That brings us to the big question: why the heck am I recommending you watch Godzilla (1998), a movie that disappointed at the box office and was absolutely savaged by critics?
For one thing, it’s fun to see Matthew Broderick act against type in an action movie, and he is perfectly cast as a dorky researcher who is deeply out of his depth.
That helps him contrast nicely against Jean Reno, whose gruff French Secret Service agent contrasts nicely (and sometimes hilariously) with Broderick’s American scientist.
Additionally, if you’re as nostalgic for this era as I am, it’s fun to revisit the 90s time capsule despite its flaws. This pre-9/11 world has a certain raggedy charm, one that allows us to view the idea of a large-scale attack on New York as nothing more than a monster movie fantasy.
And the film is so wonderfully weird in execution that one can easily imagine the Tristar Pictures executives asking themselves a heady question back in the day: “what if we let the Independence Day guy do Godzilla?”
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