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That was you?! :D You got NECA to sing like a canary! We owe you, dude! :)
GTBetta35, thank you so much for sharing your information with us! Its so awesome to have an informant on the "other side"... :) Your posts are greatly appreciated!
Hey cool that was me, ChoocolateQuake. Thanks for saying this.
I wanted the muto to be megaguirus to the point that I was sure this description of the toy was just poorly worded. Now that the poster is out and there is that mothra like head in the clouds, this drawing seems pretty close.
Hey cool that was me, ChoocolateQuake.
That's odd, when I went to my theater in early January to watch The Hobbit, the teaser HALO jump poster was in the lobby. I drooled over it for ten minutes before going into the theater to completely loose my mind when the teaser trailer came on! Its strange that some theaters don't have the poster or are just getting it. I hope EVERY theater gets one soon! Maybe a slick cardboard display that fills up an entire wall? :D
nope, its godzilla, we cant get into it enough! :D
HOLY COW!!!!!!!! Who knew they'd just... answer the question like that?!?!?!?! This is great news! Now we just need that trailer to keep us going for another month!
@Gojira2k All we can do is hope it's not a troll...
My theaters haven't put up the poster either. Every time I have been to the movies I have not seen it. Hopefully this week the poster will be up and the trailer will have aired.
@everybody
We must rally together! We must be vigilant. We must check the Muto site and report anything new. We must be ready for the arrival of the King.
Also, does anyone else think I get way too into this stuff besides myself?
@GTBETTA35
great minds think alike right?:D
LOL
Agreed! I was going to post this. What I don't like, though, is that Legendary seem to be advertising their viral marketing. Which totally makes it less cool. IMO.
No, I'm not lying. I just said my individual theater recieves posters relatively close to the trailer release dates. I cannot speak for other theaters. We recieved just a single poster for Godzilla a week before the first trailer with the building rubble forming a Godzilla silhouette. We have 22 screens including 1 IMAX screen. Except for the few occasions where the marketing companies send posters in early, which does happen. Every theater operates differently, it's not all black and white.
Well, I guess you wouldn't mind getting banned seeing as I think you made this account for it, lol. But yeah, I definately (I can never spell that [Did I spell it right?]) agree.
No one has ever been banned for simply joking around. To get banned you have to be repeatedly abusive and disrespectful towards other members. A ban would only be issued after being officially warned by an Admin at least once. Warnings last a week so it's not something that is easily forgotten. Really all we ask is people be respectful to each other here, people can say what they want here as it's respectful. :D
I agree with you, I seriously don't understand why there is so much fighting over this movie. It's really strange that people are fighting so much with each other. You would think the movie would unite people not have them at each other's throats, but it seems to have a bed effect I can't understand why.
Oops! There is already a topic about this, sorry for the dupe post. Darn it!
Edit: Well, I guess I should have just edited my original post...
Also, the original (I think) http://www.godzilla-movies.com/community/forums/topic/31671
Your all lucky to have seen them. I was just at my local theater yesterday and there I looked hig and low for a poste, but to my dismay, there was none. Man, I wish I had your luck, lol.
Oh darn! I just made a topic on this! Darn it, you beat me to the punch! And I'm so insanely excited as well.
@Godzilla Himself I 100% agree :D
Yeah, I've seen Godzilla posters in the four different movie theaters I frequent for awhile now: an 8-screen, a 12-screen, and two 30 screens (one with IMAX).
I'm not saying you're lying....I'm just wondering why your theatre is so behind the ball. Is it some 2 screen joint or something?
Yeah I basically agree with most of that. Just because a movie is absurd doesn't mean it is bad. It's even part of the appeal of many popular modern TV/Movie franchises like Dr. Who or The Expendables.
It may just be a pet peeve of mine, but the dinosaur component of Godzilla is just a particular absurdity that has always ruffled my feathers. I'm less willing to forgive it than others.
That being said, I grew up on Showa era Godzilla and always enjoyed it. I actually didn't even know very much about the Heisei films until AFTER Godzilla 1998/Godzilla 2000 came out. After those movies I started seeing more Godzilla VHS/DVD's at in the states, and seeing more Godzilla movies on TV, like Godzilla vs Biollante and Godzilla 1985. So my whole introduction and passion for Godzilla was almost entirely started by Showa movies. As a result, I would be lying if I said I haven't embraced their silliness to a degree.
