I told my sister this joke (she’d never seen the movie but but she was researching Red Tide) and she cited the movie, took a gif, and included it in a presentation for her Masters in oceanography. Her thesis advisor approved, but apparently also had no idea what the movie is. This line has helped people.
Fun fact: The Japanese word for Godzilla, 'Gojira', is a meshing of the words for 'gorilla' and 'whale'. Even though of the nine animals the creature took inspiration from, neither gorilla nor whale was mentioned.
its because one of the lead members nickname was Gojira, so, they gave him that name, preety cool to have a giant, radio active monster named out of you, right?
I will give this movie one compliment and one only; It's nice to see an American film let the French be badass. All too many American movies only let Americans and may be the occasional one of my lot be heroes.
***** OK, I think you might have got the idea that I was dissing Americans in general. I wasn't. If anything American audiences keep proving that the movie studios underestimate them by enjoying non-American media, like Doctor Who..
GriffinPilgrim I saw this in the theater and I just remember it holding my interest but I do recall everyone in the audience laughing when he quoted Elvis.
bradley mayse This was actually one of the first films I saw at the cinema. Gods know what my parents were thinking. Set my standards for films rather low for a few years.
Apparently Toho (the company that Made the original Godzilla) Bought the Rights to the Monster, Renamed it Zilla said that the Americans were mistaken, Then had Godzilla Kick its ass and Slaughter it.
I love how Toho bought the rights back to this piece of trash, and renamed the monster in it "zilla." Then, they featured it in one of the best Godzilla films to date: "Godzilla: Final Wars." For the uneducated, this movie was about Godzilla VS. EVERYTHING he had fought so far. Aside from Mothra, who was on his side. Anyhoo, this "Zilla" beast appeared to take on our Kaijuu King. It ran at the beast, and Godzilla didn't even blik as it grabbed it, threw it against a building, and blew it up *with a single attack.* I love Toho.
Travis Smith I bet you're a guy who doesn't even know anything about the stuff in any Godzilla film ever. Modern Japanese Godzilla is to this day King of the Kaijuu. Not saying the UNDEFEATED king, but every king loses a battle once in a while. He is a gracious monster, clocking in at WAY taller than Zilla ever was.
The irony is that the animated series acting as this movie's sequel was actually quite good. They reincorporated the original Godzilla's statistics and abilities, got rid of some of the derp, etc.
Yes, but the fact that they surrendered was entirely the fault of the government at the time, as proven by the massive amount of resistance during the period they were occupied by Nazi Germany. The levels of badass that the resistance pulled off with limited resources and man power is a testament to how awesome France is and was. ~Signed, An american who is appreciative of France's contributions.
jeremy collard Don't forget world war one where they basically completely armed our clown asses and gave us menial tasks so we felt useful. And in modern times where their troops served along side us in the Gulf war and Afghanistan but also had enough courage and honestly to not get sucked into Iraq.
Reason you lads got destroyed in the Second World War was primarily the Germans shifting from trench and defensive warfare to blitzkreig which none of the allies did, luckily for us in the british Isles we had a barrier of water between us and the jerries.
20:15 _"After the creature finally goes down we get that lame scene where I guess you're actually supposed to feel sorry for it."_ Bonus points if someone says the, "Man is the REAL monster" cliche during the scene.
The best part is that this Godzilla was so bad that it was renamed "Zilla" and the actual Godzilla kicked it's ass and blew it up in Godzilla Final Wars.
Besides the fact that the Military/Homeland Security/ Secret Service let the (Arguably) most powerful man in the world fight in an extremely life-threatening situation.
A S R Too bad it had to many boring people plots and too little Heisenberg and FUCKING GODZILLA in it... It could have been the best thing ever now it's just my second favorite Godzilla- And the reboot and the Original are the only Gozillas I like anyway...
FanfareT.Loudest Toho had an advanced screening and called the film fantastic. Several Godzilla actors such as Akira Takarada, who played Ogata in the original and appeared in several sequels, had a positive reaction. Haruo Nakajima, who played Godzilla, even posed with a giant sized Legendary Godzilla figure
12 year old me was super sad after the movie. I was a huge Godzilla fan since four years old and I was scratching my head wondering why this Godzilla was so weak and could not breathe fire and chasing stuff. If I ever met the director I'll demand my money back.
A S R No no no, I meant the 1998 film being its source material. This Tristar franchise will never top the original Godzilla franchise, not even close..
Here's one thing I don't get, why would they try to kill this thing if they can just bait him away from the city. Shooting the thing pisses it off and continues to destroy shit. If they just get a couple of trucks full of fish or something to bait it out of the city, less destruction, less dead citizens and soldiers, much easier. Oh wait, that wont work cause the writers weren't smart enough to think of that.
