I see Shindo's death by Godzilla is actually not because Godzilla was bad. I see it as Shindo letting Godzilla kill him to repay him for the pain that he had caused the beast several years before.

Actually, Shindo was quite literally asking Godzilla to kill him, hence the roar of despair when Godzilla did.

I'm a simple man I see Decker review a Godzilla movie I drop everything to watch

There are 2 godzilla's, the futurians accidentally created godzilla 84 in the proces, without erassing godzilla 54

I still love the idea that the M-11 actor had lobbied for in the later Heisei movies. He wanted M-11 to reappear... as the Heisei Jet Jaguar. That's just so over the top insane that it might have been awesome.

You know, while I do disagree with some of the more political jokes you've made, I think you're one of the best reviewers out there. Easily on the same level as the Nostalgia Critic! Keep up the great work, mate :) Also, while I'm no scientist, the fact that you point out that Plesiosaurs and Dimetrodons aren't Dinosaurs brings warm feelings to my heart. I'm glad that you adressed the accusations of anti-Americanism in this movie. I have to agree with you - while I can see why some people would get that impression, I don't think that the filmmakers meant any offense. By the way, Godzilla was never actually erased from history. The film does a poor job of explaining it, but essentially the Futurians always travelled back in time and dumped the future Heisei Godzilla in the Bering Sea, and he got irradiated anyway and did what he did in 'Godzilla' (1984) and 'Godzilla VS Biollante'. It's weird, I know, but it does work. Kinda.

Insane aliens/time travel plot aside, this is honestly one of the best Godzilla films ever made.

To quote James Rolfe, "The good news is Godzilla's back. The bad news is Godzilla's back!"

Hey, Decker, as a fan of your show and a die hard Godzilla fan, I'm going to try to clear up as many plot holes as I can - not all of them, obviously; this is a Godzilla film with time travel so I can't work miracles. From what I understand: -There were two Godzillas all along - the 50 meter original who was disintegrated by the Oxygen Destroyer, and the much larger second Godzilla that we've been following in every film ever since. I suppose they were both irradiated by the same H-bomb test in 1954 but went their separate ways. -This film focuses exclusively on the second one, which is why the events of the 1954 film are unchanged. After the villains teleported Godzilla #2 to the Bering Sea, the Russian nuclear sub sank in the 1970s and made him the 80-meter behemoth seen in The Return of Godzilla (1984) and Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), so the events of those films transpired exactly as they already had. -The reason everyone in 1992 initially believes Godzilla has vanished despite the fact that they clearly remember him was reportedly lost in translation. I don't remember where I read this, but supposedly, in the Japanese version, they never specifically say, "Godzilla has disappeared"; what they actually say is, "The Japanese Self-Defense Force has lost track of him." Remember, these were the same idiots in Godzilla vs. Biollante who sent their entire military to one side of Japan, only to have Godzilla show up on the other side, forcing them to depend on Miki Saegusa's psychic power to hypnotize Godzilla into turning around until they had time to fight him. So he never disappeared from existence; they just lost track of where he was and stupidly assumed he was gone. -I'm guessing the writer and Emmy were trying to stop Shindo from sending his sub because they figured Godzilla was already large and strong enough to face Ghidorah, and feared irradiating him more would make him that much more difficult to contend with once Ghidorah was finished. To their credit, they were right. -This is just my theory, but I don't think Shindo was trying to connect to Godzilla. I think the truth is that he kept Godzilla on a pedestal (metaphorically speaking of course) because Godzilla saved his life in WWII, and felt Godzilla did so on purpose, saving Shindo so he could rebuild Japan. Unfortunately, once he saw his "savior" destroying everything he was only able to build because his life was saved, he realized that the dinosaur didn't save him on purpose; the dinosaur was only trying to save itself, and Shindo and his men just happened to profit by coincidence. It was too much for Shindo to take and decided to die the way he should have died 48 years earlier: at the hands of his so-called "savior". I'm just as confused by the other plot wholes, like why the bulk of the film takes place in 1992, meaning that Ghidorah wandered around without destroying anything for 48 years before they controlled him with their computer, or why Emmy didn't know about the plan for the dorats, or how they new the three would merge into one and grow so much larger than Godzilla despite him having a massive head start in size. However, this is still one of my favorites. I love the soundtrack and special effects. Even if the film is a mess, its ambition is admirable. Shindo's story is practically a Greek tragedy. M-11 is a joy to watch. The dialogue is easily some of the funniest in the franchise. And I'm a huge fan of the "Alliance of Convenience" cliche ("The enemy of my enemy is my friend"), and this movie uses it to the Nth degree. Japan teams up with the villains to eliminate Godzilla, then they have to depend on Godzilla to save them, then they have to rely on Mecha-King Ghidorah... They just can't catch a break, and I love it.

