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Numbers are looking good for the new movie. Off to a good start it seems.

I should have put that gif here, basically they need a lot of green screen for the film but they are getting it right by building practical sets in green screen rooms, it's beautiful to see technology take a step in the right direction.

Rifftrax Godzilla Kickstarter is a success!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rifftrax/rifftrax-wants-to-riff-godzilla-live-in-theaters-n

Unless GotG is super boss, I think I have seen my movie of the year!

>>40337
Hey, who knows, there is still Hobbit part 3

...ppppfffffffffft

Godzilla Genealogy Bop Song (MST3K)

MST3K on CBS Morning. The Subject: GODZILLA

MST3K-Godzilla Dropkick

AWESOME

It was about as good as I expected it to be. Solid giant monster movie.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/9210-Godzilla-Breaking-Kaiju

Real talk, the humans that weren't Heisenberg and Watanabe were incredibly bland, the first fight being referenced on a kid's television screen was blatantly lazy, and the ending was amateurishly abrupt. Music was also quite mediocre apart from the halo drop bit with the tormented chorus. The film was ponderously slow, apparently to build up the menace, but Godzilla is so docile to anything that isn't a monster and the Mutos are shot so generically that you keep wondering where the menace all this atmosphere is hyping up.

http://www.thecinemasnob.com/midnight-screenings/midnight-screenings-godzilla

Somehow, three giant monsters caused less collateral damage in San Francisco than Superman did in Metropolis.

>>40357

Are those your opinions, or you are repeating stuff from that video?

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/godzilla-destroying-u-s-box-office-for-90-million-opening-1201184080/

Big opening for the Big G.

>>40337
Wait, I forgot that Lego Movie was this year, so second best.(and pacific rim was better even if it disappointed me)
>>40363
Aw yeah! Hope that means more daikaiju movies gets greenlit.

I thought it was awesome. I liked the monsters, I liked the humans. Really looking forward to sequels.

>>40367

>and this Godzilla, by and large, doesn't even seem to give a single shit about humanity

Even if we concede to the humans being bland in what amounts to a disaster movie, I don't understand how some seem to think the buildup didn't pay off.

>After opening to $103M internationally — the biggest opening of 2014 so far — and grossing $93M domestic stateside this weekend, it should come as no surprise that Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.‘ are already developing a sequel to the monster hit. It was confirmed to Deadline this morning that a Godzilla sequel is underway. The beast is currently stomping across international markets to take No. 1 spots in most territories.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/godzilla-2-sequel-warner-bros-legendary-gareth-edwards/

Godzilla Week Day #7 - Movie R…

GODZILLA(2014): GODZILLA The Cartoon Intro

AND GODZUUUUUUKI

Edwards will return for two more Godzilla movies.

http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/gareth-edwards-on-board-for-two-more-godzilla-films-977

http://redlettermedia.com/half-in-the-bag-godzilla-98-and-godzilla-2014/

Mike liked the new movie, Jay was more on-the-fence. Of course, the '98 movie is still terrible.

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/bum-reviews/43369-godzilla

I see big numbers for Godzilla in the international market; does anyone have the box office numbers for Japan specifically?

>>40445
The movie doesn't premiere in Japan until July 25th.

>>40447
Ohh I hope it does well

> "I'm working very, very hard with Zak Penn," he told the site. "We've been working for a few months now in secret. We found a way to twist it around. Travis Beacham [co-writer of the first film, now working on Fox's 'Hieroglyph'] was involved in the storyline and now I'm writing with Zak because Travis has become a TV mogul."

http://www.superherohype.com/news/304795-guillermo-del-toro-writing-pacific-rim-2-with-zak-penn#/slide/1

Guillermo del Toro - Special M…
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YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

>>40551
Comic, cartoon AND a movie sequel. Wowowow.

Who secretly hopes Hollywood/western cartoon studios will take notice and make more kaiju and/or giant robot stuff? Sure, Sturgeon's law will still apply and 90% of it would be crap, but 10% of something is better than 10% of nothing.

Well, there is also the announced Power Rangers reboot film, if that happens and the movie does well (two very big "ifs", admittedly) then perhaps we will see a renewed interest in toku stuff in the US.

... perhaps even a new Captain Power show.

And even a new Kamen Rider series.
Dragon Knight leaved a great precedent after the fiasco that Masked Rider was, and I believe we could get more of it.

>>40557
Hear a few rumors about Fourze being the next adaptation or maybe Kabuto

//youtube.com/watch?v=1O4YnqKiMWo

http://collider.com/pacific-rim-2-story-details/

>“It’s a few years after the first one. It’s not an immediate follow-up. It is the world having been freed of Kaiju, what happens to the world after – what happens to the Jaeger technology once the Kaiju are not a threat. It’s quite a jump.”

G Gundam, G Gundam, G Gundam, c'moooooon G Gundam.

