I feel kind of sorry for Ghidorah in this movie. For most of the runtime, he's being controlled by someone else. Can you imagine when the computer controlling him was destroyed and the first thing he saw was a pissed off Godzilla in his face? He's suddenly aware, wondering what the hell is going on and Godzilla just kicks his ass.
Fun head-canon: Where do Dorats come from? My head canon is... Space dragon DNA.... IE it's really just a failed clone of Ghidorah they had to super charge with atomic energy.
Fun fact: in the original script the Dorats are actually cloned from the genetic material recovered from a dead King Ghidorah that the Futurians found on Venus. So technically the origins of King Ghidorah r pretty much the same because it is maintained in the novelization of the movie they just never bothered with that little fact in the movie itself.
And we were supposed to get a movie where the dead Ghidorah wasn’t so dead and faced off against Godzilla That way Godzilla would’ve killed King Ghidorah 3 fucking times in one continuity
@@thomus1025 No that wasn’t Ghidorah dying multiple times that was just Ghidorah refusing to die until the end (every movie after destroy all monsters takes place before that film)
The way I see it, the businessman's death was something he consented to. He understood what they did to Godzilla after he helped and so he accepted the payback.
Kaiju-Z The way I saw it is that all the success he built and the wealth he acquired for himself, his company, and his family, would not have been possible if the dinosaur didn’t save his life. So in his opinion, Godzilla absolutely had the right to take his life if he wished, as recompense for the prosperity he enjoyed. It’s an honor thing.
Yoshio Tsuchiya (Shindo's actor) is a huge sci fi and alien fan. He would sneak of the set of Seven Samurai to watch the filming of the orginal Godzilla, and begged for his role in the sequel. He apparently said he was "born to play this part" when they cast him in this film.
Godzilla King of the Monsters calls him Ghidorah Brandon: shit! Well I'm just gonna call him monster zero then or are people gonna complain that it's astro monster?
And people said Endgame had complicated time travel shenanigans. Edit: This was just a shit attempt at humor, so please calm down. No need to bash Endgame.
The only time travel issue in GvsKG is that they've changed history but when they get back to 1992 there are same people who have same memories. The rest is easily explained. Endgame's script is shit.
Wikizilla already did a thorough explanation with the time travel plot. Long story short, the original 1954 Godzilla was not the Heisei Godzilla, something which was overlooked and if people actually paid attention, the main character notices the issue when he reads up on a nuclear sub that sank in the Bearing Sea in the 1950s, just after they teleported the Godzillasaurus from Lagos.
@@WatcherMovie008 First time I watched this I hadn't seen the original Gojira since I was a little kid, so, didn't actually know that the original was a one shot monster. It makes sense, though, since stopping the original from being created wouldn't have stopped the "actual" one from all the previous movies from being created. And, the sub they sent to "recreate" Gojira just ended up making the main Godzilla stronger. I get it, now, finally.
From tvtropes In general, the film's time travel antics create a lot of confusion among fans about what is and isn't still a part of history in the later films. However, careful analysis reveals that the Futurians actually changed nothing but in fact created a Stable Time Loop and a Predestination Paradox where every Heisei-era film, as well as the 1954 film, all still happened, only with the Futurians now responsible for the Heisei Godzilla's existence. Thus references to the the original film and Biollante being made in the later films is not actually an error as most fans believe. In a nutshell, the previous belief in the series until this film was that the original 1954 Godzilla and the one that appeared in 1984 were the same individual. This film established they were in fact, two different creatures with the events of this film's 1940s scenes causing the future Heisei Godzilla to be created from a submarine accident in the 1980s. However this wasn't clearly communicated, especially in the dubs, so the revelation flew over a lot of viewers' heads.
Fun fact: the picture in the upper left corner of the book(and possibly more of the pictures) at 5:26 is of an actual carcass that was picked up by a Japanese fishing trawler. It's commonly known as the "Zuiyo Maru carcass." However it wasn't a real plesiosaur, it was actually a basking shark carcass in a very advanced stage of decomposition. (I didn't just know this off the top of my head. I recognized it from a "Trey the Explainer" video and looked at the video quick for the details.)
This is my favorite of the Heisei era and you did it justice. Yea, it’s got some silly elements, but I forget all that when the fights pop up. Great job! Keep up the good work!
Hard to believe those two shots are the same movie. That side profile shot is *super* cinematic. Then you get dopey running and bad green screen or something afterwards.
Don't want to be a Canadian ninja Don’t want to be some sake-swillin' nut clipper And do I look like some frostbitten shinobi? I never learned my alphabet from Hai to Dead.
