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One of the first widescreen DVDs we watched when I was a kid was 'The Man Who Sued God'. My dad insisted on using the player's zooming feature to remove the black bars. There was a fairly long shot where the lead character was leaning in a doorway at the edge of frame. We were treated to a minute long shot of an empty street. This stuff is confusing and I'm glad we're out of the woods with almost everything being widescreen all the time. 4:3 is basically over, but I'm sure there's people watching old TV shows stretched horizontally to avoid bars.
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Sep 19, 2016 12:50
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I'm really surprised to find out that Zilla (American version from 98) has quite a following. I thought it'd mostly been mocked / ignored and then forgotten after 2014 came long.
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Oct 4, 2016 20:56
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I really like the powerful, blocky crocodilian 2014 design. It fits the movie well enough. I liked an earlier post about how American Godzilla is a hero, while Japanese Godzilla is a monstrous demon.
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Oct 6, 2016 14:39
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Oct 6, 2016 17:22
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I'm really bummed this doesn't seem to be getting a UK release.
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Oct 15, 2016 20:39
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I really like the clip of Final Wars where Zilla explodes the Sydney Opera House as if it's a fuel refinery.
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Nov 28, 2016 11:06
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"I really enjoyed the godzilla film from my childhood, and was very disappointed Matthew Broderick didn't return, additionally, this movie was very hard to understand"
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Dec 7, 2016 19:29
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:There should be more giant bird kaiju in general. I'd like to see a Cassowary-inspired Kaiju. One of the things I liked about Pacific Rim was the aquatic features of the Kaiju.
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Dec 8, 2016 11:07
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Apparently the 4k Blu Ray is going to drop in March. Is there anywhere else to watch this if you're not near any screenings?
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Dec 12, 2016 10:52
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Apparently the blu-ray is happening in March! What a long, long wait.
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Jan 12, 2017 13:42
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so is Shin Godzilla 2 definitely happening, and definitely happening with Anno?
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Aug 2, 2017 19:06
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shin godzilla just got announced for a super-short run at my local Odeon in the UK. everyone should probably check their local cinemas as i suspect it might be showing at a lot of the Odeon venues. Super pumped to see this again, on the bigt screen tomorrow night!
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Aug 9, 2017 10:44
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It's a wider release than I'd expected, so that's cool.
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Aug 9, 2017 13:32
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If they keep up the prehistoric leftovers angle, there's stuff like Megalodon and giant squid. They could MUTO up a few of those and be good for a while. I agree that adding clear-cut aliens would likely be a mistake - very easy to mishandle.
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Aug 14, 2017 19:49
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14 is an awesome movie, it's pretty much the best IMAX experience I've had. It's a shame Gareth Edwards is dipping out of large-scale projects after Rogue One. The guy has 'sense of enormous scale' down to a fine art. Monsters was a neat movie as well, also awesome looking. I'd love for him to do a follow-up (not Dark Continent).
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Aug 18, 2017 16:04
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:
Fun game to play when watching Shin is to count how many meeting-levels deep they go. I think they go into about five levels of sub-meeting at one point.
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Aug 18, 2017 16:07
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I kinda want his Reilly's characters son to show up in the modern movie, played by Reilly, just so we can have sweet sweet Steve Brule-esque commentary on the rest of the legendaryverse. Pretty loving cool that they had Reilly in a "for your health" jacket. The folks behind Kong had some A+ taste.
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Aug 19, 2017 09:57
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K. Waste posted:Batman v Superman gives the real hero second billing, so I think it's just a matter of whatever the producers think rolls off the tongue better/looks better on a poster, as does Freddy vs Jason. That's probably more to do with Batman being more popular than Superman. The moneymaker goes first.
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Aug 24, 2017 17:08
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kong is gonna chokeslam a MUTO through a building
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Aug 25, 2017 07:36
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Dylazodelan posted:Dude, Monsters: Dark Continent is dogshit. I was so disheartened when I finally saw it and knew within ten minutes that it was a lovely Iraq War movie that someone had shoehorned the monsters into. Yeah it sucks. I don't know what it's got to do with the first, apart from the creature designs being kinda similar.
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Aug 26, 2017 11:13
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Then why does the upcoming Battlefront game have prequel maps?
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Sep 11, 2017 10:12
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I want to see the Giant Ape Joe Chill use a coconut gun to ice Mr. Kong and Mrs. Kong.
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Oct 4, 2017 11:12
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I want the Pacific Rim crossover to have the heroes try to summon Legendary Godzilla, but they end up with Shin Godzilla and it gets much, much worse from there.
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Oct 25, 2017 13:02
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I’d be down for seven Godzilla remakes if they’re giving each one to a different director and just letting them go hog wild with complete control and get their own unique takes on it. that's basically what Shin Godzilla was, and it'd be awesome if they continued either letting other directors take over, or just have Anno make Shin 2.
