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Prepare for a rambling of a lifetime!

First off the movie was really good. Not perfect, mind you, but a lot better than the 98’ Zilla (it has no right to be called Godzilla, or the Beast from 20,000 fathoms the remake either) and gloriously better than Godzilla's Revenge. Or Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster.

I feel that it got a lot of things right like Joe being vindictive over an anomaly that cost him his wife and son's respect, and Ford's seeming lack of emotion. I mean when we first see him (adult Ford) when he is just getting back from a tour of (insert country here) and still has to adjust to "normal" life. Then things hit the fan and he has no time to stop being an Army (I really don't know what branch he was in) guy and grows some feelings other than what is in the moment motivation. The Brody family worked for what they essentially were. Plot fodder. Dr. Serizawa was good as the default Godzilla expert although I thought they would have given a wink and has Akira Takarada turn out to be Dr. Yamane, thus giving him the G-expert role and have the actor come full circle.

I thought the Monsters worked as what they were supposed to be. Animals and by association an extension of nature and its unpredictability. The Mutos were all right, although I'm still going to believe that they are this universe's Destroyah. Godzilla was Magnificent. I love how they took a seemingly impossible creature and make him look about as real as Bruce Camble's chin. That along with a believable atomic breath (which to me looked more like cobra venom that has a chemical reaction to the air rather than FIRE BEAM) was what made it all the more like actual animals.

I'd give this movie an 8.9/10.

Also to those who want Mothra in this, how would that work? Mothra has an entire religion and tiny twins that I really don't see fitting in this universe. Unless they pulled a cult of Cthulu thing where there is a small group of people who had a muto egg hidden on an island (with TV) that they thought would bring about the end of the world, then this movie happened and all the while they were watching this with there egg and when the female was killed, twin girls were born thus ushering in the idea that the end of days monster will awaken soon, happens.

... Wait. Y'all can go a head with the muto queen thing. I done goofed in my thoughts. Plus, How would Ghidorah work?