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Oh, Boy...Is Legendary Pictures Gearing Up For A GODZILLA Reboot??
Merrick here...
The last time we saw Godzilla, he/she/it got to beat the crap out of GINO in a hilariously brief and decisive battle while getting ready to take an extended break from Japanese screens. This was in GODZILLA: FINAL WARS, the last Godzilla film to be produced in Japan for a while (The Powers That Be decided the franchise needed a break overseas - maybe for as long as ten years if I recall correctly).
The same moratorium doesn't apply here in the States, where the specter of further Godzilla films has loomed large since Emmerich & Devlin's 1998 take on the property. We've heard talk of a sequel to that film...discussions of an IMAX Godzilla project...the potentials have been wildly varied been endless.
BloodyDisgusting now says Legendary is in very early talks to relaunch big G...
Bloody Disgusting has learned exclusively that Legendary Pictures is looking to do another major movie with the iconic horror monster (they are in early discussions), although there are NO details at this point other than this should be a reboot.
...says Bloody Disgusting HERE.
I suspect different people respond to different elements of GODZILLA mythos, and that this is one of those TREK-like projects that'll never be able to please everybody. What would you want from a GODZILLA movie?
Personally, I'd love to see a GODZILLA film told with a lot of energy, and one that's pretty wild. I've always loved the concept of Machiavellian space aliens and robots running around in the GODZILLAverse - it'd be really cool to have a big, fun, high-octane take on such conceits that's goofy fun but never derides the property. Also, ya know, I wouldn't mind seeing an all-out free for all with many, many tanks and jets -vs- GODZILLA; chase cams following jet fighters as they relentlessly unleash on big G, etc. We've seen such attacks before in G movies, but...imagine the ungodly devastation that current filmmaking tech could realize. It also needs heart: there was often a sense of tragedy in the GODZILLA films - it wasn't always terribly pleasant watching G get beaten down. It should not be like CLOVERFIELD.
Finally, dare I say it...
MAN IN SUIT!!!
I know these things sold out...like...the instant they were released. But, if anyone knows where I can find the toy below...PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
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Having Shia star! Er, right?
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i like it
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godzilla fucks avatar's eyeballs
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Not some huge raptor.
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well then, there you go
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Only the Japanese should be allowed to make Godzilla films, whether they're serious (G54, G85) or comedic (FW, Destroy All Monsters).
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... TOENAILS THAT LIGHT UP!!!BUY THIS TOY OR GO TO HELL!!!
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We're overdue for a really scary, kick-ass giant monster movie, if only to make up for the god-awful clusterfuck that was "Stupid Looking Yuppies Run from a Giant Tick for 75 Minutes". When I first saw the teaser poster for Emmerich's "Godzilla", the one with the giant reptilian foot surrounded by Hummers and Helicopters, it looked very intense and moody, as did the trailers; almost had a real "horror movie" feel to it. THAT'S what this should be, (I still think if they'd called the '98 version "Godzilla VS Ferris Bueller and the Cast of the Simpsons" it would have done a lot better").
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Bam, NOW we're talking!
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LEAVE GODZILLA ALONE!!!
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Defending us from some extra terrestrial menace would be great, done with millions of dollars for the effects. No idea who could actually make a good hollywood film out of it though.
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Yaaaawn....godzeeera!
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COMMERCIAL where Godzilla eats a truck full of doritos that plays when the film is released..and then unexplinably ten years later...for no reason!
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is what the world needs now. Colorful and crazy, scary only to five year olds, and it should be made by the Wachowskis
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the best part was when that guy was fishing on the dock and godzilla slowly emerges from the water in front of him. very cool. the rest was garbage and ferris bueller sucked in that movie.
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unless they are still partnering with Silver.
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Go fuck yourself Merrick. What are you some ass wipe studio exec? Un fucking believable.
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they should have a man in a godzilla suit do motion capture for the cgi godzilla... i'm just trying to help hollywood figure out how to spend 200 million to make this movie.
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You know it
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It won't be him stomping on New York. After Transformers I think studio heads will want kids to wear Godzilla T-shirts and etc. So it will be about Godzilla fighting another monster. Hope it's Gigan.
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Tom Hanks has a cameo as a piece of shmutz that Godzilla scrapes off the bottom of his foot.
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I sure hope they put Matthew Broderick in this one...and include a scene where he drives the wrong way down a road while being chased by Godzilla...then hits and kills two folks driving on the other side of the road. It would be art imitating life (since he did, in fact, KILL two people while driving like a complete fucking moron and got away with it). Pass on all fronts.
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didn't they learn their fucking lesson?
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I'd like a real dark, apocalyptic take on Godzilla. Maybe as some kinda Earth First Avenger... Perhaps, there's a limited nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India or China and North Korea. The Big G wakes up and decides to wipe Earth's major cities off the planet as a way to stop us from destroying the world. Or maybe he destroys the world's refinaries/pipeline to stop global warming.
I don't mind if it was a reboot or if he fights space aliens to save us, either... But frankly, that been done. I'd really like to see a movie where Godzilla is not defeated by us or defends us. I'd like to see him pummeling us to the brink of a technological extinction , or an actual extinction because we have not stewarded this planet well. Anything else, I dunno, Godzilla is like pizza, even bad pizza is better than no pizza at all. -
"Miracle Pictures...if its a good picture, it must be a Miracle"
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with weta making the sfx.
the 2 monsters are fighting for the heart of the blond bimbo.the winner eats her.
'it wasnt the beauty who killed the monster.it was Godzilla.' -
and make it look like godzilla
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Aug 13, 2009 3:03:16 PM CDT
either you Stephen Sommers this thing or Michael Bay it...
by irc-hollywood
which other way is there to go? I Cloverfield has been done, serious Monster Movie didn't work with Jackson's Kong. So you either go big dumb fun with Bay, or REALLY dumb fun with Sommers.... Third Option, go bug nuts insane and hire Michael Gondry/Spike Jonze to direct...
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This won't be a film that appeals to fans of the original Godzilla. It'll rip a few pages out of the limp pamphlet Bay calls his handbook for success. it'll have teenagers in it. A girl with her boobs showing a little, maybe an upskirt shot. Explosions. Asses in seats.
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The only way to go.
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http://tinyurl.com/5v23l2
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...I'd give it to you for that post.
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godzilla should be what original godzilla was in the 50s.a serious,mature movie exploring our modern's era darker sides.u could combine spectactle with a variety of adult messages,using godzilla as a metaphor for what lies ahead of us,if we continue our destructive course.
unfortunately they are not going to do this,they will choose the Bay way.the herd wants mindless fun from monster movies,not something to think about also. -
could go up against the Obama death panel.... scary.
