Recommend some Godzilla movies!

If you also want to look for non-Godzilla Toho Tokusatsu classics, giant monster or not, check out Classic Media's DVD set for Rodan and War of the Gargantuas. Both films are great (even though the only regret is the lack of Japanese trailers). The set also has an excellent documentary called Bringing Godzilla Down to Size, about Eiji Tsuburaya and the tokusatsu legacy he created. This is a must for any tokusatsu fan!

Media Blasters has released plenty of great Toho Tokusatsu films on DVD! The Mysterians, Matango, Varan the Unbelievable, Atragon, Dogora (MB had to use a slightly inferior print on this one, as Toho hadn't released their own DVD yet, but the print is still quite good, even if it's a couple of notches below Toho's subsequent R2 release.), Space Amoeba (AKA: Yog: Monster from Space), Frankenstein Conquers the World, and the recently-rediscovered Latitude Zero. All directed by Ishirou Honda.

In the US, King Kong Escapes is only available in the English version (from Universal), but the print used is still quite dazzling! Toho's R2 release is also recommendable (it has footage not in the US version).
 

Agreed on all of this.

Going into Final Wars, you have to go in with a grain of salt, it's a goofy film. But it's a fun goofy film, and it's in the same kind of style as Versus just on a much, much bigger scale.
 
I think anybody subjecting themself to a Godzilla movie already has a salt shaker handy, but Final Wars was worse than bad. It's not not like Versus at all, except that it was overblown and underdeveloped. Versus established from the beginning that it had no idea where its story was going, but even the plot that was there held up somewhat well even though it took a backseat to the action. The plotline of Final Wars is head-scratching at best (ridiculous filler at worst), and since there's very little quality kaiju action to pad it out, it never ends up feeling like it has a point. I know that's a pretty curious review for a Godzilla film, and is weird coming from me since I'm a big Kitamura fan, but I thought Final Wars was just gimmick designed into tricking people to think it was as "cool" as Kitamura's other films, and people bought it.
 
Due to Final Wars being the last movie in a while, its intent was to basically keep it fresh in everyone's minds, keep everyone talking. It did just that. The series went out with a bang, I'll admit that I had fun with Final Wars.
 

I don't really know what you were expecting from it man, or which Godzilla movie has ever had more of a plot than that. I went into it expecting that Kitamura would make some fun fight scenes between humans, and a modern version of Destroy All Monsters, with longer and better fight scenes. Which is what I got.

Not saying anything you say is wrong, in fact it's 100% true. I just don't get how it's a problem in this particular movie.
 
Eh. I dunno. What version of the movie were you watching? I only saw a couple monster battles, most of which were copout energy-blast battles and nothing of any real substance. I dunno though, I just expected more from a Kitamura Godzilla movie (don't know why). Maybe the fact that it was supposed to be a big final anniversary salute thing and was kinda lackluster just got to me.
 
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