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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 25, 2023 15:07:32 GMT -5
King Kong vs. Godzilla Frankenstein Conquers the World War of the Gargantuas Godzilla’s Revenge And then there’s Destroy All Monsters, which veers back and forth between being one of the best and one of the worst every five minutes.
Can't believe you recommended Godzilla's Revenge... it's total juvenile wackiness, but at least it's entertaining in a Mystery Science Theater sort of way. I put it right up there with some of the later Gamera films, as well as the Korean films, Yongary and Infra-man... hilariously bad, but well worth watching just for the yuks.
Recommendations for you-- The Daimajin trilogy films produced by Daiei (same company that produced the Gamera films), if you haven't already seen them.
By the way, The H-Man happens to be one of my favorite Toho films.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 25, 2023 16:28:35 GMT -5
King Kong vs. Godzilla Frankenstein Conquers the World War of the Gargantuas Godzilla’s Revenge And then there’s Destroy All Monsters, which veers back and forth between being one of the best and one of the worst every five minutes.
Can't believe you recommended Godzilla's Revenge... it's total juvenile wackiness, but at least it's entertaining in a Mystery Science Theater sort of way. I put it right up there with some of the later Gamera films, as well as the Korean films, Yongary and Infra-man... hilariously bad, but well worth watching just for the yuks.
Recommendations for you-- The Daimajin trilogy films produced by Daiei (same company that produced the Gamera films), if you haven't already seen them.
By the way, The H-Man happens to be one of my favorite Toho films. I’ve not seen the whole triliogy, but I have seen Daimajin and I meant to come back and recommend it to berkley when I noticed I hadn’t mentioned it. Godzilla’s Revenge just cracks me up the whole way through. Tubi has the American version and the Japanese version. I haven’t watched all of the Japanese version yet. But I did watch the opening title sequence and in addition to the Ifukube music, there are vocals! And if you turn on the sub-titles, you can sing along with the English lyrics! I think the song is called The March of the Monsters.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 25, 2023 16:31:18 GMT -5
And then there’s Pulgasari!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 25, 2023 18:06:59 GMT -5
King Kong vs. Godzilla Frankenstein Conquers the World War of the Gargantuas Godzilla’s Revenge And then there’s Destroy All Monsters, which veers back and forth between being one of the best and one of the worst every five minutes.
Can't believe you recommended Godzilla's Revenge... it's total juvenile wackiness, but at least it's entertaining in a Mystery Science Theater sort of way. I put it right up there with some of the later Gamera films, as well as the Korean films, Yongary and Infra-man... hilariously bad, but well worth watching just for the yuks.
Recommendations for you-- The Daimajin trilogy films produced by Daiei (same company that produced the Gamera films), if you haven't already seen them.
By the way, The H-Man happens to be one of my favorite Toho films. Infra-Man (aka The Super Infra-Man) is from Hong Kong, from the Shaw Bros. studio. It was their attempt to copy the Kamen Rider series, from Japan, with a little Ultraman thrown in, for good measure. You have to love that film, though....I mean, come on, Thunderball Fists! Here is what they were swiping.....
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Post by tartanphantom on Mar 25, 2023 21:52:46 GMT -5
Correct, codystarbuck. Don't know what I was thinking. I've got a blu-ray release of it which has both the original version and the hilariously dialogued English version. I'd easily give my Thunderbolt fists up for one of those sweet horned-skull evil flunkie motorcycle helmets!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 25, 2023 22:20:33 GMT -5
Correct, codystarbuck . Don't know what I was thinking. I've got a blu-ray release of it which has both the original version and the hilariously dialogued English version. I'd easily give my Thunderbolt fists up for one of those sweet horned-skull evil flunkie motorcycle helmets! They used that look for Kinga Forrester's henchmen in the revived MST3K, on Netflix.....
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 25, 2023 22:25:55 GMT -5
Today I watched Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 26, 2023 10:50:56 GMT -5
Today I watched Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)! I need to watch some of those, too. The only Zatoichi I have seen was the Beat Takeshi one, from 2003.
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Post by berkley on Mar 26, 2023 11:16:37 GMT -5
Today I watched Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)! I need to watch some of those, too. The only Zatoichi I have seen was the Beat Takeshi one, from 2003. I really liked that Takeshi movie. I did manage to find a couple episodes of the tv series at a video shop back in the 1990s but that was all I had seen of Zatoichi until Takeshi's update.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 26, 2023 11:57:21 GMT -5
Today I watched Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)! I need to watch some of those, too. The only Zatoichi I have seen was the Beat Takeshi one, from 2003. It’s better than watchable. But it’s certainly not in Takeshi’s Top Ten.
