by Legion » Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:25 am
The original Gamera movies were never masterpieces, but this post-Kaneko trend of savagely tearing the '60s and '70s films apart because they aren't the Heisei trilogy is sad. Really sad.
The older films and the newer films are as different as night and day. I don't really think it's fair to compare or play favorites, especially since the original Gamera series were outright childrens films that never pretended to be anything else. I think the Kaneko films are fantastic, and definitely blow away most Godzilla movies made in the past 30 years. But I'm not going to slight the Showa movies because of them. Isn't there room to enjoy a variety of styles and approaches?
IMHO saying, " It was fine when I was a child, as I did not know any better, and that was the 70s, but now, I just cannot accept it" just seems like a very harsh, close-minded thing to say considering so much of the genre we enjoy is aimed at kids.
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Legion on Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:54 am, edited 1 time in total.