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Im not sure, by the 50s we had more knowledge of what dinos looked like. I think he would be more T-rex, less man

 Soladrin wrote:
You know what, I'm gonna rewatch pacific rim so I can see a more awesome Kaiju movie.

If all you wanted was a movie about kaiju fights, you missed the point of Godzilla.

 -Loki- wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
You know what, I'm gonna rewatch pacific rim so I can see a more awesome Kaiju movie.

If all you wanted was a movie about kaiju fights, you missed the point of Godzilla.

Please explain to me the bigger point of this current godzilla movie.

Tense moments, the fights meaning something?


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I thought I would post this. All 3 generations of suit wearers

 Soladrin wrote:

 -Loki- wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
You know what, I'm gonna rewatch pacific rim so I can see a more awesome Kaiju movie.

If all you wanted was a movie about kaiju fights, you missed the point of Godzilla.

Please explain to me the bigger point of this current godzilla movie.

The bigger point of this movie was UNINTELLIGIBLE QUASI SCIENTIFIC NARRATIVE ABOUT THINGS AND NOSTALGIA SO GIVE US MONEY.

 -Loki- wrote:

 Soladrin wrote:
You know what, I'm gonna rewatch pacific rim so I can see a more awesome Kaiju movie.

If all you wanted was a movie about kaiju fights, you missed the point of Godzilla.

Unless, like me, he grew up on alllllllllll the 20+ Godzilla movies where kaiju fights were the point. Godzilla VS Monster Zero is still the best in the franchise.

Oh, and I want to own Pacific Rim. I don't even want to see Godzilla 2014 again until it's been edited down to a good 20 minutes. Sometimes a fun dumb movie is easier to watch and rewatch and enjoy than a muddled mess of a 'serious' movie.

Bromsy gets an exalt. Hotsauceman, explain yourself.


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 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I have a question, what do you guys think godzilla would look like if they didnt do a man in a suit?

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, upon which he was loosely based. Did you know they had stop motion back then?

The 98 Godzilla could have been a cool Kaiju, but I will never, ever get over his Image Comics Square Jaw, and the fact that his lower jaw and chin are thicker than his upper jaw and cranium.

As for the movie itself... It would have been a lot more enjoyable for me if my expectations had not been preset by naming it Godzilla. I recall that the human scenes were much more light-hearted and Independence Day-ish than the current movie's.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Did you know they had stop motion back then?

They wanted to do stop[ motion originally, but was cost prohibitive, so they went with the big suit. It wasn't their first choice or an important aesthetic decision, it was economic.

The issue bears a bit more explanation in order to avoid reading history backwards. So-called "suitmation" developed a very poor reputation in the US by the late 1960s thanks to the declining quality of imported kaiju films, which was itself a consequence of the collapse of the Japanese film industry. In 1954, however, Toho was able and willing to take a huge financial risk on Godzilla. Indeed, Godzilla was the most expensive movie ever produced in Japan at that point. Its special effects were cutting edge and earned the Japanese film industry global respect.

Godzilla's appearance was therefore not the result of penny-pinching. The problem with using stop-motion animation was less cost than time. Special effects director Eiji Tsubaraya estimated it would take seven years to film all of the effects called for by the script using stop-motion animation. This is a testament to the grand scope of the film's ambition. The filmmakers decided on suitmation because Tsubaraya's team had the talent and experience to live up to said ambition.

 Manchu wrote:
The issue bears a bit more explanation in order to avoid reading history backwards. So-called "suitmation" developed a very poor reputation in the US by the late 1960s thanks to the declining quality of imported kaiju films, which was itself a consequence of the collapse of the Japanese film industry. In 1954, however, Toho was able and willing to take a huge financial risk on Godzilla. Indeed, Godzilla was the most expensive movie ever produced in Japan at that point. Its special effects were cutting edge and earned the Japanese film industry global respect.

