re: The semi-official Godzilla and Kaiju discussion thread

Love kaiju movies. Really looking forward to watching Godzilla destroy Kong (I know that won't happen).

Kaiju movies and any movie with an animal killing people and wrecking cities is right in my wheelhouse. I don't care how cheesy or low budget.

In the most recent King Kong, set in 1972 or so, they made a point to have the John C. Reilly character mention that Kong was young and still growing. So, by 2019 he'll be twice as large.

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has anyone seen gamera ?

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One of my favorite gifs of all time.

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godzilla has breath, and king kong shouldnt be too big

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The atomic breath thing usually is a huge advantage to the Big G, but it didn't really have much of an effect on King Kong back in the 1962 movie. They also gave Kong an advantage of being strengthened by electricity, for some reason. Perhaps they will give him a similar or other sort of advantage as well.

And, Kong isn't the prime monster in this universe we are discussing, it's Godzilla. Kong will be sized up to match, which is okay in my book.

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i hope they redesign ghidorah, he looks cheesy

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What kind of redesign are you hoping for? You think he'll be anything other than a golden, three-headed dragon with two tails?




Back to the breath vs. Kong chat, with slight spoilers to "Kong: Skull Island":















Besides their mentioning how Kong is still growing as another poster said, it's possible they showed evidence that fire doesn't both Kong that much. The soldiers ignite a pool of napalm with Kong inside o it, and he doesn't burn all that much. We'll see how they handle it, though.

Maybe so, but Kong has tenacity.


On the other hand, that version of Kong did have a drinking problem.


The real problem is going to be if they team up.


Sell any stock you may have in pagodas now!

Ghidorah was redesigned one time.

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Ghidorah was redesigned one time.

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That's technically a totally different creature, Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah, than King Ghidorah. Toho is pretty good about trademarking specific things. For example, there is a difference between Rodan and Fire Rodan (red version that has a breath attack seen in second half of "vs. Mechagodzilla II"), just because you have the rights to one doesn't mean you have the rights to all. (Which, I believe, is why the new Monsterverse movie won't have a Rodan that breathes fire.)

Keizer Ghidorah is more similar to the Desghidorah that appears in 1996's "Rebirth of Mothra" than to the regular King Ghidorah, if you ask me.



Monster X was kind of interesting, though.

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Where the 1954 original drew inspiration from the WWII bombs and destruction, the latest Japanese, live-action film ("Shin Godzilla") was inspired by, and evokes images of, the 2011 tsunami and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster.

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Hmmm....that alone makes it sound intriguing. I haven't seen it, what did you think?

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Hmmm....that alone makes it sound intriguing. I haven't seen it, what did you think?

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I liked it. It was definitely different than previous things. I has no connections to the 1954 film, which all the other reboots did.

I really should look into the aftermath of those disasters, as much of the beginning of the film seems to be political/crisis management/disaster response satire.

Godzilla has a strange look and a somewhat strange power set. He metamorphoses a couple of times before getting to his final form. It was CGI based on motion capture acting, but the film still felt like it was a "rubber suit" movie, which I liked.

More curious to see if they stay with that design and origin when Toho is able to make live-action Godzillas again after Legendary's rights run out in 2020.