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DisposableHero posted:In hindsight I should have taken a photo of their display. That one I believe was sold out (I definitely didn't see it) and I ended up with a Godzilla and a Hedorah that are both kinda lustrous purple. I'll grab a photo when I have a chance and share back in the sofubi thread. These are so cool  I’m too broke for most sofubi, but I love the little finger puppets you can usually find for cheap. I’ve been buying up the Ultraman monsters I like as I work my way through the shows and they’re all so cool. Even the ones that are clearly made quick from spare suits still have a certain charm.
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MrMojok posted:Please, tell us a little more, in spoiler tags. Any other interesting little tidbits you can think of? Sure. I have been phone posting so worried I'd flub it and spoil folks. I'll break it up with some seperate sections for easy pick and choose spoiling but some of these might be considered story spoilers. Movie timeframe: The movie takes place over the course of years from 1945 to 1947. Setting: Most of the movie takes place either in Tokyo or in the ocean around Japan. You spend a fair amount of time at sea Godzilla behavior and biology: Godzilla's tendency to stick out of the water at waist height despite the ocean being way to deep to stand comes up a lot. It's even illustrated in a late movie plot point Early movie godzilla biology he starts smaller in 1945. Like 2 or maybe 3 stories. He gets bigger later on Mid to late movie godzilla biology Godzilla is much bigger. It's hard to judge but mutiple times bigger. Taller than 5 or 6 story buildings. The radiation breath attack is extremely bad rear end. The spines glow and extend starting from end of the tail to the head in an accelerating rythm. When the breath attack fires they all slam down on his back. His face is singled and he regenerates each time The feet. They are huge and stompy Movie action (throughout) (some story spoilers) there is some pretty decent human ingenuity used to combat and attempt to escape. My favorite being a boat that decomissions sea mines from the war. They extend a mine on a long line, re-arm it and get Godzilla to bite it. It doesn't ignite so they fire a gun they used to blow up mines to set it off in his mouth. I could do more detail once I have a chance to think on it. Still pretty pumped with what I saw.
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DisposableHero posted:Sure. Thanks so much for telling us this. I was already super-pumped to see the film. Now I am even more super-pumped.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here in Melbourne Australia there's a handful of cinemas which will show it in the first week of December (only a single 6:30pm session per day, lol) but my local IMAX cinema also has a handful of sessions. There's an early screening at Melb Central Hoyts on the 21st of Nov by the looks of it
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thepokey posted:There's an early screening at Melb Central Hoyts on the 21st of Nov by the looks of it Ooh that definitely wasn't there when I checked session times a few days ago. I'm in, let's do this
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Der-Wreck posted:Aw that stinks Take this with a grain of salt but I was desperate and messaged Landmark Grant Park on FB and they responded with this: quote:Hi there, there I currently no exhibitor for this film in Canada, we anticipate sometime in December
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I had no idea what this was going to be about, but I noped pretty hard when I saw the baby Kaiju thing. Also don't looooove the animation style. But, will still watch lol
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Just bought some 4DX tickets for Minus One. I haven't been to a 4DX theater before and have some reservations that it won't detract from the movie if it's really that good, but I'm bringing my kids and they'll love it. I assume there needs to be a fair amount of post-production work to make the format work well, so hopefully the film had the budget to do it properly. That said, a seat that shakes when Godzilla takes a step is pretty much my childhood dream so it should be awesome regardless. Now to just maintain the mental strength to stay spoiler free another few weeks.....
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Dangerous Person posted:4DX is dumb as hell but a lot of fun. I went to one for Alita and it made the race at the end feel really cool It was a good fit for Godzilla. The only kinda immersion breaking thing for me was the fans that pump in smells are kinda loud and obvious.
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https://twitter.com/tohokingdom/status/1723513023174983697?s=46&t=uiUehxbkNdNcN0PmfZ4Vaw I wanna see the other shirts. I’d buy that one in a heartbeat.
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Watched Godzilla vs Gigan last night on Pluto TV, first time I've seen that one in full in probably at least a decade and first time I've watched it in full in Japanese, and man Godzilla and Anguirus just get the piss beaten out of them for most of the movie till they manage to turn things around at the end
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Detective No. 27 posted:https://twitter.com/tohokingdom/status/1723513023174983697?s=46&t=uiUehxbkNdNcN0PmfZ4Vaw They’re all available here it seems: https://heroesvillains.com/collections/godzilla?page=2 Look pretty good.
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Monarch show looked pretty good and this review seems to agree https://www.avclub.com/monarch-legacy-of-monsters-review-apple-tv-plus-1851005325 Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters review: A surprisingly good Godzilla series quote:The show is good—surprisingly good—in a way that occasionally surpasses the stuff you see in the movies. For example, Millie Bobby Brown being Godzilla’s friend in Godzilla: King Of The Monsters was a narrative contrivance, like the movie just needed someone on the human side who could root for the lizard. Most of Monarch’s humans, though, offer a more grounded take on the human perspective, like Anna Sawai’s Cate, who was left deeply traumatized after witnessing the destruction of San Francisco in the 2014 Godzilla movie.
