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mllaneza posted:I'd compare Skull Island to Aliens. They're both films that reference Them (1954).
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Schwarzwald posted:They're both films that reference Them (1954). Real talk, if anyone in this thread some how has not seen Them! Do so right the gently caress now
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Burkion posted:Real talk, if anyone in this thread some how has not seen Them! And The Giant Behemoth right after
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Kong is REALLY good. I am actually considering buying it and I haven't bought anything since... well, Godzilla 2014.
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Burkion posted:Real talk, if anyone in this thread some how has not seen Them! I have loved that movie since I was in grade school. It aired during AMC's Monsterfest a couple of years ago and I was pleasantly surprised how well the the sound and visual effects held up. (Considering the time it was made.) However DO NOT watch The Giant Spider.
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K. Waste posted:These elemental themes are making me think that the new flick is gonna hue closer to GMK. Won't lie, gonna be mildly disappointed when this turns out to be a GMK remake instead of a Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster remake.
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mllaneza posted:I'd compare Skull Island to Aliens. As the mystery unfolds characters are picked off one by one by weird and deadly critters. I also compare them as fun action movies. And it has Samuel L. Jackson doing his best Captain Ahab impression. What's not to love ? 8.5/10, did everything it wanted to and did it well. It's very Aliens. Kid from that piece of poo poo Project X is straight up Hudson. And that made me sad because Bill Paxton is dead. 
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You could watch Kong: Skull Island right after King Kong Escapes and not miss a beat. Actually, do that, watch King Kong Escapes and then Skull Island. Mecha Gojira posted:Won't lie, gonna be mildly disappointed when this turns out to be a GMK remake instead of a Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster remake. I mean, if it's a bad remake I don't know that it matters. Then again, I'm really down with GMK.
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Look, if there's not a subtitled sequence of Rodan and Godzilla telling Mothra to gently caress off, I'm not sure why I want to be in the theater.
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Jul 15, 2017 16:04
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I would absolutely settle for two little girls translating for them, for the record. "My Godzilla, what terrible language!"
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Jul 15, 2017 16:09
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The best thing about G '14 was that he was animated so well that you could tell what he was thinking just from his facial expressions. Like in the climax and the Flying MUTO was zipping by him, you could tell G was thinking "You fucker".
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Jul 15, 2017 16:16
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Tired ol' bear was an oddly inspired choice for Godzilla.
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Jul 15, 2017 16:56
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The great smog entry is a real missed opportunity for a Hedorah reference
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DeimosRising posted:The great smog entry is a real missed opportunity for a Hedorah reference Was that not what it was?
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K. Waste posted:Was that not what it was? The text says something garbled about "beating" [of wings] presumably causing an "anticyclone" which trapped mundane pollution a la Mexico City or Salt Lake City. Hedorah ain't got no wings and that doesn't sound like the same thing at all
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DeimosRising posted:The text says something garbled about "beating" [of wings] presumably causing an "anticyclone" which trapped mundane pollution a la Mexico City or Salt Lake City. Hedorah ain't got no wings and that doesn't sound like the same thing at all Hedorah totally can fly though, and it could just be that the pollution itself is a harbinger of what's to come I mean, you set up your MonsterVerse, you have some poo poo about smog, I'm gonna think of the smog monster
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K. Waste posted:Hedorah totally can fly though, and it could just be that the pollution itself is a harbinger of what's to come Sure but that blurb doesn't sound like Hedorah at all
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DeimosRising posted:The text says something garbled about "beating" [of wings] presumably causing an "anticyclone" which trapped mundane pollution a la Mexico City or Salt Lake City. Hedorah ain't got no wings and that doesn't sound like the same thing at all Maybe he was fighting something with wings.
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Jul 15, 2017 23:57
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When's Monarch gonna make Mechagodzilla?
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It's a new Hedorah. Open your minds.
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K. Waste posted:Dagahra is the best inclusion on that alleged canon. Like, yes, the D-list villain of Mothra 2 (a movie everyone hates) is the second most deadly kaiju of all (if you split the estimate between Rodan and Anguirus). Hedorah is the greatest and I'm glad that Canada was not affected by the Kaiju threat.
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Hell I would have done Hedorah in the first sequel. A CGI smog monster is a no brainer. Kong: Skull Island is fun. Definitely has echoes of Aliens and Them!, a good balance of light and dark moments, Brie Larson with 70s hair, etc. Of the many, MANY post-Avengers attempts at a "cinematic universe" this is the one that seems on the surest footing (which makes sense given the obvious parallel between the Showa Godzilla films and contemporary superhero comics.)
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I find it works because it's not really that intricate a universe. It's just Godzilla and King Kong, and most of the interconnected plot stuff seems to be mostly in the background, though that may change moving forward since both series have been established now.
