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cool but whats with the screaming

yeah, the electronit version of the magazine has the letters and images separated, I tried posting it  a few days ago but I have a new account and the discussion got stuck on staff approval and never got publish

I'd wanna be batman.

@Junkerde

I'm aware and thanks for the insight, but all I was just delving a bit deeper, to the psychology of it. People hold their opinions to their self worth and individuality, so when we violently disagree with each other, its probably because we see any shot at our opinions as more of an insult to who we are.

@Gman

I grew up in the early nineties, in a small, overly religious town where the only heroes you were allowed to have were God, Jesus, and insert generic sports figure here. 

As we all know, the height of professional sports profitability was in the early to mid nineties. If you wore anything on your person that wasn't a representation of your favorite sports team, not only were you a terrible person, you were as good as being unpatriotic. Liking comic books was a death sentance in my town-- but now with the advent of sexy male actors playing characters like Thor and Ironman, suddenly young tweeny girls love it.

The change in expressionism in the short amount of time between me and my brother's schooling experience was dramatic. My brother, four years younger than me, could go to school wearing a pink shirt with oscar the grouch on it and no one cared, I wore a shirt with mario on it and returned back from gym class to find it tore up and all over the locker room. 

So to say times have changed, its def. true. But I think that the general human condition is the same-- people crave this 'dark seriousness' because of its trendiness. Problem is though, while action films are becoming 'more grounded in reality' than ever, comedies are becoming less sensical and low brow by the second. Its an odd wave of change, as I can while some things are getting more serious, other things are getting dumber and dumber by the second. 

But fans are fans-- I'm not trying to completely generalize Godzilla fans, more or less asking a question and exhibiting my half-assed observation.

But I know I'm right in saying that Godzilla is a sixty year long franchise with a wide fanbase(From ages 1 to 100 and everything inbetween making up the demographic)-- and the reason why most of his fans agree to disagree is because he does represent something a little different to each of us. Godzilla is special to all of us in its own unique way. 

That random guy that seems to be everywhere wherever the monster (in this case Godzilla) appears

Seeing as I haven't seen the movie I can't really say I'm married to any role right now...

I'm liking everything about this movie so far but... I would of liked the marketing to start a earlier. Otherwise, no complaints

Oh so it's fanmade? Very cool. I can almost see Legendary doing something similar for a commercial poster you could pick up at a movie/toy store.

i'm surprised you didn't put aaron taylor johnson down as he is the solider, but i'd say ken's character

It's just mashed together, no thoughts on where the scenes go.

That text and the editing makes it look legit but the weird screaming sounds odd. I think this is fan made... good one though. 

I think they should wipe the slate clean. theres going to be a new generation of viewers , so why not a new gen of monsters. Yet on the other hand if they updated the designs of the classics that would be awesome.

if you read what i said the majority of the audience who will watch this movie will not have seen gojira and you can't force everyone around the world this movie shows in theatres to watch gojira

these is a diffrence to those movies than to this movie, those movies were made in japan, i'm pretty sure there are more japanese people who have watched 1954 compared to america

I don't know how to answer the second question, but I can answer the first one.

Godzilla is ICONIC. Why make a "sequel" to a film that is 60 years old? Have you heard of "The Return of Godzilla", "Godzilla 2000: Millenium", "Godzilla vs Megaguirus", "Godzilla, Mothra, & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out-Attack", "Godzilla X Mechagodzilla", and "Godzilla: Final Wars"?

Those were all sequels to the original film. "Final Wars" came out exactly 9 years and 3 months before today. Remember, that was a sequel to "Gojira (1954)". Does it matter that the first movie was made 60 years ago, given the fact that there have been 6 non-Showa sequels to it?

Think about that for a moment.

Interesting observation. Not entirely sure I agree (irony?) with all of it, but I certainly think your hitting on something close to the chest.

I guess the main thing is I can't really relate to your situation. I've always been a nerd, yes, but I was in the odd, undefined group between geek and athlete. I've always loved Batman, Godzilla, anime...etc... but I was a key soccer player, a running back for a few years and an elite, collegiate track runner.

I've never been chastisized for liking Godzilla. People have taken jabs at me for it, absolutely, but I guess I never minded. It was all in good fun and no more condemning than locker room talk. Part of it might be because I got to know Godzilla as very all-encompassing franchise from the get go.

Godzilla vs. Gigan was my first Godzilla movie. Granted that's practically a kids movie, but my second Godzilla film was Godzilla 1985, which was much more broad. I suppose that told me that Godzilla could work for anyone if given the chance. When I was growing up plenty of my own friends heard me out and gave it a chance. If one movie wasn't their thing then another was. It made perfect sense to me at the time and it still does-- in fact such an introduction still works.

I think part of the "serious," "dark" and "villianous," stuff is currently a trend for era. It might speak out from some people's personalities, but I mostly blame the cultural success with things like "The Dark Knight" (which I love, don't get me wrong), current, twisted horror movies and a strange movement torward some kind of neo-naturalism. It's a fad and it will go away in favor of something else one of these days.

