{"id":197860,"date":"2021-03-09T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T20:00:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:00:56","slug":"what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#What to Watch Before Godzilla vs Kong: A Primer \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d8aafc8d59\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/#The_Eighth_Wonder_of_the_World\" >The Eighth Wonder of the World<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/#King_Kong_1933\" >King Kong (1933)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/#King_Kong_vs_Godzilla_1962\" >King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/#Kong_Skull_Island_2017\" >Kong: Skull Island (2017)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/#The_King_of_the_Monsters\" >The King of the Monsters<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/#Godzilla_1954\" >Godzilla (1954)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/#Invasion_of_Astro-Monster_1965\" >Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/#Godzilla_vs_Destoroyah_1995\" >Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/what-to-watch-before-godzilla-vs-kong-a-primer-film\/#Shin_Godzilla_2016\" >Shin Godzilla (2016)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#What to Watch Before Godzilla vs Kong: A Primer \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-655021 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzillavskong-aircraftcarrier-wide-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"What to Watch Before Godzilla vs Kong\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzillavskong-aircraftcarrier-wide.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzillavskong-aircraftcarrier-wide-360x154.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later this month, the earth is going to quake as cinema\u2019s two biggest (and oldest) titans starting punching each other\u2019s lights out in Adam Wingard\u2019s <\/span><strong><i>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Like other \u201cvs\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> of this stature, this represents not one epic cinematic event but two. Though these particular versions of these characters are relatively new, both have decades (almost a century in Kong\u2019s case) of iconography behind them that can be intimidating to viewers who don\u2019t know their history, but don\u2019t want to feel lost as they pummel each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> and bad news. The good news is King Kong\u2019s story is fairly simple and won\u2019t take long to get through. The bad news is Godzilla. Not only has he <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared in dozens of films \u2013 with multiple narrative reboots \u2013 over the last half-century, but he is also the one most likely to stop your city and raise your insurance premiums. He\u2019s just bad news incarnate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But we\u2019ll get to all that. Let\u2019s start simple with Kong\u2026<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post --><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Eighth_Wonder_of_the_World\"><\/span><b>The Eighth Wonder of the World<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Kong is a giant ape who lives on a remote island shaped like a skull filled with tons of other horrific monsters. The famous story of Kong \u2013 originated in 1933\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Kong<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and retold several times since \u2013 involves a down on his luck filmmaker who charters a boat to a mysterious island filled with amazing undiscovered wild creatures to shoot the movie that will make his career. Under the guise of straight-up dishonesty, he cobbles together a crew and a desperate actress and gets them all to this place filled with horrors where most of them die.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The island also has a native population who worship Kong and sacrifice ladies to him. They want to sacrifice the actress, but the crew is like \u201cscrew that.\u201d These folks abduct her and offer her up to Kong anyway. The mighty Kong arrives and steals the actress. The crew is like \u201cscrew that\u201d and they go to rescue her. Despite being woefully unequipped to traverse the dangers of Skull Island, some of them manage. Then the filmmaker drugs Kong and takes him back to New York to be a sideshow. He wakes up, says \u201cscrew this,\u201d grabs the girl again, climbs atop the Empire State Building and gets shot to death.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kong is special for a lot of reasons. Even way back in 1933 (which, as you can probably already tell from this synopsis, was far from a woke era), they knew to make him a figure of pathos rather than abject terror. Kong is scary, to be sure. But he falls in love with the actress, and rather than murder her, strives to protect her from the dangers of Skull Island. Kong didn\u2019t stomp into New York City looking to make trouble. A super jerk enslaved and exploited him. Furthermore, Kong earns the title of \u201cKing\u201d by being the most feared figure on an island teeming with monsters that would otherwise star in their own horror films. So in addition to emotional resonance, Kong wins the audience\u2019s respect for being a top-tier badass. We feel for Kong and see his eventual death as tragic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kong\u2019s cinematic journey is short. You basically have the prime story told three times \u2013 two of which have wacky sequels \u2013 a couple Japanese swings at it from Toho, and the new Legendary film. If you\u2019re going to get primed for <em>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em>, the essential watchlist writes itself.<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_2 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661282 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-king-kong-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-king-kong.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-king-kong-360x257.