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* BreakawayPopHit / CultSoundtrack: Its soundtrack album (featuring Music/TheWallflowers' cover of Music/DavidBowie's "Heroes", Music/{{Jamiroquai}}'s UK #1 single "Deeper Underground", Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's "No Shelter" and Music/PuffDaddy and [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]]'s "Come with Me") flew off the shelves.
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* BreakawayPopHit / CultSoundtrack: BreakawayPopHit: Its soundtrack album (featuring Music/TheWallflowers' cover of Music/DavidBowie's "Heroes", Music/{{Jamiroquai}}'s UK #1 single "Deeper Underground", Music/RageAgainstTheMachine's "No Shelter" and Music/PuffDaddy and [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]]'s "Come with Me") flew off the shelves.
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** Producer Rob Fried, who helped acquire the ''Godzilla'' rights for TriStar, called Sony's management the worst cases of executive incompetence in his career. Fried went on to say "They took a jewel and turned it into dust."
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** Producer Rob Fried, who helped acquire the ''Godzilla'' rights for TriStar, Creator/TriStarPictures, called Sony's Creator/{{Sony}}'s management the worst cases of executive incompetence in his career. Fried went on to say "They took a jewel and turned it into dust."
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** This film also inspired rumours that Toho absolutely hates the 1998 Godzilla. This, however, is untrue. While many people working for the company have expressed their own individual dislikes of the film (including suit actor Kenpachiro Satsuma walking out of a screening of the film stating "It's not Godzilla"), the company as a whole's view towards Zilla has been neutral to fairly positive. Plus, given that the film was a box-office hit in its initial release and Toho continues to get royalties for every cable TV showing, DVD, Blu-Ray, or digital download purchase, it wouldn't make sense for them to hate something that makes them a profit. The backlash against the film didn't stop Toho from returning fire with ''Film/Godzilla2000'' the very next year.
** Another rumor inspired by this film is that Creator/TriStarPictures originally wanted to use King Ghidorah and Mothra, but were unable to due to Toho refusing to give them the rights to the monsters. In reality, Toho was perfectly willing to let [=TriStar=] use either monster, but required separate licensing fees for each. Due to budget reasons, [=TriStar=] ultimately decided to have Godzilla (and his offspring) be the only monsters in the film.
** Another rumor inspired by this film is that Creator/TriStarPictures originally wanted to use King Ghidorah and Mothra, but were unable to due to Toho refusing to give them the rights to the monsters. In reality, Toho was perfectly willing to let [=TriStar=] use either monster, but required separate licensing fees for each. Due to budget reasons, [=TriStar=] ultimately decided to have Godzilla (and his offspring) be the only monsters in the film.
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** This film also inspired rumours rumors that Toho absolutely hates the 1998 Godzilla. This, however, is untrue. While many people working for the company have expressed their own individual dislikes of the film (including suit actor Kenpachiro Satsuma walking out of a screening of the film stating "It's not Godzilla"), the company as a whole's view towards Zilla has been neutral to fairly positive. Plus, given that the film was a box-office hit in its initial release and Toho continues to get royalties for every cable TV showing, DVD, Blu-Ray, or digital download purchase, it wouldn't make sense for them to hate something that makes them a profit. The backlash against the film didn't stop Toho from returning fire with ''Film/Godzilla2000'' the very next year.
** Another rumor inspired by this film is thatCreator/TriStarPictures [=TriStar=] Pictures originally wanted to use King Ghidorah and Mothra, but were unable to due to Toho refusing to give them the rights to the monsters. In reality, Toho was perfectly willing to let [=TriStar=] use either monster, but required separate licensing fees for each. Due to budget reasons, [=TriStar=] ultimately decided to have Godzilla (and his offspring) be the only monsters in the film.
