robert casey wrote:

have a terrible effect on your country in the years to come as a
strange effect emanating from their detonation shall cause you to be
plagued by

an endless series of bad movies about

I'm trying to remember the worst done monster; as far as actually
attacking Tokyo, Hedorah The Smog Monster might be the most laughable;
it actually crapped on Godzilla's head in its first appearance.
Those are its eggs, not its testicles, that Godzilla has in his hands:
http://plastica.cocolog-nifty.com/ph...orah_movie.jpg
I thought the movie should have ended with Godzilla shoving a catalytic
converter up its rear.
For downright silliness, it would be hard to beat Manda The Sea Serpent
that defends the Mu Empire in "Atragon":
http://www.scifilm.org/images/atragon3.jpg
The Danes found out marionettes sea serpents don't work in "Reptilicus";
the Japanese in "Atragon" (or "Gotengo" for you purists.) On the other
hand, the control deck of Atragon in the original has got to be seen to
be believed- it beats the hell out of anything in "Voyage To The Bottom
Of The Sea" or "The Hunt For Red October".
The few members of the bridge crew apparently monitor around 200 gauges
each, and the captain doesn't revolve the periscope to scan the horizon,
he stands motionless on a _revolving platform_ looking through the
periscope, as it revolves with the platform.
It's technology like that that allowed the Submersible Battleship
Gotengo to kick the little red-headed ass of the Bitch Empress Of Mu.
The fact that it can fly, tunnel underground at around 40 mph, and turn
underwater cities into something that resembles a freezer that badly
needs defrosting didn't hurt either.
Oh wait... I forgot Minya:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Minya.jpg
If Godzilla had been raised in Sparta, his offspring, Minya, would have
been tossed off of the cliff shortly after it was born. This deformed
little runt would be just the sort of creature to show the Mothra girl's
evil sister the hidden path through the mountains so she could sneak up
behind Mothra on that dinky dragon of hers. :-)

Pat