Gunhed (1989)

[Goji]

Ah, I see. Bummer.

Yeah, I don't think it got a release before ADV picked it up, but stranger things have happened. I didn't know that ATTACK OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE or the rarely seen U.S. cut of LATITUDE ZERO had gotten VHS releases until relatively recently.

[Hellspawn28]

I hear this film was pretty awful and Arbok seems to hate it. I still want to see it for it's cheese factor.

[hammysammy59]

Cimmerian and CT nailed it. There are a lot of good things about GUNHED, especially in the SPX department, but as a whole, the film is a dud. I also agree that his work in BYE-BYE JUPITER was quite impressive. It's a damn shame that the only Godzilla film that was saw any of his true talent translated to was BIOLLANTE..most likely due to his reported problems with alcohol after both GUNHED and BIOLLANTE flopped at the box office.

Wow, if this is true, that's a huge bummer. Almost makes me feel guilty goofing on the hit-and-miss effects work of the latter Heisei movies.

I've always been curious about Gunhed though (and Bye Bye Jupiter) but just haven't gotten a chance to check 'em out yet.

[Inferno Rodan]

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5383&hilit=Gunhed

My thoughts on the movie can be found there.

[g2kmaster]

And my thoughts can be found here, along with some production history notes.

http://journalismg2km.blogspot.com/2012 ... unhed.html

Can't say you won't dislike Toho a little more after reading.

[Tohosaurus]

The original idea of having Gunhed actually be a Godzilla movie before Godzilla was completely written out of the movie and more changes were made actually strike me as something I want to see someday. Actually, that movie would probably really pop with some amazing Hollywood grade special effects and a decent budget, so maybe Legendary could pursue that if LPG does well.

[Megalon-5]

The idea of Godzilla battling a powerful computer and it's vast array of robots would make for an interesting story imo. I wouldn't mind if Toho did a "Godzilla vs. Gunhed" type film in the future.

Also, g2kmaster, is there any more information on that third script that won the contest, the one involving Miki? I'm a bit curious of what the script was about.

[g2kmaster]

Guy's script didn't win the contest. Not officialy, only in spirit since two things from Guy Tucker's script was used through out the Heisei series.

Here, let me have Guy Tucker (RIP) explain the predicament himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDdp0LJ1 ... _CXAVZWl0=

Skip to 6:50

[Megalon-5]

Thanks for the link! Very interesting behind the scenes story there. I'm curious to what his script was like, seeing as it had a tremendous impact on the Hesei era.

[g2kmaster]

I think there are members who could answer that here, but IDK if they still post here or if they would be willing to talk about the script.

[Megalon-5]

Ah, not to sound nosy g2kmaster, but would you know who those members are by chance? I'm really interested in learning about the script.

[FlamingZilla23]

Didn't Gunshed come from an unmade Godzilla film? No i never saw the film personally so i can't really make an opinion on it.

[Megalon-5]

Yeah Gunhed originated from an unused Godzilla script, you can read about it here: http://tohokingdom.com/cutting_room/godzilla2.htm

[g2kmaster]

Ah, not to sound nosy g2kmaster, but would you know who those members are by chance? I'm really interested in learning about the script.

I do, and I guess I'll go ahead and ask. I only hesistate in that Guy was a dear friend to this individual, thus emotions may be something that comes up. I'll shoot the dude a message.

[Megalon-5]

That would be great. Thanks for your help man!

[BigBaragon]

Huh, learn something new everyday. I'll have to find this 'Gunhed' now. Does a giant robo fight a giant monster at any point in the film?

Hammy, who in the hell is that in your avatar? Looks very familiar....Woodpecker-Machinder?

[g2kmaster]

Does a giant robo fight a giant monster at any point in the film?

No, it is large robots vs. gargantua-esque leviathan robots.

The cloest thing you will get to a monster in this film is the biobot, and that is more of a monster in the spirit of Jason Vorheese (just not as awesome).

Ya know... I do not think Section23 owns the rights to this film anymore. It would be nice to see someone buy the rights and release a better version of the film on DVD. Heck, the director of the film can speak English and Lucasfilm was involved with the film's production, it wouldn't be too hard to get new material made (of course, if Toho allowed it and didn't take forever to approve of products, maybe we know why we wait so long for new Bandai Creation figures).

[Rody]

I was browsing Google the other day, trying to find somewhere I could watch this film (any help would be appreciated, BTW), when I stumble across the IMDB page where I see - it's rated R??
.....................Could, um, somebody elaborate on this?

[Goji]

It's definitely not "Rated R". Even if it was..so what?

[Rody]

I tend to be hesitant about R rated films. That's all.

Well, I'm glad to hear that's not true. Now I just need to FIND this movie..........
I wonder if anyone has picked up the license for it yet, since ADV is no longer around.