Godzilla, Kong, Gamera & Co.: The Kaiju Mega-Thread

[Mr. Adventure]

I almost always watch with subtitles/captions now so I didn't notice. I do know just in general a lot of services now have their foreign subtitles and their captioning share the same mechanism so it seems they screw this up a lot when it comes to partial subtitles.

 

[Christopher]

I almost always watch with subtitles/captions now so I didn't notice. I do know just in general a lot of services now have their foreign subtitles and their captioning share the same mechanism so it seems they screw this up a lot when it comes to partial subtitles.

When I started watching Foundation, I thought "Oh, I'll turn the subtitles off, it's not like there will be any foreign languages in a show set 20,000 years in the future." But I ended up turning the subs back on to help me with some of the British- or Australian-accented dialogue, and it turned out to be necessary after all because they've got multiple invented space languages like Anacreonese or whatever it's called.

 

[JD]

Watching the Apple Plus show. One more episode to go. Not bad and fairly entertaining although I feel like I am missing big chunks of the story because I don't do Captions/Subtitles.

Yeah, there's something weird with Apple TV where you have to have all the subtitles turned on to get the foreign-language dialogue subbed in English. Once I figured that out, I had to go back and rewatch parts of the first episode to catch the Russian and Japanese dialogue I missed. Since then, I've just left the subtitles on constantly on Apple. It helps me even when the English dialogue is a bit muddy or vague, which is often the case with modern sound mixes, particularly with my very old, low-grade computer speakers.

I had to turn the captions on and off, and didn't realize that turning them off, also turns off the subtitles. When I went to turn them back on, I found a default setting, which will give you subtitles for just the non-English dialogue. That was on the PS4 app, but I'm assuming the other apps will have it too.

 

[Samurai8472]

The Godzilla minus one team celebrate their nomination.

https://twitter.com/sonicpower1970/status/1749805508515799172


Godzilla Minus One Becomes First Godzilla Film Ever Nominated for an Oscar

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movie...ation-best-visual-effects-budget-artists-cost

 

[Commander Troi]

It deserves it. It's a gorgeous film.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

I finished Monarch today and I've got to say that was absolutely fantastic. Great world-building, great character drama. I loved how much they focused on the experience of regular people in the world of Godzilla as well as fleshing out the history of how society responded to learning about the titans. This show even made me feel (and feel hard) for Bill Randa, and I barely remembered Skull Island (didn't enjoy it that much) let alone cared about his past.

I rather wish the end of this season was a lead-in to tie into KotM instead of GvK since GvK is the one recent Godzilla project that was total crap, but hey, if this season can make me care about the guy from Skull Island, season 2 might actually be able to rehabilitate GvK. I can't wait to find out.

This is really a shockingly great time to be a Godzilla fan with this and Minus One in the same year - and it's only been a few years since the fantastic Singular Point and King of the Monsters, as well.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

So, it appears that new Godzilla vs Kong merchandise is appearing on store shelves and they're labeling the Godzilla with the pink fins as "Evolved Godzilla", whatever that means.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Btw, Godzilla Minus One, probably thanks to the B&W version and the buzz over the Oscar nomination, crawled over the $ 100 million mark in the international box office.

 

[Samurai8472]

The new buddy/cop teamup

https://www.empireonline.com/movies...re-buddy-cop-dynamic-lethal-weapon-exclusive/

Godzilla: I'm too old for this ****


I think it's safe to say this film is in good hands.

“I’m really big into Shaw Brothers martial arts. Those films are always about, ‘Here’s a big threat, and you have to do all these things to pump yourself up so that you can take on that threat.’”

 

[JD]

Sounds like fun.

 

[Samurai8472]

New trailer

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[Christopher]

"They don't have to like each other, they just have to work together?" Oy.

So it's War for the Hollow Planet of the Giant Apes, basically.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Well that was certainly something. It's funny that we're getting two ape-centric movies within a few months of each other with Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes this spring.

 

[FreezeC77]

"They don't have to like each other, they just have to work together?" Oy.

So which one is Tango and which one is Cash?

 

[JD]

Looks like fun to me.

 

[Nomad]

I'm moderately excited for it. Others have pointed out that the last two Toho Godzilla films have been mostly serious and somewhat grounded, while the American series gets whackier with each installment. I'm okay with that.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

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[Christopher]

I'm moderately excited for it. Others have pointed out that the last two Toho Godzilla films have been mostly serious and somewhat grounded, while the American series gets whackier with each installment. I'm okay with that.

I think what matters either way is whether the character work is good. The Legendary film with the best character work is Kong: Skull Island, whereas part of the reason Godzilla vs. Kong was so bad is that most of the character substance was hacked away in editing in favor of inane spectacle. So I don't trust them to "get wackier" in a way that doesn't undermine the characterizations.

 

[kirk55555]

I personally thought that Godzilla vs Kong was amazing, and had the only decent human characters in the US franchise (outside of the scenes with Stranger Things girl and her friends, which could easily have been cut). I'd rate GvK as the second best Godzilla film in the franchise, after Final Wars, so I hope that the US films, if they continue, keep going for this style (and hopefully learned how to do human characters from it).

 

[JD]

I'm moderately excited for it. Others have pointed out that the last two Toho Godzilla films have been mostly serious and somewhat grounded, while the American series gets whackier with each installment. I'm okay with that.

I love the wacky stuff, so I'm here for it.

I think what matters either way is whether the character work is good. The Legendary film with the best character work is Kong: Skull Island, whereas part of the reason Godzilla vs. Kong was so bad is that most of the character substance was hacked away in editing in favor of inane spectacle. So I don't trust them to "get wackier" in a way that doesn't undermine the characterizations.

Meh, they're Godzilla movie, we don't go to them for the human characters, we go to see giant monster beating the shit out of each other. As long as the human characters are able to give us a decent enough story to carry us from one scene of giant monsters beating the shit out of each other to the next, I'm fine.
I'm kidding of course, I've actually like the characters and their stories in the Monsterverse movies so far. Is this the first Godzilla series to have so many characters carried over from one movie to the next?