Since Universal has often been notoriously picky about what they'll give special treatment to (at least until they started working with Scream Factory), and nothing concerning King Kong vs. Before, only Universal's American version was available and even then, it never got any special features, even when it was put on Blu-Ray. In fact, it never had an official American home video release until the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray set in 2019. Monster Zero, did get released on DVD in America with both versions thanks to Classic Media, along with other, less altered entries, courtesy of Sony, the Japanese version of King Kong vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, and Godzilla vs. Even though a fair amount of the entries in the Showa series, such as the original Godzilla, Godzilla Raids Again, Mothra vs. It sounded intriguing, but I wasn't hopeful that about my chances of ever getting to see that version. From what I'd heard, the Japanese version had a lot more humor and was written as a satire on advertising, which had been all but deleted in its Americanization. Thanks to the Godzilla Compendium, I had long since learned the dual-ending rumor about the film, stating that each version had a different monster win the big climactic battle, was false, but still, I had read that, like a lot of these films, what we got here was very different from what was shown in Japan. As I said, I didn't hate it, but there were other Godzilla movies I would have rather been watching, which is an attitude I continued to feel towards it as I moved on into my late teens and early 20's.Īs I was getting back into Godzilla hardcore during my college years, I began to wonder about the Japanese version of King Kong vs. But, over time, I weirdly started to become a little impatient with the film since, as I described back in my review of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, I would have to watch it immediately afterward whenever I did a Godzilla marathon, since I didn't have Godzilla Raids Again, and that would always annoy me because it wasn't one I went back to that often purely for enjoyment. It never became one of my favorite Godzilla movies, and it still isn't to this day, but I still enjoyed it for what it was. When it was all over and done with, I thought it was a fairly good movie. I started watching it as soon as I got home that night but, since this was on a Sunday and I had to go to school the next day, I had to wait until the next morning to watch the big fight. Mom was a bit hesitant, worried I might get upset at the ending when Godzilla lost the fight, but she relented and bought it. Sure enough, one time when I was at Wal-Mart with my Mom, I spotted the VHS and immediately begged her to buy it for me. From what I read, I knew Godzilla didn't win the fight but, while that did make me unsure about it, I was still interested in seeing it, especially when I saw the American trailer for it on that Fantastic Dinosaurs of the Movies compilation. Not that it mattered, as it wasn't too long afterward when I found the Crestwood House book on Godzilla himself but, nevertheless, my interest had been piqued simply by knowing there was a movie where Godzilla fought King Kong. Of course, I only needed to see that image of Godzilla to become so interested in the book that I actually tried to take it away from them because I thought it was solely about him! After a little bit of arguing, the guys finally showed me that the book was about King Kong and featured Godzilla only on that one page. Before I discovered that Crestwood House monster book that focused on Godzilla, there was an instance in my elementary school's library where I came upon a couple of my classmates looking through another one of those books and I happened to peek over their shoulders to see a picture of King Kong swinging Godzilla around by his tail.
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