Surprisingly, though this idea makes perfect sense from a military or story angle, has just one caveat: It would imply leading Godzilla into New Jersey, and not even this dumb version of it would go for that.
TheBoringAddress So they could've taken out New Jersey too? We could have prevented Jersey Shore and Chris Christie from becoming things? They passed up the best plan ever!
the thing about godzilla is that godzilla is supposed to wreck and destroy buildings. The 4 elements that makes this movie suck is 1. Godzilla's design sucks 2.The actors/actresses suck 3.Godzilla lays eggs and 4. she doesn't fight off another monster
Oscar Debäck Can't blame the actors for piss poor writing and story development, many of them are actually respectable actors especially Jean Reno, this movie seriously hurt their careers.
12:49 It's not even breathing fire! It's just exploding cars and moving teh fire form them to mimic the radioactive flame breath of its superior! Aagh...
Emilia Rose Yeah. Unrelated fanboy tangent here: You know that saying in writing "Every rule in writing has an exception?" Like how "Rick and Morty" is a torture porn that is actually funny? Well, Japanese Godzilla breaks all the rules of -Continuity between sequels. Each Godzilla film is its own universe. It has no canon. Godzilla is a mutant T-Rex one movie, the next he's an ancient guardian, the next he's just there for no reason. One movie he's born on Monster Island, the next he's a space-time anomaly. *I even remember an episode calling back to other movies and getting all of the info wrong, like how they said an atomic heat ray destroyed Mothra and actually showed footage from teh movie of them using it. It had looked like it had been destroyed but it had not been. It was hilarious.* -Good writing. Godzilla films doesn't care. It's got all the plot holes, all the stereotype characters, all the complete a$$ pulls. -Good Voice acting. The voices are over the top (At least, in the dubbed versions.) They're hilarious and actually add. Matter of fact, the whole reason Godzilla is good is because of its ability to pull these traits off with flying colors. It'll always be fun to watch for me. I wish you were into Kaijuus so we could RP this sort of stuff.
I'm so glad that Siskel and Ebert took a shit on this movie after they tried to make fun of them in the film. Ebert even said that if they were going to do a Godzilla movie they should have went to someone more promising to do it.May the greatest critics rest in peace.
There's one thing the same and one thing different about this and the new Godzilla. The same: The ad campaign they launched for both was FUCKING BRILLIANT. The HALO jump in the new trailer established a brand-new form of badass that was to come. Oh, and the actual scene was just as awesome as the trailer made it look. NC already explained how the ad campaign for this one was great. The difference: The 2014 version wasn't a piece of shit. The acting (all of it) was exponentially better, and I actually think the focus on the human characters, even through the fight scene, helped distinguish it from all the other big-monster movies out there. Whereas this one was formulaic as FUCK, and in general was so bad that the original creators of Godzilla bought the rights to this version just to have the OG kick it's ass to the curb.
I agree, and it's not exactly breaking tradition to write awkward human parts as the bulk of the film. A lot of people complain about the story and the human aspect of G14, I'm like "Yeah, what's new?" Try filling 140 minutes with monster fights and have success at the box office. (Though that would be a movie I would go to see. Twice.)
Levon Gevorgyan There's a little thing called "building tension." Surely you've heard of it. Besides, Godzilla was never the main focus of the film- the human's reactions were. He's there to keep the protagonist on his toes and he does it damn good. If the new movie didn't have Godzilla in it I'm entirely sure people would be hailing it as one of the best films of the year, behind Interstellar of course. But of course people are laden with expectation for something that was never really a thing in the first place.
Levon Gevorgyan "This movie actually showed Godzilla action ,that one was tease!" How Godzilla didn't appear in this one, the new one on the other hand had the biggedt Godzilla yet.
Actually they even failed at that! Kind of like the new Godzilla (2014) where toys came out before the actual movie, the same happened for this one. Toys came out before the movie and revealed what "Godzilla" was supposed to look like.
Fun Fact 1: Godzilla in Japanese (Gojira) is a corruption of Kujira, which means Whale. (it's a joke on Godzilla's size) Fun Fact 2: the director of this movie made it intentionally horrible because he hates Japanese culture. it's like I bombed a building because I hate the way it was built.
JuanMunzerAsakura How ironic, considering that the later Godzilla film hardly focused much Godzilla at all. Only 7 minutes. I mean, sure Godzilla would fight different monsters, but I think him being solo would be more proper if you want newcomers to be properly introduced.
