This is my updated list with the newest Godzilla productions.
FAVORITES - Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)
- Godzilla (1954)
- Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)
- Monster Zero (1965)
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
- Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)
- Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
- Godzilla 2000 (1999)
- Son of Godzilla (1967)
- Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
- Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster (1966)
- Godzilla Minus One (2023)
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
- Godzilla: Singular Point (2021)
- Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
AWESOME - Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
- Shin Godzilla (2016)
- Godzilla (2014)
- Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
- The Return of Godzilla (1984)
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
- Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
- Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023-2024)
- Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
- Godzilla: City on the Edge of Battle (2018)
- Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)
- Destroy All Monsters (1968)
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
- Godzilla: The Series (1998-2000)
- Godzilla vs. Destroyer (1995)
FUN - Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
- Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
- Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003)
- Hanna-Barbera's Godzilla (1978-1979)
- All Monsters Attack (1969)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1993)
- Godzilla (1998)
- Zone Fighter (1973)
- Godzilla vs. Spacegodzilla (1994)
- Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
My favorites tier is my top 15 favorite Godzilla movies and my favorite Godzilla TV series. My top four have remained the same for most of my life but the sequence of everything after that is more fluid. I like
Monster Zero and
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah about the same, and then I like
Hedorah,
GT3HM and
G2K about the same, and then I like
Son,
MvsG and
Sea Monster about the same, and then I like the last four about the same. I became a Godzilla fan when I saw the 1998 TriStar film in theaters as a kid, so that's always been the dividing line from my perspective: everything Showa or Heisei already existed and I discovered it after I became a fan, while I've experienced everything since 1998 as something new. By the time
G2K was released in the US, I already regarded a bunch of Godzilla movies as favorites and that included most of the same Showa flicks that I consider favorites today.
GT3HM is a movie that I just sort of liked as a kid but it rocketed up to one of my favorites as I got older. None of my favorite Showa Godzilla movies from my childhood have fallen off my favorites tier over time, so my favorites still lean heavily Showa. My favorite Heisei movies as a kid were
King Ghidorah and
Mechagodzilla but only the former has held up as a favorite to this day. I considered each of the Millennium Series films to be new favorites when I first saw them but the ones that have remained my favorites over time are
G2K,
GMK and
GFW. Although I really like all of the new Godzilla movies and shows since the 2014 revival, the only ones that have broken into my favorites list so far are
Minus One and
Singular Point.
My awesome tier is all of the other Godzilla movies and shows that I really like, more than most other movies and shows in the world because I'm biased as a lifelong Godzilla fan. These are Godzilla movies and shows that I can watch pretty much anytime, and the only reason they're not grouped with my favorites is because having 32 favorites would just dilute the meaning of it.
Biollante,
King Kong vs. Godzilla and
Destroy All Monsters were movies that I just sort of liked as a kid but now I think they're all awesome.
Megalon,
G'84 and
Destroyer have always been awesome to me. I think all of Legendary's Godzilla productions are awesome, with
G'14 still being the one I like the most, and I think
Shin Godzilla is even more awesome. I think the anime film trilogy is awesome and I like each of those sequels more than its predecessor.
Godzilla: The Series was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid and I still think it's awesome.
My fun tier is everything else, down to the ones I like the least. The only Godzilla movie that I genuinely didn't like as a kid was
Spacegodzilla, and then I sure did have fun picking apart a lot of the movies in this tier when I was an oh-so-media-savvy teenager looking for things to criticize online, but I've mellowed out on all of them in my adult years. I like reading books and articles about how these movies were made, even the ones at the bottom of my list, so of course I can have fun actually watching them if I'm in the right mood for them.
Godzilla Raids Again has its issues but I like it more than everything else in this tier.
Godzilla vs. Mothra is poorly written and derivative but I like it. The Kiryu movies really aren't good but they're fun, short and full of fan service. Hanna-Barbera's
Godzilla isn't great, even by '70s cartoon standards, but I still like watching it from time to time and I really liked watching it on Cartoon Network as a kid.
All Monsters Attack is a creative story that's weighed down by its excessive use of wholesale stock footage sequences.
GvsMG'93 was my favorite Godzilla movie as an impressionable '90s kid but it didn't hold up as I got older, and the same goes for the 1998 TriStar film that made me a fan in the first place. I first saw clips of several of the Godzilla, Ghidorah and Gigan scenes from
Zone Fighter as a teen but I didn't actually watch the series until 2020 when the episodes were fansubbed, and I'd say it's second only to
Gridman as the worst tokusatsu series I've ever seen.
Spacegodzilla and
Megaguirus are interchangeable as my bottom two Godzilla movies.