TALKBACK #25: GMK

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Postby Showa Mothra » Tue Sep 04, 2012 2:57 pm

I think it's the best Godzilla movie of the Millenium series but it would've been soooooooo much cooler if they had stuck with the original concept and added Varan and Angilas. I completely understand the need to put the more popular monsters like Mothra and King Ghidorah but it would've been a nice change of pace. Is it really that difficult for Toho to give directors more creative freedom or at least more time to work on their respective films? Aside from those shots posted above, I thought the SPFX were pretty damn good! Yeah, they may not match Gamera 3 but pretty good considering they used another director. I had little to no issue with the suits used for the monsters. King Ghidorah was decent, Mothra and Baragon were kick-a** and Godzilla looked like a radioactive dinosaur from hell, which is good! I do find it amusing that some who criticized the suit in the past (when the film first came out and released on DVD) where also individuals who had no qualms with Heisei Godzilla's obesity in later stages of that series. Someone made a joke about Goji needing a stair master because of baggage that was added in Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (the 1993) version). I had to chuckle at that statement because that incarnation of Godzilla always came dangerously close to fitting the description of "overweight".

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One criticism I have of GMK (the only one, actually) is that the release of the film really polarized the Godzilla/kaiju fanbase. Thanks to a certain individual, it also became a very "politicized" subject and really brought out a lot of nastiness from Godzilla fans. I know it's taboo to bring it up but I can't help how incredibly low and manipulative that event was. There is definitely a difference between giving a critique and expressing one's opinion on a particular film and spreading misinformation, disparaging a man with snarky, childish, condescending remarks on a magazine, and deliberately lying to to fans about events that never occurred during production or on the set. Even more insulting was that when there were those who expected some sort of accountability and responsibility for what happened, the "Kaneko fanboy" meme reared its ugly head and anyone who (rightfully) expressed their displeasure regarding the incident with G-Fan and Shusuke Kaneko, folks were dismissed simply as butt hurt fanboys who couldn't handle legitimate criticism of their beloved GMK. Worse yet, by spreading misinformation of that movie, you alienated potential fans by allowing them to come up with their conclusions before ACTUALLY seeing it. If weren't for all that negativity, I'm sure the film would've been a lot more positively receipted, in the sense that the following would've been much bigger.

Sorry for the lengthy posts and the dramatics but it's become some what difficult to separate the G-Fan drama from GMK. In some twisted away, you thank them for making a seemingly successful, well receipted, critically acclaimed film into a the biggest scandal ever and for ruining a series that was pretty much in shambles to begin with (slight exaggeration, but you get the point).



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Postby Showa Mothra » Wed Sep 05, 2012 5:00 pm

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Postby Goji 84 » Wed Sep 05, 2012 5:09 pm

Yeah..he's referred to as a "lizard" at least two times (if not three) in the dubtitles, which is slightly annoying. I've seen Toho's subtitled print on two different occasions, but I don't recall that word being used to describe Godzilla. (Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong).

The dubtitles on the Sony disc are bearable, but they still suck. The R3 release features the same subs from Toho's subbed print, but it's non anamorphic. :?
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