I remember watching this when was 11 years old using VHS. This was actually my first Godzilla movie. I was lucky to watch it at such a young age, it allowed me to enjoy it and not be a bitch about most if its "obvious flaws".

Godzilla get resurrected by electricity at the end. Great now he's Jason Voorhees.

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The main problem is how it was explained. They never erased Godzilla from the timeline they moved him to a different spot. It just unfortunately had a nuclear sub waiting for him to sleep near. So everything proceeded the same way just with a more aggressive version of Godzilla. But then people ask about Ghidorah, well he wasn't activated yet. The future people had him sleep as he grew.

Finally someone pointed out that godzillasaurus sounds like gamera

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10:55 the solution to the time travel inconsistencies is that by moving 1944 proto-godzilla to the bering sea thy put him in the eventual path of a soviet submarine disaster in the early 80's, thus creating the godzilla present in "the return of godzilla (1984)" which in turn was still the second chronological godzilla of the new timeline (the first being the 1954 one killed by the oxygen destroyer) and the godzilla of the hesei era. Despite altering the timeline, the alterations had already 'happened' and created the hesei series timeline where there was no godzilla between 1954 and 1984. There is a single, very confusing shot in the film that tries to explain this when the writer looks up a news article reffering to the Russian submarine (the same one from return of godzilla (1984). This shots close proximity to the destruction of a japanese submarine makes it seem like a dubbing mistake. The japanese submarine was sent to 're-empower' the godzilla dinosaur, but is instead attacked by an already mutated godzilla. this is because of the hesei timeline phenomenon described above. Also, King Ghidorah only appeared in 1992 because that was when the futurians were there to control him. But i do appreciate that any Kaiju film that requires this many cliff-notes could have done with a simpler plot

The time travel made no sense to me until I actually researched it. It actually makes sense now. Their actions actually created Godzilla.

One of the best of the Heisei era.

Oddly enough this was my first Kaiju movie. I recall being completely lost by the plot but having a good time.

the dorats are most underrated, unmentioned lil creatures of cinema history

00:40 The kitty says WTF?!

It always makes my day when the notification pops up for a new video

That picture at 3:08 is a real photograph, known as the 'Zuiyo-maru Carcass'. It was caught by a Japanese fishing vessel off the coast of New Zealand in 1977. A lot of people originally thought it was a Plesiosaur but study of tissue samples suggests it was actually the rotting carcass of a Basking Shark (the actual carcass was dumped back in the ocean, after samples and photos were taken, so as to not spoil the haul of fish they were carrying). It created a bit of a craze at the time, and some people still maintain it was a prehistoric creature.

At 17:23 Godzilla's Like: "Hey You're In No Parking Zone!"

In the Japanese version Shindo has cancer and wants Godzilla to kill him as one final favor. Also, there are TWO separate and distinct Godzillas in the Heisei continuity, just as there were in the Showa continuity. The 1954 Godzilla in both continuities was killed by the Oxygen Destroyer. Had the Godzillasurus of Lagos Island been left there, he might have eventually evolved into the Showaverse's Godzilla II (aka Gigantis). But by dumping him in the Bering Sea, the Futurians inadvertently created the Heisei timeline. The revived and mutated Godzillasaurus of Lagos is the one who attacks Japan in 1984

Whether it’s a new review or one from 7 years ago I can’t thank you enough for all the great laughs and info you’ve given me mate👍

It's not a Godzilla review without that long haired creepy guy.

