The 1954 original "Godzilla" film has just been re-released in the US. Actually, it is fairer to say it has got its first cinema release since the US version had US actors intercut to "make sense"
Roger Ebert reviews Godzilla Here
Audiences can now see the original Japanese version, which is equally idiotic, but, properly decoded, was the "Fahrenheit 9/11" of its time[!!!]
... the opening scenes, showing fishing boats disappearing as the sea boils up, would have been read by Japanese audiences as a coded version of U.S. underwater H-bomb tests
...When Dr. Serizawa demonstrates the Oxygen Destroyer to the fiancee of his son, the superweapon is somewhat anticlimactic. He drops a pill into a tank of tropical fish, the tank lights up, he shouts "stand back!," the fiancee screams, and the fish go belly up. Yeah, that'll stop Godzilla in his tracks.
...This is a bad movie, but it has earned its place in history
