• Maybe not, but you sure act like a classless jackass when proven wrong.

• Please to explain how one can bastardize something when it hews almost exactly to the original source material (Watchmen) or when it has to add narrative and character elements to the original source material, because without the additions the movie would be 8 1/2 minutes long (Where the Wild Things Are)?

• Eh, the 98 Zilla wasn't a great Godzilla movie, but it wasn't terrible either. This remake is of course totally unnecessary in any case.

• +1

• I'm in the same boat. I loved the movie as a kid, think that it's not so bad (certain not deserving of the hate it's gotten) today, and totally loved the design. In fact, I unabashedly say that imo, '98's Godzilla was hands down my favorite design by a country mile.

• if you think about it, when you added the whole CGI astro boy deal and that crack about "sodomizing japan's little brother", suddenly that FFF of astro and tony stark becomes very symbolic of how america tries to fuck everything iconic of japanese culture. ...now if only it was Captain America doing the deed, tho, i think we would have yet another meme in the making.

• Shittier than Michael Bay? I rather watch an Emmerich film any day of the week over Bay's shit.

• So... what you listed as a track record for Legendary Pictures is two great movies (the Batman ones), one fun popcorn flick (300), one boring piece of shit (Superman Returns), and a bastardization (Watchmen). Beyond that they also have the Ant Bully (an okay kids film), Lady in the Water (crap!), Beerfest (juvenile), We Are Marshall (same ol' inspirational sports film all over again), 10,000 B.C. (more idiotic than Transformers 2 and the Happening combined!!!!), Observe and Report (crap!), the Hangover (a bit overrated, but funny), Trick r' Treat (some direct-to-DVD-after-a-delayed-release horror antholgy), Where the Wild Things Are (another bastardization!!! great visual effects, though), Ninja Assassin (not bad), and the upcoming remake of Clash of the Titans which looks to be a bastardization. That's 19% of their output being genuinely GOOD, 25% decent, and 56% being either BAD or bastardizations. I'm choosing to remain cautiously optimistic, though.

• Yours and mine both.

• The American Godzilla is the only movie I've ever fallen asleep during while watching in a theatre (I fall asleep watching movies at home all the time, because I'm too damn comfortable). It also is the origin of my animosity for Matthew Broderick (though I can still watch Ferris Bueller with no problem, thankfully). Still, this news doesn't make me all-the-way stabby. Yet.

• What are you guys talking about? THERE NEVER WAS ANY AMERICAN GODZILLA MOVIE! LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LA LA LA! $5 says there is a global warming message. (Evil carbon/pacific plastic bag Hedorah anyone?) I remain guardedly optimistic.

• I wonder if the wapanese will complain about this comment...

• The only thing the '98 zilla movie shared with anything produced in Japan, is the freaking name. It was just a giant monster movie. I don't seem to have a problem with looking at the film in this way. If you want a huge cast of monsters, I always liked Destroy all Monsters.

• NO ONE BESIDES JAPAN SHOULD EVER BE ALLOWED TO MAKE A GODZILLA MOVIE. Amen brother..amen. I have completely based my life on the ideal of "There is a little Godzilla in all of us." For the sake of my sanity let us never ever call this movie a "Godzilla Movie".

• This needs to get made, guys! The design of the American Godzilla is much more "natural looking" than it's Japanese counterpart.

• Thanks for the edit, Rob- my brain appreciates that.

• Japan should remake the Batman movies and deliberately make them 1000 times shittier to get even.

• the film has not even gone into preproduction yet. and hopefuly the ones in charge learned from roberts butchery and almost ass raping of godzilla and will this time stay true to the original plus not have Godzilla lay eggs for Godzilla is male not female as in roberts bomb of evil. not to mention if the film does good maybe they will redo Mothra again

• Karma seems angry. That wasn't so much a "comment" as a "maniphesto."

• Wah wah wah I'm a whiny baby <i>[Edited for clarity by Rob]</i>

• I don't think it's fair at all to base the assumption that America can never make a good Godzilla movie after ONE attempt. After two, maybe, but not after one. Especially since Emmerich admitted to hating the original Godzilla concept and was actively trying to redesign it to his liking. I know the scars still hurt, guys, but it's been 12 years and it's pretty obvious what not to do.

• Toei ?

• FUCK ME. I FUCKING HATE HOLLYWOOD

• I stand corrected the news changed yesterday, as untill this morning Toho was still stateing on their site that G was "retired" untill at most likely 2014. Sorry I don't sit on Toho's dick to get the latest news

• Final Wars is one of my feel-good movies. Take Godzilla, add every monster evar, take all the slow parts of a Godzilla film and replace them with fights on motorcycles and more crazy action, and you have pure distilled awesome.

