Godzilla & Kaiju Movies: the most fun a man can have in a rubber suit

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Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

# ¿ Apr 14, 2016 17:00

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 08:34

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

I would assume that it's mostly a suit/puppet with CG touchups, mostly because CG in Japanese movies is usually pretty lowbudget.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 02:30

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Vintersorg posted:

Actually Aaron Taylor Johnson was perfectly serviceable as a army guy with a distant, hosed up dad who just returned from a army mission being shell shocked that there is a 100-story monster running around the globe chasing 2 other monsters the size of skyscrapers.

He was pretty good but I think everyone was expecting Cranston to be the main character.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 20:10

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

Dylazodelan posted:

G'14 put on a clinic in terms of misleading marketing. The very first trailer, with Godzilla rising out of the rubble and Oppenheimer doing his "I am death" speech, prepared me to see a film where Godzilla was death incarnate and rearing to tear humanity a new one. Instead, he was pretty chill and only wrecked people and stuff when it was explicitly in his way (the shot with him being flanked by Navy ships was cool, but I feel like that wouldn't have flown with the Godzilla we were shown in the trailer).

There were a lot of shots of Godzilla in the trailers that were either Godzilla fighting a MUTO or just a MUTO in the film.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 22:33

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

Watch it again. The teaser was, secretly, a sequel to the film - showing that Godzilla continues to save the world from monsters, after the MUTO attacks.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2016 23:22

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Especially since the early trailer teased a dead Kaiju which never appeared in the actual film:

A giant centipede kaiju would be pretty rad though

# ¿ Apr 17, 2016 19:08

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Detective No. 27 posted:

The allusions don't necessarily need to be instant killers. Pollution doesn't instantly kill people, but that doesn't make it less dangerous.

...if Hedorah was eating pollution, why was it necessary to kill him again?

# ¿ Apr 21, 2016 20:08

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PriorMarcus posted:

The weak roar and shakey puppet head at the end are terrible. The rest looks good.

Yeah, it clashes way too much with the rest of the trailer.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2016 03:04

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Mechafunkzilla posted:

Godzilla vs. Hedorah (the Smog Monster)

Probably the best of the Goofyzillas. Godzilla vs Megalon is also good.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2016 15:09

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

Hedorah is also really rad just as a monster and I hope it reappears in the near future

# ¿ Jul 21, 2016 01:31

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Owlofcreamcheese posted:

I only eat soylent because if I'm not eating fine lobster I might as well eat nutritional paste cum.

In this metaphor the soylent is the Godzilla parts of Godzilla films?

And the lobster is people talking about Godzilla?

And I guess you eat soylent and lobster at the same time?

Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Aug 3, 2016

# ¿ Aug 3, 2016 00:54

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

I hope that the recent return of Hedorah to Godzilla merchandise means that either Shin Godzilla 2 or Good American Godzilla 2 feature Hedorah. FWIW Yoshimitsu Banno was an executive producer on Godzilla 2014.

Anyway, that radioactive breath looks awesome. Much more in line with the sort of wanton, indiscriminate destruction of badguy Godzillas of the past.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2016 05:24

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

Choco1980 posted:

From what I understand, that was, after decades of trying, the only way Banno could get reattached to Godzilla. Previously, Tomoyuki Tanaka, as executive producer on the series, would heavily oversee the films as they were being made. During the early shooting of Hedorah, he had to be hospitalized for several weeks. Banno was all "Don't worry about it, I got this." When Tanaka saw the rocket jet flight scene, his first words were "they've ruined my Godzilla." and Banno was all but blacklisted in the Japanese film industry.

In 2008 he had secured both rights and funding for Godzilla 3D to the MAX, a 50 minute IMAX short that was cancelled in favour of Godzilla 2014. To quote wikipedia,

quote:

