by Dai » Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:36 pm
As a one-off, I like this design for having the guts to reflect the movie's (presumed, at this point) horror tone instead of bowing to the need for an aesthetically pleasing action figure mould. More than any other Godzilla design, this one conveys a creature in agony. Where GMK presented a straight-up evil Godzilla bent on revenge, here I see a victim twisted by pain and rage. We've always been told that Godzilla was burned and changed by nuclear tests, but I've never felt that in such a visceral way as I do looking at this design, where instead of undergoing the majestic transformation we're used to seeing in recent decades, he has been deformed, radiation eating away at him until he has become a nightmarish near-parody of however his original form looked.