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2004-10-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Steve 2004-10-18 11:00:08 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bill Tsutsui, ..., said he would like people to take Godzilla "more seriously".

Quite frankly, I'm having a little trouble taking you seriously right now, Bill.

Posted by BH 2004-10-18 12:21:54 PM|| 2004-10-18 12:21:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Personally, as an 9 year old child, it was RODAN that peeked my interest... :))

Posted by borgboy 2004-10-18 12:44:34 PM|| 2004-10-18 12:44:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Which one had the two little women that sang to calm the monster? Mothra?

Posted by mojo 2004-10-18 1:08:52 PM|| 2004-10-18 1:08:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Mojo, I believe you're thinking of Gamera.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2004-10-18 1:11:55 PM|| 2004-10-18 1:11:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Finally a topic where I have expertise!!

Mojo- The twins are associated with Mothra.

Here is a parody with their picture, here.

Posted by Penguin 2004-10-18 1:49:26 PM|| 2004-10-18 1:49:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high tension wires down
Helpless people on a subway train
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them
He picks up a bus and he throws it back down
As he wades through the buildings toward the center of town

Oh no, they say heâs got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah . . .

Blue Oyster Cult's finest moment as musicians.

Posted by Mike 2004-10-18 2:03:55 PM|| 2004-10-18 2:03:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Keynote address by Hideki Matsui

Posted by Grunter 2004-10-18 2:08:04 PM|| 2004-10-18 2:08:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 BZZZZT - Big BOC fan here - Astronomy, Harvester of Eyes, ME262, Cities on Flame, all of Agents of Fortune were better....Godzilla just got the airplay ;-)

Posted by Frank G 2004-10-18 2:09:04 PM|| 2004-10-18 2:09:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 You people are churlishly denigrating one of the great film series of my youth. Many hours spent watching Godzilla stomping his way thru Tokyo blowing firey death. Simpler times, simpler pleasures. Or maybe it's just me who has become simple. Yes, it was Mothra. And yes, Rodan was very cool. Have all the first movies on DVD.

Posted by Weird Al 2004-10-18 2:09:32 PM|| 2004-10-18 2:09:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Ok duh, then how come we haven't found any fossils of Godzilla then? huh huh??

Posted by Bill Nelson 2004-10-18 2:19:00 PM|| 2004-10-18 2:19:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Al:

It's possible to simultaneously love the Godzilla movies and have a little fun with the more dorky and absurd elements thereof. Mothra may have been intensely silly, but I still thought the singing girls were pretty hot.

Posted by Mike 2004-10-18 3:01:35 PM|| 2004-10-18 3:01:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Mike: of course it's possible to do both. Actually, it's required. The original dubbed Godzilla with Raymmond Burr is one of the worst movies ever made, except for the stomping episodes. I consider myself an expert on the worst sci-fi movies ever made. While Godzilla wouldn't make the top ten, it's close.

Posted by Weird Al 2004-10-18 3:14:16 PM|| 2004-10-18 3:14:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 There are valid historical angst/horrors (Hiroshima & Nagasaki)that belie any belittling of a hermeneutic exegesis of Godzilla. The monster was very much the product of a Japanese collective id/soulthat survived two Atomic Bombings. The vengeance wrecked by the monster and the monster's subsequent rise to Japanese hero can be viewed as an exemplar of the Japanese social consciousness striking out - if only metaphorically - against the occupying and hegemonic power...

Posted by borgboy 2004-10-18 4:53:50 PM|| 2004-10-18 4:53:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Re: #13. They didn't like the bomb. Enough said.

Posted by Weird Al 2004-10-18 5:15:19 PM|| 2004-10-18 5:15:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Personally, I prefer the short 'Godzilla meets Bambi'.

