If you've failed to keep up this iconic Japanese series since it was all but destroyed 30 years ago, this movie will bring you back. It's impossible not to be entertained somewhat, whether you're looking for camp value or serious giant monster action. This one has everything that is required of the genre, and this mish-mash of styles becomes one awesome flick. (**** out of *****)
This transfer is one of the best of the Millennium series releases by Sony. The print is the only real annoyance, showing some extreme damage for a film barely a year old at the time of the DVD release. It's something you would expect from an older film, but not here. Compression is kept under control, grain is non-existent, and clarity is gorgeous. It may even been too clean, showing wires suspending Megaguirus in a few shots, which were likely invisible on a theater screen. (****)
A brief scene involving Godzilla fending off hundreds of baby Meganuron is the best moment in the film for audio fans. It uses everything. The bass is powerful, and you'll truly feel when the monsters collapse to the ground. Separation in the front speakers rival that of films budgeted at twice this one. This is arguably the best sounding Godzilla released in the US, assuming you stick with the Japanese 5.1. The English mix loses some of the punch. (*****)
The disc is barren aside from a few trailers. The subtitles are not accurate, but are captions from the dubbed version. There's plenty of extra material out there on the Japanese disc that, obviously, isn't included here. (No stars)
The soundtrack for this film is notable for a few reasons (including how outstanding it is). It's done by Michiru Oshima, the first female to compose in the series. She was deemed suitable enough to follow up with the back-to-back Godzilla X Mechagodzilla entries. She'll also be the orchestrator for Nintendo's upcoming blockbuster video game, Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess.
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1 - Matt Paprocki
We all have those nightmares. You know, the stuff you don't want to do but someday you know you'll eventually do it? Well, that's just happened:
I already reviewed this DVD.
I figured this would happen eventually, but with a game, considering I've written double the amount of reviews for those than movies. Yet, here we are. I didn't catch it until I was about 80% done, and I wasn't about to just ditch the work. How did it happen?
I reviewed this disc in conjunction with another. The title didn't appear when I searched (I had a gut feeling I already done this one) either on Blogcritics or my blog when I searched for "Godzilla." Why I didn't type the movie's name exactly, well, I'll never know. I had no listing for a review at IMDB, and everything goes into their external links, but not for this one. I even searched my reviews in .txt (for back-up reasons) on my hard drive.
Nothing, all because of the title.
I still can live this one down, considering this is more in-depth than my previous one. But damn was this one of the dumber things I've done.
2 - celia
que locaso todas las fotos
3 - celia
que locaso todas las fotos