Escape . . . Into the Future
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Escape . . . Into the Future
Anyone ever wonder about the end of Invasion of the Astro Monsters where the controller says something along the lines of "we must escape . . . into the future" right before they blow up? Was that a reference to a possible unexplored angle where the Xians invented a time machine? It would have been cool if the Xians appeared in another Showa film to get revenge on the earthlings. But unfortunately, that never came into fruition.
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I've always thought that the leader was just mumbling something crazy. Those sound waves were messing everyone else up, I guess they were messing him up too.
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I've always sorta wished that they did escape into the future and then there would be some subtle nod towards their return in the future. Sadly, when I really look at it, it seems like he just went insane. Though he did push that one button right when they blew up...hmmm....
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For all we know, he hit the Self-Destruct button.King Caesar wrote:I've always sorta wished that they did escape into the future and then there would be some subtle nod towards their return in the future. Sadly, when I really look at it, it seems like he just went insane. Though he did push that one button right when they blew up...hmmm....
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Escaping to the future as in Going to a "Better Place" for eternal rest, i think.
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I think that's exactly what he did.GotengoXGodzilla wrote:
For all we know, he hit the Self-Destruct button.
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In a fan fic I've been working on for years...I linked a heavily modified version of "Godzilla vs King Ghidorah" into the Showa universe, where the Futurians were those Xians and their descendants who did indeed escape into the future
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This is always the way I interpreted it as well: that the controller was referring to a belief of what happens when they perish. :xilien:Living Corpse wrote:Maybe it's just their cultural belief that their reborn in the future when they die.
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They went into the future, evolved drastically, and then launched their least in-genius plot yet in the futuristic year of 2004...
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I always liked the Controller's death ("escape!") scene. Classic villain meltdown.
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Darn you beat me to it!.JVM wrote:They went into the future, evolved drastically, and then launched their least in-genius plot yet in the futuristic year of 2004...
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Too bad nothing that cool ever happened again... *flashback to Kilaakians emotionlessly falling down and turning to their rock form*. The only thing comparable in the Showa series is the Chairman's rant before Godzilla tower goes boom.menschenjaeger wrote:I always liked the Controller's death ("escape!") scene. Classic villain meltdown.
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From watching the Japanese version, the Controller was talking about death. He blew himself and his invasion force up.
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This is friggin' hilarious. I just watched this movie on Netflix and was like dafuuggggg? When he said that. Awesome death scene, awesome movie.
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Did you not remember that line from previous viewings, or something? I'm just making the assumption that you've already seen this film countless times. I always saw it as a pretty stand-out line in the American version.RedZillaKing wrote: I just watched this movie on Netflix and was like dafuuggggg?
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Technically, he was shot and then fell into the sea.Living Corpse wrote:I don't know, the ape man laughing before jumping in the sea in TOMG was kinda epic.
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I admittedly hadn't seen the American version of the film in a while. I was "too cool" for dubs for a long time and have gotten back into watching the American version because my wife doesn't like the subs. When the commander said that my wife and I looked at each other in surprise, lol.Goji wrote: Did you not remember that line from previous viewings, or something? I'm just making the assumption that you've already seen this film countless times. I always saw it as a pretty stand-out line in the American version.
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Invasion of Astro-Monster is one of the films that I watch dubbed 9 times out of 10; hearing Nick Adams real performance is great and whoever did the dubbing for the Xilian Controller did an absalutely beyond perfect job. I can't imagine him any other way. Not to mention the iconic one liners he has.
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It hit me like a fat sack of nostalgia watching the dubbed version on Netflix the other day. I fell in love with it all over again. Guess it goes to show you're never too cool for certain things.
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The Controller's hand gestures....