why is zilla 1998 so bad?

I think that the main reason people hated it is that Tristar didn't really manage to capture Godzilla's overall impression. As for the design I really enjoy it too.

It had uninspired acting, random plots that don't fit, unnecessary use of rain, inconsistent size of the monster, shoddy special effects, and stole scenes from Jurrasic Park, and copied them frame by frame. Sony basically removed the "god" from Godzilla, and made him a powerless weakling. Also wouldn't the offspring look like iguanas, becuase Zilla is a mutated iguana, instead of looking just like the monster itself? And also, how could a 200 ton monster, skate on the top of a taxi? Also, swearing is unneeded on this website.

KAIJUFALL3@ Whoah! calm your shit bro. We all have diffrent opinions about the movie, but I think we can all agree that it was a horrible godzilla remake and a horrible monster movie because it sounded more like a rip off of Jurrasic Park. Lets just all calm down before we end up having a Mexican stand-off here.

i liked that movie, everyone says "It is shit", "Stolen scenes from Jurassic Park", "Cliches", "bad story/screenplay/argument" its all true, but c´mon, is an Emmerich film, we cant hope more from him, all of his movies, 10,000 bC, 2012, independence day, They all have one thing in common: they are visual movies, just special effects, nothing more, thats what emmerich does and thats what he did with 98´s godzilla.

I personally loved the movie. Despite not being Godzilla, the overall movie is fun and entertaining. The creature is still a cool monster design and the 1st attempt at a "realistic" Godzilla. Now why people dislike the 1998 Zilla is (in my opinion)... 1: Zilla's behavior is opposite to Gojira's. It only really went after the humans with a vengeance was when her nest had been bombed. 2: Physically it's also an opposite to Gojira. It's not physically powerful as compared to Gojira (even a similarly sized Gojira to Zilla). 3: The breath weapon of Zilla was more of a heat ray that ignited flammable stuff that being Nuclear. I'm glad to see that, in a way, Zilla got to give a few things to her replacement... 1: Cool design that's not seen in the classic/traditional Gojira. Even the bottom jaw of the 2014 Godzilla seems similar to the 1998 Zilla bottom jaw design (which offered a more 'powerful' set of jaws when you look at it). 2: Prove that one's spirit must be strong to really be a powerful and long lasting monster (unlike the 1998 Zilla's spirit). 3: Give America a real monster in the "American Godzilla vs Japanese Gojira" battle [Would really change the outcome of Final Wars ;) ]

THE MOVIE WAS SO AWFUL IT DID NOT EVEN FOLLOW ITS OWN RULES! WHY DID THE MONSTER CHANGE SIZES THROUGHOUT SCENES, HOW COULD IT SKATE ON A TAXI IF ITS 500 TONS, HOW?! THE "MONSTER" DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE BEING CALLED ZILLA, ITS A DISGRACE TO TOHO. IT WAS A STAIN ON THE AMAZING MOVIE SERIES THAT IS GODZILLA! ITS WORSE THAN HEDORAH'S TOXIC SLUDGE MIXED WITH EBIRAH! ITS A JOKE MONSTER, UNWORTHY OF EVER BEING AN IDEA! In short terms, IT SUCKED!

There is a lot of good reasons; 1: Godzilla didnt appear in this movie. 2: Instead there that iguana godzooky creature. I mean, Zilla/godzooky are there any difference? They cant fight for shit. 3: Maria Pittilo. At this point need i say more?

The 1998 G.I.N.O was a disgrace to the Godzilla franchise, There was nothing similar or remotely related to the original. But I will say this the story was good and the creation was of the Kaiju was meh. I honestly think that if the movie wasn't named Godzilla and they threw another Kaiju in there then the movie would have been a success

Most of you cannot properly critique the film since you're obviously too biased towards Japanese Godzilla films. This movie came out when I was 4 years old and I absolutely LOVED the design and the storyline. It was then when I wasn't able to realize the films faults (same with the Japanese versions as I already at that time had a huge Goji film collection). Now that I am 19 and have seen all of these films as I've gotten older time and time again,, they both (American and Japanese versions) have incredible amounts of obvious and laughable faults. I still to this day enjoy ZILLA more than some of these Godzilla films. Most of you complain that this ZILLA strays too far from the roots of Godzilla yet in many versions of godzilla we see him dancing, flying, jumping up and down etc.. ZILLA has heart, it's funny, it's stupid, it's tear jerking (yes I cried like a baby the first hundred times I saw it) and just an overall fun movie to watch. It's not class, but then again half of the Godzilla films are even worse! I honestly feel bad for you if you can't sit down and actually enjoy ZILLA.

It's not the best Godzilla film, but it surely isn't the worst. It's just a summer blockbuster. I love how people can point out things like bad effects, characters, and storyline, but is that not a big problem with a HUGE amount of Godzilla movies in general? Looking at it unbiased it's a good monster film and a decent Godzilla movie, definitely not the best, but not the worst either.

Zilla wasn't a bad story at all and I've been following Godzilla since i was 4 and im almost 30 now, again the design of ZIlla was good for your average Kaiju style movie, But Godzilla he was not. Im not against him beause i own the movie, the sequle tv series and have his collectables becuz i LOVE Kaiju. ZIlla will always be a great Kaiju film but it does not belong in the Godzilla movie franchise, Its Like making a King Kong movie and replacing the giant gorrilla with a giant chimpanzee and calling him King Kong when obviously its not. They made a Godzilla movie, took out Godzilla and replaced him with a giant iguanna named Zilla, and called him Godzilla.

to be fair i liked the movie but most people didn't like it when they called it godzilla

GINO is a terrible movie, even by typical blockbuster standards, but that's hardly its greatest sin. The fact is it's just not a Godzilla movie, nor will I include it in lists and cannon. At best it's a dark foot note in the franchise's history and an example of Hollywood at its most crude during the 1990s.

"i am getting kinda sick of people talking about ZILLA 98 so badly"

 

Well get used to it because fans and the public in general have been laying shit on that film ever since it came out. If anything I am surprised there are so called G-fans who actually defend that piece of shit. Fine if you liked it, but that doesn't change the universal opinion amongst G-fans that the film is and always will be absolute garbage.

so are you i am not a gfan cause you do not want to down that road b!tch

 

So we're all just gonne ignore the fact that Toho made it very clear that Zilla is it's own monster for the sake of having something to complain about?  Cool.  

 

That being said, I liked Zilla's design.

What i like about it. They called it gojira and then the stupid reporter named it godzilla.

Disgrace