Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

I don't know that the movie studios and G-fandom would be all chummy and arm-in-arm singing Kumbaya around the fire together or whatnot if we had better manners, but at least we might not be seen as the bane of... pretty much everybody outside of (and sometime INside of) our own little world IF we could engage with non-fans and the companies that might give us what we want IF we would act a bit more... mature. It seems that comicbook & tokosatsu-ish fans are some of THE most spoiled rotten, self-important, whiny, attention-hungry, bitter, overly suspicious and downright hateful groups of people on this planet. Now, being a part of BOTH of these groups myself, I can see justifiable reason for SOME of the resentment and suspicion that we have about our closely-guarded guilty pleasures but so many fans just take it to the next level, and light years beyond, that it's honestly a WONDER that ANYTHING gets made or done within these two genres.

I can almost guarantee you that if there were no money to be made with comicbook-based properties that no one in their right mind would be doing a damn thing with them. Kaiju-type properties aren't much better and in so many ways we are a hundred times worse becuase our clique is microscopic in comparison to comicbook fandom. At least there are many comics-based properties which are now regarded by the mainstream as "adult" and cutting edge. But with the exception of the original Godzilla & Kaneko's Gamera trilogy, pretty much EVERY single thing tied to live-action monster stuff (of Japanese origin in particular) is viewed as absolute childish nonsense. Then we Kaiju fans go and shoot ourselves in the collective feet by screaming in self-righteous indignation about every damn thing that interests us, shredding every potential motion picture, DVD/Blu-ray release, potential TV series or whathaveyou it into tiny little pieces before much of it has even so much as passed the developmental stage... and then we sit around and complain, wondering why there are so few companies or persons who want to deal with the stuff. Really folks?

Remember when we used to just talk about movies we like?

Thanks KPA for stating what I was trying to in a much better way than I ever could.

This sense of entitlement from fans gets old. There are plenty of ways to watch the Japanese version, subbed, available, None of them legit mind you, but if it's that important to you there are options.

For everyone else, you get a pretty solid American adaption of one of the better G flicks in HD no less.

Is Tyler listening to Ben Wagner again or something?

Changing gears I'm going to contact Universal and try to voice my opinon for getting the Japanese cut of KKvsG on the BD as it stands now that's the only way I'll pick up the film. I already have the DVD so unless there's an improvement then I see no need to get the BD. The same with KKE.

Super late to the party but I'm so happy about this. All of these releases have me in such a good mood and having a new job to pay for them makes it even better.
King Kong Escapes is one of the best live action cartoons ever.

I don't like this thread anymore. I'm gonna go play somewhere Tyler isn't.