Godzilla 2012

Well, they used the costume in Ultraman, once.

...no, this doesn't count, does it?

No... not really.

EDIT: Heh. Back then, I wanted it to be the Power Rangers. Now... I still want the Power Rangers to fight him, but I'd be OK if some other henshin heroes did it.

edited 15th Jul '12 1:42:54 AM by Zeromaeus

Well I'm totally gonna see this.

Oh, yeah, no doubt.
Godzilla in the theaters? That's all I need to hear. I'm there.
Man, I'd go for a screening of some of the old ones, none the less a new one.

So what does he mean here? He doesn't mean he's gonna Dark Knight it up, does he?

. . .how do you do a "grounded, realistic" *Godzilla*?

My best guess is that you go back to the very first movie for inspiration and acknowledge all of the destruction and suffering the monsters cause on the ground level. That's really the only kind of "realism" I can see them adding.

Oh no. I'm having flashbacks. Its 2000. OH GOD NO!!!

Makes me think a little of GMK, as well.

GINO was 1998.

That's just goes to show you how much I blocked it out.

I thought you were bringing up the actual Godzilla 2000, which was also terrible.

edited 19th Jul '12 2:36:38 PM by Durazno

There was kind of an era of bad Godzilla movies...

I don't think it was a long "era" though, really maybe three years or so.

Too long all the same.

Looking over my Godzilla library, I have to admit that at least 2/3 of them are pretty bad. For every Destroyah or Fire Rodan, there's a Space Godzilla or Megaguirus. For every Terror of Mechagodzilla, there's a Godzilla vs Megalon. And then there are the weird ones, like Final Wars.

I would hesitate to say that the quality depends on eras; every era has its duds.

The difference is that, for as bad as most of those might be, they're not as boring as Megaguirus or 2000.

edited 20th Jul '12 2:16:45 PM by NULLcHiLD27

Good point.

What might be a good idea is to take the rubber suit idea, and use it for motion capture (Similar to what they did in Jurassic Park with stop motion capture for digital), and then intigrate it into the movie.

I did really enjoy 2000, even with it's flaws. Megaguirus, on the other hand, took me multiple attempts to watch it all the way through. Gotta agree with you there.

I have to admit, Orga was a pretty cool monster.

Not sure how well that approach would work. If you didn't do it absolutely perfectly, it would have the worst qualities of each technique - the monsters' motions would be constrained by the human actor in the suit, and the resulting image would lack "weight" because it's not a physical object. (That's not a problem I, personally, have with CG, but I've heard it enough to believe that it's a potential issue with helping your viewer suspend their disbelief.)

EDIT: Wait, I think I misunderstood your post. Sorry.

edited 23rd Jul '12 9:34:51 PM by Durazno

I like Godzilla vs. Hedorah a lot. Shows casualties from the monster attacks really well. And It's heresy, but I love the score.

So... has this forum just not had any activity in a year? Or did we move to a new one?

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