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Aug 14, 2020 08:01
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I'd love more Shin but it is extremely sick that it got made in the first place so IMO we're blessed to have it in the first place. It's cool that it's just a one-off lightning in a bottle thing. also on using Shin as branding: he's on jet liveries. like pikachu. well why not fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Aug 17, 2020 05:45
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Gripweed posted:I was thinking shape would be whether or not something was monstrous. Godzilla, classic monster shape. Clowns are humanoid but made monstrous through strange clothes and prosthetic makeup. So a size rebel shape neutral person would call a clown a kaiju. Both Jaws and the bad truck from "Duel" are kaiju.
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Aug 20, 2020 03:30
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I think the key distinction is that a Kaiju is a non-human. Giants, and giant creatures, have existed in mythology for tens of thousands of years. Australian Indigenous culture stretches back to the Dreamtime, which is really rich with stories of giant people and large creatures. Some of the creation myths (keep in mind that Indigenous culture is not monolithic - there's 200+ very different cultures, really) revolve around a huge rainbow serpent : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Serpent, while other regions have paintings and stories revolving around creatures / charcters (some are sentient, some aren't, sometimes it's a mix) like Bunjil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunjil which is most similar to a giant eagle. I don't think it'd be appropriate to call them Kaiju - it'd be very offensive to some people, I suspect - but their behavior is similar in some stories. My point is that "giant creature with an agenda" is a tale that dates back to long, long before our current century. Humans love to imagine giant creatures! What makes a giant creature a Kaiju, in my opinion is the size being greater than say, 10 metres and that they're elevated from being a regular giant animal in intellect or origin. I don't think the giant squid is a Kaiju, but a Kraken is.
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Aug 20, 2020 06:36
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Violator posted:Oh yeah, the generic dad from the last movie is proven right that neither man’s technology nor the titan dna can be trusted. They make certain to crush the divorce court several times on the way out of manhattan.
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Dec 10, 2020 05:03
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Detective No. 27 posted:They'll never have the balls to make a movie where face Godzilla annihilates the ultimate threat to the planet, mankind. shin godzilla sequel could've been this
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Jan 24, 2021 23:26
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Mantis42 posted:Instead of getting Kong guy to direct a Metal Gear movie they should've gotten Kojima to direct a kaiju movie. It's insane to say, but the cinematics in Death Stranding are largely really well done. Even with the game graphics overlaid, the performances and movement is really good. The exertion and stress of the environment really comes through. I really don't know why he's not managed to put a film together, he's obviously psyched for movies. Him doing a Kaiju film ... why not. It's not like there's never been a bad or weird kaiju movie.
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Jan 25, 2021 03:45
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The marketing department clearly wants us to post earnestly about who we think would win, and by god, it's totally working. Can't stop thinking about that big monkey fight.
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Jan 26, 2021 23:16
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hot off the subscription box https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_9AuRKlylU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFk-kZ53BEg
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Mar 12, 2021 08:34
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I just got back from the theatre, the movie rocks, it's as you'd expect and has some great visuals. It's profoundly, proudly dumb and anyone that looks for plot holes and inconsistencies is wasting their energy, because no one should care. Kong is the main character of the movie, by far. The humans spout nonsense and get into some interesting scenes to drive the plot. It's a Kong movie primarily. mechagodzilla being janky looking ruled, i laughed at castle kong's power up weapon, the gravity poo poo made no sense It's much more akin to KOTM and Skull Island than it is 2014, as you'd expect. and the BvS plot comparisons are valid . I suspect big chunks were cut off, because there's a pretty famous actor given one line. I suspect there was a military/monarch plot just loving dropped for time. probably a smart move.
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Mar 25, 2021 12:02
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:Most of the early reactions seem more positive toward GvsK than they were for KotM, so that's a good sign. Oh yeah this is way better than KotM.
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Mar 25, 2021 21:38
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2014 is still IMO, the best of the western Godzilla films, with GvK after it. Treating it like a disaster film was genius, as was Edward's shot choices for showing off the absolute scale. Was sick to see the opening GvK credits be a rehash of 2014's, too. Little bits like that link them together. Also, there's a third, unaccounted for, Ghidorah skull out there somewhere. Any possibly a fourth - didn't he regen at least one?
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Mar 29, 2021 00:57
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There's no way they hired Reddick for one line. Wiki says he's cast as a Monarch high up, so between that and the brief runtime, there's definitely a subplot on the floor at Legendary.
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Mar 31, 2021 23:41
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That's basically what Alien Worlds, on Netflix, is.
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The BvS comparison is almost fully plumbed as a topic but this movie would benefit from a scene where Kong did CrossFit.
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