by eabaker » Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:16 pm
Okay, I've commented on this thread a few times, but never posted a list. I'm definitely going to have to do it by tiers, with each tier just listed chronologically, and a lot of the placements are fluid, so some of today's tier 4 might be on tomorrow's tier 3, of this weekend's tier 5... In fact, while cutting and pasting chunks of this list from Word to the board, I reclassified a few.
Tier 1 - pretty much immutable, these are the Godzilla movies that I am flat-out in love with
Gojira
King Kong vs. Godzilla
Return of Godzilla
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Tier 2 - permanent unless a new movie comes along that matches or beats one
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Monster Zero
Son of Godzilla
Godzilla vs. Hedorah
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
GMK
Tier 3 - movies that I am pretty much always in the mood for, but don't quite love
Destroy All Monsters
Godzilla vs. Gigan
Terror of Mechagodzilla
Godzilla 2000
Tier 4 - movies I very, very much dig aspects of, but just don't always feel like watching
Ghidrah the Three-Headed Monster
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
Godzilla vs. Destroyah
Godzilla (2014)
Tier 5 - movies I enjoy, but can also be bored by if I'm not in exactly the right mood
All Monsters Attack
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
Godzilla vs. Mothra
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II
Tier 6 - movies that typically won't hold my interest for their whole duration
Godzilla Raids Again
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
Tier 7 - movies I consider pretty bad, but which I don't consider abject failures
Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla
Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla
Tier 8 - movies I consider abject failures
Godzilla (1998)
Tokyo SOS
Godzilla: Final Wars
Tokyo, a smoldering memorial to the unknown, an unknown which at this very moment still prevails and could at any time lash out with its terrible destruction anywhere else in the world.