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What's going on with Toho's Godzilla project anyway?
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Aug 1, 2019 00:33
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Waffleman_ posted:On the other side of the Pacific, Toho and Tsubaraya have announced that Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno are reuniting for Shin Ultraman, a movie that's about, well, Ultraman. The two other Higuchi directed movies I’ve seen were pretty bad, I wonder who was responsible for what on Shin Godzilla
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Aug 1, 2019 00:35
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Jimbot posted:What's going on with Toho's Godzilla project anyway? This being Toho, nobody knows anything and nobody's gonna talk if they do.
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Aug 1, 2019 00:38
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That plot outline sounds fine and is what I expected. I’m not too hot on Mecha Godzilla because I liked the more grounded G’14 and Kong, but KoTM already has taken us in that direction so it’s too late to go back.
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Aug 1, 2019 01:03
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 just got delayed again. The release actually said Anno would fully join the production once that's finished. Ultraman's in first draft of script right now.
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Aug 1, 2019 01:32
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A GvK movie with Mecha Godzilla but no Mechani-Kong? Bullshit of the highest order, I say.
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Aug 1, 2019 04:57
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Was re-reading Half-Century War: huh. Weird.
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Aug 4, 2019 10:08
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lot of confused people gonna show up in this thread when Dora comes out
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Aug 4, 2019 11:59
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Cythereal posted:I've seen a very bare-bones supposed leak of the basic outline of Godzilla vs Kong floating around the internet this evening. Who knows if it's accurate or just a rumor. That doesn't sound very good but it does sound about par for the course
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Aug 6, 2019 13:08
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dentist toy box posted:That doesn't sound very good but it does sound about par for the course If it's true, I will have kinda predicted this back in December 2018 lmao. teagone posted:Godzilla and Kong gonna team up to fight Destroyah or whatever ultra-MUTO thing. Godzilla will die in the fight, enabling Kong to claim his title of King.
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Aug 7, 2019 23:05
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Got thinking about a sorta Kaiju movie I remember watching around ten years ago. It had dragons in it and other big monsters and it was basically like a Korean or Indonesian version of Godzilla Final Wars if it had a budget of two cents and a mountain of cocaine. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
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Aug 12, 2019 21:13
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Arcsquad12 posted:Got thinking about a sorta Kaiju movie I remember watching around ten years ago. It had dragons in it and other big monsters and it was basically like a Korean or Indonesian version of Godzilla Final Wars if it had a budget of two cents and a mountain of cocaine. Does this sound familiar to anyone? 2007 South Korean Dragon Wars D-War
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Aug 12, 2019 21:37
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Burkion posted:2007 South Korean Dragon Wars D-War Yes! That's the one. I remember watching it and laughing my rear end off at how absurd it got.
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Aug 12, 2019 21:59
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I thought for sure that answer was a joke
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Aug 13, 2019 01:29
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Chronojam posted:I thought for sure that answer was a joke I never joke about kaiju movies. Only what they contain because holy poo poo Dragon Wars is a special film
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Aug 13, 2019 02:07
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Does anyone know if the Criterion Showa set is going to have commentaries beyond the ones that were already included on G’54? It doesn’t seem lIke any of the other individual films are getting dedicated special features. I’m starting to regret selling my Classic Media DVD boxset for this reason.
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Aug 13, 2019 14:48
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Splint Chesthair posted:Does anyone know if the Criterion Showa set is going to have commentaries beyond the ones that were already included on G’54? It doesn’t seem lIke any of the other individual films are getting dedicated special features. I’m starting to regret selling my Classic Media DVD boxset for this reason. Sadly no, but if it's any consolation those Classic Media commentary tracks, and a bunch of other kaiju movie commentary tracks, can be found on youtube. https://youtube.com/channel/UCY_h1wWImwwh9Fe5ck9dBRg
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Aug 13, 2019 22:52
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HannibalBarca posted:Sadly no, but if it's any consolation those Classic Media commentary tracks, and a bunch of other kaiju movie commentary tracks, can be found on youtube. That’s a shame but thanks for the link!
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Aug 14, 2019 03:28
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Burkion posted:I never joke about kaiju movies. Wikipedia posted:At the time of its release, it was the highest-budgeted South Korean film of all time. Wikipedia posted:Budget: $35 million 
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Aug 14, 2019 04:50
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You want a real trip? Go check out, but do not watch, 2000's Yongary also from South Korea It might be one of the worst monster movies ever made, and also isn't even the original version, which was so bad that they went and did a special version to try and make it LESS bad. To my knowledge the original 99 cut still does not exist in a format where we can see it
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Aug 14, 2019 18:01
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All I remember about the original Yongary was the titular monster dancing to some surf rock riffs
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Aug 14, 2019 18:06
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There's that one north korean movie that may technically qualify as a kaiju film, with the iron-eating monster. (funny thing is that there's a Pokemon strangely resembling said monster)
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Aug 14, 2019 18:06
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's that one north korean movie that may technically qualify as a kaiju film, with the iron-eating monster. (funny thing is that there's a Pokemon strangely resembling said monster) One of the only (though possibly not ONLY) kaiju movies made using slave labor! It's easier to laugh about it because the people most in danger, the director and his family, got away
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Aug 14, 2019 18:17
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The original Yongary has a rather playful tone throughout, and then ends with some intense blood pouring, tail-twitching death
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Aug 14, 2019 18:21
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Just watched KoTM and holy poo poo the plot is so beyond stupid. Every character is a colossal idiot except for main guy who is only mostly brain-damaged so they defer to his out of thin-air assumptions. I enjoyed the gently caress out of it because of this. Rodan looked super cool and provided a bit of variety. Pretty much the opposite of Mothra "Queen of Monsters" who was, uhhh, in the movie. The additional "titans" were okay but seemed like they wanted to save the more worthwhile ones for later introduction which is totally understandable. The Godzilla vs Ghidorah fights were alright although I think Ghidorah's dragon heads didn't look great. There were a few really cool looking shots but nothing that compares to Godzilla cracking open the bug monsters jaws and morning breath-ing it in 2014. It took me an hour to figure out the female lead wasn't a haggard-looking Elizabeth Olsen. Millie Bobby Brown's mouth is hanging open for almost every scene. As a fellow mouth-breather I feel for her. It wasn't great but it wasn't Pacific Rim: Uprising either.
