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Watched Godzilla 54 with my roommate, he dug it a lot. It’s an incredible film. (I’ve seen it before and own the first criterion Blu Ray for it) Excited to keep pushing through this series.
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Captain Invictus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Y3Udr8p0A&hd=1&t=1198s I didn't even need to click that link in order to know that I'll be humming "To save our mother earth from any alien attacks..." for the rest of the day. That was such a great game.
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God I love this giant rear end-book. It's fantastic and worthy of being #1000 in Criterions collection. Me and my bro are going to watch Destroy All Monsters with the dub since that was our first exposure to him as kids when my parents taped it. That movie cemented my love for big-G.
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the PS4 Godzilla game has various G’s including Legendary’s take on it. It’s.... not a great game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yygZllHk6vY If you’re looking for Godzilla content outside of the movie I will always recommend some/most of the Godzilla comic books. things like Half Century War and Godzilla in Hell are loving fantastic.
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Unleashed may've had parade balloon physics, a story mode where fighting monsters and collecting power ups gave you the bad ending, a lot of bugs and oddities, and directly lead to me getting disappointed by Kaiju Combat, but I still can't help but love it.
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There hasn't even been a Godzilla game with a morality system yet. Get with the times, Toho!
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Detective No. 27 posted:There hasn't even been a Godzilla game with a morality system yet. Get with the times, Toho! This...actually sounds pretty good. You could be classic kill all humans Godzilla, indifferent force of nature Godzilla, or goofy 70s heroic Godzilla depending on how much human destruction you cause. Bad Big G has to deal with the humans' Mechagodzilla, Good G has to defend the earth from Ghidorah or whatever. Make it happen computer game people
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That was legit Godzilla Unleashed, though.
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Nov 6, 2019 23:27
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The best Godzilla game was the old NES one and it had wicked music covers and references to other movies
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The music in that game was covers? I had no idea. I played the poo poo out of it and eventually beat it but I remember it making me cry cause it was so goddamn loving hard later on.
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Vince MechMahon posted:Ancient people weren't destroying the planet via climate change so the Kaiju had no reason to care about them. There’s moderately strong evidence that anthropogenic influence on warming was significant by the middle neolithic, mostly from clearing forest for pasture and agricultural land with fire Vintersorg posted:God I love this giant rear end-book. It's fantastic and worthy of being #1000 in Criterions collection. Me and my bro are going to watch Destroy All Monsters with the dub since that was our first exposure to him as kids when my parents taped it. That movie cemented my love for big-G. For the people who have the box set, which films have dubs? All of them? The same ones as the Criterion Channel?
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The Bee posted:directly lead to me getting disappointed by Kaiju Combat, but I still can't help but love it.
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Vintersorg posted:The music in that game was covers? I had no idea. I played the poo poo out of it and eventually beat it but I remember it making me cry cause it was so goddamn loving hard later on. The original Japanese cart had music that was all chiptune versions of the Ifukube stuff, the US release changed it.
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Kind of odd how little is known about Godzilla vs Kong this close to release date. Then again, I guess we didn't even get a G14 teaser until Dec 2013, with a May release next year
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:Kind of odd how little is known about Godzilla vs Kong this close to release date. I'm guessing they want to play it safe with GvK's trailers
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:Kind of odd how little is known about Godzilla vs Kong this close to release date. I was thinking about this last night. In addition to the trailers, what are they changing after pushing back the release date and getting the audience feedback from KOTM?
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Violator posted:I was thinking about this last night. In addition to the trailers, what are they changing after pushing back the release date and getting the audience feedback from KOTM? I don't think they actually pushed the release date back, did they?
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Pyswagoras posted:I don't think they actually pushed the release date back, did they? Not officially, but many people are saying that it's...odd... that a theoretically big movie like this hasn't had any marketing when we're a little over 4 months from the theoretical release date.
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What? It was supposed to be out in March? Wow. That's... pretty soon.
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Ah, there was just speculation that it was going to be delayed based on some interviews the head of WB did. https://comicbook.com/anime/2019/06/09/godzilla-vs-kong-possible-delay-2020/
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Barry Foster posted:This...actually sounds pretty good. You could be classic kill all humans Godzilla, indifferent force of nature Godzilla, or goofy 70s heroic Godzilla depending on how much human destruction you cause. Have the disco Elysium people make it
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Burkion posted:boy is that not something I wanted to be reminded of You got burned too, eh Burk?
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Could always get a sticker made for it? https://twitter.com/floofyfluff/status/1192857390133252097
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Godzilla Raids Again is really, really bad. Its just bad Godzilla footage bolted onto a B movie about pilots working for a fishery. How did they possibly end up on thatas the way to follow up Gojira?
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Shiroc posted:Godzilla Raids Again is really, really bad. Its just bad Godzilla footage bolted onto a B movie about pilots working for a fishery. How did they possibly end up on thatas the way to follow up Gojira? 
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Shiroc posted:Godzilla Raids Again is really, really bad. Its just bad Godzilla footage bolted onto a B movie about pilots working for a fishery. How did they possibly end up on thatas the way to follow up Gojira? It was greenlit at a party a couple weeks after the original hit theaters, Honda wasn’t available to direct, and it was completed and released in theaters less than 6 months after Godzilla ‘54. It’s honestly impressive that they were able to cobble together an entire movie so quickly. It’s definitely poo poo, but the silver lining is that the new suit they created for it was way more mobile and comfortable and would go on to be a sort of prototype for later suits.
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I really like the Godzilla vs Anguirus fight though, it’s more in the style of some old documentary or something
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funky not a junkie posted:I really like the Godzilla vs Anguirus fight though, it’s more in the style of some old documentary or something Yeah, I watched it for the first time last night, and their brawl was great. The rest, not so much.