Indeed about 90% of this is how we grow up, but I don't know if the specifics in your generalization apply to everyone. I think it also has to do with when we grew up as well, which, as I watch some students I coach grow, gets bleaker by the year.

Classic monsters forever. They should have a movie with Anguirus, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Gigan and Megalon

It's simple. it's a concept called "OPINION". And with these opinions, we are allowed to have different ones.

@Gman

I always assumed the first breath was white or gray in color, personally. 

As for the 'aura'-- this is more than signifed in several films. Best examples though is looking at the breath when it is illustrated in comics, particularly the dark horse ones that really emphasized the white with a blue aura. 

^When the original film was released apparently there were audience members who assumed it was white. To this day there's fans who believe the agreed upon color for Godzilla's original breath weapon was white.

anouther thing, technically the breath is white (the beam version) it just emits a blue aurora around the beam, possibly chekov radiation

I....no. No Godzilla isn't fall in love with a human. Also those 'Coming Soon!' Bandai images have been confirmed to be fake. They stole images from this source:

http://kamakoa09.deviantart.com/art/Godzilla-2014-437835774

http://kamakoa09.deviantart.com/art/Godzilla-2014-i-shall-call-him-SQUISHY-437880906

It's hard to say at this point. I think finally seeing the movie would make it easier to answer this question. Once we see how they actually handle Godzilla in the film, tone-wise, we'll be able to gauge the answer to this question better.

I doubt it will have any connection to the original film. Everyone in the trailer look as if they've never seen or heard of Godzilla before, except for Watanabe's character. How do you keep a massive disaster like what happened in the original film a secret?

The 1954 stuff is probably just an homage to the original movie. Nothing more.

But to answer your post's question, I think it's a bad idea for the reasons you've already stated. Most people will have not seen the original film and adding on the history would alienate a broader audience.

Red flame is boring. Godzilla is a unique fire-breathing monster amongst other fire-breathing monsters. He fires a blue beam because it distinquishes him from other creatures. Atomic Breath being any color but blue is just kinda... meh to me.

As for realism, technically the cooler the color of fire, the hotter it is. Some of the hottest substances in the known galaxy are practically white in color. Yeah, don't gimme the whole "Thermite is orange"-- I don't care. Thermite changes into all sorts of colors depending on what it is burning.

Besides, what is the point of having a powered up red beam if he is firing it all the time? I like the red breath to be a powered up version, while the blue is the basic-- but that is just me. It seems like that'd be more pleasing to the red-breath fans because then it basically states that RED IS SUPERIOROROROROR.

i'd prefer a clean slate with probably 1 or 2 toho monsters, if they mostly do a clean slate they can make things that will surprise g-fans and movie goers

also we all know godzilla's breath is highly radioactive, while it's common in pop culture to represent radiation in a green colour, radiation is mostly invisible except for chekhov radiation, which if you type it up, is a type of radiation found comonly around a nuclear reactor and guess what colour it is, neon blue, it actually looks like the same colour as the classic blue atomic breath, so it is not unrealistic if a radioactive breath is blue. also the fact they have already overused the colour red for everything else, a red breath seems boring

I took images from the empire magazine and combined them for the textless poster and use the logo thats on the official site for the other one

You already posted this exact same topic with your customized roar yesterday. Please don't spam the board with repeat topics. Thanks.

I'm inclined to agree Junkerde. Done and done.

I don't see the color of Godzilla's ray affecting realism or "seriousness" (which is slowly becoming the most overrated tone in the cinematic repertoire) one way or another.

That said, based on the toy and even the insinuation in the Snicker's commercial, I pretty sure it will be blue. The actually breath substance itself my look different, but I'm 90% sure the color will be blue.

I like that they use the original Godzilla canon, its only that one film though and thats it.

I would love to see some of the more 'realistic' creatures like Rodan and Anguirus make a return in a sequel, but it's most likely not going to happen. Mainstream audiences don't know who these characters are, and Toho would still charge a ton. Financially it just wouldn't be worth it.

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both of the threads you made should really be combined by a Mod, the other thread being

1998 vs  2000

This wouldn't really be a fair fight. Godzilla 1990 is 100 meters tall, has a radioactive beam attack, and is invulnerable to most forms of harm.

Godzilla 1998 is 50 meters tall, got tangled in some bridge cables and was killed by a missile or two.

i don't think the elemnts from the heisei and millenium series will ever be implemented by gareth edwards including the spiral heat beam becuase i don't think gareth edwards has seen any of the movies in the heisei and millenium series, he's said in a Q&A that he's watched the HB Godzilla series first, then channel 4 aired some showa movies during the hype for 98 and only after 2004 did he get to watch the 1954 gojira (tanks to BFI) and the fact 54 had a major influence at such an older age must mean that it is a masterpeice