Board Thread:Fan-made Monsters/@comment-27950421-20161031211814/@comment-27950421-20161101212623

Godzillas back story has been retconned numerous times in the past. Hell, in GMK he was the almagamated spirits of all of the people who died in world war 2. The first movie didn't even give him much of a backstory, just that he was a mutation caused by a nuclear bomb. Him being retconned is nothing new and to be honest, it's usually done well done. I dislike how they made him not a dinosaur, but given some of his abilities it's understandable. He was evolving throughout the movie and if anything, his "final" form still seemed incomplete, so I'm prettu confident in saying that in the sequels (and there will be sequels) he's going to take on a form much closer to the original saurian design. I do think that his back story was ripping off Destroyahs back story but in the end I still found it tolerable.

His size was fine, about what can be expected, Godzilla has had a trend of getting bigger as the movies progressed since day one.

I question the decision to make his beam purple, I'm guessing they were trying to give it a more sinister feel while trying to stay close to his normally blue beam, but this isn't the first time his breath had changed colors and the beam was phenomenonly well done. His alternate was of shooting it were new, but other abilities he had shown had hinted at him being able to do that, to be honest I had predicted a multi beam from his back as early as 2019.

As for Godzilla being the next super man or ghost buster, simply put, Godzillas character has changed a lot over the years. Back in the 70s and 80s he pretty much was the Japanese version of superman. During the 90s he was a badassed anti-hero, whooping villainous and heroic ass left right and center and in GMK he was a sadistic ass hole and deaply enjoyed stomping on baragons face.

All in all, the spirit of the original 1954 movie was very strong in Shin Gojira, and I'd say that it was a solid reboot to the seriez, perhaps even more solid than the Legendary movie.