Popebug said: The cartoon series was actually pretty good, if I remember it correctly. And it sure was a LOT better than the horrid movie it was tied to.
Seconded. It inclined more to original Godzilla format. As far as I can remember, the movie Zilla was revived as a cyborg, no? I think Kiryu is based on that...
dean_exia said: the movie Zilla was revived as a cyborg, no?
Yes, yes he was. Me personally, I enjoyed the film as a giant monster movie, not as a Godzilla flick. Of many of the kaiju, Zilla's motives were more believable. Right up there with Gorgo as one of my fave monsters.
Popebug said: You're either a fellow MST3k fan, or I'm impressed with your knowledge of obscure Godzilla-knockoffs.
I'm simply a Monster fan, no more, no less. Be they the awesome stop motion feature creatures like beast from 20,000 and The Ymir from 20 Million Miles to Earth, to the rubber suit monsters of good ol' japan, to the cg beasts like clover of cloverfield and the monstrous octopus of deep rising. I loves me some monsters and the like, but there's something about monsters with a purpose beyond the slaughter that always had a special place for me. Gorgo (or rather Gorgo's mother since the child was the one with the name) especially holds a special place just because she wrecked an entire city not for the sake of food or for destruction's sake but to rescue her child. Zilla, who came to NY as a nesting ground as oppose to just destroying it, fueled with the desire for vengeance after Niko Tatopoulos and friends killed its hatchlings. The alien queen from aliens, just her whole skit with trying to protect her brood through her surprising knowledge of cause and effect. Monsters like that I've always held in high regard whether they were original or (like in the case of Gorgo and zilla)shadaow copies of another.
