Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

by **ryuuseipro** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 5:06 am

Obviously, I don't want to see Godzilla or the other monsters looking too "realistic." (Dull colors, etc.) Especially in color, where everything is either grey or brown. It's a cop-out. There was something about the classic monsters that gave them personality. Godzilla should be either dark grey or dark green (or even a really dark teal), and his eyes should be almost like that of a human, something with a wild expression. (No shiny beady black eyes or even green plated eyes like GINO.) By the same token, should other Toho Monsters ever appear in the upcoming film, I don't want to see a brown & grey Mothra, I don't want to see a brown King Ghidorah, etc. I want to see beautiful, colorful, god-like monsters.

And if Godzilla has to fight a new monster (as opposed to someone from Toho's lineup), that monster had better be spectacular. No more "orc" monsters! Unless they're hench-monsters, maybe. But orc monsters are the easiest monsters for Hollywood to do, because they're just grey elephant-skinned humanoids with insect-like physique, and hardly any details. It's a cop-out. I want to see a monster with great design and personality. I don't care if the monster is a rainbow-colored manticore, or something out of Yellow Submarine. They need to study Japanese monsters, because there was always something about their appearance that gave them a very Japanese god-like appeal. Look at not only the Toho Monsters, but the Ultra Monsters as well.

Kaijuu are art, not dull realism.

by **ebirahsmeg1** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:45 am

by **Joseph Goodman** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:24 am

I don't want to hear any of that "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" new age-y "ethnic wail" music that's plagued film scores for the last fifteen years on the soundtrack. And no Hans Zimmer of James Newton Howard, either.

by **mrbluehair** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:18 pm

As if I would know anything about scoring a movie, I would say that most times you do not realize a great score till you watch a movie again. That's because when the score is great, it wraps you up in the movie as opposed to drawing attention to itself.

Sure John Williams' Star Wars was different, and I love JW, but unless they want to use a Toho-ish score, he would probably not work. But man, a John Williams Godzilla march....mmmmm, nice!

I too would not want new wave whiney emo rock. I want a score that brings me to the edge of my seat in anticipation of what is about to happen.

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