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Mantis42 posted:Honestly I disagree. Showa era is much more fun and probably closer to what you expect/want out of a Godzilla film. Hesei movies feel like bad anime if you watch them as an adult. I can't imagine the one from Shin Godzilla doing much of anything with those comical arms of his, but maybe the addition of CG will allow greater freedom of motion overall to make up for it.
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His appearance and ponderous movement remind me of a lava flow. Slowly and inevitably creepy forward, demolishing everything in its path, unstoppable by conventional means.
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DeimosRising posted:I don't get it. Is this a song from Evangelion or something? I haven't seen it. I do note it says something about "The 19th Angel: Godzilla" and I know there's something about angels in Evangelion so They play this song before every major battle from what I remember
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It's amazing how many people don't get aspect ratios. When the game BioShock came out, gamers lost their poo poo when it essentially did "open matte" - it was designed for 16:9, and when run on a 4:3 monitor it would show more on the top and bottom. Games up to that point were typically designed for 4:3 monitors and expanded the horizontal view on a widescreen monitor. People absolutely could not wrap their heads around this concept and there was a horrible whiny tempest-in-a-teapot about it from entitled widescreen monitor owners who thought the game was broken.
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Dylazodelan posted:Speaking of suits, see what happens when Toho just lets these beautiful, beautiful monster suits rot away: And is it actually possible to preserve these suits? I thought the latex breaks down over time.
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I unexpectedly saw this yesterday at what was probably the only showing in the state. Theater was packed. Everything up to the conclusion of the Stage 4 attack was better than I expected. I wasn't prepared for it being as funny as it was. However I felt the movie lost a ton of steam after that. The next segment dragged on too long and the final "battle" was a bit perfunctory. There didn't seem to be a lot of tension during that sequence, just "hey we're doing our plan now, it's working, OK we won." Silliest thing IMO was the back lasers. Shooting out a laser beam - fine, tail shoots lasers too - OK I guess, BACK LASER GRID OF DOOM - really? One question I had from the epilogue: they mention something about the Godzilla particle having a really short half-life so it would be gone in two years. Was that just the radiation or is it for the big guy himself? Will he melt away or are they stuck with a giant frozen Godzilla statue forever? I'm pretty excited for further movies with some of the other monsters reimagined a similar way. Here's hoping for an insane King Ghidorah in the next one.
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Oct 18, 2016 16:45
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:The back lasers are basically just an updated version of that full-body beam attack he did sometimes in the Heisei moves. Back Lasers just seem sillier than the rest of it. At that point why does he even move when he's attacking anything? Just blast lasers everywhere since apparently that's a thing now. Lasers coming out of his eyes, lasers coming out of his... wherever. In my opinion, it was off base.
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Oct 18, 2016 18:45
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Maxwell Lord posted:The deal with Shin Godzilla is he's an organism that instantly adapts to face danger, so, danger from above? Back lasers.
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Oct 18, 2016 20:54
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The absolute worst effect shot in the movie was clearly the stage 2 to 3 transformation. He kinda went fuzzy and they animated his skin texture or something which just highlighted every drat polygon on him. I too seem to recall some dodgy mo-cap in the finale but nothing as blatant as that.
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Oct 19, 2016 06:19
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I assume it's just that the '98 movie has the horde of micro-zillas.
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What's he saying?
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Can't watch the video right now, but he has really dead eyes in that pic.
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Is the extended version of Jackson's Kong worth watching? I hear there are sea monsters.
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Vintersorg posted:Oh man, a stand alone Ghidorah movie could be so good in the right hands. A menace from outer-space just loving things up. Not sure how you'd end it tho...
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Burkion posted:Better option
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Burkion posted:The sad thing is, the original Kong doesn't even kill his sacrifices as far as we know. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I wonder if the '76 Kong would have had a bigger cultural impact if it didn't have the godawful luck of being released a few months before Star Wars. I wonder if the Universal version would have been better; The Legend of King Kong at least had some pre-production art of dinosaurs.
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Choco1980 posted:Am i the only one noticing the huge crystaline being on the poster? Teasing Space Godzilla? Finally taking Krystallak from the Atari games into a film?
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There’s no online way to rent Return of Godzilla or Biollante, right?
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Feb 14, 2018 04:27
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K. Waste posted:Internet archive has the dubbed, international cuts of Return of Godzilla and Biollante, but other than that, nah.
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Feb 14, 2018 14:04
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Wait, you’re saying that the US version of Godzilla 1985 is better than the original? Why? I just assumed that anytime they edit one of these movies for other countries they end up butchering it.
