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Raxivace posted:EVAzilla owns. Looks like a furry muppet
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Mechafunkzilla posted:I am loving ON BOARD for a fascist propaganda Godzilla movie. You couldn't sell me harder on the movie if you tried. You say that, but Pacific Rim was pretty bad, even if it was less a Godzilla movie than a robot anime
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ThePlague-Daemon posted:Maybe I'm kinda late in noticing this, but I found a bunch of old concept art images online of the 1998 Godzilla. What's the deal with humanoid Godzilla? It looks like maybe originally the idea was taking advantage of CGI Godzilla more agile and flexible instead of being a stiff-moving suit, rather than being more like a t-rex. The design is really similar to the finished movie, but the way it carries itself is totally different. Did anyone behind the scenes on the movie ever talk about the change? I was gonna say Xenomorph plus Dagon. Not the Mesopotamian deity but the Lovecraft monster dorks like drawing as a fishman. The REAL Goobusters posted:Oh my loving god I am so sold 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 Maxwell Lord posted:That's a very cool and scary thing right there. I find the character design, particularly the still concept art in the youtube of his roar sound effects, extremely unsettling.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:And The Simpsons. One of my all time favorite sight gags is literally eliminated by going widescreen. The characters stand there silently; if you hadn't ever seen it, you'd think the editors screwed up and left a few seconds of the equivalent of dead air. Which joke homie, don't pull that
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I haven't seen this yet, but I watched The X From Outer Space with my 2 year old the other day and now he's breaking his toys and blaming it on Guilala. If this little kaiju flick resurgence continues, X From Outer Space should get a modern remake that's a cross between 2001 and Shin Godzilla.Uncle Boogeyman posted:Counterpoint: Godzilla '98 is literally twice as long as Godzilla's Revenge. And all things being equal, i'd still rather watch Godzilla's Revenge twice than Godzilla '98 once. Absolutely. There's nothing even remotely entertaining in Godzilla '98.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:X From Outer Space loving rules. Yeah it was killer. Last time I saw it was on VHS and I was a little kid, I was kind of expecting it to be a boring cheapo Godzilla knock off but it's not like that at all. It's fun the whole time, never sells itself out, and the monster design is great. Those weird fucken shoulders! K. Waste posted:The scene where the white scientist expresses on behalf of the U.S. that they would never dream of dropping another atomic bomb on Japan, before he and the Japanese scientist look away from each other mournfully, is contrasted so sharply with the entire geopolitical scheme of Shin Gojira. Anno talked in that article about the 'infantilization' of Japanese capitalist society, and it's hard not to interpret The X from Outer Space as basically the prototypical, 'infantile' version of what Shin Gojira is satirizing. What I like there is that the Japanese guy seems far less put off by the idea, he says that "our allies" object to the idea of nuking Japan again, "especially the US". It really kind of sells the US as a guilty, abusive parent, while the kid is used to it at this point. DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Oct 20, 2016 |
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Waffleman_ posted:This is Check It Out with Dr. Steve Brule, I'm Dr. Steve Brule, and today, we're gonna check out a Kongus. Whoa, look atem, that's a big boy right there. Hahaha I would definitely buy some kind of complete Steve Brule collection blu ray if it existed.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Aliens isn't even the best Vietnam movie of 1986. It's not even the best sci fi interpretation of Vietnam
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The Worst Bear posted:While not a Godzilla movie per se, Rodan is fairly serious and builds up a decent horror/mystery vibe. I'd suggest it if you haven't seen it and are looking for films more in line with '54. Similarly, the 90s Gamera trilogy is extremely good and no goofier than a movie about a fire breathing rocket turtle has to be on its face.
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The great smog entry is a real missed opportunity for a Hedorah reference
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K. Waste posted:Was that not what it was? The text says something garbled about "beating" [of wings] presumably causing an "anticyclone" which trapped mundane pollution a la Mexico City or Salt Lake City. Hedorah ain't got no wings and that doesn't sound like the same thing at all
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K. Waste posted:Hedorah totally can fly though, and it could just be that the pollution itself is a harbinger of what's to come Sure but that blurb doesn't sound like Hedorah at all
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Vintersorg posted:Unlocked: Monarch Classified File #63061 – Temple of the Moth, Yucca Province – E. Russell #MonarchSighting Where was "yucca province" supposed to be again? edit: I just looked back at the blurb from the teaser and it says Yunnan - a real place. I think someone got autocorrected on the promotional image lmbo
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Beeez posted:I think War of the Gargantuas is the best non-Godzilla monster movie. Rodan is kind of slow, though the last 20-30 minutes are amazing and I think it's interesting how a lot of it is focused on miners rather than scientists or military personnel. Gamera 3, X From Outer Space, are we not counting Kong movies?
