TheGreatDirector
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Shin Godzilla - Trailer 2 (New Japanese Godzilla Movie)
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I'm all in then.
Everyone else's thoughts in that pic:
Anno's thoughts:
By the way, any news of an international release?
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Honestly for me Godzilla is at its most enjoyable when
-It's godzilla vs humanity no other monsters
-It's got cheesy as hell special effects
-Acting is out of control over the top
-Feels like a live action anime
I'm looking forward to seeing this and hopefully making it a regular "let's get trashed and make a mess of burgers and watch some goofy movies" flick.
-It's godzilla vs humanity no other monsters
-It's got cheesy as hell special effects
-Acting is out of control over the top
-Feels like a live action anime
I'm looking forward to seeing this and hopefully making it a regular "let's get trashed and make a mess of burgers and watch some goofy movies" flick.
Godzilla is the Final Angel confirmed
what is "tadpole" referring to? Another monster he fights?
Sounds great.
ffejeromdiks
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Godzilla starts as a "tadpole" form apparently and quickly grows legs and arms as he makes landfall, there are no other monsters in the movie.
TheGreatDirector
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The bolded is key for me. The 54' and 84' films are my favorite of the bunch. I like them all, but those two bring about much more interesting conflicts than one giant monster vs. another giant monster.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Is the 84 one return of godzilla? Because that one has some incredible sequences and really takes advantage of the SFX of its time. It's also definitely one of the best ones in the franchise.
That's the one. It's getting a blu ray release this fall finally also
I didn't even know The Return of Godzilla was getting a damn American Blu-Ray release till like last week. Just happened to stumble upon the shit on Amazon, and pre-ordered it immediately. Growing up Godzilla 1985 was my favorite film by far. I ran the VHS into the ground. Nowadays I still find Godzilla 1985 fun to watch for Raymond Burr and nostalgia. But man, the original is the superior film, and the closest thing there is to the 1954 original. Godzilla is truly intimidating, and is a relentless force of nature.
Also, just listen to that damn roar .
Prince of Space
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More_Badass
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Prince of Space
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Day 0. My hype for this is through the roof!
plasmawave
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Chaotic-Strike
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Yea this certainly sounds like an Anno movie alright.
More_Badass
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I'm suddenly way more hyped this, and I'm someone who has zero interest in Godzilla outside of the 1954 and 2014 movies. This looks like how I always envisioned Godzilla to be. Scary as fuck, an unstoppable force of nature on two legs. Looks like they're absolutely nailing the sense of scale, maybe even more so than the 2014 movie
Look at that mouth. That's one nightmarish demonic maw right here
I'm really into this. I love this effect in movie monsters.
More_Badass
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Literally, given the mouth. Looks like a snake mouth on that figure, opening so wide
Yeah and I think in the last shot of the newest or first trailer too. One of them has a shot with Godzilla's mouth WIDE open roaring. Looks nightmare inducing.
Dang, this sounds too hype!
Spoilers please.
plasmawave
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Better than the 2014 one? I heard
the Godzilla screen time is about the same.
Funimation is releasing it in theaters and on DVD/Blu-Ray in North America.
plentyofmilhouse
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Yep. Those spoilers have only increased my hype.
Please please please let them screen this somewhere near me soon.
Please please please let them screen this somewhere near me soon.
It's a hell of a lot better than the 2014 one. However;
No way, he is in it a lot more and does much more destruction. There is long stretches sometimes where he isn't on screen, but he is 100% more of a presence than in the 2014 one.
Ending spoilers, for those who want it.
After using up all of his nuclear energy, Godzilla is basically asleep and resting until he's recharged in the middle of Tokyo. America is pushing for Japan to let them set off a nuclear device to destroy him. They reluctantly agree, especially as Godzilla has sprayed nuclear waste all over the city already. However they ask for two weeks to evacuate everyone. In these two weeks, a team sets out to find another way they can defeat him. What they came up with was concrete. They explode two shinkansen trains at his feet - as he's stood at a train station - which wakes him up. When he's awake they explode the buildings surrounding him to try and bury him. He falls down and multiple trucks begin to dump concrete into his open mouth. The first time, he gets back up and causes some damage. They manage to get him down again by sending more exploding trains on the track. They fill him with concrete until his nuclear energy is reading as zero on the geiger meter. He stands up and goes to roar - which is when his skin turns to concrete, because of how instead of breathing out nuclear waste, he breathed out the concrete inside his stomach. So Tokyo is saved - but it has a huge concrete statue of Godzilla in the middle.
sounds fucking awesome
Just saw it today. Enjoyed it. Spoilers.
Was difficult not to laugh at the Evangelion-esque 'American' girl and her English. Well played Anno. Turkey Godzilla was creepy as fuck and when 2nd form/final form Godzilla finally used his power to literally scorch Tokyo it was pretty terrifying. It was a shame the Prime Minister and most of those politicians died there though because they were actually the best and most believable actors - much better than the 'quirky' remaining team.
I loved the first of the two action set pieces, at Musashi-Kosugi, because I could see my old apartment! Spared in the end too. But there's no doubt the Tokyo Station scene was the best moment - collapsing the Tokyo station skyscrapers onto Godzilla and suicide running the JR train fleet into him will go down as a classic Japanese cinema moment. You just can't replicate that anywhere else.
Actually now that I think about it that scene would've been ridiculous with the PM's war room dictating the action instead of crazy science men so I guess they did actually have to be sacrificed so we could have this.
The main guy was actually quite good too but a lot of his scenes were a little too talky - as I said I preferred the war-room Evangelion type stuff before they all died - but it helped move the story along to where it had to be so no complaints really.
