I find Godzilla to be a very underrated movie

[Kane Knight]

Originally Posted by Nowhere Man That's not what I meant. Having good special effects really does add to the movie, especially in scifi/monster movies, but that's nowhere near enough to make a film by itself. Hell, just look at the last two Star Wars movies, or that stupid Torque flick, for evidence of that. I meant that compared to a lot of the other special-effects-intensive movies at the time, the man-in-suit effects and rubber puppets used in the first Godzilla were lacking, and it ended up hurting the overall atmosphere of the movie. They do an awesome job with instilling this sense of dread, only for it to be thrown off by a bad shot or two. Which is really a shame, since the acting (especially the Japanese cast, which had some of the actors from The Seven Samurai), script, and story as a whole were way ahead of all of the other old giant-monster flicks, but all anyone ever remembers from Godzilla movies are the shoddy suit effects and the awful voice-overs.

I was referring to the original post.

Chill.

On the subject of special effects, I've read a lot on the original Godzilla/Gojira. It was a huge budget for a monster movie at the time, and was done much in the way it was envisioned.

After all, Dinosaurs were slow, lumbering creatures...according the the paradigm of the time.

The effects were done by a man known for his WW2 reenactments...Reenactments so "realistic" that when Americans captured some of them, they believed it to be REAL footage.

IT's not great now, but remember, this was a MASSIVE blockbuster back then.

[Nowhere Man]

Originally Posted by Kane Knight I was referring to the original post. Chill.

Oh. Sorry.