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Leress · Post by **Leress** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:37 am

Darth Rabbitt wrote:Why do American Godzilla films (now that we've had 2) focus on the human characters and the military, rather than the giant monsters? It's like Michael Bay secretly directed them, but with less fapping.

The original Godzilla film focused on the people (not really the defense force) more than the monster. Now that is where is films generally diverge.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:57 am

Yeah, the original Godzilla film used the monster as a metaphor for the horror of the atomic bomb, and so he was more plot device than character. The recent movie went back to that well, so it's somewhat understandable that they would do the same, but that's really not what people want in their giant monster movies these days.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 10:19 am

Japanese Godzilla movies are always at two levels:
1. Humans doing boring stuff
2. Godzilla destroying stuff, fighting monsters and generally being awesome.

All Godzilla movies suffer from the fact that they'd be better off without boring humans doing boring human things.

There are a few exceptions, Final Wars has humans fighting each others (and sometimes monsters), and it has [strike]Hagar[/strike] Colonel Gordon. Godzilla vs Megalon has the Seatopia guys (japanese guys in toga) who add to the whole WTF aspect of the movie, Godzilla vs Biollante (if I remember correctly) has a pretty cool terrorist...

But generally speaking you spend most of the movies waiting for Godzilla to show up and destroy some models and fight another guy in a suit, while Japanese guys run around trying to do stuff and fall in love/gain the respect of their father/protect their children/etc.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:57 pm

The new Godzilla movie was much better when the nuclear engineer was still in the picture. I was really liking it up 'till he died, after that it dropped to "not bad" and stayed there until the end when we finally got to see a proper kaiju fight.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:02 pm

Basically, its hard to write dialog for Kaiju, given that they don't speak, and you can only fill so much screen time with giant monsters destroying cities before it becomes repetitive.

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:15 pm

Oooor they should wise up and start writing dialog (or at least monologues) for Godzilla.

I'm imagining Alan Rickman voicing Godzilla complaining about the stupid town and its people as he trashes the place. I could watch that for an hour with 15-30 minutes of non-zilla exposition peppered in.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:18 pm

I would love a Godzilla movie with a Warm Bodies-style internal monologue covering the plot.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 4:01 am

This week's episode of How to Get Away With Murder was pretty darned badass.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 3:36 pm

The new Star Wars trailer has a guy with a lightsaber that generates a crossguard. That is fantastic.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 4:36 pm

When I saw that, I nearly exceeded myself with excitement. And there was a black Stormtrooper to top it all off!

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Wed Dec 10, 2014 8:40 pm

That was pretty cool, though I'm wondering why not go for a bell guard instead. In other news, the trailer contained 0% evidence that this movie will be remotely interesting to those of us who have seen Star Wars. It seems thus far to be a straight rehash of episode 4 and not any kind of development or expansion of the star wars project.

I'm not sure that's a bad thing actually. Star Wars is stupid enough trying to do something with artistic merit may not be worth it, and if he decided to just remake the original with modern special effects, for kids who haven't seen the old star warses (or any star warses), I can respect that.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 2:55 am

I don't see it. I mean, it's a teaser. It hasn't revealed anything at all about the plot. All it's shown is cool images that make nerds ejaculate, but nothing story or plot related.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:28 am

Shush, you. You're killing their nerd-boners.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:00 am

Vice reporter investigates the possibility of getting drunk on liquor chocolates

Well written, entertaining.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:19 pm

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Orion · Post by **Orion** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:24 pm

Shrapnel wrote:I don't see it. I mean, it's a teaser. It hasn't revealed anything at all about the plot. All it's shown is cool images that make nerds ejaculate, but nothing story or plot related.

I'm assuming that if there were a story they would have put it in the trailer.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:21 pm

My experience is that story tends to wait for second trailers at least.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:38 pm

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Occluded Sun · Post by **Occluded Sun** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 3:41 am

erik wrote:I'm imagining Alan Rickman voicing Godzilla complaining about the stupid town and its people as he trashes the place. I could watch that for an hour with 15-30 minutes of non-zilla exposition peppered in.

You could save a lot of money on costume/SF design by just having a gigantic Alan Rickman trashing Tokyo. Who needs lizards?

Starmaker · Post by **Starmaker** » Tue Jan 06, 2015 8:23 am

I'm watching Aladdin the TV series, and this happens:

Jasmine: Darou got rich selling out Agrabah! Ugh, that jackal!
Iago: Yeah, but think about all those jobs he created...

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 5:18 am

erik wrote:Oooor they should wise up and start writing dialog (or at least monologues) for Godzilla.

I'm imagining Alan Rickman voicing Godzilla complaining about the stupid town and its people as he trashes the place. I could watch that for an hour with 15-30 minutes of non-zilla exposition peppered in.

And I just stumbled upon this tonight...

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 1:23 am

Okay, so I was playing Hyrule Warriors earlier today, and the epic-ist thing ever happened.

In one level, there'z this dragon boss that appears several times, flying high above the ground. You keep trying to bring it down with magic chains, and each time it manages to break free.

So eventually, you entreat the Great Deus ex machina Fairy to help bring it down. And this happens.

radthemad4 · Post by **radthemad4** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 5:14 am

Gravity Falls is really fucking amazing! It's sort of like the bastard lovechild of Futurama and Adventure Time, though it's an Urban Fantasy (it's set in a small town rather than a city, but I think it's still the correct genre). Seriously, go watch the 1st episode. It's around 20 minutes long anyway.

Shatner · Post by **Shatner** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:58 pm

Seconded. Gravity Falls is indeed amazing as well as very cleverly planned and written. For those that want a fun cartoon, watch and enjoy. For those who want to tease apart puzzles and get some hints at future story elements, there's a fuckton of the stuff herein. The characters are rich despite the overall lightness of the show, and the continuity is strong.

You can watch it all here.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 5:57 pm

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