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Ferrinus posted:It stands to reason that Ghidorah fell from heaven, being that he’s a golden three-headed dragon who rose from his icy prison in a gout of sulfurous flame. Yeah this also the twins definitely were psychically communing with mothra (at least the one was) and know way more than they let on. It raises deep questions about MONARCH, the organization named after a butterfly whose logo is a butterfly.
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Jun 23, 2019 04:40
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:Yeah this also the twins definitely were psychically communing with mothra (at least the one was) and know way more than they let on. It raises deep questions about MONARCH, the organization named after a butterfly whose logo is a butterfly. I've understood MONARCH as a Mothra reference since the first time I watched 2014, though this is admittedly my own assumption predicated on nothing other than those two things.
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The Golden Gael posted:I've understood MONARCH as a Mothra reference since the first time I watched 2014, though this is admittedly my own assumption predicated on nothing other than those two things. We still haven't seen the actual founders of MONARCH yet That one lady's family might have been tied in from the very start
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Monarch is probably gonna turn out to be a protocol for continuation of Atlantean government (it was Atlantis and also the Bermuda Triangle imo) or maybe an alien cult or something. I don’t really mean “deep” like philosophically or whatever, just something that calls into question what it really is all about.
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Burkion posted:We still haven't seen the actual founders of MONARCH yet She says she's, what, fourth generation Monarch? Probably has been.
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:Monarch is probably gonna turn out to be a protocol for continuation of Atlantean government (it was Atlantis and also the Bermuda Triangle imo) or maybe an alien cult or something. I don’t really mean “deep” like philosophically or whatever, just something that calls into question what it really is all about. It should follow as some kind of more grounded ancient cult, possibly one from Infant Island.
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Saw King of the Monsters a second time tonight, since my parents wanted to see it. My mother's only comment on the way back to the car was "Pacific Rim was better."
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Jun 25, 2019 02:04
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Well, she's not wrong. Pacific Rim is the best western Kaiju film ever made so far.
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Jun 25, 2019 03:19
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No way, even Puff Daddy Godzilla is better
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Saw the movie. Sure was glad that the Mass murderer... got her redemption? Also, sure use your car to lure it away while driving through a destroyed city. Surely that will be much more effective than taking it aboard an airship. The monsters looked cool as poo poo though. Mulderman fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Mulderman posted:Also, sure use your car to lure it away while driving through a destroyed city. Surely that will be much more effective than taking it aboard an airship. Ghidorah would have caught the airship and killed everyone on it then. The point was to lure Ghidorah away from Godzilla long enough for him to recover, and for obvious reasons Emma didn't want her daughter to die in the process of doing that. This is kind of a weird objection.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Well, she's not wrong. Pacific Rim is the best western Kaiju film ever made so far. Pacific Rim is only barely a kaiju movie.
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Pacific Rim is basically live-action mecha anime, no more and no less. I feel a key element of 'kaiju' as a genre is that the monster is front and centre of the movie and generally its name is the title, it's a movie about the giant monster, what it does, and how people react. The kaiju in Pacific Rim are secondary, the giant robots and their pilots are primary. Someone needs to do some of those interpretation grids for kaiju. One of the radical axes is that Superman is a Kaiju. Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Well, she's not wrong. Pacific Rim is the best western Kaiju film ever made so far. There are like three or four better King Kong movies, Cloverfield, 20 Million Miles To Earth, Them!, Gorgo, Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Monsters, Dark Continent, Reign Of Fire, Skyline, Skyline 2, The Giant Mantis...
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G'14 and Skull Island crush everything.
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Also Rampage. Funny thing is that what I remember the most about Rampage is the energy to it, the monsters are always on the move and acting once things get rolling, it's a hell of a ride.
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The Blob is a kaiju movie.
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HannibalBarca posted:Pacific Rim is only barely a kaiju movie. It's giant CGI monsters fighting giant CGI monsters. Some just happen to be controlled by people in PR.
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Pacific Rim owes more to the Tokusatsu genre than to Toho-style kaiju eiga. It's closer to Ultraman or Super Sentai in their various incarnations, the monsters are all hostile servants of an invading force.
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Is Clifford the Big Red Dog a kaiju?
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The Golden Gael posted:Is Clifford the Big Red Dog a kaiju? A small one, but yes
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Grape Ape is a kaiju.
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The Kool-Aid Man is a kaiju.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:The Kool-Aid Man is a kaiju. No, he's a supervillain.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Someone needs to do some of those interpretation grids for kaiju. One of the radical axes is that Superman is a Kaiju. I dunno if Superman is a kaiju but Man of Steel is definitely a kaiju film.
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McSpanky posted:I dunno if Superman is a kaiju but Man of Steel is definitely a kaiju film. You could play a lot with how he has the same origin as Ghidorah, at least from a human perspective. Lex Luthor certainly would think so at least. I just need to figure out what the axes should be. Size? Media of origin? Tone?
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Your mom's a kaiju.
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Certainly brings enough pain and despair. Overthinking stupid nerdy things is fun.
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I finally got around to seeing King of the Monsters last night. It very much felt like a sequel to '98 Godzilla rather than something that is in the same cinematic universe as '14 Godzilla and Skull Island.
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Tezcatlipoca posted:The Kool-Aid Man is a kaiju. Kaijin. Technically the X-Men would also count, if they were namless mooks.
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Mantis42 posted:However, The Statue of Liberty is Mecha Only in Ghostbusters 2.
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Mantis42 posted:However, The Statue of Liberty is Mecha confirmed  (space dandy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43LCg8F2T4k
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Man imagine being able to have “right Ghidorah head” on your acting credits.
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