Talkback Thread #9: Destroy All Monsters (1968)

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Re: Talkback Thread #9: Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Postby Battra2346 » Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:46 pm

ScottA wrote:This was one of my favorites.
My dad took me to see it at the movies when I was a kid.

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Wait,your telling us that you were actually a kid in the 60s that got to see the A.I.P. version of the film and not the international version that's on VHS and DVD? If it's that,I envy you.
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DAM question

Postby miguelnuva » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:13 pm

Now I know due to budget and tech in the 60's they couldn't have done this on flim but are we the fans suppose to assume that all 10 earth monsters battled and Killed King Ghidorah?

IMO I look at the flim like all monsters minus minya actually took on Ghidorah at some point even though on screen they couldn't have done this.
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Re: DAM question

Postby Tyler » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:40 pm

Look at it this way:
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Re: DAM question

Postby TokyoVigilante » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:42 pm

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Re: DAM question

Postby Showa Gyaos » Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:45 pm

Baragon, Varan, and Manda were chicken shits. I don't count them in the battle unless they were actually fighting Ghidorah (which they were not).
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Re: DAM question

Postby The Dark Uniter » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:10 pm

Showa Gyaos wrote:Baragon, Varan, and Manda were chicken shits. I don't count them in the battle unless they were actually fighting Ghidorah (which they were not).

LOL. Yeah, I wish that Baragon, Varan and Manda had more screentime and helped battle Ghidorah. That's one of the things I didn't like about Destroy All Monsters.
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Re: DAM question

Postby Hellspawn28 » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:59 pm

Baragon got a smaller role due to his suit being used in one of the Ultraman episodes at the time, and I recall that Varan had a smaller role due to his suit was too old to be used in full action at the time as well?
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Re: DAM question

Postby Tamura » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:48 pm

Baragon got a smaller role due to his suit being used in one of the Ultraman episodes at the time,


Is this actually true? If Baragon's suit was so unusable, then how come we saw even a few seconds of it?
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Re: DAM question

Postby Living Corpse » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:59 pm

Tyler wrote:Look at it this way:
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I'm sure had the time, money and better SFX been available to them back then that's what Toho would have made the final battle be like. Shit if we get a remake of DAM (GFW does not count, I don't care what you say) then that's what the final battle should look like.
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Re: DAM question

Postby Tohosaurus » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:17 pm

Living Corpse wrote:time, money and better SFX been available to them back then that's what Toho would have made the final battle be like. Shit if we get a remake of DAM (GFW does not count, I don't care what you say) then that's what the final battle should look like.

Maybe that's what FW should've been?
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Re: DAM question

Postby Living Corpse » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:19 pm

Had it been given to someone other then what's his name....

(shurgs)who knows.
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Re: DAM question

Postby edgaguirus » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:59 pm

They did a pretty good job for what they had. A fight like that picture shows would be incredible, though.
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Re: DAM question

Postby Cimmerian Dragon » Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:58 am

I love DAM, but I always thought it was overkill to have so many earth kaiju beating the shit out of King Ghidorah alone. It doesn't seem like a fight, more like a pummeling. It's too bad Toho didn't dig out (or create, though the costs would've skyrocketed) a couple of cronies to go into battle with KG. They could have set them up earlier in the film, led everyone to believe they were the final enemies, and then...POW! King Ghidorah appears on the scene as well!
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Re: DAM question

Postby G-fan4life » Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:06 am

Yea like the "Fire Dragon" They should have made it an actual Bad ass monster... Instead of a saucer, would have made things a little more interesting.
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Re: DAM question

Postby Lord Gappa » Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:09 am

Cimmerian Dragon wrote:I love DAM, but I always thought it was overkill to have so many earth kaiju beating the shit out of King Ghidorah alone. It doesn't seem like a fight, more like a pummeling. It's too bad Toho didn't dig out (or create, though the costs would've skyrocketed) a couple of cronies to go into battle with KG. They could have set them up earlier in the film, led everyone to believe they were the final enemies, and then...POW! King Ghidorah appears on the scene as well!

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Re: DAM question

Postby Living Corpse » Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:14 am

G-fan4life wrote:Yea like the "Fire Dragon" They should have made it an actual Bad ass monster... Instead of a saucer, would have made things a little more interesting.


I remember being dissapointed that the "Fire Dragon" wasn't a new final big bad Fire Elemental Monster but just a UFO. Imagine how cool that would have been, King Ghidorah is dead and everyone thinks everything is all right when suddenly a new monster that is made out of fire comes out and attacks for the final battle.
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Re: DAM question

Postby Lord Gappa » Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:17 am

Or maybe have Fire Dragon be King Ghidorah's ultimate form after they supposedly kick his ass.
Like a mighty phoenix, the King of Terror rises from his ashes and wages a new war against the eath monsters.
Fire Dragon King Ghidorah is born!
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Re: DAM question

Postby G-fan4life » Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:19 am

That would have been cool :) and back then... Unexpected...now its like oh wait he gonna change.
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Re: DAM question

Postby Lord Gappa » Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:21 am

King Ghidorah is evolving. :lol:
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Re: DAM question

Postby G-fan4life » Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:22 am

Press B Press B!!!!!
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