why do I suddenly feel like I’m drinking coffee in a car
― mh, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:13 (two years ago) link
the (hopefully) best thing about watching GZvK is that it has motivated me to have a go at Shin Godzilla now
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
Shin Godzilla is great, but also a completely different type of movie than this run of new big budget Godzilla films. It's basically a drama about government bureaucracy with incidental Godzilla mayhem.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
Where did Tyree, MBB and Julian sneak onto the maglev subway? Florida? I could handle the giant monsters fine, but given that Seattle took 6 years to bore out the two mile Highway 99 tunnel, my brain tangented to "when/how did they build a FL to Hong Kong subway?" If there are secret societies amongst us, they are excellent at construction projects.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
one of the constant brain breakers about this film for me was the juxtaposition of an international super-science team that has the wherewithal to figure out how to basically lift the Ever Given with a big net and a fleet of jumbo helicopters in the space of a few hours but can't keep a seven year old from wandering on to the deck of an airplane carrieeror the amoral capitalist tesla (basically just tesla) company that creates an underground maglev supertrain from Florida to Hong Kong but doesn't take the time to check the cargo in its monster egg transportsetc ad infinitum
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
basically everyone sees the tech for the first time when they start using it, no one has a user's manual but everyone knows where the seatbelts are
evil capitalist guy and his evil capitalist daughter are incredibly unnecessarily stupid in the approach and execution of their goals and both die for laughs in the same stupid kind of "UH OH" sequences
i dunno, i think i'll remember this film much more than mank (and it's not much worse!) but i wish i hadn't bothered
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
I literally have no memory of an evil capitalist guy death scene. The daughter (who we kept calling Khloe Kardashian), what a stupid pointless drama free death that was, even for a stupid pointless character.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:02 (two years ago) link
that guy’s death scene was one of the few times I laughed, not because of the highly choreographed death, but because of another character saying “I really wanted to hear the rest of his speech!”
― mh, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
the role of The Other Kid played by Julian Dennison was really the most memorable character outside of the monsters
― mh, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:12 (two years ago) link
the cute deaf girl might lead him a little in plot relevance and screen time, though
― mh, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
biggest wtf plot thing for me was the business with ghidorah's skull having psychic powers? why not have it be his brain? was very confused by all that until i realized they were just positing that the skull also works like a brain (i guess?)
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
by far the best "i wanted to hear the rest of his speech" death scene in movie history is this one, everything else is just copying the masterhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8I9H07wKw
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
Elon Musk dude must have died when I was in the bathroom during that same minute that Mechagodzilla went rogue.
Question: if Musk could have made a giant robot, why did he decide on the form of a robot Godzilla? Lack of creativity, imo.
Meanwhile, how are they going to fill and plug the giant Kong-sized (plot) hole that runs from the center of the earth to Hong Kong?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
thoughts thoughts thoughts• forks otm, no question that is the GOAT of unfinished speeches• much like recent star wars, the first thing I thought on seeing the cybernetics office park with its own nuclear reactor was "okay where are they getting the money? let's talk cash flows..."• this had the unexpected effect of inoculating me from disbelief by the time we got to the Florida to HK tunnel bc sure lol why not nothing matters• feel like no one here is giving sufficient weight to the sheer edgar rice burroughs-ass majesty of the GODDAMN THRONE
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
the throne (and the throneroom) in particular is one of the places where i felt like the design was tastefully lazy. they basically went for brown fortress of solitude.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 April 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
Who built those stairs?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 02:21 (two years ago) link
serf kong
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 7 April 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
watching this at the request of kids, I have no interest at all in action movies / sequences, but have do say that the dialogue is fucking appalling here. maybe all of these films are like this though, idk
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:10 (two years ago) link
Man, tough crowd. What did you even expect a giant monkey or fire-breathing lizard to say, anyway?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
something about supply-side economics
― Filibuster Poindexter (Neanderthal), Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
someone was spouting stuff about mind control via fluoride in the water, don't think it was one of the monsters
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 25 April 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
GODZILLA IS HURTING PEOPLE AND WE DON'T KNOW WHY
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 25 April 2021 22:33 (two years ago) link
Monkeys have tails, apes don't. Kong is an ape fwiw.
Okay, I'll shut up now.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2021 04:01 (two years ago) link
If Kong can be a one-off ape the size of a skyscraper then he can also be a one-off giant monkey without a tail. That's just science.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 April 2021 12:35 (two years ago) link
king of the monsters is genuinely one of the most stupidly plotted efforts I've ever seen
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Friday, 4 February 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
Hold up, in addition to that incredible looking Japanese "Godzilla Minus One" movie, there is an Apple TV Godzilla mini-series *also* coming out in November?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 October 2023 20:14 (five months ago) link
Seeing "Minus One" today, psyched.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 December 2023 16:03 (three months ago) link
Pretty much ruled. Basically a post war melodrama with a particularly angry Godzilla. Yes, you hear the original theme. Yes, Godzilla stills hates trains. But there's something particularly tragic about the beaten down population of Japan still reeling from WWII and forced to contend with a giant lizard on top of it all. As soon as a character mentions how quickly Ginza is rebuilding, you want to tell the poor person: don't bother.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 December 2023 22:19 (three months ago) link
Loved this
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 December 2023 00:39 (three months ago) link
caught this going in totally cold and found it to be a pretty mixed bag. found the dramatic parts to be pretty corny and time-consuming, esp anything that had to do with the empty lead character and his “war.” sakura ando was _way_ underused! and the actor playing the lead really wasn’t up to the task of finding something interesting in there either. and went back to the well of updating beats from the OG film a few too many times too.
