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The anime is a neat idea with a poor execution. You could do far worse for Godzilla based entertainment, but you could also do far better. The first part is a good barometer for if you'll like the rest. Personally, I think they're just okay. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Don't watch the Godzilla anime. It is irredeemable garbage.
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May 15, 2019 09:29
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teagone posted:Is the Godzilla anime on Netflix any good? I struggled to get through Mechagodzilla and fell asleep during SpaceGodzilla. Haven't watched Destroyah yet. Should I bother with the Millennium series? I watched Godzilla 2014 earlier and it was a lot better than I remember it being, and will probably watch it again and Skull Island a couple days before King of the Monsters. At the very least Against Mechagodzilla is terrific, though the sequel drops off and GMK gets enough chatter to deserve a watch
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May 15, 2019 10:09
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I've never really been a fan of anime as a medium, and the Godzilla trilogy didn't really do anything to dissuade me from that, but I don't *hate* them the way some people do. They're based on interesting concepts, even though they're not concepts I'm terribly interested in ever seeing again. Worth a watch if you're a Godzilla completionist, but not essential (and I certainly never intend to rewatch them).
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May 15, 2019 12:14
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They're anime first and Godzilla second. If you already have patience issues with regular Godzilla movies' non-kaiju scenes the anime trilogy will drive you up the wall. It also has probably the lamest Ghidorah ever seen.
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May 15, 2019 16:35
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I got halfway through the first Godzilla anime movie and decided to watch Skull Island instead.
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May 15, 2019 16:41
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This promo doesn't show new footage, but the monster shots look like they have finished cgi now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K3S3sN_Eis I can't wait to experience it on IMAX.
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May 15, 2019 16:56
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Arcsquad12 posted:They're anime first and Godzilla second. If you already have patience issues with regular Godzilla movies' non-kaiju scenes the anime trilogy will drive you up the wall. Shin Godzilla was prob my fav film of uh...whatever year it came out and I still couldn't stand the anime
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teagone posted:Is the Godzilla anime on Netflix any good? I struggled to get through Mechagodzilla and fell asleep during SpaceGodzilla. Haven't watched Destroyah yet. Should I bother with the Millennium series? I watched Godzilla 2014 earlier and it was a lot better than I remember it being, and will probably watch it again and Skull Island a couple days before King of the Monsters. Destroyah is probably the second/third best of the Heisei era. Space Godzilla is flat out the worst normal Godzilla movie. The anime Godzilla movies are awful. On every level, awful. The first one is the most boring piece of poo poo, the second is mediocre and the third ruins a great set up for Ghidorah with an extremely lame payoff with Ghidorah For the Millennium movies G2000 is fine. It's a perfectly average Godzilla movie. It's a bit boring and takes a little while to get going, but it works. Megagirus is a weird kind of showa era throw back with a fun doofy fight but the movie is kind of an over long slog. GMK is good. I don't like Ghidorah in it and Mothra looks terrible, but Godzilla is good, Baragon is excellent, and the human stuff is good. GxMG has a Godzilla that can barely move, but everything else works. It's a very anime-kind of story, but it's got some strong poo poo. Tokyo SOS is a beautiful looking movie with some excellent monster stuff and they completely do Godzilla better. it's a direct sequel to GxMG and a moderate remake of Godzilla VS Mothra 1964 Final Wars is Final Wars
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May 15, 2019 19:20
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Arcsquad12 posted:They're anime first and Godzilla second. If you already have patience issues with regular Godzilla movies' non-kaiju scenes the anime trilogy will drive you up the wall. The worst part of that is how loving cool Ghidorah could have been. But, no, let's make our twenty mile long extradimensional three headed dragon god lame.
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May 15, 2019 19:57
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Rather than watch the anime trilogy, just watch the fanmade Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla based on it
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Cosmic tapeworm becomes a pushover when it loses the invulnerability buff.
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This is neat. Rare Godzilla footage.quote:Godzilla vs. Wolfman (伝説の巨獣狼男対ゴジラ Densetsu-no Kyoju Ookami Otoko tai Gojira?, lit. Legendary Beast Wolfman Against Godzilla) is a fan film directed and produced by Shizuo Nakajima and several former filmmakers of Toho in 1983.
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Burkion posted:Space Godzilla is flat out the worst normal Godzilla movie. Preach. I'm always vaguely confused as to how people can blithely declare Heisei to be the best of the series when two of its entries (Spacegodzilla and Mothra '92) are among the worst of the franchise. Mechagodzilla '93 hasn't aged particularly well either, for that matter.
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Yeah, tbh I've only really enjoyed the first 3 Heisei films so far. Kinda disappointed, especially with the Mothra and MechaGodzilla movies. Looking forward to Destroyah though.
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All the Heisei movies suffer from having a particularly immobile Godzilla compared to every other era, where the suits are too bulky to support anything other than monsters standing still and shooting lasers at each other. However, they have their charm, the human plots tend to be silly in an entertaining way and if the suits aren't flexible at least they're expressive and the model work looks nice. Personally while I agree the Space Godzilla is bad, I don't understand the hate for the Mothra entry. I watched it and the King Ghidorah film recently (going to rewatch GvMGII and Destroyah soon) and I found that it carries the same sort of tone as King Ghidorah throughout. Plus it has Mothra in it, and Mothra is usually fun.
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May 15, 2019 23:47
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The Mothra movie I wouldn't peg as one of the Worst But it's flawed. The kaiju stuff in it is all generally great for Heisei, but the human stuff goes from whatever to extremely 90s Environmentalism real fast.
