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History, observations and discussions about the kaiju genre. Curious about everything to expand our knowledge about it. 3rd account (successfully rebuilding).

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The "power breath" is a weird compromise. It wasn't really advertised, some people forgot it exists or didn't registter it in the first place. It doesn't break any rile established in the film it just highlights how TriStar felt about the original movies.

Guys I have an idea. Red Letter Media needs to make more videos where they remind you how much they hate going out to watch movies in theatres and how everybody around them is annoying. I'm sure this will help.

From my youtube. Godzilla destroying the Nagoya Castle. The unsuccessful first take and how it looks in the film with first and the second takes spliced together. The cut occurs at 0:05 According to Haruo Nakajima the hit DIDN'T dislocate the jaw the suit always looked like that.

Cute demon dinosaur Baragon. Who was created when the movie as a replacement for Godzilla who was supposed to fight Frankenstein. The reason for this change is unclear but I think it may be because after the last movie it was too late to depict Godzilla as a villain again.

Something I only noticed watching these movies just days apart. In King Kong Escapes there's stock footage from The War of the Gargantuas except only the bottom part of the image. For the top Gaira was replaced by King Kong. Here are both scenes synced up.

And here is a classic dinosaur chase sce....what the hell is that sound?

Showa Godzilla deserves recognition for his redemption story. He didn't just become good. He really had to fight a lot of personal demons.

Mythological then. First time its name is spoken on screen in English? It doesn't meant it will make an appearance but it would be cool. The 50s scenes are just what they should be. These three travelling across the world responding to reports about monsters. Titan X-Files.

1950s King Ghidorah. I had to add appropriate sound effects.

T.rex "cameo" in First Man (2018). This movie deserved a lot more awards than it got, especially for the score but at least it got its Oscar for visual effects. Seems like it's one of the last few categories that rarely gives freebies.

Gigan's birthday. Good opportunity to repost this 1972 clip showing the making of the first Gigan toys

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Instead of returning to the present he just waits millions of years getting stronger. Back in the day in when we had our fantasy kaiju battles Armor Mothra was considered a game-breaking character able to beat anyone in seconds.

Tyrannosaurus vs. Triceratops. A battle we still haven't seen in any of the Jurassic films or shows. Here, it's only a little bonus and doesn't represent the best of Toho's technical possibilities of the time but seeing how small they are next to Cretaceous Ghidorah is impressive

Dying Rodan buries the hatchet and gives Godzilla his remaining power so he could take care of Junior. Those are pretty complex motivations for giant monsters. Great scene overall, love the soft Rodan theme. His subplot ends in a satisfying way (like all the others in this film).

And this is Japanese premiere of Roland Emmerich's "Godzilla" in 1998 and people's reactions. It's likely that not a lot of people here have seen it, it's from a documentary Godzilla Crosses the Ocean. As for the subtitles... I tried.

My favorite part of the final fight is when Godzilla starts disemboweling Destoroyah and enjoys it. It's never one-sided, even angry Godzilla gets knocked around a bit. Acting in a daze, Kenpachiro Satsuma practically became Godzilla with carbon dioxide pumped into the suit.

Godzilla and the military killed Destoroyah together, one with heat the other with cold. I think the military's contribution could've been a nod to JSDF which left after Godzilla vs. Mothra and a rather terrible success rate.

Dagahra attacking Ishigaki in Okinawa. An original monster destroying a city in a non-Godzilla movie so late feels unreal but in a good way. Dagahra is also still the only original monster from that era to reappear in another movie (through a cameo) but this is changing in 2027.

So Heisei Mechagodzilla is not really a kaiju or a character but I guess it's a challenge to play a machine that shouldn't feel like a living thing.

The "Roar of Sadness" scene was done without complex animatronics to show Godzilla's grieving so it's just Kenpachiro Satsuma as Godzilla in a state of complete collapse at least until he sees his enemy again.

Ok be serious now.

I don't feel bad for the cut scene from Frankenstein vs. Baragon because at least the octopus puppet in this better and more appropriate scene at the beginning of The War of the Gargantuas (Frankenstein Monsters: Sanda vs. Gaira). It even seems to have some kind of ink at 0:31

Knowing it would be the last film of the Heisei series they really dared to do things they never would in ordinary circumstances and perhaps we'll never see a moment like this again. The melting was the first time Godzilla (and not just his visualization) was created with CGI.

Frankenstein vs. Baragon was released two days after the 20th anniversary off the Hiroshima bombing and knowing Toho's earlier restraint it's a bit shocking to see one of the earliest cultural depictions of the event here. Impossible just ten years before.

But for sure it also made everyone want to have their own neon-light colored Hong Kong battle.

Godzilla's msot decisive 1v1 win against Ghidorah. And not because Ghidorah was distracted when he broke out of mind contro. Godzilla uses his spiral ray for the first time. I'm not quite sure how maybe all he has to do is to get angry and focus his energy.

The two finally meet. The expressions on Godzilla's animatronic face are some of the best I've seen I don't know how they nailed it like that. At one point this could've been the last movie in the series and it would've been a good ending.

Godzilla's character in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla is a logical continuation of what was set up in the previous film. Protecting Little Godzilla (the only time in the series there's a physical contact between them) even at the cost of losing. It's just a shame it's all so short.

Forgive the incoming info dump but it seems that this 1954 movie has more behind the scenes footage than most movies today. Part 1 of how they made the squid scene. First they filmed it in broad daylight and the squid was a catastrophe.

The one tkaiju space battle in outer space from Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla. The novelty is cool and it's good to see Moguera again (Koichi Kawakita was a fan) even if I don't get how it's an improvement over Mechagodzilla. May not seem like much but hey so is the rest of the film

Slightly underrated monsters of the day. The Yeti from Mummy 3.