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

Cool, I've never watched anything on PlutoTV, but this might get me to. Any idea if they'll be subtitled or dubbed?
 
JD said:
Cool, I've never watched anything on PlutoTV, but this might get me to. Any idea if they'll be subtitled or dubbed?
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The one I saw happened to be dubbed, don't know if they all are or if they alternate. Just go to pluto.tv in your browser, you don't need an app or account to watch, so go check it out.

EDIT: Just noticed, you can access all the movies on demand without going through the live channel.
https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/category/611436eea449220007a0039b/64934343d2c47c000844c934/view-all
 
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JD said:
Cool, I've never watched anything on PlutoTV, but this might get me to. Any idea if they'll be subtitled or dubbed?
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As soon as I read the post upthread, I checked the Pluto TV site and found a newly dedicated Godzilla channel. At that moment, "Destroy All Monsters" was playing and it was Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. Since Mr. Adventure stated what he saw was dubbed, I guess they alternate.

One can also watch the Showa era films (except Kong vs. Godzilla due to additional license fees) at the Shout Factory TV site. Most are offered in both subbed and dubbed with a few exceptions.

https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/film/godzilla

The site also offers many of the Ultraman series, even the quasi "X-files" styled precursor, "Ultra Q". And while not really related to this thread, Shout Factory TV also offers many of the Gerry Anderson series including "Space: 1999" (but oddly enough, not "U.F.O.").
 
Redfern said:
The site also offers many of the Ultraman series, even the quasi "X-files" styled precursor, "Ultra Q".
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Hm, I hadn't thought of that comparison. It was more of an attempt to emulate The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits -- indeed, its working title was Unbalance Zone -- albeit with a continuing cast of lead characters involved in most of the stories. When I first learned about Ultra Q, I expected it to be about a team of kaiju researchers, so I was surprised when it was just a charter pilot, his assistant, and his reporter maybe-girlfriend, who kept coincidentally getting involved in one kaiju or paranormal incident after another. (In the 2004 UQ revival series, the main characters were a journalist and photographer, and in the 2013 series, they were a psychologist/paranormal investigator and a writer, so it was a little less coincidental in those cases. IIRC, the 1990 movie turned all the leads into TV news staffers despite reusing the character names from the original.)
 
Redfern said:
As soon as I read the post upthread, I checked the Pluto TV site and found a newly dedicated Godzilla channel. At that moment, "Destroy All Monsters" was playing and it was Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. Since Mr. Adventure stated what he saw was dubbed, I guess they alternate.

One can also watch the Showa era films (except Kong vs. Godzilla due to additional license fees) at the Shout Factory TV site. Most are offered in both subbed and dubbed with a few exceptions.

https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/film/godzilla

The site also offers many of the Ultraman series, even the quasi "X-files" styled precursor, "Ultra Q". And while not really related to this thread, Shout Factory TV also offers many of the Gerry Anderson series including "Space: 1999" (but oddly enough, not "U.F.O.").
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Something to keep in mind, the last I checked, the Shout Factory TV site had more offerings than was available directly via the apps which could be a factor depending on how you are watching. It's annoying if trying to watch on TV where you may find limited offerings or you have to go to the site and then cast to your TV which is not as convenient. (recent cord cutter here...).

Christopher said:
Hm, I hadn't thought of that comparison. It was more of an attempt to emulate The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits -- indeed, its working title was Unbalance Zone -- albeit with a continuing cast of lead characters involved in most of the stories.
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Maybe because I stumbled on Neo Ultra Q first but it reminded me of X-Files as well.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
Maybe because I stumbled on Neo Ultra Q first but it reminded me of X-Files as well.
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I guess I can see that, but it was also quite different. In The X-Files, the characters were never able to prove the existence of weird phenomena, and it was all a big dark secret. But Neo Ultra Q was interesting because it was set in a world where the presence of aliens and kaiju was a completely overt, routine thing, and many of its stories were driven by that openness in a way no X-Files story could've been. I mean, in the first two UQ series, alien and kaiju attacks were often public -- hard to miss a giant monster on the rampage -- but it was still a surprise when they turned up, since they hadn't previously been encountered. But a number of NUQ episodes involved entities that were already known when the episode began. I didn't think it was a great show, but that aspect of it, that normalization of kaiju and aliens, interested me. Of course, we've seen examples of that in Ultraman series, but NUQ approached it as drama more than action, showing how these beings affected society and ground-level humans.
 
Redfern said:
As soon as I read the post upthread, I checked the Pluto TV site and found a newly dedicated Godzilla channel. At that moment, "Destroy All Monsters" was playing and it was Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. Since Mr. Adventure stated what he saw was dubbed, I guess they alternate.

One can also watch the Showa era films (except Kong vs. Godzilla due to additional license fees) at the Shout Factory TV site. Most are offered in both subbed and dubbed with a few exceptions.

https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/film/godzilla

The site also offers many of the Ultraman series, even the quasi "X-files" styled precursor, "Ultra Q". And while not really related to this thread, Shout Factory TV also offers many of the Gerry Anderson series including "Space: 1999" (but oddly enough, not "U.F.O.").
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I already knew about all of that other stuff, but I didn't know they had the Showa Godzilla movies on there. Tubi has a license or some other kind of relationship with Shout! Factory, so all of that is also on there.
 
captainkirk said:
The idea seems to be that when Japan is at its lowest point after the war, Godzilla attacks and brings them down even more.
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That does seem to be what the teaser text implies, but I think the title is primarily a play on "T minus one." It's set post-WWII, which makes it the first Godzilla movie to take place before the 1954 date of the original film.

Ooh, it's the same director as the CGI Lupin III movie. That was pretty impressive, as I recall.
 
Fingers crossed for a European release.

Regardless, that's not much to go on so far but what little it does show seems to absolutely blow away the visuals of every other Toho Godzilla movie, so if that's an accurate representation of what this is going to look like I'm impressed.

Between that and the concept being really interesting, too, I'm suddenly hugely hyped for this. If it does actually get released here, it may be the firist time I've ever seen a Toho movie in theaters.
 
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