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[Geno Breaker]

Vs Megalon had fucking Cesar Romero as the emperor of Seatopia. And a shit ton of stock footage.

God, what a trainwreck.

Cesar Romero was in Latitude Zero actually, Robert Dunham was in Megalon. Dunham also appeared in Dogora.

Thanks! I feel bad that I never got around to finishing it but I'm glad it's not going to waste

Yeah I'm probably gonna use most of it and just change the format a little bit. Thanks again.

 

[DrArchon]

Cesar Romero was in Latitude Zero actually, Robert Dunham was in Megalon. Dunham also appeared in Dogora.

Really? I could've sworn it was Romero. I watched it not that long ago and I thought I'd recognize that mustache anywhere. I knew he did some work in Japanese cinema so I must've just put 2 and 2 together in my head.

I love re-watching Vs Megalon honestly, mostly just to try and see which other movies the stock footage comes from. Like "Oh, this shot of a plane blowing up is at night, so it's from Vs Gigan".

 

[Polioliolio]

Glad to see 14 finally becomes the love it deserved. Still thinking, that most casual viewers who find it boring expected constant Action shit like Godzilla 98.



Why borhering watching a shorhorned sequel with human sized monsters, without the real Godzilla in a Godzilla Sequel?

Thank christ Anno said he won't do a sequel, and Toho likely is smart enough to just go with a different continuity for the next one.

Arbitrarily extending that story out seems like it would undo all the themes that were expressed perfectly in the first round. Any attempt whatsoever to expand upon the final shot would undo its tone-perfect significance.

Posts like this make no sense to me. It's like people somehow forget, (not implying you, Polioliolio), that outside of barely a handful of films--if even that-- the Godzilla franchise has been almost entirely escapist fantasy. For dozens and dozens of entries in the series, if nuclear weapons are mentioned at all, they're usually in the same silly context as in B-movies and superhero comics as a grab-bag source for a given monster's powers.

The franchise may have started as a somber meditation on the horrors of nuclear weapons, but that's very much been the exception to the rule. The direction Legendary is going is no different than what Toho themselves did as soon as the second-ever film in the series, and most of the rest thereafter. Shin Godzilla indeed channeled a lot of the same sentiments and themes as the original film, but given enough time, you can bet that the pendulum will swing back the other way to more lighthearted fare. It'd hardly be the first time.

I'd rather have as much Godzilla in my life as possible.

because most american audiences will never bother watching Shin Godzilla.

I loved Shin Godzilla, saw it twice in the cinemas, bought the amazing production book, and it was my favorite film last year, but this really isn't an either or situation. Why bother? Maybe because it offers something different? Monsters fighting monsters is cool. I'm looking forward to this, I'm looking forward to Godzilla vs Kong, and I'm looking forward to the CG anime Godzilla Monster Planet trilogy. More giant monsters for everyone!

Okay, I admit it, I just hate Chunkzilla and everything about that terrible movie.

Baby ShinGodzilla 4 lyfe!

 

[GAMEPROFF]

You gonna skip on the next Toho movie then? They are using the 2014 design.

 

[Polioliolio]

You gonna skip on the next Toho movie then? They are using the 2014 design.

Oh Christ, yeah, I guess checking in on Godzilla once every 12 years is good enough for me.

 

[MrRudiMentary]

Vs Gigan was fucking weird. Remember how the aliens were really cockroaches? It was basically MIB before MIB.

Are we not going to mention the plot of the movie revolves around an evil Godzilla amusement park?

 

[Boss Doggie]

Okay, I admit it, I just hate Chunkzilla and everything about that terrible movie.

Baby ShinGodzilla 4 lyfe!

sucks about you then since they hit great design with legendgoji

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

sucks about you then since they hit great design with legendgoji

They sure did.

The suit from 1964's Mothra vs Godzilla will always be my nostalgic favorite, but the Legendary Godzilla is otherwise the best the series has ever seen, IMHO.

Making him as expressive and emotive as they did without veering into outright silliness, and keeping the overall design true to the character's past, but also consistent with what's known about biological scaling and functionality-- up to a point, of course-- is something I admire.

Dougherty stating that the Big G's look will be altered somewhat in the sequel has me a bit apprehensive, and I hope they don't stray too far from the 2014 incarnation.

 

[Daingurse]

sucks about you then since they hit great design with legendgoji

It's a very solid Godzilla design. I really like it.

 

[Master Yoshi]

Best design.

 

[Geno Breaker]

It's a good design but it's certainly no 1964 or 1989. Still, its really great.

 

[Daingurse]

It's a good design but it's certainly no 1964 or 1989. Still, its really great.