This was always one of my favorite Godzilla movies from the Heisei series.

Could you do Godzilla 1985 next, please?

King Ghidorah won an Oscar for this one. "Best use of primer cord in a motion picture"

"The fight between the two mostly consists of them throwing special effects at each other"... basically the Heisei series in a nutshell lol

That thumbnail isn't the most flattering picture, lol

"Once he is properly subdued, they break all kinds of laws of physics and fly him out of tokyo" XDD i cackled

14:37 "Bitch, I don't care if he's Donkey Kong! No one does that shit to my car! I'm gonna fuckin' whoop his ass!!" I laughed for ten solid minutes.

the cyborg super speed effect looked pretty awesome.

Fun Fact: There really was a dinosaur named after the original name for Godzilla named _Gojirasaurus_. Its' a early dinosaur from the Triassic period in New Mexico. It was 18 feet (5.5 meters) long and 330-440 pounds (150-200 kilograms).

What happened was that the 1954 Godzilla did die, and the dinosaur from WW2 was teleported to a area full of nuclear waste and turned into the Godzilla from 1984, thus the scene where Emmy claims she feels the same presence of Godzilla from Godzilla 1989 and Kurosawa investigating newspapers of areas in the ocean with nuclear waste. It gets confusing when the villains and the government thinks it was a Godzilla that's just been reborn.

Fun fact, the male lead of this movie, played the remote control pilot of the Super X 2 in the previous film, Godzilla VS Biollante.

I guess while Shido remembered Godzilla saving him and his men in WWII and believed they had a connection, Godzilla remembers him as the guy who left him to die. Gee, I wonder which one has a good memory.

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As a kid this was one of my favourite Godzilla movies... but now I realise this one is convoluted and crazy ..... and I still love it

Oh decker you have no idea how much your videos help after a hard day of school 💚

This will always be one of my favorite Godzilla movies

The way I understand the whole time travel stuff in this movie is, there are two Godzilla's. the original 1954 and the one that appeared in 1984, when they went back in time they didn't touch the original 54 one, but moved the 84 one and in return actually created him causing the event of 84 and so on. When they sent the sub they sent to create him caused him go from 80 meters to 100 meters.

14:19 "Terminator Style!"

oh, oh! do Godzilla vs King kong! That one's my favorite Godzilla movie!

Hey Decker there's a video that explains the whole time travel plot of this movie. I can't remember what it's called but it explains how Godzilla vanished, while everyone still remembered him.

You ever going to review the Saw series? Supposed to be another one coming out later this year...

19:00 "..... turning an old friend into abstract art......" -- I cracked up so much.

It's weird how decker did not comment on the shit dub through out the whole video? Also the time travel in this is more complicated than terminator.

Who the hell watches Godzilla vs King Ghidorah and thinks "ah yes, this is very anti-american"

The one flick before Godzilla 2014 that I watched in theaters....way back in Manila, 1992. Good times.

I think in hindsight the time travel mechanism makes sense in a weird way. Reality is altered while the time travel engine itself is present and the effects of it only take place then. So Ghidora was created in the 50s but that only took affect when the engine travelled back into the future which also caused Godzilla to vanish at the moment they return. So it only changes events in the time in which it exists based on actions its undertaken - as if its realigning a past timeline it has created with the current one without changing anything it didn't do directly. Its a bit confusing but its honestly a way to fix time travel and to make sure the events all occur on a single timeline without any paradoxes. it doesn't make sense *how* it does that but narratively its a pretty ingenious way to write time travel without just saying it creates a brand new timeline.

Both the '54 Godzilla and the '84-'96 Godzilla were never truly erased from history, if anything, the Futurians actually created the latter Godzilla unintentionally. It's called a paradox.

