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Bigs news! Criterion has seemingly gotten a hold of the classic media Toho kaiju titles as well as Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Destroy All Monsters, and Godzilla vs Megalon. They are available on the Starz streaming service!
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This year or next year (can't remember which) would have been the 20th anniversary of the cancelled Criterion LD release of all the UPA Godzillas. It's great they finally have all of them again, along with these others. Some of these are dubbed, and War of the Gargantuas features the complete Hong Kong dub.
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Stupid question, but, does this mean we'll see physical releases of these titles from Criterion?
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Maritonic wrote:Stupid question, but, does this mean we'll see physical releases of these titles from Criterion?
was wondering the exact same thing, since the graphics show the Criterion label.

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Godzillian wrote:Bigs news! Criterion has seemingly gotten a hold of the classic media Toho kaiju titles as well as Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla, Destroy All Monsters, and Godzilla vs Megalon. They are available on the Starz streaming service!
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Fuck, I have all of those, but the covers look really clean and nice in a very simplistic name.
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If they are released as blu-rays i'll be picking them all up except for Megalon and DAM. I have the classic media releases of both so unless Criterion makes them better quality and better special features i'll just stick with the tokyo shock blurays
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Criterion will absolutely have better special features. I'd gobble ANY of these up in a heartbeat.
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I just want the Titan/Titra dubs of Son and Sea Monster. Luckily most the 70s films decided to forego a new dub and just released the international dubs more or less as is.
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I don't get why Son of Godzilla is subbed. The pattern seems to be that each film is presented uncut and in a fairly raw incarnation of a Toho transfer created since 2008, and if Toho has a complete, dubbed print of it, its audio has been slapped on the transfer... except for SOG. I really do wonder why that is. MZ has the extended US dub featured in Toho's English print, so each dub audio is technically an international dub. No heavily altered American cuts are presented except for GKOTM, which Toho seems to regard as a separate film. MvsG, Ghidrah, MZ, and Revenge don't feature hitherto unknown international dubs, which makes me think they either never existed or Toho can't find them. I don't want to rule them out yet. I'd love to know who was responsible for syncing these dubs (Criterion? Toho? Someone Criterion or Toho outsourced the work to?), and why the Japanese-only titles have much sharper audio than usual.
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Please, please release a blu-ray of Son of Godzilla and Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla , that's all I ask!
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Godzillian wrote:If they are released as blu-rays i'll be picking them all up except for Megalon and DAM. I have the classic media releases of both so unless Criterion makes them better quality and better special features i'll just stick with the tokyo shock blurays
If these get physical releases, you will absolutely want to pick them up even if you already have DAM and Megalon on blu. Criterion goes out of their way to make sure they use the best possible video quality, and if it doesn't already exist then they create brand new transfers from the best possible source elements. Their G54/GKOTM transfers are shining examples of this, far and away better than Toho's own home video release.

A rumor floating around is that maybe, just maybe, Criterion/Janus could be using transfers from the "Godzilla 4K Project" but that is pure speculation.

It's also important to note that we shouldn't take what's offered on Starz as a preview of what they would release on DVD/Bluray. When Criterion first sub-licensed Gojira/GKOTM from CM in 2011, they streamed it on Hulu using the same 2006 transfers while they concurrently prepped their own for their 2012 release.
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Godzillian wrote:If they are released as blu-rays i'll be picking them all up except for Megalon and DAM. I have the classic media releases of both so unless Criterion makes them better quality and better special features i'll just stick with the tokyo shock blurays
If these get physical releases, you will absolutely want to pick them up even if you already have DAM and Megalon on blu. Criterion goes out of their way to make sure they use the best possible video quality, and if it doesn't already exist then they create brand new transfers from the best possible source elements. Their G54/GKOTM transfers are shining examples of this, far and away better than Toho's own home video release.

A rumor floating around is that maybe, just maybe, Criterion/Janus could be using transfers from the "Godzilla 4K Project" but that is pure speculation.

It's also important to note that we shouldn't take what's offered on Starz as a preview of what they would release on DVD/Bluray. When Criterion first sub-licensed Gojira/GKOTM from CM in 2011, they streamed it on Hulu using the same 2006 transfers while they concurrently prepped their own for their 2012 release.
I bet things will start to spice up once GKOTM comes out.

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I'll wait for an actual announcement before I get my hopes up too much but I would definitely buy every single release without hesitation.
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I'd love to have those dubs as well as a much-needed HD version of Smog Monster with the original AIP dub. I'm pretty sure that Krakken is holding on to Ebirah and Smog Monster though.
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I'm excited for potential physical releases of these, especially of the early 60's stuff (and Megalon!).

I totally expect them to be put into a box set à la Zatoichi. Don't think they'll wimp out on us with an Eclipse set. At least, I hope they won't.
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UltramanGoji wrote:Don't think they'll wimp out on us with an Eclipse set. At least, I hope they won't.
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I'd love these as Criterion blu-rays. Criterion Gojira is fantastic.

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I would deff buy all of these titles in a heartbeat if they're physically released with special features. When I first saw these, I thought they were jokes; Criterion releasing Godzilla vs. Megalon was the reason, plus the covers looked so damn random. It was like someone took a random still or production photo from the movie and slapped Criterion DVD text onto it.
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I saw MOTHRA vs. GODZILLA on STARZ ENCORE tonight, and the subtitle script is way better than Classic Media's! So can't wait for these releases.
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Grimlock#1 wrote:I would deff buy all of these titles in a heartbeat if they're physically released with special features. When I first saw these, I thought they were jokes; Criterion releasing Godzilla vs. Megalon was the reason, plus the covers looked so damn random. It was like someone took a random still or production photo from the movie and slapped Criterion DVD text onto it.
Criterion is known for releasing 'prestigious' movies which often leads to snooty ideas about them ('they wouldn't release this or that film') but they've done all kinds of weird stuff. Godzilla, at least Showa Godzilla, would definitely fill a niche they've cut out for themselves in recent years when approaching classic Japanese film series (the Samurai Trilogy, Yojimbo/Sanjuro, Lady Snowblood, Lone Wolf & Cub, Zatoichi). If a proper set did happen every Godzilla fan would owe it to themselves to pick it up, not only would the films look and sound phenomenal, the simple fact that Godzilla got the seal of approval from Criterion would be a big f*cking deal.

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For those who don't have STARZ, is there any chance that someone could show a side-by-side comparison of Criterion's subtitles to Classic Media's? I'm very curious of the difference.....
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