***** many more people have died through the years thanks to the US. and besides, he wasn't speaking about 9/11, he was speaking about the WTC Bombing, which happened before that, and didn't destroy the towers.
The whole "president flys a fighter jet" _plothole_ is not a plothole AT ALL. It might be silly but it's not a plothole. In the movie they say the president is a former jet fighter pilot and it is a freaking "do or die" moment so, yeah, you should have as many able men as possible About this movie, I think its main problem is that it is supposed to be Godzilla and they ignored the source material. That and the hide&seek going on and a couple mistakes more. Also, the "ripping off Jurassic Park", while true, it is quite stupid since all those things happened way before in horror movies
Oh, and I'm guessing you thought transformers was a good movie too, they were both just as stupid. Oh and also, THE DAMN PRESIDENT WAS IN A FIGHTER JET!! Could anyone be more stupid than the guy who let the president fight ALIENS
This movie misses all points of Godzilla,first and most importantly Godzilla was about America throwing atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,so it makes no sense for it to take place in America,and second,why the heck is it CG,one of the best things about Godzilla was that it was all real,old ones do look dated,but some of them look really good with costumes,like Godzilla Vs. Destroyah.And even just as an unrelated monster movie it has terrible story,acting and script!Also,in that scene where "we're supposed to feel sorry for it" comes out another flaw of the movie,you can't feel sorry for it,because it has no personality,unlike other Godzilla movies!Man,I just love what they did to this Godzilla in the next Japanese version,that was really smart.Japanese Godzilla really defeated Zilla(this is what "Godzilla" from this movie is called in that movie).
The biggest question I always have in movies like this is "Why do we always try to kill it?" Granted in ID4 they attacked us first, but it happens all the time, which is just so stupid. Its no wonder why we haven't had any intelligent life make their presence known to the world because they know we'll just want to kill them. The original The Day the Earth Stood Still is a prime example of this as is the arrest of Superman in Man of Steel. Plus why is the Military always portrayed as being lead by people who either want to weaponise it or destroy it instead of intelligent people who will wonder why they are here or how the discovery can be used in a good way.
I just want to point out, those French Agents weren't trying to help the Americans, they were there to cover the whole thing up because Zilla (Yes, I called it Zilla because it's not the real Godzilla) was created in French Polynesia where the French government was testing nuclear weapons which created Zilla in first place. And also, shout out to Toho Productions for having the real Godzilla giving that piece of shit the ass kicking it deserved.
I actually like the build of gojira better (if you recall its known by the cast as gojira not Godzilla) it's a lot more practical and frankly terrifying if done right, not just the nostalgia filled weak joke of how ridiculous a guy looks in a suit. Unfortunately this was not done right
Yeah, it's not like the French helped you fight the English for independence or anything. And you totally built the Statue of Liberty by yourselves! /sarcasm
Yes that's true and because of that the world expected them to become stronger and braver in the future but when WW2 came they surrendered easily. They fought hard in WW1 why did they chicken out in WW2? They basically humiliated themselves and half the world lost respect for them. I still respect the French but I see why people make fun of them.
Joshua Willis Well, they did sort of act like badasses afterwards, so that kinda makes up for it. I mean, when France surrendered, did their overseas colonies give up and wait for the Nazis? NO. Some guy gave them a badass speech, and they rallied together and became one of the front-line powers in the conflict. That's right - even after their humiliating surrender and occupation, the French were still kicking Nazi ass around the world.
Fun Fact: Japan actually bought the rights to this monster, renamed it Zilla and had it killed in the shortest fight ever. Don't believe me, watch Godzilla: Final Wars
1998 godzilla isn't to bad. you know, if you removed the godzilla name from it, and improved the CGI, you have an Ok monster film! oh, and if matthew broderick wasn't in it, that would add points.
Strangely, I think I really like NC's Nick Tatopoulos interpretation that is strangely obsessed with fish. Gives him that extra pizzazz to really liven up a character.
+Alex Fraser No. It is not sad. Because the REAL Godzilla movies make mention and poke fun of this one. Literally. I, still, like this movie, but I don't see it as a Godzilla movie. More like....misinterpretation because of the fishing boat attacks.
I actually like the idea of this version better, it's something that COULD exist, it CAN have the "holy shit how epic" factor if done RIGHT, it's not just the weak joke of how ridiculous a guy in a suit looks, and the build of this Godzilla is a lot more practical and terrifying in my opinion. But unfortunately this is not done right
I will say this. There IS a lizard that eats fish, and it's the kind of lizard that Zilla is. It's a freakin' Aquatic Iguana! They show it in the beginning of the movie!