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Scenes of military bombarding Big G are always a drag. Godzilla is like Superman - and you just need to give him some villains to FIGHT. Ugh - and a script this time, please. Too many cast members the last time around!! Who cares? Worm-Guy? Who gives a shit? And all the other little supporting actors and shit - fuck that!! A scientist with a hot daughter who is romantically involved with the lead worked for dozens of 1950's pix - - stick with that formula and focus on big ass battle scenes ala Jackson's Kong vs. V-Rexes!!
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LMAO That Robot Chicken epi was just on this morning!!!
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...and there's a proper monster mash-up, waste of an iconic property if the big green turd is pitted against a futile military assault run from a sweaty command centre.
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You Republicunts really don't know when to quit, do you? And I agree with LORDOFLIGHT, I don't want to see some poor schmuck waddling around a cardboard set in a confused stupor. Part Animatronic/Part CGI is the way to go...
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I'm in everyone wanted 97's Godzilla to be good. It wasn't, try again. Cloverfield was neat, quadruple the budget and let's have some fun.
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better than man in suit or heavy cgi.
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While they're at it, why not have King Kong and Godzilla sittin at a hip coffee shop talkin' about fine art. Meanwhile, there are two huge turds, one the size of Texas, the other the size of Illinois, and both have the face of Meryl Streep, hurling towards earth at an alarming rate. It's up to Kong, Godzilla and Nic Cage to save the day.
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One can only hope!
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EFFF YA!!
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Hating Obama doesn't make you a Republican, it makes you smart. Both Democrats, and republicans are the biggest idiots anywhere.
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....MIGHT be worthwhile as long as the creature is NOT designed by Patrick Tatopolous, has a better 'lead' actor than the extremely insipid Matthew Broderick, and is set against a Japanese backdrop. The previous big-budget disappointment had trailers that promised so much, but ended up delivering so little.
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DeGrassi!
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$$$$$$$.
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or I flat out won't see it. Even if its just one shot. Horriblly awesome CG devastation, followed by a shot of man-in-suit knocking over a building with his arms, back to CG awesomeness. Do it.
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I think it's actually pretty difficult to make a bad Godzilla movie. So long as he looks like Godzilla, steps on buildings and tanks, has atomic breath, attacks Tokyo and gets a lot of screen time then most fans will be relatively satisfied. Godzilla is an enduring icon, and he can't return to the big screen soon enough for me.
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I would PAY to see that!
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I thought it was difficult too. That was before I watched Godzilla lay eggs and try to swallow Ferris Buehler in a taxi. Dark days those were...
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I would almost look forward to a Platinum Dunes GODZILLA reboot because you bet your ass there would be some 7-foot-tall wrestler in a rubber suit playing the title role. Maybe even with a blond mullet streaming out of the back. It could be a classic.
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THAT I would see in a heartbeat.
And why not have that going on in the background of a RED DAWN remake? At least that would be some sort of calamity for them to react to - getting invaded by fucking monsters (and Riddick). -
The beauty of DeGrassi is that it tries to jump the shark but usually gets mangled in a bloodied pile of failure goo. The beauty of Godzilla attacking DeGrassi isn't the destruction he'd cause, but the indelible mark those kids we leave on him when all was said and done. They'd share some laughs, some heartache, but when it's all said and done we'll have learned some important life's lessons. Also, the town would be leveled and everyone would be dead. Except Spinner, he's the coolest.
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Godzilla was a metaphor for what took place in Nagesaki and Hiroshima.. Say what you will about Cloverfield, but it was a not half-shabby metaphor for our last big "oooh Fuck" moment... 9-11. Something big comes from somewhere, we don't know what it is. Thing eats yuppies. No one knows why. Ginozilla was a poor imitation at best: an excuse to sell happy meal toys maybe.
My point is, find the metaphor, find the monster... Then you can virtually destroy New York all over again. -
but, there are some seriously illiterate motherfuckers on this site!
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When did that happen?
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REMAKES ARE BAD ENOUGH, BUT THROWING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT A REBOOT OF SOMETHING THAT WAS MADE LESS THAN TEN YEARS AGO AND WAS SO BORING IN THE FIRST PLACE THAT IT FLOPPED. FUCKING HELL, THERE ARE PEOPLE STRUGGLING TO FEED THEIR BABIES ON THIS PLANET AND MEANWHILE HOLLYWOOD FEELS THAT IT JUST SIMPLY HAS TO THROW MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT UTTERLY SHIT PROJECTS EVEN WHEN IT'S CLEAR FROM THE OUTSET THAT THE IDEA IS UTTERLY FUCKING CRAP. YOU STUPID WASTEFUL UTTER CUNTS.
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There have been so many Godzilla movies I almost feel like doing ANYTHING with the character would just be retreading. So, why not do it like they have in Japan for so long and just retread, retread, retread. Godzilla Final Wars was kinda kooky, very much like the 60s Godzilla films, but it—as so many of these movies do—had too many human subplots! All the super-human stuff and the romance and the kid with Minya (well, the last bit was okay). Stop that. Just have aliens and monsters and FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! I agree with venvariants—just get to the monsters. But, since we're throwing around ideas: the one thing I feel they've never accomplished all that well was really showing how massive these creatures are. They all move so fast. (And I know, in reality nothing Godzilla's size could support its weight on land.) But think of having something 200 feet tall crashing slowly through the city like a storm, blasting nuclear energy at another monster just as big, also stomping the city. That would be pretty cool. Long ago, back when M. Night Shalayaman still held some cultural weight, he proposed doing a giant monster movie focusing on how people would react to gigantic unstoppable monsters. Some would worship them others would fear them. I don't know if that's what would really happen, but you've got to wonder how people would react to fighting hurricanes.
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In 3D stop motion...
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I am one of the biggest Gojira fans ever, and I wrote an reboot script I'm hesitant to send to Toho. I'm also scared to release it online... How can I protect it and get it to the right people? I'm not a even a good writer, or someone looking for attention, I just really love the mythos and have some pretty original ideas. Ideas?
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Is that your real name? Because if I was as sick of fan scripts as I'm sure the people at Toho were, the only way you could get me to open one would be if it was Written By David Assholehoff.
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It's too bad the actual film couldn't live up to those awesome teaser trailers (which Emmerich does seem to be quite well). I can go along with going with a darker movie akin to what the original version was like and I would really hope that the studio avoids having another "giant monster attacking NY" film. Set it in Tokyo or another city.
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it's an allegory.
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No my real name is Harry Knowles. Where's my black posting shazam go?
