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Are these any good? Should I be excited for this? https://twitter.com/KaijuNewsOutlet/status/1290783600053493762?s=20
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Good is a ............strong word
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Aug 5, 2020 00:01
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they're fun if you turn your brain off or, uh, have it temporarily running on a different setting, shall we say
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Aug 5, 2020 00:05
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Good enough for me, I'm excited for. I'd seen those movies on Amazon before but 30 dollars is too much for one movie.
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Aug 5, 2020 00:07
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https://i.imgur.com/3qeuC0B.mp4
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Gripweed posted:Are these any good? Should I be excited for this? You can watch em on Tubi for free. They’re awful.
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Aug 5, 2020 00:11
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I watched Return of Godzilla (1984) today for the first time in years. It’s interesting to watch it and compare to Shin Godzilla. Fun stuff. It’s amazing that they had that big loving robot Godzilla suit for some scenes. The bubble economy was wild.
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Aug 5, 2020 01:43
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I still really love the visual style of that film and it is my favorite looking Godzilla of the bunch. I wish they stuck with that scale, as well. It was perfect for major city interaction.
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Aug 5, 2020 01:48
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Burkion posted:I still really love the visual style of that film and it is my favorite looking Godzilla of the bunch. I wish they stuck with that scale, as well. It was perfect for major city interaction. Being that 1984 was the first time I visited Japan and saw the trailer for the movie in a theater on that trip it also holds a special place in my heart. And yeah 1980s Japan was great.
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Aug 5, 2020 02:11
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G84 isn't my favorite and it has some dull stretches but I'm pretty sure the american edit is the first Godzilla I ever saw. It was either that one or SpaceGodzilla super early one morning before school back on Starz or Showtime or something.
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Aug 5, 2020 02:29
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That is super adorable 
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I watched Return of Godzilla (1984) today for the first time in years. It’s interesting to watch it and compare to Shin Godzilla. Fun stuff. It’s amazing that they had that big loving robot Godzilla suit for some scenes. The bubble economy was wild. They were maybe influenced by the publicity surrounding the animatronic shark in Jaws and the big robot in King Kong (even though the latter is barely in the movie), though animatronics were becoming more of a thing in general. It's just a shame that it and the suit ended up looking so different.
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Aug 5, 2020 05:27
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That kid is living their best life.
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Aug 5, 2020 05:27
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I love Godzilla 84. I find its slow pace gives it this methodical nightmarish feel, helped in part by one of the most purely menacing scores of the entire series.
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Aug 5, 2020 05:37
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This might sound dumb as hell, but the Blu-ray menu for '84 always gives me huge flashes of that feeling you'd get when you'd fall asleep while watching a DVD and the menu would repeat over and over again. Something about this song makes me feel like it's 3am and I'm half asleep, but not awake enough to turn off the TV: https://youtu.be/p2aTl3YJNYs
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Aug 5, 2020 14:33
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Biff Rockgroin posted:This might sound dumb as hell, but the Blu-ray menu for '84 always gives me huge flashes of that feeling you'd get when you'd fall asleep while watching a DVD and the menu would repeat over and over again. Nah I got ya, it's got that chintzy, raw unprocessed vapourwave sound to it. If it wasn't for the vocals it'd sound like something that'd play after regular broadcasting had finished for the night
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Aug 5, 2020 14:37
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Big Mean Jerk posted:G84 isn't my favorite and it has some dull stretches but I'm pretty sure the american edit is the first Godzilla I ever saw. It was either that one or SpaceGodzilla super early one morning before school back on Starz or Showtime or something. It was the first Godzilla movie I found to rent on VHS and remember being vaguely disappointed when I saw it (being, like, 8) because Godzilla fought other monsters and he was just fighting the army.
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Aug 5, 2020 18:17
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Man, the discs on the right side of the Criterion book are such a loving bitch to get out. At least on the left I can bend the paper a bit. Great transfers tho!
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Aug 5, 2020 19:09
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I’m about halfway through the Criterion set and I’m wondering is there a good way to watch the Heisei era movies? Streaming or physical is fine, but I don’t want to spend 300 bucks on a DVD set or something.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I’m about halfway through the Criterion set and I’m wondering is there a good way to watch the Heisei era movies? Streaming or physical is fine, but I don’t want to spend 300 bucks on a DVD set or something. Nope. They're in distribution rights hell.
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Aug 5, 2020 21:08
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Archive.org yep. and I think at least some are available for purchase on youtube or one of the other more off-brand streaming sites.
