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I ended up watching Rodan. I can see how it set the template for later movies. It definitely bridged Gojira and Mothra to the rest of the series but the movie itself was kinda not great. The Rodan props are too limited in what they could really do so you end up with lots of very static movement with whooshing noises. They also don't have much personality on their own compared to Godzilla or Mothra. The freedom of CGI in KOTM was a boon to Rodan since he had the same basic abilities but significantly more expressive as a 'living' character. Probably related to that was how about a 1/3 of the movie was all around the bugs in the mine that didn't matter too much. Some of the shots of the military just shooting things went on too long. 5-10 minutes of the movie only watching little explosions go off. Final feeling is that I appreciated it and everyone who would post in here should see it but its transitional and lesser. e: Got my dates wrong and Mothra came later. That would explain how they made a similarish flying kaiju a stronger character. Shiroc fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jun 27, 2021 |
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I'm sure other people are watching Singular Point. It's great!
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I liked it overall but felt that Godzilla itself was an afterthought.
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Yeah, I'm only part of the way through and that's how it's shaping up. But does the big guy always have to be the star of the show? There's only so much "He saved the day! Again!" that can be written. What I like most about SP is that they've scaled the monsters down to the point the human protagonists can visibly and meaningfully interact with them. In the movies, they always have to invent a superweapon, nuke something, or build giant mechas.
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Jun 29, 2021 01:10
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I liked that everyone acted intelligently, even the dude that was the muscle was smart in his own right and could contribute, and what man vs. man conflict there was felt more a conflict of how than why. Maybe it was the esoteric technobabble but I did get NGE vibes watching it.
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I was actually shocked that the one guy who's design features scream "this guy is insane and will betray everyone in a murder spree" actually didn't and was a nice dad.
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Singular Point was good for what it was. I'm not sure it really stuck the landing with its overarching sci-fi concepts, but it had smart and interesting characters and the monster/mecha action was really good (although the CG animation was a bit dodgy at times).
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Detective No. 27 posted:I was actually shocked that the one guy who's design features scream "this guy is insane and will betray everyone in a murder spree" actually didn't and was a nice dad. Yeah, it was a pleasant surprise 
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If Singular Point gets continued(that little post credits scene in Episode 13 seems to make it clear they want to) I think it will definitely benefit from having done most of the science stuff in this first season(overall I feel like I had a decent enough understanding of most of it since a lot of it I've encountered in other Sci-Fi works before, but it still felt kinda muddy about how some of it worked) Also kinda weird how the Megalons just sort of vanish after they get away on the boat even though at least some of them were definitely still alive
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I thought it was great, can't wait to rewatch it! If you can't get into it, at least watch the credits in the last ep, lotta concentrated love for the franchise in a very short amount of time
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6 episodes in and it’s still very charming. I’m even enjoying the technobabble and physics talk, there’s a playfulness to it.
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I don’t watch much cartoon, but Singular Point fuckin’ rules.
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Godzilla SP ep10 I noticed that they were using the Godzilla theme pretty liberally, but only the opening horns bit. So I was wondering if they were saving the full theme for an important scene later. Well done, Godzilla SP, that was a good scene.
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after the creative wasteland of the Millennium Series (no better summed up than the GMK director being forced to remove Varan/Anguirus over "marketability") I welcome takes like Shin Godzilla and Singular Point the dialogue speed reminded me of Zodiac where the actors talked fast to reduce runtime, so that took some time to adjust to kinda wish the Gabara kaiju was called, well .... Gabara. not sure what the big deal would be, a lot of liberty was taken with all the kaiju designs
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:a lot of liberty was taken with all the kaiju designs A lot of them were remixes/mashups of classic kaiju designs Burkion posted:
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:A lot of them were remixes/mashups of classic kaiju designs Godzilla's initial form is mostly Titanosaurus, so much so that I got confused when the show played the Godzilla trumpets on his first appearance.
