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I always get a kick out of these ancient threads being revived.
This is absolutely beautiful!
My favorite Godzilla suits in each series:
Showa-Godzilla vs Mothra
Heisei-Return of Godzilla
Millennium-GMK
Present - Shin Godzilla
worst - Son Of Godzilla
From what I understand, the director is still in negotiations with Toho to sell them the film and possibly get a DVD release. The only problem from what I understand is how much everything is to be sold for etc.
I love the way Return makes you feel like the world can come to an end with Godzilla's presence. Either with the giant monster or the use of nuclear weapons. Godzilla felt like a legit threat to mankind. "Return", Gojira(1954) and "Shin" are my favorite in the entire series. I don't think its because Godzilla is solo in each film, but I feel like each one is just amazing and really concentrates on the special fx of destroying a city and the tone along with atmosphere. I love the way he looks in each movie, how he is presented and what goes along with each story.
well ill think and find something about October. every month after is nuts! but October does have some other fun things to add to the fandom of monsters and sci-fi alike.
When I saw the sneak peek trailer I thought this would be so cool to do a full movie of. I really hope that Toho does let it out there on DVD. They should just buy the rights and let it go for a spin.
I love the KingGoji suit so much.
Same, I just love the idea behind it and the KingGoji suit is one of my favorite designs in the series.
I hope that Godzilla vs. The Wolfman get's a DVD release.
Robinson's birthday was new to me. I actually have a list of "Important Godzilla Genre Days" I've kept up with off and on for the last few years. Unfortunately October is a very sparse month.
I flip-flop between Return of Godzilla and Godzilla vs. Biollante. Both do different things that work for themselves. Return has the mood, the look and overall atmosphere with strong ethics pertaining to the Cold War and how the world deals with his return. Biollante has the energy, the new direction and the answer to how the world accepts Godzilla's existence. Both have character problems, and things that work in Return don't work as well in Biollante, and vice-verse--But both are ultimately the best of Heisei. It all went downhill after that.
^I think we all want that one day in our lifetime. Unfortunately I don't think that will happen here.
If there would be a Godzilla vs Gamera I want it to be made by Toho. They are both Kaiju stars from Japan and respectfully should fight there. Over here they might butcher that up. But saying that I would still buy a ticket to see those 2 fight in this universe, who wouldn't want to see that?
^^ I would have to agree with this statement.
The Return Of Godzilla is the best in this series hands down for me. Godzilla vs Biollante is the 2nd best followed by vs. Destoroyah. If the rest of the movies followed the first that I mentioned the whole thing would be the best in the series.
Sweet, thank you again! Next Month ill have to do more research like this to keep October interesting.
I wouldn't bank too much on the cave paintings, im sure they will resemble somewhat to the final design. but that is pretty easy to do when you want these monsters to resemble there older versions.
I thought Godzilla 2000 and GMK were great. The rest felt not as up to par with the previous series. Don't get me wrong I do enjoy these films and watch them religiously, but I feel like things could have been different or in this case "better". There are some great highlights that do stand out in this series. Most of it being in GMK. Final Wars should have been a home run, but it was a foul ball only to be caught in by only a few fans.
I would argue quite a few movies in this series are "bad" or at least below what I consider the average for the series. Godzilla vs Megaguirus and Final Wars standing out amongst them. I'm not too big a fan of this era, I don't hate all the movies in it, but if I was to make a top 10 G movies maybe only 1 from this era would make it and it would be a later number.
On the whole I'd say this is a very safe run of Godzilla movies. Nothing in here is bad, but only one movie is notable as being good. The risks they do take are hit-or-miss, but I do agree that Toho finally shook off their creative failure trend.
The cave paintings were made before the monsters' final designs for King of the Monsters were finalized. They were only intended to be recognizable silhouettes. That being said, I doubt the finished designs would diverge too radically from the basic outlines of the cave paintings.
