If you came here for Taylor Swift, we're serving up a different monster of entertainment (monster in his case being a good thing, like, you know how the eras tour was a monster tour that was incredibly successful and, like, a big huge thing? I've over-explained this)

IT'S A WHOLE GODZILLA MINI EVENT!

And as far as mini events go- this one is pretty massive. We're running down a feature film from every Godzilla era back to the very beginning. And speaking of beginning, we're starting with the original, the big number one, the lizard king Jim Morrison only wishes he could be...

Godzilla 1954. Okay, technically the name of this film is just straight up "Godzilla" but you have to put that year on there now so people know what you're talking about because there was Godzilla 1998 (previously reviewed in EPISODE 3 of this podcast), Godzilla 2014... I think there's another one in there but caption guy is too lazy to figure it out. Just, we're reviewing the first one first.

As an added bonus: your intrepid Host #2, Ryan, has never seen ANY of the Godzilla films except for Zilla 98 (again, for this podcast). Consequently, Ryan has also never heard ANY Taylor Swift albums, but that's besides the point. We're talking about the monster of Tokyo, not pop music. So you'll get to follow his discovery of this series as Josh takes him through SEVEN iconic films in one of the longest running franchises in history.

Are they all 'meh'? No, some of them are straight up awesome. Some are straight up terrible, but we'll get to those. This is a slight deviation from formula to take on a timeless series of movies that started as a deeply rooted social and scientific commentary on the impact of war and atomic technology, and eventually turned into... well... something else.

In the meantime, here's the first of the lot.

Godzilla 1954, staring Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, and Momoko Kôchi