Godzilla Morning on IFC

[lhb412]

This surprised me!

Apparently it's a new thing: Sunday mornings on IFC. Tomorrow (10/21) is Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster. Next week it'll be Son of Godzilla and Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

[canofhumdingers]

Just my speculation, but I bet it’s related to Criterion having the streaming/broadcast rights to those films now...

[lhb412]

^That seems to be the library they're using. The commercial I saw featured only clips from films they have.

[Russzilla]

This surprised me also. A bigger surprise was that it was the english subtitled version in HD and it looked great. Looking forward to seeing more Godzilla on IFC as this is one of my favorite channels on Dish.

[lhb412]

Huh, DAM is capping off IFC's Halloween programming tonight.

[Russzilla]

Terror of Mechagodzilla, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Mothra ‘64 will all be airing late night, early morning over the next few days or so.

[lhb412]

International version of Invasion of Astro Monster has the classic Engish dub but retains all the Japanese titles and the original version of Miss Namakawa's letter. Throws me for a leap every time one comes up!

[Russzilla]

These are making the rounds again on IFC. The English subtitled version of All Monsters Attack/Godzilla’s Revenge was on this morning with airings scheduled again this week along with Destroy All Monsters and Rodan.

[Russzilla]

How many Godzilla titles did the IFC Channel aquire to broadcast? They’re even showing Godzilla vs. Megalon this week. With War of the Gargantuas next week.

[H-Man]

[Russzilla]

Son of Godzilla is the only film left that they haven’t aired yet. Both Rodan and then Destroy All Monsters starts in an hour.

[lhb412]

Ha! Nothing like turning on your TV and being surprised that Terror of Mechagodzilla is on!

(Katsura and Ichinose are on their date right now)

[lhb412]

Is this really rated MA for language, sexuality and violence? Surely you are mistaken IFC. That shot of fake cyborg breasts can't be enough to necessitate that!

[H-Man]

Nudity is a pretty big no-no... I'm sure boobs are enough to warrant TV-MA. I wonder if the severity of the rating is because you wouldn't expect any of those things in your typical Godzilla movie. Even if the nudity were cut or blurred, the violence and language are still pretty extreme for what's ostensibly a kid's movie.

[O.Supreme]

I had seen the Bob Conn TOMG release at a very young age, but of course didn't remember how intense the aliens were, and after many years of watching the *edited* paramount VHS, when I was able to see the unedited version again via the classic media dvd, and then the original Japanese version on top of that, it was a little surprising. The rating on TV is certainly warranted. I admit, i made the mistake of showing my kids Smog Monster probably way to early, but definitely held off on TOMG until they were older.

[Russzilla]

Pretty cool to either come home from work or wake up in the morning to a Godzilla movie. War of the Gargantuas tomorrow morning.