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Imagine, Godzilla is in the water during the Philadelphia Experiment, and gets unstuck in time. The movie would be godzilla fucking up shit in the earth's past, present, and future! Godzilla vs. dinosaurs! Godzilla vs. the Roman Empire! Godzilla vs. American Idol! Godzilla vs. Jack Bauer! Godzilla vs. Battlestar Galactica! Godzilla vs. Twilight vampires! Godzilla vs. Terminators! Godzilla vs. The Matrix! Godzilla vs. 2012! Godzilla vs. the Jetsons! Godzilla vs. The Flintstones! Godzilla vs. alternate realities! Fuck, make it a tv series or an unending string of movies! Godzilla vs. The Enterprise! Holy Shit!
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Because you know they are going to want to make it all hyper-stylized and probably starring Megan Fox, just like a new Transformers movie. The problem is, only a big studio would be able to do it, and to a big studio a property like Godzilla has dollar signs all over it. Why break the mold and make a good movie that maaay do well, when you can just load it up with CG, explosions and tits and know that it will make bank? They just want to sell toys and videogames and make some money. A well made Godzilla movie may not have that kind of appeal.
If they were to try and actually do it right, I think they need to take the focus away from the humans. Sure, they will have to be in the movie, but I don't think there needs to be much dialogue apart from screaming. There should be more scenes focusing on Godzilla, kind of like the scenes with him and Minilla in Son of Gozilla. Throw in some crazy monsters, robots (and explosions) and I could be on board. But fuck Roland Emmerich. I think it should be done by a real interesting visionary - someone like Michael Gondry or Darren Aronofsky would be sweet. -
Big Man Japan this weekend. Anybody seen it besides Harry..?
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you left you cap lock on...
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BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THAT BABY! IT'S AWWWWWRIGHT!!!
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He so fucking hammered that he tells Godzilla to go away before being stepped on. Then they throw The King into a Volcano, wtf?
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an established franchise - CheckThe last one sucked - CheckHollywood gobbled up cloverfield - Checkfrom a money standpoint at least it makes perfect sense to make a godzilla movie and to re establish a franchise
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That would be comical.
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YES. Making the Godzilla. COME WITH ME.
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las tI heard,this had financing and Toho approval...it was to feature Godzilla and,I believe,Biolante wrecking havoc all across the American Southwest with an epic battle through Vegas and ending at the Hoover Dam...fuck all thes Pixar animated kiddie flicks....I WANNA SEE 3-D IMAX MONSTER MOVIES!!!!!!!!
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unless you count a driver install or something, its essentially the SAME CRAP EVERY REBOOT. CAN WE STOP USING THIS WORD? ITS BULLSHIT HOLLYWOOD SPIN.
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Godzilla: Roooooaaaaaar!
Bale: Don't just say your fockin' sorry mate!
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At this point, it's difficult to even identify these movies as "art." This is product to be sold and consumed, pure and simple. Art is not a part of the equation anymore.
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Toho always dropped the ball with their serious takes on G. Don't get me wrong, I loved me lots of Sunday afternoon Creature Double Feature, with big G playing boulder catch with giant Lobstahs, but best attempt at making a serious G movie was the second Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla (Heisei).
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Did like the Japanese calling the American version a tuna-eater! LOL
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A guy saves himself and some others from being stepped on by Godzilla, and the rest of the movie we see "Godzilla's Plan" eventually catch up to them and kill them in impossible and gruesome ways.
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but, it also has the trappings to be awful! I like the idea of using social and political problems allegorically in monster movies, and Godzilla is no different. With the climate the way it is, you can tell any of a number of stories. I actually think you could get a pretty great result of having a guy in a suit, and overlay some CG, ala Hellboy II or Where the Wild Things Are. The technology is there. The story just has to be very deliniated, and not crowed with too many characters, and storylines. Scientist, his lover, and maybe an Army General who wants to harness big G's power for himself. Maybe they construct a HUGE FUCKIN' ROBOT to do so. I'd buy that for a dollar!!
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HE JUST WANTS TO GO HOME.
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Who remembers the tremendous teaser trailer for Emmerich's film. The one that shows the skeleton of a T Rex in some museum, and then Godzilla's foot comes crashing down through the skylight and completely crushes the T Rex, followed by the text "Size does matter".It was cool and funny, and took the piss out of Jurassic Park, and it made us think the film was going to be awesome.Thus, the moral of the story is trailers lie. Teaser trailers bullshit.
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Godzilla wakes up after a 3 week bender. Hijinks ensue.
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Will godzilla be able to eat those wings with the legedandary GHOST PEPPER SAUCE?
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That's right, this REBOOT needs some BOOTY. You know what I'm talkin' 'bout... OW!
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Godzilla Grylls crosses the Sahara in a few steps.
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the last one sucked
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BANANAS!!
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if they spent the first 45 minutes introducing us to a bunch of soulless twenty-somethings and their tangled web of romance....and then Godzilla scoops them all up and slowly chews them to pulp as they scream and howl for the next hour and a half. Hell, he could even spit them out at one point, let them crawl a few feet, and then scoop them up again; slowly chewing....oh-so slowly.....
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Japan has created a new, and better Michael Jackson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpNAU4SSrx8
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MAKE IT HAPPEN OR I'LL HOLD MY BREATH TILL I TURN BLUE!!!
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I never saw it, but wasn't it basically a reboot of a Godzilla story? Giant monster attacks city, told in a modern fashion?
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A few years ago I wrote a vague outline for a Godzilla movie.
It takes place in Tokyo, Japan (of course), a city that has been suffering Godzilla attacks for decades. It turns out that Godzilla is fiercely territorial and considers both Monster Island and Tokyo part of his territory. However Godzilla has seemed to be happy to allow humans to reside in Tokyo as long as they didn't go to Monster Island and so the Japanese government banned all incursions onto the island and so the attacks on Tokyo were reduced severely though of course Godzilla still attacked occasionally to serve as a reminder.
So a UN scientific expedition travels to Japan to research the whole Godzilla phenomenon. It turns out that the Japanese are philosophical about it all. When asked why they don't try to destroy the monster, they respond that the French tried nukes and failed so it seemed pointless and ultimately it was cheaper to simply rebuild after an attack than to spend money trying to destroy Godzilla.
Also, Godzilla had strangely become somewhat of a protector, keeping the likes of Mothra and Rodan in check. There are early warning systems in Tokyo and there hasn't been a Godzilla-related death in four years and that was a tourist who didn't know the emergency procedures.
So, as long as Godzilla is keeping the other monsters from destroying Tokyo, the Japanese Government have been willing to put up with the occasional Godzilla attack.
But the JSDF (Japanese Self-Defence Forces) have been working with an independent group of industrialists, who have lost billions in monster attacks to create something to serve as a complete monster deterrent, rather than relying on Godzilla.
The result - MechaGodzilla, a cybernetic copy of the giant lizard, designed specifically to counter the threat of Godzilla, Mothra and Rodan.
But of course there is something more nefarious going on as a mysterious group known as The Simian Initiative have bigger plans for MechaGodzilla than merely preventing monster attacks...and of course it's ultimately up to Godzilla to save Tokyo and the world from annihilation.
