Hachigatsu wrote:
Interesting, Godzilla has little "humanity" in the first couple of films (except for one touch during the climax of the first, in which Godzilla is awakened by the divers, and looks over his shoulder towards them), but by KING KONG VS. GODZILLA in 1963 (and excepting the next film, MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA in 1964), he — and the other monsters — become far more anthropomorphic with each film.


... which eventually sinks the first series.

Yeah, the cheap rubber suits for those later films also helped kill it.
And the goofy storylines. And ...

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