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holefoods posted:my showing at regal didn’t even have trailers they just did the poo poo where they basically show tv commercials and then rolled straight into the movie about 15 minutes after the advertised start time Wtf? This should be illegal.
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dog nougat posted:Oh poo poo! I didn't realize they were continuing the Planet of the Apes movies! I was worried they had died off. Just watched the trailer for it and I'm fuckin stoked. I'm cautiously optimistic, the last 3 are my some of my fav movies of all time.
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My showing had Planet of the Apes, some romantic comedy about two jerks pretending to be engaged, and and some thriller about the US and Russian crews of the ISS being ordered to kill one another while a nuclear war breaks out on Earth. Probably something else. Didn't care. All conscious brain space dedicated to movie alone.
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Desumaytah posted:US and Russian crews of the ISS being ordered to kill one another while a nuclear war breaks out on Earth. I'd book tickets to that in a hot second.
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Gripweed posted:There was a bad Elvis movie too? I guess it was totally overshadowed by that awesome Elvis movie that came out a few years ago The only good Elvis movie is Priscilla, which shows what an abusive dick he was. I can't take the other Elvis movie seriously because the lead actor accidently got stuck doing the accent for all of time.
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Bubba Ho-Tep is the best Elvis movie (and possibly the only good one).
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holefoods posted:my showing at regal didn’t even have trailers they just did the poo poo where they basically show tv commercials and then rolled straight into the movie about 15 minutes after the advertised start time got me beat. the regal i saw it at had a solid 20 minutes of commercials, followed by a solid twenty minutes of trailers with a couple commercials interspersed. how fortunate i am to have seen a preview of Blumhouse's upcoming classic, hosed Up Teddy Bear: The Shittest Goddamned Teddy Bear You Ever Did See, Just A Total Piece of poo poo, though
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Gambit from the X-Men posted:hosed Up Teddy Bear: The Shittest Goddamned Teddy Bear You Ever Did See, Just A Total Piece of poo poo, though Yeah, I'm pretty tired of Steve Carell too.
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I have a dumb question Godzilla thread. Are any of the other kaiju movies like Shin Godzilla's weird focus on meetings and bureaucracy? I don't recall anything like that in the old old movies, but I haven't seen any of them in decades. I've watched a couple of the US made ones that were nothing like it either. I did recently watch the original 50s movie which I enjoyed more than I expected, but also not really meetings porn either. I'm not a person who normally rewatches movies that much, but for some reason I can watch Shin Godzilla over and over there must be some broken part of my brain it soothes.
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The original Gamera has a really funny scene where the military comes up with a foolproof plan to defeat him and gives a presentation on it, but it isn't the focus of the entire movie like in Shin.
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I dont know if there's much in the way of kaiju bureaucracy but now I'm imagining an Armando Iannuci show where the government Department of Social Affairs and Kaiju Attacks had to deal with frequent monster issues while 90% of the dialogue is creative swearing. Malcolm Tucker vs Godzilla.
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I wouldn't say it was very good at all but the kaiju preservation society book had a lot to do with the people and their organization.
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FuzzySlippers posted:I can watch Shin Godzilla over and over
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FuzzySlippers posted:I have a dumb question Godzilla thread. Are any of the other kaiju movies like Shin Godzilla's weird focus on meetings and bureaucracy? I don't recall anything like that in the old old movies, but I haven't seen any of them in decades. I've watched a couple of the US made ones that were nothing like it either. I did recently watch the original 50s movie which I enjoyed more than I expected, but also not really meetings porn either. the Heisei films have meetings and war rooms and bureaucracy but it's all played straight and not the main focus, except maybe in Biollante. That film is pretty interesting imo as the first film to really start showing how Japanese bureaucracy would react to a Godzilla threat. In earlier entries the military is sending tanks or superweapons or specific anti-Godzilla plans, but in Biollante you get a real feel for the huge bureaucracy at work and how the characters are just tiny actors in this sprawling system. It gets more perfunctory in the following Heisei films.
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FuzzySlippers posted:I have a dumb question Godzilla thread. Are any of the other kaiju movies like Shin Godzilla's weird focus on meetings and bureaucracy? I don't recall anything like that in the old old movies, but I haven't seen any of them in decades. I've watched a couple of the US made ones that were nothing like it either. I did recently watch the original 50s movie which I enjoyed more than I expected, but also not really meetings porn either. My friend, there is a Columbia Pictures movie from 1957 called "The Giant Claw." It's 72 minutes long. If you haven't heard of it, please go into it blind.
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Desumaytah posted:My friend, there is a Columbia Pictures movie from 1957 called "The Giant Claw." It's 72 minutes long. If you haven't heard of it, please go into it blind. this is violence
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:this is violence Well now I'm going to watch it.
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Upon rewatch: Oh my god The Giant Claw is exactly Shin Godzilla. Holy poo poo. Holy poo poo it rules.
