Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: That Bad Media
Episode: Not That Bad - Godzilla(1998)
Description: Over a decade before the MonsterVerse, Independence Day director Roland Emmerich helmed the first attempt at a Hollywood produced Godzilla movie, one with an inescapable ad campaign that even saw a collaboration between Jimmy Page and Puff Daddy. But Emmerich's film was so reviled by fans that sequels were cancelled and Toho studios immediately rebooted their own Godzilla franchise in response.25 years after Emmerich's Godzilla rampaged through the streets of New York, is it really the heinous bastardization that kaiju fans make it out to be? Can The Simpsons cast elevate this material? And just how much is...