Godzilla 3D[edit]
In August 2004, Yoshimitsu Banno, who had directed 1971's Godzilla vs. Hedorah, announced that he had secured the rights from Toho to make a Godzilla IMAX 3D short film at his Advanced Audiovisual Productions (AAP) production company. The film was tentatively titled Godzilla 3D to the Max, and was to be a remake of the Godzilla vs. Hedorah story.[49] In 2005, American Peter Anderson, ASC was added to the project as cinematographer, visual effects supervisor and co-producer.[49] In 2007, American producer Brian Rogers signed on to the project after Peter Anderson introduced him to Banno and AAP producer Kenji Okuhira.[50] In 2007, also through Anderson, Kerner Optical then came on board to develop the technology and to produce the 3-D film [51][52] And with Kerner's backing, in the fall of 2007 the team met with Toho in Tokyo where they re-negotiated their license to allow the release of a feature-length 3-D theatrical production.[53][54] In 2008, Kerner was facing financial troubles that threatened to cancel the production. Rogers, Anderson and the then-proposed director Keith Melton met with Legendary Pictures to get their backing on a 3-D theatrical film.[55] In 2010, it was green-lit by Legendary to go to production.[56] From the AAP production team, Banno and Okuhira would remain on the project as executive producers and Rogers as a producer. In November 2013, Banno stated that he still planned to make a sequel to Godzilla vs. Hedorah.[57]

# ¿ Aug 12, 2016 00:38

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

K. Waste posted:

That sounds awesome, though.

Not if you like movies to look good

# ¿ Sep 17, 2016 20:18

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K. Waste posted:

It's the same principle as when a Universal Studios ride breaks down while you're on it, the lights go up, and you see the apparatus - that poo poo is often more technically marvelous than the threadbare attempts to disguise it

I don't watch movies in the hopes of seeing how they were made. That's what documentaries are for.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2016 22:01

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Choco1980 posted:

Funny enough, the cities get even worse treatment from the "make fun of you for liking it" crowd, yet they're often a goddamn masterpiece, especially the early ones. Tsubaraya did some AMAZINGLY detailed work at recreating Japanese cities to look exactly like the real thing. Rodan especially has some impressive photo-realistic stuff. The big problem is most of these were in the 60s, when most architecture was just "plain square buildings" for the most part, so it's easy to overlook the detail level. Tsubaraya once got in trouble with the US military, because his aircraft carrier overhead shot (of a model, natch) was close enough to the real deal, that they thought he was actually doing illegal flyovers of their ships for the footage.

I absolutely adore those miniature cities and if I had the space and money I would totally build one myself.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2016 17:40

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# ¿ Sep 20, 2016 20:17

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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

I assume you seen the Malcolm in the Middle HD with booms in the shot and Darkside Dewey and the like.

It's hilarious and I'm glad it exists, mostly because I did not like the show at all.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 01:09

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Swiss Knight posted:

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but Canadian theaters have been added to the Funimation Godzilla site. And for the guy who was lamenting the lack of Calgary theaters, both Eau Claire and the far superior Landmark Country Hills are included.

That is way more Candian theatres than I expected.

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 16:03

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Bimmi posted:

No, it's because your attitude suggests an impending dumb slapfight over a giant lizard movie and that is not going to happen.

Instead you're just gonna passive-aggressively bitch about how no one agrees with you

# ¿ Sep 25, 2016 17:07

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

Godzilla '14 should have come out of the screen and proposed to me.

Also the MUTOs were cute and reminded me of Snapping Turtles. I hope they appear again sometime.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2016 02:32

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

Been catching up on the thread after seeing the film on the 24th. Excellent movie, I love how weird it was while still feeling like a traditional Godzilla film.
I didn't see this posted upthread, here's Shin's gross tail.

Choco1980 posted:

I dunno, the New Years Eve spot they did with only like a minute to midnight where they had Zilla stop the ball dropping and fling it at the times square gatherers, was pretty great debut timing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIUAC03YMlA

# ¿ Oct 28, 2016 02:49

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

I really want Hedorah to come back in another Godzilla movie. Maybe Shin Godzilla 2

# ¿ Nov 11, 2016 22:12

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Dylazodelan posted:

My understanding was it's not a definite that Mothra et. al. show up in Godzilla 2, but that Legendary simply got the permission to use those characters. And gently caress them for not getting Gigan, because Gigan deserves better movies than he got.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2016 05:00

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

I like to imagine that Gigan and Megalon are BFFs and hang out all the time. They bond over their lack of hands and their shared love of smashing things.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2016 06:05

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

# ¿ Nov 12, 2016 19:00

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; Buglord

IIRC the fire breath doesn't ignite a whole lot before the beam comes out. The fire just sorta passes over. I'm probably misremembering though.

Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Nov 15, 2016

# ¿ Nov 15, 2016 16:19

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Bimmi posted:

I read quite a while back that they'd intended a fairly significant size difference, and would be exploring Kong's "natural advantages" in the eventual face-off, but it all remains to be seen.

Kong having electrical powers confirmed.

Wonder if we'll see Frankenstein or Mechakong?

# ¿ Nov 17, 2016 22:42