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Post by Hoosier X on May 15, 2014 15:34:35 GMT -5
But I'd squarely put it in the same category as Independence daySo would I. They're both terrible.
When one reviewer said Mars Attacks! was the movie that Edward Wood Jr. would have made if he'd had a budget, I thought: "Ridiculous. Independence Day is the movie Edward D. Wood Jr. would have made if he'd had a budget."
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Post by gothos on May 15, 2014 15:57:55 GMT -5
The ads give me some hope for this one. I'm not saying everything about the movie has to be dead serious-- humor would help leaven the horror-- but Godzilla should be about the littleness of men in the path of a pure force of destruction.
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Post by DubipR on May 15, 2014 16:04:12 GMT -5
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Post by Hoosier X on May 15, 2014 16:34:07 GMT -5
I remember when I was about 8 and I saw "King Kong vs. Godzilla" listed in the TV Guide and I decided it had to be the best movie ever made just based on the title. And then I saw the actual movie and, yes, it was the best movie ever made!
I don't rate it quite so highly today, but it's tied with "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", "Dr. No" and "Lawrence of Arabia" for best movie of 1962.
Geez Louise! 1962 was a great year for the movies!
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Post by The Man of Tomorrow on May 15, 2014 16:44:13 GMT -5
When I put together my list for my favorite movie for every year from 1920 to the present, I had "King Kong vs. Godzilla" for 1962 (tied with Dr. No and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) and "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster" for 1964. (It beat Dr. Strangelove!) I like a lot of the 1990s Godzilla movies, but not as much as the ones from the 1960s. (I don't like the 1998 American version. I felt so bad for Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno!) I'm reserving judgment on the new one. I was going to give it a pass, but ... Bryan Cranston! was the first time I saw both of those monsters in a movie (around 1972).* It was also the first Toho film that I ever laid eyes on. The 1998 film? I saw about half it and then bailed out. The new film looks promising. I might give it a shot. * The first time I ever saw Godzilla was on the box of an Aurora Glow-in-the-Dark model at a department store circa 1970, while the first time I ever saw King Kong was in a commercial for the emergency number 911 that was seen in the NYC area during the late '60s-early '70s - it had a clip of the big ape on top of the Empire State Building from the classic movie. |
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Post by Action Ace on May 15, 2014 21:35:56 GMT -5
I'm hoping that this is the start of a new era of kaiju films. I'd really love to see some new movies from Toho. My favorite Ishirō Honda movie is probably the 1956 film Rodan. A vast improvement from the special effects in the original Gojira. Rodan is my second favorite kaiju after Godzilla and I would also like to see him in a new film. With today's effects, he could get really speedy. |
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Post by Action Ace on May 15, 2014 21:38:52 GMT -5
I remember when I was about 8 and I saw "King Kong vs. Godzilla" listed in the TV Guide and I decided it had to be the best movie ever made just based on the title. And then I saw the actual movie and, yes, it was the best movie ever made! I don't rate it quite so highly today, but it's tied with "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", "Dr. No" and "Lawrence of Arabia" for best movie of 1962. Geez Louise! 1962 was a great year for the movies! My 1962 Oscar goes to "To Kill a Mockingbird." |
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Post by Action Ace on May 15, 2014 21:43:01 GMT -5
When I put together my list for my favorite movie for every year from 1920 to the present, I had "King Kong vs. Godzilla" for 1962 (tied with Dr. No and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?) and "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster" for 1964. (It beat Dr. Strangelove!) I like a lot of the 1990s Godzilla movies, but not as much as the ones from the 1960s. (I don't like the 1998 American version. I felt so bad for Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno!) I'm reserving judgment on the new one. I was going to give it a pass, but ... Bryan Cranston! was the first time I saw both of those monsters in a movie (around 1972).* It was also the first Toho film that I ever laid eyes on. The 1998 film? I saw about half it and then bailed out. The new film looks promising. I might give it a shot. * The first time I ever saw Godzilla was on the box of an Aurora Glow-in-the-Dark model at a department store circa 1970, while the first time I ever saw King Kong was in a commercial for the emergency number 911 that was seen in the NYC area during the late '60s-early '70s - it had a clip of the big ape on top of the Empire State Building from the classic movie. My first five Godzilla films were shown on five afternoons in a row on the local tv station sometime in the mid 1970s. Godzilla: King of the Monsters, King Kong vs. Godzilla, Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster and Godzilla vs. Monster Zero. Those five are all still very close to the top of my Godzilla movie rankings. I can't remember the first time I saw King Kong. It could be the Godzilla movie, the original or ads for the 1976 version. |
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Post by hondobrode on May 15, 2014 22:01:07 GMT -5
Yeah, Godzilla is crazy cool.
