Legendary’s 'Godzilla' Squares Off With 'Shin-Gojira' In This Awesome Sketch By Matt Frank

I think the Legendary Godzilla wins!

The American version of Godzilla looked great but the Japanese make the better movies.

@Marvel72 Eh, I love the TOHO Godzilla films, been a huge fan all of my known life. But the Japanese Godzilla films, with the exception of good select handful, aren't films that set a high bar. In fact the bar is pretty low for a Godzilla film to be good or acceptable. Despite being made overseas, GODZILLA(2014) is definitely a Godzilla movie above most TOHO produced Godzilla film. And that's coming from a diehard fan here. It's mid-tier in my book, it's not perfect, but it's a good American produced film that's certainly above many TOHO entries.


Because you don't need to be Japanese to know how to make a faithful or good Godzilla movie, you just need to respect the source material, make Godzilla look, behave, and feel like Godzilla. And deliver a satisfying GODZILLA movie that TOHO and most of Japan would openly accept in approval. Which has all happened. Because again, you don't have to be Japanese to get Godzilla, you just need to have love for the franchise and know what you're doing. Same goes for any other popular tent pole that had a successful film or film adaption.

OniGoji - Ahhh I see, so it's just a couple of people not wanting to be beaten in their own game. I can sort of see why they said that "bow down" comment now. Thanks for enlightening me on the situation, I was honestly confused by that comment.

Also the new Godzilla director made Attack on Titans?! Yeesh, I know I shouldn't be judging a movie so early. But damn I hope this guy knows what he's doing with Godzilla.

@marvel72

THAT IS A SOLID LIST! :D Mine is very much similar with a few exceptions of having a bit more Showa films. None the less, a pretty good mix!

But allow me to educate for a moment.

Godzilla fans want more than just kaiju battles, what Godzilla fans truly want are stories, good enjoyable Godzilla stories. Battles alone cannot save a Godzilla movie if the story isn't good. And while production values, effects, and actors are strong departments that also make or break a Godzilla movie, if the story that the film is trying to tell doesn't feel like a good Godzilla movie, then it doesn't stand up.

Example, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla and Godzilla Final Wars, are considered within the Godzilla fandom to be poor Godzilla films. Both films had ton of Godzilla fighting monsters, but the story wasn't good leading to fans disliking it. Godzilla's Revenge is an obvious fail of a Toho Godzilla movie, although its reasons are quite clear.

Godzilla vs. Gigan while a fun movie to G-fans, isn't held in high regards because the movie uses mostly stock footage when Godzilla and Anguirus fight Ghidorah and Gigan. The stock footage and the less stellar story didn't leave a good impression for Godzilla fans. The only thing really great about it was Gigan and seeing 2 on 2 battles(when it was all new footage). Other then that, it's a film that while "fun" isn't great to the fandom.

Now that doesn't mean that you can't love those movies of course, hell I love Godzilla vs. Megalon! lol So by all mean, if they are solid to you, then more power to ya!

But GODZILLA(2014) was a different beast. No Godzilla fans wanted a big blockbuster Godzilla movie, they just wanted a Hollywood Godzilla movie that gave Godzilla the respect the icon itself deserved. And not be a repeat of 1998.

What Godzilla fans wanted out of GODZILLA(2014) wasn't a beat-by-beat Japanese Godzilla movie, all that they wanted was a faithful Hollywood adaption of TOHO's Godzilla that erased the 1998 film. A new film that not only unleashed a modern yet TOHO faithful Godzilla, but also give fans what they wanted back in 1998. Which was delivering a Godzilla movie where Godzilla felt, behaved, and looked like Godzilla, was indestructible, fierce-looking, fought monsters, and saved the TOHO franchise after the bombing of Final Wars. All while wrapped in a competent story that felt like a new venture in the franchise, and could set up bigger blockbusters. It didn't have to look like a TOHO Godzilla movie, it just had to respectfully feel like one in spirit and story. Which is definitely all had.

Don't get me wrong, it flaws, and it's not a perfect Godzilla movie. All fans have their subjective view. But GODZILLA(2014) is considered to be a successful Godzilla film in which America got Godzilla right.(And all it took was a 1998 film guide of "what-not-to do for a Godzilla movie", a G-fan British indie director, a movie production company who loved Godzilla-Legendary Pictures, and a stricter TOHO to make it all air-tight).

Now look what we have from its success, we have a full GODZILLA trilogy, we have Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan, and now we get a GODZILLA vs. King Kong movie! While some G-fans have their quirks with GODZILLA, it's very much well loved as much as the TOHO films. Not only for the things it set in motion, but for just being a good Godzilla movie in general.