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everythingWasBees posted:The 2014 Godzilla was good.
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I enjoyed it. 
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2014 Godzilla had Soldier-who-is-everywhere-and-can-do-anything for a main character. He could do things like board a heavily guarded train carrying nuclear devices (out of his uniform if I remember correctly) and not be shot or detained immediately by the men guarding it. Just a quick "no brah, I'm totes a soldier. Lemme on, I need a quick lift to Fresno or whatever." Dude really needed to be about five separate character to make the plot sane. It also featured Godzilla fighting other kaiju. I'd call it a wash, honestly. Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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Can't believe I just noticed this thread. I'm a crazy rear end kaiju freak, have been for over twenty years. My first Kaiju Flick was probably Rodan on a lazy Saturday afternoon in the 80's, but it wasn't until there was a big Godzilla feature in the first issue of the short lived "Monsters Attack!" magazine that I got hooked. I'm a total Godzilla nerd. I've even been to Kaiju conventions in my life. Someone was asking in the thread about good Godzilla games. The first NES game is honestly probably my favorite all time game. I have no excuse, it's long and slow, but drat is it good. (honestly I'm pretty sure THAT had a hand in my building a love for the genre too). I've also really liked the Japanese-only Game Gear game, which is a cross between the fighting style of the NES game and tactical simulations like say, Godzilla 2 on the NES or Fire Emblem. The Japanese Game Boy Game (which is not at all the same game as the US Game Boy Game that's a crappy puzzle action game ala the Bugs Bunny series) seems good and has just about every dang Toho Kaiju up to that point in it, but for some reason every time I try to play an emulated version, once I get to the first boss (Mothra) suddenly the game bugs out and Godzilla won't respond to my controls and moves spastically, until killed.  Regarding the 2014 movie, yeah the human cast was stupid in it, but it's hardly alone in that criticism. The Kaiju action was actually longer than it is in some of the past movies, and more dynamic. It ranks comfortably in the middle of the pack for me quality wise. Also thanks to AzraelNewType for the Ultraman links. I've only really seen the first season of the original Ultraman due to a dvd set my son ended up getting once from Wal-Mart. (I've passed on the Godzilla love to him.) TheLovablePlutonis posted:Final Wars also had a badass drill submarine with a badass old captain Go seek out Atragon.
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The Japan only Godzilla 2D fighting game is garbage
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Choco1980 posted:Go seek out Atragon. Saw the trailer. It looks like the best thing. Did Final Wars just take inspiration from it, or is it another Toho IP that got repurposed?
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BattleCattle posted:Saw the trailer. It looks like the best thing. Did Final Wars just take inspiration from it, or is it another Toho IP that got repurposed? It's an old IP, the original 60's movie was based on a book that's kind of like the Japanese version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. There's also a two part anime OAV called Super Atragon from the 90's that's pretty nifty.
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The 2014 Godzilla was annoying because every time monsters would start fighting they would show a few seconds of it and then go, "nah..." and then have the view obfuscated. I understand what they're going for, but it's just annoying when it's so obvious. Let me watch the big monsters fight!
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Smoking Crow posted:The Japan only Godzilla 2D fighting game is garbage which one?
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Aug 18, 2015 21:03
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Choco1980 posted:which one? the one for snes, Kaiju Daikessen
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Smoking Crow posted:Welcome to the Kaiju thread, where men are men and giant monsters roam free. Kaiju is a Japanese word that means monster, and it's used to describe all manner of monster movies. Colloquially, Kaiju refer to Daikaiju films, which are films about giant monsters. Not a lot come out anymore, but it's still a massively popular culturally defining genre! 
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Who's that? What's he do? Where's he from? Did he punch a big monster once?
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BattleCattle posted:Who's that? He beat the biggest monster of them all the pachinko monster named "Bog".
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Aug 19, 2015 05:08
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That sounds less than plausible.
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those recommendations leave out biollante and thus are incomplete
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Smoking Crow posted:the one for snes, Kaiju Daikessen Ah fair enough. I almost thought you meant the Turbo Duo one from the same year, and we were about to have words.
