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Posted on 06/17/2004 7:09:03 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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'Cause they're so corny they're amusing?
I think it's the Mystery Science Theater factor.
But I've never seen one, so I dunno...
I have no clue!
I don't know why other people watch them... I like to watch them because they're often silly and I like making fun of them.
Puts me in the mood for a MST3K movie.
That's a good reason, then! Not enough silly and amusing things in the world, after all.
Don't you like seeing Tokyo getting trashed by a giant lizard?
ha ha h...I don't get it...
Yes, exactly. MST3k actually did two Godzilla movies and four Gamera movies. Those are among my favorite episodes of the series.
Mostly it's fun watching Godzilla stomp on stuff and destroy armies--it's kinda like watching movies about dinosaurs. But there's other stuff once you get into it. It's probably easier for kids to watch, but if you're an adult you have to watch Godzilla for a certain amount of time before your adult brain shuts down enough to enter Godzilla's alternative universe--sometimes it takes me two movies to get into the right mindset. At this point stuff in the plot that previously made no sense begins to make sense--Godzilla plots definitely don't follow Western plot principles (kind of like anime in that way). There are some really interesting SF ideas in Godzilla.
But mostly it's fun watching Godzilla break stuff :)
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 he’s got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Rinji news o moshiagemasu!
Godzilla ga ginza hoomen e mukatte imasu!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Daishkyu hinan shite kudasai!
Oh no, they say he’s got to go
Go go Godzilla, yeah
Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go go Godzilla, yeah
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of man
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of man
Godzilla!
That was a classic scene tho, in the 2nd? Jurassic Park movie, when the T-Rex gets to San Diego and all the Japanese tourists are running away...
"I think it's the Mystery Science Theater factor."
MST3K definitely is one reason :) But even before MST3K Godzilla had a cult following, which is one reason MST3K got so popular. When I was little they'd show Godzilla movies every Saturday afternoon. One of the funniest things I've been to is when a local theater shows Godzilla on a big screen late on Friday night and the same crowd that watches "Rocky Horror" shows up. Sitting with 300 people all doing MST3K to a Godzilla movie is a blast :)
"Puts me in the mood for a MST3K movie."
Either a Gamera or "Time of the Apes", I'm thinkin'--or that one movie where everyone is named "Ken" :)
I can't get MST3K here, so I didn't know they'd actually done Godzilla movies...but they sound like the perfect target...
"ha ha h...I don't get it..."
If you got all my jokes, I'd be concerned about you :)
Yikes!
Jar-Jar!!
"Yes, exactly. MST3k actually did two Godzilla movies and four Gamera movies. Those are among my favorite episodes of the series."
Yep, that was MST3K at its finest :) We used to have parties where everyone in the apartment building would watch MST3K Gamera. Unfortunately I don't think they had the rights to those, so they're not on the MST3K videos that have been released so far.
Yeah, that was the best part of "The Lost World".
I feel obligated to watch it since the guy could stay in the rubber lizard suit only 10 minutes before passing out.
Depends on how 'deep' the rift in space-time is, how fast you want to get there to your point of view, and how the rift is generated.
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