GO GO, GODZILLA!!!!!!!!!

various | June 25, 2004 | Long Cut

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I am a life long GODZILLA fan!
Used to see them in the movie theaters in the 50's and 60's!

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You'd have thought they'd have remembered a "kill" switch...

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I envy you, Bro. The ONLY Godzilla movie I ever saw in a theater was "Godzilla: 2000 Millennium". Last one ever released in theaters here.

It had been nearly thirty years since the last one.

Relive some of those memories here with us!

I was proud when I saw, in both "Godzilla 1984" and "Godzilla versus Destoroyah", that my bird, the mighty P-3 ORION, was used to track the Big Guy.

[RandallFlagg]

I remember the old G vs Megalon commercial. When the 2 monsters were fighting on the tops of the World Trade Center.

I said to myself, "Godzilla isn't THAT small!"

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Yeah, think they were "influenced" by the King Kong remake's posters of the same time period?

I caught Gvs.M on TV back then...it was introduced and hosted by a guy in a cheap Godzilla suit. I found out much later that the guy was John Belushi!

[RandallFlagg]

LOL!! I wonder if Belushi was a 'Zilla fan.

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Oh, yeah, did you know that "King Kong" is again being remade, this time set in the 1930's like the original?

I have high hopes...the director is Peter Jackson, who just recently directed a little set of movies called The Lord Of The Rings, and won an award or two.

He's just as passionate about this one as those, too. Apparently, "King Kong" was what got him started making movies in the first place.

Hey, Hair, be sure to ping this thread if you have any updates on PJ's "Kong" film. They'd fit right in here.

[HairOfTheDog]

Certainly I will.... Happy to help the monster contingent!

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I bet he was. I also bet he was stoned to the ears in the suit, too.

G-Fan Magazine once did a "six degrees" sketch...yep, Kevin Bacon and Godzilla are only separated by six degrees.

[RandallFlagg]

If Jackson hires Jessica Lange for a cameo....
Oops! Too late. Jack Black's gonna be in it.

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Hey, the LOTR universe contains many creatures that would qualify as Kaiju. Smaug, for one. And Ungoliant could be Kumonga's mother, if not Kumonga herself...the giant spider in the Godzilla movies has never had its origins explained. A Balrog might also qualify.

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I'm not worried...Jackson's never let me down before. Hell, see "Dead Alive" for a Zombie movie to end them all!

[HairOfTheDog]

Tolkien has great monsters!

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LOL! How appropriate!

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Oh, hey, Colonel, before I forget...I know how much you liked the aviation art sites I linked you to. If you like old-school pinup art, like that used on nose art in the 40's, go to www.spiderwebart.com and go to their "pinups" section.

Keep the kids out of the room, though. It's that good.

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"I said to myself, "Godzilla isn't THAT small!""

Well, when you think about it, at his SMALLEST, Godzilla was two-thirds larger than King Kong. At his LARGEST, during the '90's, he was so big Kong would have only come up to his shin, if that.

Toho had to "grow" Kong for KKvs.G back in the '60s.

[RandallFlagg]

I wish the admins wouldn't have banished this thread to "Chat." We might have picked up a few more posters who are closet Godzila fans.

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I posted it here deliberately. It IS lighter stuff, and I didn't want the thread nazis jumping on to make trouble, or wonder why we didn't mention abortion.

Besides, this is where these types are supposed to be. I'll put a link in one of the old Godzilla threads now, just to put it out there.

[RandallFlagg]

Yeah, but you're right. Godzilla IS the ultimate conservative:
Doesn't care about political correctness, just goes in to kill the enemy.
Has to take care of messes that conservative haters create out of emotion (G vs. Biollante).
LOVES nuclear power (Tastes like chicken).

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