** Another rumor inspired by this film is that
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* CreatorBacklash: In later years, Dean Devlin stated that he "screwed up" his Godzilla, mainly blaming the script that he co-wrote with Creator/RolandEmmerich as the source of the film's failure. Devlin additionally emphasized "two flaws" that he believed hurt the film, stating, "The first is we did not commit to anthropomorphizing Godzilla - meaning we did not decide if he was a heroic character, or a villainous character. We made the intellectual decision to have him be neither and just simply an animal trying to survive." Devlin said the decision was a "big mistake" and revealed the second flaw of the film was "...deciding to exposit the characters' background in the middle of the film rather than in the first act (where we always do). At the time we told the audience who these characters were, they had already made their minds up about them and we could not change that perception". Devlin concluded by stating, "These were 2 serious mistakes in the writing of the film, and I take full responsibility." It says a lot when he went to see ''Film/Godzilla2014'', a much TruerToTheText version of the character, he even hopes the Creator/LegendaryPictures version succeeds where his fails.
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** In later years, Dean Devlin stated that he "screwed up" his Godzilla, mainly blaming the script that he co-wrote with Creator/RolandEmmerich as the source of the film's failure. Devlin additionally emphasized "two flaws" that he believed hurt the film, stating, "The first is we did not commit to anthropomorphizing Godzilla - meaning we did not decide if he was a heroic character, or a villainous character. We made the intellectual decision to have him be neither and just simply an animal trying to survive." Devlin said the decision was a "big mistake" and revealed the second flaw of the film was "...deciding to exposit the characters' background in the middle of the film rather than in the first act (where we always do). At the time we told the audience who these characters were, they had already made their minds up about them and we could not change that perception". Devlin concluded by stating, "These were 2 serious mistakes in the writing of the film, and I take full responsibility." It says a lot when he went to see ''Film/Godzilla2014'', a much TruerToTheText version of the character, he even hopes the Creator/LegendaryPictures version succeeds where hisfails.fails.
** Downplayed with Creator/MatthewBroderick. While conceding that he was miscast for the role, Broderick still defended the film, noting that it made a decent profit and enjoyed working with Roland Emmerich.
** Creator/HankAzaria expressed his disappointment with working on the film, citing its failure to boost his career profile and how he fell sick repeatedly from shooting in rainy exteriors. He went on to declare that ''Godzilla'' became the "poster child" for everything wrong with Hollywood tentpole movies.
** Producer Rob Fried, who helped acquire the ''Godzilla'' rights for TriStar, called Sony's management the worst cases of executive incompetence in his career. Fried went on to say "They took a jewel and turned it into dust."
** In later years, Dean Devlin stated that he "screwed up" his Godzilla, mainly blaming the script that he co-wrote with Creator/RolandEmmerich as the source of the film's failure. Devlin additionally emphasized "two flaws" that he believed hurt the film, stating, "The first is we did not commit to anthropomorphizing Godzilla - meaning we did not decide if he was a heroic character, or a villainous character. We made the intellectual decision to have him be neither and just simply an animal trying to survive." Devlin said the decision was a "big mistake" and revealed the second flaw of the film was "...deciding to exposit the characters' background in the middle of the film rather than in the first act (where we always do). At the time we told the audience who these characters were, they had already made their minds up about them and we could not change that perception". Devlin concluded by stating, "These were 2 serious mistakes in the writing of the film, and I take full responsibility." It says a lot when he went to see ''Film/Godzilla2014'', a much TruerToTheText version of the character, he even hopes the Creator/LegendaryPictures version succeeds where his
** Downplayed with Creator/MatthewBroderick. While conceding that he was miscast for the role, Broderick still defended the film, noting that it made a decent profit and enjoyed working with Roland Emmerich.
** Creator/HankAzaria expressed his disappointment with working on the film, citing its failure to boost his career profile and how he fell sick repeatedly from shooting in rainy exteriors. He went on to declare that ''Godzilla'' became the "poster child" for everything wrong with Hollywood tentpole movies.
** Producer Rob Fried, who helped acquire the ''Godzilla'' rights for TriStar, called Sony's management the worst cases of executive incompetence in his career. Fried went on to say "They took a jewel and turned it into dust."
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* CreatorKiller: In the following weeks prior to the film's release day, Sony had Trendmasters not reveal the monster's design and had them withheld merchandise until after the film premiered. The movie did not do so well, and many of their toys were unsold as a result (one analyst made the memorable comment "A lot of screaming plastic lizards are gonna go unsold"). This ended up affecting Trendmasters' other Godzilla toyline projects, including the line for ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', which was supposed to have a line (and a commercial was produced) before retailers like Wal-Mart declined to sell them. This, combined with other failures (such as toylines based on ''Battlefield Earth'' and ''Lost in Space''), ultimately led to Trendmasters' closure a few years later. The irony of all this is that creating toys based on the original Toho Godzilla is what ultimately put them on the map; the King of Monsters giveth, and the King of Monsters taketh away.
