Talkback Thread #1: Godzilla (1954)

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Re: Thoughts on Godzilla (1954)

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Honestly, I'm glad they didn't use stop-motion. I doubt the stop motion would have been that great.
As well, using suitmation is such a defining mark of these films. If they used stop motion suitmation would of not been invented.

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Tyler wrote:The unused stop motion Godzilla from Biollante was interesting, though.
Definitely. Though it's probably best it didn't end up in the finished film. It's cool to see that Kawakita and co. were experimenting with it though.
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^ KING KONG 33', THE BEAST, etc.? Unless you're referring to more low budget stuff.
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^ No offense, but the original Godzilla had so much more on him. I think the G'54 suit was one of the best filmed and designed in the whole Showa series (and maybe the Heisei, but that may be a bit of a long shot)
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Chris55 wrote:Yeah but it looked like shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOuoci_Uu0o

Granted, the Ceratosaurus looks like ass, but that sloth is pretty damn good. It sure as hell beats the furry pants off of either of Toho's Kong suits.
My god...that suit looks so bad for the Ceratosaurus. :?

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Godzilla '54 in History Class

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Apparently my friend's history class is watching Gojira right now, to, like, connect to Hiroshima I guess. In my classes we're doing nothing. I wish I was in her class ;_;
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I can only hope that you are not in English class. Otherwise, your teacher should be slapping you with a ruler right now for not saying, "I wish I were in her class." :P
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Mini-Godzilla wrote:I can only hope that you are not in English class. Otherwise, your teacher should be slapping you with a ruler right now for not saying, "I wish I were in her class." :P
I actually am in English class lol

And yeah that shit happens every day
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I guess you can rejoice that you're not in one of the English classes that I teach. My former students express symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. ;)

I should work Gojira into a class next semester, though. Surely college freshmen are capable of analyzing a 1950s Toho film, right? They're probably watching The Seven Samurai in their film classes anyway.
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Mini-Godzilla wrote:I guess you can rejoice that you're not in one of the English classes that I teach. My former students express symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. ;)

I should work Gojira into a class next semester, though. Surely college freshmen are capable of analyzing a 1950s Toho film, right? They're probably watching The Seven Samurai in their film classes anyway.
That would be pretty sweet.
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SuperMonsterZero wrote:Apparently my friend's history class is watching Gojira right now, to, like, connect to Hiroshima I guess. In my classes we're doing nothing. I wish I was in her class ;_;
Jesus Christ.

I wonder what Mike thinks about this...

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Your guys are pretty lucky to show at least the original Gojira at your schools. Usually at my now former high school, they would show more recent films.
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Hell, I just took a class called History of Science Fiction Film where my professor expressed that he thought GODZILLA was a "terrible movie". One would assume he had only seen the U.S. version, but I didn't even bother asking at that point.

When getting to the subject of "terrestrial monsters" (which was late in the semester), we simply watched the groan inducing IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA. -_-
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Legion1979 wrote:Operation: Gojira.
That's just boring. If it was me, I would've at least made it an in-joke and called it "Project G" :P
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Oh well, it didn't go through anyway.

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My Film Appreciation teacher played Gojira last Fall. Everybody seemed to like it. A lot of film noir was displayed in it.
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Kinda curious, did the students mind the subtitles? Usually if I'm around other people my age, they usually want it to be English only, same case with my brother.

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The Dark Uniter wrote:Kinda curious, did the students mind the subtitles? Usually if I'm around other people my age, they usually want it to be English only, same case with my brother.
Idk if that was directed at me, but my class did not mind subtitles.
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Showa Gyaos wrote:
The Dark Uniter wrote:Kinda curious, did the students mind the subtitles? Usually if I'm around other people my age, they usually want it to be English only, same case with my brother.
Idk if that was directed at me, but my class did not mind subtitles.
Yeah, it was directed to you.

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The Dark Uniter wrote:Kinda curious, did the students mind the subtitles? Usually if I'm around other people my age, they usually want it to be English only, same case with my brother.
People always say, "Well if I wanted to read, I'd read a books". Yeah I doubt you'd read a book you sad ignorant fool!

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