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In the past year I've gotten really into Godzilla, and have been slowly working my way through all of them. I'm a little over half way through them, now having seen all of the Showa era (except OG Zilla vs Kong), half the Hesei era, Minus One, Shin Godzilla, and a couple of the American ones. I love long running franchises like this where you can see how much they've evolved over time, and how the tone and stories can be so vastly varried and different from one another.

I love the darker and more serious ones like the original, Minus One, and Shin Godzilla, but at the same time, I do also love the silly and derpy ones as well. Hot take, but I do actually love Son of Godzilla. Googly eye Godzilla taking on the challenges of single parenthood is so goofy but also really fun and charming IMO.

Also love Godzilla vs Hedorah, which is both really silly yet also really dark at times, I think capturing the range of tone in Godzilla movies in one film better than most.

Still have a lot more to watch, but if I was going to do a top 5, it'd have to be:
5.Son Of Godzilla (I know, I'm sorry.)
4.Godzilla vs Hedorah
3.Shin Godzilla
2.Minus One
1.Godzilla (1954)

Godzilla vs Biolante is a very close 6th place, but Son of Godzilla is peak cheezy Godzilla and I can't help but love it. Need to finished the Hesei era, but the further I go the harder the Japanese movies are to find easily. I've heard Destroyah is a really good one, that's high on my list to watch next.