Godzilla has always been the most well-known movie monster of all time. The giant terrifying lizard that walks out of the Japanese coast, destroys the city and then leaves in peace where, if played backwards, is a friendly monster that rebuilds a city, revives dead people, and moonwalks back into the ocean. The Japanese production studio known as Toho created these movies and they became world-wide famous, not only because of the monsters but because of the silly Japanese people who look like they move their mouths in gibberish yet sound like they are speaking perfect English. Godzilla was known as the villain in the first movie he was presented in in 1954. He was used to represent the depression the country was in after the Americans nuked their cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and was killed at the end of the movie. However, in later movies, Toho productions turned Godzilla into a movie star by making him the hero. Godzilla would rise out of the ocean and help the humans by destroying another menacing monster (such as Gigan, Mothra, King Kong, and King Gihdora). Then, in 1998, the Americans made a movie about Godzilla, produced by Warner Bros. Studios, featuring Mathew Broderick, Maria Pitillo, Jean Reno, and Hank Azaria, and it turned out to be a pretty big hit. There were no monsters but Godzilla, and the main plot line was just a curious monster wandering around New York City, and was pregnant. After laying what seemed like 9,000 eggs, the humans had to destroy them to keep them from hatching and becoming the dominant species in the world. While trying to destroy the eggs, the (unsurprisingly) hatch. And, what do you know, we have thousands of baby Godzillas hopping around, just dying to attack the human population. The humans bombed the baby Godzillas, only for big mama Godzilla to see the whole thing happen. After getting pretty dang ticked off, she runs after the humans in a car chase that seems all too familiar from the Jurassic Park movies. After getting Godzilla stuck in the Brooklyn Bridge, she gets missiles fired at her and, ultimately, killing her. The movie had a cliff-hanger ending, however. The camera goes to the area where the Godzilla eggs were, only to see one egg still remaining, untouched and unhatched. As the camera moves closer to it, we see something inside moving, only to hatch and roar. Every Godzilla movie so far has been brilliant (maybe not to us because giant Japanese fighting puppets is not what we like to call “entertaining” anymore) and maybe, just maybe, the next one will be one of the best. That’s right, folks. On May 14th, 2014, the next big Godzilla movie is coming into theaters. Once again, it is an American movie, but with more Japanese traditional movie type in it. There will be another monster that Godzilla shall destroy, and a lot of dramatic sequences from the military, and especially Lieutenant Ford and his wife and family, who are the main characters (human-wise). I, personally, love anything to do with the destruction of a city and giant mutant monsters and aliens (Ya, everyone has their nerdy side; mine is this type of thing), so I am extremely excited to see how this movie turns out. My only hope is that they focus more on the monster and less on the drama of the humans. But, if the trailer looks good, previous movies were good, and the feeling about it is good, then hey, its good.
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