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Henry88 wrote:so another godzilla with a personality of a wood stump eh
Dai wrote: My guess for how the alien sub-plots will play out is:Spoiler Below:
jellydonut25 wrote:Henry88 wrote:so another godzilla with a personality of a wood stump eh
Wood stumps have more personality.
daikaijusaurus wrote:The music was good, but got a little annoying during the battle with the first Godzilla. Similar to Shin Godzilla when this really annoying rock piece kept on showing up throughout the movie. Why oh why do they do this?? Lol
daikaijusaurus wrote:The characters were okay. I am however getting tired of characters who have a vendetta against Godzilla after he killed their parents, or brother or best friend or dog or cat or whatever. Why these kind characters keep on showing up in Godzilla movies is beyond me. Heck even Gamera had a couple lol.
daikaijusaurus wrote:Lastly, why the heck was this movie named Planet of the Monsters?? Besides Godzilla and the forgettable flying creatures, what other monsters were there? Yeah I know there were monsters very briefly in the intro, but does that even count?
klen7 wrote:i really love both G'14 and Shin-G. I'm glad Toho isn't doing the Ultramanesque science team for each movie like they did for most of the millennium series.
daikaijusaurus wrote:The intro got me really intrigued, up until the part where the aliens showed up, which seemed like it was just dropped in without much thought. Did this story really need aliens? I feel even without the aliens the movie would've been almost exactly the same.
klen7 wrote:Oh! I wonder if the Exifs sabotaged the Mecha-G launch! Which would put these factions at odds with each other!
lhb412 wrote:Oh, them sabotaging Mechagodzilla certainly makes sense if they were competeing against each other for the conquest of Earth and believed Mechagodzilla would be used as a tool of conquest after defeating Godzilla.
... just how big is this Mechagodzilla, anyway? With Papa Godzilla being so much larger than the Godzilla is was built to fight and all.Benjamin Haines wrote:Metphies recalls seeing other worlds destroyed by monsters like Godzilla, which makes me wonder if he encountered kaiju like King Ghidorah or Gigan in the past, and if he and the Exif had anything to do with monsters appearing in the first place. They definitely seem to enjoy pulling strings.
I was delighted to realize that the Bilusaludo were revamps of the black hole aliens, and unless I'm mistaken the Exif are similarly based on the people of Planet X. That would certainly lend credence to that bit of yours I've bolded. Like their '60s counterparts, they put on a benevolent face, only they promise religion instead of medical knowledge.
Psycho Soldier wrote:I appreciated seeing some old favourites on screen during the intro exposition, even if only in still shots. We're supposed to assume the humans and aliens wiped them all out, though, right? The characters focus on Godzilla as if he is the last kaiju standing. I read that there's a reference during the introduction to Hedorah being killed, but I think I missed it.
Benjamin Haines wrote:
There is a quick shot with a news chyron describing a successful “Operation Hedorah” and an image of what looks like the aftermath of the operation, although I don’t think Hedorah is visible in any discernible form.
O.Supreme wrote:are you talking about the NGE theme? I'm by far no fan of the overrated series, but many people actually enjoyed that music bit...phpBB [media]
MekaGojira3k wrote:It's very middle of the road entry for me. I like it more the longer I think about it, but it's hard for it to rise above the (THIS IS PART 1), it's how I felt about the first Rebuild of Evangelion movie, it's set up. The world and the way they've used the Xians and the Aliens from the Black Hole is interesting.
lhb412 wrote:MekaGojira3k wrote:It's very middle of the road entry for me. I like it more the longer I think about it, but it's hard for it to rise above the (THIS IS PART 1), it's how I felt about the first Rebuild of Evangelion movie, it's set up. The world and the way they've used the Xians and the Aliens from the Black Hole is interesting.
Pretty much. There's a lot of potential in the story, and if entries #2 and #3 fulfill that potential it could retroactively bump up Planet of the Monsters' rating, but as is it's, as you say, "middle of the road."
I think the closest comparison I could make is Godzilla x Mechagodzilla '02.
canofhumdingers wrote:Wow, two weeks since this was released outside Japan and the discussion has already been dead for days...
Seems a rather damning commentary (or lack thereof...) on the first installment.
franzilla wrote:It was really, really bad. Knew I wasn't getting a lot of Godzilla action going but I was still shocked at how much of a mess this was. What a waste of resources.
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