• They just never learn.

• I always did like the American Godzilla's design better than the original. Pity they never got to build on the remake, though, iirc the animated series did some *awesome* shit...

• Wins the internet.

• ehhh...I'm a HUGE Godzilla fan,and I'm kind of sort of optimistic about this. The studios know they did it wrong the first time-maybe this will be the Batman Begins to Emmerichs Batman and Robin. At the very least,you know the studio will insist it be shot in 3-D....the thought of a 3-D IMAX Godzilla flick does sound pretty kickass....as long as Godzilla LOOKS like Godzilla.

• Oh boy, you'd better run. They're going to go ape shit on you!

• Go...go...Godzilla!

• "Like Michael Bay But Shittier" Soon as I stopped laughing at that, I couldn't think of any group of words that have been truer. But, fuck Roland Emmerich. After the last debacle, I think he's run out of ways to destroy the world. So his meal ticket is up. About the subject at hand, hopefully, they'll make a true to form Godzilla. One who's a tank, not an oversized iguana that hides in skyscrapers.

• I loved 1998 Godzilla, don't know what you people are so uptight about.

• Honestly Rob, overreact much? These aren't the same guys who made the '98 movie, and in any case it's not like the Japanese Godzilla films are the apex of cinematic achievement. Besides, hating on a new Godzilla movie just 'cause is just as bad as hating on all anime. I'm just sayin'...

• Check out the Defender of the Universe trilogy. Some of the best daikaiju films ever MADE.

• Right on my brother

• haha. Seriously though. Godzilla is totally a robot piloted by mutants...shipping one over to Hollywood to take us FUCKING OVER. Jesus fucking Christ. We are screwed. Watch them ship an 'extra' Godzilla, but it's a Gundam fully operational.

• Rob, I don't get what your problem is--all the filmmakers involved are Japanese. It's only being created for a (primarily) US audience by Legendary Pictures. The press release, did you read it?

• Y'know, we dropped an atomic bomb once on Japan, maybe it's time we dropped one on Holly wood. Problem is with everyone "summering in Aspen", we probably won't get all these fucktards in one blow. It's things like that make me not want to be an actor anymore...

• Actually, if you think about it, it's almost poetic. Godzilla rose over and over again from the radioactive environs of Tokyo Bay. Now Godzilla rises over and over from the toxic sludge that is Hollywood. I guess this is why you don't hear about writers strikes much anymore. I don't think Hollywood has (or uses) them anymore.

• Oh no! There goes Tokyo!

• released in 2012, huh? Perhaps the world will end before it gets released. ...rubber suited fingers crossed...

• Okay, I think Peter Jackson's re-remake of King Kong proved that even if someone remakes a movie badly, you can still remake it again and do it right. That's what I'm guessing is happening here. There's no reason to assume it's going to suck. Legendary Pictures handled Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, 300, Superman Returns and Watchmen, so I'm going to give these guys some credit.

• Except the original two films weren't planned to be done by suitmation. Neither was "Jujin Yuki Otoko," (the Abominable Snowman) which was made by Toho and Tsuburaya around the same time. When the original Godzilla movie was being put into production, Eiji Tsuburaya planned to do stop motion, insisting that it would be the most realistic way to do a giant monster. It was only because they didn't have the budget for anything else that Godzilla ended up just being a guy in a suit (or a puppet in some shots).

• *sigh* History shows again and again, How nature points up the folly of man. Godzilla!

• I have a sinking feeling that this is going to blow. I'm willing to give it a shot but I still have flashbacks of the Emmerich Godzilla and its unbelievable level of suck. On a lighter more kick ass note go here and enjoy the Godzilla/Giant Monster goodness. http://godzillahaiku.tumblr.com/

• Whose responsible this? (Just doing my part to keep the meme alive!)

• To me, a big part of the appeal of the old Godzilla movies has been pushing the envelope in what's possible with miniatures and live effects. Even with some CGI added in the later films, Godzilla was for the most part a guy in a suit (which lends itself toward deeper philosophical discussions).

• Describing Emmerich as "Like Michael Bay But Shittier" is unfair. At least I can tell what's going on during Emmerich's action scenes.

• You're not the only one. I thought it was a good monster movie, but not a good Godzilla movie. It was closer to THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS than GOJIRA.

