Happy Noodle Boy posted:

Where’s sexy gigan from and why does it exist

Vintersorg posted:

Did you get it? Sold out.

GATOS Y VATOS posted:

mandatory lesbian posted:

This doesnt look anything like gamera!

Schwarzwald posted:

I recently watched Shin Kamen Rider and Zeiram (both '92) after remembering Hakaider and wanting more in that style.



Shin Kamen Rider is a mess, and worse, dull. Shin Kazamatsuri is a medical guinea pig for research meant to combat disease (like, in general) and strengthen human constitution, but he's plagued by strange dreams where he watches a monster kill women. He comes to doubt not only his sanity but the good nature of his caretakers, which include his father and his girlfriend, Ai. Eventually he learns that Onizuka, one of the lead researchers, has been performing human/grasshopper genetic experiments on himself and Shin in hopes of creating a race to succeed humanity. The strange dreams Shin has had were him experiencing the researcher's spree kills through grasshopper telepathy (?).

This is all over-complicated by a secondary conflict between the mysterious organization funding the research and the CIA, who are bafflingly depicted as revolutionaries (?). On top of that, Shin's escape from the facility puts Ai in danger, as unbeknownst to her she's pregnant with Shin's half-grasshopper child (!), the fetus of which glows and rotates in space as sort of a vinyl model of 2001's Star Child (?!?!). There's also a killer robot because Shin needs someone else to fight after his obvious counterpart, Onizuka, is killed halfway through the movie.

The gross body horror tries its damnedest to save this film, but on top of everything else the pacing is too drat slow. There's maybe two 22 minute episodes worth of plot in Shin Kamen Rider, but it's stretched out over 90 minutes of film. It's just not goopy or weird enough to make up for the fact that nothing ever loving happens.



By contrast, Zeiram is loving fantastic. A space civilization's sentient bioweapon, Zeiram, escapes containment and flees to Earth. It's pursued by Iria and Bob, blue collar space bounty hunters trying to stay ahead on their debts. Their plans to isolate Zeiram in an adjacent dimension where they can capture it without alerting any Earthlings is confounded when two electrical engineers for the city stumble in trying to figure out who's stealing electricity. What proceeds is basically Alien vs Mario and Luigi.

It has some real gorgeous effects! Great creature designs, some great mattes, a lot of goop, several wack rear end crystal prisons, and some incredible step motion animation. On top of all that, it's just an enjoyable story, with Iria and Bob doing having to hustle to capture the monster, keep the earth dopes alive, and hopefully, hopefully, stay in the black after this poo poo's all over.

Track this one down.

Non Compos Mentis posted:

The kaiju kneeling/bowing to godzilla was a bit much

Pollyanna posted:

I shouldn’t be too hard on KotM in retrospect, the human plot is about as sane and solid as most post-54 Showa movies I’ve seen. It definitely still works as a Godzilla movie.

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

It’s why I both love the sequels and hate the sequels.

Barry Foster posted:

Yeah. 2014 deserved...different.

I enjoy the sequels for what they are, but I would've liked to have seen more from Edwards. Or at least someone who kept that tone going

Pollyanna posted:

I mean, they’re western covid-era big budget movies.

CelticPredator posted:

The hate for 2014 was too harsh and the studio listened. However, still love the sequels very much. The whole thing is fun,