As Good As or Better Than

I'm skimming a book called '50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True'. It was written by Guy P. Harrison and covers such topics as ghosts, UFOs, Astronomy, psychics and the like. Guy is a skeptic and does a very good job explaining why it's important to be so. For the record, I agree with that.
I, of course, skipped to the bigfoot chapter eager to read what he had to say concerning the subject. To my surprise within the chapter there was a full two pages dedicated to Patty.
He delved into the points and issues everyone is already aware of including, but not limited to, the 'fact' that no one, not even Hollywood film studios, were capable of making that much of a realistic suit in 1967.
He then included a list of films from the 50s, 60s and 70s in which he believed the costumes and suit quality were just as good as, if not better than what was shown in the Patty film. So I looked them up. And here they are:
Gorilla at Large (1954)
Konga (1961)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Star Trek's 'Magatu' (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey (late 1960s)