As a diehard fan of the Big G, I will ATTEMPT to clear up some of this film's confusion. The Millennium series has almost zero continuity except for Tokyo SOS being a direct sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla. The Showa and Heisei films indicate that there were always two different Godzillas - one that was disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer in 1954, and the second one being the one we follow throughout every subsequent film. No entry has ever addressed the exact origin of the first Godzilla. The one on Lagos was always the second Godzilla. The Futurians only altered the source of his radiation exposure from the H-Bomb on Bikini island to a downed Russian nuclear sub in the Bering Sea. Other than that, everything that happened in Godzilla 1985 and Vs. Biollante transpired verbatim as before. The Futurians technically do explain the time paradox, albeit very poorly. The dinosaur expert, Professor Mazaki, outright asks them why don't bring Shindo or any other veterans to the past, and Grenchiko explains that one person "can't be in the same point in time more than once". This is why they can't go back and teleport the dinosaur again because then the Futurians themselves would be duplicated, blah blah blah. The Futurians' goal was to destroy MOST of Japan and then only keep the survivors alive if they surrendered to the Futurians' very specific demands that would allow them to thrive but not enough to become a superpower. With Ghidorah defeated, the Futurians technically still won since Japan wouldn't become a superpower; the only difference is that the uncontrollable Godzilla would undoubtedly wipe them out completely. If Shindo hadn't sent his own sub, Godzilla could've potentially remained in hibernation in the Bering Sea for a long time. As for Shindo, there are many theories, but personally, I think he figured out that Godzilla was going to kill him. He spent decades thinking the dinosaur saved him on purpose so he could become a tycoon and rebuild Japan, but now that all his prosperity was being destroyed by the same dinosaur, he finally realized that Godzilla was only protecting himself, so Shindo and his men benefited by happenstance. The cinematography and editing of that scene suggest that Godzilla does recognize Shindo - he probably killed him because he was enraged that Shindo abandoned him to die, even though he had no choice. All of this, of course, still doesn't fix the surplus of plot holes in this movie. How did the H-Bomb make three tiny Dorats so much larger than a forty-foot dinosaur? What was King Ghidorah doing in the new timeline from the H-Bomb test in 1954 till the Futurians came to control it with their supercomputer in 1992? Just living on the island minding its own business? How did Emmy not know what her cohorts were planning? Why didn't she try to stop them sooner? She claims that they had to destroy Japan in this manner because, "After the 20th century, all nuclear weapons are banned." That's absurd even in a Godzilla film! Even if every country that possessed such weapons agreed to ban them and deplete their stockpiles, scientists are still trying to master nuclear fusion as an energy source, so we'll always have the capacity to make more weapons. Also, who gave Emmy the authority (and budget) to revive King Ghidorah as Mecha-King Ghidorah? She already admitted her partners stole the time machine in the first place. Now her superiors are willing to just send her back in the past with a giant cyborg weapon to do as she pleases? Why is Mecha-King Ghidorah weaker than King Ghidorah? The original kicked Godzilla's butt until they lost control of it. Now that Emmy's controlling it AND it has lasers and armor it's somehow less powerful than before? *sigh, I still adore this movie. I'm a sucker for the "alliance of convenience" cliche ("The enemy of my enemy is my friend"), and this movie is rife with it. I also love Shindo's character arc. It's like something out of a Greek tragedy. M-ll, despite being an obvious rip-off of the Terminator, is fun to watch. This film also has probably the best jokes of any entry in the franchise (the Spielberg reference is just the tip of the iceberg). Akira Ifukube's score is glorious to listen to. I love it. ...I've thought about this way too much, haven't I? Great review as always, Brandon. Can't wait for the next one - even if Godzilla isn't involved ;)
I know how you feel. On the one hand the human subplot is riddled with so many logical errors, but on the other hand, I love everything else so much that I don't even care.
However Godzilla 1985 ignores the Showa Series except for 1954 and is not the same Godzilla from Raids Again (The Godzilla from every film from Raids again to Terror of MechaGodzilla) or the original Godzilla.
"It's what you would call a time machine, but we do not call it that. We call it our mothership." "So your ship is a time machine?" "Did you just assumed our ship's function?" Now we know why people from the future do not like to call things what they are...
When I finally posted my review to TH-cam after Blip kicked me out both Toho and Tri-Star flagged it, but I fought it. Tri-Star dropped their claim right away but Toho just let it pass. He might be okay on this one. If not this will be deleted and nobody will see this comment anyway. :D
Ive always theorized this is the film that created the heisei timeline in universe. That before this the Showa timeline existed, and moving the lagos island Dinosaur prevents the second Godzilla from the Godzilla "raids again" era onwards from coming to Japan until 1984. But as the characters are viewing things from the post change universes perspective, they dont know that the showa era was erased and so events of Godzilla Returns onwards exists for them but none of the showa events do. Resulting in a weird time loop effect where it looks like they did nothint, but as an outside audience our only awareness of the change is effectively the new continuity.
Not only is this my favorite Godzilla film (aside from Gojira) but this movie is also what I watched after recovering from near death surgery at a young age.
No it an time loop The plisiasure is the Godzilllasarus put there by the time travelers and in 1977 it mutated into this goji while the og goji must be it mate or dad idk 🤷🏻
Someone call Linkara, I think the Ninja-style Dancer has gone nuts.
ปีที่แล้ว +2
"We don't like calling things what they actually are in the future..." Well I personally vote for "Magic Thingy Mover" for any future teleportation and advocate for changing airplane to "Zoomy Sky Bus".
Thanks for another timely Godzilla review, Brandon! This is one of my favorites of the Heisei era films. Please do a video discussing your thoughts on the new movie as soon as you can! Would love to see you talk about it in a vlog.