It was a vague idea, a lot of details to be worked out, but what I do know is that any sequel would have delved into who the Simian Initiative really are (aliens) and then introduce King Ghidorah.
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...would be like My Dinner with Andre. Two people, talking over dinner about various banal topics, for a little over 2 hours. And then it ends with Godzilla's foot crashing through the ceiling of the restaurant and killing everyone there. Yeah... that'd be hot.
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could be that it's all 'found footage' from a camera that Godzilla was carrying around, filming his rampage. Shaky-cam from G'zilla's POV would have the stink of AWESOME all over it. THAT, my friends, is how you put a 'new perspective' on the giant monster movie. Hell, you could launch a franchise that way. Every film would be a different G'zilla home movie: "This is me destroying New York....here's my rampage in New Orleans....." They practically write themselves.
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...that Harry already loves this movie.
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Thunder stolen. Next!
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they should do a version marvels take on this with shield and bring in the red ronin now that could be interesting
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That may be the best, most coherent story idea I've ever read in a talkback. I wish they'd use it!
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Godzilla Final Wars, and deservedly so. Go rent that if you want to see one of the best Godzilla movies.
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Godzilla Final Wars, and deservedly so. Go rent that if you want to see one of the best Godzilla movies.
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I think they should just kill two birds with one stone and make the Cloverfield sequel the Godzilla reboot. Like maybe the Cloverfield monster came and wrecked the city and The sequel has the arrival of Godzilla to trounce his ass. Just get it all over with in one fell swoop. Like pullin off q bandaid.
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Merrick - Loved your comment about wanting to see a full-out battle of Space Aliens, Monsters, Robots in that GODZILLAverse. There is a fantastic game I saw at Comic-con, which is all that - MONSTERPOCALYPSE
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But I bet they will just make it big and stupid which I guess would be okay but imagine if they did with Godzilla what was meant to be done with him in the first place which was to point out mankind's arrogance and put them back in their place. It could be and it should be fucking terrifying but I bet it will just be stupid...but whatever, as long as he is more of a monster with a personality and not a giant dumbass iguana...
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You must have low standards then because that was the vaguest piece of shit ever.
People create MechaGodzilla to kill Godzilla. Turns out the people are aliens. That's pretty much all I had in terms of plot. Most of the work was done on setting up a world where Godzilla exists and how the people of Japan react to it. -
Aug 13, 2009 5:10:45 PM CDT
The ideal person to play Godzilla: Steven Seagal!
by themanwithtoomanynames
They both have tails, the same obese shape, and their careers have descended into parody.
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and we need it now!!
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Lets DO THIS!!! Shogun Warriors vs. Godzilla would also be acceptable.
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First...I am one of the biggest Godzilla fans around...what the hell is this GINO so many speak of?
God bless the Smithsonian Hirshorn Museum for their "Godzilla Summer Movie Camp" earlier this year. If you missed it...sucks to be you!
I'd much rather see a true TOHO Gojira film than a bastardized US version. IMAX would be awesome.
Godzilla vs the Taliban? Godzilla vs the Religious Right? Godzilla vs the Knights Templar? Sheyacht....these things just write themselves!!!
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I don't mean to be a dick, but wasn't that the plot to Godzilla vs. Mecha-Godzilla? What was the ones with the ape aliens? Godzilla vs. Gigan? Or are you writing a pastiche? In which case, proceed with the monsters. Did the ape aliens show up in Final Wars, too? It's all a blur...
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This thing needs to make money. And there isn't really much of a story to tell with the main character being Godzilla. The notion of a New Godzilla movie doesn't stir up anything inside me. Might as well go straight to DVD. And about the casting for the man in suit, after watching Crank 2's take on Godzilla style fighting, Statham should don the suit.
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You will make nobody happy...all the fanboys want that ridiculous man-in-suit shit, all the rest of us want an all-CGI eyeball-fuck, like CLOVERFIELD without the beer commercial characters.
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I still remember the disappointment of seeing the Matthew Broderick movie on opening night at the Cinerama Dome. What a piece of Shit. And we actually went in with our plastic Godzillas, and after that screening we hid them in our jackets in pure shame.
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I have only fallen asleep in the move theater during a movie three times: 1) Godzilla '98 2) Hulk 3) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Fact.
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Was the best Godzilla film. Nothing from the ass of Hollywood can surpass it! Nuff said. :)
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Since we're talking about an adapation rather than a continuation of the original material, I wanted to use elements from the whole history of Godzilla to adapt it into two films.
The first would be the introduction to the world, where Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra exist and MechaGodzilla is created to fight them.
If the mainstream audience accepted the first movie, the second would have been about the Simians who would send King Ghidorah to Earth to destroy mankind. Humanity then turns to Godzilla for help.
Regarding GINO, if I remember correctly it wasn't the Godzilla that terrorized New York, it was her offspring (see the cartoon based on the movie that was better than said movie), revealed at the end of the movie. GINO in Final Wars was called Zilla and yes, got its scaly ass kicked. -
how long must we wait for an edit feature?
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I hope they do something really cool with it this time around. Maybe they learned their lesson from the 1998 travesty. I, too, would love to see an insane and destructive Godzilla. And make the Big G resemble at least somewhat the Japanese version. Keep that Tatopolous retard far far away from this reboot!
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GINO sucked, becoz it was Americanized. Let the Japanese do it. Fuck all-CGI Godzilla. Wasn't that '98 version all CGI?!?! Didn't it suck ALL kinds of major ass?!?! Fuck Hollywood! They can't get anything right or even half way decent when it comes to things like that. Some one mentioned the W Bros. They would be the only ones I see that would make a decent Godzilla movie. Otherwise, let the Japanese do it, if not its gonna be sucktastic like usual and I don't give a fuck.
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Merrick, would you kindly just fucking quit. Your stories are so fucking opinionated with dogshit ideas. Go play with your fucking GI Joe doll or take a writing course. You are a cancer on this site and you have been since the day you first showed up. If it weren't for your love of Tron and support of Tron Legacy I would most likely come to your home and slap you right in the face.
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Also, CLOVERFIELD was the first giant monster movie to show what it would really be like to see a giant monster and the damage it would cause. Last, they need to be faithful to the look of Godzilla but take away the obvious signs of a man in a suit, i.e. make it more like an animal but with elements of the original design.
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Since when are Godzilla's space monsters "Machiavellian"?
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Aug 13, 2009 6:58:00 PM CDT
Does Godzilla eat humans? I know that bastard Kong does...
by hollywoodhellraiser
but not so sure about the Big G!
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Its not meant to be completely serious...but it gives you an idea that if the Japanese can do it, imagine what a Hollywood budget (coupled with people who know how to tell a story) can do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEEXydQc9KE
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... if another U.S. Godzilla is made they need to try and get some input from Steve Bissette (amongst others).
