by Psycho Soldier » Sat Aug 16, 2014 6:40 pm
So I have a problem with this movie. Actually, I have many problems with it, but there's one I don't see mentioned too often. It has the audacity to end with a warning against space pollution - and (if the Blu-Ray subs are to be believed) plagiarizes Dr. Yamane's ending speech from the original in the process. Come on, now. This is the movie where people try to control Godzilla with psychic powers and build a gigantic penguin robot, and, of course, where SpaceGodzilla is a thing. Amid all this stupid BS, plagiarizing G54 just drives the nail in the coffin.
It's barely even humanity's fault that SpaceGodzilla exists anyway. It's not like humans fired a capsule full of G Cells into the outer reaches for aliens to find. Nobody was predicting that Biollante or Mothra would go into space after beating Godzilla, as I recall, and I doubt any sane person was thinking, "I hope those monsters don't get G Cells on the good space carpet."
I guess you could argue that our inability to predict the consequences of Godzilla's existence helped pave the way for SpaceGodzilla. I just feel there's not much hubris involved with SpaceGodzilla's creation, not enough to justify quoting G54 back at the audience.
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