TALKBACK #15: Terror of Mechagodzilla

[jellydonut25]

I THINK there might be something about the accidental nature of the two things in the Godzilla Compendium...but I'm not sure at all.

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[Goji 84]

With all due respect to J.D. Lees, the Compendium isn't exactly the most accurate of sources.

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[jellydonut25]

[lhb412]

^I believe Toho had them expunge any negative criticism, right?

[jellydonut25]

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[jellydonut25]

I don't know about a 12-year old...just a GUSHING fanboy, and given Lees' opinions on some of the films, I honestly never knew or thought to look into whether the Compendium had tweaks or alterations made to it...JD's opinions have rarely echoed my own, so I guess I just assumed the editorializing the Compendium were his own horrible opinions.

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[H-Man]

J.D. reviewed the first four Millennium Godzillas as "The Unofficial Godzilla Addendum" in G-Fan 68. He was much more critical of the films than he was in the Compendium. That's enough to suggest to me that Toho's influence resulted in the "gushing" reviews in his book.

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[jellydonut25]

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[H-Man]

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[jellydonut25]

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[MekaGojira3k]

I said this the other day on tumblr, but I'm not sure I've ever said it here. I feel like Terror of MechaGodzilla is a lot like Godzilla 1984 for me. It's one of those movies I don't think about all that often but when I watch it I'm sort of amazed I never gush about it the rest of the time. I'm not quite sure why that is. It may just be that neither makes quite the impression or lines up all the pieces quite to my liking like the films nearest to them (vs. MechaGodzilla and vs. Biollante), but both are very decent entries.

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[jellydonut25]

Mothra vs. Godzilla is "stock"?

No. No I say.

[MekaGojira3k]

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[TylerPreston20]

I love Terror of Mechagodzilla, it's definitely one of my favorites not only in the Showa period, but as a whole in the franchise, but I do find myself watching Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla a bit more. I did a comparison of the various openings for it on Facebook, however, I'm missing the "Terror of Godzilla" and UPA 80's creditless openings:
https://www.facebook.com/TylerPreston20

[jellydonut25]

I dunno if I've said it in here, but I think one of the things that kinda holds me back on this movie is that I so rarely watch it "in a vacuum" so to speak. I almost never just grab this one randomly when I want to watch just any-ole Godzilla movie, and so I almost always watch it in the context of the rest of the series and quite honestly, by the time I get to this point, even the Showa series, which I love dearly, starts to wear a touch thin and the oppressively depressing tone of this film tends to weigh it down a bit.

It's like, the 70s films wore a bit thin, but they were still dumb fun...and then this comes along and on top of feeling a bit tired, it's like a 90-minute sadgasm.