Time travel explanation Pretty simple, the future people went back in time and took the heisai godzillasaurus who would had became the godzilla of that era of films, this is not to be confused with the Godzilla from 1954, which up to this point in the movies, still think this is the same godzilla, so when they moved Godzilla from the island, they took him to the present day (1992) and dumped him there (which is stupid given they could have just took him to their future where there is no radiation) but the Godzilla of 1954 never got erased, which is why they recognized that godzilla isn't a thing and Ghidorah just popped up, amd so it was the future people who accidentally created the heisai godzilla because they happen to dump him in a nuclear testing zone with the submarine

3:09 that wasn't a plesiosaur, they actually fished up a decomposing basking shark. (but that doesn't matter anyway, it's a Godzilla movie)

My favorite movie in the series along with the first mechagodzilla

Godzilla did not just disappear, as shown by him being there to get hit by the submarine. The humans were just unable to locate him.

Thank you decker! I really enjoy your Godzilla reviews. Maybe make it a monthly theme? (Month of Mothra but more like... G'day of Godzilla?)

18:50 Actually it’s not him connecting to him It’s him recognizing him as the bastard that he left behind... to put it in perspective a man fought a war with his other 5 buddies for nearly 30 years, he was told his commander would retrieve him when his mission was done or when the war ended. His commander believed he was dead and the people only found out about the commander due to a person surrendering. The commander fulfilled his end and told the men the war ended a very long time ago.

review THE TERMINATOR

Decker, you forget, in the Hesei era they admit there was more than one Godzilla. The first Godzilla that attacked Japan was a female, the one that repeatedly attacks Japan was her mate.

16:44 "Make my day!" LMAO gold. Will we get to see your Clint Eastwood reviews?

There's an explanation for why godzilla still was remembered after the time travel shenanigans. The idea is this godzilla was a different one that came about in a different way from the other. I think it was like a statement that no matter what humanity does he cpmes about anyway.

Am I the only one who thinks the dubbing is shite?

Ya got the mini Godzilla thing slightly wrong. That "mini" Godzilla was the reason why they all remembered Godzilla after supposedly erasing him. The "mini" Godzilla was still the one from the Heisei era up until now.

Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah Came Out The Same Year As Terminator 2

Isn't this the movie with the famous line: "Take that, you dinosaur!"

I was hoping you would review this movie. Good video. Btw, R.I.P. Anna Nakagawa.

wow...i remember when this channel had 1000 subs. this channel has come a long way

The 2nd greatest thing to be birthed in 1991 before my brother.

Perhaps this trivia is only important to those of us who were alive in the 1960s, but Akiji Kobayashi, who played Yuzo Tsuchiashi, played the Captain in the original Ultraman TV series in the mid 60s.

Okay, I feel I need to just chime in here on the whole Original vs. Translation thing. Terassawa was completely against the idea of making ANOTHER Godzilla from the start; literally at the start of that scene, he's yelling about how ludicrous the idea is. That's why he's going to them to stop it. And then it comes to Mr. Shindo...I actually don't interpret it as so many do that Shindo thought he had some kind of connection with Godzilla. What he's actually feeling is more or less akin to...'Survivor's Guilt.' You know how many movies interpret Godzilla's destruction of Japan as punishment for Japan's wrong-doings during World War II? And how in subsequent later films it would be for Japan falling into a more Militarized Way of Thinking as in the case of GMK? Well...I see that with Shindo... He and his men were saved from the Enemy by a Dinosaur. The animal suffers great injuries as a result of this, and they literally can do nothing to help it. Shindo and his men feel a great Honor-Debt to the creature, but they had no way to repay it. Shindo left the island assuming that the Dinosaur that saved them died, and he regretted that, but found a way to move on... THEN...fifty years later, he finds out that the Dinosaur actually survived its injuries...and worse, transformed into Godzilla... Suddenly the previous attacks on Japan make sense in Shindo's eyes; Godzilla is here for Revenge at being left to die on the island (or at least that's how he sees it.) He feels that his dishonor to his theropod savior has resulted in the Dinosaur becoming a Malevolent Vengeful force of destruction that is Godzilla... Effectively, he stayed behind to face his shame and give Godzilla the bit of vengeance he felt he owed the creature. (and judging at the fact that Godzilla was *crying* in that scene, I'd say that Godzilla felt the same way.) I guess I feel the need to defend this film because, this for a while has been one of my favorite Godzilla movies. In fact, it was actually one of my first. And I actually like the film today MORE for getting to point-out the time-travel flaws; riffing on it, MST3K style. AND, it has my favorite origin story for Godzilla, which to this day remains my definitive answer for where Godzilla came from... (Something about his great size and abilities being a result of nuclear radiation instead of him just being "born" like that makes more sense to me.)