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I think it works because the groundwork is just "giant monsters can pop up wherever, and they're prone to smashing and fighting." No complex backstories or motives, just embiggened monstas. I managed to read the tie in comic to kong today. So far, only 2 issues in, it's already getting weird. Edit: I tracked down the tie in prequel comic to G14 too and now know the 1954 incident you can see on the timeline. In 1945, immediately following Hiroshima, a MUTO (actually the codeword for all unidentified Kaiju) was awakened from deep beneath the surface. It feeds on radiation, and can regenerate from very small pieces like a starfish. They name it Shinomura. It looks like a giant black flying thing, possibly a stingray? Anyways, its attacks lead Gen. MacArthur to form Monarch (included among its ranks being Ishiro Serizawa's father). While tracking the Shinomura over the years, evidence keeps mounting of Gojira's existence and it repeatedly chasing it off. Finally in 1954 Monarch confirms Goji's existence when the two are spotted fighting on Moansta Island (groan). They then chase the two to the Bikini Atoll where they drop an a-bomb, under the claim of "tests", destroying Shinomura. Gojira's status after this is unknown for some time. Choco1980 fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Jul 16, 2017 |
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Is there a suggested viewing list for these? I've seen the original and a smattering of others over the years, plus the US ones.
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Burkion posted:Real talk, if anyone in this thread some how has not seen Them! We need more giant inscet movies in general. It boggles my mind that we haven't had a mainstream one since ... Eight Legged Freaks? (I know those are arachnids)
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Charlz Guybon posted:We need more giant inscet movies in general. It boggles my mind that we haven't had a mainstream one since ... Eight Legged Freaks? (I know those are arachnids) SyFy have been keeping the tradition going strong with films like Mansquito, Lavalantula and 2Lava2Lantula but there's also been recent mainstream films like Big rear end Spider and the upcoming It Came from the Desert . Wikipedia has a handy list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_horror_films
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Detective No. 27 posted:Tired ol' bear was an oddly inspired choice for Godzilla. It seems obvious to me they used that huge rear end prehistoric bear as reference for G14 and it was a great choice. EDIT: short faced bear  G14:  Happy Noodle Boy fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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I love Crocofaced Bear Godzilla. I also love Dino Weasel face with tiny cat ears Godzilla. I love all Godzillas.
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Rough Lobster posted:I love Crocofaced Bear Godzilla. I also love Dino Weasel face with tiny cat ears Godzilla. 
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Being set on fire multiple times is bad for the skin.
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Chronojam posted:Is there a suggested viewing list for these? I've seen the original and a smattering of others over the years, plus the US ones. yes. all of them. 
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Real talk, that suit gets a bad rap, but is actually pretty impressive. The thing is gigantic. I think it's around 7 and a half to 8 feet tall. And from certain angles it doesn't look too bad. It's just, they made it to look like the Minya suit, and gently caress if that wasn't a sinfully ugly little fella. I am willing to go to bat for that Godzilla suit though. God knows it's not the worst looking one.
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Chronojam posted:Is there a suggested viewing list for these? I've seen the original and a smattering of others over the years, plus the US ones. When I watched all of them back in January, I used the IMDB "connections" page for the original to figure out the order. I didn't search too hard to see if there were fan sites that had a better list. Also, Sally Forth this past month has been having the family at a made up Kaiju theme park since the writer is a big kaiju fan: 
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As a kid, my friend dubbed that Godzilla "Meat-Patty Face." Alternatively, "Hamburger-Patty Face."
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duz posted:When I watched all of them back in January, I used the IMDB "connections" page for the original to figure out the order. I didn't search too hard to see if there were fan sites that had a better list. Sally Forth has always been the innocuous family comedy of the newspaper comic strip world, waffling between mushy and silly. And the writer's love of cheesy b-movies has long been something integrated into the family's life.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:SyFy have been keeping the tradition going strong with films like Mansquito, Lavalantula and 2Lava2Lantula but there's also been recent mainstream films like Big rear end Spider and the upcoming It Came from the Desert . Big rear end Spider? That's a loving terrible name. Also, doesn't seem to have seen wide release, which I'm pretty sure Eight Legged Freaks did. Lol, watched the trailer for It came from the Desert, looks terrible, but in a good way. Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jul 21, 2017 |
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Choco1980 posted:Sally Forth has always been the innocuous family comedy of the newspaper comic strip world, waffling between mushy and silly. And the writer's love of cheesy b-movies has long been something integrated into the family's life. 
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Charlz Guybon posted:Big rear end Spider? That's loving terrible name. Also, doesn't seem to have seen wide release, which I'm pretty sure Eight Legged Freaks did. Big rear end Spider is legit good and worth a watch it's a shame it got buried in the pile of all these Syfy movies.
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Gaz2k21 posted:Big rear end Spider is legit good and worth a watch it's a shame it got buried in the pile of all these Syfy movies. No it's not and not it's not
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