Momoko Kochi's role in Destoroyah is only one of that film's problems anyway. Right from the outset it's a lackluster effort! You get this great scene of Godzilla trashing Hong Kong, right? Except the composites are AWFUL because you just see everyone going about their everyday lives like nothing's happening! No one making the film cared enough to make that into the scene it should have been. It doesn't even need THAT much changed! I could make a more exciting and competent sequence than that! But even what excitement there is to be had here is lost as soon as we go to the next scene. What is it? A conference room. And everyone here is talking about this attack and the unusual new appearance of Godzilla with as much urgency as deciding if they want twelve doughnuts or thirteen. In the first five minutes, the film has already ground to a halt. And then it just got worse from there.
Were a movie with Megalon's PLOT released today then I would be ECSTATIC. Megalon's production values? Yeah, I would be fairly pissed. The thing about the 70s films that I've said again and again and again is that they were the product of a period where the Japanese film industry was floundering and there was no money to put into big special effects films. Toho kept making them anyway and the results are, for my money, extremely fun and creative given their limitations. Toho wouldn't have those limitations today so they'd have no excuse.
And any other Showa movie? Man, I would DIE if Toho came out with a movie as crazy and fun as Ghidrah in this day and age. The Showa films are fun and lively - full of life! - and the 90s films are NOT. They are boring, dull, and plodding to the Nth degree. At least that's how I feel when I try and sit through one. I can't. I'd rather take a nap.
