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I really do.

And it started suckin' immediately with Godzilla 2000. This movie was supposed to wash the fecal taste of the Emmerich Godzilla movie out of our mouths, but it seemed to take a fair number of cues from it. worst of all the twee mood that gives away that nobody is in any real danger. Garbage.

After that movie, the rest of the series was the same damn thing over and over: Godzilla fights opponent in a fight scene that becomes boring because its five times longer than it needs to be, and the fight features more laser beam/fire breath action that animalistic action. And with the exception of Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, there's absolutely no character drama at all. And the character drana in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla has a resolution too easy to predict to be interesting.

And the last one, Godzilla: Final Wars. S**t the bed, it was AWFUL!!! Props for throwing in plenty of monsters, but there were so many that none of them really got a chance to shine. And the Matrix-style choreography was just a huge damn distraction.

I like the good entries in the Showa Godzilla films, and I almost uniformly like the Heisei Godzilla films (Godzilla Vs. Spacegodzilla being the exception). But the Millennium Godzilla movies, to steal a phrase from El Santo of 1000 Misspent Hours.......SUCKS SYPHYLLITIC MOOSE COCK!!!

**pant, gasp, pant**...............Just sayin'.

Quite so. Adding aliens pretty much necessitates that Godzilla be a good guy (maybe a default good guy, but STILL!).

He wasn't a good guy in Godzilla 2000, but the "hero" seemed to think he was. That spiel he gives at the very end, when he speaks of Godzilla being a net positive for humanity as we watch Godzilla vaporize buildings indiscriminately. I just don't get how anyone thought that was a good idea.

Nor do I understand that extra-large spike in the center of Godzilla's back.

Oh...and Godzilla as a hero would require him to have human ethical standards.
Forces of nature don't have those, they just blow up and do their thing at random.Kinda like raw animal emotion guiding a hurricane, so to speak.

The one you forgot was Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.

Pretty cumbersome title, isn't it? But that was the Millenium movie I liked the best. I like the idea of Godzilla having no pupils in his eyes. Just a tiny detail, but impossible to miss. Altering his origin into something more mystical shows that at least somebody was trying to freshen it a bit.

I really can't get into the new Twin Fairies, though. They're not twins, and probably not even related at all. Hell, one of them is a half a head taller than the other. And showing them hanging out when there are no humans to see them (this is was in Tokyo: SOS) kinda hurts the otherworldliness of them.

Of course, the Heisei movies' Fairies disappointed as well. In Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II, they've joined the modern world as schoolteachers.

<< but Kaneko decided he wanted to make a movie about mutant alien ninjas and barely gave any time to said monster stuff, all so he could have Science Patrol rejects with anime hair brood and strike stupid poses and flip around on wires for minutes on end.>>

E-yup...
The childish posturing is what makes it hard for westerners like me to take it seriously.
Reminds me of the problem most adults have with kids shows, what makes us mock so many of them; the way they're based on random emotion and disconnected logic.
I worked hard to grow up, and I don't want to spend too much time reliving my bumbling youth, thank you very much.
I know, that's likely what make so many folks love riffing,Used as a way to say 'Hey, I grew up.'