Monster of the Day #1941

Updated on June 7, 2019 By Ken Begg 16 Comments

The film definitely does right by Ghirdorah (I’m trying to get over ‘Ghidrah,’ but hey, that’s how I knew him), who is really terrifying and powerful. Although I miss the days when he was so powerful it took the entire Big Three to take him down.

Again, the film probably won’t be theaters that much longer, so if you haven’t seen it I wouldn’t dally.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    I think the relative failure of the Godzilla Monsterverse us not because the public is tired of monsters, but because (at least for a non-fan like myself) there aren’t any real surprises in kaiju films. Godzilla shows up, fights other monsters, the world is grateful, the end. The next film, Godzilla shows up, fights other monsters, etc. Repeat. It’s not that people mind repetition so much (good grief, no) as that the films don’t really contain anything surprising or new.

    The last giant monster film I remember* prior to 2014 Godzilla was Cloverfield, and that at least had a sense of mystery early on, and the sense of being caught up in events that one had no control over–and perhaps more importantly, the humans were engaged in trying to kill the thing. It was monster vs us. By contrast, I saw 2014 Godzilla once and thought it was okay, but there was no real need for the humans in there–it was Godzilla vs other monsters, humans were just in the way.

    As I mention, I’ve never been a big kaiju fan. I don’t dislike them, but the aspects of the films that most appeal to their fans are probably the things that I find uninteresting.

    *Oops, forgot Pacific Rim. I guess that says a lot right there, doesn’t it.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Did my comment get disintegrated? No, I guess not…

  • Gamera977

    It was very strange. I kept seeing your comment listed over on ‘Recent Comments’ but it didn’t show up on this MotD. Almost like it caught like Schrodinger’s cat in some sort of exists and not existing limbo.

    I see your point but doesn’t every action movie have pretty much the same plot? Guess I just like watching guys in rubber suits smash stuff.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Regarding action films (or kids films, or westerns, etc), that’s what I mean about the public NOT getting tired of repetition in film. I think in each of those cases, though, the stakes/goals/good guys/bad guys change enough so that the public takes a while to get tired of them.

    A good parallel might be the Friday the 13th films. They’re all the same, just changed in the various baroque killings. And the box office for those went pretty steadily downward over time.

  • Ericb

    Good points. It’s also probably why the last Jurassic Park film was successful. I know that dinosaurs are really just animals that are now extinct but when you put them into the modern world they are monsters. Unlike kaiju, though, they are small enough that individual dinosaurs can threaten individual humans on a more intimate level which I assume the majority of moviegoers prefer to the disaster film aura that kaiju create.

  • Rock Baker

    He’ll always be Ghidrah to me, I believe. The line from his first film that always comes back to me is our hero quizzically responding to the Princess “Ghidrah?”

  • Mike Weller

    I still wonder at how the three heads get anything done.
    Think about the three headed knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail…

  • bgbear_rnh

    And pretty Japanese girls looking concerned as the smashing happens.

  • zombiewhacker

    Is Pacific Rim worth seeing?

  • Ken_Begg

    Yes, I’d say so. And I’m famously uninterested in Mecha. Also I think CGI allows designers to make their monsters too complicated, which I think is one reason people don’t dig modern monsters much. Even so, I was fairly entertained by it, also I skipped the largely panned sequel.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Well, I’m not going to contradict Ken. I saw it, I was entertained somewhat, but found a lot of aspects uninteresting and felt that it was really not aimed at me. I never felt any need to see it again. I also skipped the sequel.

  • Gamera977

    As I said I’m weird, it’s one of my favorite movies. The sequel is okay, same problem as most attempts to continue a story without most of the original actors though.

  • Gamera977

    I went to see ‘G:KotM’ again yesterday and I swear it was better the second time around. I was a little annoyed by the human characters for the first fifteen minutes or so but once I settled down they didn’t bother me at all.

    Only real complaint is I wanted to see it in 3D this time and the ‘Dark Phoenix’ movie had pre-empted the 3D screen so I had to watch it 2D again.

  • Ken_Begg

    To clarify, I’d give it a fairly tepid three star rating. It’s certainly not a must see, but I guess I would give it a modest thumb’s up. I can see it not hitting even that much for other people, though.

  • Ken_Begg

    I was afraid that was going of happen! Oh, well, that’s on me. I should have rushed out to see it again immediately.

  • Gamera977

    Well, it would be a boring world if we all liked the same sort of movies wouldn’t it? ;)