The 2014 Godzilla is about 3565465424 times better than this atrocity. It has better acting, writing, dialogue, CASTING, effects, music, and, of course, ACTION scenes. Here, the army makes FAR MORE damage than Godzilla. Wow, how bad is that? VERY bad, people, very bad.
"....lame scene where we're suppose to feel sorry for it". i actually did feel sorry for Godzilla he wasnt really doing anything. he was just trying to gather food and find a place to nest
I can see how this was the 1998 American modernization of Godzilla. It was retardedly ripped off Jurassic Park with all the dinosaur hype. 2014 was a good year...
Gotta thank the Nostalgia Critic on this one : that World Trade Center bombing reference always got me confused as a kid. I'm French and had no idea there had been a previous bombing. The guy mentions it, I do a double take and check again "But... I JUST saw the towers a few shots back? Are you from the future?".
@TheWing235 Did pay attention to the movie at all? The first scene in the movie takes place in some French islands that were used for nuclear testing in real life. They show an iguana coming out of the ocean and laying eggs on one of the nuked islands. GINO isn't a dinosaur but a giant mutated iguana.
12:36 It's funny, at that moment, one of the guys who played the original Godzilla literally rage-quit the movie, and left the theater in anger, saying it lacked the spirit of the original. Gotta wonder why Toho let this turd out of the bag.
Michael Ross he just tried to make that guy see that nobody cares...and how could he had done that if not by commenting?he said nobody as reffering to more people than himself
Michael Ross seriously? I dont care about Justin Beber (I also dont care how his name is spelled) but when people start annoying talking my ear about how much they hate him because he sucks at singing or some shit I let them know, quite loudly that I dont care. As would most people
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"They want him to study the footprint of a giant chicken?" Well, if Godzilla was a dinosaur in this version like he was in the original, then yes. Unfortunately, they decided to make him a mutant iguana (one of the many problems with this movie).
I cried as a kid whenever any animal (real or not) died. Why? Even as a kid I thought human beings were shitty and an animal that wanted to rip them apart was more deserving of my feelings. -_-
In the first Nostalgia Critic Fuck Up video, someone pointed out that certain species of lizard eat fish. (But for the Critic, that still doesn't excuse the line "that's a lot of fish")
I am getting so sick of people slagging off the latest Godzilla. It was amazing: 1. Its not fair to whine about the lack of disaster porn. 2. Its called showing restraint and being true to the original 3. In the old films Godzilla (particularly in the good films) did not have all that much screen time and yet people are acting like they expected just 2 hours of mindless violence. 4. If that was not bad enough people actually dare to insult a film for nor being 2 hours of disaster porn. 5. Maybe Godzilla did not appear for chunks of the movie, but other cool monsters did and when the big guy was on screen it was always incredibly awesome. I think people have either put the original Godzilla (a great movie) on a pedestal, or they have been spoiled by the constant awesome action scenes of Pacific Rim. If you want a lot of great monster violence that's fine but its not what the original Godzilla was about so its not fair to judge this movie for not being like that. They don't even advertise it like that. It was marketed as an atmospheric tense monster movie and that is exactly what we got. It would be like judging Harry Potter as a comedy. Their are elements of it but that is not the main focus. Don't judge a movie for what you want it to be. Judge it by what it is trying to be and the degree to which it succeeds in being this. The action was restrained yet incredible, the directing, cinematography and music were amongst the best I have ever seen in any movie, the monster designs were awesome, the plot was effective and simple combining both a tense end of the world scenario and a personal journey and the characters while not on Game of Thrones levels were still likable and the amount of criticism against them, I found to be completely unfair. The acting was good, the music was great, and the directing and visuals were unparalleled. Its just a great movie. I plan to buy it on dvd the moment it comes out and might even see it in the cinema a second time.
Oh yeah, about that "That's a lot of fish"- part: you know not EVERYTHING people say in movies has to be funny, especially in movies that are supposed to be realistic (well not that a cg mutant lizard is realistic). I mean, Doug doesn't go for a punchline every thirty seconds in private life, now does he?
Super9000man And people did laugh. Just because, again, in such a "serious" take on Godzilla (or at least an attempt on a serious take), you would't really expect that. So the counter argument to the Critic would be that the obvious statement was funny BECAUSE it fit his character, and BECAUSE it was dumb/odd. That was the line's purpose, and I was one of the many who did laugh at that line.
I guess what was supposed to be the humour in it is that this line was delivered and presented like a one liner joke even though it is entirely devoid of any kind of punchline or other funny aspect, especially in this context? Aw sorry, if I need to explain a joke, it's not funny to begin with.
