Man, 20 years...well this one was awkward for me. Sure I was excited I even did a Power Point presentation featuring Godzilla in one of my college classes to promote the film
. But in May of 1998, I was 22 had just graduated from College, and was working part-time at K-Mart and still living at home with my parents.
(By the end of Summer, I would have my first professional job, a decent car, and move out on my own....
. But somehow, we had got tickets to actually see it on Tuesday Night (the 19th), at a theater about 25 miles form my home. At the time, I was still hanging out with a couple of buddies from high school. We were like this odd trio that went everywhere and did everything together. I had one girlfriend 3 years earlier, but that hadn't worked out, but another friend of mine had his first serious relationship. It lasted almost a year, and there was even talk of engagement! But sadly, about a month before, they got in some big fight and broke up. I tried to be the mediator and get them back together, but to no avail (even worse, I think she tried to rebound off me, and although she was cute, no way could I do that to my best friend of like 8 years at the time). But apparently there was some odd/weird promise she had made to see the Godzilla movie with him, and she intended to keep that promise. I don't know why he agreed. Heck I don't know why I agreed to go through with it. But there we all were, in a darkened theater. 3 of us guys, and the "ex" of my best friend.....Yeesh...
I don't even know if I saw it again theatrically after that. I do know that I thought I would try to be some "crack" reporter, and left a voicemail on JD Lees telephone for G-fan (I had his number, but I have no idea how I got it lol, it might have been in something he sent for being a subscriber at the time..) . I told him "It was great" LOL...what an idiot I was.
Sadly, 20 years later, the biggest take away from this is that when people ask "what was the first Godzilla film you saw theatrically" I resentfully have to answer this one, because people automatically assume I am younger than I really am. My parents didn't take me to Godzilla 1985 because its theatrical run was fairly short, and they just sort of "lost track" of time. I am told that some of the Cinema Shares films and Terror of Mechagodzilla did make the rounds in the late 70's, but I would have been only 2 or 3, and I don't think my parents would have taken me that young.
There are no more good TV Shows, only ones that haven't disappointed me yet.