Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140930004652/@comment-397235-20141001231300

Ah, Godzilla 2000. The first Godzilla film I ever saw on the big screen. I'm still partially deaf because of it (I'm not making this up).

The song that plays during the fight in Sydney is called "We're All to Blame" and is going on about how America deserved 9/11. Nice and subtle, guys.

I absolutely despised Godzilla vs. Mothra II. I hated Mothra (but then, I usually do), I didn't really like Battra (not least of which because he stole Rodan's battle cry and has the lamest transformation sequence in the series), and I hated Godzilla because his sole reason for being is as a plot device. This movie was originally meant to be a solo Mothra outing with her fighting and eventually being killed by Battra (who in some BS Japanese logic would then transform into Mothra); the Toho executives, however, didn't like that idea so they shoehorned Godzilla into the plot (that never works well; Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster was originally supposed to star King Kong of all monsters, which is why Ebirah is so hilariously outclassed in that movie). The end result is Mothra and Battra, two historical mortal enemies putting aside their differences to...minorly inconvenience Godzilla. A much better plot twist would've been for Godzilla and Mothra to gang up on Battra (who should see Mothra as his arch nemesis and Godzilla as an abomination of nature) and kill him, in the process of which Mothra is killed and Godzilla more or less assumes her role, rather ineptly, of protecting the Earth. But that would require Godzilla to be something other than a plot point, and Toho wasn't really capable of doing that then.