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Godzilla and other, less important Kaiju

JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
edited August 2018 in Social Entropy++
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But seriously though let's talk Godzilla.

There was just a new Godzilla movie released in Japan for the first time in over 10 years, Shin Gojira, with a somewhat controversial new design for the big G and an interesting new direction -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6CJnBmsxRg

Directed by Hideaki Anno, creator of Evangelion, and Shinji Higuchi of the live-action Attack on Titan, the film intends to bring Godzilla back to its roots in horror and create a creature that's truly menacing. Since it's already been released in Japan you can probably find spoilers and plot details if you dig around on the internet a bit, but don't be a dick about it. Funimation has obtained the rights to the film and announced they intended to bring it to theaters, but so far no dates have been announced for either a theatrical or home release.

Toho is also producing a Godzilla animated film in 2017, though the relation to Shin Gojira or the plethora of other continuities is still unknown.

There's also still supposedly a sequel coming to the recent Legendary Godzilla film in 2019, with early rumors indicating the appearances of Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah. Gareth Edwards has left the film however, and the replacement director has yet to be announced.

Other future plans indicate Godzilla will cross paths with King Kong once again after his upcoming prequel film, Skull Island, which may explains why Kong seems to be much larger in the trailer than his classic incarnation-
As for some other Kaiju, there was a teaser recently for what appeared to be a new Gamera film following up on the trilogy from the 90s, though the lack of news since then indicates the project may have stalled (or never really existed to begin with)-
Pacific Rim 2 (officially called Pacific Rim: Maelstrom) seems to be actually happening, with John Boyega as the lead and Steven DeKnight as director, with Del Toro still acting as producer and writer.

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King Caesar has no upcoming projects or appearances but remains awesome no matter what anyone says.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    does jet jaggar make an appearance in shin godzilla

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    does jet jaggar make an appearance in shin godzilla

    They're probably saving him for the sequel.

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Hold on a god damn minute what do you mean Edwards isn't doing the Godzilla sequel? When was that announced?

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Hold on a god damn minute what do you mean Edwards isn't doing the Godzilla sequel? When was that announced?

    Couple months back-

    http://deadline.com/2016/05/godzilla-2-director-gareth-edwards-exits-rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-1201755484/

    Wanted to work on things that weren't enormous blockbuster tentpoles, supposedly.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Man that sucks

    I mean, good for Gareth Edwards, he now has enough cache he can make the projects he wants to make, but

    I'm more worried about that sequel now

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    My favorite godzilla is the 54 godzilla.

    After that I really liked godzilla 2000 I believe.

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    54 Godzilla is still fucking heavy

    I adored Legendary's Godzilla, just about everything about it

    And I'll always love Pacific Rim

  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    The original Japanese cut, Gojira, is a legitimately great movie in a way that no other Toho-produced Godzilla movie really is. It's probably still the best movie the franchise has ever produced!

    But Legendary's Godzilla was also a genuinely good movie

    I hope they find a director who can do as good a job as Edwards did

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Considering how fucking hard it is to find a good copy of Gojira that isn't the edited dubbed version....

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited August 2016
    Gareth Edwards was definitely the best part of that movie, too

    Like, the script was kind of garbage, and the best actors (Cranston, Watanabe, Strathairn) were completely wasted, and we focus so much on Aaron Taylor Johnson, one of the blandest boards of wood in modern Hollywood

    But the visuals and the pacing and the tension and the catharsis was all Edwards

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  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Considering how fucking hard it is to find a good copy of Gojira that isn't the edited dubbed version....

    Criterion version

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Considering how fucking hard it is to find a good copy of Gojira that isn't the edited dubbed version....

    Isn't that the Criterion release? At least, that was the impression I got

    The edited one adds a bunch of American characters, right?

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    edited August 2016
    img]WATCH OUT, ASSHOLES! HERE COMES ULTRAMAN TO BEAT YOUR SHIT DOWN

    The Ultra Series is a long running television franchise in Japan, considered to be one of the most important pieces of Daikaiju history as well as televised tokusatsu. It revolves around heroes bearing the name Ultraman (with the exception of Ultra Q and Ultraseven) and their struggles to defend the world against the threat of kaiju. In fact, the franchise is 50 years old this year!

    Ultraman is very cool because the kaiju fights are much more visceral than its counterparts on TV like Super Sentai. Instead of a giant robot flailing impotently with a sword, you have fights like this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDO-VDSJ6AM

    this is just a straight up BRAWL and it rules!

    The Ultra series had a bit of a slump about a decade ago but it's putting out very good products lately, and: you can watch most of them in English!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ukpvW_gCwU

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doa8FMpUCEw

    This is Ultraman Orb, the current iteration of the franchise. It's an anniversary show, so it's very much about celebrating the past in the process of telling its own story. Kurenai Gai is an Ultraman who lost access to his own powers, and now defends Earth by using the Orb Ring to fuse the powers of past Ultramen together! It's funny! It's kinda badass! The bad guy's name is JUGGLUS JUGGLER!

    and, much like basically every recent ultra series, is completely free to watch on Crunchyroll!

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Considering how fucking hard it is to find a good copy of Gojira that isn't the edited dubbed version....

    Isn't that the Criterion release? At least, that was the impression I got

    The edited one adds a bunch of American characters, right?

    Mostly one

    A guy named Steve Martin

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Considering how fucking hard it is to find a good copy of Gojira that isn't the edited dubbed version....

