That doesn't even make sense.

Thats the point I'm trying to make, its easy to discredit it now that we all have the original. The uncut version is my favorite film of all time - but I recognize that as a child growing up with these movies, the Americanized version is what drew me in. It wasn't a cheesy hack job.

Probably, but I've never found any evidence that Terry Morse was intentionally stripping political content from the film, this video implies that they were purposely censoring the movie. From everything I've seen Its still there, just not as heavy handed, they didn't get the movie - they saw it as a good sci-fi film,…

Counterpoint - the Americanized version of the movie made the film accessible for a western audience that could not relate directly to the source material, and was thusly imported to other countries in Europe as the definitive version of the film. Hell even Japan at one point ran Godzilla King of the Monsters in…