I'll just ignore when the movie lets me know what cities we're in, since it just makes more sense for the franchise to be on Mars (big monsters could develop in lesser gravity, after all). If it wasn't a big deal or important, then it wouldn't have been added. The film would have been just fine without the added detail of the time and date, but it is there for a reason. The seventies and the late-sixties films have more fluidity because they don't explicitly state when they are set. That's fine, however DAM just straight up tells you when it's happening. I don't see what you could possibly want other then a straight up "THIS IS WHERE AND WHEN WE ARE" for clarity.Svitska Donkun wrote:I said that I just ignored it, not that it didn't exist, for one thing. If the filmmakers don't give a shit about making it more clear or consistent, why should I? Clearly it isn't an important detail at all.
This is a franchise where monsters pop up constantly and we don't know the circumstances of either the absence of the Fairies or the growth rate for creatures like Godzilla. That doesn't mean that it's in a completely separate universe because they don't sit you down and let you know about everything that's going on.DAM take place kind of outside the main continuity's. It takes place in the future, it has monsters that are not within the Showa Godzilla timeline, it has Mothra without it her fairies, and despite it being 30 years in the future, Minilla hasn't grown or anything. For all intents and purposes this film can be fit into the timeline the same way a movie like GMK or GFW can be fit into a timeline, and that is, not at all.
The events of Godzilla's containment from GRA aren't entirely consistent with how and where he escaped from in King Kong vs. Godzilla; just be a new continuity.
You might as well call Monster Zero its own continuity (Mothra is nowhere to be found afterall).
Oh shit! despite appearing exactly where he was last seen in Rodan and the Ghidrah directly referring to events of that film, no one mentioned that there was two Rodans. Must be a new continuity.
Op, flashbacks in War of the Gargantuas are inconsistent with events in Frankenstein Conquers the World (and why is no one talking about Baragon?), despite being marketed as a direct sequel, planned as a direct sequel, and centering around the threat of Frankenstein's cells from the previous film, it must be a new continuity, though.
I don't see how a later film (with much clearer goals and intentions to make itself a Meta-film unconnected from the rest of the series) creates a precedent for DAM being its own separate thing.It's equally as removed as some Millennium movies, and I think it should be looked at the same way. The movie takes place within it's own self contained universe. And it's not like the series wouldn't do EXACTLY THAT one year later with Godzilla's Revenge.