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Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:09 pm**

Man, I didn't realize what I was doing when I introduced this monster of a phrase to this forum... :lol:

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:14 pm**

This thread has taken a turn for the bizarre.

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:15 pm**

So howsabout that GMK?

Posted: **Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:18 pm**

GMK is a potentially very freaking great film ruined by studio tampering and time constraints but saved because the people who worked on it were awesome and really gave a damn. It's deeply flawed in many ways but it's still one of the best and most worthwhile tokusatsu films of the past decade? Could it ever touch the Honda/Tsuburaya team? HELL no! But Kaneko definitely still needs to work on more Tokusatsu stuff one of these days.

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Posted: **Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:50 pm**

I'm still wondering how the hell they can get the meaning of a phrase completely backwards! Instead of "damn" or something like that, they translated it to "got him" for the King Ghidorah scene. That doesn't even make sense within the context of the scene!

Posted: **Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:02 pm**

Yeah, even after getting the Sony DVD, I still just watch my old bootleg VHS with proper subs instead. In a hackwork like GxM, I don't mind dubtitles because the story is all bullsh*t anyway, but a movie like GMK actually has something called subtext that relies on proper dialogue translation.

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Posted: **Mon Dec 14, 2009 2:15 am**

I've always liked this film but never thought it was as great, or as bad, as people said it was. I thought it was somewhere in between.

Over the years, I've flip-flopped as to whether or not I feel the mythological origins of the kaiju was really an idea that worked or not. I find it interesting but also find a few problems with it, personally. It kind of works, but doesn't at the same time.

The portrayal of Godzilla is really nice along with the other kaiju. The effects are really some of the best out of the entire series!

Although I've noticed I've grown a bit tiresome of it in recent years. I don't know if it's because I am finding the story and characters to be more bland or what. It seems like, anymore, I am disappointed with the final battle between Godzilla and Ghidorah. I almost want to end the movie right there. I honestly don't know what it is as I've not watched the movie a hundred or so times over the last few years. So I'm not burnt out by it.

It's a fun movie but seems to put me in a boorish mood in some parts. Like I want to fast forward or simply turn it off.

3/5

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