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Mantis42 posted:Naw. CineD goons have the weird belief that dislike of the prequels is confined to internet nerds and not a common opinion. A fivethirtyeight article using survey monkey data. I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if a million statistics professors suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
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Inescapable Duck posted:The prequels were probably one of the first major cases of a movie everyone simply expected to be brilliant that upon reflection (which even casual audiences would find themselves doing with what was inescapably marketed and referenced) really didn't hold up. Yes only in 1999 did people discover that movies could be disappointing
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Bambi got busy
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Waffleman_ posted:I gotchu. The main source for this is The Art of Shin Godzilla. The order of these is really funny. Like sometime AFTER it can regenerate from a single cell and produce infinite energy, it can adapt to harsh environments. I like how unrestrained the ideas are
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Mechafunkzilla posted:In other words, Magma Turtle's real name is Bowser Bowsura
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Burkion posted:It's Koopa, please It’s actually Big Evil King. Da mo wang coming at ya (I can’t read Japanese so I only know those characters in Mandarin)
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E-flat posted:Gamera: Turtle guy? boring Gamera and Rodan kick rear end, bud
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Mothra aside, is there a single Godzilla foil monster design as good as the monsters in Gamera 2 and 3 (the good Gamera 2 and 3)
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Choco1980 posted:You and I have very different definitions of "human" clearly. 20 foot tall monstrosities with a hundred teeth and godzilla spines and super long claws and exoskeletons look human to you because they're vaguely humanoid shaped. Good to know. That’s a picture of my wife you rear end in a top hat!
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It’s very on the nose but I’m honestly not sure there’s ever been a better trailer HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I can't help but think that was partly inspired by Planetary. If not it’s convergent evolution. As I get older my opinion of Ellis gets lower but my opinion of Planetary gets higher. Apart from its embarrassing description of Reagan HannibalBarca posted:Okay, but, again, is that interesting? Yes We aren’t No Nope Also no N/A DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:My friends, this is the internet. No need to do anything spergy yourself as there’s always someone who already did: This is much funnier than I realized and I’ve seen it several times
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I don't recall the latter tbh. https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4303507.html Honestly this whole bit is pretty terrible
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Oh, haha. The Vertigo funeral issue. 2 things here: it's really funny to see a sensible conversation on scans_daily. Also, Ellis isn't a great writer, but I really appreciate the way he and other similar writers approached comic books as if they could simply say what they felt like, rather than pretending they're writing for a prestige TV drama or movie series pitch. I mean, what he wants to say is just...right there, there's no two ways about it. It's dated, stupid, biased, whatever else, Ellis was well known for just infodumping whatever he read in Omni and thought was interesting, but it's way better than the sitcom writing you get from a typical superhero comic. I was just marveling at how good the conversation is in the comments there. And yeah I don’t really mind his tendency to have characters monologue his opinions per se, I appreciate that forthrightness a lot. this is just such a putrid take, letting Reagan and honestly even Thatcher off the hook for being vampiric scum
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's just British chauvinism rearing its head, it's easy to forget that Americans aren't the only self-centered and exceptionalist people in the world. That’s interesting, I was thinking more like the little brother syndrome they’ve developed thanks to the Special Relationship, he comes off like he’s just begging American readers to acknowledge Britain had it worse
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Jimbot posted:I love the Legendary Godzilla's beer gut. The King of the Monsters is just one, big shlub. It definitely wasn’t that prominent in the first movie
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:That begs the question, how can there still be super villains when motherfucking Godzilla can show up to kick your rear end at any given moment? Isn’t that the basic premise of 70%of Godzilla movies
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Xguard86 posted:You know I took this at face value as a kid but reading it now... There's a lot of unanswered questions here. Space monsters are just dragons, they’re paid in the most delicious virgins you can find
