#godzilla 1984

[retroscifiart]

Godzilla 1984 by Noriyoshi Ohrai

#godzilla #gojira #godzilla 1984

[kenro199x]

#it feels complete #godzilla #kong #godzilla x kong: the new empire #hobo #godzilla 1984 #return of godzilla

[misscouchpotatobew]

Random doodles

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[chernobog13]

Godzilla's breath was notoriously so bad that the crew were constantly spraying industrial-strength Binaca™ into his maw.

#The Return of Godzilla #Godzilla 1984 #Godzilla #kaiju #tokusatsu #suitmation #Toho #behind the scenes

[monsterasia-zero]

Monsterasia Zero Comic Of The Day! - Dark Horse Comics - Godzilla #05 - Cover Date December 1988

#godzilla #dark horse comics #godzilla 1984

[doberart]

A very happy birthday to my friend @fullmetaldevil-blog Some classic Godzilla for you. Hope you have a marvelous day! 🎉

#Godzilla #godzilla 1984 #fullmetaldevil-blog #drawing #art #my art #sketch #dobermutt

[godzillandmuseum]

“Would you like fries with that? Don’t forget your Limited Edition marbles bag and stickers.”

#godzilland #godzilla #fast food #food #kaiju #godzilla 1984 #the return of godzilla #merchandise #mothra #mothra larva #king ghidorah #rodan #minilla #baragon #burger #fries #stickers

[rassilon-imprimatur]

The Return of Godzilla (1984) /// Shin Godzilla (2016)

#The Return of Godzilla #Godzilla 1984 #84goji #Shin Godzilla #Shingoji

[racingtoaredlight]

FREE MOVIE SATURDAY

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Is it legal? I don’t know. Do I have plausible deniability? I do!

#Godzilla 1984 #Return of godzilla #Rtarl movie club #Saturday post

[mrjgojira851]

#xplusgodzilla #godzilla #godzilla 1984 #youtube #the-return-of-godzilla #godzilla+1985

[gangalubu]

I love giant monster movies. I will watch almost any movie that has a giant monster in it - Pacific Rim is a treasure.

I got a lotta feelings about the Heisei series.

The year is 1984. It's been thirty years since Godzilla attacked Tokyo. To set the scene, the US and the CCCP are puffing their nuclear reserves at each other, Godzilla wrecks a submarine, presumably for food, and soon the superpowers are pointing fingers at each other. There's a summit in Tokyo to discuss with the world that there is a Godzilla going around wrecking submarines so please don't start shooting nuclear missiles. This sequence reflects the position of the nations of the world who aren't superpowers, caught in the middle while forces beyond their control threaten them, and I think speaks to the heart of the film. For the record, this sequence was mostly cut from the American version.

Godzilla's eventual entry to Tokyo bay wrecks a Soviet ship, triggering an automatic retaliatory nuclear launch, which the captain of the ship fails to stop (also for the record, the American version of the movie changes it around so the captain is trying to launch the missile, rather than stop an automatic launch, including an added scene of a camera technician's hand reaching for a flashing button).

Tokyo ends up as rubble, Godzilla ends up in a volcano. It's a somber movie, and very much a time capsule reflecting fears of nuclear war.

1989's Godzilla vs Biollante has a lot going on. There's genetic engineering, industrial espionage, political assassination, psychic powers, secret military weather control weapons, and also Godzilla.

Biollante herself is a hybrid between a rose and Godzilla, with the human soul of a scientist's daughter crammed in there, truly a beautiful and strange monster.

The setting is a world of turmoil. Politicians use science like a weapon and use weapons like a science - Godzilla's release from his volcanic prison is threatened (and ultimately achieved) by an act of terrorism. The movie opens in the ashes of Tokyo immediately after the events of '84, in which agents of mega-corporation Biomajor are scouring the ruins for Godzilla DNA samples, shooting the locals trying to pick up the pieces, only to have those agents taken out by an agent of another government/corporation from the middle-east country of 'Saradia'.

The realities of a world in which a bewildering array of forces can gain access to a nuclear weapon, or a bacterial weapon, or a Godzilla, are the central focus of the film.

It is suggested by the characters that Godzilla is drawn to Biollante, because they are made from the same cells, as is the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria, the MacGuffin of the film. In a sense, the characters of the film are responsible for calling Godzilla to them.

And yet... the characters of the film are human. They go out for dinner at the Godzilla Memorial Lounge, they get caught in the rain at the beach, they try their best in the world they have been handed.

