Ol'Skool Classic
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To ho could learn a lesson from its competitors Daiei who released the Gamera films from the mid-90's. They used suitimation actors, miniatures and CGI where it was needed.
When Toho decided to retire Godzilla, it was because no one was interested in making any more of the films because audiences have changed. Toho didn't want to be known as a studio that made monster movies(though Toho had released films from Akira Kurosawa like 7 Samurai and Yojimbo, The Bodyguard and many others). But it was Godzilla that really put the studio on the map.
I think after the success of Warner Brothers/Legendary Pictures film, Toho made this film to remind the world, "Godzilla is ours."
Everybody has a favorite Godzilla design. Mine are the 1968, 1974 and 1984 designs along with the 1954 original, respectively. This new design by Toho doesn't quite do it for me ,either and I have only seen a picture of it in the Monsters In Motion website.
Godzilla 1984 comes out on DVD in September. Monsters In Motion said it is the uncut Japanese version without Raymond Burr and the American scenes. Not much is known if it is going to have an English language track. I am going to preorder it soon.
Toho did a decent job with Godzilla during his run from the mid-late 80's thru the mid-90's. The Godzilla design that they used starting with Godzilla vs Biollante all the way to Godzilla vs Destroyah was the best Godzilla design ever IMO. They definitely should have used a combination of practical and CGI FX, especially with the head/face area for more realism on Godzilla .
The "Millennium" era Godzilla that Toho did in the early 2000's had a good body & dorsal spike design but the overall head design threw it off. Had they decided to use the head design they used for Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, minus the whited out /milky eyes that would have made for a pretty good overall updated design.