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"King_Kong_1933\"><\/span><b>King Kong (1933)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I feel like even people who profess impatience with old films will still enjoy the original <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Kong<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is a straight-up masterpiece in every way\u2026save for political correctness, which, yikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only modern drawback to Kong is the amount of time it takes to get the characters to Skull Island (though that\u2019s nothing compared to the Peter Jackson version). Once Kong shows up, however, this movie is a rocket that never slows down. It\u2019s a mean and violent film. Kong is not screwing around but neither are the other creatures on Skull Island. The groundbreaking stop-motion special effects are obviously from a different era, but they seem to only gain potency over time. Watching Kong move is both fascinating and hypnotizing, and something every film fan should see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661277 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-vs-godzilla-60s-700x350.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-vs-godzilla-60s-700x350.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-vs-godzilla-60s-360x180.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-vs-godzilla-60s-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-vs-godzilla-60s.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"King_Kong_vs_Godzilla_1962\"><\/span><b>King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then there is this. Toho\u2019s version of Kong is a man in a suit, retaining none of Kong\u2019s former majesty. Instead, he is sort of a raggedy monkey person. Nevertheless, the film is a lot of cheesy fun, and if you\u2019re going to watch the new version, you might as well take a look at how far we\u2019ve come. As for the fight, Godzilla clearly has the upper hand until Kong gets struck by lightning, which amazingly enough gives him more power. We get to see him swing Godzilla by his tail and shove a tree into Godzilla\u2019s mouth, so it\u2019s not like I\u2019m saying this movie isn\u2019t good. If you like this version of Kong, you can also catch up on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">King Kong Escapes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which even has a Metal Kong.<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_3 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661283 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-skull-island-700x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-skull-island-700x451.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-skull-island-360x232.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-skull-island-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-kong-skull-island.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Kong_Skull_Island_2017\"><\/span><b>Kong: Skull Island (2017)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jordan Vogt-Roberts brings Kong into the Legendary Universe with an adventure-horror-comedy-war movie that manages to successfully pull all those strings and honoring the legendary Kong at the same time. While the film retains certain aspects of Kong\u2019s mythology (he\u2019s still a survivor in a hostile environment who has a weakness for pretty blonde ladies), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kong: Skull Island<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> forgoes the usual Kong story beats of capture and tragedy to instead build a character with more ferocity and longevity. The soldiers up against Kong here have no chance of conquering him. They\u2019ll be lucky just to escape with their lives (most of them don\u2019t). And this is just an adolescent Kong. He still has a lot of growing to do between the Vietnam War era and now.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_King_of_the_Monsters\"><\/span><b>The King of the Monsters<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We now move on to Godzilla, star of about three dozen feature films and one animated short where he stomps on Bambi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Kong offers a story of American colonialism from the 1930s, Godzilla provides an answer to the horrific bombing of Japan at the end of World War II. His terror in the original 1954 classic isn\u2019t some campy joke. Godzilla simply destroys everything in his path, and the filmmakers make sure we remain aware of the human toll such a force would cost. Though this concept would not last, Godzilla\u2019s initial depiction is more akin to a force of nature, as dispassionate and unstoppable as a natural disaster. It\u2019s just that this one came thanks to man\u2019s tinkering with destructive <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reckoning with the Godzilla series is no easy task. The films are broken into four distinct eras. The Showa era runs until 1975. Despite Godzilla\u2019s terrifying origins, this is where you find the silly, b-movie Godzilla films people reference most often. It doesn\u2019t take long for Godzilla to switch from a scourge upon our world to a defender of Earth. Godzilla has a kid, he dances, he even talks with other Kaiju via comic book word bubbles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next comes the Heisei era, arriving in 1984 with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Return of Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These seven films enjoy a much tighter continuity between them, which might appeal to modern moviegoers. They are also somewhat bogged down with technobabble and \u201890s lunacy.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_4 --><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Millennium Era begins in 1999 with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla 2000<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and runs until 2004\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla: Final Wars<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. These films are more stand-alone, each more or less offering its own take on a sequel to the 1954 original. As such, they come with a variety of quality levels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are currently in the Reiwa era, which started with 2016\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shin Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and also includes a trio of animated films. With only one live-action film in the era so far, it is too early to define its tropes. Still, it should be said that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shin Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> could represent the single best entry for a newcomer to watch. It has amazing