So once again, expanding my horizons in terms of films I haven't touched, and luckily all thanks to Max I found a film that I had no clue was really able to stream on TV, but deep down all that thanks goes to Max for being able to stream these films even though they own a lot of the Turner Classic movie archives, but still thank the lord for Max because if I didn't discover this great Monster classic. I'm not going to lie when I discovered that Max brought out a tone of the old school Godzilla movies from the early fifties to seventies, I was surprised but more importantly, more excited because this was something I'd never seen but most certainly wanted to experience as a movie watcher as well as a fan of classic films.
Underwater hydrogen bomb testing awakens a fire-breathing monster from its centuries-long sleep, and it soon starts to terrorize Japan.
Why the very first Godzilla intrigued me was that this was one of the very few films that truly started the monster movie craze, though sure America came out with the craze from King Kong and maybe Frankenstein and Dracula? Though I may have to dive deep into if those two films would count. But really what makes the earlier Godzilla movies a hidden gem because it has a lot of great passionate filmmakers and visual effects guys taking small sets and toy tanks and helicopters and really making something out of it and yes if you feel intrigued in wanting to watch the OG of Monster films, they have a ton of toy tanks and helicopter layouts as well as a ton of tubs of water with toy like boats. But really that's what you had to do back in those days when there was no such thing green screen or visual effects nor any of the technology that you can pull off now. If you were wanting to make any of these kinds of films, you had to rely a lot on things you had to work with, and the Japanese filmmakers did a fantastic job relying on things they had to work with and build something special. Hell, you can look at some of the earlier Power Rangers episodes and learn that all the Megazord battles were basically a guy in Robot costume, lizard costume or any bizarre costume and would film these big giant battles. Even with this movie there is a great human story as well as a Japanese Oppenheimer story line of creating a bomb that could help destroy the monster but would also be made by the wrong people who would most certainly destroy all of humanity and even combining with the monster and human story makes for a great entertaining movie from start to finish. This movie alone ranks up there in one of the greatest monster movies ever made, for a billion reasons its old school relying on production designs and really making them great to see on screen. Now granted this is made in Japan so, a ton of subtitles and so I can't tell you to watch the movie right away or have the patience with English subtitles all I can say is take your time moreover keep your mind in like a mellow state of mind, that's basically all I can tell you. And yet I would still highly recommend watching the original Godzilla and I promise you that you'll have a blast watching the monster sequences all the way through.
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