by MireGoji » Thu May 06, 2004 5:25 pm
Yeah, I like Godzilla 1985 (or as I personally refer to it, The Return of Godzilla - well, that's the title it was released under by Carlton Home Video here in the UK).
The humans were okay in this. I thought Maki was a complete and utter jerk over photographing the reunion of Okamura and Naoko (was that her name? I'm not much good with character names). Hayashida was good, I liked him - I would have thought he'd have been filled with hatred towards Godzilla, but as the good Professor says, he's "just trying to send [Godzilla] home". Oh, and the drunk was cool. What happened to him, by the way? From what I could tell, he just fainted, but I read somewhere he got killed.
As for Godzilla himself, he was neat too. His look really brought a sense of real size to him. The only thing I though was wrong with Godzilla was his eyes. The cybot Toho created was a very neat idea, but I felt it didn't quite gel.
The music was brilliant. I think that covers that aspect.
The special effects were great, especially the chain reaction explosion on the highway (yes, I know it was lifted from an earlier Toho movie, it doesn't make it any less cool) and the whole sequence at the nuclear power plant. The sequence with the red sky after the American and Soviet missles hit in the atmosphere was nice and eerie.
All in all, I like The Return of Godzilla. It has its flaws, sure, but doesn't every Godzilla movie?
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