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May 16, 2019 00:11
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The pro graps fights in the Shōwa movies (thanks for autocorrecting that accent mark in Apple) are by far superior monster fights to anything else until the new American movies (which are also pretty pro wrestling inspired)
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May 16, 2019 00:18
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I’m going to watch Space Godzilla again because I must be in denial about how bad it is. Only thing that bothered me about it is that Mogura obviously should have been Mecha G.
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May 16, 2019 00:48
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DeimosRising posted:The pro graps fights in the Shōwa movies (thanks for autocorrecting that accent mark in Apple) are by far superior monster fights to anything else until the new American movies (which are also pretty pro wrestling inspired) Showa also had the best human stuff. I'd honestly take some of the terrible late stories like Gigan and Megalon, where Takeshi Kimura clearly was phoning it in and hated himself, over a lot of the Heisei human plots.
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Open Marriage Night posted:I’m going to watch Space Godzilla again because I must be in denial about how bad it is. Only thing that bothered me about it is that Mogura obviously should have been Mecha G. Nah. If you enjoy it you enjoy it. Don't let nerds tell you something YOU like is bad, unless it's like, non stop unironic racist rape snuff films At that point it's probably you
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alexa, show me the ironic racist rape snuff films
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McSpanky posted:alexa, show me the ironic racist rape snuff films I mean If you want
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McSpanky posted:alexa, show me the ironic racist rape snuff films https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust I guess?
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What about godzilla comics? Are there any recent good ones?
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Mantis42 posted:Personally while I agree the Space Godzilla is bad, I don't understand the hate for the Mothra entry. I watched it and the King Ghidorah film recently (going to rewatch GvMGII and Destroyah soon) and I found that it carries the same sort of tone as King Ghidorah throughout. Plus it has Mothra in it, and Mothra is usually fun. The singing in Mothra got a bit grating. They needed to chill with that.
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Mothra 1992 is fine. Spacegodzilla is boring cheap rear end however.
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DeafNote posted:What about godzilla comics? Are there any recent good ones? Godzilla: The Half Century War is amazing. I haven't read anything else.
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DeafNote posted:What about godzilla comics? Are there any recent good ones? My favorites are still the Dark Horse runs from the 1990s, but that may be childhood nostalgia talking. Of the Legendary tie-in graphic novels, Awakening is really bad and the new one, Aftershock, is mediocre. Neither is worth the high sticker price. IDW's runs were a bit of a mixed bag: I hated Kingdom of Monsters, with its ham-fisted, lazy attempts at social and political satire, along with art that varied wildly in quality and style from issue to issue. I never read its two sequel runs (Godzilla and Godzilla: Cataclysm), but I'm told they were better. Of IDW's other series, I liked what I read of Gangsters and Goliaths (but I don't recall if I ever finished it); Legends had a few good issues and some really good art; Half Century War was probably the all-around best series and (mild KOTM spoilers) sort of predicts what we know about the plot for King of the Monsters, involving a fight against eco-terrorists who have a device which can lure monsters to specific locations. Rage Across Time had some interesting concepts (Godzilla meets Hannibal in one of them, a theoretically perfect convergence of my interests), but the art is often completely baffling. I never read Godzilla in Hell, though I've heard it's at least interesting. Oblivion, I know nothing about. Aside from Half Century War, I think the IDW run held in highest regard by the fandom is Rulers of Earth, which involves pretty much every monster and mecha that's ever been in a Toho movie. I've only read a few issues but it's fun enough for what it is, and has consistently good monster art. The Marvel series from the 70s, I dunno if that's really readable on its own merits nowadays or just more of an interesting curiosity.
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DeafNote posted:What about godzilla comics? Are there any recent good ones? Godzilla in Hell rocks Half Century War is great Rage Across Time is fun Didn't care for Cataclysm Haven''t read Rulers of the Earth yet
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I'm having childhood flashbacks to Godzilla vs the Lord Howe Monster and Godzilla vs Burtanus, among the last Dark Horse entries Cover art on those was rad. Inside the comic art was sillier but the comics were tongue in cheek overall anyway
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Half Century War is worth it just for the art.
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Mantis42 posted:Half Century War is worth it just for the art. Yo, my boy Megalon up in there 
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Mantis42 posted:Half Century War is worth it just for the art. James Stokoe is one of the best comic artists out there. He also has an Alien book called Alien: Dead Orbit, and has done some random stuff for Marvel.
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I like that it's specifically the van the hippy-rear end Mothra "countermeasures" guys use to track Mothra. Those guys just did not give a gently caress about anything.
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May 17, 2019 01:54
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How would you describe Showa Godzilla’s scale colour? Dark green?
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Vintersorg posted:How would you describe Showa Godzilla’s scale colour? Dark green? In my opinion, PANTONE Black 3 C from https://www.pantone.com/color-finder#/pick?pantoneBook=pantoneSolidCoatedV3M2
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Godzilla's official color has always been charcoal grey G2000 was the first time Godzilla was any shade of green in a Toho production
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The floodgates have opened. https://twitter.com/MonarchSciences/status/1129165738202107904 https://twitter.com/JAWB1e/status/1129179553589596161 https://twitter.com/JAWB1e/status/1129179479304278016 https://twitter.com/JAWB1e/status/1129179268406288386 https://twitter.com/JAWB1e/status/1129178756717961218
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Is that king ghidorah's cry? Because that sounds absolutely perfect. Right now I'm just struggling deciding between d-box or small imax  more than likely just going to end up seeing it twice anyway
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