Daikaiju Fans Declare Yourselves!

[SG-17]

In the case of Supaidaman and Super Sentai the focus of the shows is on the humans with special powers instead of the kaiju. This distinction separates them from the kaiju genre.

 

[Gojira]

I own 20 Godzilla films including a bootleg DVD of Godzilla 1985. The only ones I do not own are from the late 60s (Son of Godzilla, Godzilla's Revenge, Godzilla vs the Sea Monster) and all of the Godzilla movies from the 70s. Except for Godzilla vs Biollante(sp) I own all the rest from the 80s, 90s and 2000s. I also own the American Godzilla movie and though it is Godzilla in name only it still is a fun giant creature feature.

I also own Rodan and War of the Gargantuas.

Non Japanese giant monster movies that I own are The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Gorgo and Cloverfield.

I just love Godzilla and giant monster movies. Really looking forward to the new American made Godzilla movie next year and really wishing they would make a sequel to Cloverfield.

 

[DeepSpaceWine]

I miss the days of a UHF station filling up its Saturday afternoon schedule with a few daikaiju movies or kung fu/karate/samurai/ninja movies. Fun times. That's how most Americans were first exposed to the genre(s) back in the 70s/80s. Nowadays it would be unthinkable to put a dubbed foreign movie grouped in with sci-fi B-movies and the like on the schedule, especially a movie over 10 years old.

 

[Sean Aaron]

That's how I was exposed to that stuff too DeepSpaceWine. Hedora the Smog Monster scared the pants offa me as a kid. No lie I hadn't seen the film in probably 30 years until I watched the Japanese version a few months ago. Quite a trippy flick!

 

[SG-17]

Those dubs were sometimes of much higher quality than the international dubs that Toho put out. Like Harry Saperstein's dubs were almost all used on the Classic Media DVDs because they were of a much higher quality than the Hong Kong International Dubs.


I was first exposed to Godzilla when I was 2 in 1994 by my grandmother who had an old VHS of Megalon. After that I saw most of the showa films during the Godzillathons and Stomp Fests (especially the one hosted by Peter Boyle) before the premier of E&D's film. After that the Sci-Fi Channel would show marathons on Halloween and that is where I saw most of the Heisei films and Millennium films.

However between 1994 and 2002 is when I got most of them on VHS and in the last 6 years is when I've been working on my DVD collection.

 

[Gojira]

I miss the days of a UHF station filling up its Saturday afternoon schedule with a few daikaiju movies or kung fu/karate/samurai/ninja movies. Fun times. That's how most Americans were first exposed to the genre(s) back in the 70s/80s. Nowadays it would be unthinkable to put a dubbed foreign movie grouped in with sci-fi B-movies and the like on the schedule, especially a movie over 10 years old.

I completely agree!!!