DarkDeceiver
Since: Mar, 2014
11/18/2015 00:00:00
That movement was due to how heavy the suit was. It weighed over 200 pounds, and being built from urethane foam stuffed with bamboo pieces and cotton, while being covered with liquid plastic, made it stiff and unyielding. What you're seeing in the film is Nakajima struggling to move the suit, it's not an act.
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Watch this film for everything but Godzilla.
All in all this film has very poignant moments, especially given the anvils it drops (although a bit too hard at the end). The acting was somewhat wooden, but it’s to be expected from a film that old.
Ironically, my biggest problem with the film was with Godzilla itself, or, rather, mostly with Special Effect Failures. I could hardly believe there was a person in there, as Haruo Nakajima’s movements were so wooden I could have sworn it was a puppet. The fire-breathing was ridiculous, though I could let it slide, assuming Godzilla somehow managed to harness the radioactive energy it soaked up, but the special effects were just... so bad.
Still, it’s to this film’s merit that it took itself seriously. After poorly executed scenes there would be a focus on the real destruction, and then I could take the film seriously myself. After Tokyo is destroyed, kids have to line up and get scanned with a Geiger counter, while the professionals struggle not to break down when a kid is riddled with radiation, and some kids break down and cry and it’s devastating. Even during the destruction, a news team keeps filming, and the reporter refuses to stop narrating, until he finally shouts, ‘This is the end! Farewell, viewers!’ That was a genuinely terrifying moment.
All in all, I’d say this film hasn’t aged well in general, but a good deal still has.
7.7/10