Talk:Zilla (MA)/@comment-26850821-20171113200531/@comment-22872543-20171127022237

ZillaJrKaijuKing

About sources, Twitter and online threads are more evident. Magazines featuring Godzilla movies started including pro-98 film reviews by commentator (and saying that 98 Godzilla is a genuine family of whole the series).

Precisely, there have always been certain numbers of 98 Godzilla fans in Japan, and quit fans of Godzilla series itself because of too many insults on 98 film. Many including who was not in favor of 98 film, were agreeing with the statement "Not as a Godzilla movie, but good as a monster movie". Not a small number of people were pissed off with how Zilla was treated in the FW, and I'm starting to see opinions that they didn't like the strength of Zilla stated in the MA.

In 2014, when Godzilla by Legendary Film was released, I introduced the fact that 98 film was originally going to be a series where Godzilla's character was planned to approach to the original in the sequel, and the origin of GTS was the scrapped sequel, on several online database including Wikipedia, and that it was Toho who approved the design and plot, and Emmerich was actually unwilling to be the director. I also fixed the wrongs such as "4" missiles took the Godzilla to "12", "Zilla was exceptionally weak" to "majority of old monsters didn't stand a chance against Godzilla in FW", etc..

Then others followed my edits, adding the points I wasn't aware of (e.g. "Tuna" line in FW actually provoked people who regards it as an insult to Daigo Fukuryū Maru and Showa Godzilla that also fed on fish, Emmerich's interview to the Empire in 2014).

Even without my biased point of view, many fans that didn't favor the 98 film started to change their attitudes after knowing that 98 film originally had sequels; I've seen comments online, saying "we should apologize to Emmerich", "98 film is actually more faithful to the original film", etc..