MST3K Volume XXI "MST3K VS. GAMERA" coming! 8/2/11

[Joseph Goodman]

[Thomas]

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[RyanClark]

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[jellydonut25]

[king_ghidorah]

[MouthForWar]

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I watched the MST3K Gamera vs Gaos last night from the set. Had to start somewhere! Really love the menu work because I had to watch the entire animation. The extra with August was great too, and very informative.

I didn't realize how low quality my bootlegs were until I saw the satellite of love on my tv. Quality always drops when they go into the movie because, well, they're always dealing with low quality reels. But when it jumps to the live action segments, wow. Things never looked so crisp! I'm sure the movie segments are similarly improved, but I never noticed as much as I did those live action segments.

Great stuff. I look forward to watching the rest over the weekend!

[king_ghidorah]

[Thomas]

It covers some of the "monster boom" in Japan during the sixties and thus talks about how Gamera comes about. We get the fable and the real tale of Gameras origin. America's views of Japanese monster films. Gamera's stateside showings and rights holders including a brief Sandy Frank release history. A request for God to bless Sandy Frank. Heisei Gamera history.

At first it seems like basic Gamera origin information, but there's far more information in there than just the basics. I'm rewatching it now and I gotta say it's an excellent amount of information in a thirty minute segment. Dare I say it's f*c<!ng awesome? Yes I do. It's "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" Awesome!

[MouthForWar]

[August]

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[RyanClark]

I just got it in the mail today, the packaging is really nice. I haven't had the time to go through most of it, but I put in the first disc and watched the featurette with the MST3K retrospective. I'm not necessarily an MST3K fan, so it's hard for me to remember who's who actor wise... but that one guy made some odd comments. He seems to be completely ignorant to anything that came before or after Sandy Frank's Gamera. He appears to credit Frank for being the "Columbus" to go to Japan and bring the Gamera films over. Whereas we all know many of them were released two decades prior. He also says MST3K may have helped stem the flow of these type of movies from Japan. What alternate universe is he living in?! I know some of this is meant to be taken in jest, but it did seem to come off a bit like they meant what they were saying in these cases. Also one guy takes a lot of creative liberty with the word "kaiju".

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

As soon as I start working this is the first thing I'm going to pick up.

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