by lhb412 » Mon Apr 29, 2019 8:03 pm
Watching this again just made me realize the stark decline in Kawakita's effects work. In this film he begins abandoning a lot of the basic stuff about how to film the monster suits and miniatures in a way to give the sense of scale and power and more often than not he's just lazily pointing a camera without any of that! And what's up with the enormous spaces between the buildings? No urban area is laid out that way. I noticed this in the previous film with the impossibly enormous streets in the city Battra attacks. I understand those are there so that the actors in the monster suits have the space to perform, but I also know from the behind-the-scenes footage from many other Kaiju films that when they do that they shoot to avoid showing you those enormous empty spaces. Here, it's like you're seeing what you're not supposed to see: the tokusatsu equivalent of seeing a boom mic at the top of the screen.