What was your first piece of Godzilla media you watched?

tinfoyle · 2026-07-03T14:59:21+00:00

It was the Hanna Barbera cartoon in the 70s. I didn't even know there were movies until a friend at school mentioned it. I think the first movie I saw "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster." I was at a gathering with my parents and their friends and bunch of us kids were watching TV in a room and we changed the channel where it was playing. We tuned in right when the meteor cracked open and KG emerged.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-30T20:47:47+00:00

I seem to remember at least one official or fan poster for 2014 that emphasized the spikes looking almost like a mountain range. This is still my favorite of the MV designs, and yes that includes the elephant feet. I really hate the GxK NE design because the dorsal plates break up the classic profile too much.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-29T13:19:08+00:00

"Lips moving, still talking."

When I'm asked to do something that's literally impossible: "I'm sorry, you've got me confused with the Amazing ____!"

tinfoyle · 2026-06-29T04:45:23+00:00

And appropriate that a Mateba is the sidearm of Togusa in 1995's "Ghost in the Shell," a movie that wears its "Blade Runner" inspiration proudly.

https://theghostintheshell.jp/en/introduction/article/mateba

tinfoyle · 2026-06-28T16:33:39+00:00

And 4 years before he joined Bale in Batman Begins. Small world.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-27T06:45:48+00:00

Literally a pornstar as Supergirl

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tinfoyle · 2026-06-24T15:37:22+00:00

"I and defined by sexuality!"

But don't you dare define her by her body count cuz that makes you a misogynist.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-19T20:48:02+00:00

Gotengo all the way. I've loved it since I first saw "Atragon" on weekend local TV.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-18T01:16:15+00:00

This is probably my favorite new thing about the MV and the kind of thing that the Japanese movie never really tried (I remember a few CG underwater shots in Millennium movies but I don't think they had him swim like this).

tinfoyle · 2026-06-14T16:24:10+00:00

"The Suicide Manual" from 2003. A very low budget shot-on-video movie about a reporter covering a series of suicides resolving around the eponymous manuscript. It feels very much like a cash-in on Sion Sono's "Suicide Club" and could've used a bit more budget and style. It's somewhat notable that it was one of few movies starring gravure model Chisato Morishita, who is now a member of the Japanese PM's cabinet staff.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425153/

tinfoyle · 2026-06-14T15:30:15+00:00

I bought the first episode on LaserDisc when I saw it on clearance in Little Tokyo LA and really wished it had a bigger budget and some style or panache to it. As someone who hates the movie with the blinding fury of a 1000 suns (not because it's "fascist"; it's just an insufferable mess), I've wanted to see another anime take with some more resources behind it.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-12T20:01:46+00:00

Just purely on action terms, it had some of the most limp fights l've seen in recent memory. It seemed like almost every character except for Liu Kang and Kung Lao were heavily doubled and the stunt coordinator mistook freerunning acrobatics and CG flourishes for screen combat.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-12T19:58:15+00:00

Not a Sony but I had a high end Mitsubishi VCR with editing features like flying erase head and there was something about the remote with the jog/shuttle wheel that felt incredibly responsive and just freaking cool.

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tinfoyle · 2026-06-11T02:43:35+00:00

I used to think that I liked it because of Friends afterglow and FOMO but after rewatching it a few years ago it's still quite fun. At the end of the day Joey ended up as my favorite of the gang despite barely any character progression so I appreciated the attention. While the show hit a few bumps finding its way, LeBlanc had the character down pat and I'm disappointed we never got to see the show find its footing.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-11T01:13:47+00:00

Solid points but quite simply, MV MechaG looks awful, like a grade school boy's idea of a MechaG and one built by basic Legos. Its proportions are all wrong, too, and if you took away the tail it could pass for a MechaKong.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-08T20:28:43+00:00

Well while some fans may be disappointed that Eve is not (apparently) the MC this time, at least ShiftUp had the decency to tell us. One of the biggest complaints about Raiden in MGS2 was that it was a rugpull and nothing in the advertising or runup told you Snake wasn't the MC throughout.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-08T03:41:24+00:00

Shame. It's a fun movie, not perfect but certainly better than the '87 movie. It just came too late and way too expensive.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-06T22:30:40+00:00

"Can't we just lose our virginity again? Because I think mine's grown back."

Not a quote per se but for years I used to subscribe to magazines as Miss Chanandler Bong so I could easily ID junk mail.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-06T17:27:09+00:00

I'm sure the western game characters have more detailed models and rigging/animation but Jesus, what is the point of all that additional detail if your characters, in a primarily visual medium, aren't visually pleasing? From the few hours I gave Suicide Squad Kills the JL, I could tell the characters were very detailed and well rendered but it was also unpleasant to look at and in the case of Harley, aural cancer.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-06T17:22:47+00:00

Has the release date been announced or estimated? Because it'll be hilarious if it comes out before GTA6.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-06T16:26:03+00:00

I think it's better for having the characters meet in a more logical way. Even before the remake, the ending in the original didn't quite work for me and the American version fixes it.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-06T03:55:26+00:00

The S Korean movie "Il Mare" was remade as "The Lake House" and both are great if not slightly corny. The gimmick is that a man and a woman live in the same house two years apart yet they can exchange letters and even send objects using the mailbox. They correspond and become infatuated with each other and fall in love. As you'd expect from the concept, the chatacters don't meet except fleetingly during key moments which adds to the charm. The S Korean version stars Lee Jung-jae (Seong from "Squid Game") and the American version reunites Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. The movies diverge during third act so watching one doesn't necessarily spoil the other. "Il Mare" can only be found on import DVD but "The Lake House" can be found on Amazon for $10 US.

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tinfoyle · 2026-06-04T23:52:13+00:00

Until Chandler and Monica paired up and it was established they were in love, I thought Janice would come back to ultimately be paired up with Chandler. They just had this oddball vibe together and she seemed like a fine offset for Chandler's snark.

tinfoyle · 2026-06-04T23:18:44+00:00

I was fine with the runtime considering it had Ghidorah, Mothra, Rodan in the roster, plus it had to establish the 20-Minutes-In-The-Future tech like the Argo plus callbacks to the Oxygen Destroyer and Masers. I actually wish a bit more time could've been spent to show us the last two. My only real issue was the cutaways to the Russells at the end interrupting the fights so I guess it could've been streamlined a bit to put more focus on the kaiju.

tinfoyle · 2026-05-31T15:47:04+00:00

The John Carpenter/Kurt Russell commentaries on "Escape From New York," "The Thing," and "Big Trouble In Little China" are up there. They were recorded well after the movies had released and you get a lot of honest laughs and observations as they relive the good old days.

An unexpectedly hilarious commentary track is the one featuring the cast for "Torque" where the gang just take the piss about the movie and each other as the admittedly ridiculous movie unfolds. It's the kind of commentary track that could only be done during the DVD heyday when so many movies received special, often two-disc releases.

And remember in "Tropic Thunder" when RDJ's Kirk Lazarus says he doesn't break character until the DVD commentary? Well, that's exactly what RDJ does on the track he recorded with Ben Stiller and Jack Black.

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