I've grown to love the Marvel series more with age and that awesome stylized Trimpe art.
IDW has had some nice series too.
Laughed when I saw that Barkley / Godzilla. Who comes up with stuff like that ?
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Post by Pharozonk on May 16, 2014 7:01:57 GMT -5
This new movie was actually the first Godzilla movie I had ever seen and it was pretty cool. If there were any flaws, Bryan Cranston got sort of screwed over in this movie and I could have done with more scenes of Godzilla fighting the monsters rather the than human protagonists. However, when Godzilla used his atomic blast, I lost my shit.
I'm going to look into some other Godzilla movies now.
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Post by paulie on May 16, 2014 9:23:22 GMT -5
I saw most of the Godzilla films I have seen during the 2 years I lived in Maine (late '80-early '82)-we had cable for the first time and one of the channels we got was WLVI, channel 56 out of Boston and they ran Creature Double Feature on Saturday afternoons (one at 12 noon one at 2 PM, with a kung fu movie on at 4 every Saturday). On cold winter days, my friends and I would get together and watch these movies all afternoon. The 2:00 feature was often a Godzilla flick. The earlier movies were often 60's sci fi stuff, as I know that's where I first saw flicks like Them, Attack of the 50 foot Woman, etc. etc. -M I loved Creature Double Feature as a kid. (Grew up in Mass.) You're right. One feature was a Godzilla flick and they played a lot of Hammer horror as well. I first saw Matango on CDF.
I wish there was comprehensive website somewhere. There was a half built one a few years back but half built it remains.
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Post by DubipR on May 16, 2014 9:47:28 GMT -5
If you haven't read James Stokoe's Godzilla: Half Century War, you're missing out on a major treat. Stokoe's a huge Gojira fan and his attention to detail is insane. It's a thing of total beauty. Incredibly great story and Stokoe's artwork is the draw....   |
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Post by The Man of Tomorrow on May 16, 2014 12:51:12 GMT -5
I saw most of the Godzilla films I have seen during the 2 years I lived in Maine (late '80-early '82)-we had cable for the first time and one of the channels we got was WLVI, channel 56 out of Boston and they ran Creature Double Feature on Saturday afternoons (one at 12 noon one at 2 PM, with a kung fu movie on at 4 every Saturday). On cold winter days, my friends and I would get together and watch these movies all afternoon. The 2:00 feature was often a Godzilla flick. The earlier movies were often 60's sci fi stuff, as I know that's where I first saw flicks like Them, Attack of the 50 foot Woman, etc. etc. -M I loved Creature Double Feature as a kid. (Grew up in Mass.) You're right. One feature was a Godzilla flick and they played a lot of Hammer horror as well. I first saw Matango on CDF.
I wish there was comprehensive website somewhere. There was a half built one a few years back but half built it remains.
In the NYC area during the '70s and '80s on the day after Thanksgiving (now known as Black Friday - I don't recall anybody calling it that then), WOR and WPIX would play Toho films in the afternoon. Obviously, Godzilla showed up a lot. Also, "Monster Week" would pop up once or twice a year on WABC's 4:30 Movie with more from Toho. If you were a kid and loved Japanese horror/sci-fi films, Godzilla, Rodan, Ganera, Mothra, etc. were just around the corner on your television. |
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 16, 2014 14:40:35 GMT -5
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Post by thebeastofyuccaflats on May 16, 2014 14:41:28 GMT -5
And seconds for Stokoe's book. He had me from his effect for the roar.
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