Godzilla 1985 recently and FINALLY got an official DVD release in North America earlier this month and being my favorite Godzilla flick from when I was younger, I had to get it. Ended up watching it and enjoying it for the most part, however it was not exactly the version I grew up with which was fairly dissapointing. There are technically three versions of this movie; the original Japanese version, the International English dub, and the American English dub. The version I watched as a kid on VHS was the American dub/edit which made the Russians look like assholes in this movie, while the International dub was way more true to the original Japanese version. The two versions of this DVD are the Japanese and International dub, so there are whole parts that I remember that were not included which bummed me out, but overall it was a blast of nostalgia and I thoroughly enjoyed it regardless 
I got this in the mail also, need to watch it as I've gone through all the Godzilla's released after this since they are so cheap to buy.
Tonight though, I was 0 for 2 on movie watching.
First up was the new TMNT movie, which yeah, I knew was going to be bad, but I was hoping to say it was better than the first one, but it's not. I thought if they had a better focus in mind, since the first one suffered major script rewriting, it might even be tolerable, but nah, it's just as bad because of other problems. The writing is trash and there's so many convenient plot elements so that they don't have to actually work at anything. Again, there's no point for these guys to be "ninjas", if they are huge, powerful, shrek monsters. They barely fight anything, it's all big action scenes and such, so little involves them being god dang ninjas. They still looking absolutely terrible, Megan Fox is still bad as April, Stephen Amell is horribly miscast as Casey Jones (He's good as The Green Arrow), who for some reason is a cop in this and the squeeze him in randomly...There are tiny bits of okay in it, like I thought Bebop and Rocksteady were just fine, even if the reasoning behind their transformation was terrible (Garbage writing), and I liked Krang's design, but they almost turned him into a cartoon character with the acting. It was weird and out of place with the rest of the movie. The last movie was bad, this was bad, kill this movie series and start over. The guys running these movies are braindead. Get rid of the freakish super mutant/shrek monsters.
This was supposed to pick me up after TMNT: Out of the Shadows, but honestly this movie was kinda boring. It had good parts here and there, I liked Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling for what they were, but I just didn't care for what was going on. I kinda hated the daughter continuing to inject herself into anything and she really shouldn't have had as big of a part. It's not a bad movie, but I had heard good things and really I just wasn't impressed. I'd honestly say pass on this unless you REALLY want to watch a "70's Buddy Cop" kind of thing (they aren't cops, but it's very much that kind of feel.
