On: The Biology of B-Movie Monsters (2003)

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You can see similar issues in the recent American Godzilla movies. In the first one, Godzilla seems huge and heavy. In the later ones, they keep making it faster and more agile and the result is that it seems light and small (and extremely fake) no matter how many buildings fall over or ships get sunk.

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That could be because Japanese audiences complained that in Godzilla (2014), their favorite kaiju had gotten fat.