The movie continues to think that anhthing else it has to offer is more interesting than THE KAIJU

#Monsterdon

you know it's top secret because it's marked Top Secret, you know.

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Okay, finally that was explained. Godzilla ran across Panama

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real nooyawkas will let you fuck with any building, but not the Chrysler building

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@Lazarou #monsterdon

ikr I'd rather even hear more about those earthworms.

"I can't believe this. He did all this to us, and we... we did nothing to him."

"Oh that's not true. We fed him!"

*cheery tinkling music*

this movie is so stupid and/or thinks we are so stupid

#monsterdon

#Godzilla #Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon

They should mix in some crows cawing over the NYC skyline shots

#Monsterdon

@blogdiva coincidentally, it is a Torontonian pastime to see whether these movies set in are happening in Toronto or not

#Monsterdon

um

Godzilla

what are you doing to that building

CHILDREN, COVER YOUR EYES!

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I'm actually wondering why they decided to use helicopters to chase the Godzilla in this movie.

Out of universe, I guess they just wanted to see flying machines weaving through the skyscraper canyons?

In universe... um... maybe the helicopters ended up chasing because nothing else the army had could keep up?

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#Monsterdon 🦖 🌇 🦶 😱

He just loves the buildings and he's angry that the helicopters keep blowing them up

#monsterdon you're in a helicopter, go up!

It was a little odd at this time in Holleywood to not have another film just like this in production at the same time(Dante's Pek/Volcano, Deep Impact/Armageddon). #monsterdon

RIP Chrysler Building

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Now the godzilla is ray-shielded, you'll have to use proton torpedoes

#Monsterdon #Godzilla1998

I remember this movie being kind bad… I didn’t remember it being sLaPsTiCk!

#monsterdon #godzilla1998

Anyway, the Godzilla emerges to eat the fish and the Worm Scientist decides to take a picture (a nice touch) and then commune with it, but I'm not sure if he passed or failed his animal handling roll, because he didn't domesticate the godzilla but the godzilla didn't eat him either.

#monsterdon

@trixter this movie really can't decide what it wants to be #monsterdon

yea, upon rewatch, I'm seeing how this movie could be SO much better if it just had a different lead

I cannot take Matthew Broderick seriously in this role

It also could use some writing to establish like, actual character traits of being a scientist who cares about science and stuff

but whatever

the score also needs to back the fuck off

#Monsterdon

Godzilla LOVES having his picture taken

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I think we're about due for another "godzilla is large" joke

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#monsterdon Matthew Broderick talking earthworm psychology to catch #Godzilla1998 is such a 1990s thing jfc

Rack focus zoom!

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@ricci there's not enough fish in the sea #monsterdon

The Mayor character is mildly amusing because he's just grumpy about everything (with actually pretty good reason though).

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#monsterdon #6Train 23rd Street station has never looked like that.

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#Monsterdon #Godzilla1998 there's something fishy about this plan

#monsterdon i have never understood Hollywood’s obsession with Jean Reno

#Godzilla1998

"What is this american filth?!"

Classic Euros, lol

#Monsterdon

The biggest disaster to hit the city since the Muppets Took Manhattan

#monsterdon #godzilla1998

I feel like we keep on having a bunch of Bechtel near misses

#Monsterdon #Godzilla1998

…why is this MTA car playing Led Zeppelin?

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Mayor Ebert’s bald assistant is named Gene.

This movie ain’t so bad.

#Monsterdon

Maaaan, I miss the Warner Bros Studio Store.

#monsterdon #godzilla1998

He can easily hide IN NEW YORK CITY??? With people everywhere???

This truly was the era before smart phones #Monsterdon

@ricci Imagining explaining to my nephews that our cameras used to have these giant cartridges that they recorded things onto and no internal memory.

#monsterdon #godzilla1998

I want that rainbow patch on that soldier to be gay pride, but it probably isn't

#Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon

#monsterdon What a lovely Cloaca! Summers Eve! Sanitary!

Do we see Gozilla's lizard genitals? Is this all a giant public exposure fetish? Is that why the big lizard chose New York?

#Monsterdon

All the cars hopping is a nice practical effect. #monsterdon

I would like to see these actors in a better movie

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Boy the "jam in the VHS tape" bit sure didn't age well did it

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They should remake Godzilla (1998) just so this one scene can swap out the hapless mayor of NYC for whoever the outgoing mayor happens to be. That was a very stupid scene but it would have been pretty funny to see Eric Adams there.

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THE DAWN OF A NEW SPECIES!
how many minutes i have to fast forward too, or am i caught up? i may or may not have watched #Godzilla1998 more than a couple of #Monsterdon times

hahaha godzilla is large put it is still possible to not see it hahaha

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Why is Godzilla still carrying around boats?

#monsterdon #godzilla1998

The dawn of a new species. And it will hold your cup in your car. #monsterdon

AND THEY WERE COLLEGE ROOMMATES

of course, OF COURSE

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It's a giant lobstah

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#monsterdon HEERS LOOCY!

Back in Panama or somewhere, the Girl Scientist flirts with the Boy Scientist for no reason. Then we reach the shore and see a big boat which was the Japanese freighter from before. A French guy is staring at the boat for journalism purposes and this makes the army colonel mad. Then the Boy Scientist goes to scrape godzilla juice off the side of the boat.

#monsterdon

@neia I really hate this boss-hitting-on-the-cute-new-underling bit, even if the gender roles are reversed. DON'T EVER HIT ON YOUR SUBORDINATES of any gender, NOT EVEN AS A JOKE. NO. No. NOooooooo. This movie deserved to tank on this offense alone. #Monsterdon #Godzilla1998

@hollie

“Like” ≠ buying you a helicopter.

