Godzilla vs Destroyah

[Rodanex]

[SparkieGojira]

[SparkieGojira]

[Rodanex]

This may sound like a weird question, but why do so many people refer to this movie as Godzilla vs. Destroyah when the box cover explicitly says Godzilla vs. Destoroyah? I realize it's only one letter, but it seems like even well-established publications like G-Fan make this mistake. I mean, I never hear anyone talking about "Hedrah."

[CyHunter]

[Rodanex]

Hmm...I always heard that the official spelling was Destoroyah. At least, that's what it says in The Official Godzilla Compendium and, yes, I realize that the book has errors in it. The fact that the American title has that extra O made me lend some credence to that part of the book, though.

[CyHunter]

[musukogoji]

[CyHunter]

Isn't it also the name used in G:DAMM?

Well, in any case,

[anguirus23]

[Lord Ghidorah]

Yeah, and Godzilla has been pronounced "Godziller" more than once, so that's his real name.

Considering how badly some people think the timeline was screwed up by GvsKG (it never seemed much of a problem to me), and considering that we really don't get that good a look at the reborn Junior, I say we move around a few films and make Jr. the Godzilla "in" the late 90s during those 70s flicks. He got those funky martial arts moves from Miki's memories of sentai shows.

[anguirus23]

Godzilla has been pronounced "Godziller" occaisionally (and we know damn well it's an error). Destroyer has been pronounced "Destroyer" always.

LOL at the Junior thing though.

[CyHunter]

[HubZilla]

Just thought I'd drop a shameless plug into the conversation:

Michael's Godzilla vs Destoroyah Page
http://www.gvsdestoroyah.com/

It turned 5 about a month ago.

[Severn]

[anguirus23]

Ditto, ditto.

[CyHunter]

[HubZilla]

[Mechagodzilla2003]

[Rodanex]

[Mechagodzilla2003]

[angilas]

[Poe Ghostal]

I saw this film (Tri-Star American DVD version) for the first time the other night.

My verdict: slightly above mediocre (full disclosure: except for Godzilla 1984 and Godzilla vs. Biollante, I'm not really a fan of the Heisei series).

As for this film in particular...it had some interesting concepts. I like the idea of Godzilla "melting down," though I thought the light-up suit looked a little gaudy -- it was too obviously a suit. The notion of pre-Cambrian animals feeding off the oxygen-free environment, while conveniently timed to coincide with Godzilla's meltdown, was, again, an interesting notion.

But the execution...the aggregate-stage Destroyers looked awful, and the Aliens/Jurassic Park rip-offs were annoying. The humans weren't compelling, and more often than not, they were irritating (especially that Wesley Crusher-esque kid -- how the hell does he know that Godzilla will melt down at exactly 1200 degrees? That kid was a Mary Sue, pure and simple).

I did enjoy the fight between Junior and Destroyer, though.

Again, all of this is just my opinion. But someone wrote (somewhere on this board) that the Heisei series made them hate military characters, and I empathize. I applaud the Heisei series for its efforts to maintain realism but portraying a military constantly dealing with the Godzilla threat, but man, it got tired -- as David Kalat pointed out, the formula became tired as the military just threw mecha after mecha at Godzilla. (Super X, Super X-2, Mecha-King Ghidorah [yes, I know that wasn't the military], MechaGodzilla, MOGUERA, Super X-3)...