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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Maybe they thought they'd get lucky and hit his Colossus weak point Probably just something like this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBcIu9XnG3A I think it was SMG who said it but it resonated with me, Godzilla 2014 was a great pagan volcano God movie. The humans in it just keep tossing sacrifices into the volcano hoping it will work and that maybe their God will notice them.
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Detective No. 27 posted:The allusions don't necessarily need to be instant killers. Pollution doesn't instantly kill people, but that doesn't make it less dangerous.  
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Apr 21, 2016 20:08
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He excretes chlorine gas or something similarly lethal. For such a surreal film they actually explain the science (such as it is) pretty clearly.
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Apr 22, 2016 04:05
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I should rewatch it this weekend.
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Is there any place I could watch Godzilla Island with english subtitles? I tried youtube, but some guy made a youtube series with the same name that ruins any attempt I've made at searching.
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Rewatched Godzilla 2014 last night. I have trouble caring about the complaint of the main protagonist being boring. He's not the most interesting person ever, but he explicitly doesn't need to be because this movie cares about the personal milieu insofar as how giant monsters invade it, and how they serve as an extension of the people themselves. The point isn't to have everyone be super zany, super interesting, or super deep because the reality is most people simply aren't those things. Now of course this is a movie so we have to dress human lives up for the drama a bit, but a lot of the movie's point is to dwarf human lives compared to the awe and spectacular of ancient monsters and newer monsters engaging in combat. Their battle is a spiritual battle, and the reason parts of the characters feel incomplete or bland is because the monsters are supposed to be considered as part of that whole; remove the monsters from the picture and you have normal people going about their normal, uninteresting lives rather than people who'd be acting wacky or strange regardless.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What's your favorite shot in that movie? Didn't ask me, but the bit where the MUTO is bearing down on the protagonist in that really awesomely framed widescreen shot near the end. And of course the bit with the stomping foot on tha airport tarmac. I have a lot of complaints about that movie but Seamus McGarvey crafts some incredibly striking images. Do we know if he's returning for the sequel?
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He drat well better.
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it's weird after how fugly The Avengers was that McGarvey immediately helmed one of the most visually striking popcorn movies in recent memory.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Didn't ask me, but the bit where the MUTO is bearing down on the protagonist in that really awesomely framed widescreen shot near the end. And of course the bit with the stomping foot on tha airport tarmac. I have a lot of complaints about that movie but Seamus McGarvey crafts some incredibly striking images. Do we know if he's returning for the sequel? That MUTO shot is friggin incredible.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:it's weird after how fugly The Avengers was that McGarvey immediately helmed one of the most visually striking popcorn movies in recent memory. There's only so much a cinematographer can do when the director is a screaming idiot.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:What's your favorite shot in that movie? Not prepared to provide multiple screenshots with detailed analysis but I really appreciate some of the earliest shots in the Philippines, namely the opening one of the torn open pits. It grabs you right after the opening credits (which the slurry of confidential information and swelling music do great justice to). Other than that I like the way the movie flows, and I appreciate the limited view of the monsters because after a few rewatches you appreciate the scope of detail in their actions, blocking, etc. when they do appear. One moment I'm particularly found of is the casino in Vegas; first there's the news shot nobody's paying attention to, then everyone's pissed off and annoyed the lights out, then finally terror when the building gets torn open. I seem to recall a few instances of that three part shot composition.
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korusan posted:Rewatched Godzilla 2014 last night. Sure, but most Godzilla movies aren't as long nor do they focus so much on a single human protagonist. We follow Ford's movements more than we do either of the monsters, especially Godzilla, so it's all the more noticeable that he's kind of bland and cipher-ish. The movie had plenty to recommend it, but I think the MUTOs and Joe Brody had way more characterization and were far more of a driving force of the plot than Godzilla or Ford Brody, and for me it was too imbalanced. Particularly for Godzilla, who seems almost forgotten when he's not onscreen for much of the movie. Ford, on the other hand, seems to be the camera for the movie, where he's the PoV we see most of the movie from but he gets very little characterization or plot drive. Which, as you said, might be partially intentional, but if there's nothing to latch onto then there's no reason to identify with him beyond the fact that he's a human and not a monster.
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mr. stefan posted:There's only so much a cinematographer can do when the director is a screaming idiot. Filmmaking is collaboration. It's the cook, not the ingredients.
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Whedon doesn't seem like some one that screams a lot. But then again, I wasn't there.
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I was there. He screams a lot.
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It's ultimately just a hyperbolic adjective but Whedon really does strike me as the kind of guy who, in private, gets incredibly shrill about inscrutable nerd poo poo
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korusan posted:Rewatched Godzilla 2014 last night.
