{"id":871,"date":"2021-10-16T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/31horrormovies.wordpress.com\/?p=871"},"modified":"2021-10-16T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T12:42:00","slug":"oct-16th-godzilla-raids-again-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockvideorental.com\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 16th: Godzilla Raids Again (1955)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Godzilla Raids Again (1955)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Motoyoshi Oda & Ishiro Honda<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly every great movie gets a sequel, in the case of Godzilla, he got like a million.\u00a0 Well Godzilla Raids Again was the first in that massive line.\u00a0 Was it an instant classic like its predecessor?\u00a0 Not really, but it isn\u2019t the worst in the series, not by a long shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1955 follow up to Godzilla, the titular monster faces off against an irradiated ankylosaurus named Anguirus.\u00a0 The two massive beasts fight and destroy Osaka Japan, not Tokyo this time around.\u00a0 Again, the people of Japan must find a way to deal with the monsters and keep their population safe.\u00a0 \u00a0 Apparently this time Godzilla is attracted to light\u2026like a moth, but not Mothra that\u2019s later on in the series.\u00a0 So they use flares to keep him from the shore, it barely works, of course.\u00a0 Big G ends up killing Anguirus rather easily, by biting his neck.\u00a0 The humans end up burying Godzilla in an avalanche at the end, in a grueling, plodding sequence that takes half my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godzilla Raids Again is good for a few things.\u00a0 It continued the series I would love as a kid, it introduced Anguirus whom ends up being Godzilla\u2019s wimpy tag partner, and deepened the backstory of Godzilla some.\u00a0 The movie as a whole seems rushed, because it was.\u00a0 It came out like six months after the original and it is very clumsy.\u00a0 Not only are the monster fights a bit of a mess, but the miniatures aren\u2019t as good as the first movie.\u00a0 The monster fights are really bizarre, they were filmed wrong really.\u00a0 Apparently the fights were suppose to be in slow motion but a camera fucked up and filmed them too fast.\u00a0 The director seemed to not care so they went with it.\u00a0 In the end it just looks goofy as shit.\u00a0 Godzilla this time around looks kind of clunky.\u00a0 The suit was slimmed down a little but the head stayed relatively large, making him look like a sock puppet or something.\u00a0 Anguirus looks a little strange but the overall design is pretty cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acting wise, again it is hard to determine what is bad and what is good, because it is foreign and old.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t roll my eyes much and laugh at the people so it couldn\u2019t have been that bad.\u00a0 I think where this movie suffers the most is that it is boring at times.\u00a0 The pace is rather slow, even with only running 1hour 20minutes.\u00a0 There are times during the movie where theres no dialogue, or music, or sound effects, just crackling air.\u00a0 I seriously thought there was something wrong with this movie, but I was watching the original Japanese cut with subtitles, so who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While this movie isn\u2019t great, it is far from the worst installment in the series.\u00a0 I enjoy seeing Godzilla fight another monster, albeit sped up super fast and awkward haha.\u00a0 If you love kaiju movies, check it out because it is important to the genre.\u00a0 I give this movie a C-, it is dull and clunky but not without its charms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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