On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:40:34 -0700, "anorton"
wrote:


What the producers of that newer Godzilla completely missed was that in most
the movies Godzilla was actually the hero not the villian. In fact Godzilla
was a metaphor for the Japanese view of the U.S. after the war; An immensly
powerful but clumsy beast who causes a lot of destruction but really has a
heart of gold. He ends up saving Japan from some larger evil and then
retreats into the ocean.

Exactly. Godzilla started his movie career as a total bad guy, but
then far more evil monsters, such as Rodan and Mechagodzilla, showed
up and Godzilla became a hero. The 1998 computer graphics Godzilla was
evil all over again, had no lovable cheese factor, and was totally out
of character for the franchise. Godzilla's roar didn't even sound like
Godzilla. Good scenes of stomping cars and stuff though.
Dave