Talkback: King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)

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...The movie is still fun regardless of how it ends. I don't get the "Godzilla loses in this film, so the film sucks" logic at all.
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Tyler wrote:Kong won. He is a thinking animal.
Yes, the American monster had a bigger, meatier brain with more girth.

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A tie or Godzilla winning wouldve been dramatically unsatisfying. Regardless of who is your favorite, Godzilla is still the villain and as a result should lose. Brains, luck, and determination defeating overwhelming odds is a classic story and it's perfect here.

Godzilla losing gives him a varied and interesting history anyways.
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Meh its alright, I agree with the others about how stupid it was for a radioactive dinosaure to lose against a over grown gorilla.
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This is my personal favorite Godzilla film of all time because it was the first Godzilla film I ever watched and I was about 6 when I first saw it. Now over the years, I still enjoy it but the US version feels slow much of the time and the Japanese score was nearly gone but I still watch it (mainly for the dubbing).

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it was a great movie, but not to the director he didn,t like it at all, when they carried king kong to mount fuji the directer cried it was that bad
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It's an interesting movie. It's bizarre when you consider the sudden change in the tone of the 'series' (although it wasn't considered one at the time) from the sombre tone of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again. So long as I remember not to take the movie too seriously, it's enjoyable. And Mr Taco is easily one of the most memorable characters to come out of the series.

Then again, considering he's up against the likes of the "He musta thought it was a gun" guy from Godzilla vs. Gigan, maybe that's not much of an accolade.

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Goji wrote:...The movie is still fun regardless of how it ends.
Eh, I can't say I totally agree. Parts of it are good fun, parts are so blah it's almost unbearable.
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I've found most scenes are able to keep your attention. There are some that don't, but the corny parts and fight make up for them.
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it was honda
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My corns never lie.

Seriously, that guy would have been good for G-Force. Instead of million dollar/yen computer systems and technology, all they'd need is his corns.
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HayesAJones wrote:What more could you ask for?
Remake with a less ambiguous ending?
After decades of seeing the U.S. version, when i finally got my hands on the Japanese cut, what a different, more enjoyable, coherent film this had become. the Ifukube score was cool, and we get to hear the first version of the Godzilla theme that was used several times following this film. the color tone of the film is really nice in the Japanese cut also.
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i heard about it on youtube when this guy reviewed his godzilla movies
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While this film is enjoyable, I think it definately needed some improvement.
It's nice to see Honda return to the series (I don't know who they would of had to replace him if he didn't want to, though). The humans scenes are alright mostly. However, the characters, while not as devolped as they could be, are done rather competently. Interesting to note this is Sekizawa's first writing credit on the Godzilla series. While the script is pretty good, the corporate explotation aspect gets somewhat lost through the whole movie. And I think Sekizawa did a much better job with Mothra Vs. Godzilla.
However, the score Ifukbe composed was nothing short of epic. Then again, Ifukbe I believe has always made quality scores, especially in the showa period.
The special effects are passable at best. However, Tsuburaya's need to make King Kong not look scary to children just makes him look silly. And Kong is perhaps the worst special effect in the whole movie. Godzilla looks okay, but I think this is one of his lesser designs. However, the miniatures are nice and I like how there are helicopters just flying through the air in alot of shots. So it's really a mixed bag special effects wise.
Overall, a good movie. However, Godzilla has better movies in the years following.

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no not him it was a another guy
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it was a guy named brentpokemon
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Japanese version out performs the Americanized one by a huge degree.
I dislike the American version. Love the Japanese one.
Not a big fan of either Kaiju suits.
I did like nearly all of the human aspects of this film.

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I thought the boss was too silly.
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godzillafan wrote:it was a guy named brentpokemon
...What?? This deserves an explanation, because "bretpokemon" cannot be someone's actual name..
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^Could just be the guy's username on YouTube.

Maybe he's talking about this channel.
http://www.youtube.com/user/brentpokemon2

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