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Smoking Crow posted:Do you guys like Kaiju Big Battel I had the book in highschool. I've never seen any of it in action but I think it's a really cool idea.
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So what's the thoughts around here with the announcement that Legendary Pictures is moving their King Kong sequel over to Warner Bros from Universal with the sole reason being so part three will be King Kong versus Godzilla (also Godzilla's part three)?
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Choco1980 posted:So what's the thoughts around here with the announcement that Legendary Pictures is moving their King Kong sequel over to Warner Bros from Universal with the sole reason being so part three will be King Kong versus Godzilla (also Godzilla's part three)? It will probably suck
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I can't decide which was worse, that Peter Jackson King Kong movie for the American Godzilla from 2014. Combining them together...good lord
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In Training posted:I can't decide which was worse, that Peter Jackson King Kong movie for the American Godzilla from 2014. Combining them together...good lord That's a tough question. King Kong is deeply flawed but at least has fun human characters throughout it. Godzilla is firmly middle of the pack quality wise for his long series, but the humans outside of Bryan Cranston are practically intolerable and stupid. They're both blah films with some good parts.
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Gamera's better.
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In a seemingly serendipitous manner, Shout Factory is streaming all 39 episodes of the original Ultraman even as we speak! No commercials! http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/ultraman All episodes are subbed so you get to see and hear all the dialogue in all its unfiltered glory! If you want to see the one about the Monster Graveyard... http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/ultraman/the-monster-graveyard/55d260a569702d04d94e0901 If you only want to watch some of the better episodes.. Ep. 1 - the origin story, Ep. 2 - In battle with his most popular foes, the Baltans! and Ep. 28, the DaDa! Weirder episodes- the Monster Graveyard one mentioned above, Ep. 10 where he fights Godzilla (a version that can't take a punch) and Ep. 11, which is so kitschy I can't even begin to explain.. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Sep 12, 2015 |
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I just started watching Ultraman, and... In Episode 2, Ultraman flies away with the alien spaceship, housing more than 2 billion bacteria-sized aliens, and then there's a bright orange glow in the sky. ...Did Ultraman just exterminate a whole species? Is... Is Ultraman a baddie? 
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Godzilla Final Wars is the greatest movie ever made. Peace be upon you.
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chumbler posted:Godzilla Final Wars is the greatest movie ever made.  It is 
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Well there's the underwater fight we just plain don't see except for the aftermath, that would be nice to expand on, but otherwise I have no complaints.
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla was one of my favorite movies as a child, so I'm kind of curious how it holds up now. Also, final wars is available for rent on amazon video, so I know what I'm doing tomorrow.
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chumbler posted:Godzilla Final Wars is the greatest movie ever made. Peace be upon you. It would be if they had cut 99% of the whole "Mutant" subplot and given all that screen time to making most of Godzilla's fights in that movie last more than a minute
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BattleCattle posted:I just started watching Ultraman, and... 1) It was the late '60s, a more innocent time and all aliens (except Ultramen) are scum? 2) Besides, he only got that one ship.. the Baltans come back in episode 16 and a reconstituted one appears in episode 33 courtesy of Alien Mefilias, who is looking for someone to 'give him the Earth.' 3) The Baltans make appearances in other Ultraman series, the Japanese consider them a cultural icon, so you'll see them again and again in other 'universes.'
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Yeah, they're pretty much the main villain "rival" baddies as far as I understand Ultra-canon. Like, they show up multiple times just in the first season of the show even...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HH0k_HNjBA Gamera is really neat, he is filled with turtle meat! (Ohhh my GAWWWWD)
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Lamprey Cannon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HH0k_HNjBA My prayers were answered!
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Holy poo poo. Is that supposed to be a sequel to Revenge of Iris' ending? It can't be, Gamera has both arms still...
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I believe it's thanks to the success of Pacific Rim that all of these kaiju reboots are crawling out of the woodwork.. Oh, someone else is getting a reboot too.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjOvth3O2Vs
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Choco1980 posted:Holy poo poo. As far as I'm concerned, it's close enough. And man, who's to say he can't MacGuffin up a new hand out of plasma energy or magic glowy-comma priestess powers; he's a giant flying genetically engineered Atlantean turtle, anything goes.
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