Yesterday I thought of how they could have taken G98 from "controversial moneymaker" to "instant classic." They should have dumped Matthew Broderick and replaced him with Arnold Schwarzenegger! I pretty much can't think of any of Broderick's scene in the movie that wouldn't have been 10x more awesome if Arnold had been playing his character. Maria Pitillo was absolutely awful in the movie, but Matthew Broderick's character was the one that was supposed to be carrying the story. Broderick has more acting skill than Arnold, sure, but he can't carry an action role to save his grandma. You get Arnold when there are guns and / or monsters involed (which was the case with Godzilla), but Broderick couldn't even lift a gun in the movie!. I would have easily paid $10 just to see Arnold punch a baby Godzilla in the head and then run down a hall firing an M16 while shouting angrily.
If the movie had that, it would have made 700 million and spawned two sequels, easy as pie.