The Godzilla Thread - Plus other giant monsters, no matter how popular or obscure

The anime movie trilogy had some cool concepts, I loved the idea of Godzilla pretty much mogging humanity off the planet and thousands of year later he's become so dominant that the entire planet's ecosystem revolves around him with humanity being unable to do anything about it other than coping and seething or Ghidorah being a Lovecraftian eldritch deity from another dimension, complete with cultists who summon him to eat planets. The ending of the first one where they've seemingly killed Godzilla only for Bigger Godzilla to show up and push their shit in was great too.

Unfortunately it had shit execution overall. I also didn't like the CGI, reminded me of Berserk 2016.
LightDragonman1 said:
Yeah, you can see traces of what Gen Urobuchi would’ve done had he been given more creative control over writing the anime movies through scenes and several of the concepts.

Shame he suffered severe meddling from the director and producer.
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That explains a lot, the Urobutcher is usually pretty solid.
 
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LightDragonman1 said:
Yeah, Urobuchi actually wanted the fights to be more epic, and even suggested doing a MechaGodzilla vs Godzilla Earth fight in the second film, but was vetoed by the producer and director.
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I like how the Russians find Gigan in the novels, paint him red and then replace one of his blades with a hammer. Glorious Soviet Gigan is something I didn't know I wanted and legitimately made me reevaluate Urobuchi.
 
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Clown College 2nd Year said:
Anyone got tickets for GvK yet? I'll probably go see it next Wednesday when hopefully no one is in the theater.
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I'm getting paid extra tomorrow, so I'm going to purchase tickets for next week. Just not this week due to my busy schedule.
 
Unrelated to GvK but Minus One's home release for Japan is the 1st of May, wouldn't expect the western version for a bit more but I expect subbed files to be out within the first few days of release.
 
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If this movie is this centuries Destroy All Monsters I'll be neither surprised nor disappointed really. Also anyone see the scene with golden Mothra?
 
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Ged! said:
That's a somewhat high bar...
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Eh I have what some would call unpopular opinions about Godzilla despite being a near lifelong fan. This will most certainly be a sit my fat ass down in the nice cushion seats with a popcorn and soda and turn my brain off for a while. I'm not expecting too much.
 
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Clown College 2nd Year said:
Eh I have what some would call unpopular opinions about Godzilla despite being a near lifelong fan. This will most certainly be a sit my fat ass down in the nice cushion seats with a popcorn and soda and turn my brain off for a while. I'm not expecting too much.
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yeah tbh DAM is sort of a meme
 
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Clown College 2nd Year said:
If only we could get a Godzilla and Gamera buddy cop monster movie.
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Godzilla1984 said:
Kong is their boss that's two weeks from retirement.
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I could see that. Probably be like The Naked Gun movies, but with Godzilla, Gamera and Kong, and even have the Pacific Rim monsters as the suspects. The main villain will be Zilla from the 98 TriStar/Emmerich movie whose goal is to sniff gigantic cocaine from Argentina in which he destroyed, and it's up to the three to arrest Zilla for his crimes (including claiming the title of Godzilla back in 1998 by a German filmmaker).
 
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I didn’t even realize GxK comes out tomorrow, I’ve been out of loop for monsterverse for a bit. I still really enjoy the hell out of Godzilla vs Kong and King of the Monster (the latter which I’ve rewatched a dozen times now). It was that which got me into the series and introduced me to the wider range of tokusatsu/kaiju related movies and franchises too.

I’ve seen a good bit of old Godzilla movies, I think the ones from the 80s/90s onward, I think Godzilla vs Kong Ghidorah is my favorite classic movie for this scene alone:

I’m looking forward to watching GxK when I can, I still need to watch Minus One, which I hear is also really good.
 
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