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Post by arfetto on Mar 26, 2023 19:12:27 GMT -5
It’s better than watchable. But it’s certainly not in Takeshi’s Top Ten. What are your favorites? My number one is A Scene at the Sea, and two is probably Kikujiro. 3 and 4 would be Sonatine and Hana-bi, but I am not sure what order (most would probably put Sonatine and Hana-bi higher than A Scene at the Sea and Kikujiro, which I definitely understand - I am just more into easy-going gentle types of movies as a personal preference). And 5 and 6, Kids Return and Dolls. Maybe 7 and 8 would be Violent Cop and Boiing Point for me. After that I am not sure. I have not seen any of the Outrage movies though. Sonatine was the first one I ever watched.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 26, 2023 19:21:05 GMT -5
The Big Sleep (1978)
I never read the novel and never saw the Bogart version, so this was my first brush with Chandler's story. I expected it to involve a lot more mob-related and political shenanigans, but it was still a pretty good yarn. Robert Mitchum did a honest job as Philip Marlowe, although despite the presence of Jimmy Stewart the whole production felt like a TV movie (which it might have been, for all I know).
It's strange to see full front nudity in such films... it's as if directors were testing the waters, like a kid taking a swift dip in the deep end of the pool and saying "see how daring I am?" -The end result feels a bit odd, as there was no actual need to see anyone naked in this film. (I hastily add that I didn't dislike it one bit, but it felt a bit gratuitous).
Not a whole lot of action, but that's all right... I prefer Marlowe to be scarily subdued than act like Indiana Jones.
Now, however, I want to see the Bogey version to be able to compare the two!
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Post by berkley on Mar 26, 2023 19:59:22 GMT -5
The Big Sleep (1978) I never read the novel and never saw the Bogart version, so this was my first brush with Chandler's story. I expected it to involve a lot more mob-related and political shenanigans, but it was still a pretty good yarn. Robert Mitchum did a honest job as Philip Marlowe, although despite the presence of Jimmy Stewart the whole production felt like a TV movie (which it might have been, for all I know). It's strange to see full front nudity in such films... it's as if directors were testing the waters, like a kid taking a swift dip in the deep end of the pool and saying "see how daring I am?" -The end result feels a bit odd, as there was no actual need to see anyone naked in this film. (I hastily add that I didn't dislike it one bit, but it felt a bit gratuitous). Not a whole lot of action, but that's all right... I prefer Marlowe to be scarily subdued than act like Indiana Jones. Now, however, I want to see the Bogey version to be able to compare the two!
I haven't seen the Mitchum movie but the Bogart one is a classic, even though I don't think Bogart captured the character as he came across in Chandler's books.
The novels are must-reads, IMO. Chandler had a way with words that should be experienced by anyone interested in English prose writing. Much imitated but never matched.
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Post by berkley on Mar 26, 2023 20:17:59 GMT -5
King Kong vs. Godzilla Frankenstein Conquers the World War of the Gargantuas Godzilla’s Revenge And then there’s Destroy All Monsters, which veers back and forth between being one of the best and one of the worst every five minutes.
King Kong vs Godzilla I saw as a kid the 1970s but I certainly plan to watch it again as I take them more or less in order.
Frankenstein Conquers the World I had heard of vaguely but didn't even know it was a kaiju movie, so thanks for mentioning it. I see from wiki that War of the Gargantuas is the sequel to it. I'll make a pint of adding these to my list.
Destroy All Monsters is playing at the local cinema here next month so I'll definitely be seeing it then. I would have preferred to see more of the earlier movies first, the ones in which the individual monsters made their first appearances, but I can't pass up this opportunity to see DAM on the big screen. I'll try to squeeze in a few of them before it gets here.
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 26, 2023 21:26:30 GMT -5
It’s better than watchable. But it’s certainly not in Takeshi’s Top Ten. What are your favorites? My number one is A Scene at the Sea, and two is probably Kikujiro. 3 and 4 would be Sonatine and Hana-bi, but I am not sure what order (most would probably put Sonatine and Hana-bi higher than A Scene at the Sea and Kikujiro, which I definitely understand - I am just more into easy-going gentle types of movies as a personal preference). And 5 and 6, Kids Return and Dolls. Maybe 7 and 8 would be Violent Cop and Boiing Point for me. After that I am not sure. I have not seen any of the Outrage movies though. Sonatine was the first one I ever watched. The Outrage trilogy is my favorite from Takeshi, but I also think Violent Cop and Boiling Point are pretty great.
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