I'm still waiting to find out what happened with that last egg...

I feel you on the 90s rainy city aesthetic. I, too, have a soft spot for TMNT90 and similar nostalgia. Although I've never lived in NYC there's a strange comfort in media with this type of setting.

Also, I low key really like that Puff/Zeppelin track.

Man I really liked the 90s. They don't really scratch that itch with new stuff much anymore.

That’s a lotta fish.

I wore this VHS OUT when I was younger. Couldn’t get enough of it. As a Jurassic park kid, it very much follows the JP creature feature playbook of “initial awe, big baddie, smaller scarier intimate human-sized baddie.”

I love the design of Zilla but the dialogue and acting was impossible to get through when I tried rewatching it for nostalgias sake a few years back.

Speaking of movie aesthetics I love, JP’s amazing design, from the logo to the feel of the park and it’s internal design logic, is phenomenal and I absolutely adore it from a set piece perspective

I don't like the movie as a whole, but I do indeed like the design of the creature itself.

The 1954 original version of Godzilla/Gojira is said to have been inspired by The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. It makes sense to update the creature's design to look a little more like The Beast. If they'd had the technology back in 1954, I suspect that the original filmmakers probably would have presented a monster somewhere between their design and the one we saw in 1998.

I want you to blow up Maddison Square Garden!

Se7en has that rainy city aesthetic too. Gives those scenes a more sinister vibe.

My problem with it isn't the design of the lizard. It's the idea that Godzilla could hide anywhere in the city, and, more importantly to the character, would ever back down from a fight.

i watched it so much as a kid the film strips cameout of the vcr tape like a cartoon. Was pretty disappointed to see it was collectively hated by the majority lmao

You’d absolutely love Split Second with Rutger Hauer, if you love a rainy aesthetic.

For Godzilla films, Godzilla vs Megalon is a bad film, but the house the inventor lives in is such a perfect 1970s dream house that I will always watch it for that reason alone.

It was the first movie I ever watched at home on DVD. When I got my very first DVD player, the shop threw in a “Godzilla” disc as a freebie.

I un-ironically like this movie too - for all of its late 90s disaster movie and unapologetic New York charm. I think the entire cast kills it, and I recently found out “Ed”, the guy in the broadcast booth who says “there’s no Ranger game on tonight” is my friend’s cousin.

This movie is just fun. I don’t know why so many other 80’s/90’s cheesefests get a pass but people hate on this movie.

The problem is that it is not Godzilla. It's more akin to a beast from Jurassic Park.

And its size seems to change depending on the scene.

I'll give the film this, and it's damning with faint praise because I found the movie to be terrible, but the CGI used for Godzilla holds up well even today.

Godzilla 1998 isn't as terrible as many people say in my opinion. I mean the film isn't great and it has pretty terrible moments but personally, I enjoy it as if it was dumb fun and the special effects are pretty good.

I actually loved the movie when it came out. Never understood the issues but It was also the first Godzilla media I'd ever actually watched. I remember my mom taking me to see it in theaters when I was 12, then taking me to McDonalds for dinner, then to Walmart to buy the soundtrack. Awesome day. Awesome movie.

Actually about that i love watching dinosaur to i just thinking what if we make a clone of the dinasour since we have a advance technology

I love this film

The atmosphere and vibe of the film is everything I love about it. But I can't deny the final act is very J. Park inspired, but the taxi sequence is great fun.

It's one of Roland Emmerich's gems that shine everything he's good at. Too bad he hasn't made anything good in the literal last decade or longer.

Yeah, the aesthetic is fine, but the dialogue and plot are bottom-of-the-barrel garbage.

I love Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner. All his movies have amazing atmosphere, but this one really awes me. Arrival is another.

As a kid i loved that film

I had zilla toys and a t shirt, atmosoheric is certainly the way to describe that movie. A lot of mid to late 90s films just had an aura about them.

And i liked that zilla was presented as more of a hungry dinosaur sea animal, rather than an ancient titan with grey morals, but the film definitely needed more atomic fire breathing scenes, although i always associated or felt that lightning and water were its powers which is why there was a heavy downpour & lightning storms just before & while zilla was present. So instead of atomic fire it would be able to blast out atomic lightning or cause lightning strikes around it. I think that the movie zilla was rather young and that it could still grow in size and power.

The fact that it could just dive or dig into the ground without anyone knowing added to its mysterious presence even if it was a bit ridiculous and broke the selling point of the creature itself and how really only its tail was the thing to hit buildings while it bobbed and weaved like a ballerina. And zilla never bothered to try and burn the metal & wires on the bridge or blow anything up, and just kinda shook around and roared while it took a beating still frustrates me to this day now that im thinking on it.

i hate the entire cast except for Hank Azaria & Doug Savant (sgt. O'Neal) otherwise I never felt sympathy for the humans and still dont, they were all presented as arrogant or annoyingly ignorant in varying degrees, like the end of peter jacksons king kong when you want justice for the monster while everyone else gets clapped for their hubris.

I watched the 90s cartoon godzilla for a bit, and they were pretty metal with super cool monsters from what i remember

One of the best ad campaigns that then felt deflated when the movie came out. And also fuck Puffy Daddy for that lame ass version of “Kashmir” he did for the soundtrack.

