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I knew you were going to pick that, but I was wondering if you'd pick something else...I was wrong
;)
What do you mean called it
Oh, I need to see that
Called it.
How is it not even close?
Godzilla 2014 respectively.
Understandable.
Rewatching movies and noticing something new is always fun.
One of my favorite hidden details in a movie that I didn't notice the first few times was in Godzilla 2014. During the train scene with the Female MUTO, I noticed that she actually mimics the sounds of the radio static and train whistle, which honestly makes the scene somewhat creepier.
Shin Godzilla and isn't close.
My pick is going to stay GVK. At least for now...
It's hard for me to tell if it's Atami Castle from King Kong vs. Godzilla or Nagoya Castle, from Mothra vs. Godzilla. I think you're right though. It's the former.
you probably already new, but the castle that hedorah is over, is the same on Godzilla and King Kong destroyed in 1963
SarcasticGoji,
Don't look too deeply into the end credits as a storytelling device. Just think of it as a friendly hello from old friends.
Also I was just speculating the possibility of the credits being a separate story...
Its fun nonetheless.
SarcasticGoji,
Yup. It's Megalon's horn!
Also the Kumonga frame has:
1:
2:
3:
Also the older woman in the background of frame 16 looks like Emiko in Godzilla vs Destroyah
Oh dang it, noticed it too late.
@Gman
Jet Jaguar is holding a megalon horn!!!!
i just figured it out?
Sorry for bad typing I was just excited
SasquaDash,
It was less about watching it over and over, more about getting screenshots. Even then I've yet to find everything.
It was only recently pointed out to me that Jet Jaguar is holding Megalon's horn and there are three more characters in Shin Godzilla for the Kumonga frame. I'm still trying to figure out everyone in the final frame as well as who all the G'98 cast members are.
SarcasticGoji,
I'll try to clarify my comment. The end credits is literally just a big Easter egg hunt for fans. Other than Mei it doesn't have anything to do with, or give away anything about, Singular Point's main story line.
Which is ultimately why I posted it. Had the end credits had anything to do with the story proper, I would've avoided the spoilers.
The great thing about Godzilla Singular Point is that instead of funneling fan service into story stopping moments that might leave casual audiences confused, it usually ends on well earned cliffhangers that justify this end montage of fun Easter eggs. The show gets back to character, ala, earlier Showa films, so the emphasis on them during the credits is telling.
As for the Anime Trilogy, I liked it. I'll agree with SasquaDash only as far as the quality and execution being debatable. However, I enjoyed its themes and I enjoyed the fact that the directors looked at the Godzilla franchise as something different than a monster mash. They're not crowd pleasers, no, but I find them to be more interesting movies than a great deal of the films in the franchise. And I'd rather watch them than some specific titles.
But comparing Singular Point to the Anime trilogy in terms of expectation is very silly. It's a completely different production staff, with a completely different production company, with a completely different style, with a completely different story. It would be like seeing Planet Eater in 2019 and expecting King of the Monsters to be exactly like it, simply because they're both back-to-back Godzilla movies. (Which, by the by, I loved Planet Eater.)
Smoke hedorah hype!
Yeah, those thoughts string closely to mine. But to extend your point....if I had written the movie, I would've nixed Josh and Bernie and focused on her tension between Mark. THEN I would have her go alone to find out APEX's intentions and have her get a self-reflection journey and figure out if she's right to support Big G. And anyways, WB and Legendary kept the character in GVK for one reason (probably), because Millie Bobby Brown is an insanely popular actress.
My thoughts on Madison Russell in GVK in a nutshell.
What I thought, she started out okay in the movie, and did nothing to stop MechaG, and stood there being useless.
They could have pursued the tensions between her and her dad but didn’t
Yeah, Madison's mishandling.
I'd like to see your thoughts on her character in GVK before I share mine.
I like seeing new concepts in the series (I liked Shin Godzilla, and I'm pretty excited for Singular Point), however I feel like the Anime Trilogy really didn't do much with these new concepts. Turning Godzilla into a plant monster was pointless (the most we got was a throw away line about photosynthesis), and as dumb as the idea of "Mechagodzilla City" is, they could of done something interesting and unique with it, but they didn't. But the thing that bugs me the most is that the idea of the Earth completely changing to conform to Godzilla is a really cool idea, and at first it looks like they're going to explore that idea but then they completely drop it and ingnore the idea completely.
As for the themes, it tries to be like 54', but it doesn't seem to get what made 54's theme work, and it mostly seems to not know what it's doing.
Also it's sad that an MMD animation did a better Godzilla Earth vs Ghidorah fight then Polygon and Toho did...
(Now That's What Anime Ghidorah Should've Been!!!)
Now seeing some reasons I don’t like GVK as much?
They really should've focused on Madison. She ended up being the one to save the world, and WB pushed Millie Bobby Brown's character to the front of the marketing to the point she was the face of KOTM's marketing. I was so ticked off when I saw how her character was handled in GVK...
imma not explain my reasoning for thinking Emma was the best character. Mark was a bit annoying for knowing everything. The story overall should have focused more on Madison not mark. Mark had an arc which was great but, the movie really set up to focus on her at the beginning. It would have been more compelling to see her struggle between her moms and dad’s sides of the conflict.
Eh, it was mediocre at best.
But the visuals were good, the humans were mostly decent besides all the comedic characters and Emma Russell.
To me the story in KoTm was better
GVK had a coherent story, great action, fluid visual effects for once, no tonal issues.
But it's human characters are far worse than KOTM.
You guys can't be serious. GVK was WAY WAY better.
Can you PLEASE do your GVK review now?
I agree. But to me the film connected more with the themes of 1954. The arrogance wasn’t really explained until the third film.
I do not agree with the comment made by Seshita, but I didn’t hate it for the “misadvertisement” (not trying to be rude) but I thought it was interesting with these new concepts.
Better Ghidorah fight?
Yeah I think KOTM overall is the better film of the two, but the fact GvK has done so well with so many negative factors playing against its release, it's kind of disappointing to think KOTM couldn't have pulled off better numbers.
That's fine, I personally did not.
I really didn't like the characters (I thought Haruo was annoying and the others were useless), the changes to Godzilla (Why did they make him a metallic plant that barely moved?), the false advertisement (they marketed City on the Edge of Battle as Godzilla fighting Mechagodzilla, only to have Mechagodzilla turn itself into a city and not fight Godzilla, and don't get me started on the Ghidorah "fight"), and I really didn't like the preachiness of the films (I like Godzilla films with deeper messages, but these ones came off as kind of pretentious).
Overall, I thought it was kind of a mess with a lot wasted potential, that really didn't understand Godzilla that well (The people in charge didn't even watch the older films, they thought they were "above it"). Plus the Directors' arrogant comments (mainly Seshita's) on how the story was "Too Complicated" for older fans to understand (implying that fans who didn't like it were dumb) really annoyed me.
I know it has its fans and it's cool that you liked it, but for me they're some of my least favorite movies in the franchise (which is sad because I had high hopes for them and really wanted to like them).
