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No news on a Steelbook version yet? I wanna add GvK steelbook edition to my ever increasing steelbook collection. Recently got the original GvK steelbook which looked so nice.
I love the art that they used for the blu-ray cover.
A week after my birthday! Thanks for the commentary Adam Wingard! You are the messiah brother! Great job buddy! Really upset me when we got no commentary in 2014. Godzilla vs Kong is the greatest film ever!!! If you love Godzilla and Kong check out my new album Kaiju Draconis free for a limited time on soundcloud! https://m.soundcloud.com/odd17y/sets/dragon-lizard-lord-king-chaos
happy birthday ishiro, rip in peace.
1 week before my b-day. its gonna be a cool 4k birthday
Chris,
My immediate answer is, "no" but I don't want to cut anyone short. I mean let's face the facts, love his movies or hate them, Jun Fukuda did everything he could with the narrow resources/budgets given to him and his movies are some of the most widely seen of the franchise. He was an excellent director given a very short end of the stick in the 1970s; no time, no money, no resources and Toho expected him to make Golden Age-era caliber films. I can't imagine being in that kind of position. Regardless, his movies were widely exposed to North America, particularly Godzilla vs. Megalon on prime time. His films are very influential in how Godzilla is seen--For better or worse.
Other than that, Shusuke Kaneko is probably the closest "second coming" of Honda I can think of. Among the Gamera Trilogy, GMK and his Ultraman Max episodes, I think it's a crying shame he hasn't returned to the genre and someone should be fired for it.
It terms of my next favorite? Eiji Tsuburaya was just as influential for his special effects--Perhaps more. Whereas Honda directed 8 films, Tsuburaya plowed through many more with and without Godzilla as well as establishing his own film studio that brought the genre to television, via the Ultra series. Depending on the day, I'm more into Tsuburaya than Honda. But today is not that day.
Other honorable favorites:
Shinji Higuchi
Kiyotaka Taguchi
Sadamasa Arikawa
Teruyoshi Nakano
Akio Jissoji
Koichi Sakamoto
Kenji Suzuki
(The last of which isn't particularly prolific, I just liked his style and think he's underrated.)
Much respect to Honda and his legacy. He really pioneered the basis for this beloved franchise and many others. His films carry a different "weight" than others, no doubt.
Next to Honda, who would be your favorite Godzilla / Toku filmmaker, GMan? Are there any you consider came the closest to honoring Honda's work and the impact he had on the industry?
I didn’t mean that as a rude or bad comment, I just thought it was kind of sad.
How do you say happy birthday to someone who isn’t alive?
I don't get the vibe Gman was bashing the series at all with his comment, if anything what he said was true. Godzilla 2014 was, by most accounts the best film of the entire Monsterverse series. I agree with him, the sarcasm needs to be appreciated. I can't fathom why they wouldn't have included G14 for a multitude of reasons.
SasquaDash,
Nope. Just occasionally.
I meant was it really necessary to use this as an excuse to, once again, insult this series.
We get it, you don't like the MonsterVerse. But do you really need to bash it anytime it gets brought up...?
Alright I had to look back for this, having sworn I saw it somewhere, but there is a four film set of these movies coming out--At least in the UK. It's Region B and I can't find anything that says a Region A release is in the cards:
SasquaDash,
Not a defining factor of necessity.
Yours wasn't needlessly mean spirited though...
This isn't too strange, a lot of video releases leave out certain movies in a series. Plus this is meant to be a 3 movie bundle, not a complete MonsterVerse collection, otherwise they would have labeled it as such (and included G14). I figure that they will release one later (after the series ends), but for now I wouldn't be too upset by this.
Also G. H. (Gman),
was that comment really necessary...
Yeah, they can't muck up a set with a good movie.
I actually was going to say something, but I’m just dumbfounded.
I understand that they joke with some movies of the Showa series, like "Godzilla vs Megalon", or "Son of Godzilla", that they are something difficult to take seriously, and I even suspect that when they wrote and recorded them, Toho's did not know either. they took them very seriously. I can understand that for someone who did not live neither the '90s or the 2000s, the Heisei Era designs become "too rough", and unable to appreciate them, they decide to mock to feign superiority. I can understand that by seeing how suspiciously similar to humans almost all the aliens in the Showa series are, rather than understanding it as a product of their time, or making the slightest intellectual effort to theorize that all those species are related, or that in reality, they are analagies to people, countries, ideologies, etc., of the real world, they are limited to mockery. I can understand you laughing at the way MireGoji and KiryuGoji's jaws open, ShodaiGoji and 84Goji's eyes, MosuGoji's used suits to MegaroGoji, BioGoji's "thighs of thunder" to DesuGoji, GMKGoji's rolling eyes, how GareGoji looks supposedly fat in some shots, how ShinGoji seems to have returned from intensive care after surviving a fire, how AniGoji looks like a vegan Zumo fighter with a steroid overdose, of the proportions from GyuraGoji / SPGoji, or how ToraGoji isn't even a Godzilla. Or more directly, I can understand that someone seems absurd or childish the concept of giant monsters, and is unable to see beyond just "Monsters Fools" crushing cities, and make fun of it.
Everything is fine with that, no one is the one to tell another what to laugh or not, what's more, I imagine that of everything I mentioned, many fans, if not all, would have made fun, even once, of something of the list, and that is not why we are disrespecting the actors, products, technicians, etc. of Toho (and other companies), or the victims of the actual atrocities that inspired these films. I understand that it is offensive to hear or read the stupidities of these false fans who follow Godzilla just because it is fashionable. In my case, I have had to find false fans so fired up in the cult of "GODzilla", who show that they are little children than those who fitted a cell phone or computer as a pacifier, and if you press them a little, no They take time to demonstrate their ignorance with phrases like - "Godzilla is immortal" - or - "Godzilla never loses" -, and if you screw them up a bit, they come out with - "Old movies don't count" -, and in the worst case - "Stop stirring the past, now things are like this" -.
And lastly, if those fans want to come to the fandom, well, let them come, and have the fandom read show that Godzilla and co is much bigger than just four Hollywood movies, and when they come out with the taunts, the fandom should let them stay in ridiculous how? Well, a true fan knows the good and the bad of the franchise that follows, while a fake fan, only knows the surface, and simply put, make them feel like Minilla surrounded by Kamakuras, while Godzilla not only watches, but supports. to insects.
I put my money on Monster Zero due to the fact that his gravity beams could mess up some electrical system in Mecha G. Also, he could be supercharged with electricity, making him more powerful.
I'm going to have to think this through...
I don't have a horse in this race, but some things to consider from the mouth of the director:
"Maybe that doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s stronger than Godzilla but he’s able to be one step ahead and you also have to consider the fact that Godzilla has just gone through 3 rounds with Kong where he exercised his nuclear breath to its absolute core and so he’s pretty worn down at this point. He’s gone nonstop and there’s one shot where Godzilla and Mechagodzilla fire their beams at each other at the same time right and Mechagodzilla’s actually overpowers Godzilla and I don’t think that that would have been the case if Godzilla’s coming in fresh but I think that he was weakened a bit. We never expressly state that but that was my impression of it and I actually tried to avoid that moment because I didn’t want to give the impression that Mechagodzilla was just so powerful but ultimately that’s just where it landed." - Adam Wingard [Source]
SarcasticGoji, Well, um, uhhhhhhh.......I got nothing.
Kattozilla, Y E S
MECHA ALL THE WAAAY
Would ghidorah fight itself?
Team Ghidorah
Mecha G all the way!