I never believed King Ghidorah would be given front limbs in addition to his wings regardless of what direction they went with. I'm more concerned that they'd make his front wings fold and have him walk around on four limbs instead of upright with his wings at his sides like he's supposed to. I'm worried they still might do that, but I'm leaning towards them giving him his traditional towering silhouette and not making him into three-headed Smaug. I wouldn't even care if his wings folded sometimes or if he leaned forward on them every once in a while, but I don't want to see wyvern Ghidorah. I want him standing on his hind limbs, towering over other kaiju and spreading his wings like a colossal cape at his sides.
I never noticed that before. Of course, I never doubted that King Ghidorah would be standing upright, but it's nice to be able to see evidence supporting that.
In the same breath I find this both an underrated and justly criticized series of films. Are they great movies as a whole? No. Do they try new things? Yes. Do they try old things? Yes. Did they often work? No. But I suppose in most cases I'd rather watch a creative failure than a safe success. The latter is sometimes necessary, but I was happy when Toho finally shook it off in 2016.
Pulling riggzamortis86's month of September back up with another birthday I just discovered today: J. Peter Robinson.
Robinson turns 72 today (Sept. 16th) and composed additional music for Sony's American cut of Godzilla 2000. About 40% of Takayuki Hattori's score for Godzilla 2000 was either edited or replaced by music from J. Peter Robinson. Some of Robinson's material was reused from the 1998 TV movie Gargantuan, but the rest was scored specifically for Godzilla 2000.
His most acclaimed piece in the film is his rendition of Ifukube's Godzilla theme--Something I wish Legendary would do, because Robinson's version was one of the best in years:
So far I enjoy this universe, I hope decide to add Gamera and soon
This is my favorite of the eras. It didn't hit a home run everytime but I can enjoy all of the movies in heisei to some extent.
I really enjoyed Skull Island (though some dialogue writing was awful like John C Reilly's character) but Peter Jackson's Kong is the superior movie by far. I agree with previous comments.. Legendary has a steep hill to climb to make Kong a convincing opponent for Godzilla.
Kong climbs skyscrapers but Godzilla levels them.
^It was not intended to be. I'll elaborate though.
This is a case of myth popularity over the truth and it's partially the fault of Toho's marketing campaign. Many were led to believe Destoroyah would be the last Toho movie ever, but that wasn't the case. The former is often quoted over the truth that Toho was (initially) planning to bring Godzilla back in 2015 or so.
I know reading things online can go a bit wonky, but I can't help but feel like that was a bit patronizing.
"Godzilla vs. Destroyah was meant to be the final Japanese Godzilla for at least ten years."
Did your homework. Very good!
Gman thanks! I've this for the whole franchise, so I'm really itching to at least post these somewhere. I think I'll post the Heisei era in a little bit. Just to make sure there's no horrible grammar mistakes.
Boy, was I confused or what? I thought you were reviewing Kyle Yount's documentary of the same name! That's what I get for not reading the entire freaking title. I laughed at myself once I got in to it. Pretty solid, general rundown--Would love to hear more of your thoughts on each individual movie.
Yes, the article I was looking for. Your article gives me another approach on the subject. I hope to read more articles from you.
This is an amazing sculpture. Say what you will about the 2014 movie, this design of Godzilla is incredible. It's slowly becoming my favorite the more I see it and the more news comes out of KotM and GvK. I hope the adjustments to the design are minor.
My Twitter response stays the same. Lol.
Favorite is Honda. Duh.
Most unique are Shusuke Kaneko and Hideaki Anno.
Who's next? Besides Dougherty and Wingard, I'd be extremely satisfied to see Takashi Yamazaki give it a go. This guy has won a lot of awards for best director and best screenplay along with other awards.
Honda takes top because of his storytelling. Mainly because he witnessed first hand what the true horrors of the atomic bomb are capable of and, besides that, he knows how to direct his characters for the film's he's worked on.
And now I can add Big-Ben's article to the resources. Some of what's said about Anno is fascinating from Yoko's perspective:
Dreams Come True: My interview with Yoko Higuchi on Shin Godzilla
The chubbier look fits, in my opinion, because the rest of him is so chunky as well. It looks out of place with this shrunken-in abdomen.
Looks fine to me.
I think it looks thinner is because a lot of Japanese fans complained about the 2014 version of Godzilla being too fat.
Idk if this was the case here.
