Have you seen the latest Godzilla movie, Godzilla Minus One? The giant lizard we all know and love is infinitely recognizable, but if you were to watch that movie and the original 1954 Godzilla, the two titular monsters are very different. You don’t normally see movies that are 70 years apart in a double feature. Godzilla fans generally see them when they are new, although the earliest ones make a good weekend binge.
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Godzilla stays so familiar to us because while every movie changes him, they only change a little. There are officially 37 movies in the Godzilla franchise (with another one coming next year). It’s the longest continually running film franchise ever. Each production aims to improve over those that have gone before, but you can’t change the monster too much or fans will rebel. If you look through all the movies, you will be struck by how much bigger Godzilla has become. But the design has also become more like a natural, if fictional, reptile, and therefore more believable. Film technology has advanced so that we see ever more realism and more “bling” at the same time, in order to bring more thrills. Read about the changes in each iteration of Godzilla, movie by movie at Polygon. Then be on the lookout for the differences in the big guy in the TV show Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters starting November 17 on Apple+ TV and the movie Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, set to hit theaters on April 12, 2024. -via Digg
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