There is one thing in my life that I have loved longer than Star Wars, and that is Godzilla.
When I was 3, I got into some serious trouble with my mom when I took to recreating a scene from King Kong versus Godzilla (two monsters fighting) on a white wall in the hall outside my bedroom in crayon.
My dad took me when I was 5 to the old Meyerland theater to see Godzilla versus the Smog Monster, the first I got to see on a big screen. A couple of years or so later, my mom took me to see Godzilla versus Megalon at the Shamrock theater in Houston. On a day in 1977, I threw a fit when my dad would not let me stay for a second showing of Godzilla versus Mechagodzilla (and I deserved every swat that day). In high school, I dragged a girl friend to see Godzilla 1985, and was rewarded with the cartoon short, Godzilla versus Bambi.
The Matthew Broderick movie is not Godzilla - it is instead a movie about a mutated iguana that has a chin like Jay Leno's and has an ending sequence in Madison Square Garden that looks like it was cut from Aliens.
The 2014 Godzilla movie was fantastic. I really enjoyed the MUTO creatures, and I liked the new look of Godzilla. The cast was decent, but Cranston should have had a bigger role.
Kong: Skull Island was decent, but really the only thing that I've taken from that one was the Marvel-esque end credit sequence that gave us cave drawings of Godzilla, Rodin, Mothra, and King Gidhra, with the classic Godzilla roar. I seriously cannot wait for this new Godzilla movie, and even more so, the one that will follow - Godzilla versus Kong, or whatever they are calling it.