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Blows my mind that they're putting Shin Godzilla in a museum/amusement park, but still aren't making a sequel. It was genuinely one of the best Godzilla movies I've seen.
The Godzilla Thread - Plus other giant monsters, no matter how popular or obscure
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I doubt that Anno had any interest in making a sequel after working on it, there is a lot you can do with CG but Japan is perpetually behind on it by 5-10 years (they have gotten better in recent years) and that's probably just way more restraint than he's used to compared to animation. It seems like he's currently more interested in one-off passion projects like Shin Godzilla and Ultraman rather than being stuck in franchise/sequel hell and obligated to work on things like he is with Eva, even if it is a money printer. If there ever were plans for a sequel it would have been announced right after the theater run given how huge it was, but instead it was more or less a hard confirm it was a one off when they put out a statement on the potential future of it. If anything comes out it will probably be a light novel or a manga without any of his involvement.
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Shin works well as a standalone but I can't see a sequel or a VS working with the concept at all.
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People call for a sequel because of the Evangelion x Shin Godzilla 4-D ride that showed us Shin King Ghidorah, showing there may be potential for a Shin Godzilla-verse.
Toho will most likely have merchandise and attractions made to ride the wave for a while, but I'm honestly unsure if I do want more movies in that universe. The open ending was chilling enough without a follow-up. Leaving it up to imagination sometimes is more poignant than an official answer.
Toho will most likely have merchandise and attractions made to ride the wave for a while, but I'm honestly unsure if I do want more movies in that universe. The open ending was chilling enough without a follow-up. Leaving it up to imagination sometimes is more poignant than an official answer.
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fuck year cozilla but also fuck no some youtube asshole talking about cozilla
watch it or dont
some spastic can only offer shit
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Higher quality from the 35mm print here on the archive. Thanks, Whang.
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You know, its amazing.
For me, the Godzilla series has turned into probably the greatest scavenger hunt I've ever participated in. I got into at a very young age, and by the time I started, there were already 17 films, and some of them were very hard to find. Keep in mind this was at a time when internet was not readily available, streaming services weren't a thing, and the treatment of Godzilla fans in the US was "Take what we give ya or f off".
I've talked to fans who have told stories of basically buying bootlegged copies of these things at kiosks, but at my young age, I wasn't doing that, so I had to scour video catalogues and TV Guides in hopes of catching some of the tougher to find entries.
Destroy All Monsters was the last of the first 17 I found, and you'd think the search would be over. But no! Then I find out they kept making these things in the 90s, but they hadn't been released yet, giving me 5 more films to find. And then the Millennium films started up, which meant I had to wait for those too.
But wait, that's not all. Several of these movies were heavily edited for their US releases, so now there was a search for the unaltered versions in their original Japanese language, which in of itself felt like starting all over again. And at a time when Anime DVDs/Blu Rays were regularly being released with the original language tracks had become common, it was frustrating to see that Godzilla wasn't always given that same treatment. King Kong Vs. Godzilla's Japanese original cut didn't get a release in the states until that massive Criterion Collection Blu Ray set for the Showa films came out a couple years ago.
Then I got stuck in a cycle of using the internet to find the original dubbings for some of the US releases. Nowadays, most dubs released are Toho's own International dubs, which are by and large inferior, and the original dubs I grew up with were becoming lost in their own right, so I had to go on a quest to get digital copies of those. Many of those have never seen the light of day on DVD or Blu-Ray (The Destroy All Monsters Blu Ray release was actually immediately pulled from shelves for including the original AIP dub against Toho's wishes, so its become a bit of a Godzilla collector's item).
Nowadays, the releases come out much quicker (Shin Godzilla and the Anime Trilogy came over pretty quickly) and I can get most any version I want. But here I am on this day, and I'm hearing about a unique Italian cut of Gojira that I've never seen before. I remember reading and hearing about it years ago, but it never piqued my interest. My impression was that it was just a colorized version of the original film, which to me is not worth going out of my way to see, especially since the film looks better in black and white anyway.
But thanks to Whang!'s video, I now have a better understanding of what it is. Its a re-edit of an edit to the original film, a bizarre Frankenstein mish mash to change the film even further, and that actually sounds interesting. And now...crap, I have to watch it, lol. Its like I'm always finding new ways to keep the scavenger hunt going. Its pretty remarkable actually.
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it's basically the greatest shit that I got to see Shin and 2000 in a movie theater
without The Big Screen then 2000 is massively bland but getting to see it that hour and a half it was in US theaters, holy shit
most of the dubs aren't particularly worth digging up, Smog Monster and some others are mostly cromulent but not worth hunting down
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Seeing G2K in theaters was the perfect pallet cleanser after the 98 film. It wasn't the best Godzilla movie, but it felt familiar and comforting, like apple pie, and who doesn't like apple pie?
And Shin was great because it was the first time a Godzilla film got released in the states with a theatrical run where it was subtitled, no dubbing, so it was completely pure and true to its original form. I'm not strictly a "Subs over Dubs" type of guy, but it was still nice to finally get it.
As for the dubs, part of me wanting to get copies of the original dubs was largely because those were the versions I grew up with, so I have more of a familiarity of them. Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster and Son of Godzilla come to mind as the international dubs more commonly available now just don't sound right to me. Also, Godzilla Vs. The Smog Monster's original dub is totally worth it just to hear "Save the Earth" in all its glory.
The fact that they didn't even bother translating the song properly and just wrote their own lyrics is hysterical to me. Granted, they probably chose the lyrics to better match the mouth movements, but no other in-movie song in the Godzilla series (Mothra song, Sacred Springs, Prayer for Peace, Godzilla March, Jet Jaguar's Song, King Ceasar's Song) was ever translated to or converted to English in some way (Unless of course you count MST3K's mock subtitles of the Jet Jaguar theme, lol). Doing it with this film just helps that dub stand out more to me.
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Yeah the dub for Smog Monster (not the international Hedorah one, the AIP one) does well to accentuate the weirdness of a random ecological protest song even if it was a bit more direct than the Japanese version of the song
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They did good with Devilman (imo) so there's a good chance this'll be good too.
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My boy Anguirus is back? Instant win!
This has a look much closer to what I've always wanted from an animated Godzilla, so here's hoping it delivers.
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Looks pretty good here's to hoping it's better than the trilogy even if it is on Netflix. Is that Gabara? That would be cool if they brought in some of the more obscure/one-off monsters to get some screen time.