1. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
With a storyline that involves time travel, convoluted creations of both creatures and a hilariously bad rip-off of the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah is a brilliant movie and so much fun.
Alien creatures arrive on earth and provide them with a time machine that will stop Godzilla from being created. So they travel back to World War II and do that, but the aliens drop three creatures called Dorats in its place. So when they travel back to present day, the atomic explosion that should have created Godzilla instead created King Ghidorah who is under the alien control. So, with a secret nuclear sub, they create a new Godzilla who kills King Ghidorah. But now they are back to square one of Godzilla destroying Tokyo. So they travel to the future to re-build King Ghidorah and return to the present with the newly formed Mecha-King Ghidorah who does battle with Godzilla.
It’s so much fun.
The fights between Godzilla and King Ghidorah are where this movie truly shines. The Heisi series often splits opinions, but this is hands down the best series of fights in any of the Godzilla movies. The suitmation work is great, the choreography of the fights is perfect and the special effects are superb. It’s just so much fun.
The T-1000 rip-off is stupid but the rest of the movie is, well, so much fun that it’s easy to ignore. That’s the key word: fun. Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah is flat-out fun.
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Of course, this list is just one man’s opinion and we would love to hear your thoughts on this subject. Which Godzilla movies do you think should have made the list? Do you think that Ghidrah, The Three Headed Monster is a better movie than Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah? What about the Mechagodzilla movies? Should Godzilla: Final Wars have been included?
Or is there anyone who has a soft spot for Godzilla vs. Megalon??
Luke Owen is one of Flickering Myth’s co-editors and the host of the Flickering Myth Podcast. You can follow him on Twitter @LukeWritesStuff.
Originally published May 14, 2014. Updated April 12, 2018.
