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Kaiju Cage Match posted:I love how one of the rewards for the hundred dollar tier onward is getting blocked on Twitter by Hideki Kamiya. his block list is legend, so that's no small feat
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quote:Really fed up with insects which never read my posts/header pic and just keep posting . THAT’S WHY I’m telling u not to post me in languages other than Japanese. If u break rules, that means u r brainless insect and will be blocked immediately. BE CAREFUL. quote:•No advice What a charming individual
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Vinylshadow posted:What a charming individual This, but unironically
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Vinylshadow posted:What a charming individual I honestly respect it. He's setting boundaries and that's good.
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Best part of Varan by far is its soundtrack, some of my personal favorite Ifukube work (a lot of which would be recycled into new tracks in later movies).
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Oh God I'm stoked So a little while ago Resurrection of Godzilla was released, which is a pretty drat seamless fusion of Return of Godzilla and Godzilla 1985, the Roger Corman cut of the film. It uses the remastered HD versions of both films, but keeps mostly to the Japanese cut, including the Raymond Burr portions of the American side. Now another similar release has come to my attention, This Is Tokyo, which is a fusion of Gojira 1954 and Godzilla King of the Monsters 1956. That is something I've been craving for literally years, and I am extremely excited to see how they pulled it off. Resurrection of Godzilla is basically my definitive version of that film, and if this is as good an edit as that, it could be something magical. Please don't let me down
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Burkion posted:Oh God I'm stoked Where might one find this Resurrection of Godzilla? Theoretically.
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Well my fine goon, as I cannot PM you- Archive.org will sort you out. This Is Tokyo is also there. Don't know if linking directly would be files so, yeah.
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If it's on Archive.org, then it's not piracy and you don't gotta be coy. Any word on that remastered Cozilla?
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This Is Tokyo And since it was asked for Restored Cozzilla
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I actually prefer the stark black and white opening credits of Gojira so we need a fanedit of this fanedit to correct it. e: In one scene Raymond Burr says 8 ships have sunk and in the next scene, in Japanese, we are told that a 3rd ship has just gone down. Oops. Mantis42 fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Feb 28, 2020 |
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I would argue that Resurrection of Godzilla is my definitive version of Return of/1985, but This Is Tokyo is a very different beast. There's a lot of cool and clever editing moves, but it is not a patch on the original 1954. The tone is still very different. What it is, though, is a definitive version of King of the Monsters itself- working more of the Japanese original in does a lot to make the film feel like a true ensemble piece, though it does have some issues that crop up. Notably, as mentioned, the different ships cited as being destroyed, and a funnier mistake/unavoidable discrepancy, Burr's narration that the only two on the ship who weren't overtaken by anxiety being Emiko and Ogata, when it intercuts a personal scene between the two...being overtaken by anxiety. But, if you enjoy King of the Monsters, this is definitely an even better version of it. The original still stands on its own as a separate beast- my personal best version of THAT would just be to work Raymond Burr into some of the reporter reaction shots and cut his narration entirely- but this is well worth a watch for any Godzilla fan.
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I watched the original Varan the Unbelievable I think we can all agree that the best thing about Tsuburaya is his love for Spunky Lady Reporters. But the SLR in Varan sucks, she's not even spunky! I can see what you guy s mean about the movie being shot for TV so it looks like poo poo. Especially at the beginning. There's this ancient crazy cult in the remote mountains and a forbidden zone where they say no one can go, but it's all shot completely flat with full light. It's terrible. Later scenes do look better, but the first 15-20 minutes or so really starts the movie off on a very bad foot. There's a couple shots of Varan in this one they didn't use in the American one where it's super clear that it's just a guy in a suit. Honestly there's too much Varan overall. His opening rampage goes on slightly too long, at the end he's just kinda turning around, filling time being monstery. And the whole sequence of Varan hiding behind some underwater rocks is godawful. Combine all that with the flat TV style and you end up with a very unimpressive monster The music is bad. There's one song in particular that is like a very bad attempt to make a poor man's version of the Godzilla theme. There are good parts. I always like a conference room scene. You get some people in a room talking about what they're gonna do about a monster, I'm happy. Some of the army shooting at Varan footage was fine. I'm pretty sure the helicopter they fly in at the end to drop the bomb into Varan shows up a couple times in Ultraman, so it was neat seeing it here. And the shots of Varan catching the bombs on his tongue like snowflakes were adorable. Although I don't think that's what they were going for. I feel like if there's such a thing as objective movie quality, then clearly the Japanese Varan the Unbelievable is better than the American Varan the Unbelievable. But I think I like the American one better. The characters are stronger and it's 20 minutes shorter. And the American version is bad in weirder ways, which is more entertaining than the Japanese one being bad in boring ways. But the big takeaway is don't watch Varan the Unbelievable. Either version. They're both bad and boring.
