I want to talk to somebody in charge!
You're not fooling anybody when you say
that what happened was a natural disaster.
It was not an earthquake, it wasn't a typhoon.
You're hiding something out there!
Looks like Syria.
Aww.
- Oh! The statue-- - And it's gonna send us back...
..to the Stone Age!
This is like War of the Worlds?
God help us all.
In 1954...
we awakened something.
1954? It's like one of those good old movies.
The monster--ooh, is it Godzilla?
They were trying to kill it.
Trying to kill what? Who?
Oh I gotta see this.
- You have no idea what's coming! - Godzilla! (laughs)
Can we kill it?
Huh.
Is that Walter White?
They're gonna need to send another team.
The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control.
What's coming?
It's my old buddy!
Those don't look very realistic.
And not the other way around.
(explosions)
Fireworks at a time like this?
I mean, come on, guys. (gasps)
Oh dear Lord!
Thriller. OH! It ain't over.
Looks like Godzilla.
It is Godzilla!
Oh, Godzilla. He's back, huh?
Godzilla!
I love Godzilla!
He's baack!
- (Finebros) So what movie was that for? - Godzilla.
Godzilla!
Godzillaaaa!
I wonder why there's a new Godzilla movie.
(Finebros) Did you know there was going to be a new Godzilla?
I waited with bated breath and whispering humulus that there would be.
(Finebros) I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
Yes, you can.
(Finebros) Would you say it looks like a good movie?
No.
It looks like it's badly scripted, melodramatic.
For my tastes? No!
I'd rather When Harry Met Sally.
Yeah.
If Bryan Cranston's in something, it kinda does make me interested.
You'd think he could do anything!
What would be interesting enough for him to do it?
This is total entertainment and keeps you on the edge of your seat.
I'm in! I love Godzilla movies.
(Finebros) Do you remember how old you were when you
- first saw a Godzilla movie? - Oh man, probably ten.
Ten, 11, 12.
I could've been on Kids React!
Maybe a teenager.
I was still in high school, flunking out.
So I didn't really pay any attention to Godzilla!
(Finebros) Do you like the old Godzilla films?
Oh, yes!
Oh, yeah! They were fun.
YES! Oh, I loved it.
Because it's so tacky and cheap.
Then they added on Perry Mason so they could sell it to America
'cause they didn't think Americans would go see a Japanese movie,
which they they probably wouldn't back then.
I was never into that.
They're not my genre!
I prefer [Boris Karloff or Bela Lugosi.
You know, those are my stars.
(Finebros) What does Godzilla sound like?
HAAAAAH!
RAAAAR!
BRAARRR!
RAWWR!
RRRRRR!
Oh, I'm sorry. That was a rabid Godzilla.
(Finebros) If you found out a giant monster was coming
out of the ocean, what would be your strategy?
I'd get the hell out of there.
Run!
I'd totally surrender! Godzilla, here I am.
Start driving East 'cause he can't get very far from the ocean.
I think to dive into the ocean.
(Finebros) But that's where the monster is.
Well, I'd go below the monster.
(Finebros) In the original Godzilla movies, do you know what
- the monster was supposed to represent? - No, I don't.
Bad sushi.
He was the result of a nuclear accident.
(Finebros) The original producer of the Godzilla franchise
stated that the theme of the film was the terror of the bomb.
Mankind created the bomb and now nature was taking
its revenge on mankind.
I think that's a great idea.
Spot on, especially if it was one of the ones that we dropped on those guys.
Let's say it was Hiroshima.
I didn't realize that that was it.
I find it interesting and appropriate, really.
So sort of a metaphor for A-Bomb.
We were worried about atomic weapons at the time.
(Finebros) Was there a consciousness of society about nuclear war
as being something that may happen?
Very much so.
When I was a kid, we were in the middle of the Cold War.
Teachers would tell you, "The Russians have a great many
more bombs than the US."
It was scary.
We just never knew when it was going to happen.
People had made underground shelters for them,
connected to their home.
The last Friday of every month, they would test the air raid sirens.
They thought it was gonna help if we duck and cover,
which means we'd get under the desk and we'd go like this.
And the radiation won't hurt us!
We had a big earthquake in 1959 in Montana.
When I first came outside from the house shaking to pieces,
I kept asking my dad, "Where's the bombers?
Where's the bombers?"
'Cause the idea of an earthquake hadn't crossed my mind.
I thought it was a nuclear attack.
(Finebros) Godzilla's had a lot of variations over the years.
Did you know it once was a children's television cartoon show?
No.
No, I didn't know that! I probably would've watched it.
That's almost as bad as the fairy tales we used to tell them.
You know, the wicked witch and all that!
(Finebros) I have the intro of the old Godzilla cartoon to show you now.
Okay.
Up from the depths
Thirty stories high
Breathing fire
His head in the sky
Godzillaaaa!
Godzilla!
And Godzookie.
Oh, pffft. (laughs)
Oh!
That's Godzilla? That's--
(Finebros) No, that's Godzookie.
Oh!
Godzilla!
It sounds like something from Broadway.
Godzillaaaaaaa!
(Finebros) What'd you think of the cartoon?
That's funny. As long as Godzilla is friendly and doesn't scare the kids.
Well, you see, they've dumbed it down and made it
less frightening to the immature mind.
Godzookie...(laughs)
It's terrible. That's terrible.
(Finebros) Why do you think movie studios choose to make so many remakes?
'Cause they can't come up with new ideas.
I hate to say this, but the movie makers are younger.
They don't read as much.
They don't have any imagination or good writers.
Because of money.
It's cheap and easy!
And they have mutant brains!
If the first one was very successful, let's do it again!
I guess it's like money in the bag to them.
"Well, this made money before, it should make money again."
It doesn't always work though.
(Finebros) So finally, will you see the new Godzilla movie?
Me?
Funny you should ask. No.
Probably not.
I think I will.
No, I probably won't be seeing the movie.
Definitely.
It's a definite no.
Mmmm...no!
Yeah, I might do that.
I might go see it in the IMAX thing 'cause it's so big.
Actually, yes, I am.
And the main reason is because Bryan Cranston's in it.
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Hope you have fun at Godzilla 'cause you will not see me there.
Don't even look.
Godzillaaaaaaaaa!
Goodbye!