TALKBACK #12: Godzilla vs. Gigan

[Goji 84]

Dr. Kubota's/Ted's -"I think we can! We're just keeping you here for a while!"-line, is also great. It's not so much the quote itself that's good as it is the delivery of said line.

[MouthForWar]

"That's very bad!"

[H-Man]

"He musta thought it was a gun!" is my favorite.

This one is close, though.

[jellydonut25]

[king_ghidorah]

[heroforhirerob]

[metal_bryan]

[Gojilove]

I watch it so much.

[kiryugoji04]

So for reasons I cannot divulge any time soon, I found myself on the phone with Ted Thomas the other night. I wouldn't be saying anything at all about it but I just had to share this one exchange:

"Those movies are actually where I know you from. To be completely honest, your voice was a huge part of my childhood."

"Oh, you poor child!"



Side note: I cannot express to you guys how very surreal it was to hear that voice on the other end of my phone.

[briizilla]

[Dai]

[jellydonut25]

[Dai]

[H-Man]

[Dai]

[Russzilla]

This is still one of my favorite Godzilla movies. The only thing that I wish they had done more on this movie was dive into the origins of Gigan, give him more weapons, (ala in GFW) and leave King Ghidorah out of the movie altogether. (as I think we'd seen enough of him already in movies beforehand) He was almost useless in this movie.

[Hybrid Gojira]

Gigan is one of the coolest monsters ever and is among my favorite kaiju. Ikfukube's score...stock or not, there is something epic about it in this movie. The amount of stock footage is unnerving, but some of the new stuff is fantastic. I especially like the oil refinery scenes. Ghidorah does look terrible and Godzilla's suit is awful, but the inclusion of Anguirus and the design of Gigan more than make up for those things.

[MekaGojira3k]

The cast are also one thing that really helps elevate it. By all accounts this movie should NOT be as good as it is, but it is. It manages to make do with what it has and ends up, despite its flaws, being a fairly entertaining entry in the overall series.

[Russzilla]

What is the name of this G suit that was used for the water scenes? The one from Son of Godzilla maybe?

[MekaGojira3k]

[Russzilla]

As good as this Godzilla movie is, I think it falls under the category of "what could've been" with a decent budget and less stock footage.

[jellydonut25]

[Russzilla]

I've always wondered about this shot right here. Was this just a malfunction on the Gigan suit? I've always read that Gigan was supposed to have a beam weapon here, but due to budget restraints, it was left out? (damn Toho) One of things that falls under "what could've been."

[Goji 84]

What "malfunction"? Light just happened to reflect that way in that shot. It's a complete coincidence and nothing more.

Gigan only had the laser in publicity photos, and Nakano has a reason for why they decided against it (though my memory on why fails me). It actually wasn't a budgetary reason, I know that much.

[Russzilla]