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You are 100% correct on this. The Japanese version is kind of sad because you can tell how it could have been a good movie. The American one is hilarious
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Shinichi Sekizawa is definitely the person that liked the spunky lady reporters. If his screenwriting credits are any Indication.
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If I'm getting this right, the new 007 has been moved to Thanksgiving, shortly after G vs Kong. RIP Legendary series. Are there any new developments on Toho's future Godzilla projects?
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It is pretty common for a series to end after it's intended ending yes.
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Waffleman_ posted:It is pretty common for a series to end after it's intended ending yes. Also when the movies cost blockbuster dollars but don't do blockbuster business. As an aside, I'm old enough to remember when a $100 million gross was the accepted benchmark to determine if a movie was a blockbuster.
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"Sir, KOTM has made record amounts of money and is critically acclaimed! Should we renew our license with Toho?" "No, we better not. GvsK is our intended ending. That's just the way this business works."
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:"Sir, KOTM has made record amounts of money and is critically acclaimed! Should we renew our license with Toho?" KOTM was a pretty big financial disappointment.
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Also critically acclaimed is not something I’ve seen said about it ever.
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Yeah, its mediocre. If anything I have no faith whatsoever in GvK. I wish Vogt-Roberts was brought back in.
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https://twitter.com/MonsterIsland22/status/1235322369394257921?s=19
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They should keep the Monsterverse going by making lower budget movies with monsters that are cheaper to license.
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You know what’s a lot more affordable than wall-to-wall CGI? Rubber suits. Just saying, WB.
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Splint Chesthair posted:You know what’s a lot more affordable than wall-to-wall CGI? 
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Vintersorg posted:I wish Vogt-Roberts was brought back in. Yeah, me too. He knocked it out of the park, so outside of his weird issues overseas I thought he would have been a lot hotter than he turned out to be and would have been swallowed up by Marvel/Disney like all of other young directors. I still have faith in GvK, but I had faith in KOTM, too.
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I’ve been working my way through the Ultraman blu-ray set and it’s loving rad. I even like the dumb comic relief members of the science patrol.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:
Ide is a loving saint who hates governments and is secretly the most dangerous person on Earth Arashi is just waiting until UltraSeven when he gets to be Furuhashi and gets to gently caress poo poo up
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Violator posted:I still have faith in GvK, but I had faith in KOTM, too. I think most of us did; I didn't love 2014 as much as most people but it was pretty good, and it was hard not to get sucked into the pre-release hype when thinking about + seeing stills of Ghidorah getting that treatment. How you can have faith in GvK after what we actually got, on the other hand, I do not know and I am a little jealous.
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Its a crap shoot since each film has a different writer and director.
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Mantis42 posted:Its a crap shoot since each film has a different writer and director. Yeah, so far they are 2 out of 3 for being great movies and I like GvK’s director.
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Timby posted:KOTM was a pretty big financial disappointment. Peacoffee posted:Also critically acclaimed is not something I’ve seen said about it ever. My post clearly sucked because it was meant as a joke, my bad. I was trying to say franchises like this keep going indefinitely IF the money and reception is strong (which did not happen with KOTM on both counts and box office is in doubt for GvsK) Irony.or.Death posted:I think most of us did; I didn't love 2014 as much as most people but it was pretty good, and it was hard not to get sucked into the pre-release hype when thinking about + seeing stills of Ghidorah getting that treatment. The leaks make GvsK sound crazy, at the very least. Mechagodzilla! Kong has a battle axe or hammer or something! But then again KOTM was crazy, but it proved crazy can also mean boring.
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I don't know how to feel about the fact I literally almost fell asleep during KotM, yet I was able to stay awake through the entire anime trilogy twice
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Vinylshadow posted:I don't know how to feel about the fact I literally almost fell asleep during KotM, yet I was able to stay awake through the entire anime trilogy twice You're strong than me! I passed out in the anime just before the big MechaCity fight or whatever that trash was. Then for part 3 I woke up when the weird King G invincible guys came out. Such a boring poo poo series with poo poo fights. In personal news - I am going under the needle in 2 weeks for my Godzilla half sleeve!  I'll post the art once I receive the final. 
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Vinylshadow posted:I don't know how to feel about the fact I literally almost fell asleep during KotM, yet I was able to stay awake through the entire anime trilogy twice it probably meant you were really sleepy when you saw KotM 
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