I love your Godzilla reviews but I love the other ones a lot more, gives enough room for comedic opportunities. Keep up the great work Brandon, I discovered you back in 2017 I believe with Terrorvision (my favorite review of yours). 😊
11:26 I still remember how ridiculous that line was and how poorly delivered too. But I had a foot tall Mecha King Ghidorah toy in the early 90s. There was a great comic shop in my town called Young's Newsstand. There were lots of imported monster toys for sale and I got Mecha KG for my birthday. I had no idea about the Heisei movies but a cyborg version of Godzilla's greatest enemy was an awesome toy.
If I remember correctly this movie was a direct hit in the face of America. Because of the economic competition between Japan and the United States in the early 1990s.
Fun fact: in the novelization for GvKG, it's stated that the Dorats were genetically engineered from a Ghidorah carcass found on Venus. So technically, 1991 Ghidorah actually _is_ from outer space...they just kind of took the roundabout way to do it.
In the Novelization, the Dorats are made from genetic material sourced from a giant corpse found on Venus, tying this king Ghidorah to the original showa one.
Yeah I thought the Dorats were lame as well. I'm also wondering if the new movie is going to have King Ghidorah as a space dragon or not. Already got my tickets.
I have a feeling that they're gonna make him an earth monster. But I dont want that. Make him an alien because that opens the door to future movies featuring aliens invading the earth and bringing monsters like gigan and mechagodzilla
@@Spongebrain97 I hope they keep his original origin, but I'm not sure if I want a return of alien invaders in another Godzilla movie :P I wouldn't be against it, but so many of the old movies have alien invaders. We can keep his alien origin though. It's a lot better than the Dorats.
Nope all the kaiju in the monsterverse (universe including Godzilla 2014, kong skull island, and now godzilla king of the monster) are ancient creatures from long ago encased in different parts of earth
While it hasn't been directly stated that Ghidorah is an alien in the MonsterVerse, Dougherty has hinted at it, saying that all the monsters are part of the natural order, except for Ghidorah.
Fun Fact: Godzillasaurus was originally written to be a Tyrannosaurus rex, but conceptual artist Shinji Nishikawa couldn't accept the idea that Godzilla was mutated from a regular T. rex, so he came up with the idea of Godzillasaurus.
Great Godzilla review, Brandon. Can't wait until next. 15:58-16:23 Thank you for clearing everything up. The time-travel plot may seem confusing to a lot of fans, but when you dig a bit deeper and research more information, it becomes much more easier to understand...well...for the most part. Two more Godzilla reviews away to my favorite Godzilla movie. It maybe not one of the best Godzilla movies out there, but it's one of the movies that made me a Godzilla fan and it also introduced me to my favorite Kaiju (besides Godzilla of course). Introducing one of the most intelligent monsters around, the telekinetic super astro cosmic dinosaur, the bastard son of the King of the Monsters from outer space, the extraterrestrial quartz-crystallized tyrant himself, the one and only...SpaceGodzilla!
@@TupocalypseShakur Which is not right because German students learn about Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the Holocaust. The German government has also done more than enough to apologize and pay reparations. Whereas in the Japansese government, the Right continues to deny Japanese war crimes and censor history education.
Thanks for reviewing this one because it was my very first godzilla movie i ever saw, and i remember that scene when he blows something up and saying "make my day"
16:23 Okay - Honestly? This Time I Have to Agree with You, That's really Goddamn Confusing I Don't Know What The F*ck was in Kazuki Omori's Mind when he Wrote The Script
2:55 “The English dubs I grew up on all called him Ghidrah.” Well, actually, they only called him Ghidrah for his first 2 films (Ghidrah The Three Headed Monster in 1964 and Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero in 1965). However, staring with his 3rd appearance in the film Destroy All Monsters in 1968, they started calling him King Ghidorah and have called him King Ghidorah ever since then. So, one argument could be made that he should be called Ghidrah since that is what he was originally called while another argument could be made that he should be called Ghidorah because he’s called that in every single film he’s in after Monster Zero. So, really, I think you can call him by either name since he was referred to as both, in the original series of films.
At first,I was calling him monster zero,because of the movie,so every time I would see King Gidorah I was calling him Monster Zero,then I found out it was Gidrah and then King Gidorah
In Godzilla Rulers Of Earth, Godzilla and Anguirus fought Mechagodzillas(showa) and Mecha-King Ghidorah. Also, nice review of Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah👍
Where does this movie rank in your favorite Godzilla films?
Number 2 baby
I'm not gonna rank it.
You should make a schedule where it goes Godzilla, original film, repeat.
Pretty low honestly.
100/100
Brandon Tenold #1. THANK YOU SO MUCH DUDE
I feel kind of sorry for Ghidorah in this movie. For most of the runtime, he's being controlled by someone else. Can you imagine when the computer controlling him was destroyed and the first thing he saw was a pissed off Godzilla in his face? He's suddenly aware, wondering what the hell is going on and Godzilla just kicks his ass.
Mind controlling him ain’t nothing new.
Arge
"Godzilla just kicks his ass" idk why but that cracked me up 💀💀
Fun head-canon: Where do Dorats come from?
My head canon is... Space dragon DNA.... IE it's really just a failed clone of Ghidorah they had to super charge with atomic energy.