The film feels deliberately modern, deliberately conscious of the way actors with power affect the world, and where monsters such as Godzilla, and the other strange powers we might discover, fit. In this respect, Godzilla vs Biollante stands head and shoulders above its sequels.

Plus, being a product of the year 1989, it's very funny to swap around GvB and Seinfeld:

I don't want to dig too much at the other 'vs series' movies, but I don't think any of them come close to the level of thoughtfulness exhibited in '84 and GvB. The sequels play closer to the anime that was growing in popularity at the time.

In short -

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah - a fun time-travel romp with androids and a three-headed cyborg dragon, but gets bogged down in discussions of the future Japanese economy in ways that seem shortsighted in the face of the subsequent 'Lost Decade'.

The psychic girl from GvB, Miki Saegusa, appears in this film, as well as the rest of the sequels. Tragically, she mostly appears to tell us what Godzilla and the other monsters are feeling at the moment.

Godzilla vs Mothra - Divorced Dad Tomb Raider meets some fairies and learns a lesson about greed and the environment. Battra's kinda cool.

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1993) - They build a big robot version of Godzilla and have it fight Godzilla. Does it mean "Life vs Artificial Life" is a theme if a character says those words thirty seconds before credits roll? This is the one where 'Radiation' has fully morphed into 'DBZ energy' and you can willingly transmit it to other people to heal them or make them more powerful or w/e.

Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla - Some Godzilla cells fall into a black hole and make a monster that's like Godzilla but with big crystals, and the humans have to team up with Godzilla to fight Spacegodzilla. There's also a subplot about controlling Godzilla with Miki's psychic powers and the Yakuza kidnapping her and trying to auction off control of Godzilla. Clunky, but I find it very charming.

Godzilla vs Destroyer - Godzilla is dying, and he's gonna take the whole world with him. Completely coincidentally, at around the same time, a new monster emerges, evidently born from the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the 1954 Godzilla. Also, there's a scientist who has invented Micro-Oxygen, which is like the Oxygen Destroyer, but his invention didn't make the new monster, it's just a plot convenience so this scientist can exposit about how the monster works.

There's a fun Aliens pastiche with lots of human-sized Destroyers running around, but the movie doesn't quite do it for me.

It calls back so heavily to the original 1954 Godzilla movie, including characters and descendants of characters, referencing iconic shots, but its treatment of the Oxygen Destroyer is thoughtless. The tragedy of the movie 'Godzilla' is that Dr. Serizawa has invented a weapon more terrible than Godzilla, but it is also the only thing that can defeat Godzilla, and his conclusion is that he can only use it if he can ensure that nobody will ever use it again, at the cost of his own life and the destruction of his own life's work.

In Godzilla vs Destroyer, the Oxygen Destroyer is the Evil DBZ energy to Godzilla's radiation Good DBZ energy. MEH.

#godzilla #biollante #godzilla 1984 #godzilla vs biollante #kaiju

[swagliostro]

i doodled this months ago based on a dream i had. miles (and edgar!) wanted to make a stop motion video for madeline. and they used the model houses he has on the shelves in his apartment. but every single video they made ALWAYS resulted in the final video being that one stop motion video from icarly about space burritos. my mind is my fortress.

#rare appearance of my edgar design on this page SCARY!! #electric dreams #electric dreams 1984 #miles harding #edgar electric dreams #digital art #80s #80s movies #yeah miles has godzilla figures in his crib i know this

[misscouchpotatobew]

I think about him daily...

It breaks my heart that he malfunctioned :(

And the 84 suit got stolen and I don't think they ever found it.

I would gladly have this thing in my house.

#godzilla #godzilla animatronic #animatronic #animatronics #godzilla 1984 #godzilla 1985 #gojira #the return of godzilla #cybot godzilla

[chernobog13]

That's a good way to lose some fingers, bub!

#The Return of Godzilla #Godzilla 1984 #Godzilla #kaiju #tokusatsu #suitmation #Toho #behind the scenes

[monsterasia-zero]

Monsterasia Zero Comic Of The Day! Dark Horse Comics - Godzilla #02 - Cover Date July 1988

#dark horse comics #godzilla #godzilla 1984

[citystompers1]

Godzilla 1985 (1984)

#my gif #Godzilla 1985 #1984 #1980s #gif #gifs #kaiju #vintage #film #movie