by planetxleader » Mon May 05, 2014 11:41 am
So me, Inferior Rodan, and Inui Takumi sat down on Saturday afternoon to watch this. We're showing Inui random Godzilla movies since he hasn't seen a lot, even though most of us dislike the Heisei movies, we figured Destroyer would be, um, historically significant (never got the whole way through because we were seeing The Raid 2 later that night and ran out of time).
I'll be honest.... the first, like, twenty minutes or so... they're actually kind of engaging. Everything before the title card is pretty intense, but the latter half of the intro and all the standing and sitting around and talking that follows is... yeah. But when the Destroyer creatures start making their presence known, there is some decent tension. The Aliens rip-off scene is still shoddy and shameless as hell but it has its moments.
It kind of pains me that there are actually a few neat-looking shots or cool atmospheric or stylish things in here (the rain during the tank battle, the shots of Destroyer reflected in the mirror and when he is being consumed by fire), amidst all the shoddiness. I remember reading the synopsis for the movie on Barry's Temple of Godzilla back in the day and being completely wowed (oh the nostalgia).
Anyway, I think all of a sudden I'm finding the Heisei series not as completely unwatchable as I might have previously felt (even though I did fall sleep through almost every film's climax when I first saw them). There are redeeming parts to them. They're still mediocre films. But I guess they're not completely horrible. Maybe.
"Vishnu takes on his multi-armed form, and says, "RAAAAAHHHOOO!!!'"