The sound of something and Godzilla Raids
Things are happening – I don’t quite know what but things are happening. It’s Friday the 13th we have gig that I’m half way convinced will end in disaster and humiliation. I did try reading the power of positive thinking once but after a while thought “Well what the hell good is this junk going to do?”
Finally got both Godzilla Raids Again and Motha Vs. Godzilla in the new DVD versions (hurray for Best Buy!)– and I can now safely report that Godzilla Raids Again is as damn a silly a movie in Japanese as it is in the badly dubbed English. Still it doesn’t have the god awful narration of the English Lang version: “I turned my plane towards the island to see if I could find my friend” Sweet Jesus we can see that! We’re watching the film – it’s a kind of visual thing you know, you’ve set up you’re looking for your friend we’re here with you guy.
Part is that the monsters (Godzilla and Angilas) both don’t quite look right – the Godzilla suit is much thinner (to allow more movement during the fight scenes I presume) and the head looks funny especially what the with the teeth sticking almost straight the hell out horizontally from G’s mouth. He just looks kinda goofy. (I think they were trying to make it look different because this is supposed to be a different Godzilla – the original was killed at the end of the first film). Angilas – the spiny looking guy is is okay but it’s really the movement that makes you blink.
In all the other films they used high speed film for the monsters scenes – filming a high speed and then playing it back at regular speed gave Godzilla the illusion of mass and size. This of course required extra lighting (which turned the suits into even more of a sweat box) and it meant the guys in the suits had to dash about in big heavy suits you couldn’t see out of. Still the effect is worth the trouble.
This time, and the only time in the series, the director sped the film up. I’m not sure why he wanted to do that – make the monster fight more savage I guess, in real life fights between animals are very fast – but it didn’t work well. Think Godzilla doing Benny hill.
And we learn more about tuna fishing in Japan than you ever wanted to know. (The human interest stuff) and there is a painful romance that just makes you wish for death.
One moment I enjoyed early in the film when Dr. Yamane (reprising his role from the original Godzilla) shows up and explains to the city fathers of Osaka that they are just completely and utterly boned amused me in a grim way.
This film wasn’t as successful as Godzilla and at the end of the film – he is buried in ice – he stayed there for 10 years until Toho made King Kong vs. Godzilla (which is the film that made Godzilla a major star again).
Meantime in things that make you shake your head – apparently a man on an overseas flight when into the bathroom had a heart attack and died and nobody noticed until the cleaning staff pried open the door some two hours after the plane landed. And other reason never to be ‘cleaning staff’. A messy toilet pales to comparison to finding a dead body in the bathroom.
Meantime a) it looks like Karl Rove had been regularly deleting his e-mails from his RNC account however they may still be around since there was an automatic save function was put it, apparently unknown to Karl. Still we are told that there are some 5 MILLION missing e-mails.
Meantime the White House is trying to claim executive privilege for all the RNC (republican national committee) communications. Like wow are they insane? Executive privilege has been very very narrowly defined and even the power worshipers on the Supreme Court will find it hard pressed to back that up. Not that they won’t try it’s just they can’t.
Saw the Sad Kermit version of Hurt. A few things – there are some touching moments when Kermit looks at a picture of Jim Henson and Miss Piggy. However the scene were he is forced to perform oral sex on a Muppet dog and where he is throwing up are wrong in ways I can’t even being to list. Also at this very moment, I have to assume the lawyers from Disney (who bought the Muppets a while back) are going to squish this guy’s head like a grape in court. Yes I know about free speech but it costs money to defend it and Disney’s got gobs of cash and lawyers who aren’t doing anything just yet. So enjoy it while you can.
Imus is gone – I don’t know Imus hasn’t been funny in years, It started when he stopped doing the Billy Sol Hargess sketches about a preacher con man (he wrote a book called God’s other son about the character) lately it’s been him being mean to people and his court of juvenile dweebs making bad jokes. I suspect he’s going to end up on X-M or Sirius or well up there now they are one company.
Peace Love, Tuna fishing
Finally got both Godzilla Raids Again and Motha Vs. Godzilla in the new DVD versions (hurray for Best Buy!)– and I can now safely report that Godzilla Raids Again is as damn a silly a movie in Japanese as it is in the badly dubbed English. Still it doesn’t have the god awful narration of the English Lang version: “I turned my plane towards the island to see if I could find my friend” Sweet Jesus we can see that! We’re watching the film – it’s a kind of visual thing you know, you’ve set up you’re looking for your friend we’re here with you guy.
Part is that the monsters (Godzilla and Angilas) both don’t quite look right – the Godzilla suit is much thinner (to allow more movement during the fight scenes I presume) and the head looks funny especially what the with the teeth sticking almost straight the hell out horizontally from G’s mouth. He just looks kinda goofy. (I think they were trying to make it look different because this is supposed to be a different Godzilla – the original was killed at the end of the first film). Angilas – the spiny looking guy is is okay but it’s really the movement that makes you blink.
In all the other films they used high speed film for the monsters scenes – filming a high speed and then playing it back at regular speed gave Godzilla the illusion of mass and size. This of course required extra lighting (which turned the suits into even more of a sweat box) and it meant the guys in the suits had to dash about in big heavy suits you couldn’t see out of. Still the effect is worth the trouble.
This time, and the only time in the series, the director sped the film up. I’m not sure why he wanted to do that – make the monster fight more savage I guess, in real life fights between animals are very fast – but it didn’t work well. Think Godzilla doing Benny hill.
And we learn more about tuna fishing in Japan than you ever wanted to know. (The human interest stuff) and there is a painful romance that just makes you wish for death.
One moment I enjoyed early in the film when Dr. Yamane (reprising his role from the original Godzilla) shows up and explains to the city fathers of Osaka that they are just completely and utterly boned amused me in a grim way.
This film wasn’t as successful as Godzilla and at the end of the film – he is buried in ice – he stayed there for 10 years until Toho made King Kong vs. Godzilla (which is the film that made Godzilla a major star again).
Meantime in things that make you shake your head – apparently a man on an overseas flight when into the bathroom had a heart attack and died and nobody noticed until the cleaning staff pried open the door some two hours after the plane landed. And other reason never to be ‘cleaning staff’. A messy toilet pales to comparison to finding a dead body in the bathroom.
Meantime a) it looks like Karl Rove had been regularly deleting his e-mails from his RNC account however they may still be around since there was an automatic save function was put it, apparently unknown to Karl. Still we are told that there are some 5 MILLION missing e-mails.
Meantime the White House is trying to claim executive privilege for all the RNC (republican national committee) communications. Like wow are they insane? Executive privilege has been very very narrowly defined and even the power worshipers on the Supreme Court will find it hard pressed to back that up. Not that they won’t try it’s just they can’t.
Saw the Sad Kermit version of Hurt. A few things – there are some touching moments when Kermit looks at a picture of Jim Henson and Miss Piggy. However the scene were he is forced to perform oral sex on a Muppet dog and where he is throwing up are wrong in ways I can’t even being to list. Also at this very moment, I have to assume the lawyers from Disney (who bought the Muppets a while back) are going to squish this guy’s head like a grape in court. Yes I know about free speech but it costs money to defend it and Disney’s got gobs of cash and lawyers who aren’t doing anything just yet. So enjoy it while you can.
Imus is gone – I don’t know Imus hasn’t been funny in years, It started when he stopped doing the Billy Sol Hargess sketches about a preacher con man (he wrote a book called God’s other son about the character) lately it’s been him being mean to people and his court of juvenile dweebs making bad jokes. I suspect he’s going to end up on X-M or Sirius or well up there now they are one company.
Peace Love, Tuna fishing
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