Talk:Another OST/@comment-6052796-20140916183306/@comment-397235-20140922004427

Which one did you find whimsical?

As for Mothra...I really hate her, honestly. All her movies have preachy environmental messages and I dislike politics in my science-fiction movies. I do like how Mothra at least has a consistent purpose in the films...she just always dies.

The main reason I hated the movies from the 80s and 90s was because Godzilla doesn't have a motivation. He just shows up, breaks things, and leaves. In the older films he's unabashedly a good guy, and in GMK (the one Ko Otani scored) he's very evil. In the Kiryu movies he's just an animal, but the movies are both really about Kiryu's sentience, and in Final Wars Godzilla is basically a walking plot device who kills things.

In the first American film, Zilla (his official name) is just an animal. In G14 Godzilla is a natural balancer, which is an interesting take on the character.

If you like Mothra, you'll like the Gamera movies from the 90s. They get progressively darker and edgier as they go on, but they are perhaps the finest daikaiju films ever made.

As for Godzilla II Toho has already confirmed Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah will all be making appearances. Considering how obvious Godzilla's heroism in the new film is, I'm expecting a full-on remake of Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster which is one of the better Showa era films.

Up until that film, Godzilla fluctuates between being evil and being there. But his crowning moment of awesome is charging recklessly in to protect a baby Mothra who's been trying to fight the title monster on her own, having failed to persuade Godzilla and Rodan they should help. It's extremely awesome.