Meh, I'd put it over the 1964 suit. My favorite is the 1984 suit. 1989 is up there for sure, though. I love GvB.

 

[Chaotic-Strike]

I like the Legendary design considering how many time's American Productions messed up the design with stuff like GINO and the unmade Steve Miner design.

I still wish Stan Winston's Godzilla could of made it to the big screen until Tri-Star and Sony got cold feet.

 

[Blader]

Thank christ Anno said he won't do a sequel, and Toho likely is smart enough to just go with a different continuity for the next one.

Arbitrarily extending that story out seems like it would undo all the themes that were expressed perfectly in the first round. Any attempt whatsoever to expand upon the final shot would undo its tone-perfect significance.

Wait, I thought Anno said there was going to be a Shin sequel?

 

[Boss Doggie]

I never got the "fat" comment too. Legendgoji ain't fat, he is bear mode.

 

[Zvonimir Boban]

He's bigger than I had hoped before the movie came out but it was worth it just for that moment where you follow the blue glow up the dorsal fins and you see Godzilla's giant barrel chest expand before the atomic breath.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

I still wish Stan Winston's Godzilla could of made it to the big screen until Tri-Star and Sony got cold feet.

I like how this looks like a giant, bipedal crocodile

 

[Zero315]

Wait, I thought Anno said there was going to be a Shin sequel?

I think he said it would be difficult and that Toho wouldn't let him do it.

Edit: I think a Shin sequel would only work if Anno went full EoE on it and had Godzilla cause some sort or weird mutation apocalypse.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Is the Godzilla 2014 Artbook worth buying? Are there many interestung design concepts for Godzi?

 

[duckroll]

Wait, I thought Anno said there was going to be a Shin sequel?

No he said there's more Godzilla coming from Toho and to look forward to it. He was referring to Godzilla Monster Planet and whatever else Toho does in the near future apparently.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

I really hope they also revive their other Kaiju franchises. Would love to see another Solo Mothra Movie

 

[LordOfLore]

Isla de Mona

 

[QisTopTier]

I don't see how you could do a sequel to Shin

Spoiler

That's literally the most broken version of godzilla if it progressed any further it would be instant game over. It's power is hilariously off the charts and the only way they beat it was due to it barely learning to regulate its energy which it was evolving to do last second

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

I don't see how you could do a sequel to Shin

Spoiler

That's literally the most broken version of godzilla if it progressed any further it would be instant game over. It's power is hilariously off the charts

Bring in Shin Jet Jaguar.

 

[Moose Biscuits]

Bring in Shin Jet Jaguar.

I NEED IT

 

[QisTopTier]

Bring in Shin Jet Jaguar.

Spoiler

Would be pretty much live action EVA at that point LOL

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

Is the Godzilla 2014 Artbook worth buying? Are there many interestung design concepts for Godzi?

Yes. If a mod allows, I can snap a sample pic. (Or I'm sure some exist)

Edit: looking at it again, yeah, there's an impressive 6-page, double-sided foldout with several versions of G, some resembling the 80s, some the 98 zilla. And there are more images beyond the fold-outs.

 

[Erv]

Yes. If a mod allows, I can snap a sample pic. (Or I'm sure some exist)

Edit: looking at it again, yeah, there's an impressive 6-page, double-sided foldout with several versions of G, some resembling the 80s, some the 98 zilla. And there are more images beyond the fold-outs.

can you post some examples or pm me a link? thanks.

 

[MegalonJJ]

Bring in Shin Jet Jaguar.

I have heard your plea and I have arrived!! Speak your wish and I shall reprogram myself to distort your reality.

1975 is best design.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

The best I can do with a sleeping child on me lol. Shows a good mix of different looks they went for.

 

[QisTopTier]

I'm cool with the more "heroic grappler" look they went for the Legendary Godzilla, gives them a good solid base to work with when he is going to no doubt get into many more fights in the future and his frame lets him slug it out, grapple, and tank like you'd expect that general godzilla vs other monsters type to do.

Like Final Wars Godzilla is stronger physically atm than Legendary but he doesn't really look it. This will make any physical feats Legendary Godzilla do feel more believable and organic

 

[LordOfLore]

We 100% need a general kaiju thread("The World of Monsters"?).

Godzilla vs. Kong will have definite 'winner,' says director

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

I'll yell on the internet a whole lot (AND IN CAPS!!!) if the big G doesn't win that fight. Kong is a joke.

Unless the director is playing us and Mothra is the winner. That I'd be fine with

 

[ShadowSwordmaster]

We 100% need a general kaiju thread("The World of Monsters"?).

