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http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...id=77969&stc=1
http://movieweb.com/movie/godzilla-r...ional-trailer/
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Directed by Hideaki Anno, best known for the Shin Seiki Evangelion animation franchise, and Shinji Higuchi (Gamera Trilogy), Toho will unleash their new reboot on overseas audiences on July 29, 2016.
WTF is up with his eye?
I absolutely read "Shit Godzilla"
I saw this recently when I was looking up stuff for the last Evangelion movie, which got pushed back because of Anno doing this. Getting both should be a win/win for me.
The co-director worked on the 1990s Gamera trilogy. This is good news.
I'm game.
Godzilla needs to stop giving me the crazy eye though.
I dig the eye. Anno does really great 'the monster is looking at you' shots.
FPS godzilla: taking shaky-cam to 90 degree angles.
Whats the deal with the tail?
It's for balance.
lol @ the guy wigging out at the end of the trailer.
Hey. I really liked this.
A lot.
If you like Evangelion you'll like this.
Probably going to see this Saturday. There's one showing a day at a theater right near me.
TONIGHT!
I'm especially interested in your opinion Yeller.
Your opinion is good too Dole, I guess.
That was a dense cookie indeed! SPOILERS
Anno made a movie about Japanese Bureaucracy, the failures of Official Experts, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Starting from the first steam jets erupting off the coast, we see very single cabinet meeting (there are Many), committee assembly, and bureaucratic hangup, all clearly labeled. When military equipment comes on the scene, we see every unit labeled in the same way. Official Experts quickly determine that there's no way that the creature can move on shore, and that there's nothing to worry about. That... doesn't quite work out so well.
Godzilla itself is a wretched, horrible thing when we first see it fully. It's the waves of a typhoon, pushing boats down city streets. It looks more like a rotted unknown sea monster than any Godzilla we've seen before, vomiting blood out of gills, giant fixed pupil eyes like an angler fish. G continues to look like something that was dragged off the bottom of the ocean as it evolves.
I liked it a lot. I need to see it again soon.
Con: Some of the effects shots are kinda dodgy (shots were farmed out to 20 some-odd CGI houses, and let's say not all of them have worked much since the Sega Saturn), but most of the movie is highly reminiscent of Neon Genesis Evangelion both in pace and tone. If you're not ready for Endless Meetings About The Godzilla Problem, maybe skip it.
Pro: THE MOTHER FUCKING NUCLEAR BREATH IS AMAZING. Roar game is tight. The score is a cross between Eva and Godzilla. The monster design is super weird and I like it!
Just got back. I really enjoyed it. It is odd but in a fresh way. I recommend everyone that likes good movies to see it in theater.
Also, I suggest learning nothing about it and going in eyes open.
It's Evangelion if Godzilla was mankind's first contact with the angels and we had no fucking clue what to do.
Exactly that.
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http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...1&d=1476443946Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Saw this yesterday. Not much to add but it was really good.
You sound like a teenager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Eva was an adult retelling of the orginal godzilla and the later super robot shows it spawned.
Now who sounds like a teenager?
More thoughts written on my phone
This is mostly a great film. The first thing that grabbed me was the use of music or lack there of. Focusing on offices and buracracy focused the suspense like a laser. You knew something was coming, but what?
The buracracy element also gave a rare added bit of realism to the genre. This is probably how this or any other natural disaster goes down.
I also liked that this was handled like a horror film. The locations were kept to a minimum. Enclosed areas were used to keep costs down. The monster was amazingly kept a mystery. The nature of this godzilla was unknown. So much so I was not sure if the first monster was him or what he would fight.
Also this can be seen as a response from Japan to us horror. So many us movies fall back to man being the real monster. The Japanese instead hold it together and almost all of the characters are likeable.
It is also interesting that their is some critique of jp and us buracracy and a hint of pro fascist thought. But that seems to be inherent in super robot anime and it's relationship to male fiction going back to ww2 and prior.
The only thing really thing keeping it from being superb are minor issues like the crack team of nerds or the flat American sterotypes. Very animey in that regard. But both were handled well and not as bad as they could have been.
I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars. I think it is worth watching by anyone that likes good movies.
Your bitch of a motherQuote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Heh heh heh.
Saw this tonight. I really enjoyed it. I felt like it captured a lot of the thematic spirit of the original movie better than most attempts since. The use of the original score was a nice touch
I'm surprised that no one here had trouble with the ending. I liked it up until that.