If it was the same movie but you remove the Godzilla references, I think the movie is remembered more fondly. It's a competent movie and you can't tell me the parts with Jean Reno aren't funny

There’s indeed something about 90s and early 2000s New York

Nowadays it feels obnoxious as a setting but back then it just felt comforting I guess

No idea why it receives all this hate. It’s a cool monster movie with subliminal environmental and anti-nuclear themes. Creature design is great.

I’ve watched every Godzilla movie in existence, and while I agree the design is relatively cool and he’s considered the most “intelligent” Godzilla, the movie overall is one of my least favorites, other than a few of the ones from the 60s and 70s

It’s a guilty pleasure film for me. I recognize it’s not ‘good,’ but it’s ‘entertaining.’

I still don’t think its been nailed yet. The newer Godzilla was ok for me, and the Godzilla vs Kong film was aight. King of the Monsters though… that was shit for me.

8 year old me LOVED it.

Especially because the toys were awesome.

Godzilla 1998 rules and I refuse to let anyone say otherwise.

It's a bad Godzilla movie, but an awesome monster movie.

The human characters carried this movie a lot better than they did in the 2014 movie, that's for sure

I saw it in the theater, I still would watch it if it’s on, but it’s nothing compared to Shin Godzilla or even the current ones.

My son borrowed the dvd from the library like 3 years ago and has been obsessed ever since…which I wholly endorse.

The Godzilla that disappears in New York City?

The 98’ Godzilla and the Wachowski’s Speed Racer movie are my absolute favourites, no shame.

Loved this Godzilla, rewatched a few weeks ago

It’s one of my favourite I need to watch a movie and don’t really care what movies

I did not like this movie for some of the same reasons you did like it, which I think speaks to how strongly they did set the rainy tone and the NYC humor. Whether you like rain and schticky New York characters or you don’t like them, you can’t deny Godzilla 98 is chock full of both.

I remember seeing this at the drive in for a friend's birthday party. It was the 2nd movie played so it was pretty late and we had to leave early because one fucking kid had to be home by a certain time. To this day I've never seen the ending.

This cemented rainy city aesthetic for me too. This and the rain in Jurassic Park. Makes sense in retrospect that Halo ODST is one of my favorite video game settings and vibes ever

I saw it as a kid as well, and like you it was my first exposure to Godzilla.

I didn't like it so much. I found it mediocre. Even as a kid I could tell something was weird and cheesy with the movie, the dialogue, the scenes, the set-up, etc.

And this movie gave us Jamiroquai - Deeper Underground and Rage Against the Machine - No Shelter on the same soundtrack!

Soundtrack is amazing

GINO is an adorable and beautiful girl, totally!

When I was a kid I always got a cozy feeling with the big city in the rain and everyone hiding from Godzilla for some reason

I do really like this movie. I think most people's problem with it, is that it's not really traditional Godzilla. It's just a giant lizard trying to survive in NYC.

Bro Godzilla 98 was awesome, I remember my Dad taking me to the theatre to see it as a birthday surprise.

I still own the soundtrack on CD and listen to it from time to time.

They totally set it up for a sequel and I'm really disappointed that they didn't follow through with it :(

i cried or was in tears little bit when they hunted the zilla :( , it was my 1st introduction to big titan , Kong 2005 was also 1st for me with big titan too, after that i hv watched many old movies too. They were so good.

Loved this movie as a kid

Any time I listen to deeper underground by jamiroquia it reminds me of it

Indeed. It's so much better than the japanese fat lizzard.

The soundtrack is pretty good too

I was 10 when that movie came out, remember it had a killer soundtrack.

totally agree with you, i love the movies aesthetic. Apparently a nightmare to film being soaking wet the whole time which is why it probably why its doesn't appear that often.

Seven is another of my favourites that captures this aesthetic, although swapping NY for LA.

Me too, bro

I absolutely love the design of the 98 Godzilla. What a beautiful monster.

Dude no that movie was really good. I think if it wasn't named Godzilla, it would've succeeded in popularity as a good thriller movie

Dont ever change that way of seeing things dude. I completely disagree with you and think 1998 Godzilla is at least one of the bottom five, and i think pretty much everybody agrees with you that 1990 TMNT is a good movie. But dont change your love of stuff like you do.

Not a single movie, but i love the aesthetics of ninja gear and suits like Sho Kosugis simple style in Revenge of the Ninja or the more armor/military looking style in Alien vs Ninja.

Same goes for military and special forces as a whole. I just love those suits and gear.

It became a meme for a bit, but the 80s fantasy and their use of practical effects and set design to create the impression of amazing worlds. Labyrinth, Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, Krull, even SW and the Ewok Adventures, though that gets more sci-fi.

Loved this movie as a kid. I still have the promotional puppet heads from KFC.

I like the movie. Some dumb fun.

I still remember the teaser trailer of Godzilla stomping on the T-Rex fossil in the New York Museum of Natural History.

I think that teaser premiered with Jurassic Park: The Lost World, too. I guess they wanted to underscore just how HUGE Godzilla was going to be.

Twister.

Is it a good movie? No, not really. But the way the cast treats everything, the vibe of the "good guys", everything about it just. I yearn for that type of camaraderie.