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 Ouze wrote:
No, I think I've only seen the one with Raymond Burr.

You won't regret getting this.

I mean, I wont watch this movie a all unless it has copius amounts of Dr. Pepper.

That trailer made the human drama look like a standard day-to-day life as a cubicle worker. Meeting, after meeting, after meeting with guys in suits and guys in work uniforms.

Then, Godzilla shows up and memos need to be written! PowerPoints reviewed! Minutes kept! Only this time, this meeting is for real!

 Manchu wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
No, I think I've only seen the one with Raymond Burr.

You won't regret getting this.

You would, if you knew this cheaper version existed.

 Ratius wrote:
Cant be any worse than the last couple of utter trainwrecks that bore big Gs name.....

The American GINO 'Zilla was an abomination, and I was glad to see it curbstomped in Final Wars.

Final Wars was great - it's a best of compilation reel. If one is a true Godzilla fan, it's just awesome to see everything come back.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

 Manchu wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
No, I think I've only seen the one with Raymond Burr.

You won't regret getting this.

You would, if you knew this cheaper version existed.

LOL well "you get what you pay for" is very true in this case ...

I'm interested. Not completely sold on Godzilla's look (preferred the 2000/2014 Godzilla look). Seriously, absurd tail length, skinny arms.

I'll watch this, because I bet this will have more than 15 minutes of action that the 2014 one had, even if that 15 minutes was pretty great

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Why are they doing the rubber suit still?
I mean, I support practical effects, but he looks silly.
Cmon japan. godzilla doesnt look terryfying.


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 Alpharius wrote:

And, much like everyone else, I don't like the Roland Emmerich version, at all. It was an OK 'monster movie', but not a Godzilla one!

I loved the 98(?) version of godzilla. its so fun to watch and I love the design of the monster. Slick, fast, cool.

It's funny how you disqualified your first statement with your second statement.

Since Godzilla vs Monster Zero is my favorite Godzilla film, I'm cool with rubber suits and a less serious film.

The 1998 Godzilla movie was terrible, but I liked the creature design quite a bit. Not my favorite, but pretty cool nonetheless.

The baby Godzillas were substantially less so.

edit: just took a quick looksee, and hooooboy, did that CGI not hold up too well.

I still can't make my mind up on this. His design is awesome but something about the effects just seems... odd. I can't say why it is but I wanted something more like the Hesei era.

Considering the rumour that Godzilla will have multiple forms in this movie, perhaps the designs will be a sort of "tour" of the series, in terms of style, starting with this one, which very effectively harkens back to 1954.

 welshhoppo wrote:
Big G really needs to stop skipping arm day at the gym.

Damn...Can see G biting down on some critter head and head lower down to make his arms/fists do chin music on another monster

 Manchu wrote:
Considering the rumour that Godzilla will have multiple forms in this movie, perhaps the designs will be a sort of "tour" of the series, in terms of style, starting with this one, which very effectively harkens back to 1954.

That's a good point!

I too hope we end up closer to a Heisei Era 'final form' though!

 welshhoppo wrote:
Big G really needs to stop skipping arm day at the gym.

Yes, this new Godzilla looks awful. The arms are even more feeble than usual and the tail is too long. It looks terrible.

For once America has done a better Godzilla than Japan.

Remember though:

 Manchu wrote:
Considering the rumour that Godzilla will have multiple forms in this movie, perhaps the designs will be a sort of "tour" of the series, in terms of style, starting with this one, which very effectively harkens back to 1954.

 Easy E wrote:
That trailer made the human drama look like a standard day-to-day life as a cubicle worker. Meeting, after meeting, after meeting with guys in suits and guys in work uniforms.

Then, Godzilla shows up and memos need to be written! PowerPoints reviewed! Minutes kept! Only this time, this meeting is for real!

That could be a good film, though. A hyper-dry approach to something as fanciful as a giant monster would be refreshing. It would also fit in with Godzilla being a symbol of the unstoppable and the inevitable, too. Instead of the dangers of nuclear technology he is death and the material universe itself, in the face of which the arbitrary and wasteful hierarchy we have built is truly revealed as worthless and inhumane. It is, in fact, the true monster because it's something we have chosen and have the power to change but do not.

The trailer is a little mixed on that front. There are some pretty soupy drama shots - and then there are some "no makeup" type shots, too. Maybe this is the "look" of contemporary Japanese cinema? Anyone seen the live action Attack on Titan?

 Manchu wrote:
Anyone seen the live action Attack on Titan?

Yes, but I'm probably the last person who should be weighing in. I'd never seen the anime, and had zero idea what the background was - I just saw it pop up as available, thought "oh, people at work were talking about this", and grabbed it.

It was extremely weird.

AoT is supposed to be horror scary...

 Alpharius wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
Considering the rumour that Godzilla will have multiple forms in this movie, perhaps the designs will be a sort of "tour" of the series, in terms of style, starting with this one, which very effectively harkens back to 1954.

That's a good point!

I too hope we end up closer to a Heisei Era 'final form' though!

Other than the 2014 American version and original 1954 version, the Heisei Era Godzilla is my favorite, followed closely by the Millennium Era Godzilla.


This new incarnation reminds me of Burning Godzilla with glowing spots of radiation, just not to the extreme of Burning Godzilla.

Yeah, he does remind me of radioactive Godzilla.....




I just can't get over those arms, what if he falls over how does he get up? Is the final battle going to be a bunch of soldiers holding a rope and getting him to fall over?


It does remind me of the old type of Godzilla is a force of nature. With his extremely limited movement he is going to leave a trail of destruction like a rather scaly tornado.

Are those skulls/teeth growing out of his tail?! Gnarly.

Gigerzilla?

 Manchu wrote:
Gigerzilla?

Ha!

Absolutely!

And yes, those arms really are too small.

Waiting to see those other 'forms' soon - I hope!

Looks like the idea of Big G having multiple forms in this film may have been manufactured in the noise-o-sphere.

So this is our "Shingoji"

 Manchu wrote:
Looks like the idea of Big G having multiple forms in this film may have been manufactured in the noise-o-sphere.

I was concerned that was going to turn out to be the case...

I'll still see this one of course - and it might end up pleasantly surprising me too, now that my expectations have been suitably lowered!

He definitely looks monstrous. I kinda like it myself- he's obviously not the "Protector of Earth" he has been in previous incarnations.

I'm not convinced.


He looks like Godzilla crossed with Ripley 7 from Alien Resurrection with those deformed limbs.

 Alpharius wrote:
now that my expectations have been suitably lowered!

My expectations are seriously high - so high that I am doing my due diligence to lower them: I decided to watch the Attack on Titan movie ... but that means subjecting myself to at least the first season of the anime first. So far, so good - I mean, for an anime, I guess. Why watch the anime first? you may well ask. Same reason you boil a frog slowly.