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

Calandrino said:
Gamera anime coming to Netflix. Will it mog Netflix Godzilla as hard as the 90s trilogy mogged the Heisei Godzillas (don't shoot the messenger)? Time will tell.

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I have been working my way through the recent bluray releases of the Gamera series as of late. I hadn't seen most of the Showa series even in an English dub, and it's been a delight. Other than the godawful and enraging Gamera: Super Monster, they hold their own against the kid-friendly Godzilla movies. All in all, he's got a pretty good track record, an achievement all the more impressive given that Gamera is one of millions of adults living with autism.

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Gamera has no monster peers like Anguirus or Mothra. His adult allies are more like associates than friends. He only really socializes with children, who he probably finds easier to relate to. The poor guy is always going it alone, and the bullshit never ends: he gets cut open, impaled, infected with alien parasites, etc. Even the OP Heisei version is dealing nonstop with a bunch of crap he never signed on for and has no training to deal with. But deal with it he does. No monster ever got an unanswered W over Gamera.
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Godzilla has appropriate relationships with children

Gamera is a fren to all children and it's kinda weird
 
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recently caught "What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_to_Do_with_the_Dead_Kaiju?
not _bad_ but not that good, and more in a "ehh, it's okay I guess" sort of not that good, not some funny ironic way
a few jokes work well but it comes off more like the SciFi Original knockoff for when Shin Godzilla came out, like those SciFi Original Movies that weren't stupid intentionally bad shit like Asylum but the just sorta okay-ish knock offs
 
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But why though?
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That's dope, but man does Gamera look more like Godzilla (Godzilla Earth, to be exact) than ever before. Damn.

Hopefully it's fun, though.
 
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SuperUltrapyrus said:
New image/poster just dropped recently. (As well as the reveal of Gamera's design)
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(Goin on a complete limb I'm assuming this is suggested to be Jiger perhaps)

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HOL.
LEE.
SHIT.

I also really like the fact that Gamera looks more like Godzilla Earth (as the post above just mentioned). I can't wait.
 
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The Return of Godzilla and Godzilla vs. Biollante are the two best of the Heisei series in my opinion. I loved the dark tone they both had and I wished Toho didn’t ditch that for over the top shenanigans in the 90s.

Also, I thought the special effects started to dip in quality when the Heisei series moved to the 90s. I also hated how they changed Godzilla’s spines in Mothra ‘92.
 
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Godzilla@1989 said:
The Return of Godzilla and Godzilla vs. Biollante are the two best of the Heisei series in my opinion. I loved the dark tone they both had and I wished Toho didn’t ditch that for over the top shenanigans in the 90s.

Also, I thought the special effects started to dip in quality when the Heisei series moved to the 90s. I also hated how they changed Godzilla’s spines in Mothra ‘92.
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Never forget what they took from us.
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Godzilla@1989 said:
Biollante had the best dub out of the Heisei series and I think they were the same dub company fof Godzilla vs King Ghidorah and Mothra. For some reason, Sony used different subs for Mechagodzilla, Spacegodzilla, and Destroyah and they were awful.
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tbh I don't think I've actual sat down and watched the heiseis in many years. Like maybe five or ten for Biollante, fifteen at least for 1984/5, and I'm not sure if I ever rewatched the postBiollante stuff since 2000.
I think I caught Ghidorah at some point, I sorta recall onlining with some randos while dunking on the geelocks or whatever they were
 
Godzilla@1989 said:
Biollante had the best dub out of the Heisei series and I think they were the same dub company fof Godzilla vs King Ghidorah and Mothra. For some reason, Sony used different subs for Mechagodzilla, Spacegodzilla, and Destroyah and they were awful.
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The parts that were already in English are worst/best/most entertaining bits. I like the Showa Godzillas best though.

SuperUltrapyrus said:
New image/poster just dropped recently. (As well as the reveal of Gamera's design)
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(Goin on a complete limb I'm assuming this is suggested to be Jiger perhaps)

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Doing "Heisei" versions of Showa stuff seems like a safe crowd-pleasing route. Not that I'm complaining. Maybe we'll get Garasharp from the cancelled movie.
 
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