>>41329
I was thinking more of a Patlabor thing. Hell, IIRC Del Totoro cited Patlabor as his favorite mech franchise.

>>41339
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20647938_20712018_21351497,00.html#21351497

Not only is Patlabor one of the influences for Pacific Rim along with Tetsujin-28, his favorite Jaeger was Cherno Alpha. Man has good taste.

>>41340
I do sometimes wish a studio would consider Patlabor for some sort of stateside adaptation. Compared to most other anime mooted for dumb western adaptations, I think it'd work really well in a western setting. I imagine it being a long-running quirky cop show set in New York. You know, when I'm bored.

There is a live-action Patlabor show running in Japan right now, but that'd be /jam/ material, I reckon.

>>41341
Patlabors being common worldwide is already canon- At least one character in the movies was a transfer from the US.

>>41341
Unfortunately, only episode 0 was fansubbed so far for that live-action Patlabor show.

Toho's doing a new Godzilla movie set for release in 2016.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/japans-toho-produce-new-godzilla-754751

>>41403
It's funny how both American Godzilla movies galvanized Toho into producing new movies for the franchise, but each for entirely different reasons.

FUCK OFF AMERICANS THAT'S NO GODZILLA MOVIE WE'LL MAKE A PROPER NEW ONE TO SHOW YOU HOW SHIT YOU ARE!

FUCKING AMERICANS, YOU NAILED IT! WE'LL MAKE NEW MOVIES BECAUSE OF HOW FASHIONABLE YOU MADE THIS AGAIN!

//youtube.com/watch?v=5GLIZCd854w

Glad this is getting a PS4 port in America.

Eh, I dont care what people say, I still think you can have a Kaiju be the star of a movie.
Like, Mothra + Hero's journey/Epic destiny + Cast of human friends could totally work.

//youtube.com/watch?v=8HH0k_HNjBA

>new ultraman production is CGI
>new Gamera movie is CGI
>new Godzilla movie will be a mix of CGI and practical

Is this the beginning of the end for the oldschool man-in-suit?

>>44063
We'll have to see how the TOHO movie does.

>>44063
>>44074

I like to think that with Anno at the helm the movie will have good practical effects. The guy definitely has enough history with it and seems passionate enough about the artistry of it.

>>44153
Fuck yea Hideaki Anno. At the very least it's not going to be boring.

//youtube.com/watch?v=PCVg49Ff9m4

>>44361
>Shinji Higuchi, who provided the special effects for the Heisei Gamera trilogy, the upcoming Attack on Titan live-action films, and a scene in Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, would be the film's director as well as the director of special effects.

Well that explains that and OH BOY AM I ON BOARD

>it was also said that the version of Godzilla in this film would exceed the size of Legendary's Godzilla, making it officially the largest Godzilla ever on film

>Higuchi stressed that he wanted to create the most terrifying depiction of Godzilla possible with the resources available to modern Japanese cinema, to reflect the world's recent "loss of innocence" from modern real-life tragedies like the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the tsunami and nuclear disaster in northeastern Japan, which Higuchi called "the real monsters of the world."

So basically the American Godzilla series is the Anti-hero franchise taking up the showa slack and the Japanese series is an ungodly abomination borne of mankind's deepest injuries and sorrows as originally intended.

Also, that means this Godzilla is taking back his size title.

>>44368
Wait, does that mean Anno isn't involved anymore? I thought he was going to direct.

>>44376
Wrote it, not directing.

>>44653
They are officially calling him "Shin" Godzilla, I'm beginning to suspect he is a regeneration of the skeletonized OG.

>>44668
Fuck that is horrifying. is the All American Hero going to save the world.

http://deadline.com/2016/02/pacific-rim-2-directed-by-steven-deknight-spartacus-creator-legendary-pictures-guillermo-del-toro-1201708221/

>>45285
Same. After so much "happening and then not happening", I won't start being hyped until it is absolutely certain that it IS happening.

//youtube.com/watch?v=ysRIwlEBjuw

That really sounds like the same Chorus in the Rebuild Eva movies.

And what the hell is up with Godzilla's arms?

>>45907
Well she does look like she's been in a space trash can for ten thousand years. I wanna see her owned and get dumpster'd

Rope makes me think Green Ranger if in this might be a bit... kinky.

>>45908
You know what she doesn't look like? Rita Repulsa.

I mean, I know it's a reboot for a new audience, but the point of a redesign is to at least keep it somewhat recognizable and there is absolutely nothing of ol' Rita in there. Why not at least keep the antler hairdo? or the color scheme?

>>45910
Eh, the hat the baggy dress and the Madonna Rocket Tits Bra. I've a feeling that design is more in line Japense Witches which I don't mind.

bump

>>45910
Seriously. Old Rita/Bandora's look was iconic. They could've at least had SOMETHING thrown back to her.