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He certainly was in the first movie. Walking, nuclear death, and totally unstoppable. I think it would make for a pretty interesting movie if they just started the movie after Godzilla trashedh is first city. Start with archive footage of Tokyo be blasted. Inevitable devastation could be pretty scary when its fleshed out appropriately.
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That way, you have a seamless merging of city and giant monster.
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http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/bryan-singer-boards-battlestar-galactica-for-universal
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...to everyone who pointed me towards the MechaGodzilla toy YouTubed above. It's over 1,3000 American dollars...used!?!? Merrick cries pathetic girly man tears for Geekiness denied...
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Gojira was amazing, and scary and entertaining as hell. I totally agree - make him scary again. I loved Godzilla movies, the big campy ones to the more brutal slug fests. But the greatest of them all - and it is hard to put it in front of Destroy all Monsters, is the first one. I saw it many years after I saw most of the campier ones, and was blown away. So, yes, it is very possible to reboot the king as a scary monster again, and have him kicks ass and take names.
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I don't particularly feel the need for another at this time. Hell, I'd rather see Jurassic Park 4, with dinos spreading on the mainland.
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You need the terror of reality ala cloverfield- mixed with a great supernatural twist. Add a special effects house that can actually keep the soul to the character/monster. Godzilla should be a CG incarnation of GODZILLA NOT AN IGUANA. He shouldn't be anything as pedestrian as a dinosaur, but a unique creature devoid of explanation and Supernatural.
GODZILLA IS the beast that hosts the lost souls of those killed in Hiroshima. A VESSEL, A force of nature, part demon, part the earth itself. He is natures revenge, the clenched fist of the earth. The tortured human conscience that stems from these lost souls.
The movie should start as a flashback to 1954 when he first appears. After a tantrum, he disappears only to return 60 year later to find japan ready and waiting for him.
I think there has to be soul behind the eyes coupled with fury.
Check out these designs:
Godzilla is based on the Japan design with a bit more savagness and less girth but still stays true to the man in suit.
http://api.ning.com/files/9athvpH9QBBVJGpEsWdFS8YECbF0Pk9TDQuhL4KqBEFYN6zBH3SaaCtakYOQ8xoTUwgAgFV8syLoNCmjA4Kd53R3x0oM7SGo/GODHEAD1.jpg
http://api.ning.com/files/AbZNw5Au9Zvl33smE8xjSJXUkfQEv8LeKV*w06eucIsgaHiwmW2-*lZdW7QsIMIUVvpm82dpXMvaR4DfAuUYZbWIAswjvmmi/godzilla3copy.jpg
http://www.ginojpatti.com/ILLUSTRATION/CHARACTERS/Resources/item9-4.gif
Get the Character right, then the other important thing is a real big villain or challenge! The high tech Mechagodzilla,would be perfect and make sense however you could always use mechsuits,or super-soldiers or even tackle the supernatural angle.
Maybe the foes could be Elders whom are immortal that were hidden from the world, only showing themselves now to keep godzilla at bay until the earth re-balances itself and calls the demon off.
Whatever the movie is, it should be SCARY, Dark and awe inspiring.
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Fucking disappearing monster. Saw more of him in Star Trek on the frozen planet than in his own damn movie. Stay far the fuck away from that shit. And King Kong couldn't even swing on Godzilla left nut - fuck that movie. Even though I own it and watch it once a year just to howl at the injustice of that knuckle draggin snake diddlin monkey even being in the same zip code as the true King let alone being able to lay a snake jizzlin paw on him!
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i think i sent dead link- Fixed: http://www.ginojpatti.com/ILLUSTRATION/CHARACTERS/godzilla.html
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That was gold. I nearly choked on my mini pretzel. Pure genius.
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Part of what make the original Godzilla movies so exciting to the kind brain was the slowness... the build up... the sheer awesomeness of a HUGE & TOWERING Godzilla standing firm and taking on all comers. And that's exactly what made the trailer for the last (lame) movie so cool. The slow moving lump under water coming right at the fisherman. But once the little lizard leaped out of the water and started running around town hiding from everything the punch was completely gone. The effect ruined.
What we need is a sky scraper sized Godzilla, standing erect, not running, but stomping slowly through the streets knocking everything over and DARING us to fire at him!!!!!
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Another one won't make a difference...
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At least the opening scene.
One of those types of movies that has a massive money shot filled cold opening scene before the title rolls.
Maybe some narration or scrolling text about the extinction of the great lizards and the coming of the great apes, etc...
Then finally in a weird topographical area that is arctic but has volcanic activity, a small group of these great apes corners the last of the great lizards... while at the foot of a giant volcano which is in pre-eruption mode.
There is a huge fight between the pack of great apes (talking king kong types, maybe smaller) and the giant lizard.
There are shots of a valley full of tar filled vats where the lizard and the apes get stuck in temporarily... well not temporarily for some apes. Giant cliffs from which apes are flung from, etc...
The lizard is defeated and falls into an ice lake, crashes through the ice and into the freezing water.
The giant volcano erupts and covers the area and the apes in lava/ash, resulting in an epic volcanic winter that covers most of the earth.
The giant lizard is flash frozen and trapped under ice for millions of years... apparently dead, but actually using a form of hibernation.
The giant lizard is awakened when there is a nuclear blast in India.
Godzilla awakens and sees the ancestors of the apes in the humans in front of him.
He goes berserk and starts tearing shit up.
The nuclear fallout that results from the blast provides tough visibility for people who are far from the the action, but Godzilla terrorizes those in his area.
Because of the previous nuclear war with Pakistan... India is ill equipped to fight off this beast.
It then makes its way through Pakistan where the US Afghanistan forces are able to meet it and provide a real challenge. They drop tactical nukes on his head but all that does is cause him to develop Atomic Breath, which makes him even more dangerous.
The Americans are able to chase a badly beaten Godzilla south into the Indian ocean.
In the sequel he makes his way south towards Antarctica.
Still in bad shape he ends up marooning himself on a deserted island.
Except its not deserted.
The inhabitants here venerate him as a god instead of attacking him.
He is nearly comatose, beached on the shores of the island like a dying whale... while the natives rally around him and tend to his wounds.
Unfortunately the island happens to be a long lost mystical island that holds a secret... a giant secret.
Deep within the islands caves lives the giant 7 headed dragon of the apocalypse.
The natives call him King Ghidora and he is the harbinger of the end of the world according to their myths.
Godzilla defends the people of the island of Ghidora against their tyrant 7 headed king.
In his last act as he is being burned to death by the fire breathing Ghidora... Godzilla decapitated the last of the 7 heads of the beast, killing it.
