Honestly....No, I want Peter to get back to making smaller more intimate films as he said he had a desire to do. Big is fine but I hope he has another Heavenly Creatures in him...and I know he does.
Doesn't have to be PJ but the original film really deserves a GOOD remake. Something that still takes place in Japan in the 1950's. Modern day NYC ruins the WWII sense to the character.
Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers, Lo, there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning, Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, In the halls of Valhalla,where the brave may live...
^ Completely agree. After adapting the three LOTR books and remaking KK, time to do something real creative. Not saying what was done wasn't creative...it's just not original, let's put it that way.
There's a big difference between King Kong and Godzilla. Just because there has been a King Kong vs. Godzilla movie doesn't mean that the movies of the individual characters should be put on the same level. I think Godzilla is "beneath" Peter Jackson, because while the original King Kong was an excellent movie with a great story, the same cannot be said for a Godzilla movie. I have only seen one Godzilla movie (Godzilla vs. Mothra), and it was one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen, and I seriously doubt any of the Godzilla movies are much better. I think Godzilla movies are loved because some consider them "cheesy fun", ignoring their lackluster stories, goofy acting, and inept special effects, because they find those qualities endearing.
King Kong (1933), on the other hand, is a classic. I can completely understand why the 1933 version of King Kong (I haven't seen the 70s version) is so revered, but the fandom for Godzilla seems silly to me, since I thought the Godzilla movie I saw was so horrible that it was almost unwatchable. I was not charmed by its awful special effects, and while I admit that some of the ridiculously over-the-top acting amused me a little bit, for the most part, I found it annoying.
I have only seen one Godzilla movie (Godzilla vs. Mothra), and it was one of the stupidest movies I have ever seen, and I seriously doubt any of the Godzilla movies are much better.
In this you would be wrong. Many (and I am one) consider the original Godzilla (Gojira in Japanese) to be as serious a movie as King Kong. It was made less than 10 years after the two atom bombs were dropped on Japan, both ending WWII and giving the Japanese (and the world) much to consider as to the consequences of the atomic age.
Godzilla was an early, popular commentary on this subject. True enough the acting and the special effects were not necessarily noteworthy, especially if all are familiar with is the version made for the States with Raymond Burr inserted into several scenes.
Nothing against Peter Jackson but really
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I think Godzilla is "beneath" Peter Jackson
, this is the man who made Braindead and Bad Taste.
I'm with Lew. I saw the original Japanese cut of Gojira last year (the one WITHOUT Raymond Burr, ugh.) and it is, in fact, a VERY serious film and one that could stand a remake.
Unlike Kong (in any version), however, Godzilla doesn't have action film elements. It isn't an adventure, it's a science-fiction story. Plus, I'm not sure this is a time when the symbolic resonances of Godzilla would be most affecting (although the concept of poking around in areas you don't quite understand and having it come back to threaten you probably has some currency right now.) As a result, it's a tough sell.
The American remake in the '90s tried to rework the entire story as an action film and (although I'm one of two or three people in the world that actually enjoy this movie), the resultant film was just another big monster thriller with no real meaning and no distinction other than CGI effects.
