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All movies seen on 09/30/2011

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Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)

Directed by Ryûhei Kitamura

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sleestakk, DaNiedabaya, Javitron

Overview

Humanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole. All is peaceful until various monsters emerge to lay waste to Earth’s cities. Overwhelmed, humanity is seemingly saved by a race of benevolent aliens known as Xiliens. But not all is what it seems with these bizarre visitors. If humanity wishes to survive, they must reluctantly resurrect their most hated enemy, Godzilla.

Rated PG-13 | Length 125 minutes

Actors

Masahiro Matsuoka | Rei Kikukawa | Don Frye | Maki Mizuno | Kazuki Kitamura | Kane Kosugi | Kumi Mizuno | Akira Takarada | Masatō Ibu | Masanobu Takashima | Shigeru Izumiya | Jun Kunimura | Chihiro Otsuka | Masami Nagasawa | Masakatsu Funaki | Kenji Sahara | Kenta Suga | Kôichi Ueda | Akira Nakao | Tak Sakaguchi | Reika Kirishima | Tsutomu Kitagawa | Naoko Kamio | Kazuhiro Yoshida | Toshihiro Ogura | Motokuni Nakagawa | Ray Sefo | Yoji Tanaka | Shuya Yoshimoto | Kouichi Yamadera | Wataru Shihodo | Sam Arnold

Viewing History (seen 4 times)

Viewing Notes

This 50th anniversary effort from Toho is a mishmash of, and ode to, practically every Godzilla movie in the entire cannon (it even pokes fun at the shitty American Godzilla movie).

It doesn’t work all that well, to be honest, but there are some fun scenes, especially the ones involving American actor/stuntman Don Frye, who plays Douglas Gordon and looks a hell of a lot like Stalin in his military uniform.

Strange to say it, but the opening credits montage is also pretty damn cool, as is the fact that the movie opens with the old Tohoscope widescreen Toho logo.

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