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Well said. I remember it well.

Artman

Agreed on G 98, my senior year... The Lost World was a bit of disappointment the yr before, but Godzilla was on another level. Haven't given it a second thought since... I looked up a few best of/worst of moments today just for laughs...wow are those clips bad. Late 90's were just terrible summer movie yrs...

Giles

what? ... you didn't like "Air Force One" ??

The Bus

I avoided Emmerich's Godzilla and anyone who thought it might be good must have been in a fumed-filled room.

UAIOE

All that must be said about Zilla '98

Sonic

I remember taking a girl out on a date to go see Godzilla 98. Needless to say at the end of the night I didn't get any pussy.

Brack

Yeah, like he was ever promoted as a star in any of those movies.

whotony

Who told you that?


Also only the first 2 were b&w

PhantomStranger

A couple of the early trailers had really built up excitement for it, everyone thought it was going to be the next big thing.

The smartest thing Sony ever did was hide Godzilla's design from the public before release. I think in today's world of Internet spoilers and Twitter that it becomes an even bigger bust.

MoviePage

The saddest part of the '98 Godzilla release was that there were plenty of people, mostly on the internet and probably several on this very forum, who argued in its favor with the usual "It's a mindless popcorn movie! Just turn off your brain and enjoy the ride!"

The same thing that still happens to this very day with a lot of hyped-up, terrible movies that are soon forgotten.

hanshotfirst1138

There was an internet back the. ?

TomOpus

DVDTalk didn't come around until 1999. Otherwise it would've been fun to look back at the thread of Godzilla '98.

d2cheer

Yup just like Mark Wahlberg will do for Transformers...

Solid Snake

Wahlberg has Cranston type of critical credibility?

Brack

Critics are pretty critical of Wahlberg.

Solid Snake

Well played.

dhmac

Aside from Harry Knowles' rave early review of "Godzilla (1998)" that he later retracted after the movie opened and almost everyone slammed it (his retraction is here but I can't find his original rave review), I don't remember much support online for the Roland Emmerich movie, even from people who liked his earlier films. Most people seemed to either hate it or be disappointed by it (mainly due to Godzilla not doing much throughout the movie).

Now, on the other hand, if talking about "Armageddon" that also opened in the Summer of 1998, there was a shit-ton of people online again and again saying "IAMPM! JTOYBAE!" (I don't recall most having "...the ride" at the end of this cliche, though).

TomOpus

Boxofficemojo saying $93.2 million opening. He's one bad muto-fucker.

hanshotfirst1138

That franchise is riding high on the success of three of the biggest box office hit sever. I doubt it matters who's in it.

Iron_Giant

This Spider-man movie may be the 1st not to go over $200 million.

islandclaws

HUGE opening for G! WB/Legendary must be incredibly stoked by this. As long as the film has legs as big as Godzilla's we're definitely looking at a sequel.

Traxan

Man that sucks. Poor handling, IMO. They can have it subtitled in a week and release it with English dialogue. Many people there will understand it.

What bothers me is the reports that there was a decline between Friday and Saturday. That's usually an indication of bad word of mouth. So between that and X Men opening next week, I'm curious how it does in week 2.

RichC2

It actually went up from Friday to Saturday. Friday's Grosses are artificially inflated with the $9.3m it made on Thursday night.

ddrknghtrtns

Wish I could give you a like or a thumbs up.

ddrknghtrtns

Unfortunately this one will go over $200mil. It's the next one that is going to fill the after effects. Can anyone in all honesty say they are pumped for another Sony produced Spider-Man flick in 2 or 3 years?