Godzilla: A month in review

Godzilla: A Month in Review

-By Forrest Humphrey

With the release, and under performance, of Warner Brother's recent “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” fresh in everyone's minds, I would like to address a common argument people, and many fans, make in favor of the film's poor writing and bland, uninspired characters: that Godzilla is always badly written or even more baffling, that the films are actually “supposed” to be poorly written.

Now, there is no denying in many cases that regarding the original Japanese films, of which there are currently thirty-two, this holds true, they have almost always been low budget B-movies meant to entertain, but there are a few cases where the films really tried to be something more than popcorn material, and I would like to take a closer look at four films in particular that I believe succeeded in being not simply great Godzilla films, but works of cinematic quality in terms of writing, theme, special effects, cinematography and music.

For context, I have been a fan of the Godzilla franchise for more than twenty years. I grew up watching Godzilla sitting on my Grandpa's lap as a toddler, and I still love the franchise to this day, so it is with love when I say this series can do better than the most recent attempt at bringing Godzilla to Hollywood, and I would like to show you a few times where it DID do it better.

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