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Beware of Pregnant Iguanas!

godzilla98-4.jpgHappy Memorial Day! It was five years ago this very weekend that the most blasphemous excuse for a summer blockbuster ever was vomited upon the silver screen. I'm sure everyone remembers the relentless hype, the "Size does matter" tagline and the "hide the creature" marketing scheme...All that for this, a cowardly bipedal iguana that burrows under the ground and lays raptor eggs in Madison Square Garden. And the worst thing was, they had the nerve to call it "Godzilla." I swear this is the only movie I have ever seen where the title character does not appear in the movie. What kind of Godzilla runs from the military, can not breathe fire and gets shot to death at the end of the movie? Well, it seems poetic justice that the promised sequel still has not come to be after five years, and Toho immediately resumed cranking out real Godzilla movies following the release of this flop. They have released four new G-flicks over the past four years with a fifth on the way. Thank you, Toho, for sponging the putrid memory of this crapfest from our fragile minds. Long live the big G.

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Well Fraudzilla did suck ass! I mean how come an iguana cant fall through a NY city street into the subway? Why were the helicopter pilots so inept that they couldnt catch a giant lizard? Why would a lizard that size run from a couple of gnat sized attack helicopters? The real Godzilla would have just shot them out of the sky with flame breath or the tail manuever. I will humor people who say that the effects were good....what they really mean is SOME OF THE effects were good. I still say a guy in a rubber suit stomping through meticulously constructed model cities is way cooler and the flames are REAL! By the way the graphic that you used where he is traversing the bridge is utter bullcrap because a suspension bridge would never hold 700 tons of iguana! Theoretically you could drive a 747 over that bridge if the wingspan wasnt that long and they were folded in but a 747 only wieghs about 60 tons. A 747-400 wieghs almost a hundred tons but you could not stack them seven high and drive them over because it would snap the couplings on the cable suspension. Add the stomping action and it would be an even sooner disaster. It would be like me, a 220lb man trying to walk over a bunch of paper plates suspended by twine.

Posted by: pete at May 26, 2003 9:00 PM

Also the real Godzilla would just smash or burn the bridge for effect and wade through the ankle deep water to destroy some more stuff. Or he might possibly set it on fire for the camera angles while eating a train full of people and step on a few J.D.F. tanks on the way.
http://www.jda.go.jp/jgsdf/index_e.html

Posted by: pete at May 26, 2003 9:06 PM

I like how Fraudzilla can out run attack copters but that magical taxi cab driven by the Frenchmen is just to fast for it. They didn't even have to use any super powerful missiles just standard weapons. It is a damn shame and I still think the American ambassador to Japan ( http://usembassy.state.gov/tokyo/wwwhamb-main.html ) needs to apologize for the insult to the movie goers of Japan.

Posted by: Jake at May 26, 2003 10:05 PM

Normally scientific inaccuracies don't bother me in sci-fi movies, but the reason they decided Fraudzilla could not breathe fire is that it would be too unrealistic. So apparently it's realistic to believe that an H-bomb can turn an iguana into a 200-foot asexual dinosaur that can burrow underground, run 200mph and lay 200 eggs at a time, but having it BREATHE FIRE too is just too unbelieveable.

Posted by: BBQ at May 27, 2003 12:26 AM

Well, perhaps to destroy Fraudzilla with the terrifying Nunzilla... with real sparks even.
http://www.stupid.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=store&Product_Code=NUNZ&Category_Code=TOYT

Posted by: Emma at May 27, 2003 9:29 AM

Ha Nunzilla shoots sparks out of her MOUTH!!! HAHAHA....i wonder it the make a satanzilla toy so you could wind them up and have the fight each other. I used to have a boxing nun toy. I would make it box with my mister T boxing toy which was always loads of fun.

Posted by: pete at May 27, 2003 9:59 AM

Posted by: Emma at May 27, 2003 4:06 PM

Personally, I think the best treatment of this "film" came from the horribly translated Dreamcast game Illbleed, with all the billboards featuring some kind of bug-thing smashing up Tokyo that read "GODLLA: SIZE IS PROBLEM!"

But Christ, this movie came from Roland "Universal Independence Patriot Soldier Day The" Emmerich. He wanted to make his own Jurassic Park. It's just too bad he had to corrupt one of the greatest names in cinema to do it.

I do, however, look forward to his Citizen Kane remake, in which Charles Foster Kane (Bruce Willis) must battle an evil supercomputer named Rosebud and avert nuclear annihilation. Apparently, the idea of basing it on the life story of an aging plutocrat was "too unrealistic" for "today's sophisticated movie-going audiences."

Posted by: Evilninja at May 27, 2003 4:29 PM

I still have the free collectable drink cup holder from Taco Bell. I think you put it on the window of your car when its rolled down or something. It looks like the fake Godzilla presented in the film.

Posted by: Arluss at June 2, 2003 2:05 PM

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