The Kaiju thread (Godzilla and friends)

[Abin Surly or ewe sirius Find all posts View Profile Close Abin Surly]

Just watched Gamera MST3Ked. It was pretty funny, but interestingly Joel actually says it wasn't that bad at the end.

And at one point Gamera actually DID look like Godzilla wearing a backpack.

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

And at one point Gamera actually DID look like Godzilla wearing a backpack.

When he crawls he's just so darn cute!

[Abin Surly or ewe sirius Find all posts View Profile Close Abin Surly]

When he crawls he's just so darn cute!

And yet, can still give the entire population of Tokyo salmonella.

[Bolerathon Avant Guardian Find all posts View Profile Close Bolerathon]

Any love for Reptilicus up in here? One of the best one liners there is.

"There's been a massive power cut at the zoo. Even the electric eel has gone out"

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Any love for Reptilicus up in here? One of the best one liners there is.

"There's been a massive power cut at the zoo. Even the electric eel has gone out"

Reptilicus is certainly a film that has to be seen to be believed.

Definately not the highest quality Kaiju-type movie out there, but it's charming in that 'so bad it's good' kinda way. Like when Reptilicus eats a cartoon farmer.

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The farmer bit is great. I love the music over the credits. It sounds like lethargic lift muzak. Just a little crowning touch.

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

Just saw this MST3Ked.


Freezing tongue? That has to be one of the cooler kaiju powers.

[Lex Luthor Corps Honor Guard Find all posts View Profile Close Lex Luthor]

GODZILLA has arrived on Criterion!

http://www.criterion.com/films/27755-godzilla

Disc Features to include:

* New high-definition digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)

* Audio commentary by David Kalat (A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series)

* New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, starring Raymond Burr

* Audio commentary for Godzilla, King of the Monsters by Kalat

* New interviews with actor Akira Takarada (Hideto Ogata), Godzilla performer Haruo Nakajima, and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai

* Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube

* Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects

* New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato

* The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo fukuryu maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla

* Theatrical trailers

* New and improved English subtitle translation

* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

Watched this with Gfan commentary: "This Godzilla wouldn't karate kick."
Good stuff/info on this DVD (not the BD just described by LL).

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http://www.criterion.com/films/27755-godzilla

Disc Features to include:

Great. I'm going to have to consider shelling out more bucks for the Gman.
Those interviews should be fun.

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or as the original American titles read (because Mothra is the name of the island here):



Mothra's my favorite (with the possible exception of the big G himself) kaiju. And the shobijin(tiny singing twins; here played by "The Peanuts") are in top form in this early one. Appropriately enough, this is directed by Ishiro Honda himself (director of both the original Godzilla and Mothra).

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Watched the American (dubbed) version of Mothra (1961) with historical commentary. These guys confirmed what I suspected: there was a group of Western-looking actors living in Tokyo that Toho (and others) called on for all their non-Japanese parts.

Have to watch the original (subtitled) version on this Netflix disc yet.

[Tazer That Evil, Yellow Bastiche Find all posts View Profile Close Tazer]

Yo.

I hope U enjoy it SC, but I have ALWAYS hated Mothra..........fuckin' butterfly..........




Tazer

[Space Cop The Dandy Find all posts View Profile Close Space Cop]

"She" is my favorite (with the possible exception of Godzilla himself). I think that's because she's the only always-good one and because of the tiny twins.

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Watched the Japanese version.

Yo.

I hope U enjoy it SC, but I have ALWAYS hated Mothra..........fuckin' butterfly..........Tazer

Moth. She's also an inch worm!



Not sure if that's the first destruction of Tokyo tower, but you think they'd stop bothering to rebuild it at some point. All the monsters head straight for it.

BTW: you could always go with Battra, kind of the bad@$$ version of Mothra.