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Kaiju
« on: May 15, 2010, 03:10:31 PM »

I'd gotten into the habit of putting on a lot of these 50's/60's/70's monster flicks as silent visual "background noise" back when I was doing freelance stuff, and over the past four months I've fallen in love with this sort of thing. Take the sheer retarded fun of something like Destroy All Monsters or Zone Fighter and weigh it against the joyless military slog of any of the 90's or millennial stuff and only the former are remotely memorable. Hell, Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster is just the perfect balance of Dudes In Suits Beating The Tar Out Of One Another and random 60's experimentation:


I guess I'm just kind of fascinated by how there's nothing really like these flicks. Who the fuck thinks of making a movie about a thirty-story moth battling a three-headed armless space dragon? My friend's first Godzilla movie was Final Wars, and just the absolute batshit insanity of that flick to someone who has never seen any of the standard kaiju rouges gallery left him completely dumbfounded. How did movies like this make their own freaking genre? Ahhhhhhh

A good chunk of the 90's/early millennial stuff aside, what they're putting out now in Cloverfield and the last few Gamera flicks is actually possible to take semi-seriously. If they're not going to try and make this outright fun they've got to have the budget to make it look really good. Had the same view of Eva in many ways (although I might eat those words after how sucky the new series is so far).

Geharha's up next when I have the money.

Below is a sweet-ass Big G poster I'm thinking of getting printed onto one of those mini-posters:
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2010, 04:07:51 PM »

Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster

The only measure of whether or not a kaiju fan is worth talking to is whether or not they like this film.
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2010, 04:16:09 PM »

It's just pretty much the perfect monster movie from what I've seen. I never like the human characters in these things but the cheeky swinger guy and his girl are A++

The attack scenes flat out rule, there's all these trippy cartoon segments explaining the plot, and when G-Dogg shows up it's an honest-to-god throwdown

It's probably one of the most entertaining movies I can think of, and I'm surprised as hell to find it in a genre that's neigh-legendary for the amount of screen-time they can kill.
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2010, 04:27:39 PM »

WHOA

Apparently that new 3D Godzilla reboot they're making for 2011 is done by the same director, featuring Hidorah again.

From the Wiki:

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Director Yoshimitsu Banno will make Godzilla 3D: Godzilla vs. Deathla which is set to be released in 2011. This film features the monsters Godzilla and the new, chlorophyll-eating, Hedorah-like monster Deathla.

 :omg:
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2010, 05:16:16 PM »

I remember my first introduction to kaiju: I once stayed up until midnight mysteriously entranced by "Godzilla And Mothra."

I never really got into it, but I do own and love the original movie.

And I have this:

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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2010, 05:31:58 PM »

Man Godzilla vs. Barkley is older than TIME
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2010, 05:43:43 PM »

Is Deathla not only a huge monster, but from Singapore?
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2010, 12:42:17 PM »

I guess I'm just kind of fascinated by how there's nothing really like these flicks. Who the fuck thinks of making a movie about a thirty-story moth battling a three-headed armless space dragon? My friend's first Godzilla movie was Final Wars, and just the absolute batshit insanity of that flick to someone who has never seen any of the standard kaiju rouges gallery left him completely dumbfounded. How did movies like this make their own freaking genre? Ahhhhhhh

All postwar Japanese films can be traced back to the atomic bomb.
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2013, 08:28:33 AM »

Edit: Video got taken down... see below for another link.

Okay, holy shit. This was commissioned by Hideaki Anno for the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition on live-action special effects. It was produced by Studio Ghibli, and directed by Shinji Higuchi (the guy who wrote and storyboarded End of Eva).

It's off the heezy.

No subtitles yet.
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2013, 12:34:13 PM »



Worth mentioning that Anno was an animator on Nausicaa, and responsible for most of the God Warrior design.
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2013, 01:22:24 PM »

Apparently it's also going to be on the Evangelion 3.33 DVD.
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2013, 01:49:11 PM »

yesssssssssssss
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2013, 04:57:51 PM »

I will never forgive nor forget your love of Evangelion.
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Re: Kaiju
« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2013, 05:31:13 PM »

Looks like the video got taken down. Here's a different link: http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/65976/giant-god-warrior-appears-tokyo-must-see

I will never forgive nor forget your love of Evangelion.

I could explain it but the resulting debate would destroy us
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