The most common causes of this issue are: All in all, it strikes me as a great film and if it wasn't the "final" (?) film in the series, I would consider it a step in the right direction.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. Sad to say, for the first time ever, I thought Minya had one of the better designs and was the most interesting monster! So I guess I didn't like the way all the monsters looked, but just seeing them all in one film made it amusing. Angilas looked pretty damn slick, but I didn't like the designs of the two new (and over-used!) Gigans, felt Gimantis & Rodan relied too much on CGI artificiality, I never liked the "Godzilla with ears" look, and thought the meager cameos by Gino & Hedorah were way too brief and abrupt amounting to little more than in-jokes than actual monster battles. It's always exciting to see old favorites return. This tops the masterpiece DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (Toho 1968) in that respect (sheer quantity). There's an impressive list of nostalgic names on hand: Not just Godzilla and Ghidrah, but Rodan, Mothra, Atragon, King Seesar, Minya, Manda, Angilas, Hedorah, Gino, Spiga, Gimantis, and Ebirah all make appearances. Though the typical Godzilla fans might hate GFW, the typical Kamen Rider fans will like it. While it might not impress the average dai-kaiju fan, there are fans of superheroes & martial arts who will find fun in GFW. What's the point of a high-speed motorcycle chase that isn't real? It's like a radio ventriloquist simply defeating the purpose. Unfortunately, his work is diminished because of the CGI 'enhancements' which give all the choreography & stunts an artificial feel. His karate skills are first rate, having studied at Sonny Chiba's Japan Action Club and made his debut in superhero programs such as the classic AKUMAIZER 3 (Toei 1974) series. I met action choreographer & stuntman Tsutomu Kitagawa last year, and we did some comical martial arts moves for video cameras. Their plight is diminished because we know there's really no thrilling stunt work. When the heroes and villains clash, it's fairly exciting action, but being a post-THE MATRIX movie, everything is over-enhanced with CGI junk.
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So I think this puts me in a position to evaluate & appreciate the over-all movie on another level. Many Godzilla fans dislike the movie, but with me, you're seeing it from the point-of-view of a fan of superheroes & martial arts. The main villain, in his typical post-MATRIX black cape, has this eerie make-up, but is so emotional and bumbling that he's more clown-like than scary. The younger actors are interesting too- better than the generic, boring soldiers of the last few movies, at any rate.
The human characters at least offer old timers like Kumi Mizuno and Akira Takarada some interesting roles, and I didn't recognize Akira Takarada right away.
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Yet despite all this, I still like the movie a lot, and consider it an improvement over everything to come out of the series in the 1980s and 1990s. It got frustrating trying to keep up, amid all the quick edits and flashy gimmicks which hide a fairly simple story we've seen before (space invaders attack Earth and control giant monsters). However, its over-the-top approach was headache-inducing: The fast pace is overkill (in sharp contrast to every movie in the series starting with GODZILLA 1985), and reminded me of crazy Hong Kong fantasies of the 1980s or 1990s, specifically Tsui Hark farces like ZU: WARRIORS OF THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN (Golden Harvest 1983). While all these mixed genres may not play off each other perfectly and we have a mess of a film at times, at least we've finally got a Godzilla movie that actually stands out from the rest (I think the only other stand out film is 1971's GODZILLA VS.
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Instead of following the exact same pattern as all of GODZILLA 2000's (Toho 2000) predecessors, GODZILLA: FINAL WARS takes a more creative approach and swipes ideas from THE MATRIX (Silver Pictures 1999), all them X-Men comic books, and spatterings of typical Japanese TV hero stuff. It tends to emulate the more over-the-top Godzilla movies of the 1970s, which I certainly don't mind. So for better or worse, GODZILLA: FINAL WARS stands out. I was also never impressed by the 'heisei' or post-GODZILLA 1985 series. My favorite Godzilla movie since TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (Toho 1975)! Since 2000, I felt the series was a string of indistinguishable films.
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