Godzilla (1998): Movie Review
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Japan's influence on global pop culture is staggering. In the recent decade, anime has found its way to TV's everywhere and has been embraced globally.
Unfortunately in the recent past, many questionable anime dubs tried to "localize" content. It didn't only begin there however, as bad live action dubs humorously added voiceover despite its actors mouths not even moving.
Between these two timeframes however, one film tried it's own thing in 1998.
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 119 of Digital Dissection: Pop Culture Nerdity! Mark and Joe break down Colombia Tristar's attempt to completely overhaul and Americanize one of Japan's film giants, Godzilla!
Godzilla 1998 had one of the biggest ad campaigns of any movie of its decade, and for film goers of the time, it didn't exactly live up to it. 25 years later, was this movie all that bad?
Download today to hear if we think this film deserves another shot!
Music by Joystock: https://www.joystock.org
Opening Track: "Modern Power-Up Electronic"
Closing Track: "Future is Now"
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