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something I compiled a couple years ago that I just now realized I never shared with this thread; an assortment of images made for various magazines depicting meetings of monsters that never happened onscreen, these would have made for some really fun films I bet
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That's all extremely cool, thanks.
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Mantis42 posted:As dumb as GvK was, I found the kaiju scenes an improvement over KotM, and I'll take Saturday Morning Cartoon plots about going to the center of the Earth over shots of people standing in blue control rooms making quips any day. It felt more in line with something like Kong Lives, it's a guilty pleasure for me despite being pretty harsh when it came out. That's more or less my take. KotM was garbage. GvK was stupid, watchable, fun garbage.
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KotM felt like it came very close to being a great film at times. Charles Dance's crew breaking out King Ghidorah was largely excellent, and lord help me but I dug the weird Super X everyone flew around in. But some good scenes and some good designs aren't quite enough.
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drrockso20 posted:something I compiled a couple years ago that I just now realized I never shared with this thread;      Mantis42 posted:As dumb as GvK was, I found the kaiju scenes an improvement over KotM, and I'll take Saturday Morning Cartoon plots about going to the center of the Earth over shots of people standing in blue control rooms making quips any day. It felt more in line with something like Kong Lives, it's a guilty pleasure for me despite being pretty harsh when it came out. Mr. Funny Pants posted:That's more or less my take. KotM was garbage. GvK was stupid, watchable, fun garbage. Schwarzwald posted:KotM felt like it came very close to being a great film at times. Charles Dance's crew breaking out King Ghidorah was largely excellent, and lord help me but I dug the weird Super X everyone flew around in. Godzilla movies, ironically, live and die by their humans. Truly great entries (54 and Shin, of those I’ve seen so far) need a B-plot human story that both highlights the kaijus’ presence and action and gives them weight and meaning, and is well-written enough to not distract the audience from the A-plot of oh no there goes Tokyo. The alternative, somewhat easier option (GvK, Destroy All Monsters, apparently Final Wars) is to dispense with the pretense of disbelief and make the humans just as much of a ridiculous spectacle as the monsters, in which case the audience can safely turn their brains off and focus on the eye candy. It’s really easy to make talking heads boring. Conversely, it’s really hard to make a bunch of giant monsters and robots crushing buildings and brawling each other boring. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Mar 5, 2023 |
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I won the auction on this beauty last night  
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What’s the green quadrupedal one with the absurdly massive fangs?
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Maguma the walrus: https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Maguma
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I won the auction on this beauty last night Oh man, this is so rad!! I am gonna get some reprints done sometime to represent. Some of the OG's on Japan Poster Shop are $$$$$. https://japanposter.co.uk/collections/kaiju-monsters-and-horror-movie-posters
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Dang that shop IS $$$$$ but they have some good stuff there. I missed the auction for the Godzilla Vs Mecha G speed poster But I just won this sucker. 1972 Return of Ultraman movie poster. 
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gently caress, 60s/70s posters are so beautiful. I’d get some for movies I haven’t even seen… prompting me to then watch it!
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I should get a Shin poster.
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I’m bidding on a couple of Shin Kamen Rider posters right now
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Unfortunately, I’m no good at finding good, high quality posters, especially movie posters. I don’t know what makes a poster valuable or worth collecting vs. what’s custom ordered just to look cool on my wall. I’d rather order my own modern print via FedEx than buy one of those off eBay honestly. Best I can do is trawl for original poster re-sellers… All I see are reproductions. I do kinda like the looks of this one, this one, and this one, though. Actually, do we even have a posters thread? Seems like we don’t, which is surprising.
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Yes https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3461865&pagenumber=1726
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drrockso20 posted:something I compiled a couple years ago that I just now realized I never shared with this thread; man that space jellyfish was so loving cool for the 30 seconds of screen time it got in a movie about a diamond heist.
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Pollyanna posted:
Fantastic Avatar material. Also reminds me I should watch Space Amoeba again. GATOS Y VATOS posted:I won the auction on this beauty last night Fantastic! That Seatopia matt painting at the bottom is so nice!
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Wait what???? Pacific Rim was by WB+Legendary??? Toho you cowards let Guillermo direct a crossover.
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Pollyanna posted:The alternative, somewhat easier option (GvK, Destroy All Monsters, apparently Final Wars) is to dispense with the pretense of disbelief and make the humans just as much of a ridiculous spectacle as the monsters, in which case the audience can safely turn their brains off and focus on the eye candy. That's why Godzilla v Ebirah is top tier, the human characters are a little strange. They've got unusual backgrounds and motivations, and find themselves in a situation where "I know! Let's wake Godzilla up." is actually a reasonable course of action.
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mllaneza posted:That's why Godzilla v Ebirah is top tier, the human characters are a little strange. They've got unusual backgrounds and motivations, and find themselves in a situation where "I know! Let's wake Godzilla up." is actually a reasonable course of action. Godzilla vs Ebirah and the other one that came before it I can't remember the title of are just island adventure movies that happen to feature Godzilla.
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Vs. Ebirah was supposed to be a King Kong movie iirc which is why Godzilla has a weird vibe in it (he also sleeps through most of the movie, lazy bastard)
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I had a dream my mom got eaten by Rodan. I fuckin told her to move!!!
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I watched an Irish youtuber watching 90s commercials and suddenly Ghidorah shilling for toothpaste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ3kAqtDWyU
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Pollyanna posted:Wait what???? Pacific Rim was by WB+Legendary??? Hell, just let him make a sequel so we can forget that Uprising happened.
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Watching G Vs Megalon on Criterion and it’s glorious as always
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Watching G Vs Megalon on Criterion and it’s glorious as always Absolutely! I just rewatched G vs King Ghidorah (91) with a friend who's getting deeper into Godzilla. Fun stuff! It was one I only saw once back in the day and found to be a weaker entry, but I enjoyed it a lot more now. Just bonkers charming sci-fi genre movie hijinks with that majestic Godzilla touch. And the mayhem in the last act is really high quality. My fav three from that era was always Biollante, Mecha, and Destoroyah, so I'd skip the other ones on rewatches. Thinking I may give the 93 G vs Mothra another go too, which I found okay and hadn't revisited. I mainly remember the Indiana Jones type bit. Also, it was so hype to see Akira Ifukube scores this Ghidorah movie in the opening credits. Talk about a bonus! Looks like that was his first return to it after 1975.
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Ghidorah is such an incredible artifact of the Bubble era that it is kinda perfect that it came out as it all ended
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I watched Shin Ultraman last night it was pretty fun but now I have to ask a stupid question…. What is the significance of the word “shin”?
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It means new, it just means it's a reboot/reimagining.
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Its also a homophone for "true" or "actual." Which of these identical sounding words does the title refer to? It'd give away the game to say!
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I've started learning Japanese and realizing how many homophones and similar sounding words there are have given me deep appreciation for the pun and double meaning games the language lets you play.
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Pollyanna posted:Does Singular Point ever shut up? Not really
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Pollyanna posted:Does Singular Point ever shut up? yeah, final episode
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Pollyanna posted:Does Singular Point ever shut up? I don't think I ever understood a single thing happening in Singular Point, but liked it anyway.
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Apparently there is a novelization in Japan that actually has sections that explain a lot of the theoretical physics behind SP and I would pay real loving earth dollars for a translation. Someone on Twitter was translating snippets and I found it absolutely fascinating.
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I find most anime to be way too dialogue heavy for their own good. Singular Point somehow plants itself past the extreme end of that scale.
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