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| packmule | Mar 8 2009, 10:06 PM Post #106 |
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Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah(1991) - Revisited As is my custom on late Sunday afternoons or early evenings I make it a point to watch a Toho film. This week's fare: Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah, originally released to theaters in Japan back in December, 1991. In recent years many of my DVD copies of Heisei Godzilla films have been largely ignored and I've decided to revisit the Heisei era of G movies. One of the things I like best about this 1991 film is simply that two of Toho's most powerful monsters square off, not once but twice. Godzilla and King Ghidorah are both portrayed here as colossal and supremely powerful creatures, neither afraid of the other, and both fairly evenly matched, as the battles illustrate. Godzilla Vs Biollante(1989) is still my favorite Heisei Godzilla movie. That said Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah is a fairly close second. It's a film I like to watch about every eighteen months to two years. Thumbs up: 1. the overall special effects, which I thought looked quite good. As always there are those sequences that could look better but taken as a whole the effects get it done for me. 2. the bulked up appearance of Godzilla in this movie: the monster is a barrel chested, 100 meter tall juggernaut and the high speed filming, used extensively in this movie, as well as the audio effects used for the monster's foot steps, both help project the monster's size, power and intimidation "factor". 3. the ship of the Futurians: domed and with a pulsating, strobe like pulse flashing along the bottom part of the craft, this ship indeed looked like something from the 22nd century 4. Anna Nakagawa, who plays "Emi Kano", for simply looking gorgeous  5. the effects of KG's gravity beams: KG's beams look terrific and their effect on anything they come in contact with is devastating, buildings blasted apart in often spectacular explosions of debris 6. the two battles between the monsters: a nice combination of close in grappling and beam exchanges. Both Godzilla and KG use their respective powers to full use: KG uses his greater bulk to try and stomp down on Godzilla, as well as trying to strangle Godzilla with one of his necks. Godzilla relies on his primary weapon, his oral beam, as well as his nuclear "pulse". I liked the battle between Mecha KG and Godzilla somewhat more because the fight took place in the city(Tokyo), the absolute demolition of surrounding buildings by these two monsters a reminder of the collateral damage their fighting causes Thumbs down: 1. the time travel plot. I've never been, with an exception here and there, a fan of films that heavily incorporate time travel into their story lines. Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah does nothing to change my overall disdain for time travel movie plots. 2. the uniforms of the two principal, male Futurians: their suits look like a cross between Sears Roebuck knockoffs and pajamas. 3. the scenes with the American actors on the US Navy warship: the spoken dialogue between these two fellows was laughable. Let us all be thankful that Kent Gilbert never took up acting as a full time career.  4. the roar(s) of the dinosaur on Lagos Island: this creature may have been a dinosaur but the audio used to render this creature's roars would suggest it's also part Rodan and part Gamera as well.  5. the piano intensive parts of the film's score. For some reason I just don't like it very much. Other parts of the score were fine for me, to be sure. 6. the sequence where Mr. Shindo stands watching the first G Vs KG battle: this scene has always made me wonder how exactly he's able to view the battle to begin with...perhaps via a satellite dish on top of his office tower?  There is continuing debate and discussion about what the next Godzilla film should be like. Sometime down the road I would love to see Toho remake Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah with updated effects. The trailer for Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah(1991)(: http://www.myvideo.de/watch/1869777/Trailer_Godzilla_vs_King_Ghidorah_1991 |
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| Godzillaheisei546 | Mar 8 2009, 11:10 PM Post #107 |
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I love the film, and i'm here to talk about the Mr.Shindo scene, where he dies. many will say he was Goji's friend, and Godzilla was mean, and killed him, my theory go's like this. Mr.Shindo wantn't to die. my proof is because he says while on the phone, "this is the way I want it, ley me have it my way". and he nodds to godzilla, giving him the ok to destroy him. plus we notice Godzilla crying and roaring in agany. because he does this reluctently. |
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| G2Kmaster | Mar 8 2009, 11:32 PM Post #108 |
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1. And so Koichi Kawakita won an Award in 1991 for best special effects. Litteraly. 2. And still the same siut from 1989, only with some paint touch ups... 3. yep 4. yep 5. imagine this: originaly, KG's means were to be red, yellow, and blue 6. not to mention that Mecha-ghidorah is a giant puppet with no siut actor... for sources, most of this info is from TIEOG and Monster Zero's Koichi Kawakita interviews... Edited by G2Kmaster, Mar 8 2009, 11:33 PM.