I loved the first of the two action set pieces, at Musashi-Kosugi, because I could see my old apartment! Spared in the end too. But there's no doubt the Tokyo Station scene was the best moment - collapsing the Tokyo station skyscrapers onto Godzilla and suicide running the JR train fleet into him will go down as a classic Japanese cinema moment. You just can't replicate that anywhere else.
Actually now that I think about it that scene would've been ridiculous with the PM's war room dictating the action instead of crazy science men so I guess they did actually have to be sacrificed so we could have this.
The main guy was actually quite good too but a lot of his scenes were a little too talky - as I said I preferred the war-room Evangelion type stuff before they all died - but it helped move the story along to where it had to be so no complaints really.
As someone who basically wants live-action versions of the actions scenes from Evangelion rebuild films how much will this satisfy me?
Down to the music - very, I think. Two thumbs up.
Though I guess
don't expect too much back and forth in the fight. It's basically 'Shoot it. Ok that didn't work try rockets. Ok still not dead how about tanks. Fuck it fire the missiles. Shit we really are going to need to nuke Tokyo..' The Angels in Evangelion are kind of like satisfying puzzles and interesting opponents but Godzilla is just way too OP for that since he's just fighting the army. The ending set piece plan I mentioned before is the only really 'gotcha' moment that feels pretty cool for the winning side (excluding maybe when the American bombers surprisingly wound him and causes him to scorch Tokyo). But this is all a product of there being multiple angels in Evangelion but only one Godzilla and he obviously can't die or have any resolution earlier in the movie so it isn't really fair to compare like that.
plasmawave
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HYPE!
That's a pretty lousy/lame finale.
Godzilla deserves a
way better fate than that
Just got back from it. I'm not a big Godzilla buff (this is actually the first Godzilla movie I've seen besides the original), and the dense, rapid-fire script overwhelmed my feeble Japanese listening comprehension, but I was still impressed.
It's very much in the vein of that first movie, a story about an unstoppable force of nature and the consequences of dealing with it. I found the first two-thirds of the film especially effective, a tense, tightly paced blend of boardroom scenes and conference rooms, men in suits walking through hallways, and gradually escalating destruction captured from the street level. It's a very political movie, and more particularly a Japanese political movie, asking how Japan can maintain its identity and sovereignty as a nation in the face of disaster and destruction.
There are times in the early going where I felt Godzilla seemed somewhat goofy, but by the end I had no doubt as to how terrifying his presence was. He's incredibly destructive. Godzilla's sound effects feel intentionally retro, like they could have come from the original movie (the film's opening and ending title cards also evoke that era of cinema 60 years earlier), but it doesn't undermine his power and ferocity.
Even if I feel like the plot sagged a lot before the climax, the movie's highs were so good that I'd have to recommend it. I just wish I had a better grasp of the script.
It's very much in the vein of that first movie, a story about an unstoppable force of nature and the consequences of dealing with it. I found the first two-thirds of the film especially effective, a tense, tightly paced blend of boardroom scenes and conference rooms, men in suits walking through hallways, and gradually escalating destruction captured from the street level. It's a very political movie, and more particularly a Japanese political movie, asking how Japan can maintain its identity and sovereignty as a nation in the face of disaster and destruction.
There are times in the early going where I felt Godzilla seemed somewhat goofy, but by the end I had no doubt as to how terrifying his presence was. He's incredibly destructive. Godzilla's sound effects feel intentionally retro, like they could have come from the original movie (the film's opening and ending title cards also evoke that era of cinema 60 years earlier), but it doesn't undermine his power and ferocity.
Even if I feel like the plot sagged a lot before the climax, the movie's highs were so good that I'd have to recommend it. I just wish I had a better grasp of the script.
UnemployedVillain
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Lol, you haven't even seen this film
I checked Amazon periodically for like a few years now lol- just happened to see it up a couple weeks back. I think it's strictly the original cut though. 1985 did the same thing the original did with having that Raymond Burr cut (which was a cool full circle thing imo), but I believe there's some licensing issue or something so the cut is only the original (which is sill amazing).
Such a great film. Personally, while I enjoy most Godzilla movies, especially the 80s-mid 90s ones, the original, 85, and vs Destroyah are a great trilogy.
These spoilers sound absolutely insane. Not at all what I expected or wanted, but the positive impressions are telling me that Anno being the crazy genius he is pulled off something special here. Can't wait to see it somehow.
Was reading on the Godzilla subreddit that...
Godzilla evokes like a Pokemon? Looks like w fish at one point? There is a tadpool?
Also heard he shoots lasers out or his tail that is made up of dead humans??? Huh???
Someone tell me it's not that weird and do you think we will get a sequel??
Also heard he shoots lasers out or his tail that is made up of dead humans??? Huh???
Someone tell me it's not that weird and do you think we will get a sequel??
More_Badass
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Check out the posts earlier on this page
Licensing issues are precisely what's keeping 85 from ever seeing the light of day again.
http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/...la-blu-ray-dvd-details-from-kraken-releasing/
It brings a tear to my eye seeing Return/'85 getting love. I absolutely love the tone of that movie.
Seemingly changing
Seemingly changing
Godzilla's origin and having him evolve from some tadpole form is interesting. I'm willing to give it a chance. I'm not sure I'm sold on lasers shooting out of his tail and spikes though... that seems like overkill
More_Badass
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I read one review that
described it as inspired by the tragedies of modern Japan, kind of how 54 Godzilla was inspired by Hiroshima and such. Basically, how the earthquake evolved to a tsunami to the reactor disaster, this Godzilla evolves too, becoming worse and more destructive with each form
I'm so in its not even funny. I hope this gets some form of cinema release in the UK. Need this on the big screen.
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