@@marhawkman303in an unmade movie, it would'd been revealed that Dorats were made from DNA extracted from alien Ghidorah's corpse on Mars.
Fun fact: in the original script the Dorats are actually cloned from the genetic material recovered from a dead King Ghidorah that the Futurians found on Venus. So technically the origins of King Ghidorah r pretty much the same because it is maintained in the novelization of the movie they just never bothered with that little fact in the movie itself.
And we were supposed to get a movie where the dead Ghidorah wasn’t so dead and faced off against Godzilla
That way Godzilla would’ve killed King Ghidorah 3 fucking times in one continuity
@@s.nifrum4580 *cough* Showa *Cough*
@@thomus1025
No that wasn’t Ghidorah dying multiple times that was just Ghidorah refusing to die until the end (every movie after destroy all monsters takes place before that film)
@@s.nifrum4580 well, that would have actually been how space Ghidorah died in the first place, seeing as his corpse was cloned in the future.
@@Cybermat47
The Showa era and the Heisei era have nothing to do with one another
They just have a few characters in common
What Brandon sees:
“Brandon’s Cult Movie Reviews”
What everyone else sees:
“Brandon’s Godzilla Movie Reviews.”
What I see:
*Footage flagged by Toho*
I'm glad I got here before it was messed up in the reupload
Uh uh
Lol
@Zoie Amia sure sure
Bongo Kongo lol!
“Take that you Dinosaur!” Random soldier 1941
The only battle between america and Japan in 1941 was Pearl Harbor and that was not, in Japan, so it’s either 42 43 44 or 45. Not 41
February 7th 1944
Best line of all time and delivered with such power. Oscar bait no shame.
Yeahh
"So how are we going to defeat Godzilla?"
"Okay, so my idea involves taking King Ghidorah's corpse..."
The way I see it, the businessman's death was something he consented to. He understood what they did to Godzilla after he helped and so he accepted the payback.
Yeah, that's how I saw it, too.
Godzilla even sheds a tear after killing him
Kaiju-Z The way I saw it is that all the success he built and the wealth he acquired for himself, his company, and his family, would not have been possible if the dinosaur didn’t save his life. So in his opinion, Godzilla absolutely had the right to take his life if he wished, as recompense for the prosperity he enjoyed. It’s an honor thing.
A brief moment of respect between two fighters at the top of their game in the wake of disaster. Oddly touching yet hilarious at the same time.
@@DJSpike-ft9yw gee no wonder why he was pissed with Ghidorah destroying his economy but was completely fine when Godzilla did it
Poor Emmy. Her actress was only 49 when she died from Cancer in 2014.
That's actually really sad
She is anna nakagawa
That is terrible. She was still pretty young too.
I think is her death that make peapol made godzilla 2014
@@pedromiguelsousa7134 wdym lmao
Godzilla 2014 was RELEASED in theaters in 2014, it was already in production since late 2000s.
The face the character made when Brandon said "GODZILLER?" was on point. It's as if he was thinking "Godziller?? The hell???"
Very nice timing
Dorat 1: "DADA!"
Dorat 2: "MAMA!"
Dorat 3: "Congress is made up of the Senate and the House of Representatives!"
Kevin!
Jesus christ, you guys are brilliant
Monster Island Buddies
Monster Island Buddies reference! Also, kinda foreshadowing for Brandon’s vids on Final Wars and King Kong vs Godzilla!
I think the Dorat origin works well for an example of humans taking something innocent and cute, and turning it into something horrific and monstrous.
It's time to move out of your Mom's basement.
Except that it was something horrific and monstrous disguised as something innocent and cute. The dorats were created to be King Ghidorah.
*Brandon uploads a new Godzilla Review*
"A suprise to be sure,but a welcome one"
Wrong fandom
You are strong and wise and i am very proud of you
@@fa5353 nah man,memes can be everywhere independent of the fandom
Fun fact: Shindo is the same actor who plays the original leader of Planet X
Holy cow! I had no idea about that. Toho really loves their stock actors. Not that that's a problem. He stole this movie as Shindo, IMO.
Yoshio Tsuchiya (Shindo's actor) is a huge sci fi and alien fan. He would sneak of the set of Seven Samurai to watch the filming of the orginal Godzilla, and begged for his role in the sequel. He apparently said he was "born to play this part" when they cast him in this film.
@@B1998-u6i still love his performance in Son of Godzilla. RIP Tsuchiya-san.
Neat
Damni forgot about that thanks
I mean it is good to know Brandon actually reads the comments. Thank you
I bet he has lots of free time....
He's that dedicated.
Hidu Ganna PIRACY
Godzilla King of the Monsters calls him Ghidorah
Brandon: shit! Well I'm just gonna call him monster zero then or are people gonna complain that it's astro monster?
This comment deserves far more likes.
That, or "The One Who is Many"
Ghidora is Godzilla's enemy? In other news the sky is blue, water is wet, and TOHO hates this channel. Another great analysis Brandon. Love your work.
Toho should be happy this is free advertising.
Sweet, a new episode of "Footage flagged by Toho".
Not for me🙄
Oh yeah my favorite videos
My favourite sieres of all time
@@ahmedjaisam2193 I think it's the best thing of all time you know
@@tonyrowell9270 yea IKR they are totally not a piece of shit
And people said Endgame had complicated time travel shenanigans.
