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Read that as Borats, now picturing Borat in a kaiju movie.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:I hope she's actually gigan
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So this thread has talked about it before, but man Mothra is a strong movie. It mostly works in contrast with Gojira and Rodan- there are elements to it that I like better than Rodan, though Rodan is over all the better movie. It's just such a thuddingly obvious, not at ALL subtle film that I kind of adore it. And it's one of the few times that the kaiju is going on a massive rampage, kills millions of people, and then gets what it wants and makes it out A-OK because gently caress YOU SHE'S A GOD, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT MORTALS Rodan is elevated by that goddamn ending, which is a big gut punch of a thing. If it had a slightly more traditional ending, I might put Mothra over it for the simple fact that Mothra's main cast remain active for the whole film and are instrumental to fixing the problem and saving the day. Rodan's main cast basically vanishes from the movie after Rodan shows up. And it makes me even more excited for the new Legendary movie, because gently caress that village being destroyed by Rodan is exactly the kind of shot Tsuburaya was always trying to get right with these movies.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:I hope she's actually Megalon, Gigan, and Jet Jaguar in a trenchcoat
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Sep 15, 2018 19:41
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No surprise, but Godzilla: King of the Monsters is rated PG-13. Just surprised that it's already rated
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Davros1 posted:No surprise, but Godzilla: King of the Monsters is rated PG-13. how many seconds of full frontal Godzilla can we get before it becomes an R
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Sep 16, 2018 01:15
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Mechafunkzilla posted:how many seconds of full frontal Godzilla can we get before it becomes an R More than there was in the Emmerich Godzilla apparently.
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My only concern with hurricane monsters is that everything will be so big and so busy that it will be visually crowded. Like how Doomsday in BvS was in a constant electrical storm was a neat idea but pretty visually cluttered even with experts like Snyder and Fong behind it. The trailer looks good, though, with a lot of wide framing.
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Violator posted:My only concern with hurricane monsters is that everything will be so big and so busy that it will be visually crowded. Like how Doomsday in BvS was in a constant electrical storm was a neat idea but pretty visually cluttered even with experts like Snyder and Fong behind it. The trailer looks good, though, with a lot of wide framing. Or like in Transformers or Pacific Rim. But the kaiju movies so far have actually been taking visual cues from, well, kaiju movies, and done a pretty good job in framing scenes well. The design choice shouldn't be one that makes it hard to actually look good.
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Sep 20, 2018 04:47
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Some of the cancelled or scrapped movie concepts still sound loving amazing to me, I'm ready for the film where Godzilla fights a ghost version of himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rXP809uL2s 0:37 fits with the theme so hard.
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https://twitter.com/GodzillaMovies/status/1042865575452729344
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Sep 21, 2018 03:30
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Third and final installment? Dang. I really wanted to see Legendary do more kaiju in this style.
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Sep 21, 2018 03:57
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Legendary series doesn’t really have the legs to go more than that many. The 2nd one I’d thoroughly loving up the planet and then third will do further damage. Kinda hard to keep the series going when the damage is apocalyptic. This isn’t a bad thing, though. It gives them a chance to move on to other films. Bring on Legendary GAMERA.
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Sep 21, 2018 04:05
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But who will do the slowed down trailer version of the Gamera song?
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Sep 21, 2018 04:23
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Legendary series doesn’t really have the legs to go more than that many. The 2nd one I’d thoroughly loving up the planet and then third will do further damage. Kinda hard to keep the series going when the damage is apocalyptic. This isn’t a bad thing, though. Yeah, I know and respect that. I just really want a Legendary Biollante. And Hedorah. And maybe SpaceGodzilla.
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Sep 21, 2018 04:25
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Cythereal posted:Third and final installment? Dang. I really wanted to see Legendary do more kaiju in this style. It's also actually the fourth MonsterVerse movie. But yeah, the entire MonsterVerse exists solely in service of this movie, so where do you go from there? We'll at least have the new Toho movies afterwards.
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Sep 21, 2018 04:29
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:The 2nd one I’d thoroughly loving up the planet and then third will do further damage. Kinda hard to keep the series going when the damage is apocalyptic. This isn’t a bad thing, though. When Earth is destroyed, its Planet X's turn.
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Sep 21, 2018 04:59
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K. Waste posted:But who will do the slowed down trailer version of the Gamera song? We’re beyond that, Tortoise will just do the score They already did one and it ripped and they weren’t named after lovely molly
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Sep 21, 2018 05:22
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If the next two make a lot of money they are doing more just so you know. That’s my insider info
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Burkion posted:So this thread has talked about it before, but man Mothra is a strong movie. Funny you should mention that because I rewatched Mothra the other night for a transnational film class. I've said before it's a pity that Mothra doesn't kill Jelly Ito's character like she was meant to, but the rest of the movie more than makes up for it because it's so goddamn fun. The purist in me says there's nothing wrong with these graphics from 1961, but there's a small part of me that wants to see a "digitally remastered" version that simply cleans up the saturation from bluescreen shots and puts everything in HD quality - akin to those Star Wars remasters you sometimes see from the fans where it's not CGI so much as it is getting rid of matte lines, etc. Anyways Mothra is probably the best kaiju flick aside from the original Gojira. If you like that may watch Ghidorah TTHM because it's similar in the kinds of crazy poo poo going down, like the whole prophecy plot.
