The End of the King Lizard.... (Merged "Godzilla Retired")

[Villano]

Didn't the studio make a big deal not too long ago that they finally cleared the rights for a Gamera VS Godzilla movie?

I don't believe that they'll discontinue the series. They'll probably just take some time off and reboot the series. Let's face it, if Godzilla could survive the godawful US "reimagining", he can live through anything.

 

[demiurge1138]

Well, Villano, the American "re-imagining" is the reason that Godzilla came back from the last time he got killed off. The American movie made more money in Japan than any of Toho's efforts, so the studio thought there would be a big box-office draw. There wasn't, and the series declined again, until they decided to retire the big G. Again.

As for the Gamera vs. Godzilla movie, one of the kaiju in the Final War movie is so secret that it's referred to in press releases as "Monster X". This could very well be Gamera.

Demiurge out.

 

[Ranger REG]

You're kidding me. What sucks here is great over there? And vice versa? (Hey, why do you think we have Pokemon when Japan is tired of it?)

 

[Richards]

Originally posted by demiurge1138:

As for the Gamera vs. Godzilla movie, one of the kaiju in the Final War movie is so secret that it's referred to in press releases as "Monster X". This could very well be Gamera.

That's actually kind of ironic, as I remember watching a movie called "Gamera vs. Monster X," where Monster X was a kaiju with a kind of triceratops build, who had an ovipositor at the tip of his tail. During the inevitable battle, Monster X penetrated Gamera's lung with its ovipositor and implanted an egg in there (making it the closest approximation to "kaiju rape" probably ever filmed!). Gamera collapsed, partially underwater, allowing the two Japanese boy heroes to enter Gamera's open mouth via a mini-submarine, then go crawling around in his body to destroy the newly-hatched Monster X offspring.

I amaze myself sometimes with how much I still remember of the monster movies I watched 30 years ago as a little kid.

Johnathan

 

[demiurge1138]

That's actually kind of ironic, as I remember watching a movie called "Gamera vs. Monster X," where Monster X was a kaiju with a kind of triceratops build, who had an ovipositor at the tip of his tail...
I amaze myself sometimes with how much I still remember of the monster movies I watched 30 years ago as a little kid.
Johnathan

Somehow, I doubt that Monster X will be Jiger (Monster X's Japanese name), but at least I now know that somebody else has seen that movie...

Demiurge out.

 

[Richards]

Jiger, huh? Never knew that.

Still, for all-time classic Gamera cheesiness, you can't beat the one where two boys (one Japanese, one American) get kidnapped by space aliens (looking remarkably like Japanese women), and Gamera goes to rescue them. Highlights include Gamera fighting Guiron the knife-monster (seriously, his head was like a big knife...oh, and he shot shuriken from the sides of his head, too!), and the Japanese kid getting his head shaved so the space aliens could eat his delicious brain.

Was that one "Attack of the Monsters?" I think that space world had its own Gyaos in it, too.

Johnathan

 

[Alzrius]

(Hey, why do you think we have Pokemon when Japan is tired of it?)

Actually, Pokemon is as big over in Japan now as it ever was. Quite likely, it'll become the next Doraemon, in the sense that it'll simply never lose steam there, becoming part of modern popular culture; unlike in America, where the fad has mostly died.

In regards to Godzilla, according to Animenation, this will only be the last Godzilla film of "this generation", which the studio expounds upon to mean only the next five to ten years. There's no question that Godzilla will return to fight another day.

 

[CrusaderX]

Still, for all-time classic Gamera cheesiness, you can't beat the one where two boys (one Japanese, one American) get kidnapped by space aliens (looking remarkably like Japanese women), and Gamera goes to rescue them. Highlights include Gamera fighting Guiron the knife-monster (seriously, his head was like a big knife...oh, and he shot shuriken from the sides of his head, too!), and the Japanese kid getting his head shaved so the space aliens could eat his delicious brain.

I have the MST3K version of this movie saved on my hard drive.

 

[demiurge1138]

Jiger, huh? Never knew that.

Still, for all-time classic Gamera cheesiness, you can't beat the one where two boys (one Japanese, one American) get kidnapped by space aliens (looking remarkably like Japanese women), and Gamera goes to rescue them. Highlights include Gamera fighting Guiron the knife-monster (seriously, his head was like a big knife...oh, and he shot shuriken from the sides of his head, too!), and the Japanese kid getting his head shaved so the space aliens could eat his delicious brain.

Was that one "Attack of the Monsters?" I think that space world had its own Gyaos in it, too.

Johnathan

Yep. Attack of the Monsters, aka Gamera vs. Guiron. Although if you saw the Sandy Frank TV version, you missed the "Space Gyaos" getting sliced up like a purple-blooded sausage. Good wierd fun.

Demiurge out.

 

[Desdichado]

I don't believe that they'll discontinue the series. They'll probably just take some time off and reboot the series. Let's face it, if Godzilla could survive the godawful US "reimagining", he can live through anything.

Feh! Just because it wasn't as campy; the US "reimainging" was the best Godzilla movie ever made. Granted, that still doesn't elevate it above a profoundly silly movie, but at least it was a fun one.