Ok, so apparently, if I’m getting this right, the Futurians actually created the Heisei Godzilla we saw back in 1984, when that sub mutated him in the 70’s.

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Also agh the english dub messed up so much. Terasawa is emmie's grandpa. that's why she says " I only like it here because you are here" though with the English dub instead at the end she says "we are related" and that's it. The original version actually told you who she was to him.

the dinosaur on the island isn't godzilla. if you notice, the sub rams into a godzilla, not that dinosaur, which is a fraction of godzilla's size. so really they empower the original godzilla from the first movie which didn't die from the first movie

You are extremely charasmatic and do a fantastic job with your reviews brother. Can't go wrong with Godzilla :-)

The twist where the Japanese lady said that she was the main guys realitive made me giggle so much

I honestly can't wait until Shin Gojira gets reviewed. I don't care if it takes 8 years. I just can't wait!

I used to own this movie on VHS five-year-old me watched it over and over again till the tape broke😄

I was just watching this a couple days ago and I was like, "Oh hello Gamera."

*Starts humming the Bandora(Zyuranger) theme* What?! BTW, The Macross folks call the Aliens adorable.

Clearly the Godzilla attacks were so fucked up that even if he was erased from time people still remembered him because the concept of time and history was too scarred to forget.

Can't wait to see Decker Shadow do a review on the new Shin Godzilla and see what him and his fans have to say about the very controversial ending.

I will always have a fondness for this film, as it was the very first Godzilla film I every saw.

Yeah, I'll say it. This Godzilla is fuckin adorable

Godzilla vs King Ghidorah was amazing and one of my favorite Heisei movies, and that alien guy (I forgot his name) reminds me of an X-Files episode!

I'm used to watching his old videos where he doesn't have his mustache and it scared the shit out of me

Great video Decker :)

Wait! Was the dinosaur already immortal before the nuclear testing? That would explain how it survived the KT extinction, and 65 million years passing without a stable breeding population, and the attack by the American forces, but it sure diminishes Godzilla’s unkillable nature. It’s kinda like an octopus mutating the ability to regrow limbs because of nuclear radiation. “Ooh. What an unexpected outcome. Huh? What do you mean it could already do that?!”

I saw this movie couple years back, good review.

Decker, did you skip over Godzilla 1985 and Godzilla vs. Biollante?

i like to think all of the Godzilla monsters we know lived on the same island as dinosaurs and then the atomic bombs mutated them into what we see in all the movies

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While it wasn't explained well in the movie the answer the the seeming plot hole of the time travel paradox is that the future people taking that Godzilla didn't erase the 1954 Godzilla from existence but in fact created the second Godzilla that attacks in 1984. The 1954 attack on Japan still happened and that Godzilla was killed in 1954 by the oxygen destroyer. When transported to the future they accidentally created a second Godzilla 4x larger than the original. Hitting a nuclear submarine doubles his size yet again giving us the 100 meter tall monster

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the movie fails to explain the time travel, you see... they never erased Godzilla, instead they changed his mutation process, and not only that, the 54 Godzilla still exists as he wasn't a mutated Godzillasaurus, rather a natural specimen of the Godzilla species. to sum it up, they changed Godzilla's origin area and gave birth to king Ghidorah at Lagos as well (Ghidorah being mutated earlier.)

Thanks for the entertaining review. It was awesome. You're one of the best movie critics ever. I was just wondering, since you like to review a lot of Kaiju movies. I was wondering if you can review The Pacific Rim where humans piloting giant mecha robots fight against giant Kaiju monsters. If it's okay with you. If not, no worries. You're still one of my favorite critics.

I remember this movie came out when Japan and United States were in disagreement about trade.