He then falls dead from the cliff from where they were fighting and lands in the ocean below... the water turning a blood red... while a few moments later dozens of basketball sized eggs appear on the surface.
After the credits we see the the first egg hatch... and the first thing it does upon waking is to find the nearest egg, trust his baby claws deep into its middle (as a shriek is heard from the infant inside), and proceeds to suck out and eat the contents of the egg.
Third sequel has the baby Godzilla now grown and showing up in the shores of Japan... where they employ secret giant robot technology that they had been working on for decades.
The technology had been altered since the events of the India/Pakistan event in order to better combat the Godzilla monster if it ever made it to their shores.
The giant robotic creation had lasers fitted in its eyes and various high grade weaponry throughout its highly armored body.
It was dubbed Mecha Godzilla.
Fight!
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This clip shows how awesome an actual REMAKE set in 1950s Tokyo would be http://su.pr/26ox2P
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BEST GODZILLA MOVIE SINCE THE ORIGINAL. Came out in 2002 - check it out. Full DVD title: Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah - Giant Monsters All-Out Attack
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and make it CG, not man in a suit. Let the Japanese have that. If they gave us some sense of scope (ie. Cloverfield) but didn't use shaky cam bullshit, well we could actually see a good Godzilla movie in this vein.
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NOT A LIZARD!
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Aug 13, 2009 8:56:19 PM CDT
Gojira is still the greatest Godzilla movie of all time
by toadkillerdog
Damn near 60 years later. But Destroy all Monsters is a close second. Make him scary again. Make him intimidating. Make him awesome, not some fucking tuna eating iguana. And I did not hate the giant iguana movie, I actually liked it. But it aint a Godzilla movie
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Aug 13, 2009 8:56:22 PM CDT
Gojira is still the greatest Godzilla movie of all time
by toadkillerdog
Damn near 60 years later. But Destroy all Monsters is a close second. Make him scary again. Make him intimidating. Make him awesome, not some fucking tuna eating iguana. And I did not hate the giant iguana movie, I actually liked it. But it aint a Godzilla movie
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Use Ifukube's music! Don't reinvent anything. Just use modern technolgy to pretty it up http://su.pr/26ox2P
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Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker vs. Godzilla.
I cannot think of anyone possible being opposed to this.
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HAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAH AHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH AHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA
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..before they pulled this shit out of their asses again.
I guess King Kong, Hulk, Terminator and Batman, will all be up for reboots next, because there's nobody coming up with new, original, creative ideas - lets just continue recycling the same old shit we've seen before.
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Godzilla wont work in the US.
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TEEN Godzilla
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Just to kick things up, and then a climactic battle with Godzilla's main arch-nemesis, King Ghidorah. I've always loved the bizarre concept of a thousand foot, radioactive-fire breathing lizard as Earth's Hero. Fuckit, how about an allout remake of DESTROY ALL MONSTERS? Godzilla is to Japanese monsters what Superman is to Justice League, the rest of them might be cool, but they're all really just supporting players.
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Of course I have low standards. I read AICN.
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Ba-da-bump! But seriously folks, the Big G works in the US, I saw his movies at theaters when I was a child. You just have to make the right kind of Gojira movie.
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Still soulcrushed from the 1998 debacle. I don't think I can ever get my hopes up for a proper American adaptation of Godzilla.
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Have Miike direct it in the style of Zebraman, and Puffy can use another Led Zeppelin song to get current.
And since no one likes Matthew Broderick, use Jon Cryer.... And Kid Rock as a wisecracking sidekick. And have Morgan Freeman narrate. I smell gold!!! -
If y'all don't know who the AssKickers of the Fantastic are - return you geek card.
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There's no fucking way they'd set this in Tokyo. They would NEED to set it in Tokyo to make it right. With Asian leads - fat chance of that! If they could do that, then I'd support it - as long as he looked like Godzilla, made the tell-tale RONNNNNK! sound and shot ACTUAL ATOMIC FIRE FROM HIS MOUTH WHILE HIS BACKFINS GLOW! Fucking Emmerich.
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Did I miss something? I thought it was Abrams take on the Godzilla mythos without actually calling it Godzilla....
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Aug 13, 2009 10:23:04 PM CDT
Cloverfield was Abrams take on monster movie w/o monster!
by toadkillerdog
Fucking disappearing monster! Cloverfield sucked!
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No seriously, why???
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DO IT!!
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Sheer genius.
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After we default on our national debt. ;-P
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Im not a big fan of the man in suit, and I didnt use to be a fan of CGI; but now CGI is looking better & better. Monsters/aliens can be created to look like monsters/aliens without looking like the MAN IN SUIT. DANCING BOOTS. Squating man, holding a claw in one hand, tail stapled to his bum and a big top hat. grrrr distroy minatures & kick up some scary dust & tonker trucks :/
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it's probably just a Fast&Furious spinoff
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Corvette ZR1 = Mothra
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It cemented his status as Japan's defender and the "friend of children," and was actually dead-ass serious. Its ending is a steely, 'weary gunfighter' cliffhanger straight out of The Searchers or The Dark Knight Returns - with a rubber suit.
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@ TurdFerguson: I think you're right. I thought I remembered reading that the idea of a Godzilla re-boot had been kicked around, and J.J. wanted a piece of it. The talks died, or Abrams was told 'no', and he ended up making Cloverfield (in part) to make a point that he would have done justice to the franchise.
I know the popular opinion of the film buff crowd spins otherwise, but I think Cloverfield was a fantastic little movie, and I'd certainly want a Godzilla reboot to be similar on certain levels.
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Wouldn't that be cool? Big G finally annihilates Tokyo and no one can stop him. The End.
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The thing I like about Gozilla is that the monsters were so crazy awesome and had these cool names and abilities, while the rest of the world was pretty real..except for the sience. They need to go all out and just make it an alternate time line sci-fi. Screw this "reality" crap...I dont care what it would "really" be like to see a monster attack. I want to see what it would be like to try and get the forcefield downtown in time to protect the refugee camp from atomic fire breath sidesplash while fighting Mothra brain wave beams or something.
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Depending on the version you hear, Gojira/Godzilla is still either a metaphorical or very literal externalization of Japan's post-Hiroshima trauma (IIRC, in the original film he was created by a Japanese scientist's nuclear tampering as a metaphorical approach, while in later films they literally claimed he was fueled by the souls of the dead from the nuclear atolls). He is angst and sin unbound. The character is a manifestation of all our modern terrors come back to bite us. The only way to do a unique, different American Godzilla reboot which people will go see after the terrible Emmerich film is to do a dark, serious "monster smash" epic (with some commercialized humor and subplots) that sticks in the memory.
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At the same time, make sure it is nothing like the one made by the ID4 guys! Make it very violent and scary like CLoverfield only twice as long and with 4 times as much monster!
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that is all.
