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    wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    But I mostly noticed how the editing and scene transitions were very Eva inspired.

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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
    Shin Godzilla? More like Evangelion 0.1.

    But it was good. Right up there with Godzilla 2014, Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, and Final War.

    You mean Godzilla vs. the Cosmic Monster, right?

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    GreasyKidsStuffGreasyKidsStuff MOMMM! ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
    Fuccccckkkk I want to watch this! A lot of the early critical response had me worried but it seems lots of you are loving it.

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    RainfallRainfall Registered User regular
    Fuccccckkkk I want to watch this! A lot of the early critical response had me worried but it seems lots of you are loving it.

    It's real good.

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    TravanTravan Registered User regular
    wirehead26 wrote: »
    It's always hilarious when people eventually realize all the religious stuff in Eva was just Anno pulling things out of his ass to make the show unique.
    I always interpreted it as SELEE attributing divine provenance to merely obscenely powerful alien forces personally

    Also ending spoilers
    Desperate all or nothing bid to defeat invincible monster as it just squats in the middle of town and powers up to annihilate everything is the exact plot of an Eva episode and the climax of the first movie

    Shin even has Ramiel's doom laser

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    GR_ZombieGR_Zombie Krillin It Registered User regular
    Dang that was a good movie!
    My jaw actually dropped at the atomic breath just engulfing Tokyo in flames. Larval Godzilla was kind of goofy looking, but in a way that actually made it even creepier, especially the way it moved.

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    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    wirehead26 wrote: »
    But I mostly noticed how the editing and scene transitions were very Eva inspired.
    I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that.

    Man.

    This movie was ill as fuck.

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    GR_ZombieGR_Zombie Krillin It Registered User regular
    I forgot to mention
    That final shot of the weird lizard-men skeletons budding off the tale was very unsettling.

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    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    Can we talk about the fact that the hero of the story, amongst a cast of thousands, is named Rando?

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    valhalla130valhalla130 13 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered User regular
    edited October 2016
    Only showing in my small city was tonight. And I had to work.

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    LorahaloLorahalo Registered User regular
    I mean this song from the soundtrack

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HfE1wR0fPg

    is straight out of Evangelion. It's the same song.

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    BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    it's clearly based on that song but it's not actually note-for-note the same song:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwp328Nmps

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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
    Yeah, that...that big ol drum is clear enough for even me to pick it out.

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    chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    wirehead26 wrote: »
    It's always hilarious when people eventually realize all the religious stuff in Eva was just Anno pulling things out of his ass to make the show unique.

    It's even funnier with how that's the aspect later works mimic to look "deep", while the actual meat of the story is largely ignored.

    It's ignoring the food and eating the fake grapes in the lobby.

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    pookapooka Registered User regular
    i blanked on it being by the dude who made EVA until the credits started, though that probably explains some of the, "that seems familiar" moments. i deliberately went in knowing very little
    so that first form was a bit baffling -- is Godzilla gonna eat this freaky thing?

    one of the things we really liked was how the emphasis on formality, channels and bureaucracy all speak to Japanese culture and government. like, it is a kind of procedural, but though there is a lot of telling/talking, it is actually showing an omnipresent mentality rather than simply acting as exposition. a signifier. like the bit with the American wanting to dispense with honorifics; the younger, less hidebound ministers and scientists signalling towards a change -- "Do as you like." the old ways are holding the country back.

    lot of gut-punches, too. not an earthquake or a tsunami. post-war is forever.

    i think Godzilla still represents the nuclear terror, but this movie approaches it with familiarity, now. it is still horrible, but it can be overcome by working together. pride in the nation and a surprisingly hopeful globalistic thread, too.

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    Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited October 2016
    it's clearly based on that song but it's not actually note-for-note the same song:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwp328Nmps

    It's also rhythmically similar to this:
    https://youtu.be/aaphViSKMic?t=1m52s

    (that is supposed to start at 1:52)

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    Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    I just remembered another great moment in this movie:

    "We have to produce this coagulant on an industrial scale!"
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    Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Since I can't watch Shin Godzilla for the foreseeable future, I decided to watch the next best thing... 1954's Gojira!

    yo that movie totally holds up. The image is too dark, but what you can see is rad. There are some really excellent composite shots of people running in the background while a giant Godzilla foot stomps in the foreground. There were some goofy miniature shots though - the firetruck crashing was pretty laughable.

    Also, was surprised to hear Godzilla didn't have his iconic roar yet. It was a different (still very scary) one.

    Play of the game goes to the radio guy who accepted his imminent death in a very matter of fact way. This is the end, folks. Sayonara.

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    NorgothNorgoth cardiffRegistered User regular
    Since I can't watch Shin Godzilla for the foreseeable future, I decided to watch the next best thing... 1954's Gojira!

    yo that movie totally holds up. The image is too dark, but what you can see is rad. There are some really excellent composite shots of people running in the background while a giant Godzilla foot stomps in the foreground. There were some goofy miniature shots though - the firetruck crashing was pretty laughable.