>>47065

Maybe that is what she starts out wearing before getting the green bondage gear.

SG might be the best Godzilla movie?

>>47202
The movie starts SO good, funny, clever, and with Godzilla being weird and gross, which I loved. Then he freezes for the first time, and the movie itself does freeze with him. Movie literally becomes dull talking heads, and then it doesn't even have a good finale (was actually kinda silly, and not in a good way). First half is easily a 9/10 but then the boring slog of the second half gets a 2/10 from me.

>>47203
Dude have you ever watched the original Gojira?

A serious Godzilla SHOULD be like 90% talking heads.

>>47204
No, the movie LITERALLY becomes talking heads. As in, minutes after minutes of closeups to characters droning about shit that I couldn't care any less. In the original Godzilla I cared about what the characters said, especially Doc Serizawa. In this, during the first half the talking heads parts was entertaining due the whole "what's this I dont even" aspect of the governmental response to Godzilla's threat, but that's lost later.

>>47202
Well, I'm not a big Godzilla fanboy. I've only watched Godzilla vs. Hedorah, Godzilla vs. Gigan, Godzilla 2000, the two American Godzillas and this one. This was definitely my favorite so far.

The political commentary, especially with re: Japan and USA relations was on point. While there were many dry scenes of talking heads, the quick cuts between those scenes kept the pacing snappy.

I liked all of the characters, and I did appreciate the non-Japanese people were decently cast and acted, but the Japanese-American diplomat lady's accent was unbelievable if she was supposed to have lived in America her whole life. No way she can win the popularity contest of a presidential election with that accent.

The action scenes were amazing, as expected from Hideaki Anno. He let his obsession with infrastructure go wild too which was fun.

At first I was really bothered by the CG but it slowly grew on me and I actually liked it by the end. Not sure why, this is the first movie where that happened.

It's done gangbuster in Japanese box office so hopefully there will be a sequel.

>>47217
>At first I was really bothered by the CG but it slowly grew on me
I think that's just because the worst was the water and the boats in the river, which were really early on.

It's interesting how much Shin Godzilla has in common with Destoroyah, though I can't quite tell if the resemblance is intentional.

Godzilla - The Soul of Japan
//youtube.com/watch?v=IGCTSSWT4lg

>>47697
Left one looks like a toku guy and right one is fucking awesome.

>>47697


That one is red and it has a fin so you know its fast. The other one looks like a B-17 Bomber with that Belly Gun. Wonder if it can rotate around to the back.

>>47697
Wonder if they will call the middle one "Gipsy Danger MK2" or something like that.

So will Kong and Amerizilla fight Shin Zilla?

>>47776
>So will Kong and Amerizilla fight Shin Zilla?

It would be incredibly forced and awkward to fit both versions of Godzilla existing in the same world, considering that they have quite different origins.

>>48081
Do we have any new info on the plot of the film besides the stuff about John Boyegantercost?

>>48254
AFAIK the only known plot details is that it happens 10 years after the first film, and the Anteverse is back.

//youtube.com/watch?v=_EhiLLOhVis
Unbelievable levels of hype right now.

>>48277
Dunno, it is a nice trailer, but there is plenty going against me getting hyped. I don't like that the sets looks cheaper (and actually the movie itself IS cheaper, the sequel has lesser budget than the original), the mechs and costumes lack that "something", the cast is too young, etc. We'll see.

>>48381
Shit I almost forgot about this. This is gonna be a lot of fun. I wish the monsters were bigger though, but maybe I was just spoiled from all the recent monster movies (Kong, Godzilla, Pacific Rim).

I'm glad that genre is making a comeback. It's been handled well so far.

Soooo they are showing Rampage and Pacific Rim 2 at the same time in our cinema.

The first Pacific Rim was incredibly good, but I only heard bad things about the new one - different crew doing it, not in the same spirit as the original (as a love letter to the kaiju genre), and the Jaegers are doing spin kicks and shit instead of the slow, heavy movements that highlighted the sheer scale of their size.
Rampage on the other hand has smaller scale, smaller monsters, so it is definitely not as flashy, but it has Dwayne Johnson and it's shaping up like the perfect stupidly bad videogame based movie that is fun to watch despite quality.

Which ones should I go to?

>>417237
I'd go with Rampage. What I've heard of Pacific Rim 2 has bummed me out.

I got spoiled on Mako's death and utterly it killed my desire to see Pacific Rim 2. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?

Well finally saw Pacific Rim 2 and I'm not impressed. The story is so-so, up till after the big reveal, where the new big bad gets immediately shut down so they can have an old school kaiju fight. They made a retcon about the goal of the kaijus which doesn't stand up given that in the old movie, they were attacking seas all along the coastline. Other than that, I actually liked the plot - up until the final fight. It would've been more fun if they had to fight the newly revealed bad guys, but they get all written off in a 3d hologram programmer handwave. And the movie ends in a normal big fight, in Tokyo out of all places.

