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Emmerich and Devlin's take on everybody's favorite radioactive lizard is just fine. "Godzilla" kills a little bit of your time and lets you forget about all those bills you owe and how tall that grass is getting outside. Watch it with a bowl of popcorn and expect the expected: A huge lizard rampages through the Big Apple and tears up a few boats along the way. There isn't much else you can do with a "Godzilla" flick unless you throw in a great villain like Mothra. I liked the idea of a pregnant "Godzilla," but the baby G's resemble the velociraptors a la "Jurassic Park" too much.
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Granted, what are the odds that a huge radioactive lizard created by French nuclear tests will decide to pack up and settle in New York City? While it's in town, it'll stop off at Madison Square Garden and lay a few eggs. Then, it'll waltz out to the Brooklyn Bridge and let the military waste it. IT'S A MOVIE!!! That's all. It doesn't make you anymore aware of the plight of Greenpeace or some other environmental group. Your won't hate the French anymore than you already do. That isn't the point of this film. Emmerich and Devlin made this movie to make you act like Joey Lawrence and say "Whoa!" when Godzilla pops onto the screen. They did the same thing in "Independence Day." This movie has no substance or Oscar-winning performances. What it does is make you say things like "Doesn't the mayor look like Roger Ebert?" or "Man, Godzilla totally punked out those submarines!" It is pure, unadulterated fun and games. No moral message, no originality, no taste...just a fun movie about one tough lizard.
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Yuck. As someone who enjoyed the Godzilla movies a lot when I was younger (even if a lot of them seem rather cheesy as an adult), this movie is a total disgrace to the Godzilla name. Roland Emmerich totally changed up Godzilla for the worst in this movie (he gets killed by conventional military weapons, which everyone knows NEVER kill Godzilla), and it doesn't help that the story and acting totally suck. Watching this movie once at the age of ten was way, … more
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There's been worse movies than the American version of "Godzilla". I haven't seen any, mind you, but I've heard of them. Manos, the Hands of Fate, "Plan Nine From Outter Space", and Catwoman (Widescreen Edition) are all alleged to be pretty hideous. Most anything put out by Michael Bay is awful. The less said about Batman & Robin (which I have actually seen), the better. But there's a special place in my heart for this movie. A deep, dark, unpleasant place. You see, I actually … more
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October 20, 2002
I have a feeling that Godzilla is going to fall into the same camp of "cinema non grata" as ID4, for films is based in Manhattan which revel in the spectular demolition of iconic buildings are going to be in questionable taste for some time yet, even if released well before September 2001. In this case we even have a self-agrandising mayor, a pending election campaign and frequent references to "ground zero" (in this case the monster's lair).But they're the only points of interest in this very silly … more
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As "gigantic monster reptile attacks New York" movies go, you've got to admit thatGodzilladelivers the goods, although its critical drubbing and box-office disappointment were arguably deserved. It's a shameless, uninspired crowd pleaser that's content to serve up familiar action with the advantage of really fantastic special effects, and if you expect nothing more you'll be one among millions of satisfied customers. There's really no other way to approach it--you just have to accept the fact thatIndependence Daycreators Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin are unapologetic plagiarists, incapable of anything more than mindless spectacle that can play in any cinema in the world without dubbing or subtitles. The whole movie plays out like a series of highlights stolen from previous blockbusters of the 1990s; it's little more than a rehash of theJurassic Parkmovies. The derivative script is so trivial that it's unworthy of comment, apart from a few choice laughs and the casting of Michael Lerner as New York's mayor, whose name is Ebert and who closely resembles a certain well-known movie critic. Perhaps that's a clever hint that this movie's essentially critic-proof. It's stupid but it's fun, and for most audiences that's a fitting definition of mainstream Hollywood entertainment. The widescreen Special Edition DVD includes a wealth of bonus materials--audio commentary by the film's special effects supervisors, a ...
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Director:
Roland Emmerich
DVD Release Date:
November 3, 1998
Runtime:
139 minutes
Studio:
Sony Pictures
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