Edit: This was just a shit attempt at humor, so please calm down. No need to bash Endgame.
Jose Hernandez who? That movie was about as complicated as a crayon 🖍
The only time travel issue in GvsKG is that they've changed history but when they get back to 1992 there are same people who have same memories. The rest is easily explained.
Endgame's script is shit.
Wikizilla already did a thorough explanation with the time travel plot. Long story short, the original 1954 Godzilla was not the Heisei Godzilla, something which was overlooked and if people actually paid attention, the main character notices the issue when he reads up on a nuclear sub that sank in the Bearing Sea in the 1950s, just after they teleported the Godzillasaurus from Lagos.
@@WatcherMovie008 First time I watched this I hadn't seen the original Gojira since I was a little kid, so, didn't actually know that the original was a one shot monster. It makes sense, though, since stopping the original from being created wouldn't have stopped the "actual" one from all the previous movies from being created. And, the sub they sent to "recreate" Gojira just ended up making the main Godzilla stronger. I get it, now, finally.
Lol I actually just watched Endgame before watching this video! XD
Fun fact, Godzillasaurus' screams of pain when he's being bombarded by the Navy are Gamera's roars, just straight-up used with no alterations.
It's sped up.
"We don't like calling things what they actually are in the future..."
You hit it right on the nose Brandon… Damn
For people who keep trying to make fun of a demographic being 'snowflakes' and 'getting triggered', you guys sure are triggered snowflakes.
@@WalkerRileyMCDanny Trejo.
@@bryanferratt6598Danny DeVito
UAP’s be like
Rainbow cult people be like:
From tvtropes
In general, the film's time travel antics create a lot of confusion among fans about what is and isn't still a part of history in the later films. However, careful analysis reveals that the Futurians actually changed nothing but in fact created a Stable Time Loop and a Predestination Paradox where every Heisei-era film, as well as the 1954 film, all still happened, only with the Futurians now responsible for the Heisei Godzilla's existence. Thus references to the the original film and Biollante being made in the later films is not actually an error as most fans believe.
In a nutshell, the previous belief in the series until this film was that the original 1954 Godzilla and the one that appeared in 1984 were the same individual. This film established they were in fact, two different creatures with the events of this film's 1940s scenes causing the future Heisei Godzilla to be created from a submarine accident in the 1980s. However this wasn't clearly communicated, especially in the dubs, so the revelation flew over a lot of viewers' heads.
Fun fact: the picture in the upper left corner of the book(and possibly more of the pictures) at 5:26 is of an actual carcass that was picked up by a Japanese fishing trawler. It's commonly known as the "Zuiyo Maru carcass." However it wasn't a real plesiosaur, it was actually a basking shark carcass in a very advanced stage of decomposition.
(I didn't just know this off the top of my head. I recognized it from a "Trey the Explainer" video and looked at the video quick for the details.)
Heeeyyyy another Trey fan B)
Astaroth Belial Agraz Eyy! Nice to see more of us!
Strange. The other comment talking about trey isn’t appearing. Oh well, nice to see a couple of fellow trey fans here.
I knew what it was the moment I saw it, HAH!
varanid9 heh. I guess there are many of us subbed to Brandon.
Funnily enough, expanded material reveals that the Dorats were cloned from the corpse of an ancient three-headed alien dragon.
@TheGreaterGood80 Didn't want to give the reveal away too soon.
@@ScreamingScallop THE MOVIE STARTS SHOWING GHIDORAH'S CORPSE
I THINK ITS SAFE TO SAY HE'S APPEARING IN THIS MOVIE
@@sarafontanini7051 Is it all-caps because you're yelling, or because your keyboard's broken?
All You Kaiju Zombies.
Which was going to lead up to Godzilla vs Emperor Ghidorah, but that was scrapped, and eventually worked into Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla.
That giving Godzillasaurus a samurai sword joke was pure gold - This is why I'll always come back Brandon.
17:37 the trailer for Godzilla K.O.T.M referenced this scene a lot
That scene is the then and godzilla k.o.t.m has the now scene
So... we gonna ignore the fact that the Japanese soldiers are literally doing front and backflips when an explosion hits near them @ 10:39?
GhostTrueCapitalist yes
Take that you d i n o s a u r
I did not see that until you pointed it out I cant brethe becous of how funey this is.
69 likes nice
they died with style
The ''plesiosaur' carcass in the photo was in face a decaying basking shark.
Don't ruin my cryptozoology hopes
Are you sure it wasn't a barn owl photoshoped by E.L. Wallace?
@@HiperPivociarz lol
Yup, it's the Zuiyo-Maru Monster. I'm a big cryptozoology fan, but I STILL think it's a dead, rotten shark.
Nicholas Lienandjaja yeah I like cryptozoology but when a cryptid makes no sense I’m not gonna think much of it
This is my favorite of the Heisei era and you did it justice. Yea, it’s got some silly elements, but I forget all that when the fights pop up.
Great job! Keep up the good work!
14:53 Lmao. I love how he has the power to stop a whole damn car driving at 40mph but can't rip the sleeve off his damn jacket.🤣
15:00, ain't that one Hell of a transition.