Godzilla vs. Kong will have definite 'winner,' says director

I'm down for a Kaiju thread. Send me a DM if you want to talk about it.

 

[WordAssassin]

We 100% need a general kaiju thread("The World of Monsters"?).

Godzilla vs. Kong will have definite 'winner,' says director

Godzilla. Then they'll rebuild parts of Kong with robotics, like that movie where he had a pacemaker or whatever. Godzilla VS Cyber Kong. Then they'll finally go all the way and do MechaGodzilla from there.

 

[Boss Doggie]

Bring in Shin Jet Jaguar.

Jet Jaguar is not for edgy

 

[QisTopTier]

Jet Jaguar is not for edgy

Yeah but Eva Unit Jet Jaguar is!

 

[Boss Doggie]

Yeah but Eva Unit Jet Jaguar is!

*gasp*

Jet Jaguar is friends to all humans and children and he doesn't want to traumatize them!

Let him be the first shitty Ultraman ripoff that he should be! Even though Tsubaraya co-created Godzilla yet somehow Toho and Tsubaraya Pro. haven't made the two meet each other outside of decades old games and they never invite Godzilla anymore in those games.

 

[Zvonimir Boban]

We 100% need a general kaiju thread("The World of Monsters"?).

Godzilla vs. Kong will have definite 'winner,' says director

Bad luck Kong.

 

[Fancyarcher]

We 100% need a general kaiju thread("The World of Monsters"?).

Godzilla vs. Kong will have definite 'winner,' says director

Godzilla wins. "This time it's payback!"

 

[Geno Breaker]

I'm already working on the Kaiju OT. It should be up this week if things go to plan. Big thanks to Sephzilla for getting a ton of work with it done already and handing it to me. I'm making some film recommendations so if you want to recommend your favorite film just PM me a paragraph and I'll gladly post it along the others.

Also its pretty cool how they're filming in Mexico right now for presumably

Spoiler

Rodan and his encounter with Godzilla.

 

[Netherscourge]

Mothra is the Mother of Kaijus.

 

[Finaika]

Godzilla. Then they'll rebuild parts of Kong with robotics, like that movie where he had a pacemaker or whatever. Godzilla VS Cyber Kong. Then they'll finally go all the way and do MechaGodzilla from there.

You mean Cyber Woo.

 

[Spoiled Milk]

Oh geez they're doing all 3 from the start?

Mothra, Rodan and Ghidorah all in the same film sounds like a clusterfuck

this is literally how they introduced King Ghidorah decades ago

 

[illmatic22]

We 100% need a general kaiju thread("The World of Monsters"?).

Godzilla vs. Kong will have definite 'winner,' says director

Good they can team up afterwards but we need a winner.


AND IT BETTER FUCKING BE GODZILLA

 

[Geno Breaker]

this is literally how they introduced King Ghidorah decades ago

Man this movie was dope the first time I saw it on TV on the SciFi channel. Princess Salina and Malness were interesting enough to hold you over and the soundtrack is classic Ifukube. The miniatures are all painstakingly detailed, only to be destroyed and blown away by Ghidrah's gravity beams and hurricane winds. It's actually pretty messy here and there with some of the visuals and sound effects, but it's still a respectable effort.

 

[WarRock]

Godzilla. Then they'll rebuild parts of Kong with robotics, like that movie where he had a pacemaker or whatever. Godzilla VS Cyber Kong. Then they'll finally go all the way and do MechaGodzilla from there.

Thought the same thing.

 

[WordAssassin]

Woof, some of those concepts... thank goodness they went with what we got

Thought the same thing.

If it were me doing it I'd have the sequel to Godzilla VS King Kong be Godzilla VS Mecha King Kong VS Mecha King Ghidorah. Have it be about this experimental tech they're developing, they use it on KK and KG and attempt to control them to combat Godzilla, but maybe something happens and their animal brains overcome the robot parts and they turn on the humans together. Godzilla winds up saving the day by killing both of them, since even though he's a huge monster that destroys shit he's still a good guy at the end of the day, end movie.

Scientists then realize they can't half ass it and let the animal brains potentially override the robotics, go whole hog and create Mecha Godzilla as a result.

That way you thread the robotics through a couple movies as buildup and not just suddenly have a giant robot out of nowhere, and you also build up Mecha Godzilla as being a real actual threat against Godzilla since it's something they've been secretly working towards over the course of several films.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Good they can team up afterwards but we need a winner.


AND IT BETTER FUCKING BE GODZILLA

Well, WB let Batman beat Superman clean in BvS.

(which is total horseshit but whatever)

 

[WordAssassin]

If they let what amounts to a giant ape beat a literal dragon with atomic breath I will be furious