Imagine if this took off the way superhero flicks did. All the 1950s/60s movies just waiting for a remake: Rodan, Gorgo, Them, and the very first of the atomic monsters: the Beast from 20,000 fathoms.
Let the daikaiju renaissance begin!
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Worse thing about the 98 version IMO was the terrible CGI. A nerdy scientist saying "That's a lot of fish", I can take with no problem. Godzilla being represented by special effects that look like they're from a Nintendo 64 game, no so much.
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I won't say it was the worst CGI ever, but we're talking about Godzilla here. He deserved the best CGI money could afford. It's not like they didn't have the technology at the time because the T-Rex from Jurassic Park looked massively more realistic and it came out roughly 5 years prior.
Godzilla from Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack! was not only perhaps the best rubber suit Godzilla, but there were some swimming scenes where he was CGI, and it looked great.
Enough with the rubber suit. Like Superman's outside-underwear, this is a "tradition" that needs to go.
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Well Cameron proved rubber suits to be still effective in a big budget movie like Aliens.
I would personally hate to see cgi killing off miniature models & animatronic creatures.
Actors reacting to a guy in a "rubber suit" is always more convincing to watch.
Yeah but those effects still hold up today. I don't think the Hulk should be conveyed on film in a practical manner but I do think that more filmmakers should use practical effects much more than they do. Just as CGI has improved, so has animatronics and make-up. When you combine CGI with practical effects properly you get can get something that looks amazing. Look at Pans labyrinth and hellboy.
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