Gojira

Pros: A powerful message in a well written movie.
Cons: The special effects, while well done for their time, are 50 years on now.

If you are anything like me, you probably grew up in front of your television sets wasting your Saturday afternoons after the wrap up of cartoons watching a show not to dissimilar to KSTW's "Sci-Fi Theater". Every Saturday afternoon like clockwork, KSTW ...

Pros: Great screenplay, haunting atmosphere, social commentary. Just amazing...
Cons: By comparison, the American-ized versions look bad, REALLY bad.

[Update: With North Korea having just tested a nuclear weapon only a matter of days ago, it is appropriate that we should take a look at this sci-fi classic, and wonder what warnings a giant monster movie can show us about nuclear arms races]. Of ...

Pros: Dark,good story,cast,music and effects for the time
Cons: not much, there isn't a dubbed version of this version

I actually wasn't aware the original Japanese version of this movie was up for review, or I would have reviewed it before I tackled the Americanised version, but upon digging out my copy taped off the TV a few years back, and with Halloween approaching, ...

Pros: A classic; music score, story, imagery, atmosphere, special effects, acting all great
Cons: probably someone out there won't want to read the subtitles

As a kid, I remember many Saturday nights staying up way too late in order to watch Godzilla tear up Japanese cities just for the hell of it and to stop the latest invasion of space monsters or aliens. It's hard to imagine that the whole phenomenon of ...

Pros: A classic monster movie with a story that's actually pretty deep.
Cons: The fact that the original edit remained relatively unknown for so long.

Although I've seen 'Godzilla, King of the Monsters!' probably dozens of times, I'd never seen the original Japanese version of Gojira (or even knew it existed) until the recent DVD release. Curious about how different it could be, I was pretty interested ...

Pros: Great to see the Original Japanese version
Cons: No English dubbed audio, limited extra features.

Gojira: Godzilla 2 Disc Collector’s Edition Plot: As with many of my other Godzilla reviews, I won’t go into the full plot details, including the other storylines with the characters other than the monsters. Let’s face it, when I watch a Godzilla ...

Pros: Some genuinely scary moments.Somber real atmosphere
Cons: OK..its a guy in a rubber dinosaur suit,so what?

Gojira is the original Japanese version of what later became 1956's GODZILLA,KING OF THE MONSTERS [with the Terry Morse-directed inserts with Raymond Burr as reporter Steve Martin]As opposed to most of the sequels, it is 100% serious,and is 100% scarier...