Godzilla PSA

[thebitterguy]

No, seriously. A PSA starring Godzilla.

And Godzilla Junior. Very nice, very retro.

Comments

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

That was awe-inspiring. I remember that movie.

Doug.

[thebitterguy]

I've never seen the full film, but that was just super cute.

BTW, have you seen my Canada Day Reserve basic post?

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Yep, I went back and re-read all the stuff I'd missed on my friends list when I got back. I didn't comment on things that had been a day or three ago ... I know I'm spotty on catching comments made in mhy back-log.

I'm pretty sure you've already related (most) of the story to me.

Doug.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

The film in question is the relatively weak Son of Godzilla, however the little terror appears again in Destroy All Monsters, a wonderful* movie.

Doug.

*Wonderful, if you love monster movies.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

How can anyone NOT like monster movies? o.O

[thebitterguy]

Maybe if they lost their family to a chupacabra attack as a child?

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Nah.

[thebitterguy]

I don't know, man, those Chupacabra attacks, they can break a man inside.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Pshaw. Chupacabras are for little girly-men to fear.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

An elective credit in Film Studies, or too much exposure to cinema as a child? Nothing wrecks a good movie like cinema, I've found.

Doug.

[thebitterguy]

Conceivably, too many bad monster movies.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Well, snobbery, at any rate. I own a whole shelf of Criterions, but I also own a bootleg four-disc set of "Godzilla: Final Wars"; I don't even understand Japanese.

[graveyardgreg.livejournal.com]

I've actually seen that. Hilarious.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Heh...finally, Minilla is used well (okay, and the bit at the very end of "Final Wars" was awesome.)

[thebitterguy]

I vaguely recall your discussion of the three branches of Godzilla. What's Final Wars? It sounds fascinating.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

"Final Wars" is the final Godzilla film of the current series ("Millenium" or "X" if you're a Japanese hipster.) There won't be any Godzilla films for another five to ten years; Toho, unlike some other movie studios (*cough"PARAMOUNT!*cough*), knows enough to let a field lie fallow occasionally. It's from the director of Versus and is essentially Japanese camp distilled down to its purest essence, really the only way of describing it.

The X series is pretty interesting because each movie is a different take on Gojira. The best straight-ahead monster movie of the bunch is "Godzilla GMK: Monsters All-Out Attack", which despite the title is a fairly serious flick and probably one of the best of the entire franchise.