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The Godzilla film series is broken into several different eras reflecting a characteristic style and corresponding to the same eras used to classify all kaiju eiga (monster movies) in Japan. The first, second, and fourth eras refer to the Japanese emperor during production: the Shōwa era , the Heisei era , and the Reiwa era .
Godzilla (/ ɡ ɒ d ˈ z ɪ l ə / ɡod-ZIL-ə) [c] is a fictional monster, or kaiju, that debuted in the eponymous 1954 film, directed and co-written by Ishirō Honda. [2] The character has since become an international pop culture icon, appearing in various media: 33 Japanese films produced by Toho Co., Ltd., five American films, and numerous video games, novels, comic books, and television ...
[38] In 2021, the film was ranked at number 14 on Variety's list "All the Godzilla Movies Ranked" [39] In 2023, Collider ranked GMK as the best film in the series, listing it higher than the 1954 film and Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995). [40] That same year, Comic Book Resources listed it number 12 on their ranking of every film. [41]
Writer Max Borenstein stated that the Monsterverse did not begin as a franchise but as an American reboot of Godzilla.Borenstein credits Legendary Entertainment's founder and then CEO Thomas Tull as the one responsible for the Monsterverse, having acquired the rights to Godzilla and negotiated the complicated rights to King Kong.
[146] [188] It was ranked second on Variety's list of the best Godzilla movies of all time, [189] third on Vulture's, [190] sixth on IndieWire's, [191] and fourth on Entertainment Weekly's. [192] In July, Far Out named it the best monster movie of the 21st century, and CBR ranked it No. 1 on their list of the "10 Scariest Creature Features From ...
Godzilla is referred to by Ishirō Serizawa, played by Ken Watanabe, as "Gojira" (ゴジラ) though later on he would be referred to by other characters as "Godzilla". ". Watanabe argued with the producer to have his character refer to Godzilla by his Japanese name, stating, "the important thing is where the icon come
"MUTO" is an acronym for "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism". Director Gareth Edwards stated that "it's basically the UFO of monsters". [5] However, the term is also used as a name for the two parasitic monsters in Godzilla (2014). [6]
Tom Breihan from Deadspin stated that TriStar's Godzilla "wasn't motherfucking Godzilla at all," elaborating that the character was treated like a "tapped animal", lacked Godzilla's signature blue atomic breath, ran and hid, caused less damage, and that Emmerich and Devlin had "completely missed the entire point" of Godzilla.