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Published: 2012-12-29 06:25:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 96879; Favourites: 2591; Downloads: 3569
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I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon, since everyone ELSE seems to be doing it
Not to mention it makes a nice New Years treat!The early reports of the new Godzilla design described it as "fat." A crude description at best, but when I saw the blurry photograph at the top-right there, I imagined that the design direction wasn't so much corpulent as it was "thick."
"Monstrously thick" were the words that came to mind. A mountain of a creature, unbelievably powerful and undeniably unstoppable. I approached this hypothetical design in a similar fashion to a paleontologist's anatomical reconstructions - using the little information I had, not to mention the previous works of as inspiration, this is what I'm anticipating to be lurking behind all that blurr and smoke.
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The Zilla from the Cartoon deserves a re-emergence, just with out the human control. That zilla was cool fast agile and he was unaffraid of pretty much everything. However Godzilla is the King, Zilla's defeat in 20 seconds proved that.
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They still should've made it longer than a few seconds.
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Aye a good half hour battle, Zilla would have been tossed about certaintly, but it till could have been an interesting battle. But Godzilla should have gotten a hold of him, a show of power to prove his dominance.
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Very good interpretation. If this is what Godzilla looks like in the upcoming film then I approve. Very Nice, Dude, Very Nice
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Very nice, but I think the Godzilla neo's Godzilla has a better design with better legs.
This design looks better:
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dam thats very good taking into count your mainlyy going off the head yeah thats just wicked.
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I can really see this working for the film! 
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IM SOOOOOOOOO HYPED FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hope its a better one than the tristar one.
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too bulky
he will not agile as FW Godzilla
but cool design anyway
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I liked it but didn't a lot of people hate FW Godzilla anyway?
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oh yeah?
i didn't know that
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Yeah something about it looking like a rat and too slim. I didn't really see any problem. Least it wasn't slow as snails like heisi
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in my opinion,FW goji looks figter-like for me with no bulky body
but i like goji 2000 too,especially the atari design,not looking too bulky & not too slim
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So how do you like what Matt has here. I don't really think of it as Fat, We're to believe Heisi Godzilla wasn't fat(Though I hate the way the fan base glorifies it)
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i rather call it bulky,i like heisei design too anyway
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Dunno about 'a lot,' but personally I had no problem with Final-Goji being a bit leaner & meaner than the Heisei or Millennium suits. Then again, who knows how much classical suitmation will figure into Legendary's entry anyway? They might go for motion-capture ala Jackson's King Kong.
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Between you and me how did you like the story and monster designs of Final Wars?
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Well, the story could've used a bit more actual kaiju combat between swathes of Matrix-alien scenery chewing. Heck, the human/mutant drama even bites huge chunks outta the final fight.
Design-wise...
Mothra/Kumonga/Ebirah/Manda/Hedorah- not bad at all, even if some barely had a minute of screen time.
Minya/Zilla- passable. Wouldn't have minded if the tuna lizard had survived a bit longer, but that's just not how Final-Goji rolls.
Rodan- wings could've been a skosh larger, but otherwise OK.
Seesar- found his acrobatics amusing enough to wish Final-Goji hadn't decked him so effortlessly.
Anguirus- not too keen on the facial makeover he received, but that ball-o-spiky doom trick was nifty. Again, could've lasted a bit longer.
Gigan- snazzy new weapons & dark color scheme, though his teeth seemed a bit oversized. Yet again, PWNZORED a bit too abruptly-twice.
MX- interesting spin on vaguely humanoid kaiju design; only foe who seems to give Goji a decent working-over. Fun fisticuffs interrupted by human plot, followed by deus ex mutation.
Keizer Ghidorah- aside from the sauropod build & sheer bulk, not the classiest update Ghido's ever experienced. Stumpy wings, paper-mache hide, abuses beamy arsenal like Spacegodzilla on PCP. Curbstomps Our Hero only to be plot-device thrashed & vaporized in turn. Kinda wish he'd stuck to the previous form.
In short, FW had its strong & weak points, but the energetic kaiju-combat (well, what moments of it there were) definitely didn't hurt.
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If you ask me Kaizer Ghidorah was a rush job I don't even thing he was originally suppose to be in the movie
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I could halfway see that. Kitamura sure went for an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach with FW.
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Of course after seeing the trailer for Pacific Rim I can't help think of what Final wars and the upcoming Godzilla would have looked like in that style
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AWESOME!!! if his new design is even remotely close to this then im will be satisfied
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If this is the new King of Monsters, than 2014 is going to be a great year.
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What if it's a remake of the 1998 movie?
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None the less, this representation is pretty accurate. As long as he looks like the traditional Toho design, everything will be cool.
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A redesign most befitting the king of kaiju.
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Sombody get him a bowflex, before he has a heartattack.
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I know, looks a little chubby with that one keg and double chin of his.
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toho should put him on a crash course diet.
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well we still dont know what he will look like yet but i hope he not fat or too skanny like the 1998 godzilla
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wow, I hope you're right bc/ this looks awesome!
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It's an excellent design, featuring the mountain a living kaiju would be, but keeping the classic godzilla design. Two thumbs up here.
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The tail on this guy is great, and that face, if we could be so lucky to have him have that much mammalian old school goodness in the face.
I get a sinking suspicion that Godzilla is going to be bulky and fat in this new movie as some way to counter balance the skinniness of Zilla, and Hollywood has a bad habit of doing the opposite of something if the first itteration isn't as successful as the last.
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After parsing through all the "MAKE IT BIG BAD 90's STYLE" comments here & elsewhere, I'm just about on board with ya. At least motion capture & the like might mitigate the kinetic limitations of a Heisei/Millennium-type design.
Anyhow, a happy pending 2013 to ya.
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I have no quarms with Godzilla being skinny, or bulky, or fat, or muscular, I just know how Hollywood works. They figured the first movie didn't do as well as they like, avoid doing anything that movie did. That is just how their minds work.
So I think they could purposely over compensate and force him into a stage of chunkiness.
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Fair supposition, that. All told, I'd just like to see some demonstration of combat-related reflexes beyond 'rear, roar, power up, lazor'. But I've likely belabored that chestnut enough.
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I'll be particularly happy if we see him for more than fifteen minutes in the film...
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...hmm. You really think Legendary's liable to opt for the Blair Witch/Cloverfield School of Minimal Monster Exposure?
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Well, I don't think its out of the realm of possibilities. I'm cautiously optimistic, Edwards himself says the movie is going to be an 'actioner' which sounds good in theory, but you could also say Micheal Bay's Transformers was an actioner... ya know, action consisting of 20 somethings running from explosions, occasionally interrupted by ten second robot fights.
So you can understand where my anxiety comes from.
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Frightening point. If this winds up being another Yappy New Actor/Actress vehicle...
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