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The Godzilla '98 Production Reports




I don't really have anything fresh to say about Godzilla (1998), the TriStar anomaly celebrating its 20th birthday today. As a Godzilla movie, I think it's the worst in the series; as a monster movie, it's still pretty bad. What I do have is a promotional CD for Godzilla: Online, released as a collaboration between EON Magazine and Taco Bell. The game demo is inaccessible, but there's more to see on this ancient disc.

For me, the highlight is eight "G-Mails" -- newsletters about the production of the film that you could subscribe to through the film's official website. Since they didn't seem to be anywhere online, I took the liberty of retyping them for your entertainment, with a huge assist from an OCR program. They're very conversational, very cheesy, and very in-depth about what goes into movie-making while concealing this particular movie's plot. It seems that the emails continued after this CD was released; if you somehow held onto those, let me know.

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