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this rules and i hope your Godzilla-aided recovery was speedy
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Minus One Minus Color is getting a US release! announce a bluray toho
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JacquelineDempsey posted:
It's funny you say that, my wife was in the ER last week and she's been going through a squishmallow fixation, so I picked up their Godzilla for her on my way over  Hope you're doing ok now!
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Minus One Minus Color is getting a US release! We move one step closer to Cozzilla Minus One
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Asterite34 posted:We move one step closer to Cozzilla Minus One oh man someone should do this. is Luigi Cozzi still alive?
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:oh man someone should do this. is Luigi Cozzi still alive? As far as I know, him and Dario Argento are still hanging around and running a used bookstore in Rome
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Asterite34 posted:As far as I know, him and Dario Argento are still hanging around and running a used bookstore in Rome god that rules
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Detective No. 27 posted:The only reason I resent this black and white release and general success of the movie is that I have a probably unfounded fear that it’s keeping the home release back. It's unfounded. At this point There hasn't been an announcement in Japan for home video yet. They usually take a LONG time to put out disks so it might not even be until December or next Springtime tbh. Hell, there still isn't a Shin Kamen Rider blu ray out.
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That’s weird, I feel like Shin Ultraman came out pretty quick on blu
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Big Mean Jerk posted:That’s weird, I feel like Shin Ultraman came out pretty quick on blu Usually in Japan it takes around 8 months or so for releases. I mean I'm hoping that Minus 1 comes sooner, but who knows. It was around 9 months for Shin Godzilla to be released on disk in Japan.
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Minus One is back at my local theater next week you know I'm gonna go rewatch it.
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Arc Hammer posted:Minus One is back at my local theater next week you know I'm gonna go rewatch it. Huh, I just checked if there's any sessions at all here in Australia and there's a few cinemas which are still showing it. They're all a long long way away from me though.
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Asterite34 posted:As far as I know, him and Dario Argento are still hanging around and running a used bookstore in Rome Going to need some elaboration on this.
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https://twitter.com/titangoji/status/1747804686709575854?t=YB0FP81OmVqW4yaSn5XyAw&s=19 Now I wish I could see the minus color version but I doubt it's coming to Ottawa. It's not just a desaturated cut.
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I've already seen it three times but I'll go if my local IMAX gets it. Never got to make it to an IMAX screening
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Hollismason posted:Going to need some elaboration on this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profondo_Rosso_(store) Cozzi co-owns the place and sells a bunch of his books there, likes to hang around in the afternoon and chitchat about cinema The basement has a spooky horror movie memorabilia museum! Asterite34 fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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Need to win the Lottery so I can go to that store. I've actually met Dario once, made him sign my prosthetic leg, man barely speaks a word of English and my Italian isn't conversational so we didn't have a very fruitful discussion. Mostly just nods.
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Arc Hammer posted:https://twitter.com/titangoji/status/1747804686709575854?t=YB0FP81OmVqW4yaSn5XyAw&s=19 This looks fantastic, I'm very hyped. Looks like at least one local place is gonna be showing it for at least a week, so I'll definitely be seeing it again
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Minus One Minus Color is getting a US release! Alas, not showing near me. Closest is 50mi away 
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Convinced my mom and stepdad to go see Minus One. My stepdad is a casual fan, but my mom has pretty much hated the movies - the Japanese ones because she hates subtitles and thinks the suits are cheesy, and the American ones because she lumps them in with marvel movies in terms of being CGI heavy action movies. But, I convinced her to come along, and she ended up loving it! She said she had no trouble following the subtitles, and she enjoyed the story! All in all, the only way it could have been better would be if we'd been able to find an IMAX showing nearby.