Hard to believe those two shots are the same movie. That side profile shot is *super* cinematic. Then you get dopey running and bad green screen or something afterwards.
Don't want to be a Canadian ninja
Don’t want to be some sake-swillin' nut clipper
And do I look like some frostbitten shinobi?
I never learned my alphabet from Hai to Dead.
k
They kept the nuclear submarine a secret but they have a giant model of it on display
Of all the Gamera movies you reviewed, you DIDN'T pick up on Godzillasaurus using Gamera's trademark roar when he cries??
SMH
Plus they've used slightly changed Rodan's roar for both G-saurus and KG.
TOHO does that a freaking lot, unfortunately.
I guess I'm not The only one who heard that.
@@radogoji6863 no not even close bud
“We don’t like calling thing what they are in the future”. How oddly accurate
Even more so now than ever
Whenever Brandon uploads one of these (Godzilla or not), It's always a treat.
The doctor who reference was golden
Yes
This video was brilliant
I'm really digging the new characters in the Extended Brandonverse.
As a diehard fan of the Big G, I will ATTEMPT to clear up some of this film's confusion.
The Millennium series has almost zero continuity except for Tokyo SOS being a direct sequel to Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla. The Showa and Heisei films indicate that there were always two different Godzillas - one that was disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer in 1954, and the second one being the one we follow throughout every subsequent film. No entry has ever addressed the exact origin of the first Godzilla. The one on Lagos was always the second Godzilla. The Futurians only altered the source of his radiation exposure from the H-Bomb on Bikini island to a downed Russian nuclear sub in the Bering Sea. Other than that, everything that happened in Godzilla 1985 and Vs. Biollante transpired verbatim as before.
The Futurians technically do explain the time paradox, albeit very poorly. The dinosaur expert, Professor Mazaki, outright asks them why don't bring Shindo or any other veterans to the past, and Grenchiko explains that one person "can't be in the same point in time more than once". This is why they can't go back and teleport the dinosaur again because then the Futurians themselves would be duplicated, blah blah blah.
The Futurians' goal was to destroy MOST of Japan and then only keep the survivors alive if they surrendered to the Futurians' very specific demands that would allow them to thrive but not enough to become a superpower. With Ghidorah defeated, the Futurians technically still won since Japan wouldn't become a superpower; the only difference is that the uncontrollable Godzilla would undoubtedly wipe them out completely. If Shindo hadn't sent his own sub, Godzilla could've potentially remained in hibernation in the Bering Sea for a long time.
As for Shindo, there are many theories, but personally, I think he figured out that Godzilla was going to kill him. He spent decades thinking the dinosaur saved him on purpose so he could become a tycoon and rebuild Japan, but now that all his prosperity was being destroyed by the same dinosaur, he finally realized that Godzilla was only protecting himself, so Shindo and his men benefited by happenstance. The cinematography and editing of that scene suggest that Godzilla does recognize Shindo - he probably killed him because he was enraged that Shindo abandoned him to die, even though he had no choice.
All of this, of course, still doesn't fix the surplus of plot holes in this movie. How did the H-Bomb make three tiny Dorats so much larger than a forty-foot dinosaur? What was King Ghidorah doing in the new timeline from the H-Bomb test in 1954 till the Futurians came to control it with their supercomputer in 1992? Just living on the island minding its own business? How did Emmy not know what her cohorts were planning? Why didn't she try to stop them sooner? She claims that they had to destroy Japan in this manner because, "After the 20th century, all nuclear weapons are banned." That's absurd even in a Godzilla film! Even if every country that possessed such weapons agreed to ban them and deplete their stockpiles, scientists are still trying to master nuclear fusion as an energy source, so we'll always have the capacity to make more weapons. Also, who gave Emmy the authority (and budget) to revive King Ghidorah as Mecha-King Ghidorah? She already admitted her partners stole the time machine in the first place. Now her superiors are willing to just send her back in the past with a giant cyborg weapon to do as she pleases? Why is Mecha-King Ghidorah weaker than King Ghidorah? The original kicked Godzilla's butt until they lost control of it. Now that Emmy's controlling it AND it has lasers and armor it's somehow less powerful than before?
*sigh, I still adore this movie. I'm a sucker for the "alliance of convenience" cliche ("The enemy of my enemy is my friend"), and this movie is rife with it. I also love Shindo's character arc. It's like something out of a Greek tragedy. M-ll, despite being an obvious rip-off of the Terminator, is fun to watch. This film also has probably the best jokes of any entry in the franchise (the Spielberg reference is just the tip of the iceberg). Akira Ifukube's score is glorious to listen to. I love it.
...I've thought about this way too much, haven't I?
Great review as always, Brandon. Can't wait for the next one - even if Godzilla isn't involved ;)
I know how you feel. On the one hand the human subplot is riddled with so many logical errors, but on the other hand, I love everything else so much that I don't even care.
However Godzilla 1985 ignores the Showa Series except for 1954 and is not the same Godzilla from Raids Again (The Godzilla from every film from Raids again to Terror of MechaGodzilla) or the original Godzilla.
That’s a lot of words lol
"It's what you would call a time machine, but we do not call it that. We call it our mothership."
"So your ship is a time machine?"
"Did you just assumed our ship's function?"
