Giratina93 wrote: ↑Sun May 16, 2021 10:23 pm
I know a lot of people really like the G54 suit for one reason for another, and generally it looks pretty good in my opinion... except for certain close ups of the puppet. I cannot stand the G54 puppet head, because he looks like Kermit the Frog, and it takes away from the otherwise serious tone of the movie to suddenly have this "derp" face roaring next to some bird cages or peering over a hill. It detracts from the design in my opinion, and I'm glad that most of the close up puppets later on in the Showa series looked better.
It is a bad puppet, but I can forgive that because I like a lot of the shots it was used in. The bird cage, snapping at the clock tower, mauling Tokyo Tower, etc. Would've been nice if we we could have had a better puppet, but if a bad puppet is the price of having those moments in the movie, I've always been willing to pay it. Anyway,
Gojira was the first movie of its kind, so it's totally understandable that some of the effects would come out a little wonky.
The suit itself is middling for me. Not the best, not the worst.
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