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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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Phone posted:"There weren't as many Americans in this film than what I'd like and it's kind of hard to read with all of those Japanese speaking their gobbly gook. 3/5 stars" "He said something in Chinese like, 'Boo coo sow!', sounded like some cartoon poo poo. But I understood it to be a question that he was asking. And I don't have to know how to speak Chinese to know what that question was. 'Why, Godzilla? Why?'" Mantis42 fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Dec 7, 2016 |
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The legs dangling from the ceiling fan in the hut is probably one of my favorite jokes in the movie plus all of the legit Vietnamese being spoken (but not translated).
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Excellent Black Dynamite references all around
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Hold on, did you say Godzilla? Let's unpack this. Godzilla debuted in 1954, and what do you get when you switch 54? 45, like a smooth Colt .45. And who likes Colt .45s? That's right, Billy Dee Williams. And Billy Dee Williams played Lando Calrissian in Star Wars. Now, what's the opposite of Land-O? Oceania! The region of the Earth that contains New Zealand. Godzilla's going to attack New Zealand next!
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NewZ Godzilla is an allegory for the filming of the Lord of the Rings.
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As much as I want to see Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan, I'd be ok if we got Godzilla fighting a giant Kiwi.
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Detective No. 27 posted:As much as I want to see Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan, I'd be ok if we got Godzilla fighting a giant Kiwi. There should be more giant bird kaiju in general.
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I was thinking the fruit and was imagining a really tasty version of Biollante.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:I was thinking the fruit and was imagining a really tasty version of Biollante. Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, New Zealand-style.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:I was thinking the fruit and was imagining a really tasty version of Biollante. how do you know biollante isn't already tasty 
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I know that Gamera is really sweet, also filled with turtle meat.
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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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Tangentially related: Ninja Tune Radio had MF Doom/King Geedorah do a set. It's good. https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-9122016-hour-1-king-geedorah-snake-charmer-mix
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I hope Geedorah just looked at Doom with contempt and barely did anything to truly capture the experience of Gigan
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Gheedorah IS Doom.  That is an amazing album though - gonna listen to that set tonight!
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MF Doom is King Geedorah. Gigan rapped on Krazy World and a few tracks on Monster Island Czars.
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Vintersorg posted:Gheedorah IS Doom. It's so loving good
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As far as crappy American viewers' reviews of Shin Gojira goes, nimrods saying "the suit looks HORRIBLE" when every instance of Godzilla on screen is CGI is amusing.
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Just watched Shin on the plane. If there's a theme to it, the moral of the story is that they want to repeal article 9, not because they want to end accountability to the outside world, but because they want to take responsibility and stand as equals. It is all in the spirit of international cooperation, US drone strikes, French research labs, Chinese tankers. And they fight Godzilla with symbols of Japanese industrial might: chemical plants, trains, repurposed construction equipment. Guns and tanks and nukes were a mere distraction. If there is nationalism, it is not pernicious.
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Yeah the film's nicely nuanced in its handling of the political stuff. They make fun of government bureaucracy but the monster is defeated through collective action and not some bold individual heroics. They show how Japan is under the yoke of international obligations but also show them leveraging those same connections- they don't just defy the US, they get France on their side by promising them research, then buy just enough time to implement their plan. It could still all fall apart at the end, if that tail ever twitches. They're in a delicate state.
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Maxwell Lord posted:It could still all fall apart at the end, if that tail ever twitches. They're in a delicate state. I like that. And it still works as a nuclear power metaphor. Godzilla is still there to stay, they can't get rid of him, and if it breaks down, everything will go to poo poo.
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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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Am guessing there's some obvious reason I'm too dim to notice, but why don't they just drop a few more bunker busters on Godzilla after they freeze him? It's not like he can fight back at that point.
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So I just saw this and uh what the gently caress was that final shot of his tail supposed to be?  I also think this is the Godzilla movie with the most amount of unintentional hilarity in it. Just wow, I couldn't stop laughing through some of it.
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Ramadu posted:So I just saw this and uh  What makes you think it was unintentional?
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I mean, were they really trying to make me laugh at his goofy rear end face as he flopped about out of the river? Were they trying to make me laugh as his back shot off poit defense lasers? If so, mission freaking accomplished because I was dying with laughter at 4 in the morning at it.
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Ramadu posted:I mean, were they really trying to make me laugh at his goofy rear end face as he flopped about out of the river? Were they trying to make me laugh as his back shot off poit defense lasers? If so, mission freaking accomplished because I was dying with laughter at 4 in the morning at it. Certainly to the first, probably on the second. Godzilla has frequently been a little goofy. I found "fresh from the river" Godzilla to be sincerely unnerving, even as goofy as he was. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Dec 12, 2016 |
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Bimmi posted:Am guessing there's some obvious reason I'm too dim to notice, but why don't they just drop a few more bunker busters on Godzilla after they freeze him? It's not like he can fight back at that point. They kinda suggest at the end that he's not fully frozen all the way through, but close enough to figure out what to do with him next. Plus, they explain from the pieces of him they collect earlier that he's more like an amoeba, where pretty much every part of him, including his goddamn face, are vestigial, which suggests to me that if they were to blast him into a million pieces, all the inner Goji-Gunk would leak out and start growing all over again.
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Ramadu posted:So I just saw this and uh You were the annoying guy in my theater laughing at things outside the obvious things played up for comedy. Reminds me of the time I watched the documentary on the band Anvil and how depressingly terrible their lives were -- but kept laughing out of nowhere.
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Vintersorg posted:You were the annoying guy in my theater laughing at things outside the obvious things played up for comedy. I watched it at home at like 3 in the morning so i could laugh to my hearts content at how goofy a lot of this was thankyouverymuch! But seriously, what was up with the tip of his tail??
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It was Godzilla adapting. It saw how well humans were working on groups and was like "Well, that's what I gotta do then!"
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Shin Godzilla had a lot of laughs, it's a dark comedy as much as anything.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Also this he's such a happy boy
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mandatory lesbian posted:he's such a happy boy Godzilla just wants to show off to his new friends
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Improbable Lobster posted:Also this Pizza tail.
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Sequel title was sent out King of the Monsters http://nerdist.com/godzilla-and-pacific-rim-sequels-get-new-titles/
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Vintersorg posted:Sequel title was sent out That's a pretty inspired choice.
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Actually they should have called it Godzilla Raids Again, since it will be followed by King Kong vs. Godzilla.
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