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First two episodes of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters are out on Apple+. They’re mostly well made, but tbh I didn’t find them super interesting. Mostly because they spend basically their entire runtime just having the characters find out Titans and Monarch exist even though a) obviously none of this is a mystery to us, the audience, but also b) because it’s set in 2015, a post-Godzilla world, but somehow everything is still super hush-hush to the point where you even have cabbies spouting Titan denial conspiracy theories. I dunno, maybe it’ll get better as it goes along but so far you’ve spent 20% of your season just rehashing Act 1 of G14 (and kinda Act 1 of Skull Island as well), but worse. That’s a bummer.
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Gripweed posted:Surf Dracula strikes again. This is going to supplant “when are they going to get to the fireworks factory” in my head now.
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Finally back from Japan. Sharing my relevant loot here as well. I could have happily bought more if suitcase space and budgets weren't a concern. Getting to see the movie there and be a little caught up in the local promotions for it was really cool. Probably not something I could luck into arranging again.
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I like Monarch so far. They've been a pretty generic faceless corporation in the movies so far and it's nice to have some lore established. I find myself more interested in the past storyline but I'm in interested in the long haul mystery being set up. The world building is fun so far: Tokyo retrofitting itself to prepare for titans, "Please resume regular life," people believing G-Day was a false flag.
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Thanks to a kind goon for PM'ing me - Minus 1 in Winnipeg at Grant for Nov 29th and 30th!! 
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Just came back from a screening of Minus 1. It's really good, might take some time to digest it but my only initial complaint is a feeling of I wanted more. Maybe more G, more destruction, something but the WW2 era setting really made it feel refreshingly different as I kinda hoped it would.
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thepokey posted:Just came back from a screening of Minus 1. It's really good, might take some time to digest it but my only initial complaint is a feeling of I wanted more. Maybe more G, more destruction, something but the WW2 era setting really made it feel refreshingly different as I kinda hoped it would. Same, and I also have to mull it over for a bit. It's great but I'm not sure about some of the themes, but it's pretty clear that the film is also a response to some of the themes in the 1954 film, especially the failed kamikaze pilot theme juxtaposed against Dr Serizawa's sacrifice in the original
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MrMojok posted:Is the Ifubuke theme used in the new film? You bet your rear end  Here's a Youtube soundtrack playlist
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Beautiful! Thank you.
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Shneak posted:I like Monarch so far. They've been a pretty generic faceless corporation in the movies so far and it's nice to have some lore established. I find myself more interested in the past storyline but I'm in interested in the long haul mystery being set up. Yep, wonderful so far.
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I just finished watching the first two episodes myself, and I quite enjoyed it. Looking forward to #3. What time do the new ones go up?
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I definitely understand why Gareth Edwards said he was envious of Minus 1 now. It has the tone that G14 should have had. It had the tone that the first trailers of G14 made it look like it had. I wonder (and maybe this has already been confirmed) if this was actually the tone Edwards wanted, or had, and the studio made changes. The film definitely has a pretty grim tone, but it also has just a few laughs sprinkled in here and there but they didn't beat you over the head with it and they actually fit the moments. They were funny things characters just occasionally said as opposed to someone who is there purely for comic relief. Hollywood really needs to learn how to do that
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thepokey posted:I wonder (and maybe this has already been confirmed) if this was actually the tone Edwards wanted, or had, and the studio made changes. This is almost certainly something that happened. Producer and then-head of Legendary Thomas Tull said "One hundred percent from the beginning it was he [Godzilla] has to fight other monsters and I wanna root for him. So that was a very conscious choice that- we all love Godzilla. Especially when they throw down I want people to be able to cheer for that." That's fine if you want to set out to make your movie that, but it's hard to square that with Edwards saying that he wants Godzilla to be "the punishment we deserve." And I think that tension is a big reason why (for me at least) Godzilla's role in the 2014 film didn't feel particularly interesting or satisfying.
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Just got my ticket to a 4DX showing next Friday. This is the most excited I've been for a movie all year
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See I like that the 2014 Godzilla was secretly the hero Godzilla, it's a nice misdirect. There's room for both.
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Vintersorg posted:Thanks to a kind goon for PM'ing me - Minus 1 in Winnipeg at Grant for Nov 29th and 30th!! Nice! Thank you both! I got my tix for the 30th. Can’t wait!
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Maxwell Lord posted:See I like that the 2014 Godzilla was secretly the hero Godzilla, it's a nice misdirect. There's room for both. People cheering in the theater during the film was incredible. I like that we have cool hero Godzilla and mean mother fucker Godzilla at the same time
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