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Well, watched Godzilla '85. There are just four movies where Godzilla is the only giant monster. ("Just". Like that's not a pretty decent number of films itself). The original, of course, the classic. Shin, the movie that smashed all records in Japan, bringing Godzilla back to glory in his homeland after the failure of Final Wars. Minus One, which is drawing raves across the pacific... And Godzilla 1984. Which exists. Okay, that's unfair. Godzilla 1984 was another big comeback, the start of the wildly successful Heisei era, and a reasonably successful film in its own right, even if it made less than Toho was hoping, and there's something to be said for the back to basics approach. It's just... it only has the back to basics approach, and even then they had some gaps. Where Shin and Minus One got real mileage from presenting the difficulties of fighting Godzilla with "realistic" technologies (Anno even interviewed JSDF personnel to get their takes on how they'd approach the situation with their real limitations.), 1984 has a flying laser-tank to fight Godzilla with no particular effort to justify its presence. There's just sci-fi supertech in Heisei, and we have to deal with it. Helpful for the later crazier films, but less helpful for the return to the start the film aimed to be. More importantly, though, there's another big difference between 1984 and the other three solo outings, a part of why they're the big three, while it's an also-ran, and that's the characters. Without a giant monster to fight him, Godzilla is opposed by the people of Japan, centered around our human leads. At least, that's the general gist, even in some of the monster mash pictures. The humans we care about are the ones who matter. (Even to an unreasonable degree, like Japan's defenses being coordinated by the hero kid's dad in Smog Monster because... he got attacked by Hedorah?) Here, though, our heroes are mostly just bystanders. The reporter hero, his girlfriend, and her brother might be some of the first people to realize Godzilla's back, and they might consult with the professor whose ideas lead to Godzilla's defeat, but for the most part they're just bystanders, people who happen to be in the way when Godzilla is meandering around, before running into a comic relief vagrant who has a small but pointless subplot, and then running away to assist with the backup plan after the Super X runs out of ammo. They don't feel like an opposing force to Godzilla, people forced to confront a power they cannot control in almost doomed but heroic struggle. Instead, they just... exist, while the fate of the world is determined by the politicians and soldiers who the film gives much less focus and characterization. Apparently, the film was a bit of a flop with Godzilla fans in Japan when it was released, leading to the writing contest for Biolante, which failed worse, leading to King Ghidorah and the path that Heisei took to success. But that's all trivia now, a bit of interesting memory about a less interesting film. Returns did a lot of good for Godzilla, looking back. But on its own, it's the weakest of the solo films by far (not counting Emmerich, of course), and doesn't do much that some other film didn't do better. I want to say more here than "so it goes". I want to have some grand unified vision becoming clearer and clearer as I see more of the series. But no. I'm still about where I was when I started the year. Godzilla films can be very good, very bad, and very bad in a good way, but for most of them, they're just something you kinda throw on TV and half forget. It's a strange place to be, both having my childhood love validated more thoroughly than I ever expected (both in seeing more really good Godzilla films, and in seeing Vs. King Ghidorah live up to the best childhood visions of its idiotic glory), and being reminded that there were very good reasons most Godzilla films got so little respect.
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The only thing I remember from that movie is the haunting cry of Godzilla falling into the volcano.
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The first time I saw anything about Godzilla 84 is when I took my first trip to Japan in September of that year. I went to a movie and the trailer for it came up. Everyone in the theater started talking to each other somewhat excitedly after the trailer ended. People were really interested that the Big G was coming back. I finally got to see it in 1985, Dr. Pepper and all. What an odd film. Definitely a reflection of its era though. Edit: got my ticket for Godzilla -1/C 
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Gripweed posted:Every Heisei movie should've ended with the monster getting tricked to fall in a pit. This would make a great backstory for the Monsterverse films.
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 Minus color is coming to my small southeast US city!I'm super excited to see just the film itself again, because I wasn't feeling well the day we first saw it. Got a splitting headache about 1/3 in, started feeling achy and couldn't get comfortable in my seat, got so lethargic I almost wanted to fall asleep during the quiet moments! Yeah, turns out I had caught the COVID*. So not the best way to experience such a good film. Immensely looking forward to seeing it when I'm not thinking "oof, my head, I wish this wasn't so loud" (that's when I knew something was very, very wrong with my body). Bring it on!!! *There were maybe 6-8 other people in the theater at a 1:15 Wednesday matinee, so hopefully I didn't spread it to anyone.
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Gripweed posted:Every Heisei movie should've ended with the monster getting tricked to fall in a pit. There's also the old anti-Gamera scheme where we trick it into falling into a huge spaceship so we can shoot it into space and leave it on Mars. It's the perfect plan, what could possible go wrong??
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I finally got to see it in 1985, Dr. Pepper and all. What an odd film. Definitely a reflection of its era though. Dr. Pepper is my most clear memory of that film
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's also the old anti-Gamera scheme where we trick it into falling into a huge spaceship so we can shoot it into space and leave it on Mars. It's the perfect plan, what could possible go wrong?? nothing went wrong, that's why the showa gamera sequels are just people saying "remember when we launched that turtle into space" and going about their days
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Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:nothing went wrong, that's why the showa gamera sequels are just people saying "remember when we launched that turtle into space" and going about their days The problem is all the children building rockets to visit Gamera on Mars, making it so that no-one else can get fuel for their cars to go to work. It's the complicated ethical issue at the heart of the Gamera films.
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Minus One got the VFX Oscar nomination.
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Miching Mallecho posted:Minus One got the VFX Oscar nomination. Nothing else tho 
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Not Best Foreign Film?! I doubt it'd win it, but I assumed it be nominated. It could have justified a Best Screenplay/Script (whichever it is)and - again probably wouldn't win but could be nominated.
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