• Um, everybody and their mother is posting this news. Sci-Fi Japan, Variety, Comingsoon.net, Entertainment Weekly, etc. Also, it was never a promise that Toho would put out a film exactly ten years later for the 60th, all that was said was there wasn't going to be any Godzilla films coming out of Toho for at least ten years if not more. So maybe do some research of your own paly...

• Oh crap.... NO ONE TELL THE ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD! HE'LL KILL US ALL!

• This has already been debunked several times over the past two years. American wants to try Godzilla again Toho has said no more G films from anyone till at least 2014 when they intend on rebooting the franchise for Big G's 60th. Freak out all you want it't not happening. Shame one you Rob for not doing any recerch before posting a story.

• Dinosaur enthusiast that I am, I share this sentiment. However, the American "Zilla" looked more like a giant iguana with Jay Leno's chin than a dinosaur. At least the Japanese Godzilla has character, and kickassery. Rob, why'd you go and post the Final Wars version of Godzilla? The worst design in the Millenium series. Shame on you. Get a picture from Godzilla 2000, Megaguiras, or the two Millenium Mechagodzilla movies up there. THAT'S what Godzilla is supposed to look like. I am reasonably hopeful that this film will not completely suck. As long as they DON'T CHANGE THE UNDERLYING DESIGN, upright posture and all, I'm okay with it. Can you imagine a well-budgeted, well-written version of Godzilla 1985? I'd crap my pants with glee.

• And why is that? As if he hasn't been done in CGI in the last six Japanese films?

• If this isn't a setup for a nuclear bomb comment, I don't know what is. I don't care who makes it, if they go all CGI without the suits and miniatures, it's no longer a Godzilla movie.

• Godzilla attacking cities like Tokyo was originally intended to exemplify a nuclear attack... much like the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima & Nagasaki. In fact Godzilla wouldn't exist if we hadn't bombed the shit out of those places. It's just ironic to me that no one in Hollywood realizes this and decides they can use Godzilla for their own moneymaking purposes. I think it's fine for us to do films like Cloverfield that are in the same vein as Godzilla but to completely take the character and fuck it up royally not only ruins the character but it also ruins the original purpose of the film. I'm a huge Godzilla fan and am loathing the release of this movie.

• Doesn't Matthew Broderick like buttfuckery? I was but a young lass when I saw the American "Godzilla" - I hadn't seen the original at the time - and I still thought it was godawful. The baby Godzillas, Godzilla changing size at every available opportunity (how did he/she fit in the tunnel?), and that laughable Godzilla/Gojira discussion. "Oh, he's actually Gojira, only Americans are too lazy to call him that." Is that how they hoped to appeal to honest-to-goodness Godzilla fans? By mentioning his actual name? I don't like them ruining Godzilla again but SO HELP ME GOD IF FOR SOME REASON THEY FUCK WITH KING GHIDORAH I WILL MURDERIZE SOMEBODY. I'll just watch Godzilla: Final Wars again. King Caesar (ha!) was always my favorite monster.

• Where's the <i>Gamera</i> remake I've been crying out for all these years?! "Gamera is really sweet, He is made of turtle meat, We're all eating GA-ME-RA!"

• Need I remind the naysayers that the American Godzilla film was going to be good until Roland Emmerich showed up? It had Stan Winston attached to it, and the models he had already made looked amazing. So don't blame America. Blame the idiots who took over the American film's production.

• None shall besmirch the good name of Mechagodzilla.

• I'm increasingly getting the sense that I am the only person on earth that liked the '98 Godzilla flick... course I was a kid, and I have a nerd tick about vertical vrs. horizontal dinosaur bodies...

• ah, Rob, calm down man, it can't be worse than what was done to the original Gojira when it was released in the US. nor can it be worse than what the Japanese themselves did to Godzilla in the later movies. baby Godzilla. mechagodzilla. and the list goes on.

• Considering the head of Legendary says they're gonna try and deliver something close to the source material and something that fans would like, I'd be a little more optimistic.

• I can already feel the rage building now. From hell's heart I stab at thee. For hate's sake, from a 30 story tall rubber dinosaur, I spit my last fiery breath at thee.

• No, this will hopefully be good. I'm willing to give it a chance. Just give him another kaiju to fight, for god's sake.

• ehhh, i simply ignore shit like this. in no way shape or form will japan let defilement like this influence the pure product, so who cares? this will just get toho some extra cash in the pocket that they can then make something worthwhile with.

• If it does poorly, there is always a chance that there will be more demand for the original again, like what happened the first time around. We can always look at it that way.

• I don't get why it needs to be a remake. Everybody knows the Gozilla origin. Just make another Godzilla film. You don't need to have seen them all to understand a Godzilla flick.

• FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

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