My beef with all Godzilla shit from Godzilla 2000 onward is that it's too damn expensive. Godzilla totally works as cheap schlock. It's like Waterworld: that movie would have been dope if executed at roughly the same budget as Steel Dawn as originally intended. For $180m? Jesus christ. Tremors is an incredible movie because it's effectively the best B-movie ever made. Ramp the budget up to something real and it becomes crap. The original Blob is a great metaphor because it's cheap and obvious; the remake of The Blob is terrible because it's so expensive it has to take itself seriously. This is why everyone hates Mars Attacks!. It would have been awesome for zero dollars. For $100m? Fuggedaboudit. I don't need to see giant monster movies in which the giant monster relies on suspension of disbelief... and then they spend $200m to make my disbelief harder to suspend. Regarding Devlin & Emmerich's Godzilla: So you let Godzilla stomp into the film, all scary like, then bring on some other big monster for him to fight, so the audience gets to cheer, and then let Godzilla kick ass, swing that big J-Lo tail around... and if a few buildings get smashed in the brawl, hey, that's the price we pay for having the lovable lizard defending our earth. And there's your Godzilla movie. You're scared, you're excited, Godzilla kicks ass, you cheer, and bring on the sequel. Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, I'd argue, screwed it up. Godzilla became a mom who wanted to go lay eggs in New York City. And when military guys fired guns at him, Godzilla would... I can't believe it even as I type it... Godzilla would actually squeal, turn, run and hide. Squeal... run away... and hide. In a Godzilla movie.GODZILLA is a perfect case study. I'd argue we got the basic approach right: people wanted to be scared of Godzilla, but they also loved him and wanted to root for him.