Help cast Akira Takarada in Legendary film!

[lhb412]

[planetxleader]

Well, I finally e-mailed JD back after he responded to me a couple days ago (I put it off because, well, it's all a pointless debate, really, and yeah, real-life stuff), and I am officially done convincing anyone. Too late now anyway. Can't stop this train.

[MekaGojira3k]

[Hybrid Gojira]

Can we have a "stop the petition" petition? I'm sick of hearing about it. As everyone has already stated, it's a cameo.

It's an optional scene that can be (and should be) thrown away of it doesn't mesh with the film. Whining over it is unnecessary and frankly ridiculous - I don't care what the reason is.

It's far more important to me that LP gets Godzilla right rather than focusing on a cameo (as cool as the idea was). I mean, is anyone going to walk out of the theater thinking, "you know what would have made this movie better? That cameo they cut!!"

Psssh.

[ebirahsmeg1]

[MouthForWar]

Takarada is listed in the final credits as "Japanese Immigration Officer"

Maybe he wasn't completely cut after all?

[Inferior Rodan]

And just watch, if he is indeed in the film and its a blink and you may miss it moment, people who signed the petition will saying "yay we won" or something like that.

[XvGojira]

[MouthForWar]

Yeah, word is that he definitely isn't in the movie anymore.

However, Edwards confirmed today that there WILL be deleted scenes on the Blu-Ray, so I'm assuming/hoping that's where he'll end up.

[jellydonut25]

I've basically lost the ability to care about this

[MouthForWar]

[Destroysall]

Yay!!

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[Inferior Rodan]

[planetxleader]

You know what, I've already ceased to be irritated at this mess and have moved on.

[Inferior Rodan]

[Inui Takumi]

I'm going to start a petition called "Bring Back Raymond Burr for Godzilla 2014: King of Monsters". I mean, they brought back 2Pac for Coachella, right? It's feasible....-ish...XD

[planetxleader]

[Inui Takumi]

[planetxleader]

Imagine the leaps and bounds porn would make, too.

Then there's the inevitable take-over by hologram AI. It'd be like the Terminator except we can't punch them.

[Inui Takumi]

[MouthForWar]

[jellydonut25]

So...now I don't even want the scene included as a deleted scene. My care-o-meter is swinging into the negative zone. Legendary and Gareth Edwards extended Takarada a huge courtesy by bringing him onto the set of the film and letting him hang out and taking pics with him and that's not good enough for people.

People are such assbags.

[Hybrid Gojira]

Yeah, I saw that. It's pretty absurd. LP doesn't owe anyone a single thing as far as cameos go. Part of me hopes that scene is so atrociously bad everyone will clearly see why it was cut. And 2300 signatures (if everyone signed it) mean nothing compared to the mass audience that LP needs for this film to make money and be a hit.

[jellydonut25]

I feel like the reason most fans want this in there is so they can snub their noses at people who don't get the reference. I've seen too much attitude from various fan groups that are pissed that people are only getting into Godzilla now or only got into Godzilla because of the 1998 film. Who the hell cares WHY or WHEN someone gets into these things? You're only allowed to become a fan if you started with a Showa or Heisei era film?

We're such a niche, small group of people that we should just be glad to have new members of the fandom, rather than b*tch about when, how, and why they became fans. It's really disappointing to hear people (after so many years of complaining that they "just" want Godzilla to be big again) whining now about how many "new" fans there are.

[walshiam]

I'll just say far too often I've been disappointed by editors. Two perfect examples are to first two original Star Trek films that were vastly improved with previously deleted scenes put back in. For years I watched the reedited versions that ABC televised that I recorded myself over the actual released films because they were simply better. Who's to say the film is better without Mr. Takarada's scene. Who's to say they know exactly how Mr. Takarada truely feels on the matter of being cut. Not me. My ego is not that big.