Weekly Kaiju Movie Thread #54

[klen7]

It's not Z-word bad, but i saw it 5 or 6 years ago and i'm not in a hurry to see it again. Orochi is pretty cool, but doesn't get much screen time

[MekaGojira3k]

[MekaGojira3k]

I just pasted what I posted on tumblr...
So, I just watched Yamato Takeru (1994). My god. I thought, surely, this won’t be
as bad as Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992) (Which I believe to be Okawara’s worst Godzilla film.
It’s worse. somehow. I mean, there’s some stuff in here that SHOULD be entertaining.
I think that’s the whole film, though. It really wants to be something hugely appealing and awesome. Scifi/Fantasy movie.

This movie feels a lot like the tremendous batch of sword and sorcery stuff the U.S. had in the 80s.
It’s also typically just as bad. Orochi is a cool design…until you see his feet…or whatever
they are. They should have just given him a long serpentine body (ala Harryhausen’s Hydra).


Speaking of which, did the fight with Kumasogami and Kaishin Muba remind anybody else of
Harryhausen stuff? I mean, I’m not super knowledgeable of this myth but the fight with Kumasogami
made me think of a crappy version of the Medusa encounter from Clash of the Titans. Kumasogami
also made me think of the Kraken.


I didn't know Katagiri was a LARPer
This came out the same year as Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994), and while this film feels more
put together I’d rather sit through Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla than this.

And this

is my reaction as I discovered that Yamato Takeru
was INDEED worse than Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992), which
I didn't think was likely.

ALSO, Hey Bryan, would you want the next thread?

[MouthForWar]

[MekaGojira3k]

[MouthForWar]

[MekaGojira3k]

[Alpha OTS]

[Henry88]

[O.Supreme]

[metal_bryan]

[Psycho Soldier]

[metal_bryan]

Well... I asked for it this time Can't take my vote back now.

I hadn't seen this movie in a very long time and my memories of it were hazy. I must not have been paying much attention to it when I watched it before. This gave me a chance to finally watch the DVD version of it instead of the old VHS fansub.

The horror...

I refuse to go on an epic rant about this movie like I did with Gunhed, but it surely deserves the lashing. Of the two movies, it's still superior, but only barely. The effects in general are not very pleasing to watch, which is one of the most negative aspects of the film for me. Even the fight with Orochi, the biggest effects sequence of the movie, is really disappointing. At least Gunhed had a cool final battle sequence. Yamato Takeru manages to be much more straightforward in the story department... despite still being pretty jarring in execution. The acting in both movies just depresses me. Some good actors here and they just look bad in this movie.

That's about it. Like I said, I don't want to go into TL;DR territory complaining about the minute details of this movie.

[MouthForWar]

[MekaGojira3k]