Synopsis:

An even leaner, even more serious version of Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla.

Intentions:

I started looking at Godzilla before Xmas 2008. It has always been a unanimously crap film and it just happened to be on. As I’d recently joined the FE community, I started looking at the film differently – could I remove elements to improve it? The love subplot always bothered me, plus painfully bad dialogue and humour. The military seemed to be completely inept, so I did the first edit – V1.0 which trimmed 18 minutes, but was my firstling effort and contained many rookie mistakes and inevitably didn’t go far enough. Boon23 and Tranzor suggested changes and I decided to start from scratch again. This time, I was much, much harsher with the material, cutting psychotically to the point where we began to wander into incoherence... fortunately, a couple people such as JMB and Zeppelinrox saved me from that and now I believe we have a much leaner, tighter and overall serious version of the Emmerich nightmare.

Change List:

- 'Godzilla' credit. (It's not Godzilla - although they think it is later) - Knives do not fall in 'comic' fashion next to chef. - Nick does not sing in the van (but he had to when he arrived). - We don't see any pictures of Audrey while Nick works. - Removal of screwing up Nick's name. - Old Man does not say 'Gojira'. - Old man does not say 'Gojira' again. - No introduction to Audrey. - Nick's boss does not chat him up. - Audrey is not 'too damn nice'. She can be tough. - Audrey doesn't go gooey eyed at Nick on TV - so much. - Audrey's boss doesn't not notice Zilla walking past while on annoying mobile phone. - Animal only looks like he crapped his pants once. - No comedy from the Mayor in the helicopter with the sweets. - Roache does not express great distaste of the coffee. - No further coffee distain about American 'French Roast'. - More Mayoral comedy removed. - "We need bigger guns." No you don't. - Destruction of Chrysler Building by the Air Force no longer happens. Idiots. - "I think we got him." No you didn't. - Mayor doesn't get offered sweets again. - Audrey's first encounter with Nick has no gooey eyes and dialogue - no reminiscing of the past or allusion to their relationship. - No pictures of Audrey and Nick, Audrey spies the tape and swipes it. - Old man does not say 'Gojira'. Again. - Cut two stupid soldiers who don't notice Zilla's eye and noise he makes when standing! - Blubbing by Audrey all removed, Animal arrives and asks where she is. - Roache doesn't do an Elvis impression. - The Navy don't accidently blow up their own submarine. Idiots. - Nick jumps in an elevator but doesn't arrive at a floor with Zillas eating Popcorn. - Nick doesn't thwart the Zillas by throwing basketballs and gumballs on the floor. - After the explosion in MSG - no-one falls on the floor because: - No heart to heart with Nick and Audrey - Zilla just smashes straight out of MSG and they're all stood up at this stage - can't have continuity errors! - Audrey and Animal do not argue over directions at various points in the final chase. - When Zilla finally collapses - we don't get a rather forced 'comic' wheel go bouncing across the screen. - No celebration of Zillas death. - Finish on the egg hatching. I thought about cutting this, but it seemed far too abrupt.

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Special Thanks:

BIG thanks go out to JMB and nOmArch who assisted on a couple sequences (especially JMB who has given alot of advice and help). Also to Boon23 for the cover.