    Also, was surprised to hear Godzilla didn't have his iconic roar yet. It was a different (still very scary) one.

    Play of the game goes to the radio guy who accepted his imminent death in a very matter of fact way. This is the end, folks. Sayonara.


    The bit that always gets me is the mother and her daughter who says " we'll see daddy soon" and then they die.

    That is dark.

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    Diablo FettDiablo Fett Registered User regular
    it's just a rumor for now, but Godzilla 2 may be directed by Michael Dougherty, of Trick R Treat and Krampus fame, who was just announced to also be co-writing the film

    pretty interesting and potentially awesome choice, if it turns out to be true

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    chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    Since I can't watch Shin Godzilla for the foreseeable future, I decided to watch the next best thing... 1954's Gojira!

    yo that movie totally holds up. The image is too dark, but what you can see is rad. There are some really excellent composite shots of people running in the background while a giant Godzilla foot stomps in the foreground. There were some goofy miniature shots though - the firetruck crashing was pretty laughable.

    Also, was surprised to hear Godzilla didn't have his iconic roar yet. It was a different (still very scary) one.

    Play of the game goes to the radio guy who accepted his imminent death in a very matter of fact way. This is the end, folks. Sayonara.

    Yeah. He just went "The story of the century: Godzilla! And he's looking this way! Are we fucked? It looks like we're fucked! We are now totally fucked, with nothing we can do!"

    But the war widow bit is the most brutal. The film's quite good at building up tension for Serizawa to use his device, while making it understandable why he wants no part of it.

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    MvrckMvrck Dwarven MountainhomeRegistered User regular
    I get so many odd looks when I recommend Gojira as a legit "You really should see this movie" film along with Casablanca. Those two films inform so much about World War 2 and the ramifications of it across the world.

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    I should watch the American version of Godzilla sometime, just once, to see how different it is.

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    turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    I haven't watched the American version since I was wee, but little kid me loved it.

    Course, little kid me also watched Godzilla vs The Sea Monster so often that I still have that movie nearly memorized, so the fuck did he know?

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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
    Godzilla vs the Sea Monster was my first Godzilla movie, and while I loved it when I was 3, it does NOT hold up.

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    JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    The American version, Godzilla: King Of the Monsters, isn't terrible; it downplays the anti-American angle a little bit, but for most of it the only change is that one american guy who coincidentally knows everyone involved.

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    OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    JayKaos wrote: »
    The American version, Godzilla: King Of the Monsters, isn't terrible; it downplays the anti-American angle a little bit, but for most of it the only change is that one american guy who coincidentally knows everyone involved.

    "American guy"

    I think you mean Steve Martin thank you very much

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    turtleantturtleant Gunpla Dad is the best.Registered User regular
    My first Godzilla movie was Vs Biollante.

    I have pretty vivid memories of renting it and Nausica and the Valley of the Wind on the same day when I was 4 or 5.

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    chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    Olivaw wrote: »
    JayKaos wrote: »
    The American version, Godzilla: King Of the Monsters, isn't terrible; it downplays the anti-American angle a little bit, but for most of it the only change is that one american guy who coincidentally knows everyone involved.

    "American guy"

    I think you mean Steve Martin thank you very much

    "It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. – I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for the giant radioactive dinosaur eating Tokyo right now."

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    pookapooka Registered User regular
    yoooo
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    i have a hard time not thinking "Olly Moss", but it's a good style!

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
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    Someone give me 44,000 dollars for this statue

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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
    Blankzilla wrote: »
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    Someone give me 44,000 dollars for this statue

    If anybody here is gonna get a 'silver Godzilla,' then it's going to be me, Blank.

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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
    Also: motherfuckers, there are no Shin Godzilla theater showing in this area or even this state. motherfuckers. Motherfuckers.

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    OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
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    Someone give me 44,000 dollars for this statue

    Who is the Very Large Boy hanging out with Godzilla?

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    EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
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    Someone give me 44,000 dollars for this statue

    Who is the Very Large Boy hanging out with Godzilla?

    It's his cousin, Gregzilla

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    LadaiLadai Registered User regular
    edited October 2016
    Just saw this at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco while here on a work trip.

    It was awesome.

    That is all.

    edit: Also, I saw it with my boss, who, once we arrived at the theater, said, "Oh yeah this is where I saw the original Godzilla movie for the first time years ago."

    So that was cool.

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    WeedLordVegetaWeedLordVegeta Registered User regular
    Here is a ten minute clip from Ultraman Orb, which you can watch in English, for free, on Crunchyroll

    https://youtu.be/sL9Vo9KX9cI

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    ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    Ultra guys don't look at explosions.

    Also: http://www.jeremyscott.com/

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    GR_ZombieGR_Zombie Krillin It Registered User regular
    Stopped by a shop in Portland last weekend, and they had a fan made Godzilla costume on display!
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    JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    Damn, pretty good for fan-made. Wonder what it looks like in motion.

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