Godzilla 2000: Millennium (2023)

I just saw this last night. I the first time I watched this movie I did not like it. But now I do like this movie. The Godzilla reboot from 1998 is better. I do not like the why people are always underrating that movie but still this is a very good movie. It has a great story line. It has great acting. It also has great special effects. It is part twenty three to the Japan Godzilla series. It is better then the tenth Godzilla movie Godzilla's revenge. This is a very scary movie. It is scary then The silence of the lambs ever could be. Part twenty four to the Godzilla series Godzilla vs Megagurius is better. But still this a great movie. See it.

Godzilla 2000 (1999):Dir: Takao Okaweara / Cast: Takehiro Murata, Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida, Mayu Suzuki, Shiro Sano: Inexcusably dumb with cheesy special effects and terrible dubbing. The giant lizard storms through Tokyo and the sight is so hideous that I wondered if Barney was a double. It is an unwelcome entry to a new century and surprisingly worse than the Roland Emmerich 1998 version. We are given no indication as to where this creature came from but before long a spacecraft hovers down on the tallest building. Godzilla knocks out Japan's energy source while the spacecraft feeds off energy from the sun. The two titans will meet in a brawl that any pay-per-view event would be embarrassed to showcase. Director Takao Okawara does a horrible job with really bad acting performances to further insult it. Are they proud of their efforts? Do they feel that they have contributed to a franchise that Emmerich pretty much proved is dead in the water? Perhaps they should all get together and compare notes on who screwed this franchise over the worst. And how about the idiotic dialogue. One guy states, "Therefore I am convinced that this object came from another galaxy." No sh*t Sherlock! Another guy states that Godzilla was protecting them. That hardly seems believable since it was putting the city up in flames. Now they can do the same thing to this pathetic candy-ass film. Score: 0 / 10

Sure when I was a kid I loved this movie to death, and I should also mention that this is currently the only Godzilla movie I saw in theaters. Now that I'm older I have got to admit the fact that this is a pretty damn cheesy movie. First lets talk about the effects. First of all, there pretty good and are in fact one of the main redeeming factors of this movie. Okay well except for the CGI parts which do look awful. But other than that there pretty good. Now lets talk about the plot. I do hate saying this but is is flat out dreadful. By far the worst part of the movie. But surprisingly it's actually so bad that it's actually kinda good. Now let mention the acting it's.......OK. I mean, What do you really expect?

Oddly enough, this picture references two Stanley Kubrick movies: a trigger-happy general quotes STRANGELOVE'S Buck Turgidson on casualty estimates (at least in the American dub), and from certain angles the silver spaceship strongly resembles the genital sculpture with which Alex commits murder in CLOCKWORK ORANGE. I'm no purist, but I like GODZILLA 2000 because it's the same as it ever was. Like that beer from the glass-lined tanks of Old Latrobe, Godzilla movies are a vaguely unsatisfying commodity. With Rolling Rock, you have to put up with watery taste, lack of kick and flatulent hangover. With Godzilla, you must endure the insipid reporter, precocious child and idiotic dialog. But Rolling Rock will eventually get you drunk, and if you wait long enough Godzilla will stomp Tokyo.For my money this is the best Godzilla suit design - the villainous, toothsome saurian head is a vast improvement over the cuddly teddy bear of the 60s and 70s, and the body is significantly more athletic. We don't need a comic Ali shuffle anymore to convey the Lizard King's agility, because he no longer looks like he might fall over just out of awkwardness. And the flaming halo around his mouth before he breathes fire is a very nice touch. What's remarkable is that the special effects for these films didn't change much for almost fifty years. After this one, the Toho movies started using a lot of CGI, which is okay with me; but this is mostly old school, models and practicals on wires, with the computer effects reserved for energy blasts and morphing. 2000 has a marginally more sophisticated greenscreen technique than most of its predecessors, and a big enough budget to knock down a variety of structures without repeating itself. In fact this late entry is one of my favorites as far as exploding miniatures are concerned. The sets are complicated and intricate and look great on fire. The scenes of rampage and of battle are well-photographed and nicely edited. One questionable leap forward is the footage of real tanks spliced with shots of those wonderful plastic toys. Unfortunately, this movie lacks the surreal absurdity of the old Toho B-plots. The space invaders aren't arbitrarily simian; nobody falls in love with a cyborg; there are no doll-sized Okinawan Andrews Sisters. Also, Godzilla's new clothes seem to have sucked up the money the older movies spent on a stable of rubber foes - Godzilla fights only one enemy here, not counting the Japanese people, and it's not much of a fight. As Naomi Nishida says, "Boy, that's ironic. It woke up after 60 million years, and then Godzilla destroyed it the very next day."But for the first time in awhile, Godzilla is not your friend. After the original movie, he spent two decades inexplicably protecting humanity while we shot at him; this Godzilla is a mysterious threat not looking to do us any favors. Here, he brings down a meddling Interior Minister (another CLOCKWORK ORANGE reference?), then systematically burns the city over credits. Kind of like Alex after he wakes up from enforced politeness, Godzilla is ready to cause trouble again.