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The whole ice island finale drags for so long. There are good moments though, and I like the perspective of it being about the working every man interacting with Godzilla when normally it's scientists/journalists/government officials and the like. I have a Godzilla question which I'm trying to find info on, which maybe one of the learned regulars of this thread can help with? For the vast majority of the Godzilla films, there is a director (e.g Ishiro Honda) and a Special Effect Director (e.g Eiji Tsuburaya). Most of what I've read suggests that the director handles all the human stuff, and the special effects director handles the monster sequences. How big is the differential between the two? Does the director still have the the final creative authority over the monster sequences, while the special effects director is just focused on executing said directors' vision? Does the special effects director have control over camera placement and framing or are they just there to execute the effects while the director is on set actually directing the action? Or is the special effects director given largely creative control over how these sequences play out with the director mainly keeping out of it? In most of the Godzilla films, the humans don't really interact very much with the monsters, so it would be easy for there almost to be two productions going on concurrently, one which is solely the monsters and the other which is the human stuff, which can be bought together in the final edit. Basically I'm just curious about the extent of the collaboration, and how it works. Because if the director of the film is not present for the creation of the special effects sequences and it's entirely the special effects directors creative vision, then is there an argument that the special effects director should be thought of more as a co-director, as they are crafting the sequences that people know and remember the most. I understand this might not actually have an easy answer and may depend on each individual collaboration and how it plays out. One director may be happy to let the special effects director handle those sequences entirely while another maybe more hands-on in order to maintain a consistency of vision. I'm just curious if there's any solid word on this.
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Whoo that's a good question. Generally speaking, the director works hand in hand with the special effects director to make sure that everything lines up with how the movie should play out. But the special effects team really take the reigns of how that works out, and it's pretty unique to that era of special effects as well. What I mean by that is, normally in these movies, say Forbidden Planet, there's not a lot of difference. Most of all the effects are done in the moment, or are map paintings. Even the creature of Id and how its brought to life, that's mostly handled by the director since the actors are so involved with it and it's only on screen for a short time. But for Godzilla movies, the special effects are more divorced from the human plot due to the scale. Honda is still on hand to oversee things and tell Tsuburaya what he wants, but often Tsuburaya was left to his own devices when it came to directing the monster scenes. One related genre of film where there's an even bigger gulf are the Stop Motion Animation films. Those really do become a case of Two Directors, where the special effects eclipses the regular action, at least at first. It's why you know the Beast From 20 Thousand Fathoms as a Ray Bradbury or Ray Harryhausen film, and not Eugene Lourie who was the actual director. It's why they're considered Harryhausen films, because even like, Jason and the Argonauts, which blends the special effects and human action infinitely better, and DID require a lot of overlap and careful coordination to make their stuff work... You don't really think of it as a Don Chaffey film. It's a Ray Harryhausen film. King Kong is a great example of how the two different sides can make for a stronger picture, as well. There's a movie with TWO directors, though most people only pay attention to Cooper, and Cooper didn't see Kong as sympathetic or anything at all in his ideas and planning. Willis O'Brien is the one who took Kong and made him what he is. This stopped being so prevalent after the 50s though as the ability to do special effects stopped being so specialized and more and more companies were able to do it, faster and easier. There was less A Guy and a small team directly responsible for bringing the fantastic to life, which in turn gives the main director more control over it as well.
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From what I've read the two parts of the production shoot concurrently, and there can be a significant degree of disconnect between the SFX and non-SFX director. The best example I can think of is during the shooting of King King vs. Godzilla Ishiro Honda apparently wasn't happy about Tsubaraya making the monster fights more cartoonish and lightening the tone of the film, but everything SFX-wise was ultimately Tsubaraya's decision and his preference for increasingly goofy fights won out.
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To be fair for Tsuburaya, that is also the tone that the script called for. The guy who wrote that film wanted to make things more fun and light hearted and less typical
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Thanks both, I think at least in my head then I am going to think of the special effects directors as co-directors because the character and spirit of the monster sequences are a strong attraction to the film. That's not to discredit the work of Honda, Fukuda, and Omori et al as they're vision does direct the overall tone of the whole work for me (and the human scenes do outweigh the monster scenes at least in length). But that dichotomy between the two is interesting at least. Harryhausen is a great example, I've seen Beast of 20,000 Fathoms a couple of times in the last five years but struggle to remember anything outside of the Rhedosaurus scenes.
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Karloff posted:Thanks both, I think at least in my head then I am going to think of the special effects directors as co-directors because the character and spirit of the monster sequences are a strong attraction to the film. I’m still new to the thread, so bear with me if it’s been discussed here before, but there’s a really great book about Tsuburaya that goes into this a little more. A friend got it for me last year and I couldn’t put it down once I started. It’s definitely worth checking out if you can find it. The dude was an absolute genius with some incredibly talented guys working with him.
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Another little MMD "film" from the people that made Anime!Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJSCI7TokvI That's such a lovely Godzilla Earth model
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I didn’t like King Kong vs Godzilla, but I watched the US version and the cutaways where random people in office buildings and their house start talking to no one about what’s happening. Sucked rear end. The dubbing sucked rear end too. I want to watch the original version
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKZmAq5Sves Ah, I always love realistic sound design that makes your ears bleed because of course giant monsters are going to be ridiculously noisy when they're blowing one another to pieces
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Mondo is doing a bunch of shirts, a hoodie and long sleeve for G's 65th anniversary this Thursday. Also some pins. https://mondotees.com/blogs/news/new-godzilla-apparel-collection That Destroy All Monsters longsleeve is so loving rad.
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