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Tired of pathetic cheap CGI. It always looks so fake that it takes you out of the movie. Fuck it just do the man in suit. Godzilla was perfectly done by the Japanese over and over again. American studios took a swing and struck out. Sure there were good scenes in that movie but over all they had no idea what to make Godzilla. They had no idea what the audience wanted to see. We don't give two shits about the human leads we are not rooting for them everyone loves Godzilla. Making him/she the bad guy is STUPID! I don't want Cloverfield 2 make it a Godzilla movie.
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Aug 14, 2009 2:33:48 AM CDT
Time for the US to Make a Big Budget REAL Godzilla Movie!!!
by holdyourfireal
I have loved Godzilla all my life. The Tri-Star Godzilla was an embarrassment. America needs to create the best, biggest, baddest-ass Godzilla movie EVER!!!
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Aug 14, 2009 3:06:00 AM CDT
I've got it! Man in Suit Godzilla vs Seth Rogan in Tokyo
by irc-hollywood
that's it! Thank you studio exec, you can put my cheque in the mail.
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cause you know, it is a MAN IN A SUIT...BUT at the same time NO GIANT CG IGUANAS either...MAKE IT LOOK LIKE GODZILLA YOU IDIOTS!! THIS HAS TO BE THE EASIEST MOVIE IN THE WORLD TO MAKE. I cannot believe how wrong they got it the first time.
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His "Kong" was Krap!
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The New York thing is overplayed. But the big guy on the National Mall.
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Aug 14, 2009 4:53:08 AM CDT
Or put Godzilla in Detroit - symbolize auto industry.
by gibsonusa returns
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That was the second best death scene next to Dyson in T2....
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Here's a fun history lesson for you little ones--all the misplaced fanboy hype from AICN for Emmerich's Godzilla movie was what established this website as what it is today. And Harry's glowing review of it proved to all of us that he was an insane jackass whose opinions couldn't be trusted. These days it's all "Transformers" this and "Batman" that amongst you young 'uns, but it was the buzz surrounding that shitty CGI Godzilla that made AICN what it is today. Just look at how far we've come.
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kill two birds with one stone. A Lego movie AND a Godzilla movie. In these tough economic times this makes sense!
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If they're going to reboot something, how about Gorgo? That was the West's answer to Godzilla, and a movie I enjoyed greatly as a kid.
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Have Godzilla protect Legoland from the Cylons with the help from his good friends on Battlestar Galactica, who are also made out of Legos.
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Wanted to see a sequel to the US Godzilla since it came out. Take elements from the series. there's plenty of material there.A full big budget Live Action version of the "Monster Wars Trilogy" would be badass. And a good way to bring Mecha-Godzilla into the fray. Though it was more cyborg then mecha, but whatever. Still awesome.
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As much as I'd like to just see Godzilla in IMAX 3D, Godzilla vs The Smog Monster/Hedorah was lightning in a bottle. I fear disappointment in a sequel almost as much as I want to see it happen.
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Aug 14, 2009 8:10:09 AM CDT
GODZILLA IS the beast that hosts the lost souls of those killed
by ebixby
The movie should start as a flashback to 1954 when he first appears. After a tantrum, he disappears only to return 60 year later to find japan ready and waiting for him. Upon his return the japanese unleash Mechagodzilla- a clone cyborg theyve been working on for 60 years.The high tech Mechagodzilla,would be perfect and make sense however you could do other takes as well. There could be mechsuits,or super-soldiers or even tackle more of the supernatural angle. Maybe the foes could be Elders whom are immortal that were hidden from the world, only showing themselves now to keep godzilla at bay until the earth re-balances itself and calls the demon off. Whatever the movie is, it should be SCARY, Dark and awe inspiring. MAKE A GODD GODZILLA AND MAKE IT NOW. PRODUCERS, CALL ME IN, I WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO NOT FUCK IT UP!
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Papillon, Outlaw Josey Wales, Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can, and more 80s tv appearances than you can shake a stick at. Get on it before the Black Widows come for you. Hit it LordofHell.
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We don't need to see the back story about how Godzilla was originally a pet iguana who was abandoned by his owner and now has daddy issues. HE'S A BIG FREAKING MONSTER WHO STOMPS ON THINGS--START THERE.
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Aug 14, 2009 8:30:55 AM CDT
The True King of Monsters Godzilla ready to take the throne back
by paulyd30
God rest his Soul Aaron Smith would have been all over this weeks ago. Thanks Harry. This will be good as long as they use the Toho model of Godzilla.
GINO 98 = Godzilla In Name Only, was a disgrace to the True King. Sorry cloverfield doesn't even come close the the King. I would love to see something like Godzilla 1995 suit.
http://www.historyvortex.org/95Godzilla.jpg
http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Godzilla
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.historyvortex.org/95Godzilla.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.historyvortex.org/GodzillaEvolution2.html&h=701&w=414&sz=74&tbnid=IpM9Utzbf8O92M:&tbnh=140&tbnw=83&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgodzilla%2B1995&hl=en&usg=__0yTgO3qHs-gGQUPXweOC-nP105M=&ei=5mSFStavLc6ptgeq6-yuCg&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=3&ct=image
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BAD-ASS!
http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs37/f/2008/245/d/1/Godzilla_by_FritoFrito.jpg -
it would be the spectacle of the centruy.
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Really the oasis advert that on in the uk is fucking epic and funny.
Check it out.
Everyone is amazing in this advert, i'd watch 3 hours of that no problem
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Such a noob i forgot the ling to the advert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tpMcyda86I#movie_player
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I had to make an account just to post this. I have been a huge Godzilla fan since I was a kid. I am a decent artist and have developed the idea of a Godzilla movie ever since G98 crushed my soul(2 fucking missles kill Godzilla WTF). Anyway, this movie should be serious horror like the first. Like people with radiation burns and melted corpses from nuclear breath. Completely unmarketable to kids and thus alas will never happen.
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Godzilla is a living nuclear weapon. Its the basis of the character and shouldn't be messed with. Biologically speaking, I always envisioned his dorsal plates are like cooling towers for the nuclear reactions constantly going on in his body. I also thought it would be cool if he had a 6th sense like a pit viper to locate nuclear energy to eat.
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...People need to be shit-their-pants scared of Godzilla when he shows up. He can't be stopped, can't be killed, and destroys everything in his path. He's a force of nature, and the BEST possible outcome is to find a way to predict where he'll show up so that people can be evacuated in time. If he shows up without warning, panic ensues and there's deaths from people being trampled in panic/mass suicides. Nobody can determine what he is/where he's from, no scientist can magically pull the answers out of his ass, and no one knows how to stop him. He's the reptile Kobayashi fucking Maru. He's Samuel L. Jackson with a tail and radioactive breath. Fuck with him and you'll pay for it with your ass.