i did enjoy the smashin and bashin and how godzilla was actually scary again. but i dunno, shin godzilla is a masterpiece imo and this was pretty safe and dour in comparison. a little surprised by the hype.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 3 December 2023 18:00 (three months ago) link
I thought the corniness was part of its charm, though I agree, there's a little too much boring drama, balanced out by some of the best Godzilla destruction in recent memory.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 December 2023 18:02 (three months ago) link
yea i can see that. i think if we had a director with more of a sense of humor and some more fun performances, i could have gotten more on board in a campy way. i haven't actually watched any of yamazaki’s live action and cg cartoon anime adaptations but he seems like a pretty bland director judging by this and a back catalog bursting with junk.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 3 December 2023 18:11 (three months ago) link
Saw this last night, thought it was great.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 3 December 2023 18:55 (three months ago) link
I assume I'm not the only one that thought of "Jaws" throughout the movie, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 December 2023 19:16 (three months ago) link
Oh yeah, I spotted that bit immediately
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Sunday, 3 December 2023 19:22 (three months ago) link
yeah, def. thought it captured the same kinda claustrophobia at sea as jaws pretty well.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 3 December 2023 20:06 (three months ago) link
Call me a sucker but any action film with an anti-war message usually wins me over
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 December 2023 21:59 (three months ago) link
All I can say is, keep this movie in mind while you watch this pile of poo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV1OOlGwExM
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 3 December 2023 22:11 (three months ago) link
G-1 was def anti-war but… maybe with a little bit of that old rambo 2 “can we win this time?” nationalism seasoning? (I’m honestly not so sure about this myself but I _did_ get scared that the movie was gonna lean into that more at some point, at least)
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 3 December 2023 22:27 (three months ago) link
I worried about that too but the line from Doc about "not going to war is something to be proud of" kind of assuaged those worries
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 December 2023 22:33 (three months ago) link
saw a trailer for Godzilla x Kong - The New Empire, and it looks terrible artistically, I assume almost all of the effects have to be extremely unfinished. it looked like a Playstation One game on my buddy's 80 inch TV.
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 December 2023 21:07 (three months ago) link
The plane reveal had me excited because I recognized the type. I knew that plane, I’d built a model of the German version of it.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Monday, 4 December 2023 23:13 (three months ago) link
yeah that was a mega cool moment.
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 December 2023 23:23 (three months ago) link
also though I saw it in 4DX which meant I was like riding an amusement park ride while watching the movie which helps
On board with _Godzilla Minus One_ completely, hell of a watch. (I don’t know whether having seen _The Human Condition_ a few months back helped but it sure as hell didn’t hurt.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 04:59 (three months ago) link
Good interview, this
https://www.theverge.com/23984534/godzilla-minus-one-interview-takashi-yamazaki
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 21:41 (three months ago) link
"Godzilla, was it hard to film in that cold water?"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 December 2023 22:13 (three months ago) link
They had a giant basking lamp set up for him between takes.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 5 December 2023 22:17 (three months ago) link
I saw this last night and it's the most rewarded I've felt for watching a movie in theaters since Titanic. Yes, it was incredibly cheesy and nonsensical at times, but that didn't take away from all that was good about it. The giant lizard and the destruction that he wreaks are obviously all you need to sell a ticket here - so impressive! The human drama was appropriately intense at some times (particularly when Shikishima returns home after the war and finds Sumiko moping about the rubble) and cheesy at others, but I admit that my tears rose out of their ducts at more than one point. Other things that I was impressed with include:
The costumes were absolutely on point. Everyone looked so good in this movie. Machine-gunning mines out at sea. Reporters on the rooftop steadfastly reporting on the destruction. Trio of scientists in white coats monitoring things from their little bunker on the deck of the destroyer.
I've only seen a handful of the original 1950s/60s Godzilla movies, Godzilla 1985 (when I was a kid), the Gareth Edwards one, and the first of the animated movies that came out on Netflix. Godzilla Minus One definitely whomps most of those. It's definitely inspired me to go back and check out some of the classics and the newer Japanese ones that I've missed.
― peace, man, Monday, 18 December 2023 16:37 (three months ago) link
if you go to archive.org and search for godzilla there are a bunch of rips there of the showa and heisei films.
― koogs, Monday, 18 December 2023 17:34 (three months ago) link