Toho is making their own Godzilla movies again!

[Kai "the spy"]

New trailer for "Godzilla: Monster Planet":

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[Nomad]

In this trailer, Godzilla's beam looks very Shin-like, but with the EM burst added, while his appearance is closer to the 2014 Legendary version. I'm not sure about this animation style, but the movie looks interesting at least. It should be getting to Netflix early in 2018.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

So, is Godzilla: Monster Planet part of...
1) ...Legendary’s MonsterVerse?
2) …Toho’s Shin series?
3) …none of the above? A different continuity?

Monster Planet’s Godzilla certainly looks like Legendary’s but MP is made by Toho.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

So, is Godzilla: Monster Planet part of...
1) ...Legendary’s MonsterVerse?
2) …Toho’s Shin series?
3) …none of the above? A different continuity?

Monster Planet’s Godzilla certainly looks like Legendary’s but MP is made by Toho.

Option 3 seeing as this Godzilla is supposed to be some kind of plant monster.

 

[Hound of UIster]

Oh dear. I think I know where this is going, the writer already used that plant monster-forest plotline a few years ago. Guess there'll be monstrous post-human remnants of humanity down the line.

 

[publiusr]

Attack on Titan style?

 

[Nomad]

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters opened this weekend in Japan and appears to be doing well at the box office (although earning nowhere near what Shin Godzilla did). A poster for the sequel has already been released; Mechagodzilla will make his debut in that one. Lastly, it was revealed that this animated version of Godzilla is 300 meters tall. By comparison, Legendary's Godzilla was only 108 meters, with Shin at 118.5 meters.

 

[Christopher]

Lastly, it was revealed that this animated version of Godzilla is 300 meters tall. By comparison, Legendary's Godzilla was only 108 meters, with Shin at 118.5 meters.

Okay, this is just getting ridiculous. Stop trying to top each other, guys!

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Now we need a 400 meters tall Godzilla for the next iteration!

 

[JD]

That is an insane height. Is this the tallest Godzilla ever?

 

[Christopher]

That is an insane height. Is this the tallest Godzilla ever?

By a huge margin. The previous record-holder was apparently the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Godzilla at 122 meters (400 feet), followed by Shin and Legendary.

http://wikizilla.org/wiki/Godzilla

 

[Saul]

In this trailer, Godzilla's beam looks very Shin-like, but with the EM burst added, while his appearance is closer to the 2014 Legendary version. I'm not sure about this animation style, but the movie looks interesting at least. It should be getting to Netflix early in 2018.

He looks a lot closer to the 2014 Legendary version. I had a chance to compare the toys of each and Shin Godzilla's arms are place closer to the center of his chest liked some kind of T-Rex while 2017 and 2014 have larger arms coming from their shoulders. What I find surprising is that they would go for something so close to the Legendary design especially with the criticism of some Japanese fans calling him "Fatzilla".

 

[Nomad]

That is an insane height. Is this the tallest Godzilla ever?

By a huge margin. The previous record-holder was apparently the Hanna-Barbera cartoon Godzilla at 122 meters (400 feet), followed by Shin and Legendary.

For another comparison, check out the chart here.

From what I understand, the Monster Planet Godzilla starts off at around 50 meters, and keeps growing for the thousands of years covered in the movie, ending up at 300 meters. Perhaps he'll be even larger in the sequels.

 

[Christopher]

For another comparison, check out the chart here.

Good grief. The new Godzilla's individual dorsal scales are bigger than most entire Godzillas. That's taking overkill to a whole new level. Feels like overcompensating.

 

[Nomad]

Netflix has released a trailer for Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, and announced that the movie will debut January 17. Apparently, it will be available in both subtitled and dubbed versions.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Just watched it. Certainly not your usual Godzilla flick, but very good. The rumor about Godzilla being a plant life form were, I guess, a misunderstanding based on mistaken translation. It's the plants of the future Earth that adopted attributes of Godzilla. Also, there's a reason to this Godzilla's massive size. Also note that there's an after-credits sequence.

Looking forward to the sequel.

 

[Redfern]

Even the "Omni Viewer" (sounds likes a member of "The Watcher's" species in the Marvel universe), a YouTube critic of all things Godzilla, liked it and earlier he had fretted over every stage and aspect about its production.

 

[Christopher]

I'm afraid I didn't much care for Planet of the Monsters. Here's my blog review:

https://christopherlbennett.wordpre...-on-godzilla-planet-of-the-monsters-spoilers/

Some highlights:

Spoiler

I’ve come to expect anime to be smarter and deeper than Japanese live-action productions, on the whole, but this movie is pretty superficial. The first half is mostly setup and the second half is mostly action, and neither one has much in the way of character development. Haruo is the only character whose point of view we really get to know that well, and he’s just so stubbornly gung-ho and confrontational, fight and win at all costs, that he’s one-note and hard to sympathize with. To anyone who’s familiar with past Godzilla movies, it’s easy to predict that his conviction of humanity’s right to dominate and possess the Earth will turn out to be misguided and he’ll be struck down for his hubris. So he’s really not someone I could root for, since I could guess he’d turn out to be the goat rather than the hero, and there wasn’t really anyone else to sympathize with.
...
Visually, the Godzillas and the Servums are kind of weird-looking. They aren’t rendered in a cel-shaded 2D style like the human and humanoid characters, instead having a complex 3D surface texture, but they don’t look photorealistic either, or even like the kind of stylized-realistic 3D characters you see in Pixar or Dreamworks movies, say. It’s a weird sort of uncanny valley between them, like moving charcoal paintings or something, and it’s off-putting and visually unclear.
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Another problem with the film’s depiction of Godzilla is that, aside from the brief flashbacks in the opening montage, all the action takes place in the wilderness. Godzilla isn’t stomping through a city or an industrial area, just moving through woods and mountains. So while you can tell he’s quite tall in comparison to the forest, there’s still not that great a sense of his scale from a human perspective. There are humans fighting him, but mostly from the air, which also doesn’t help to establish a relatable sense of scale. And just in general, it’s a fairly dull backdrop for the action, without a lot of visual interest.
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And really, why start the story where they did? Why pack all that deep, complex backstory of the fall of Earth and the arrival of aliens and the failure of Mechagodzilla into a 3-minute, 45-second flashback and a tie-in novel rather than making that the story of the first film and saving this story for the sequel? Just one more respect in which this film feels superficial and unsatisfying.

 

[cosmic mouse]

Just watched it. Certainly not your usual Godzilla flick, but very good. The rumor about Godzilla being a plant life form were, I guess, a misunderstanding based on mistaken translation. It's the plants of the future Earth that adopted attributes of Godzilla. Also, there's a reason to this Godzilla's massive size. Also note that there's an after-credits sequence.

Looking forward to the sequel.

Did you watch it on Netflix? If so, what title was it under? I'm having trouble locating it...

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Did you watch it on Netflix? If so, what title was it under? I'm having trouble locating it...

Well, German Netflix, and it was under "Godzilla: Planet der Monster", which I had to use the search engine to find, even though I put it on my list. Try putting "Godzilla" in the Netflix search engine, from there it should be easy enough to find.