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G2Kmaster	Oct 18 2009, 03:23 PM
BIGGEST GODZILLA NERD HERE!-Monster Island Hall Of Famer Posts: 4,541 Group: Moderator(staff) Member #108 Joined: November 11, 2007 Favorite giant monster film: Gamera 3: Incomplete Struggle Favorite horror film: Stephen King's Children of the Corn Favorite sci-fi film: John Carpenter's The Thing	1. Well then I must be that rare outlier, eh? 2. I cared for them. The only films of the Millenium series which actualy beat IMO the characters in GFW is GMK or G2K... 3. That is Tucker's assessment, not mine. And I would not mind the extra scenes... 4. It is not insulting to me. IMO, Kitamura's short fight battles kind of reflect Shinji Higuchi's take while filming the Gamera series. Keep the shots/scenes short as to help them keep their "coolness". While Kitamura doesn't achieve this as well as Higuchi, he does prety good with me none the less. 5. No, humans are. I am prety sure Honda also said something to this extent. The monsters are featured in the film, but it is the humans who move the plot along. The two sining examples of this in GFW is the Xilian Kid Commander and Naotaro Daigo. Hell, might as well give Frye some praise. His character was nice. Now, let me show you a quote from Tudcker's review, though I am picking selected quotes from the last paragraph: Quote: I can't say the thing is boring... I wonder how time will judge this particular entry in this particular and unusual series; it's so rare for anyone on the staff to have tried something so radical and different, and enough of it works that I don't think it automatically to be dismissed... I can't deny there's tons of brilliant filmmaking in it; I just, again and for the last time, wish that it had been focused a bit more clearly. The film is prety good. It just isn't the sharpest tool in the shed kaiju-wise. If there was more kaiju footage, would it suit you or would you still need to deem it neccesary to cut out the martial arts/motorcycle chase scenes? The film is not as bad as many people make it out to be. It is not a good anniversary film, but it does good for a casual Godzilla film in the tradition of the 70's, only instead of Fukuda's Bond-esque sub plots, we get Kitamura's martial arts direction. Plus, I say be grateful it is not worse. If you look at the deleted scenes playing in the end credits, there is a good five minute scene that was cut, though we only see a second of it: Ozaaki being scanned with him praying.
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