Godzilla, Bringing Monsters Back.

For those of you who don't know who Godzilla is, here is your refresher; seeing as how he is returning to the big screen this May. Mind you, I will not be discussing Godzilla 1998 as it really has no place to stand with the classic monster (a story for another day).

Godzilla's exact origins vary, but it is generally depicted as an enormous, violent, prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation. Pretty self-explanatory I know, pretty much it's a giant radioactive dinosaur-like creature. And while yes, in the Japanese tongue, Godzilla is classified as the noun "Kajiu" which translates to "strange creature", NOT IN ANY WAY TO CONFUSED WITH THE PACIFIC RIM KAIJU, as Godzilla is measured to be at least 5x times larger than the biggest Kaiju, so quit saying that Jaegars could fight Godzilla, or that Godzilla should be classified as a Pacific Rim creature, Godzilla has been around since the 40s! And the term Kaiju is used as describing phrase for all Japanese Monsters, and is not a member of the Kaiju species from Pacific Rim. 

Bigger than a Pacific Rim Kaiju people…a lot bigger.

The Evolution of Godzilla.

1940s Godzilla.

Over the years have had many reimaginings, going from your typical dopy looking beast from the days of early Monsters Movies, not looking very threatening (mainly the eyes) while this in a way, made it convey more emotion (as much as a giant monster can convey) which helped show the creature interact with his surroundings and other giant monsters. 

Godzilla 90s

Then the days of colour came, and with it, a new brand of monster, now featuring red/orange eyes the King of Monsters a more menacing appearance and with some re-touches to the overall appearance of the monster, he began to take a more monstrous appearance with more spikes and a sharper look, and for while up to say 2000, the look of Godzilla stayed relatively the  same, short snout, long kinda blunt tail, an upright stance, and of course the spikes. 







Then came Godzilla 2000, and with it, a new sleeker, sharper, deadlier look to the King himself, with an elongated snout, larger spikes, a more menacing demeanour, and of course a new take on his famous roar. This new Godzilla took on new foes like Orga, Megaguirus, King Ghidorah, and of course, Mecha-Godzilla.


 



 An obvious attempt to reboot the series, it worked for a time, but then kinda died off. Putting an end to King of Monsters…….or so we thought. 

Now 2014, Godzilla is making the big old comeback tour, with a new movie coming out in May of 2014 (THIS YEAR PEOPLE!!!!!), Expect a whole new level of city-wide destruction and possibly GIANT MONSTER FIGHTS!!!! Now, I don't expect an Oscar winning motion picture, hell my standards are quite small for the new movie, only having 2 things: Destruction and Godzilla. If you mess either one of those…well you don't quite have a Godzilla movie now do ya.

Here's to the possibility of reliving my childhood! 

Dylan