#Monsterdon

@superviviansunshine yeah I think he just crossed Panama and then started swimming toward New York for unclear reasons.

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#monsterdon starting the movie late, but this means I can fast forward if I get bored 🙌

#monsterdon I already just want everyone to get eaten and the movie goes for 2 more hours.

did they pad this movie out to TWO FUCKING HOURS with sexual escapades

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big old chonky 90s CRT monitors....heavy enough to use as ballast during a terrorist incident.

How many Simpsons actors are in this?

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"The radioactive contamination has mutated the earthworms! Do you know what that means?"

That means we're due for about 90 seconds of walk-and-talk exposition from MattBrod, that's what that means

Wait, why was there a John Williams-esque "magical mysterious wonder" orchestra cue there? Were they aiming for a Jurassic Park moment of scientific wonder?? God they got this story so incredibly wrong in just so many ways

#monsterdon

I wonder if he'll say Godzilla

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just let the man get his worms in peace

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Chernobyl, nothing bad ever continues to happen there. #monsterdon

At least not *everything* about this movie is terrible, we have Al Leong. Briefly.

Unfortunately, we also have Matthew Broderick. Singing in the rain.

#Monsterdon

@MatthewTitus88 i will always think of taco bell when thinking about this movie #monsterdon

o god it's Roland Emmerich, I had forgotten. His culpability for this movie was eclipsed in my memory by the depth and depravity of his myriad other cinematic sins

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My dudes this was made in 1998 what is with all this old timey filmstrip shit

#monsterdon

Can we watch Centropolis

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@hollie I did. And that made me crack up!
#monsterdon

I bet 20 yen that the script writer was high AF.

#monsterdon #WrongGodzilla

Is he a freaking wizard? Magic red shoes? Why is it a fairy tale now?
#Monsterdon #DaigorovsGoliath

great, now Daigoro has a taste for HUMAN FLESH

#monsterdon #WrongGodzilla

Woah, I dig that kaiju's hair!

#monsterdon #WrongGodzilla

@trixter At least it features the taxi cab, who was one of the best acted and most heroic characters in the film. A total scene stealer in every scene it was in.
#monsterdon

Is Daigoro just a Red King suit painted brown with a new head?
IS THAT A GIANT MONSTER OUTHOUSE!??!
#Monsterdon #DaigorovsGoliath

Only 3 minutes in, and the miru miyaku media movie is already more entertaining than Emmerich's Godzilla.

#monsterdon #WrongGodzilla

An insipid romance. An okay creature film—but not at all an okay Godzilla film. It does not hold up post-90s. And was way too long. Ah well. Thanks, as always for gathering us together, @Taweret, @Cherizilla and @JoeWynne. It’s always a fun event. #Monsterdon

A stain on the memory of...
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@CactuarJoe i'm voting this as the worst in the hopes that it will be.

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@RobynGoodfellow I didn't like Death Race 2000, I thought it was aimless and self-contradictory

and you are 100% right it was LEAGUES better than this #Monsterdon

I forgot this Robot Chicken skit existed
#Monsterdon #miru

I’m definitely going to incorporate “this thing have high beams?” into more of my conversations.

Like when I pick up pizza and they ask “would you like anything else with your order?” I’ll be like “depends… this thing have high beams?”

Then I’ll just take my pizza and walk out.

#Monsterdon

@Taweret I feel like we need to revisit Devil Girl this summer sometime?

#Monsterdon

Wait what the heck? Did we have a different song for the release here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeper_Underground
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Hey, whatever happened to the guy who made this end credit music, anyhow?

#monsterdon

Oxygen Destroyah, but in the sense of sucking all the oxygen out of the room for making monster movies

#Monsterdon

I guess we had to watch that one eventually

but now its done

the wind is at our backs

#monsterdon

Can I interest you in an egg at this trying time?

#monsterdon #Godzilla1998

DA EGG SHALL RETURN IN

GODZILLA TWO: THERE'S NOT A SEQUEL

#Godzilla #Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon

damn that just kept going huh

anyway, ty for joining, everyone!!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPxhdo4HDgg

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All of these moments will be lost. Like bad never ending plots. In rain..

THE END! Or... was it?

Good grief, folks, we made it. Thanks to you, I have not gone insane tonight.

Big thanks to all our hosts but especially @Taweret for helping keep me sane. I'm ready for the next experiment, next week! Can't be anywhere near as bad as this!

:heart: :pGood grief, folks, we made it. Thanks to you, I have not gone insane tonight.

Big thanks to all our hosts but especially @Taweret for helping keep me sane. I'm ready for the next experiment, next week! Can't be anywhere near as bad as this!

❤️ 🙏

#monsterdon

gotta protect the French reputation, i guess???

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Clearly set up for a [better] sequel #Monsterdon

lol, first mobile phone I've seen all movie.

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#Monsterdon I hope to forget this plot, like Godzilla tears in the rain.

Thanks Monsterdon folx, I hope I did my first one right!

THIS IS OUR... GODDEPENDENCE DAY

OR SOMETHING

#monsterdon #Godzilla1998

Poor Godzilla.. Had his babies murdered, been blown up, and running into buildings and shit, now he dead. RIP :blobfoxcry2: #Godzilla #Godzilla1998 #Monsterdon

ayyy Mayor Ebert got a THUMBS DOWN

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something something tears in the rain.

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