Posted by Don 2004-10-18 5:40:32 PM|| 2004-10-18 5:40:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 #13 There are valid historical angst/horrors (Hiroshima & Nagasaki)that belie any belittling of a hermeneutic exegesis of Godzilla. The monster was very much the product of a Japanese collective id/soulthat survived two Atomic Bombings. The vengeance wrecked by the monster and the monster's subsequent rise to Japanese hero can be viewed as an exemplar of the Japanese social consciousness striking out - if only metaphorically - against the occupying and hegemonic power...
Posted by: borgboy 2004-10-18 4:53:50 PM

i gues if you can't dazzle 'em with your brilliance baffle 'em with your bullshit. But in all seriousness would the Japanese movie industry even made this waste of celuloid if Hollywood hadn't been making bad radiation mutated moster movies, ie Them.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-10-18 5:49:49 PM|| 2004-10-18 5:49:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 I have a court order to stop the showing of the "So Called Original Godzila". It has been illegally altered, Paul Drake will soon arrive, whisper in my ear and give me a way out of this paragraph.

Posted by Perry Mason 2004-10-18 5:50:05 PM|| 2004-10-18 5:50:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Gotta get back to the office for a little private dictation with Della 'eh?

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-10-18 5:55:51 PM|| 2004-10-18 5:55:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 We were watching Godzilla vs. The Thing in Berkeley in the 60s, which was a benefit for some radical group. Some guy high on something finally jumped on stage and was pacing back and forth, screaming "Enough! Enough! Stop it! This is consuming my very soul!!!!

Somebody yelled, "Save his soul and get his ass offstage!" Then 3 or 4 people came on stage and escorted him away......and we continued the movie.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-10-18 5:59:12 PM|| 2004-10-18 5:59:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Godzilla meets Bambi?

Who wins?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-10-18 6:16:44 PM|| 2004-10-18 6:16:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Who's on top?

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-18 6:18:27 PM|| 2004-10-18 6:18:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 "Godzilla meets Bambi?

Who wins?"
"Who's on top?"

That is so wrong. Yet I can't stop thinking about the result.

Posted by Charles 2004-10-18 6:35:47 PM|| 2004-10-18 6:35:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 I still can't believe the same film company that made Seven Samuraii (one of the best films of all time) also made Godzilla. The humanity.

Second, Godzilla is a fascinating incite into the Japanese. For example, the first movie is anti-nuke. Nukes free Godzilla and a scientist creates a super-weapon that is used, against his wishes I think, to destroy Godzilla. Superweapons create more harm than good, yada, yada, yada. That's when Japan was a decade and a half away from having nukes dropped on them so naturally passions were high.

Fast forward a couple of more years and we get Japan pushing the nuclear power option in a big way. What happens? Godzilla starts protecting Japan from other monsters. He becomes a hero. Coincidence, I think not.

Oh, and the Hollywood remake sucked. How do you lose Godzilla in the middle of Manhattan? Rubble, rubble, rubble, hey the rubble stops and there is this giant hole, Where did Godzilla go?

Posted by rjschwarz 2004-10-18 6:43:10 PM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-10-18 6:43:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Yep, I think I saw the results in Deer In City, This Time It's Personal.

Posted by Shipman 2004-10-18 6:44:00 PM|| 2004-10-18 6:44:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 My kids stumbled on to a cable channel showing Destroy All Monsters a few months back. Most fun we'd had in a long time.

Posted by Mike 2004-10-18 8:51:42 PM|| 2004-10-18 8:51:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 For those really needing a Godzilla fix, may I recommend the Playstation 2 game "War of the Monsters". It has all the great 50s and 60s B movie monster types available for a fun smash and crush through cities, secret bases, and a final fight level just before the Capital in DC to take on invading saucers.

Posted by Don 2004-10-18 9:41:57 PM|| 2004-10-18 9:41:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 20 Godzilla meets Bambi? Who wins??

See the sequel "Bambi's Revenge" to find that out.

Posted by sc88 2004-10-18 11:12:07 PM|| 2004-10-18 11:12:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 I hate to break it to ya, perry, but Pauls Drake is shacked up down at the beach with Della Street...

Posted by mojo 2004-10-19 12:11:49 AM|| 2004-10-19 12:11:49 AM|| Front Page Top

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