That's a very colorful way to put it: subwoof Godzillas. LOL. Speaking of which, I saw "Godzilla" for the first time on cable recently. Great acting. The (real) French actors on there were very good at making French sound authentic. Also, Godzilla's acting was pretty touching.
You saw the Emmerich remake, right?
Horrible, I read your irony. My countryman is responsible for some really crap films though his most recent one about Shakespeare is a most welcome departure from the catastrophy/sci fi//monster fodder he has churned out and well worth a view even you think Emmerich is horrible otherwise (like I do).
The only thing good about Emmerich's Godzilla was the animation of the monster itself (the old Japanese Godzilla was always a bit like an extra from the mupper show), all slithery and fast (the hobby zoologist in me says that it was perhaps a bit too amphibian for a reptile, amphibians and reptiles aren't that close at all, reptilians and birds are much closer), but it had no heart and failed to engender any empathy for the ravaged nature/creature, something the old Japanese Godzilla as an allegory for Hirshima/Nagasaki and man's destruction of earth always did. Even the Alien monster has at least motherly love for its breed. Emmerich totally failed to get that. Goes to show that not all gay men automatically have empathy. And Jean Reno, much as I like the guy, must have been counting the money all the way to the bank while he was "acting" in this piece of junk. I had high hopes for this movie when it came out that it would at least be a decent B-movie like Independence Day, but it failed abysmally to even be a tolerable B-movie.
There is one more exception in his regularly less than passable oeuvre and that is the 13th Floor which flopped in 1999 but wasn't a bad movie at all and in its logic certainly superior to the muddled Inception I had to wade through a year ago.