Nowadays, I do prefer the more serious Godzilla films. But I still appreciate the old school Showa cheesiness.
the 27th rumor,
its coming true
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Odd... That poster is already up in two different theaters in my area...
Well, a few things: Tokusatsu got "absurd" really quick by the 1960s, but it wisely embraced the absurdities which helped it become so popular and ultimately defined the entire style. Absurd doesn't mean "bad", it's simply a choice and direction most producers and filmmakers went with at the time. And ultimately it worked. Thus things like Baragon and Titanosaurus became status quo instead of deliberately insulting. In the face of aliens, super-military weapons and psuedo-science they were comparitively easier to buy.
The Heisei series still has the same level of absurdity, it just has a harder time balancing it with the tone they were going for. In the case of Godzillasaurus, (which was only brought to the Godzilla mythos in 1991 and should not be considered the origin of the original monster -- sadly it is) we're met with an extension of theories from the original movie that are now overexplained with a laundry list of screenplay issues. In that movie specifically, I can buy the Godzillasaurus because of the surrounding elements that are also involved. Ironically, alot of those elements (time travel) are so full of flaws that it makes the dinosaur even easier to swallow.
I do agree they should keep his origins vague, regardless of what they decide they should be. I think part of the POINT of Godzilla is the mystery of the creature; an element of nature that eludes man's understanding.
Also, as far as the dinosaur origins go, the 1954 film at least gets a partial pass that some of the other films do not enjoy. Our understanding of dinosaurs and geologic time was very uninformed back then. Most of our modern understanding of dinosaurs and paleontology did not develop until the 1960's.
At the time, few countries had paleontology programs, and it was not an incredibly popular science even in the countries which did have programs. One can hardly criticize the filmmakers for not being up to date on the latest breakthroughs in the field. Their understanding of dinosaurs may have been 20-30 years or more out of date with the scientific community, who themselves had a fairly primitive understanding.
Anyone filmmakers in the 1970's or later though really just should have known better. I imagine though they were slightly hand-tied due to the assertions made in the 1954 film. At least that's how I rationalize it to myself. I'd rather believe that, than believe the director is willing to insult our intelligence just because it's a 'monster movie'.
i found it ok, not my kind of movie however i did find that both the acting and the special effects were good for a limited budget, the limited buget makes you appreciate the movie more really, and if 1 man can make a movie that is better than some movies that a 5x more than monsters then gareth edwards is the right director for godzilla, plus he's a fan of Gojira, something that emmerich was not (he hated it apprently)
Loved it and thought he should do Godzilla before he was announced. He makes believable/likeable characters amidst monster mayhem. Thats what we need, not a comic book movie with non stop actions with people I could care less about.
ok i understand now, it is true that in gojira he is not stated as a mutation, he is said to be a ancient creature or as Dr Yamane says a cross between dinosaur and marine reptile that was not only woken up by the h-bomb tests but scared by the tests as well, the bombs making him radioactive, giving him a monstrous weapon and painfully distirbing his peaceful slumber. his extact origin was vague and that was a good thing as well.
The beautiful thing about the original film is that it was clear he was some sort ancient creature or evolved dinosaur, but there is no detail to it. It's very plush. The absurdities of the origin are acceptable because it's so vague and the specifics are left out, leaving behind a void of horror for the imagination.
I would prefer a vague, dinosaur-esque origin because it's more inherit to the monster's origins-- I think it still works today because of how loose it is. There's a certain creepiness about where Godzilla specifically came from simply because his background is so muddled.
Dr. Yamane in the film is more concerned about how Godzilla survived such exposure to radioactivity than he is anything else-- Suggesting perhaps this creature is some evolved decendant (which he explicitly theorizes) of the dinosaurs that had developed some sort of immunity to radiation. Did he? Was he something entirely different before the bombs woke him? Did his evolution provide some sort of imperviousness to radioactivity? We'll never know. It's that same creepy, mysteriousness behind Godzilla that helps make him believable and elevates his status to something above science to the untrained. It's also more interesting than simply saying he was mutated from a dinosaur or a modern animal. I hope Edwards factors that in and keeps Godzilla's origins fairly loose.
