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| Godzilla Vs Gigan(1972); Discuss the film here. | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 22 2006, 11:09 PM (1,244 Views) | |
| josh TX | Oct 13 2007, 12:43 PM Post #16 |
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I just pulled a Godzilla doubleheader yesterday, watching this film and Godzilla vs. Megalon back to back. These two arent my favorites but I enjoy watching them from time to time. |
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| packmule | Dec 16 2007, 10:14 PM Post #17 |
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Here's the official Japanese(Toho) trailer for Godzilla Vs Gigan(1972): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PunBaE1Zjv8 |
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| packmule | Mar 21 2008, 08:13 PM Post #18 |
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I came across this decent review of Godzilla vs Gigan(1972), which includes some good screen shots of the film. To see the review click the link: http://www.millionmonkeytheater.com/GodzillavsGigan.html |
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| josh TX | Mar 22 2008, 02:37 AM Post #19 |
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Wow, that guy really broke down and analyzed that entire movie. Interesting indeed. I can agree with him for the most part on most of his opinions of the film, for some reason the stock footage in this one bothers me more than the footage used in Godzilla Vs. Megalon, though I'm not exactly sure why. |
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| packmule | Mar 22 2008, 10:27 AM Post #20 |
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 Neither am I.  Actually, I have a theory about why it might bother you more: Godzilla Vs Gigan(1972) had a better score, overall special effects, especially the pyrotechnic effects, lovely Yuriko Hishimi, and a new monster(Gigan) that was much better rendered than the new kaiju(Megalon) in 1973's Godzilla Vs Megalon. Because of these advantages that G Vs Gigan had, I think there was potential for this movie to be so much better than it actually was, as opposed to the bare bones budgeted G vs Megalon. For that reason the stock shots stand out more in G Vs Gigan. Any possibility this could be the reason? shiftyeyes |
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| Slainmonkey | Mar 22 2008, 10:42 AM Post #21 |
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I While I've yet to see Megalon...one of the 8 I haven't seen (about to change that soon though) what annoyed me about the Stock Footage was it was very poorly added in as most of the monster action take place as night you could very easily tell the half the scenes with Ghidorah were stock even more because they were clearly supposed to be day shots but the darken it abit and hope people won't notice. |
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| josh TX | Mar 23 2008, 03:14 AM Post #22 |
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You guys are probably right, I probably expected more from the Gigan film thus making it a bit more of a letdown. While the human stories in both these movies were incredibly bad, I quite enjoyed the scene in the Megalon film where they hit the bad guy in the head with the remote controlled airplane, and also Megalon's breaking the dam scene was a bit more memorable for me than anything in this film. |
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| Rodan70 | Mar 26 2008, 01:26 AM Post #23 |
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The fight scenes in this movie were pretty good. Poor Godzilla got hammered alot in this film, though |
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| packmule | Mar 27 2008, 11:54 PM Post #24 |
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A scene from Godzilla Vs Gigan that has always perplexed me a little: when Godzilla is driven into the 50 meter tall tower in his likeness, he's suddenly rejuvenated by the impact. I always figured Godzilla just absorbed some of the alien's energy(from their hardware) during this shot. Opinions on this, guys?
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| Slainmonkey | Mar 28 2008, 01:28 AM Post #25 |
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I just figured Godzilla got his second wind because while Gigan's attacks would have hurt. they didn't mess up Godzilla like those lasers did and I notice has funny Gigan found to when Godzilla was messed up. The final battle had some of the best music in any Godzilla film and made the battle sound ever more epic. |
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| packmule | Mar 28 2008, 06:52 PM Post #26 |
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I liked the oil refinery battle as well(during the monster's first encounters with each other, all four of them that is). |
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| Ro-Dan | Mar 29 2008, 12:46 AM Post #27 |
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Agreed. He just got really, really pissed and started kicking ass. |
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| Rodan70 | Mar 29 2008, 01:54 AM Post #28 |
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Alot of that music was stock music from several different Toho movies. Such as Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster. Godzilla vs Gigan's soundtrack is a good "Greatest Hits" cd. |
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| Slainmonkey | Mar 29 2008, 09:36 AM Post #29 |
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Well many Godzilla films reuse themes of particular monster, that it no suprise and some of those themes are pretty good and don't really need to be changed. But the music for the final showdown to me was some of the best to date. |
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| packmule | Apr 9 2008, 08:25 PM Post #30 |
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Here's a fan clip I found that's not bad: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7...earch&plindex=4 |
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