Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-6052796-20141029120025

I love those too, giving each character their own theme is essential to their identity, but sometimes the things people overlook are often taken for granted, before I ever watched the first Gojira, what got me interested was the monsters themes, the bad dubbing and the mindless awesome destruction. Then I decided for the sake of reviewing to look at both the recent and the old as sorta my own take on Old vs New. I was literally surprised, not only at the movie itself but the story behind it. With that said, though I agree omiting the pre-2000 was a good thing, it just dissappoints me the potential it coulda had. My philosophy on storytelling is this: A good story teller omits the things that makes the story wrong, a great storyteller can do their hardest to make some good out of the bad. However what people failed to realize was Godzilla was neither a force of nature, nor a hero nor a villain, but a scared and confused animal that was simply scarred by nuclear weapons and only fought back when people were hurting him. In the very first film, much of the deaths were because they shot first. Gojira never directly retalliated until they tried to kill him. Other times were merely by accident or because the boats tresspassed on his habitat. The second time Godzilla Under The Sea was being played was when they used the Oxygen destroyer, before they used it; Serizawa and Ogata couldn't help but look in awe at the monster. They admired it even though they needed to kill it.