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** In the following weeks prior to the film's release day, Sony had Trendmasters not reveal the monster's design and had them withheld merchandise until after the film premiered. The movie did not do so well, and many of their toys were unsold as a result (one analyst made the memorable comment "A lot of screaming plastic lizards are gonna go unsold"). This ended up affecting Trendmasters' other Godzilla toyline projects, including the line for ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', which was supposed to have a line (and a commercial was produced) before retailers like Wal-Mart declined to sell them. This, combined with other failures (such as toylines based on ''Battlefield Earth'' and ''Lost in Space''), ultimately led to Trendmasters' closure a few years later. The irony of all this is that creating toys based on the original Toho Godzilla is what ultimately put them on the map; the King of Monsters giveth, and the King of Monsters taketh away.
** Dean Devlin, who had been Creator/RolandEmmerich's writing partner for much of The90s, wouldn't write another film for eighteen years. He remained successful as a television producer, however.
** In the following weeks prior to the film's release day, Sony had Trendmasters not reveal the monster's design and had them withheld merchandise until after the film premiered. The movie did not do so well, and many of their toys were unsold as a result (one analyst made the memorable comment "A lot of screaming plastic lizards are gonna go unsold"). This ended up affecting Trendmasters' other Godzilla toyline projects, including the line for ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', which was supposed to have a line (and a commercial was produced) before retailers like Wal-Mart declined to sell them. This, combined with other failures (such as toylines based on ''Battlefield Earth'' and ''Lost in Space''), ultimately led to Trendmasters' closure a few years later. The irony of all this is that creating toys based on the original Toho Godzilla is what ultimately put them on the map; the King of Monsters giveth, and the King of Monsters taketh away.
** Dean Devlin, who had been Creator/RolandEmmerich's writing partner for much of The90s, wouldn't write another film for eighteen years. He remained successful as a television producer, however.
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* CreatorKiller: In the following weeks prior to the film's release day, Sony had Trendmasters not reveal the monster's design and had them withheld merchandise until after the film premiered. The movie did not do so well, and many of their toys were unsold as a result (one analyst made the memorable comment "Alot of screaming plastic lizards are gonna go unsold"). This ended up affecting Trendmasters' other Godzilla toyline projects, including the line for ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', which was supposed to have a line (and a commercial was produced) before retailers like Wal-Mart declined to sell them. This, combined with other failures (such as toylines based on ''Battlefield Earth'' and ''Lost in Space''), ultimately led to Trendmasters' closure a few years later. The irony of all this is that creating toys based on the original Toho Godzilla is what ultimately put them on the map; the King of Monsters giveth, and the King of Monsters taketh away.
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* CreatorKiller: In the following weeks prior to the film's release day, Sony had Trendmasters not reveal the monster's design and had them withheld merchandise until after the film premiered. The movie did not do so well, and many of their toys were unsold as a result (one analyst made the memorable comment "Alot "A lot of screaming plastic lizards are gonna go unsold"). This ended up affecting Trendmasters' other Godzilla toyline projects, including the line for ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'', which was supposed to have a line (and a commercial was produced) before retailers like Wal-Mart declined to sell them. This, combined with other failures (such as toylines based on ''Battlefield Earth'' and ''Lost in Space''), ultimately led to Trendmasters' closure a few years later. The irony of all this is that creating toys based on the original Toho Godzilla is what ultimately put them on the map; the King of Monsters giveth, and the King of Monsters taketh away.
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* ThrowItIn: That shot of lightning hitting one of the antenna of the World Trade Center was real; they happened to catch it while filming a wide angle shot of Manhattan and knew they had to keep it.
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** Toho did not allow Godzilla to eat anyone. The director made a work-around with the offsprings of Godzilla doing so, and Godzilla himself is seen trying and failing to eat the protagonists in the film. The scene where he destroys an Apache helicopter with his jaws does not count as "eating" since he's shown to clearly attacking.
