And, here he is with two of the "opposing" monsters, Gigan and Monster X...
Posted on 11/24/2004 7:55:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge
"Raising the bar is the perfect way to ruin the spirit of a Godzilla movie."
Oh, I couldn't agree with you more. My comment was only that most in the series were so bad, that making the "best Godzilla movie" isn't much of a stretch...
I grew up watching cheap sci-fi/monster movies. If they weren't hysterically-funny, they'd be unwatchable. You can't take something that was unintentionally funny and make a new, serious, "hi-tech" version that people will want to see. Look at "Lost in Space: The Movie". Bad idea, bad movie.
And, here he is with two of the "opposing" monsters, Gigan and Monster X...
........and Happy Thanksgiving.
Same to you! I'm spending it on Watch right now, though. A Sailor's job is never done, it seems.
My family and myself would like to thank you for serving.
My Dad was in the navy during WW2 doing convoy duty on the Atlantic. He's had some good stories about those times.
My dad was a Sailor, too, '48-'52. I've been in 11 years now.
On nights like this (it's cold, rainy, and miserable, and I'm not with my family), FR and threads like this are a godsend.
If you don't mind me asking, where are you at? The weather your having sounds like the weather we had yesterday only we got snow and wind, too.
Tsk, tsk. The Navy sure is different now days.
General Order #7, sailor.
;)
I'm in Maine. Not as bad as when I was in Iceland, but still rotten.
I'm not a Sentry, Shipmate. I'm on a phone watch.
After we got a new skipper we got a TV and VCR and could bring anything we wanted to watch or read.
Hmmm. Well, not anything, but unless it was porn, no one cared.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that there's Internet access with the duty phone next to it, but then, when I stood a phone watch, it still had a rotary dial.
:)
Hell, they won't let us be armed, and we don't even have a weapons locker here.
In New Orleans we shared a hangar with a Marine UH-1N squadron. They had cameras. We still walked around. It was humiliating.
But that's what happens when you have nearly unlimited manpower and the manpower can't quit. :)
Lessee....Maine, Navy...that would be Brunswick, eh?
P-3s and C-130s, if memory serves. We used to send A-7s cross-country up there with blivits full of crawfish and trade for lobster.
You got it...NAS Brunswick. I'm an E-6, P-3 Aircrewman when I'm not answering phones.
Yep, Yep, and they already know.
Last year, I flew on actual combat flights over hostile territory, with NO personal weapons except the Bowie I carried with me, and NO weapons on the aircraft. Go figure.
Since they were making one AMEC a year and most squadrons had two AME1 billets, I figured I'd be a 13B supervisor or QAR for the next 10 years, so I quit.
It has to be better now. I came in under Reagan and left under Clinton. It sucked pretty badly under Clinton.
My brother just went from MM1 to an Army WO1. He says it's a lot better than it was then.
I'm an AW1(AW/NAC), Acoustic, meaning I track submarines and work the surveillance gear on the ORION. Been doing that my whole career. I'm up for Chief in January, first time.
LOL. My sister loves Maine. She must have visited every lighthouse in that state.
My Dad docked in Iceland during the war. He didn't think much of it either.
One night, we pre-flighted in 20-below with winds gusting to 70 kts. Had to wrap tie-down chains around the female linemen to keep them from being blown across the ramp ice.
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