Godzilla, kaiju and tokusatsu movies!

[QualityChimp]

Awesome stuff!

I can't believe you watched the same stuff as me growing up!

I used to talk to a kid on the bus to school about Vic Reeves' Big Night Out and he asked if I watched some of the crazy Godzilla films afterwards and I should check 'em out.

I think the first one I saw (and still have on video!) was Godzilla Vs. Megalon and so it's one of, if not the favourite Big G film for me.
I've seen it so many times I can even remember the voice-over lady before it:
"...and now on 4, a lesson to us all about what happens when you set off nuclear devices where you shouldn't"

I'd definitely go to Monster Land if there was a Godzilla tower there. How aces is it when he sees the tower for the first time and can't believe what he's seeing so bangs his head?

[QualityChimp]

New Godzilla film coming out!

I'll put money on it that it'll be in 3D...

EDIT: I'd have won that money!

Some inspiring news out of the 3DNext Summit in Culver City this past Monday as The Wrap is reporting that Godzilla 3D producer Brian Rogers stepped up and made the following statement: " 'Clash of the Titans' is important here...because it made the industry realize that you cannot do substandard 3D and charge full pricing." He also noted how well Clash did at the box office, but it's nice to know that some people are more focused on providing a quality product. A+! Being produced by Legendary Pictures, the big green monster is still quite a ways a way from arriving in theaters as a writer hasn't even been hired. By the time this gets off the ground 3-D will either be dead or (hopefully) completely awesome.

[goldmouth]

OMG! i have watched nearly none of these!

When i was in china i bought what i thought was the new one, but no, it was some bulls**t rip off called "The return of Gary".....

i have my work cut out for me !

[vanpeebles]

You watch them words! We like Yonggary round these parts.

[goldmouth]

enlighten me.

whatever it was that i watched had shades of The story of Ricky.

[vanpeebles]

Yonggary is a Korean knockoff of Godzilla. The first one came out years ago in black and white.

[goldmouth]

you learn sumin new every day.

that sounds good!
what i watched was, as previously stated, BULLS**T.

The monster was all CG, the cast was all american and the acting! You no when acting has a very porno feel, like in a porno they do a little bit of acting then on with the main event, like that but without the main event.

[NeoDragoN]

Yonggary is pretty bad, both of them, i remember buying the newer one on VCD around 98 - 99(?) because they were saying "better than Godzilla" which of course the US Godzilla had just come out.

And it wasn't. It isn't terrible but Korea have put out much better stuff since like The Host.

Also check out Pulgasari which is another Korean Kaiju movie which isnt bad, i have a boot leg DVD of it and on the back it has a full picture of Kim Jong Il....

Taken from Wiki :

Pulgasari is a North Korean-Japanese co-produced feature film produced in 1985, a giant-monster film similar to the Japanese Godzilla series. It was produced by South Korean director Shin Sang-ok, who had been kidnapped in 1978 by North Korean intelligence on the orders of Kim Jong-il, son of the then-ruling Kim Il-sung.

Amazing.

[QualityChimp]

Yeah, I mentioned Pulgasari on the first page when I started looking for some unusual monster movies.

I find the whole North Korea thing really intriguing. Kim Jong-Il is a bit crazy...

On a side note - you not a fan of any of the Mechagodzilla outings, NeoDragoN?

[NeoDragoN]

Also on the US Godzilla i did like the design of him so much, yes its not Godzilla at all but i liked the design its just the film that was trash, if you've watched the Animated series you know that he is a pretty cool monster when alls said and done, its just he was in a **** movie.

While i'm here and i had the camera out....my godzilla posters, the japanese ones are all original and the Poster of GINO(Zilla) is sooo cool how can you not like that design?!






And i thought i'd see if anyone wanted any of these since i dont need them anymore, so we have :

US NTSC

Mothra 1
Mothra 2
G vs Biollante
G vs Space Godzilla
G vs Mechagodzilla II

Pal

G vs King Ghidorah
G vs Mothra
Destroy all Monsters
War of the Monsters - This is actually Godzilla vs Gigan iirc.

So yeah as long as you want them to watch you can take em for Postage ( or more iff you wish lol )

[vanpeebles]

HHHSSSSTT! I love it on Final Wars when Godzilla gives the fake US one a proper pezzling. Damn tuna eating monster!

Pugasari has some really class bits, I love it when he swallows the cannon ball. BBRRRWOOOOT!!

[Dogg Thang]

Lovely posters. I'm jealous. Well, aside from that US one that would remind me of that godawful piece of cack.

I adore the Godzilla classics, mostly because I saw loads of them as a teen and I have fond memories of them. But my favourite is Giant Monsters All Out Attack. I saw that a few years ago and it was a real surprise. A very different take on the whole Godzilla mythos and one that I absolutely loved. It felt like a bigger movie, a more serious movie and yet one where the monsters were represented in a way that carried that seriousness rather than playing against it (leaving out the likes of Jet Jaguar was a help there, I guess).

I loved it.

I'm pretty sure there are still a bunch I haven't seen though, mainly the ones that were out around the '90s. Is there no complete collection on DVD?

[prinnysquad]

No collection

My Godzilla set is crabbed from a variety of distributors of region 1 films, an Australian copy of Godzilla vs Megalon, and HK copies of Godzilla 1984 and Godzilla vs Biollante. Also grabbed a bootleg of the Mothra film from Warlock video, who are now defunct it seems. Giant Monsters is my modern fave too. Godzilla as a bad guy, amazing scenes. Even the missus liked that one.

Mr NeoDragon, I think you should send me one of those posters. They're too good to be all blending each other out.

Pulgasari, ahhh. I've got a japanese release with no English dub or subs. I've got a sub file, though, so over the summer I'm going to try an rip the dvd and incorporate the sub file somehow, and create a new disc.

Can't believe none of you guys have mentioned the Daimajin trilogy yet! Those boys have a style all of their own.

[goldmouth]

is Pulgasari north korean? theres this monster film i saw clips of, the monster starts small and only eats metal, the more he eats the bigger he gets. He's portrayed as this capitalist creature that eats all the metal it can and the proletariat have to rally together with there communist ideals and smite this great oppressor.

it looked pretty wacky, its just a weird propaganda film...

[NeoDragoN]

Theres Japanese collection but they dont have english subs, all mine are mixed up from UK, US and HK Releases....

Someone must want the Videos off me?