modern effects and manages the amazing feat of making Godzilla unknowable and terrifying again. On the other hand, it\u2019s also more a satire about bureaucracy during a crisis than a typical monster movie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With this many films, not to mention this many takes on what a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">movie<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0could be, it\u2019s easy to see the difficulty in pinpointing Godzilla\u2019s story. He has the longest run of any movie character and also the least consistent. From one film to the next, he could be a hero, a villain, or something in-between. The good part of that is you don\u2019t have to worry about story much. Outside of the Heisei era, each <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> film functions almost like a restart, and you can jump in anywhere you want. Having said that, some films offer better starting points than others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661281 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-godzilla-700x393.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-godzilla-700x393.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-godzilla-360x202.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-godzilla-768x431.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-godzilla.jpeg 835w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Godzilla_1954\"><\/span><b>Godzilla (1954)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before getting into all the goofiness the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> series contains, it\u2019s best to pay some respect to the masterpiece that started it all. It is remarkable how much changes tonally between this film and its actual sequel, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla Raids Again<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The original <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a horror film, through and through. And no matter how many decades go by, watching Godzilla destroy Tokyo for the first time retains its power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661278 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/g-k-monster-astro-monster-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/g-k-monster-astro-monster-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/g-k-monster-astro-monster-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/g-k-monster-astro-monster-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/g-k-monster-astro-monster.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Invasion_of_Astro-Monster_1965\"><\/span><b>Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the ridiculous side of things, no Showa film offers a better representation than <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Invasion of Astro-Monster<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The story is wild, the humans are great, and you get to see Godzilla and Rodan beat up on (and get beaten up by) King Ghidorah. A lot of people talk up <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Destroy All Monsters <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because it has so many different monsters in it, but this is the goofy Showa film to beat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661280 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-godzilla-vs-destroyah-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-godzilla-vs-destroyah-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-godzilla-vs-destroyah-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-godzilla-vs-destroyah-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Godzilla_vs_Destoroyah_1995\"><\/span><b>Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jumping ahead a whopping thirty years, this final film from the Heisei era offers a fitting conclusion to Godzilla\u2019s story. While it\u2019s true a bunch of the story rides on the films that came before, this stuff is not Shakespeare. You\u2019ll figure it out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story focuses on a Godzilla whose heart is about to have a nuclear meltdown that threatens to blow up the planet. Meanwhile, he has to battle a demonic monster made from the same weapon that killed the 1954 Godzilla (uh, well, in most <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> movies, Godzilla is actually the second Godzilla). While the Showa era has the most fun films, and the Millennium era offers the best representation of scale, the Heisei era features the best-looking Godzilla films and fights. There\u2019s no better example of that than <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Destoroyah<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-661284 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-shin-godzilla-700x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-shin-godzilla-700x292.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-shin-godzilla-360x150.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-shin-godzilla-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/k-g-shin-godzilla.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Shin_Godzilla_2016\"><\/span><b>Shin Godzilla (2016)<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As mentioned above, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shin Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> operates a bit differently than normal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sequels. There are no monster fights, Godzilla keeps changing forms, it\u2019s filled with tons and tons of talking, and Godzilla spends most of the second half in a coma. Nevertheless, this film tries to wrestle with the real-world implications of a giant monster in a way that heightens the film to a whole new level. It\u2019s the rare <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Godzilla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> film you can show to people who are not inclined to enjoy a giant monster movie. And then on top of all that, it features a Godzilla that puts all other versions of the character to shame in terms of destruction and unknowable power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                            <strong>Cool Posts From Around the Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                            <!-- \/post -->\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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