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Godzilla's 12 Step Program
from Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho Tep)
purty funny.
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Aug 14, 2009 12:41:15 PM CDT
Follow Jar Jar Abrams's Dawson Trek piece of shit movie example:
by asimovlives
Make it all set in a paralel universe. If it worked for an horrible piece of shit movie that had everybody swallow it unquestionably, even if it didn't made one lick of sense, then it can work for this too. Why the fuck not?
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It's their baby, and they know what to do with it, and nobodty else. Holywood, give up trying to deal with things you have absolutly no understanding.
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Uncle Stan!!! YES!!!! WAR of the GARGANTUAS!!
Damn, I would love to see that movie again and a modern remake would be cool! "The wooooords get stuck in my throat...The woooooords get stuck in my throat...The wooooooords"Remember that shit?! CLASSIC FLICK! -
I dont get why some people think Godzilla should be a man in a suit. What the FUCK!? CG is plenty good now to do an awesome Godzilla. A man in a suit would be laughable.
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There are a few reasons Gojirra is so loved by everyone. That's right loved. One he's a friggin guy in a rubbersuit which is laughable, and at the same time it shows he has some weight, but he also has a personality. He doesn't just rampage he stops looks around and sometimes he even smiles to let you know he's not all bad just real pissed. And you would be to if Japanese guys with weird planes with friggin lazers keep shooting at you. I love all the Godzilla movies except both the ones made by the US. For some reason we keep killing him. You CANT FUCKING KILL HIM. That is the point he's unkillable. Not a word and I don't care. All you can do is try to deter him for a minute till he losses interest and goes back out to sea to sleep. Till we fuck up again with nuclear testing or some other global fucking retarded shit we like to do all the time. Oh shit I just realized something GOdzilla is a fucking tree hugger. No wonder he always steps on Tokyo, they don't have enough trees.
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1) Godzilla needs to be Godzilla. I'm all for making him streamlined, etc., but his look is classic; keep the face, the fins and the skin tone. Otherwise, go to town. Problem with Emmerich's film: he was a mutant Iguana with no fire breath. WTF?
2)Godzilla is a force of nature, not a freak of nature. That was problem #2 with Emmerich's film.
3) The human story needs to be fast paced. Final Wars and the 70's MechaGodzilla film were the only ones to get that right. I think the best recipe for a Godzilla flick would be military/action. Throw in some scientists if it tickles your fancy.
And lastly, whoever came up with that retarded Godzilla fighting apes garbage is way off the mark as is the rest of that story. Desert Island where he's worshiped as a god? WTF? As a long time Godzilla fan I don't want see that. Keep it simple: Godzilla, flames, 'splosions, people running. Nuff said. Most importantly we want to see Godzilla doing stuff we couldn't see in the Japanese movies. If there's a sequel with more monsters, show the big G tangle with a megaladon for the first 5 minutes and pwn it's ass. Cause sharks are cool. And Godzilla beating a shark under water would be cooler. -
-along w/ big lizards just because the Japanese are like that. Kaiju Deely Bobbers. Word.-
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I forget who posted this, but its a clip of what a good Godzilla movie(with a great effects team behind it of course)can look like. Damn, its not bad. I'm with the majority of people, let the Japanese do it, but have Hollywood back them up. That is the only way Godzilla would be done right. But it is very doubtful that we will ever get to see the dark and terrifying version of Godzilla. Too many greedy and stupid studio execs have their hands in the "creative" process and there is a very very slim chance Godzilla will every get the proper treatment he deserves. I would love to see a mix of cgi and practical effects, like JURASSIC. PARK. Hell, JURASSIC PARK set the stanard as to how to make a good movie with cgi and practical effects, yet it looks like every one is failing miseribly. That '98 bastardized versioin proved what happens when you go way too far from the original source. You fuck up big times and we fans will never let you live it down. Just ask John Travolta about BATTLEFIELD EARTH.
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C'mon you K*N*O*W* this would fucking work. Who was it up there that said all you need are aliens, Big Robots and Monsters to make this work? That's RIGHT. Toss in the X From Outer Space-Kaiju Deely Bobbers Rock-and you've got yourself a real, breathing classic! Beatnik Man cameo(at the least!) will get you a seat w/ Barney and Elmo at the Oscars. Word.
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http://tinyurl.com/krvrdd jest scrollllllll on down til you get to the 'Cool Cat' blurb, and well--you'll see him. Yes you know exactly who the fuck I mean if you've ever seen Johnny Sokko.
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Fucking love that movie.
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Godzilla, Angirus(maybe), Mothra, King Ghidorah. Definately only Mothra for 2 and Ghidorah and Mothra for 3 (no Rodan . . . sorry). The character arc for Godzilla could be barely escapable terrifying force to defeated anti-villain to planets only defense.
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The original version really is vague as to whether or not he is an atomic fallout irradiated dinosaur, which most characters stick to, or maybe the incarnation of an islands vengeful god figure.
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Godzilla is an unexplainable beast who rises up from the depths to punish mankind for its ecological sins. Lots of nightmarish destruction and horror ensues with a few likeable humans caught in the middle and a few less likeable ones getting their just desserts. Don't explain his origins OR biology and have scientists baffled as to how this crazy thing just appeared out of nowhere and is unstoppable. I like the idea of Godzilla being supernatural, even an elemental nature god incarnate, but keep that only as as opaque subtext. As for effects... CGI could easily do G justice if it's done right, but I'd personally be happy with some modern stop motion or real time puppetry/man in suit with a major Hollywood budget behind it. I'm excited about this and Legendary has a pretty solid track record recently.
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...love Godzilla 1985 like I do?
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If this does end up at Legendary/Warners then he should be in it!
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Flood the offices of legendary pictures!
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neil blomkamp would to great for this movie. you saw what he did with a low budget aka district 9.
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neil blomkamp would to great for this movie. you saw what he did with a low budget aka district 9.
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For starters, bring it back to the beginning, make Godzilla the scary as hell unstoppable force of nature that can easily withstand any physical assault thrown at him. a SERIOUS tone more reminiscent of Gojira 54 would hold up nicely with a well designed, more mobile version of the suit. Practical along with whatever other effects would be the best idea as long as you have the proper people and effects house doing it (look at the effects in Jurassic Park and Gamera 3 for reference, both used suit, animatronic and GC elements to bring their creation to life.) As far as look goes, something combining elements of this http://tinyurl.com/yflg5ml and this http://tinyurl.com/lx3n44 as far as a director, there's plenty out there who could do justice to a Godzilla film, my main concern is design, soundtrack, script and story...all those elements need to be considered as well. On my short list of directors, i would say Spielberg, Blomkamp, Jackson, Raimi (in full blown horror director mode.) Best bet is to actually have some of the Toho team involved as technical advisers.
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