was okay.

Jet Jaguar was better than I remembered.

I liked the 2 main villains from Seatopia. Also the apprentice character (not the brothers) was more of a bad-ass than I remembered.

Stock footage still sucked.

Explosions were awesome.

In summary: I will probably need to re-evaluate where I place this on my ranked list of Godzilla films.

[Silver Kamen]

[MekaGojira3k]

I think it's kind of fun, not very good, but not as hard to get through as a Heisei film tends to be. : D

[Silver Kamen]

[MekaGojira3k]

[jellydonut25]

[Russzilla]

The movie itself may get some thumbs down, but Megalon himself has always been one of my favorite monsters. He would've been even more bad ass if he were in a serious Godzilla movie.

[Silver Kamen]

[lhb412]

Is it because of the Christmas tree horn or the Chrysler Building hands?

[jellydonut25]

[Silver Kamen]