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| Godzillaheisei546 | Mar 8 2009, 11:40 PM Post #109 |
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I heard about the effects award, thats just cool. |
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| Rodan70 | Mar 9 2009, 12:37 AM Post #110 |
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The fact that Godzilla was reborn larger and fighting among the skyscrapers was pretty cool. Those Dorats...... I just didn't care for the "Creation" of King Ghidorah from the Dorats. |
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| G2Kmaster | Mar 9 2009, 04:41 PM Post #111 |
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Kawakita was not too thrilled about the Dorats either. Although he has no one to blam but himself. After all, he let the company choose the design (originaly 3 designes were chosen). And they chose the 3ed and least fave design. But now one of the dorat props is now in Koichi Kawakita's office... Source: TIEOG |
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| G2Kmaster | Apr 9 2009, 06:38 PM Post #112 |
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http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2...ochester-ny-2/ My grandfather on my mom's side lives in New York, so I wish I could go there with him to see this, especialy since G2K is my faveorite G film and I want the first time my bro seeing Godzilla '91 to be in a theater. |
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| packmule | Oct 5 2009, 11:55 AM Post #113 |
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Having watched some of this video I think this young fellow should definitely get out of the house more often. Evan, care to comment on this young man's video review of Godzilla Vs King Ghidorah(1991)?
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| G2Kmaster | Oct 5 2009, 11:20 PM Post #114 |
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Kind of reminds me of me when I do videos. Except that I have stoped showing my face and with my forever growing skills in Windows Movie Maker. Though I think it is kind of obvious why this kid has only had 62 videos on that one particular video. Most of my videos from July has onlu 250+ views (that isn't much better compared to other people on youtube who make videos, but it is still better to a point). I actualy had to skip most of the review because it is just stupid. I think that this kid let Kyle AKA Deadzilla get to him. That is not to say that Deadzilla is a bad person, but he can be seem alittle big due to him actualy being more experianced than most people on youtube right now (well, not including all of the people involved with the team project TokusatusuReviewV3, all of them are just as good). But, c'mon. He friggin thought he had to show proof that he had the DVD. Plus it wasn't even that much of a review. I will now share a quote which UltramanCronos AKA Godzilla_2000 has said over at the Atari forums... "...the thing I dislike about most younger reviews; they have no place reviewing anything, and they cant, so they instead say all the usual stuff "this, this, and this rotates 360" and then make shoutouts to popular reviews as well as use some of our inside jokes to try and fit in, like "Oh yeah, I'm one of you guys for mentioning how Creations needs bigger boxes!" Though I do got to question UltraCronos alittle bit. I do not get how he thinks he has the rights to review figures and yet other people don't. If someone could please clarify this, it would be much obliged. And this which DroughtTrigger wrote, some thing which actualy hits me down in there... "you know what i don't like about the young people making reviews the most? there breathing problem, i know perhaps some might have that issue but is like everyone has that." Edited by G2Kmaster, Oct 5 2009, 11:21 PM.
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| packmule | Oct 12 2009, 04:13 PM Post #115 |
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I'm still a little hazy about Emi's release of The Dorats out of the Futurian spaceship and onto '54 Lagos Island: if she was against Wilson and his attempt to alter the past in order to prevent Japan's rise to economic dominance then why did she set the small creatures loose? It sure looked like she did it deliberately to me.
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| G2Kmaster | Oct 12 2009, 05:05 PM Post #116 |
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Maybe she was told that KG was to be used for good... |
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