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I think if you include Tremors, you got to include Jaws, and though both are excellent I wouldn't call either a Kaiju film.
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Powerloader v alien queen
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 17:46 |
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:New commercial. Kong on Wandavision? drat I gotta stop watching these. I’m going into hibernation on new clips, don’t want everything spoiled.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 18:33 |
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Colossal is my vote for best American kaiju-centric film in the modern era. The monster itself isn't much to write home about but it's a great flick.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 18:47 |
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feedmyleg posted:Colossal is my vote for best American kaiju-centric film. The monster itself isn't much to write home about but it's a great flick. I actually did enjoy this one, yeah, it is uhhhh lacking in kaiju action though (not that that's the point of the movie really)
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 18:48 |
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I feel KOTM's human drama is much of the same human drama from G14 with a new coat of paint and that's why it feels not great.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 18:57 |
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Karloff posted:I think if you include Tremors, you got to include Jaws, and though both are excellent I wouldn't call either a Kaiju film. but the shark in Jaws isn't a giant monster. It's a regular sized shark.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 18:57 |
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Gripweed posted:but the shark in Jaws isn't a giant monster. It's a regular sized shark. it's a considerably larger than regular sized shark
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 19:04 |
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Technically it's larger than any recorded great white, but not outside of theoretical possibility.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 19:04 |
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Is colossal the one about the lady who projects the abuse she gets into the manifestation of a giant monster on the other side of the world?
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 20:01 |
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Karloff posted:I've really liked all the Monster verse films so far, but the best set piece from them for me is the Golden Gate attack, it was really tense, visually spectacular in a way that feels increasingly rare when spectacle is so commonplace in blockbuster cinema, and just loving rad in general. The rail bridge attack was also impressive, it managed to pull off a slow, tense suspense vibe out of being hunted by a 350-foot tall radioactive bug. It was also one of the only parts of the movie that was really worth seeing in 3D.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 20:07 |
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Rampage is another good American kaiju film. I think it's been brought up a few times in this thread over the years. For more off the wall picks: The Blob, and Ghostbusters.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 20:09 |
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Arcsquad12 posted:Is colossal the one about the lady who projects the abuse she gets into the manifestation of a giant monster on the other side of the world? Yes.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 20:11 |
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PlushCow posted:I feel KOTM's human drama is much of the same human drama from G14 with a new coat of paint and that's why it feels not great. i mean, the white male protagonist behaves completely differently in those movies, and so does everyone else, so i don't see how it's "a new coat of paint", unless you mean something as vague and unspecific as "the human drama is about family"
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 20:45 |
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My biggest complaint about Godzilla 2014 is that the first half hour is completely pointless. The opening credits sequence did such an amazing job setting up Godzilla as something Real that Exists and that humanity doesn't have an easy 'solution' for other than hoping Big-G stays content doing his own thing. It's such an amazing credits sequence that other genres could learn from to establish characters without having to waste their first movie retreading the origin story again. They could have cut so much of the early chaff if they'd just trusted the audience a little more. The opening credits were so good that that first half hour of giant monsters are real?! turned me of the rest of the movie. I'm also sad KotM didn't bite the bullet and make humanity Hidorah. If we've got our own 'alpha wavelength' or whatever, that means we're a Kaiju too.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 21:08 |
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https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1365392189937885188?s=20
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 21:23 |
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39 non-chopped up seconds of the naval battle. https://youtu.be/GN4ew5z06Xg The air force corollary to, "Shooting 350 foot tall monsters with M-16s is a waste of time," is, "You don't need to be anywhere near the monster to shoot missiles at it."
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 22:23 |
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ungulateman posted:i mean, the white male protagonist behaves completely differently in those movies, and so does everyone else, so i don't see how it's "a new coat of paint", unless you mean something as vague and unspecific as "the human drama is about family" They have similar setups of a monster-caused disaster killing a family member, now a broken family with a son/daughter dealing with a parent on a self-destructive path. I think it was disappointing they didn't focus on Serizawa, and his path from science (G14) to spiritual (KOTM).
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 22:30 |
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Pacific Rim is the second best mecha movie ever made in America, but the kaiju stuff suffers. Otachi, Leatherback and Knifehead are all loving excellent monsters though, but there's so much chaff and Otachi not being the last kaiju was a mistake.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 22:56 |
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Pacific Rim owes more to TV tokusatsu- stuff like Super Sentai and Ultraman- than it does to the Toho kaiju model.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 23:29 |
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Arthur Adams killing on the Godzilla and Kong front as usual https://www.instagram.com/p/CLxQaZOHz-C/?igshid=lzomwvbc35d7
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 23:32 |
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Burkion posted:Pacific Rim is the second best mecha movie ever made in America, Putting The Iron Giant at number one..?
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 23:32 |
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Burkion posted:Pacific Rim is the second best mecha movie ever made in America, but the kaiju stuff suffers. Otachi, Leatherback and Knifehead are all loving excellent monsters though, but there's so much chaff and Otachi not being the last kaiju was a mistake. i mean Robot Jox is great and all but second place here is pretty meaningless Schwarzwald posted:Putting The Iron Giant at number one..? the Iron Giant is autonomous, different genre entirely Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Feb 26, 2021 |
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Iron Giant is a Super Robot in the same arena as Mazinger or Raiden.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 23:43 |
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Just as the first Ghostbusters is one of the best American kaiju films, Ghostbusters 2 is the best American mecha film.
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 23:47 |
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:i mean Robot Jox is great and all but second place here is pretty meaningless Name a film that compares to Robot Jox I'll wait
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 23:50 |
Burkion posted:Name a film that compares to Robot Jox Rocky IV?
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 23:54 |
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Atlantic Rim
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 23:55 |
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Burkion posted:Name a film that compares to Robot Jox i wouldn't dare
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# ? Feb 26, 2021 23:57 |
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:i wouldn't dare This is the correct answer
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 00:23 |
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Burkion posted:Name a film that compares to Robot Jox Robot Wars, obviously.
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 01:22 |
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Robot Wars, obviously. I don't hear the '96 film Robo Warriors discussed half as much as Jox and Wars, but it's quite decent trash of that ilk as well.
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 01:36 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i'm just gonna go scorched earth here: unless we're counting the original King Kong and Mighty Joe Young, I'm not sure there has been a good American Kaiju movie yet That says more about you than American kaiju movies.
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A whole rear end clip of Godzilla's attack on the fleet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN4ew5z06Xg
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 03:31 |
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PoptartsNinja posted:My biggest complaint about Godzilla 2014 is that the first half hour is completely pointless. The first half hour sets up the only meaningful relationship that the characters have to the story. =/
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 04:14 |
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People overlook that Godzilla doesn't appear until Cranston dies. Man people were so fixated on the fact that he dies so early.
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 04:25 |
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I had sold friends into coming with me to see it on Cranston being in the movie. They were not pleased.
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 05:04 |
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Shiroc posted:I had sold friends into coming with me to see it on Cranston being in the movie. They were not pleased. They're weak, I watched Chupacabra Terror because Giancarlo Esposito was in it. That's way worse.
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 05:12 |
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Cranston servers his purpose and does it well. Anyone devastated by him not being in it for the full run is full of poo poo.
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 05:29 |
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Well I convinced my friends to see it based on Juliette Binoche being in it, they were so pissed!!
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