Now we know why people from the future do not like to call things what they are...
Terminator and benny hill i lost it😂😂😂
Oooh, Brandon Tenold upload and a Godzilla movie to boot. Best watch before Toho gets wind of it -_-
yeah do it
When I finally posted my review to TH-cam after Blip kicked me out both Toho and Tri-Star flagged it, but I fought it. Tri-Star dropped their claim right away but Toho just let it pass. He might be okay on this one. If not this will be deleted and nobody will see this comment anyway. :D
Now this is a Godzilla review.. but we don't call it that.
He's begging to beleive.
People in our time simply call it a review.
Didn't realize Joss Whedon starred in an Godzilla movie before creating "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Ive always theorized this is the film that created the heisei timeline in universe.
That before this the Showa timeline existed, and moving the lagos island Dinosaur prevents the second Godzilla from the Godzilla "raids again" era onwards from coming to Japan until 1984.
But as the characters are viewing things from the post change universes perspective, they dont know that the showa era was erased and so events of Godzilla Returns onwards exists for them but none of the showa events do.
Resulting in a weird time loop effect where it looks like they did nothint, but as an outside audience our only awareness of the change is effectively the new continuity.
I’m looking forward to when Brandon gets to the Millennium films, especially GMK!
I like how Godzilla's new look in this movie can basically be summed up with '' He ate 2 subs and it all went to his thighs''.
Not only is this my favorite Godzilla film (aside from Gojira) but this movie is also what I watched after recovering from near death surgery at a young age.
that Benny Hill bit slayed me
The professor Found Legends of the Dinosaur 😂 5:34
No it an time loop
The plisiasure is the Godzilllasarus put there by the time travelers and in 1977 it mutated into this goji while the og goji must be it mate or dad idk 🤷🏻
1:00 that’s the risk you get when you become a internet critic, life just gets crazier.
It's an alternate universe. Time gets wonky in alternate universes.
Actually I'm pretty sure it's the same universe more or less, and that Godzilla was never erased to begin with
Cell: "Multiverse theory's a bitch."
If M-11 could just power slide faster than a car then why even bother with a car?
So he could stay hidden at first I guess.
Okay that skit in the beginning was pretty damn hilarious
Good review too, dude, always loved GvKG '91
Someone call Linkara, I think the Ninja-style Dancer has gone nuts.
"We don't like calling things what they actually are in the future..."
Well I personally vote for "Magic Thingy Mover" for any future teleportation and advocate for changing airplane to "Zoomy Sky Bus".
"When's the next Godzilla video?"
"Hey do another Godzilla video."
"Hey when are you going to do another Godzilla video?"
Thanks for another timely Godzilla review, Brandon! This is one of my favorites of the Heisei era films.
Please do a video discussing your thoughts on the new movie as soon as you can! Would love to see you talk about it in a vlog.
"but the dinosaur saved us all". priceless
"Take that, you dinosaur!" LOL
A fully mechanical mecha King Ghidorah is called Hyper mecha King Ghidorah
I love your Godzilla reviews but I love the other ones a lot more, gives enough room for comedic opportunities. Keep up the great work Brandon, I discovered you back in 2017 I believe with Terrorvision (my favorite review of yours). 😊
I was expecting to see Ghidorah, the Three-headed Monster, but this is just as good! I hope you will review the rest of the Heisei Godzilla movies!
Funny, Dark Corners Reviews just did that one
"oh that does it, no beats me in my own moive eat this."
That was the best thing I ever heard
11:26 I still remember how ridiculous that line was and how poorly delivered too. But I had a foot tall Mecha King Ghidorah toy in the early 90s. There was a great comic shop in my town called Young's Newsstand. There were lots of imported monster toys for sale and I got Mecha KG for my birthday. I had no idea about the Heisei movies but a cyborg version of Godzilla's greatest enemy was an awesome toy.
Great commentary - very funny and entertaining! Love it dude!
If Biollante is the best Heisei film, this one is the most entertaining.
If I remember correctly this movie was a direct hit in the face of America. Because of the economic competition between Japan and the United States in the early 1990s.
6:10 Godziller!
That used to be funny.
3:21 I think my favorite quote from Brandon XD
Fun fact: in the novelization for GvKG, it's stated that the Dorats were genetically engineered from a Ghidorah carcass found on Venus.
So technically, 1991 Ghidorah actually _is_ from outer space...they just kind of took the roundabout way to do it.
A thing of beauty! Thanks matey, brilliant as always ^^
I hope he does the original King Kong vs Godzilla next year
Lol same
I hope he dose the new one
He did
I got news for you bud
I cliked off a Three Kingdoms livestream for this.
Instead you got a king with three heads
@@smithwesson1896
LoL
(Clicking of a video about three kingdoms to video about a kaiju that has three dragon heads named king ghidorah) ironic
Really, the Futurian's whole plot is like going back in time and strangling Japan as a baby
In the Novelization, the Dorats are made from genetic material sourced from a giant corpse found on Venus, tying this king Ghidorah to the original showa one.
My favorite Heisei Era Godzilla movie. Hell, I love all of the Heisei movies in general.
Yeah I thought the Dorats were lame as well. I'm also wondering if the new movie is going to have King Ghidorah as a space dragon or not. Already got my tickets.
