by eabaker » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:41 pm
While both Ghidorah and Destoroyah have their clunky elements, I find that Ghidorah's more engaging characters, cleaner narrative structure, and overall more graceful assembly (we spend a lot of time discussing Omori's screenwriting, the good and the bad of it, but I think his skills as a director tend to be overlooked; I think he got much better performances and brought a significantly more interesting visual style than Okawara ever did) make the illogical and inconsistent bits stand out for the most part only upon reflection, whereas Destoroyah feels like its script is tripping over itself the whole time, and Okawara is mostly just going through the motions to get the scenes in the can, so every little flaw just sits there on display.
Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world.