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Well, I doubt that's the way he thinks because not all the battles are one-sided.

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Godzilla gets the tar beat out of him near the end by Gigan, Monster-X, and later Kaiser Ghidorah. Kaiser Ghidorah pretty much defeats him completely for a short time.


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Whatever the case, the one-sided battles are all grouped together in a sort of marathon of kaiju fights. You always know Godzilla is going to win because obviously he's not going to lose to Kamakuras, Kumonga, or Zilla (Hedorah and Ebirah don't even put up a fight). His one-on-one with Gigan is also far to early in the movie for you to assume he'd lose. The other battle that isn't so one-sided is the Anguiras, Rodan, and King Ceasar battle, though it's not particularly long either.

I think Kitamura simply wanted to pack as many foes for Godzilla as he could into one film, and the only way to dispatch them all within the confines of one movie is to have many short battles. If anything, it probably could be argued that GFW has too many kaiju.

-Anzildrah

I think a couple of excerpts from my interview with Kitamura may kinda help here. At least give some insight into his thinking.

KF: What do you feel that you have done in this film that has been missing in the prior Godzilla films?

RK: Power and speed, I guess. In the recent films, Godzilla was too week. I wanted to make this film thorugh
action and wanted to convey to the world that this is the return of the monster king, so the screen is dark and hard,
and monsters are speedy and powerful.

KF: How much research went into scripting the action for this film? Did you sit for hours watching other films in the series taking parts from other films or are we going to see totally original material?

RK: I have seen films, but I didn't do research just for this film. My favorite is the 70s energetic "Godzilla vs. Mechogodzilla" so I wanted to revive that energy to create a completely new Godzilla Final Wars would be classical and brand new film.

KF:. You are best known for your action films featuring great sword fighting such as Azumi and Sky High. How hard was it to incorporate your style of film making into a monster (kaiju) film?

RK: It wasn't too difficult to apply my style to this film - I don't consider myself an action director. I felt it was my mission to make this film the coolest and most powerful super-entertainment film more than the past Godzilla films.