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Feb 15, 2018 23:30
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K. Waste posted:No, I'm saying Godzilla '98 is easily one of the best '90s Godzilla films.
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Feb 15, 2018 23:47
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K. Waste posted:Right, and I don't mention '85 in my Heisei ratings. Why is Return the worst? Poor pacing?
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Maxwell Lord posted:What I'd like to see is a Godzilla film made with the participation of the Jim Henson Company. The technology at work even as early as The Dark Crystal or Fraggle Rock would be amazing for a Kaiju. Have you seen The Storyteller? There’s a giant Griffin in one of the tales (sadly I haven’t found a great video clip of it). Despite looking vaguely like a demonic Big Bird the overall effect is amazing and I’m sure they could whip up some insane kaiju. 
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Is it worth skimming through the anime Godzilla for the monster scenes or is even that not worth it?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJMDyWH_ZmE
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K. Waste posted:It will likely be Kong and Goji fighting in the post-apocalyptic wasteland made by this movie.
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Dec 10, 2018 21:57
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Is there a place to stream/rent all of these? iTunes has a pretty spotty selection.
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Detective No. 27 posted:What's Bear McCreary known for? Those two tracks are extremely my poo poo.
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I mean if I was face to face with a gargantuan magma pterodactyl and I had a gun I would probably shot it too to make me feel better
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Detective No. 27 posted:I don't have that kinda time, so I'm thinking of just watching a few. I don't remember too many of the later Heisei movies, so I'm thinking at least Godzilla vs Mothra and Gidorah The Three Headed Monster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8czak8Kaq3A
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It wasn’t as good as I hoped but the first Clair de Lune trailer set some high expectations. The monster mayhem was about all you could ask for. One thing I was a bit disappointed by was that the ending credits montage made it seem like the earth was recuperating rapidly due to the presence of all the titans. I don’t like it when there are apocalyptic disasters in movies that don’t seem to cause any major societal changes. The world economy would be utterly devastated by even half the carnage we saw and I hope that the next movie has the courage to deal with that... but given how “blockbustery” the story in this one was I don’t have much hope for that aspect.
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I re-watched Destroy All Monsters since it seemed appropriate. It has a lot of similarities to KotM and Gareth Edwards said he wanted to make a sequel inspired by it, although I wonder how much if any of his ideas ended up on screen. 1) DAM sadly enough feels better made in a lot of ways. There are actual shots showing post-Kaiju destruction of major cities, something that KotM somehow never found time to bother with despite being like 45 minutes longer. I don’t understand where all that time went in retrospect considering DAM had a typically insane plot and lasted all of 88 minutes. 2) KotM has more monster-on-monster action, but DAM is arguably more satisfying. More time is spent ravaging cities before the final showdown. Ghidorah gets absolutely curb-stomped in this movie; I honestly don’t understand how those Kilaaks thought he could take on like 8 Kaiju solo. 3) A non-anamorphic widescreen DVD unsurprisingly looks godawful on a 65” TV
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Maxwell Lord posted:I mean KotM not being as good as Destroy All Monsters is not really damning since DAM is a goddamn masterpiece
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HannibalBarca posted:WB/Legendary have clearly made their fair share of missteps in constructing their Godzilla series (I'm guessing that part of the problem was that they didn't really seem to have any particular plans for a wider universe when they were writing Godzilla 2014), but I think the box office issues are much deeper and more structural: a lot of people who wanted to see this movie did like it...the bigger problem is that not many people wanted to see another Godzilla movie to begin with. And that's a problem with roots that go back further than KOTM, back past G'14, through the Emmerich debacle and the VHS bargain bin era and into the days of drive-ins and bad dubbing. I'm not sure that was a problem that could ever have been fully corrected, but in any case the window for it probably closed back in 2014, when the reboot opened huge and then had its legs immediately give out due to mediocre world of mouth.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Like what in the world was the significance of the mystery of what the secret biofrequency that the orca combined that ended up being humans instead of being godzilla it feels like a plotline that spanned nearly the entire movie but never mattered to anything ever. Why was it secret? What did it do? How did they figure it out at the end? Why did it matter?
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Jun 2, 2019 16:09
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The picture floating around in the spoilers is from the KotM art book, based on an image search
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Most book novelizations are based on the scripts since the book is started before the movie is done. It’s very common to have deleted scenes in them since what will make the final movie isn’t known yet.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:What we get in the film is a much lamer ‘spongey earth’ which is, at best, a botched reference to The Phantom Menace.
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