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Yo spoilers for this poo poo movie that's actually The Giant Claw (But also it's Shin Godzilla) A bunch of nerds talk a lot in a bunch of rooms about how to handle a physically impossible being that kills a bunch of high-ranking govt. officials being air-transported in a single attack. Nerdiest girl says the main character is smelly. The youth generation suck and are useless. Monster is recognized as a threat by the international community and a plan to kill it is made through connections and backroom deals. Monster is mostly absent from the third act until the climax. During said climax, the physical structure of the city the monster is in serves to hamper its attempts to fight back. Movie ends on a shot of one of the monster's gnarled appendages reaching towards the sky. Desumaytah fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Dec 19, 2023 |
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That's a fun parallel. Highly recommend going into The Giant Claw completely unspoiled.FuzzySlippers posted:I have a dumb question Godzilla thread. Are any of the other kaiju movies like Shin Godzilla's weird focus on meetings and bureaucracy? I don't recall anything like that in the old old movies, but I haven't seen any of them in decades. I've watched a couple of the US made ones that were nothing like it either. I did recently watch the original 50s movie which I enjoyed more than I expected, but also not really meetings porn either. Godzilla Raids again has meetings. It's also the worst Godzilla movie (yes, worse than All Monsters Attack).
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Failson posted:Godzilla Raids again has meetings. It's also the worst Godzilla movie (yes, worse than All Monsters Attack). But also Spacegodzilla and all three of the anime ones.
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Desumaytah posted:But also Spacegodzilla and all three of the anime ones. I like how this can mean both that these have way more tedious meetings and also that they are way worse movies (both are true). Like, Godzilla Raids Again sucks but it introduces Anguirus so it's automatically 10,000x better than Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla and the Planet of the Monsters movies. Space Godzilla: What if Godzilla had two giant crystals growing out of his rear end and we make the most disjointed Godzilla flick ever. Planet of the Monsters: What if we make the absolute most awesome premise ever for Godzilla-centric monster action but do it in the most boring way humanly possible!
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Intellectually I know that every monster has fans but it's still hard emotionally for me to understand someone being really into Anguirus.
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Gripweed posted:Intellectually I know that every monster has fans but it's still hard emotionally for me to understand someone being really into Anguirus. - cool honk - spikes - will kill himself trying to beat your rear end
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I love all monsters. King Caesar club. 🤘🏻
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Seeeeesah seeeeeeeeesah seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesaaaahh
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Godzilla Raids Again is interesting as a film from before they really had the kaiju formula worked out. They couldn't/didn't want to do something as intense or brutal as Gojira, so they try to focus more on a community of people and how it's impacted by giant monsters appearing, two guys who work for the fishworks spot the monsters, the fishworks gets destroyed so they have to move north, etc. It feels very old-fashioned even compared to the first, like something from the 40s. It also treats the monsters as more like animals, a little less powerful compared to OG Godzilla being this seemingly unstoppable demon. The main knock against it is the whole plot device with the escaped criminals takes a LONG time to play out just to have a reason for the defense plan to not work.
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Gripweed posted:Intellectually I know that every monster has fans but it's still hard emotionally for me to understand someone being really into Anguirus. They are all good monsters (his "heroic sacrifice" in DAM earned fans, he and Godzilla have a chat in vs. Gigan, and his sequence in Final Wars is fun on a bun). I'll defend DAM as being a great gateway for kids and kaiju movies. The tokyo attack and aftermath is still fun, Yukiko Kobayashi is great.
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Gripweed posted:Intellectually I know that every monster has fans but it's still hard emotionally for me to understand someone being really into Anguirus. I'm glad you have been destroyed by facts and logic already posted. 
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Gripweed posted:Intellectually I know that every monster has fans but it's still hard emotionally for me to understand someone being really into Anguirus. There’s something I just instinctively hate about Anguirus and I could not even begin to put into words why. He’s just so dumb-looking. I hate him.
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Gambit from the X-Men posted:got me beat. the regal i saw it at had a solid 20 minutes of commercials, followed by a solid twenty minutes of trailers with a couple commercials interspersed. how fortunate i am to have seen a preview of Blumhouse's upcoming classic, hosed Up Teddy Bear: The Shittest Goddamned Teddy Bear You Ever Did See, Just A Total Piece of poo poo, though They're making an Achewood movie? Gripweed posted:Intellectually I know that every monster has fans but it's still hard emotionally for me to understand someone being really into Anguirus. Go rewatch Vs Gigan and it should be clear, that's the movie that really establishes Anguirus as the scrappy underdog of Toho's monsters, as well as being Godzilla's buddy
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Back from a second Minus One viewing. I kept it together the first time around, but the small scene where they're telling the kid to hang back and that he should be proud he's never been to war, I cried a bit this time. It's so loving good. The film is so loving good. As an aside, I HAD to watch the Godzilla 54 again over the weekend and man, that's lost none of its power. I think it's great horror more than anything. The inky blackness of the sea looks deadly, the aging, graininess of the film and general darkness making Godzilla look like an indistinct, hulking personification of death.
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:That film is pretty interesting imo as the first film to really start showing how Japanese bureaucracy would react to a Godzilla threat. In earlier entries the military is sending tanks or superweapons or specific anti-Godzilla plans, but in Biollante you get a real feel for the huge bureaucracy at work and how the characters are just tiny actors in this sprawling system. It gets more perfunctory in the following Heisei films. Yeah, that's part of what I really dig about Shin Godzilla. Everyone is thrown into this absurd situation that they all take absolutely seriously. There's a younger go-getter bureaucrat who is the main character, but it's still the entire system that works together. Kinda feels the opposite of the US Godzilla movies I've watched where it's so intensly focused on the hero and their journey to do whatever heroic thing. Thats Godzilla vs. Biollante? Desumaytah posted:My friend, there is a Columbia Pictures movie from 1957 called "The Giant Claw." It's 72 minutes long. If you haven't heard of it, please go into it blind.  it's playing in another window now. It's definitely in the old low budget monster movie mold of being lots of narration over stock footage so far.
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