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Splint Chesthair posted:Godzilla's initial form is mostly Titanosaurus, so much so that I got confused when the show played the Godzilla trumpets on his first appearance. There's some of that monster from the second Rebirth of Mothra film too in that form as well, especially in the overall shape
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Loved SP, but was slightly disappointed when the mass of moths/butterflies didn't result in Mothra appearing. I mean, you already have a sixties-era ditty summoning kaiju, so you'd think she'd be contractually obligated to come out, right? Although, in truth, I might prefer the subtle hinting over just cramming every kaiju imaginable in there. And they finally had my boy Anguirus in there!
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Loved SP, but was slightly disappointed when the mass of moths/butterflies didn't result in Mothra appearing. I mean, you already have a sixties-era ditty summoning kaiju, so you'd think she'd be contractually obligated to come out, right? Gotta save something for a sequel after all
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https://twitter.com/Legendary/status/1411037115320778760 Godzilla films, but the Kaiju are all dapper would be great
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Mokelumne Trekka posted:after the creative wasteland of the Millennium Series (no better summed up than the GMK director being forced to remove Varan/Anguirus over "marketability") I welcome takes like Shin Godzilla and Singular Point I rewatched GMK the other day and though I think it works pretty well, it's crazy how much better it would be with the original three monsters planned for. The whole point is Godzilla is an unstoppable nightmare and that the Guardian Monsters are underdogs that don't have a strong chance, an idea that becomes undermined when you swap two of them out and replace them with Mothra and Ghidorah, characters known for being super powerful. They do make an effort to underpower both, but the dynamic between three smaller, scrappier monsters with no beam weapons against Godzilla would have been much better imo.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:A lot of them were remixes/mashups of classic kaiju designs The spider-thingys also showed Hedorah briefly when the one reformed after being chopped in half by JJ.
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I figured the the creeping moss was going to be Biolante too but nothing ever came of it
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2 episodes into Singular Point and this kicks rear end
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Still 5 episodes in but just wanted to drop by and say that I’m going to be real mad if there isn’t a sticker / emoji set of all the stickers they use in the chat messaging sections by the time I finish this and actually go look for one
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I’m honestly surprised they haven’t made stamps for LINE messenger of those to be honest
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Despite all the crazy circumstances everybody was acting in a surprisingly familiar and reasonable manner for the most part. Quite refreshing. That was drat good stuff and I was pretty hooked as far as wanting to see what happened next and the technobabble was certainly consistent enough. The moth couldn't agree on rules now, maybe later. Maybe I was slow on the uptake but I was wondering how this dude in the 60s built the magic computers and the revelation was very satisfying to realize, then the ending turned it up all the way
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It's in 2030, so 50 years ago was the 80s.
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That Godzilla vs Hedorah oneshot comic that just came out isn't very good.
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Gripweed posted:That Godzilla vs Hedorah oneshot comic that just came out isn't very good. Unfortunately most Godzilla comics are bad. It’s the price we pay to get stuff like Half Century War and Godzilla in Hell every now and then.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Unfortunately most Godzilla comics are bad. It’s the price we pay to get stuff like Half Century War and Godzilla in Hell every now and then. It's like, aside from James Stokoe, no one at IDW has a single original idea about any of the kaiju.
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Gripweed posted:It's like, aside from James Stokoe, no one at IDW has a single original idea about any of the kaiju. Yeah pretty much. Rulers of Earth was “good” but it very much didn’t try to change anything.
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Still remember just how vividly offputting pretty much everything about Kingdom of Monsters was back when it first came out. Hard to believe that's been ten years now...
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HannibalBarca posted:Still remember just how vividly offputting pretty much everything about Kingdom of Monsters was back when it first came out. Hard to believe that's been ten years now... Pretty much. I didn’t hate Cataclysm or Rage Against Time but they were nowhere near good.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Pretty much. I didn’t hate Cataclysm or Rage Against Time but they were nowhere near good. Rage Against Time was decent enough, but the art was really hit or miss. Legends was better as far as anthology series go. Cataclysm I never really bothered with. Half Century War is still the gold standard, but I have a nostalgic soft-spot for the old Dark Horse stuff; when I was growing up those were pretty much the only Godzilla comics out there (the Marvel stuff was, uh, not great and it never really clicked with me). EDIT: Gangsters and Goliaths was also maybe (?) good but tbh I can't remember a thing about it.
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There's been at least one Godzilla manga but idk if it's good or ever been translated. The art looks nice at least.
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