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Joe Gillian posted:You should watch the Korean film, "The Host". The humans are more interesting than the monster, and that's barely a knock against the film itself. It has some over the top moments in it, but it has characters you can identify with. I identify with Godzilla 
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SHISHKABOB posted:I identify with Godzilla
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Godzilla and King Kong should have teamed up to take down the REAL villian: humanity.
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Mantis42 posted:Godzilla and King Kong should have teamed up to take down the REAL villian: humanity. *flustered southern mayor*: Now let's just hoooold our horses here a minute
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Mantis42 posted:Godzilla and King Kong should have teamed up to take down the REAL villian: humanity. This, but... ...unironically 
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It can end like Conan - Godzilla and King Kong sitting on their thrones.
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Like BvS, King Kong and Godzilla are manipulated into fighting by, I dunno, the Xians or Kilaaks or the Aliens from the Third Planet of the Black Hole, then they unite at the end to face off against Gigan with the assistance of Mothra, and we see news footage of Rodan and Varan and Baragon in brief scenes setting up Destroy All Monsters.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Like BvS, King Kong and Godzilla are manipulated into fighting by, I dunno, the Xians or Kilaaks or the Aliens from the Third Planet of the Black Hole, then they unite at the end to face off against Gigan with the assistance of Mothra, and we see news footage of Rodan and Varan and Baragon in brief scenes setting up Destroy All Monsters. The film starts with a scene where Jet Jaguar gets shot in the face and killed but he's not identified by name. Baragon comes back in time to give a message to King Kong but he misinterprets it.
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Mantis42 posted:Spider-Man shows up in 2nd act, is immediately crushed. Not if it's Japanese Spider-Man.
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Leto tries to method act Ghidorah, ends up only sprouting one extra head 🙄
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I dunno what it is about Godzilla movies but I've loved all of them. Even the lovely ones. Godzillas Revenge with that annoying latchkey kid? Totally watchable.
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Yaws posted:I dunno what it is about Godzilla movies but I've loved all of them. Even the lovely ones. Godzillas Revenge with that annoying latchkey kid? Totally watchable. They've got such a strong clout cause fuckin godzilla hell yes.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Like BvS, King Kong and Godzilla are manipulated into fighting by, I dunno, the Xians or Kilaaks or the Aliens from the Third Planet of the Black Hole, then they unite at the end to face off against Gigan with the assistance of Mothra, and we see news footage of Rodan and Varan and Baragon in brief scenes setting up Destroy All Monsters. This is basically the plot of Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster. Which Gareth Edwards might actually already be remaking since the next American film is supposed to feature Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah.
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Yaws posted:I dunno what it is about Godzilla movies but I've loved all of them. Even the lovely ones. Godzillas Revenge with that annoying latchkey kid? Totally watchable. Yeah, Godzilla vs. Megalon barely resembles a movie at times- it's more like a really cheap sentai episode with a cast of like 5 people (and no women!) - but it has a certain fascination in that regard. The one kaiju movie I really loathe is Rebirth of Mothra II.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah, Godzilla vs. Megalon barely resembles a movie at times- it's more like a really cheap sentai episode with a cast of like 5 people (and no women!) - but it has a certain fascination in that regard. Godzilla vs. Megalon was the first Godzilla movie I ever bought when I was a kid - it was on clearance at a dollar store and had this really cheap cartoony bootleg-looking cover.
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Bob Quixote posted:Godzilla vs. Megalon was the first Godzilla movie I ever bought when I was a kid - it was on clearance at a dollar store and had this really cheap cartoony bootleg-looking cover. I remember picking up Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla and Godzilla 1985 in a $10 two-pack at Kmart. I must have been eight or nine at the time. I wore the poo poo out of those tapes.
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Maxwell Lord posted:The one kaiju movie I really loathe is Rebirth of Mothra II. I've watched pretty much every kaiju movie there is, including ones where I've had to buy a Japanese bootleg or whatever to see, and I still can't bring myself to watch the "Rebirth of Mothra" films.
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Dylazodelan posted:I've watched pretty much every kaiju movie there is, including ones where I've had to buy a Japanese bootleg or whatever to see, and I still can't bring myself to watch the "Rebirth of Mothra" films. They're totally fine if you like Mothra. Honestly, this is the first I've heard of anyone really disliking them, the worst I've otherwise heard is "they're just kinda there."
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The first and third are okay, the second is hideous. There's this weird orange and green color scheme (though the Toho Kingdom review says it's partly a problem with the BR transfer, I don't recall it looking any better on video), most of the running time is given over to really cheap and uninteresting Indiana Jones stuff, there's an orange fluffy furby thing whose urine has magic healing powers, it's very unpleasant.
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I have a friend who prefers the Mothra movies in general to the regular Godzilla films. I've never seen one the full way through though myself, the bits I caught on the Sci Fi channel had been pretty dire.
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