There was one little detail I disliked, everyone can now drift with everyone, as long as they are good at drifting. I think this devalues it heavily since in the old movie, they made it a point that you needed someone with whom you think alike and move alike, even outside the drift. They had Raleigh doing training outside the robots to find someone who he is compatible with, someone who thinks like him, someone who fights like him. In Uprising, they just jump into the simulator, and see if drifting works. No training whatsoever is shown. And then the 14 year old junkyard scavenger is doing flip kicks in the end despite showing no martial arts aptitude at any point.

So basically it's good up until they launch the final attack, then it's just a Bayformers tier nonsensical giant robot fight. They even have their own Bumblebee stand-in! The scavenger girl built her, even.

The sets are okay, but at one point you can even see the guys wearing skiing suits with props glued on. CGI is masking everything and used to bake together shots. Like, you have multiple separate shots from multiple angles, and they get stitched together to look like it is all one scene with the camera flying around and in and out. All the continuous movement can kind of make you dizzy. It makes the movie look too hyperactive, it makes it look like it is leaning on instantly gratifying your thirst for a spectacle, instead of building up for a proper conclusion.
One thing I hated was the overuse of slow-motion shots. The ones where they have an action going normally, then mid-move, they slow the action to a tenth of its speed, make it look like some 3d cg motion comic, then return to normal speed. Sometimes you have the camera circling around during that too. It's fine once or twice, but the movie uses this constantly and it gets annoying.

All the characters play their roles well, and the casting is fine, but you have a problem here where every character is transparent. You got the smooth-going, rebellious mister cool beauty, who is of course really the biggest hero ever (and surprise, he is black), you got the military hardass who steps down so the easy-going main hero can be the hero, you got the teenage sidekick who is really a prodigy. The Chinese girl starts as the completely amoral corporate boss but then does a 180° turn completely out of her character. The two researchers from the first movie are probably the most solid characters from beginning to end, though the older one isn't as self-absorbed as he was before. The other one is probably the best character in the movie. Oh, and the Jaeger pilots, other than the three I mentioned, none of them have any role that can be defined as anything other than a diverse cast of static background characters.

So in the end it's only half as well made as the first movie, but the first movie was made so damn fine that you have enough left to make for an above average flick. If you thirst for giant robots fighting with a heroic hoo-aah in the end, you'll have your fill. But it's all silly and fast, and not as serious and nerve cracking as the first movie was. Still, I'd place it above Bayformers, since those movies have the script fall in random directions every ten minutes; Pacific Rim Uprising only does two or three nonsensical plot twists and a solid mid-movie reveal.

It only feels disappointing because the movie could have been so much better if it got the same love as the first one. Wasted potential is the bottom line.

Can't wait to see Rampage, here's hoping the Blu-ray comes out soon.

>>417256
Another pointless Hollywood sequel that is a stepdown from the original.

>>417256
The plot made no sense, the big plot point that *all* the Kaiju had the same path towards Mt Fuji is incompatible with what was established in the first movie.

>>417432
2 years later, I don't even remember what the fuck the plot of the movie was. I can remember the first movie just fine, but nothing of the second one.

Godzilla vs. Kong – Official Trailer – Warner Bros. UK & Ireland

Godzilla fanboys are obnoxious, Kong actually looks pretty cool.

>>417515
Here's hoping this movie will be better than King of Monsters was. I mean, that's not exactly something difficult to achieve, but you can never know.

>>417520
What about a monster movie where one of the kaiju is literally just a giant human dude armed with a bunch of giant weapons as his gimmick?

Like he's still superstrong/tough and able to monster brawl (putting a giant beast in a headlock, suplexing a spaceship) but the host of weapons replace the spikes, blades and biological breath weapons etc other monsters have.

GODZILLA vs KONG
Kong, accompanied by a mute little girl, is taken on a JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH to find the POWER AXE of the ANCESTORS. He is stalked by Godzilla every step of the way. Meanwhile, Greta Thunberg joins up with a Youtuber conspiracy nut to break into a super secret evil corporation facility because of reasons. The story is as thin as a porn movie, so it can lead to as much action as possible, but the horrible cinematography makes the fight scenes look so terrible that you could confuse this with Michael Bay's Transformers. The final boss does not help out in that regard either (it's a thin looking CGI Mechagodzilla, built around the corpse of King Ghidorah). And, naturally, it is set in Hong Kong because China must be impressed for the movie to make back its budget.

The movie is less dumb than King of Monsters, but less satisfying than the 2014 Godzilla, less fun than the 1997 Godzilla, and it's not worthy of polishing the shoes of Pacific Rim.

>>417515
Godzilla vs. Cat (OwlKitty Parody)