Counting the American films, there are 30 Godzilla movies. Toho is coming out with a new Japanese one next year, and I hope annually after that for some time. As anyone's probably guessed, I've seen them all.
First movie, destructive force representing nuclear destruction. Next few movies, he's a villain, fighting either another monster, or fighting a good monster. Then in the fifth movie, Mothra guilt trips him into defending the Earth, and for the next ten or so movies he's a hero, except when he gets mind-controlled by aliens. Then we cut to the 80s, where they reboot the series aside from the first movie, and Godzilla's either villain or anti-hero for the 90s and the early 2000s. Sometimes he's teaming up with the military, sometimes he's fighting a worse monster, sometimes fighting a hero monster, once he was a vessel for the souls of those who died in the Pacific during World War II who were angry about being forgotten, another time he was the best super-weapon we had against Matrix aliens ... it's a weird as hell franchise, with multiple series and continuities within it.
Yeah, those are a quality whiplash.
60s Gamera: "Haha, look at these shitty Godzilla knock-offs for 5-year-olds, this is hilarious."
90s Gamera: ... *tears in eyes* "Godzilla films will never be this amazing, will they?"
I'm debating if I want to use those to end my kaiju kick. It's always that Gamera trilogy that does it--I watch those three movies in a row and then don't really feel like watching Godzilla movies for a while. Maybe if I only watch one Gamera movie, I can keep it going.
Gojira is on streaming services, I believe, but I hear you. It feels weird not to have it and it's hard to go back to King of the Monsters after watching the real thing. Which five movies?
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