Godzilla's appearance was therefore not the result of penny-pinching. The problem with using stop-motion animation was less cost than time. Special effects director Eiji Tsubaraya estimated it would take seven years to film all of the effects called for by the script using stop-motion animation. This is a testament to the grand scope of the film's ambition. The filmmakers decided on suitmation because Tsubaraya's team had the talent and experience to live up to said ambition.

and if they had access to cgi, go drill a would look radically different

So what? They didn't have it. As things stand, we have a 60-year-old franchise.

Honestly, I'd rather have King Ghidorah in the sequel, perhaps Mothra could be an ally, but I'd like King Ghidorah brought back to his roots as a destroyer of worlds, devouring a world's radioactive heating until it becomes geologically dead, rapidly resulting in the death of it's biosphere (something that is believed to have happened to mars according to some theories I've read on it's geological history) while the civilization native to the world impotently tries to resist the King of Terror's onslaught.

And have a scene where the military hits King Ghidorah with the biggest nukes they have, only for it to not only do nothing; but only succeed in empowering Ghidorah further.

 Kain wrote:
Honestly, I'd rather have King Ghidorah in the sequel, perhaps Mothra could be an ally, but I'd like King Ghidorah brought back to his roots as a destroyer of worlds, devouring a world's radioactive heating until it becomes geologically dead, rapidly resulting in the death of it's biosphere (something that is believed to have happened to mars according to some theories I've read on it's geological history) while the civilization native to the world impotently tries to resist the King of Terror's onslaught.

And have a scene where the military hits King Ghidorah with the biggest nukes they have, only for it to not only do nothing; but only succeed in empowering Ghidorah further.

I’d pay good money to watch that.

I stilll say Godzilla Vs. Tyrant mothra
But really, if they did to modern Mothra, Scrap the Fairies. They would not fit with the tone of the movie at all.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I stilll say Godzilla Vs. Tyrant mothra
But really, if they did to modern Mothra, Scrap the Fairies. They would not fit with the tone of the movie at all.

Now it just seems as if you're trying to bait Manchu.

You're not, are you?

Saw it today with the girlfriend. Worth one watch. Maybe two.

feth all the suggestions made in this thread for a sequel.

It's time for Gypsy Danger to make a crossover appearance in this bitch.

 Alpharius wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
I stilll say Godzilla Vs. Tyrant mothra
But really, if they did to modern Mothra, Scrap the Fairies. They would not fit with the tone of the movie at all.

Now it just seems as if you're trying to bait Manchu.

You're not, are you?

No, I do honestly think that having Mothra be a guardian like Godzilla but going all about it all wrong is a good idea. It could have a redemption part of it where she sacrifices herself for something she put into motion(Like a Nuclear Apocalypse). She could be controlling Govt officials while going after tankers.
Or have Larval Mothra be the bad guy, not knowing what she is doing is a good idea.


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 BlaxicanX wrote:
feth all the suggestions made in this thread for a sequel.

It's time for Gypsy Danger to make a crossover in this bitch.

what if they brought back Jet Jaguar

Titanosaurus or get out.

I say its high time we had a proper Godzilla vs Gamera

 LordofHats wrote:
I say its high time we had a proper Godzilla vs Gamera

I think Death Battle will have that in their next episode. Just a who would actually win if the two fought.

A new Gamera movie is rumored to be coming out in Japan next year.

I really liked the last 3 in the series, and I haven't seen "Gamera the Brave" yet.

I hope that Toho has a new Godzilla movie in the works now too.

It has been a decade since the last one. On one hand, Toho does not want to and cannot afford to be seen as competing with Legendary/Warner Bros./Universal over the IP. On the other hand, we won't get a sequel until 2017 given Edwards's SW commitment. I think the most logical thing would be a spin-off in a related but significantly different medium, like direct-to-video animation in the vein of Animatrix or Gotham Knight. You could use the design sensibilities of the Edwards film to inspire "non-canonical," as it were, animated episodes showing off the new Godzilla fighting redux versions of monsters certainly not in contention for the big screen trilogy (e.g., King Caesar). With Warner Bros. involved, I daresay this is pretty likely as well as reasonable.