I was pretty shocked when he was announced as the director, but also very happy.
I agree with your sentiments about Monsters. It really felt more like a road movie but with alien monsters in it.
I'm expecting there to be some real emotional consequences from the rampages in G2014.
15th may is the release day for some countries after all this is a INTERNATIONAL trailer not a american or uk trailer
If I may, I believe this is fanmade because the date is wrong. It says May 15th, which is the day before the official release. The site iteself even corrects the mistake below it by saying it's May 16th.
To me, the incorrect date and the lack of a proper origin tells me it's a fanmade replica of the first international trailer and, as Madison said, posted as "2nd official international trailer" to gain the uploading channel more views by preying on G-fan's desperation to see something new. It's not a new strategy. I've been seeing varying channels posting on youtube and other video related websites "official FULL MOVIE" links. They're scams of course, but not everyone is going to be able to ignore the temptation to at least check it out and go to the trouble of signing up and going through the scam and potentially letting hackers and online predators access to sensitive information about them and their lives, not to mention their credit cards and such if they're old enough to pay a subscription of some kind.
Of course, I could be wrong on this. I doubt that it's legitimate, but that's just my opinion. The evidence suggests to me that it's fake, but if you guys want to believe it's real then I won't stop you. Still, do take a few moments to consider the incorrect date in the video as well as the lack of a confirmed origin as to where it came from or from whom it came from. That alone should be a red flag, so do be careful. I don't want to see any of my fellow G-fans falling for scams or falsely promoted items/videos.
I hope he isn't a dinosaur in 2014. The idea of it is, and always has been, just ludicrously absurd. A creature staying alive that many millions of years, breeding without notice, but always one individual at a time? or a single ancient organism that is just really old? Evolving to not only survive changes in temperature but figuring out how to a breath a different air?
And then gets mutated by nuclear testing anyway?
Like having an animal (any animal) get mutated into a giant monster by a radioactive event is a stretch where you have to engage your willing suspension of disbelief in and of itself, no matter what kind of creature it is.
To say that the animal in question which gets mutated ALSO happens to be a dinosaur that somehow has survived unnoticed during the entire history of man adds a second layer of unnecessary and frankly even more preposterous willing suspension of disbelief.
Godzilla has had multiple origin stories over the years, with the dinosaur version sadly being the most common. If they explain Godzilla's origins in 2014 (which I'd be fine if they don't) I hope they either do a mutation of a modern animal, or invent an entirely new theory, or really anything but try and cram 'He's a mutated dinosaur' down our throats again.
Godzilla is a mutated godzillasaurus! HAVE YOU WATCHED godzilla vs KG and Gojira?
everyone knows that he is a dinosaur!
@Danzilla93
Like you, I was always fascinated by the 1994 script and wondered how fans would have recieved it. Surely the Godzilla in that script has far more in common with the Godzilla of the earlier movies than GINO did with any of them, barring the origin of course, but was it still too different?
In any case, I've always wondered if Shusuke Kaneko had gotten his hands on the 1994 script and tweaked it to work with Gamera. In any case, I'm glad we got some version of that particular storyline's myths. It worked great for Gamera: Guardian of the Universe which is clearly a superior film to GINO. So it might have worked as a big budget Hollywood film... Who knows.
The International Trailer point would hold more water with me if there had not already been an International Trailer. The one which showed a few seconds more of Dr. Serizawa/Ken Watanbe?
You can look up almost any movie which released two international trailers, and you would probably not find a single one which was 100% repeat footage, regardless of the demographic the trailer was meant for. Maybe 50%, 75%, 99% but you would be extremely hard pressed to find even ONE which was 100% repeat footage. You can find International Trailers which are 100% repeats of its domestic counterpart, but not two different International trailers which are exact repeats of each other. If this is truly the second international trailer, it would be one of the very first times ever it was done that way.
The release date for this movie has been publicly listed as May 15th for a long time. I know the first trailer just said 'May' but the editing in the 'May 15th' to the trailer would have been a very easy thing to do.
