Godzilla KOTM... from the Criterion Collection!?!?!

[lhb412]

^ Jet Jaguar gets the treatment he deserves!

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Kain those prints that SeaHawk posted are official Toho prints you do realize that right? IIRC they where used for recent TV broadcast so they haven't made it on to BD yet. So going by your logic just because it hasn't made it to home video it isn't the best print available is what I'm getting from you even though its clearly superior to the previous BD releases.

To quote Robert Downy Jr from Trophic Thunder "You just went full "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!", you never go full "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!"".

[Dr Kain]

[canofhumdingers]

[kiryugoji04]

No, if you think the kid in Revenge just has bad parents, you missed the point of the movie.

[Dr Kain]

[Dr Kain]

[kiryugoji04]

[H-Man]

It's not like Ichiro's parents spend all that time at work because they want to.

[lhb412]

[kiryugoji04]

Yes, it's basically another movie in the grand tradition of Honda criticizing capitalism. It's following in the same footsteps as Mothra, King Kong vs. Godzilla, and Mothra vs. Godzilla. It's kind of one of his things.

[lhb412]

^ That and hiking.

Man loved to hike!

[Hawanja]

What's up folks! I put up a review of this if anyone is interested,

https://youtu.be/ruik29vkWBw

Thanks!

[mr.negativity]

For A Limited Time, Get 50% Off The Criterion Collection. Only At B&N!

[Dr Kain]

[Gwangi]

[lhb412]

^ My B&N had the Godzilla set behind the front desk, not in the music and movie section. Also, Amazon seems to be price matching this set at the moment, possibly for the duration of the sale, in case you don't have a Barnes & Noble or don't want to order from their website.

[Gwangi]

Yeah, I checked the front desk as well, and did not spot anything. Will give it another try this weekend, but as my hands are currently tied financially, this will just be window shopping.

[DannyBeane]

[Dr Kain]

I watched Hedorah today. The movie is still a waste, but at least Hedorah has a cool design and is an intriguing idea. I just wish if nothing else the music didn't suck so badly. I will say that I do think the Kraken BD for this one was a bit sharper, but meh, it's Hedorah, one of the movies I watch the least, so I'm not going to worry about it.

Unless I get asked to work tomorrow, my plan is to finsh the set tomorrow. Then I'm going to start watching the Heisei era over as I might as well just watch every Godzilla movie in release order, especially since this will be the first time I'm actually getting to see every movie subbed in order.

[lhb412]

[O.Supreme]

[Dr Kain]

And just like that, I have finished the Showa era of Godzilla. What a joy it was to rewatch all of these movies in order, in Japanese, with subtitles, on Blu-Ray, with consistent quality, even the ones I do not like.

It was so great getting to finally watch Gigan with the speech bubbles in tact. It made this viewing feel extra special despite it being something so minute. Megalon is Megalon. Pure garbage, but hey, at least it looked and sounded nicer than the Media Blasters release. I do still ponder why Toho dubbed over the dude who played the Toga leader's voice when he spoke fluent Japanese in Dogora. Secondly, when the hell did the Seatopians befriend the owners of Gigan? Did they meet at some "Outcasts of Modern Society" convention or something?

Anyway, the highlights was naturally the Mechagodzilla double feature I just had. Not only because we got actual subtitles that made sense for the first film, but also because they looked so good on BD.

Overall, say what you want, but this is hands down my favorite Criterion release to date. I am so glad that this miraculous event happened and it has been the biggest bright spot for this dismal dreadful disdainful year called 2019.

Now it's time to check out some of the bonus features on the last disc.

[H-Man]

Robert Dunham was speaking English on set; in Japan’s Favorite Mon-Star (or maybe Monsters Are Attacking Tokyo), I believe Dunham recalled he got the part very quickly through his agent. I would assume the part was written in English for a Caucasian actor so Dunham’s fluent Japanese wouldn’t have occurred to the writer.

[Dr Kain]