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:My guess is that the angle is global warming melted the ice keeping Ghidorah contained, therefore she doesn't feel bad about freeing Rodan and Mothra and them running loose on humanity in the process. The character's reactions are because jesus christ lady these things are gonna kill us all. Yeah the Farmiga character, like the scientists in the first one, is obviously full of poo poo. Her speech doesn’t even make sense (they’re a fever, we’re an infection, but we need them to save us? Nonsense) and she doesn’t care
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Cythereal posted:Well, a lot of kaiju are riffs on pretty common mythological monsters, and Legendary's take is that most of those real-world myths were inspired by kaiju so it's kind of academic. The website explicitly cites Ghidorah as the source of myths about the hydra, for example. This hyper-luminescent Mothra wouldn't be hard to confuse with legends about angels and gods of light. Godzilla at the end of the day is a fairly standard sea monster until you start getting into his atomic stuff. So either Ghidorah hasn’t been frozen for very little long (humanity isn’t all that old, after all) or he has a way of communicating his presence from stasis. If the rumors that farmiga has built a machine to communicate with “titans” are true, I suspect she’s been hoodwinked. The machine does nothing and the Devil is visiting her in her dreams
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Oral history goes back a lot longer than people think, native Americans have seemingly accurate historical descriptions of the formation of crater lake in oregon 8.000 years ago and Australian aboriginals have stories retelling confirmed geological events from over 10,000 years ago. I have zero trouble believing that, in-unicerse, oral history goes back long enough to remember the last appearances of Ghidorah, especially since Skull Island features a culture of seemingly immortal humans. none of that is very long (and I’m skeptical of all such claims about oral history) The Holocene began about 12000 years ago, the present ice caps have been declining for considerably longer. Formation of the modern ice cap on Greenland, for example, began around 3mya, or about half the time to humanity’s last common ancestor with chimpanzees, and around the time of the first Australopithecines, probably the first Homos (laugh it up). The Antarctic ice sheet was fully formed no less than 20mya and probably peaked at more like 30mya Edit: the first movie implies that Godzilla and the MUTOs are relics of an evolutionary history predating the one that began ~3.7gya, or at least a branch of that history that thrived in the early high radiation periods that ended ~4gya with the transition out of the Hadean eon DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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Tezcatlipoca posted:I feel like there wasn't much that anyone could say in the face of Godzilla so I was fine with the lack of dialog from Ford. Ford also goes through a hell of a lot helping Godzilla which makes him the only person Godzilla actually acknowledges. His family is in San Francisco and he has to beg an officer to be allowed to go on the mission to SF and he also realizes that in order to see/save his family he has to stop the MUTOs. He never abandons his family he just changes tactics. Godzilla is also his dad so of course he keeps running off to screw around with him instead of being at home, that’s what he’s used to. Then his Dad God kills the concept of the nuclear family
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Frog Act posted:So after watching the Godzilla anime(s) on Netflix and Shin Godzilla (which was loving super dope and I loved it), I've been wanting to watch some of the other movies and don't know where to start. I've seen the original one a bunch as well as the old Mothra and Gamera, but thats it. Whats a good place to start watching the I guess what would be called monsterverse ones? You saw the old Gamera? Not the insanely good 90s ones?
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Nroo posted:Godzilla; Rodan; Mothra; Mothra vs Godzilla; Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster; and Invasion of Astro-Monster make a nice hexalogy of sorts. The current MonsterVerse is only 2 films so far. I quite like them but the 90s trilogy is incredible. Anyway I was mostly surprised st someone just dipping their toe into these movies and going for like, Gamera vs Jiger blind
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Arcsquad12 posted:All would be forgiven if Godzilla and Muto's skirmish in Hawaii hadn't been relegated to a news report. It doesn't even need to be that long. That rocked rear end actually and nothing needs to be "forgiven"
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Mantis42 posted:It's not even hard to imagine what Cranston's arc would have been: learning to let go of his past trauma and anger, choosing to reconnect with the family he does have. Also something involving Godzilla. That’s a stupid arc that directly invalidates the MUTOs as antagonists
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2025 07:39 |
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K. Waste posted:Like, there's calling the military protagonist of a giant monster film whitebread, and then there's saying the solution to this is to have a story about an baby boomer granddad journeying across the world to see the daughter-in-law and grandson he's never met. I prefer what we got but if it were gonna be about a boomer’s quest for meaning the right choice would be Ken watanabe’s character, or maybe Sally hawkins’s
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