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Aug 14, 2019 19:15
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denimgorilla posted:
A. That's Vera Farmiga dude  B. I always have to remind myself that Millie Bobby Brown has had it rough being used as vicarious fame robot for her parents, because she annoys the poo poo out of me in Stranger Things and did the same in KotM.
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Aug 14, 2019 19:33
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:All I remember about the original Yongary was the titular monster dancing to some surf rock riffs Yongary is not alone in that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG8shc73XOQ
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Aug 14, 2019 19:57
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The Rodan scene is the best because the other fights in the film like to cut away from the main event to follow the dumb humans. The same thing happens with the Rodan attack, except that, you know, Rodan actually is attacking the people, so cutting back to them isn't egregious. We need more scenes in these monsterverse movies where the monsters are consciously and intentionally attacking people and cities, rather than making it collateral damage. Ghidorah got there but beyond his awakening we don't get enough time watching him trash the east coast. Seeing DC swallowed by a hurricane and a lightning storm would have been amazing, but it's on screen for all of thirty seconds.
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Aug 14, 2019 20:46
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There's that one north korean movie that may technically qualify as a kaiju film, with the iron-eating monster. (funny thing is that there's a Pokemon strangely resembling said monster) Pulgasari! It's a bit ham handed, from what I have heard. Arcsquad12 posted:The Rodan scene is the best because the other fights in the film like to cut away from the main event to follow the dumb humans. The same thing happens with the Rodan attack, except that, you know, Rodan actually is attacking the people, so cutting back to them isn't egregious. That, in general, would have massively helped the movie. I think that character arcs and the kaiju action should compliment one another, instead of detracting from one another and creating jarring cuts between characters.
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Aug 14, 2019 21:01
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Watching it again at home really drove home how disappointing the monster visuals are. The first fight is a good example of this. It’s during a snow storm at night in the arctic and the camera is mainly shooting through a broken windshield inside a helicopter being knocked around. Every monster scene has too much camera movement, too many environmental effects, and too many poor angles. I kept thinking during the climax “this is not how I wanted to see King G fight.” Ground level shaky camera angles during a hurricane, looking up as the humans run around screaming for their daughter and dodging monster feet that are so big you can’t really tell what’s going on between the titans. Heck, even Mothra’s big reveal had her behind a waterfall so you can’t actually see her very well. Watching it last night I became hyper aware that you never really get a nice good long look at any of the monsters. There’s so many atmospheric effects, digital zooms, shakycam, etc. that I never got to truly appreciate much. And when you do see the monsters the camera is typically zoomed in too close. I’m guessing this was on purpose to subtly convey the monsters are so big they fill the screen, but I just kept thinking “ZOOM OUT!” I really don’t know how you look at G14 and Skull Island and then do these kinds of scenes. I also noticed that the camera never stops moving. Pay attention to the human scenes and the camera is always sweeping around and doing weird digital zooms. It made everything feel more frantic than it needed to be.
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Aug 14, 2019 21:07
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Have to agree. Although the two money shots of Godzilla - rising out of the tundra and, uh, rising out of the sea - are suitably majestic and goosebump-inducing. The score really helps. It may be the only unequivocally excellent thing in the movie
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Aug 14, 2019 21:15
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Alehkhs posted:Yongary is not alone in that:  He is all of us
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Aug 14, 2019 21:33
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I think I saw a crappy cg version of yongary on the syfy channel
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Aug 15, 2019 00:47
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Alehkhs posted:Yongary is not alone in that: God I wish there was a version of Godzilla Island with english subtitles. Even though I shouldn't really need it.
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Aug 15, 2019 00:54
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Just watched King of the Monsters. The most disappointing part was that all of the epic visuals were in the trailers. The only things that weren't spoiled for me were the hollow earth nuclear blast, and the goddam meltdown Godzilla, which was absolutely bonkers.
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Aug 15, 2019 04:17
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thought you fellas might enjoy this, there's sometimes some decent stuff on mashup t-shirt sites and I like this one.
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Aug 15, 2019 09:06
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HannibalBarca posted:Sadly no, but if it's any consolation those Classic Media commentary tracks, and a bunch of other kaiju movie commentary tracks, can be found on youtube. Sick, thanks for this.
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Aug 15, 2019 17:07
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denimgorilla posted:It took me an hour to figure out the female lead wasn't a haggard-looking Elizabeth Olsen.. Wow
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Aug 15, 2019 18:06
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Finally say KOTM, and I enjoyed it. I wish they'd cut back on some of the human characters. Most of them didn't do anything and their plotlines didn't exist or go anywhere. Like Charles Dance, he didn't really need to exist in that movie, and is introduced like a bond villain and then just turns out to be cubicle buddies with the mom or something. I did enjoy the over the top GI Joe nature Monarch suddenly achieved compared to the last movie. Now they have giant airplane carriers and wacky machines. And the hollow earth was cool. Its too bad the movie appears to have flopped financially, I would like more Godzilla.
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Aug 15, 2019 18:07
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I mean, they're already making Kong vs Godzilla, and Toho's concrete in their plans to bring their side of it into the Reiwa era after that. Godzilla's not going anywhere.
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Aug 15, 2019 18:19
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