An American Gamera Movie: How should we do it?

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Legendary Gojira wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:39 pm So we’re all in agreement that Gamera should be in the MonsterVerse? Good.
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In all honesty I'd prefer it doesn't happen. I like Gamera, but it's just been too long for a dead IP t be revived.
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Voyager wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 11:43 pm In all honesty I'd prefer it doesn't happen. I like Gamera, but it's just been too long for a dead IP t be revived.
It's only been 15 years. The SW prequel series was 15 years after RotJ. First Star Trek film was 10 years after the original series ended. Godzilla's had his own hiatus for 10 years. Ultraman for 16 for 80 to Tiga in his home country. Not to mention, stuff like Shaft getting jump started (twice) after huge gaps and various television revivals after 15-20 and even nearly 30 year gaps (X-Men!)


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Not to mention the 15-year gap between Super Monster and Gamera GotU. And maybe even more pertinent: Kadokawa just this year produced and released a sequel to a 2005 movie (itself a reboot of a tokusatu property that had been dormant since 1969).
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Mac Daddy MM wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 2:54 am
Voyager wrote: Wed Dec 01, 2021 11:43 pm In all honesty I'd prefer it doesn't happen. I like Gamera, but it's just been too long for a dead IP t be revived.
It's only been 15 years. The SW prequel series was 15 years after RotJ. First Star Trek film was 10 years after the original series ended. Godzilla's had his own hiatus for 10 years. Ultraman for 16 for 80 to Tiga in his home country. Not to mention, stuff like Shaft getting jump started (twice) after huge gaps and various television revivals after 15-20 and even nearly 30 year gaps (X-Men!)
Man, really? It’s felt like decades out here.
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There's also the fact Hollywood has been apparently resurrecting unnecessary sequels of 80s/90s belated franchises like Bill & Ted, Coming To America, Jumanji (Unpopular opinion, I did not like the sequels and those movies would have been better off being their own IP), Matrix, slasher icons like Halloween and Scream for the sake of nostalgia. Not to say there have been exceptions like Blade Runner and Bad Boys and potentially Top Gun which seems like it might be promising.

To say the least, irrelevancy means jack**** at this point.
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GodzillaFan1990's wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:07 am There's also the fact Hollywood has been apparently resurrecting unnecessary sequels of 80s/90s belated franchises like Bill & Ted, Coming To America, Jumanji (Unpopular opinion, I did not like the sequels and those movies would have been better off being their own IP), Matrix, slasher icons like Halloween and Scream for the sake of nostalgia.
TBF, Halloween 2018 nor Scream 2022 aren't reboots, and more so just continuations.. and i'd say Scream deserved another shot at the movies to begin with considering how AWFUL Scream 4 was.
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Gigantis wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:51 amTBF, Halloween 2018 nor Scream 2022 are reboots.. and i'd say Scream deserved another shot at the movies to begin with considering how AWFUL Scream 4 was.
I'm of the opinion there are franchises need to stay dead (Looking at you Alien and Predator...) or just left alone as they are notably the ones from the 80s, 90s especially when ending on fine conclusions.

But that's a topic for another discussion so I'll just drop it here so we don't get off-topic.
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Gigantis wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:51 am
GodzillaFan1990's wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:07 am There's also the fact Hollywood has been apparently resurrecting unnecessary sequels of 80s/90s belated franchises like Bill & Ted, Coming To America, Jumanji (Unpopular opinion, I did not like the sequels and those movies would have been better off being their own IP), Matrix, slasher icons like Halloween and Scream for the sake of nostalgia.
TBF, Halloween 2018 nor Scream 2022 aren't reboots, and more so just continuations.. and i'd say Scream deserved another shot at the movies to begin with considering how AWFUL Scream 4 was.
Halloween 2018 was dismissing previous developments in the series in order to return to the original version and start over from there. That's the definition of a reboot.
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Hm Halloween is kinda like the Godzilla series with different continuities now y'know? There's like the classic 1 through 5 I think, with 3 being the odd one. Then Halloween H20 just followed 1 and 2 I think. Then the previous one just followed the first I think? Or maybe it was the other way around.

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Mac Daddy MM wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 5:38 pm
Legendary Gojira wrote: Tue Nov 30, 2021 4:39 pm So we’re all in agreement that Gamera should be in the MonsterVerse? Good.
All except for Legion and the guy with the Netflix Anime Godzilla avatar. Legion's opinion is somewhat valid, but the anime trilogy... Naaaah bruh. :P


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I just like how the trilogy's Godzilla looks...

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But seriously, I have lost all interest in the Monsterverse. It started out strong, but went in a direction I just don't want to see anything else in it any more. Unless GvK proves a fluke and future movies treat it like a mistake to be forgotten, and I don't see any universe where that happens, it's dead to me. So an American Gamera movie could be something that I could look forward to again, a big Hollywood special effects kaiju film I can actually watch and enjoy, but not if it gets roped into the franchise that made the only Godzilla film I truly regret watching. Then it'd be the same as if they still weren't making a Gamera movie for me. I don't just want a Gamera movie so I can see him on screen with Kong and Godzilla, I want him in a movie I think I might actually enjoy watching. And I don't trust the Monsterverse to deliver that for me, personally.

Can't we just be allowed to ask for a good Gamera Hollywood film, this Damn fixation on crossovers and shared universes be damned?
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