Godzilla (2014)

[DC 536]

I'm so sold on this movie.

[Guest Fatherof10minis]

This takes me back to a long long time ago as a child. There used to be Monstervision on TNT and my grandpa would let me stay up to catch the old Godzilla movies. I am sold on this completely absolutely love it love it. Looks like they have have finally found a proper way to make the big green guy look ultra badass the way he should look.

 

I could be wrong but I believe they made a sequel to the 1954 Godzilla in I want to say 1956 or maybe the early 1960s which was also in black and white. Again, I could be wrong.

[Maxximus 353]

If we don't get a Godzilla vs Pacific Rim movie I'm gonna have the biggest butmad of my life.

[Guest John Hancock]

I could be wrong but I believe they made a sequel to the 1954 Godzilla in I want to say 1956 or maybe the early 1960s which was also in black and white. Again, I could be wrong.

 

I Googled, I'm not proud.

 

The original Godzilla was made in 1954 (which I didn't have to Google, so shut up Dad). The first sequel was Godzilla Rises Again, with a new director in 1955, then the first cross-over was Godzilla vs. King Kong, with Ishiro Honda, the original director back again, in 1962. Honda made three more, one a year, up to 1965, when he was replaced by Jun Fukuda, who one in 1966, and another in 1967. Then Honda comes back again. In 1969, the guy who did the effects for everything so far, Eiji Tsuburaya, retires. Honda takes over the effects from one movie, All Monsters Attack, before a new team comes in, Yoshimitsu Banno directing, and Teruyoshi Nakano doing the effects. That combo only lasted one movie, before Fukuda replaced Banno, but Nakano stayed on as the effects guy. Nakano and Fukuda made the next three, before Honda came back to make the last of the original run, Terror of Mechagodzilla, in 1975. All together, there were fifteen Godzilla movies in 21 years. Since 1975, there's been 12 Japanese Godzillas with a variety of directors, and the infamous American version (which was technically the second American version. There was an American and European cut of the original Godzilla released in 1956 called Godzilla: King of the Monsters, where the only difference was the entire thing was dubbed into English and, I'm not making this up, new scenes were edited in so there were white people in it).

[Guest Fatherof10minis]

Matter of fact it was Raymond Burr (aka Perry Mason) who played the main character role in the English version in 1956.

[Guest John Hancock]

Good old Perry Mason, making us care about Japanese people dying.

[Maxximus 353]

Am I the only one who thinks Jun Fukuda is a bad ass name?

[Guest John Hancock]

Pretty badass guy to go along with it;

 

http://i744.photobucket.com/albums/xx81/kingugidora5000_2010/JunFukuda.jpg

[Maxximus 353]

They should make a movie about the guys that made the movies.

[Guest John Hancock]

There's actually a really good book on them if you can be bothered to learn letters. It's called Mushroom Clouds & Mushroom Men.

[DC 536]

the infamous American version

There was also a Japanese sequel that had the US version in Sydney, only for the real Godzilla to kill her very quickly.

 

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In the film, they also make reference to New York being attacked, but categorically stating it was not Godzilla to blame.

[Maxximus 353]

Brand new full length trailer.

 

 

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[Guest John Hancock]

I'm so ready for this.

[Maxximus 353]

I hope a Jaeger(Pacific Rim) shows up at the very end only for it to turn out to be Ultraman.

[Guest John Hancock]

I'm only looking for a straight Godzilla movie, but some little kaiju Easter eggs would be a lot of fun.

[Maxximus 353]

No Rodan either? D:

[King 277]

Looks freaking awesome, can't wait for this.

[Guest The Beltster]

The music throughout that trailer is awesome, but its not this awesome:

 

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[Maxximus 353]

Damn that brings back memories of chillin' in front of Saturday cartoons with a bowl of Mr.T cereal. Or Quisp. Anyone remember Quisp cereal? .

[Guest Boyo]

That film looks amazing. Wowsers!

 

Cheers!