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Aug 5, 2020 22:33
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I never bought blu-rays as fast as I did when those films became available for that short time. Divisive as those films are, I enjoyed them all a ton.
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Aug 5, 2020 22:51
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So the Heisei films are back to being bootleg only treasures- this seems weirdly appropriate.
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Aug 6, 2020 00:19
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Biollante being the rarest of them all feels right too. "So, there's the one, where Godzilla fights a giant flower but its also the scientist's daughter. It turns into a gigantic tentacle monster that looks more evil than Godzilla but its actually good and wins. It ends with the daughter's face appearing in the sky as the plant monster goes into space. No, Godzilla doesn't die he just kinds of decides this is bullshit and leaves I guess."
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Godzilla vs. Biollante was a movie I had looked for and could never find. I've never seen it and have heard good things about it. I think there were a few copies available on Amazon but they were ridiculously expensive. Then, if I am remembering this correctly, someone in this thread spotted it on Amazon for only like $12, blu-ray. I jumped on it and ordered. That way back in May. I periodically get a message saying "this is not available for shipping yet, do you still want it?" and click yes, and keep waiting. I don't know if it will ever come in, but my fingers are crossed. MrMojok fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Aug 6, 2020 |
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Aug 6, 2020 01:26
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Yeah G vs Biollante is one of the best of the franchise in a lot of ways. It really was peak 80s and lead the way to the incredible weirdness of the 90s G films. It's been a long time since I've seen it: was there a definite link between Biollante and Space G or was that just theorized in fandom? Also what was with the 90s obsession with psychic girls in both Godzilla and Gamera?
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Yeah G vs Biollante is one of the best of the franchise in a lot of ways. It really was peak 80s and lead the way to the incredible weirdness of the 90s G films. That was only ever a theory...in Space Godzilla itself. They basically talk out their rear end that maybe bio cells got on Mothra and then went into a black hole It's great nonsense
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Aug 6, 2020 01:38
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Psychics are cool?  It's also an easy way to bridge your human characters and your kaiju, without having Godzilla talk like in vs Gigan.
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Mantis42 posted:Psychics are cool? Oh I shouldn’t have said it disparagingly as I actually liked it, but it just seemed odd that in both franchises there were psychic girls that had connections with the kaiju. OTOH it’s better than children like in the 60s-70s movies I suppose. Burkion posted:That was only ever a theory...in Space Godzilla itself. Ahhh ok. It’s probably been at least a dozen years since I’ve watched Space Godzilla so the details were fuzzy
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Also what was with the 90s obsession with psychic girls in both Godzilla and Gamera? 
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Oh I’m well aware of the popularity of ESPERs in Japanese anime and shows since at least the 1960s, it just seemed to have had a particularly strong presence in the 90s.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Oh I shouldn’t have said it disparagingly as I actually liked it, but it just seemed odd that in both franchises there were psychic girls that had connections with the kaiju. OTOH it’s better than children like in the 60s-70s movies I suppose.
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One day in the early to mid 2010s I went to Amazon and bought Biolante on bluray on a whim for $8. I don't think I paid more than $20 for a single Godzilla movie. Criterion book set thing nonwithstanding. Heck, I don't think I paid more than $20 for their standalone Gojira.
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Detective No. 27 posted:One day in the early to mid 2010s I went to Amazon and bought Biolante on bluray on a whim for $8. For a while the Sony Heisei/Millennium double-packs could be found at Walmart for less than $10 each, so I snapped all of them up when I could. I think I paid full price for G84 when it came out but that was the only pricy one.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:For a while the Sony Heisei/Millennium double-packs could be found at Walmart for less than $10 each, so I snapped all of them up when I could. I think I paid full price for G84 when it came out but that was the only pricy one. I really should have done that way back when. I still can't recall the last time I saw the original Japanese version of The Return of Godzilla.
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Aug 6, 2020 02:38
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood had a psychic woman too, in 1988.
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Aug 6, 2020 02:39
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood had a psychic woman too, in 1988. That script was originally conceived as Carrie vs Jason. Honestly, the question isn't why did Gamera and Godzilla have psychic girls in the 90s, it's why didn't Gamera and Godzilla have psychic girls until the nineties.
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Aug 6, 2020 02:43
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Aren’t the Mothra Twins semi-psychic?
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holy poo poo I thought there was no way I'd ever be able to see this https://twitter.com/Howlfromthefog/status/1291144193046228992?s=20
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