Godzilla: Final Wars
Posted by Skrud at Saturday, July 16th 2005 at 1:37am
Imagine … liquid hot awesomeness poured into a giant vat, mixed by shimmering giant robots, oozed and molded into film and placed on reel. Even then you’ll only have the slightest idea of what Godzilla: Final Wars is like. I walked out of that movie feeling an aura of awesomeness. Godzilla is to action what Manowar is to metal. And I don’t mean he stood around calling himself the King of Action… I mean Godzilla is the King. Bow before him!
Godzilla: Final Wars is a crazy, wild rush. This movie had everything. EVERYTHING. The sheer amount of things in this movie is enough to make sane directors run away screaming. Here’s a short of list of stuff I remember that was in the movie: Godzilla, mutant ninja commandos, aliens from outer space from the planet X (called Xiliens), Ghirdah (a three-headed dragon), Manda (a giant fire-breathing sea dragon), an air/sub battleship with a giant rotating drill head, an American Captain for the sub/air battleship, swords, a motorcycle chase, guns, Kamakirasu (a giant grasshopper or cricket or something), Ankirasu (a giant armadillo), Mothra, Mothra faeries, Kumonga (a giant spider that shoots webbing nets), Gaigan (a giant cybernetic monster), an upgraded Gaigan - with chainsaws, the American Godzilla from the crappy 1998 movie with Matthew Broderick, Radon, King Caesar, Monster X, Ebira, Hedorah, Minilla (that’s Mini-Godzilla - ain’t he cute?), also there was a giant meteor, spaceships, a sexy biologist and her reporter sister, a pit bull, a starship core that looks just like the one from the Death Star II, a very Matrix-like moment with a Japanese dude that looks a lot like Keanu Reeves, masers, awesome fight scenes, maser machine guns, and did I mention Captain Gordon just spoke English the whole time?
And finally, a quote from the movie (as best as I can remember it):
“So you’re saying your plan is to go to the South Pole, reawaken Godzilla, bring him back here to fight all the monsters, somehow annihilate all the Xiliens and their giant spaceship in the process, then take Godzilla back to the South Pole and lock him up again?”
“Yes”
I really want to see this movie again.
TELL ME WHEN YOU”RE SEEING IT AGAIN!!!! I AM SO THERE!
It was only playing once :( You’ll have to wait for DVD :D
Dammit!!!!@@!@!@@
Well, wait we shall…:’(
Too bad I missed it. I think I was watching “Fighter in the Wind” at the time.
But, man, you really missed a great movie in “Fighter in the Wind”. Seriously, great fighting with a real badass main character, a cool “training montage”, yakuzas, evil Japanese martial arts masters, gang fights. Did I mention he fights a bull at the end of the movie?
Anyway, I’ll see you next week at “Heroes of the East”.