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Post by Xenorama ™ on Dec 16, 2007 0:11:46 GMT -8
Akira Takarada ... News Reporter Ichiro Sakai
Yuriko Hoshi ... News Photographer Junko 'Yoka' Nakanishi
Hiroshi Koizumi ... Professor Miura
Yu Fujiki ... Reporter Jiro Nakamura
Emi Ito ... Shobijin (Twin Fairy)
Yûmi Ito ... Shobijin (Twin Fairy)
Yoshifumi Tajima ... Kumayama
Kenji Sahara ... Banzo Torahata - U.S.:Shiro Torahata
Jun Tazaki ... Editor Arota
Kenzo Tabu ... Mayor
Yutaka Sada ... Old Man
Akira Tani ... Village Headman
Susumu Fujita ... General
Ikio Sawamura ... Priest
Ren Yamamoto ... Sailor
i've watched this movie now three times this year- once with the commentary (very good, but a bit overpraising of every part of the movie) and twice now normally. suppose i should watch the Japanese version at some point.
anyway, it still amuses me to watch some obsessive and repressed fanboys go ballistic about Mothra beating Godzilla in this movie. just face it, Godzilla was the villain and in movies back then, the villains lost.
a great entrance for Godzilla in this one though.
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Post by Zone Fighter on Dec 16, 2007 18:29:47 GMT -8
I can't stand Mothra. The only lamer daikaiju is Biolante, the part rose, part Godzilla, part human female monster.
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Post by Gwangi on Dec 16, 2007 20:51:23 GMT -8
For me, this is where the Godzilla series had finally hit full stride. (From this to Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster, this is where I think the series was at it's absolute best!).
Not my most favorite, but one of the best made. Godzilla himself, is great as the villain. More effective than many of his villainous portrayals in the Millennium series, I think.
Whatever one may think of Mothra, I thought the movie had some great battles (including one of the larvae getting trounced by Godzilla's tail!).
I have yet to see the Japanese version, and frankly, I don't have any desire to do so. Growing up watching the American version, that is really the only one I want to see.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Dec 16, 2007 22:31:16 GMT -8
i'm amazed at how quickly this movie moves along, and how the human villains are very violent toward each other. they sure get what they deserve at the end, though.
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Post by Torgaman on Dec 17, 2007 12:07:08 GMT -8
I remember seeing this as a kid on Memorial Day and even at that young age I knew I was watching the definitive Godzilla movie.At that point my only knowledge of the film was of the Ian Thorne book,and it said that the egg hatches and the larva dump Godzilla into the sea.Here's the funny part.I thought larva meant the white stuff inside the egg,the yolk.I WAS A KID!!!!Naturally I expected this big white yolk to engulf Godzilla and make him slip into the sea.Thankfully the guys at Toho knew better.Seeing Mothra die during the fight was a shock since the Thorne book never mentions it.
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Post by hastur on Dec 18, 2007 10:19:49 GMT -8
One of Godzilla's greatest films.
Everything about this flick SCREAMS quality. Toho really, really did great job with this film and that's why it's famous among Godzilla fans. Serious enough to qualify as good Science fiction and fun and goofy enough to popular with all the Monster kids.
Too cool.
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Dec 18, 2007 11:06:10 GMT -8
i was really surprised at Mothra dying halfway through. i've told the story of how i was really disappointed in this movie the first time i saw it, since it was in '76 or so, after i had seen GODZILLA VS MEGALON and the tv guide review said something to the effect of "four titanic supermonsters battle it out for world supremacy".
i knew Mothra was in the movie, but i figured there would be two more giant monsters in as well. and then it turns out they are the grubs? oh, what a bitter pill for an 11 year old to swallow.
took me years to place this movie higher on my list of favorites, that's for sure!
much to the chagrin of hardcore g-nerds. 
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Post by Shonokin on Dec 18, 2007 12:26:15 GMT -8
Unfortunately I have to admit I'm in the Hate Mothra crowd. But that doesn't stop this from being a really good movie. It's just undeniably well put together. The miniatures, effects and cinematography are probably at their height in this one.
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Post by Torgaman on Dec 18, 2007 12:53:43 GMT -8
"I can't stand Mothra. The only lamer daikaiju is Biolante, the part rose, part Godzilla, part human female monster."
"took me years to place this movie higher on my list of favorites, that's for sure!
much to the chagrin of hardcore g-nerds. "
"Unfortunately I have to admit I'm in the Hate Mothra crowd."
And people say I'M divisive and cynical?!?!?!?!
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Dec 29, 2007 15:52:10 GMT -8
oh, no one really says that, do they?
i don't hate Mothra. i mean, some fans complain Toho uses the character too much, but then don't complain about the most overused character at all- Godzilla!
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Post by hman on Dec 29, 2007 16:14:35 GMT -8
The one-sided battles kind of angered me at first. But there's not denying the quality of the story and the overall monster action.
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Post by RedKing on Jan 29, 2008 8:53:00 GMT -8
What a classic movie! This is my favorite version of Godzilla,I don't think he ever looked better than he does here and this is also probably the best version of Mothra, even considering all the more recent ones. The adult Mothra prop was gigantic! It had a wingspan of something like 25 feet! This was also one of the first VHS tapes we ever rented-I just about wet myself when i saw it at the video store back in 1985!! I must have watched it like 4 times before we had to take it back.
I can never understand how people hate any monsters from these movies, since they like the movies in the first place. Frankly i can't say I hate any daikaiju, even the most goofy and dumbest looking ones from the mid 70s Ultrashows! Heck, i even like the absolutely stupid looking kaijin from GO RANGER!!
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Post by Xenorama ™ on Jan 31, 2008 11:30:08 GMT -8
i think a lot of hardcore g-nerds hate it any time Godzilla "loses", since he should be all powerful. though then they hate that like in GMK or GFW, so who knows what they like.
then they complain about overuse, when what monster is the most overused ever?
yep, Godzilla.
weirdos!
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Post by Torgaman on Jan 31, 2008 11:38:46 GMT -8
I have always said these people have their underwear on too tight.
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Post by RoadWarriorYajuta on Jan 31, 2008 14:28:55 GMT -8
It is fans of any genre. Trekkies, Star Wars Geeks, Comic Nerds, Wrestling fans, Lord of the Rings nuts etc.
Some folks will never be happy no matter what.
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Post by RedKing on Feb 1, 2008 11:06:16 GMT -8
That's very true. I've always hated the hardcore G-nerds, and I never visit any of the other Godzilla related boards because they are all so ridiculous and juvenile. And Raul I think you're right about them having their underwear too tight!
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Post by Torgaman on Feb 1, 2008 14:43:39 GMT -8
These are the same people who complain about the dubbing in the films as well as the anthrophormization in the character of Godzilla although this was what made him so accessible to American fans thus guaranteeing that Godzilla could have along career.
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