    Isn't that the Criterion release? At least, that was the impression I got

    The edited one adds a bunch of American characters, right?

    Mostly one

    A guy named Steve Martin

    Huh

    I didn't know The Jerk was actually about Godzilla

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    the dirty rotten scoundrels was humanity the whole time

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Does he defeat godzilla with his powerful banjo playing ability?

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Mothra and the Twins are The Three Amigos

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Considering how fucking hard it is to find a good copy of Gojira that isn't the edited dubbed version....

    Isn't that the Criterion release? At least, that was the impression I got

    The edited one adds a bunch of American characters, right?

    Mostly one

    A guy named Steve Martin

    Huh

    I didn't know The Jerk was actually about Godzilla

    All I need is this nuclear power plant! I'm taking this nuclear power plant, and that's all I need!

    ...And this lamp!

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Gareth Edwards was definitely the best part of that movie, too

    Like, the script was kind of garbage, and the best actors (Cranston, Watanabe, Strathairn) were completely wasted, and we focus so much on Aaron Taylor Johnson, one of the blandest boards of wood in modern Hollywood

    But the visuals and the pacing and the tension and the catharsis was all Edwards

    I agree with this in principle, but I also agree with Gita Jackson that it's a good story about a soldier trying desperately to go home

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    Wyborn wrote: »
    Olivaw wrote: »
    Gareth Edwards was definitely the best part of that movie, too

    Like, the script was kind of garbage, and the best actors (Cranston, Watanabe, Strathairn) were completely wasted, and we focus so much on Aaron Taylor Johnson, one of the blandest boards of wood in modern Hollywood

    But the visuals and the pacing and the tension and the catharsis was all Edwards

    I agree with this in principle, but I also agree with Gita Jackson that it's a good story about a soldier trying desperately to go home

    They don't do enough with that angle for me

    It's too surface-level for me to ever buy into it

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    edited August 2016
    I think the humans in Edwards Godzilla were a-okay

    Watanabe was the highlight for sure
    "Let them fight." showed up in every commercial, and it's obvious why

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    ground level perspectives in kaiju stories are THE BEST

    see: half century war

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    OH MAN

    How did I forget Half-century War

    That's my actual favorite Kaiju thing

  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    ground level perspectives in kaiju stories are THE BEST

    see: half century war

    There's this great shot early in Godzilla 2000 with the monster in the background and this RV speeding left-to-right in the foreground

    And it's one of the best illustrations of scale they've ever had for Godzilla

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    reminder that this is happening and will have ultraman, godzilla, and that thing from evangelion in it amongst other things

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_zccLwW4dE

  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    You know what's better than Ultraman?

    Inframan

  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Ground level perspectives in Kaiju movies can be really great but you want the characters to be interesting still. Main guy from 2014 had the issue of being surrounded by much more interesting characters.

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  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    ground level perspectives in kaiju stories are THE BEST

    see: half century war

    There's this great shot early in Godzilla 2000 with the monster in the background and this RV speeding left-to-right in the foreground

    And it's one of the best illustrations of scale they've ever had for Godzilla

    oh I'm talking more like: here is what life is like for a regular soldier who suddenly has to deal with kaiju

    a lot of modern ultraman touches on that to some degree actually

  • WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    You know what's better than Ultraman?

    Inframan

    redman would kill them both and bask in the bloodshed

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2016
    Considering how fucking hard it is to find a good copy of Gojira that isn't the edited dubbed version....

    Isn't that the Criterion release? At least, that was the impression I got

    The edited one adds a bunch of American characters, right?

    And changes the dialogue around a bunch, yeah. The dub adds a (then famous) American actor who gives expositional dialogue. The difference between the two versions for Ebert was 2 stars to 5 stars.

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  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Considering how fucking hard it is to find a good copy of Gojira that isn't the edited dubbed version....

    Isn't that the Criterion release? At least, that was the impression I got

    The edited one adds a bunch of American characters, right?

    And changes the dialogue around a bunch, yeah. The dub adds a (then famous) American actor who gives expositional dialogue. The difference between the two versions for Ebert was 2 stars to 5 stars.

    Oh, okay.

    Well, if memory serves, the Criterion release of Gojira has both the original, unedited release, and the dubbed one you're talking about.

    It's a really well done re-release too!

  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    I should actually watch the English version some time, just for the sake of reference. I forget, does the Criterion version have it? Even if it doesn't, I have a Toho-approved DVD release with both versions.

  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    I have the 2006 Toho dvd release with both the Japanese and American versions, looks like it's still on amazon too so that's also an option.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    JayKaos wrote: »
    I have the 2006 Toho dvd release with both the Japanese and American versions, looks like it's still on amazon too so that's also an option.

    The one with the black-and-white cover and red lettering, right? That's the DVD version I'm talking about.

  • GustavGustav Friend of Goats Somewhere in the OzarksRegistered User regular
    Godzilla is the best comic Marvel ever made.

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Can you watch the Criterion Collection on Hulu for free right now?

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited August 2016
    Can you watch the Criterion Collection on Hulu for free right now?

    A lot of it, but not Godzilla, apparently - at least at the moment, Hulu only has vs. Megalon, vs. Gigan, and vs. Ebirah.

    E: Whoops, that's Plus, ignore me.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Can you watch the Criterion Collection on Hulu for free right now?

    You can't watch jack shit on Hulu for free any more.

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