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The Golden Gael posted:Anyways Mothra is probably the best kaiju flick aside from the original Gojira. Rodan, for my money.
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Sep 21, 2018 12:21
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Waffleman_ posted:But yeah, the entire MonsterVerse exists solely in service of this movie, so where do you go from there? This is part of why that Godzilla anime was such a frustrating let down. The idea is such a perfect endgame "Godzilla happened and is truly King of the Monsters, now what?" scenario that allows for all kinds of cool poo poo, but then we got what we got.
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IMO it feels very appropriate to just do 3 movies and stop.The Golden Gael posted:Funny you should mention that because I rewatched Mothra the other night for a transnational film class. I've said before it's a pity that Mothra doesn't kill Jelly Ito's character like she was meant to, but the rest of the movie more than makes up for it because it's so goddamn fun. The purist in me says there's nothing wrong with these graphics from 1961, but there's a small part of me that wants to see a "digitally remastered" version that simply cleans up the saturation from bluescreen shots and puts everything in HD quality - akin to those Star Wars remasters you sometimes see from the fans where it's not CGI so much as it is getting rid of matte lines, etc. That sounds like a cool class.
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Keep it to 3 and don't let it get stale. It'll be an awesome trilogy if the next 2 knock it out the park.
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Sep 21, 2018 14:44
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HannibalBarca posted:Rodan, for my money. Yeah. Rodan is incredible.
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They’re doing 4 though, three is already off the table. Godzilla, Skull island, KotM, Godzilla v Kong
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Regardless of how many they do, the final shot of the last film HAS to be this, except with Godzilla:
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I am so glad they never made a King Conan movie. It could never live up to that image.
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God vs King is the last chance this series have to be good. And by good I mean add Gigan and Anguirus.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:IMO it feels very appropriate to just do 3 movies and stop. I should point out I chose to rewatch it and that it wasn't part of the curriculum, although I have the blessing of my professor to write a paper on Indigenous themes present in Mothra.
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Vintersorg posted:I am so glad they never made a King Conan movie. It could never live up to that image. We did get a King Conan movie, but Arnie refused to come back and Kevin Sorbo refused to reprise Arnie's character so they just opened up the script in Word and find/replaced 'Conan' with 'Kull'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_fs34K04I
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The Golden Gael posted:I should point out I chose to rewatch it and that it wasn't part of the curriculum, although I have the blessing of my professor to write a paper on Indigenous themes present in Mothra. Make sure you cite K. Waste's video on the subject.
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Neo Rasa posted:This is part of why that Godzilla anime was such a frustrating let down. The idea is such a perfect endgame "Godzilla happened and is truly King of the Monsters, now what?" scenario that allows for all kinds of cool poo poo, but then we got what we got. It costs the exact same to animate people as it does to animate Kaiju (I assume) and yet they still managed to make it a talky boring POS movie.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:We did get a King Conan movie, but Arnie refused to come back and Kevin Sorbo refused to reprise Arnie's character so they just opened up the script in Word and find/replaced 'Conan' with 'Kull'. Kull's a different Robert E Howard character.
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Xguard86 posted:It costs the exact same to animate people as it does to animate Kaiju (I assume) and yet they still managed to make it a talky boring POS movie. The Kaiju have more effects associated with them which costs more time to model but it's probably not a huge difference tbh
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Xguard86 posted:It costs the exact same to animate people as it does to animate Kaiju (I assume) and yet they still managed to make it a talky boring POS movie. Unfortunately the Godzilla anime was still anime, and goddamn if anime isn't at this point at least 50% ways to save money by having boring dialogue scenes whenever possible.
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It's not because it's anime. It's because it's Urobuchi at the helm, specifically. Dude loving loves exposition.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Unfortunately the Godzilla anime was still anime, and goddamn if anime isn't at this point at least 50% ways to save money by having boring dialogue scenes whenever possible.
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Choco1980 posted:Kull's a different Robert E Howard character. Did you stop reading after the first seven words in my post? The movie started out as Conan The Conqueror but got changed to Kull The Conqueror.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Anime, as stuff full of exposition filler as AAA video games are full of repetitive sidequest filler. I'm reminded of someone who brought up how Attack on Titan stands out because characters actually do stuff during exposition scenes like that, eating snacks or cleaning their gear, rather than just standing or walking around talking at each other. There's something to be said that anime being made by shut-ins for shut-ins means you get characters that don't move or act anything like real people (not that media people ever really talk like real people) but a lot of that could easily be the minimal budgets. (I figured it's because Western cartoons usually design characters to be easy to animate, heavily stylised and relatively simplistic, while anime characters often have more elaborate designs that you don't see moving around very dynamically except when they decide to blow the budget on something)
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