I have a feeling that they're gonna make him an earth monster. But I dont want that. Make him an alien because that opens the door to future movies featuring aliens invading the earth and bringing monsters like gigan and mechagodzilla
@@Spongebrain97 I hope they keep his original origin, but I'm not sure if I want a return of alien invaders in another Godzilla movie :P I wouldn't be against it, but so many of the old movies have alien invaders. We can keep his alien origin though. It's a lot better than the Dorats.
Nope all the kaiju in the monsterverse (universe including Godzilla 2014, kong skull island, and now godzilla king of the monster) are ancient creatures from long ago encased in different parts of earth
I'm pretty sure Michael Dougherty has already confirmed that Ghidorah is 100% alien, but I'm guessing they won't explicitly say it in the film.
While it hasn't been directly stated that Ghidorah is an alien in the MonsterVerse, Dougherty has hinted at it, saying that all the monsters are part of the natural order, except for Ghidorah.
Great work, Brandon! Keep working for it, bub!
I gonna give 8/10 for this movie
The beginning part with the guy at your window was hilarious😂
This movie confirms Godzilla is a canon event. He is inevitable.
This might actually be the best channel on TH-cam. Keep up the good work, Brandon.
11:20 We just not gonna mention the use of Gamera's roar here?
Brendon: aw well I guess we have to attack King Ghidorah with Godzilla (Gee-Door-rah)
Mikki: Its king Ghidorah (Gi-door-ra)
Brendom: *F*CK YOU MIKKI*
Fun Fact:
Godzillasaurus was originally written to
be a Tyrannosaurus rex, but conceptual
artist Shinji Nishikawa couldn't accept
the idea that Godzilla was mutated from
a regular T. rex, so he came up with the
idea of Godzillasaurus.
Great Godzilla review, Brandon. Can't wait until next.
15:58-16:23 Thank you for clearing everything up. The time-travel plot may seem confusing to a lot of fans, but when you dig a bit deeper and research more information, it becomes much more easier to understand...well...for the most part.
Two more Godzilla reviews away to my favorite Godzilla movie. It maybe not one of the best Godzilla movies out there, but it's one of the movies that made me a Godzilla fan and it also introduced me to my favorite Kaiju (besides Godzilla of course). Introducing one of the most intelligent monsters around, the telekinetic super astro cosmic dinosaur, the bastard son of the King of the Monsters from outer space, the extraterrestrial quartz-crystallized tyrant himself, the one and only...SpaceGodzilla!
4:39 Actually, Godzilla saved soldiers who shocked even the Nazis with their war crimes.
Yeah the anti america pro japan subtext is kinda fucked up
Ironic too
To be fair most Japanese people's knowledge of WW2 only goes as far as the nukes
@@TupocalypseShakur Which is not right because German students learn about Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the Holocaust. The German government has also done more than enough to apologize and pay reparations. Whereas in the Japansese government, the Right continues to deny Japanese war crimes and censor history education.
@@GothicKnight2 the censorship is so bad most of them don't even know when the war ended
This movie may not have solid plot, but it's definitely one of my favorites growing up. Plus Mecha King Ghidorah is totally epic!
So......when's the next Godzilla video?
Smith Wesson Really?
@@kirakiryu1020 yes
It's actually already out, it's THIS video.
Next is godzilla vs mothra in the heisei series.
Thanks for reviewing this one because it was my very first godzilla movie i ever saw, and i remember that scene when he blows something up and saying "make my day"
U kno, that plesiosaur attack was a reference to real life, when a basking shark corpse was mistaken for a plesiosaur.
The year is 3097. Brandon was finally fi shed reviewing every Godzilla movie!
4:13 not to be confused with dino crisis
16:23
Okay - Honestly?
This Time I Have to Agree with You, That's really Goddamn Confusing
I Don't Know What The F*ck was in Kazuki Omori's Mind when he Wrote The Script
Love you Brandon! Just discovered you this year. I am a big Godzilla fan, and your reviews are great! Keep up the good work!
9:34 Man time travel always looks so freaky.
2:55 “The English dubs I grew up on all called him Ghidrah.”
Well, actually, they only called him Ghidrah for his first 2 films (Ghidrah The Three Headed Monster in 1964 and Godzilla Vs. Monster Zero in 1965). However, staring with his 3rd appearance in the film Destroy All Monsters in 1968, they started calling him King Ghidorah and have called him King Ghidorah ever since then. So, one argument could be made that he should be called Ghidrah since that is what he was originally called while another argument could be made that he should be called Ghidorah because he’s called that in every single film he’s in after Monster Zero. So, really, I think you can call him by either name since he was referred to as both, in the original series of films.
At first,I was calling him monster zero,because of the movie,so every time I would see King Gidorah I was calling him Monster Zero,then I found out it was Gidrah and then King Gidorah
In Godzilla Rulers Of Earth, Godzilla and Anguirus fought Mechagodzillas(showa) and Mecha-King Ghidorah. Also, nice review of Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah👍
50 seconds in ninja style dancer?
In the novelization of this movie, the Dorats were created from a King Ghidorah carcass on Venus. So, he technically still an alien.
When are we going to see reviews of THE MYSTERIANS, or ATRAGON?