What if Gaos has access to a TV? was that statement wise? OPSEC!!

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the cannibal pterodactly laughs at your puny bombs

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they should know about monster's fondness for Landmarks.....oh well, down it goes....

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our hero's cheekbones are very distracting

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awww, 90s cgi missiles! Bless

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Plutonium-239 can be destroyed in an extremely useful way, though (power reactors).

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kaiju skull fucking powers are only used on school-age girls... 🤔

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#monsterdon Humankind doesn't deserve Gamera.

#monsterdon Humans are always doing dumb shit in these movies, they'll attack anything lol.

where are this kid's parents?!?

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@trixter let down by the tragic misunderstanding, really.

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@Lazarou monster surcharge for sure. I bet peak time surcharge also applies.

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"Situation Normal, General. Just a rocket-ass turtle monster knocked out of the sky while fighting prehistoric bird things near mt. Fuji"

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The rocket-ass turtle is really quite helpful, when it's not trashing your local stadium or the surrounding neighbourhoods.

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Great balls of fire, Gamera is on the scene.

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Japanese appropriating Mediterranean fake cultures... that's so 20th century.

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"They resemble the the ancient Pyrenees"

The ancient Pyrenees:

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@jonny separate universe! godzilla and gamera have never met #monsterdon

"hey isn't that the metal they used in Atlantis?"

Like Atlantis was real and we all learned about them in school

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I should go back and rewatch this pausing at all the headlines so I can read them.

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we need a Chinese Medicine doctor to check that monster's tongue. that breath could not have smelled good. it looked like its liver was too humid.

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#Monsterdon lead paint is hard on the kids.

LMAO did they actually use some of the 1960s footage in this scene?

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The chain of command is very important, even when kaiju attack.

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"noodles on the floor! Anarchy in Japan!"

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Is this filmed in Toronto's Skydome?

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DARTS?!
They intend to take these things out with darts?!

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@bunnyhero
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This changes everything!

am soooooo late. what part are y'all at? the stadium?

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#Monsterdon the doors are moving very leisurely. Despite the musical suggestion to the otherwise.

lol, that is an appalling amount of animal carcasses to have at your disposal

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"I'm sorry we already have our quota of monsters for today. You'll have to tell this new monster to wait his turn."
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@aprilfollies you'd think after all the Monster attacks they'd listen to Science more but that's Patriarchy...

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#Monsterdon Damn, really like the Naturalist. She’s brave, sensible, and ”the only one remotely qualified.”

And of course the military has to take over. Because giant not-birds.

@jmelesky The glyphs very clearly say "By touching here you accept the Gamera terms and conditions and privacy policy." #monsterdon

lol, imagine this was your gap year and you trashed the ancient artefact like that #monsterdon

#monsterdon So far I love the the plot of the movie, it's more entertaining than goofy.

More radar #monsterdon

Well my wife couldn't watch this move now, just as last week, 'dead dog'

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"That's no moon, er... atoll, that's no atoll"

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Lots of close-up shots in this movie. The director likes filling the lens with our leading lady's face.

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The parrots in the foreground shot should be taught in film school #Monsterdon

Oh Hair Helmet Guy is the father of main girl of the story. When she comes of age, she will inherit the helmet

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Not just Atlantis, but Mu!

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Oh, so Atlantis is real now. We're just going to leave that here. #monsterdon

Weird seeing Japanese school girls talk with adult American lady voices, I prefer subtitles

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Fun fact: When the dinosaur bird monsters are charging up their tongue lasers, that weird visual effect in front of their mouths is referred to as a Gyaossian blur. #monsterdon

And now our collective palates have been cleansed and we can go back to Vincent Price without being overwhelmed #monsterdon

The moral of the story is if you want to give your young daughter a gift, go to a reputable store and buy one, don't be giving her some random ancient artifact you picked up when chasing kaiju #monsterdon

@RobynGoodfellow ...oh christ, hold up, Gamera's an Eva -_-; #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Great pickup line, “… take you to a monster-free city.” Now where would that be, exactly? I repeat: the monsters can fly.

May we all be so lucky as to donate our life force to a giant jet-powered UFO turtle someday

Thanks for hosting @Taweret, and thanks everyone for the commentary, it was really premium this week! I needed this.

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Also what happened to that psycho cab driver? I expected to see more of him. #Monsterdon

No Shinkansen trains were hurt in the making of this film.
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i got totally taken out of the scene by that shot against the pillar of smoke, bc even that visual would have been extremely fresh in 1995, following the kuwaiti oil fires and desert storm in 1991.

like that was just a very "not godzilla universe shot" to me and i guess that is because i have only seen one other as recent as this and that was way goofier with gamera constantly getting WEDGED IN BUILDINGS #monsterdon

I gotta say, I kinda like the idea of Gamera as an ancient bioweapon. It opens up some fun possibilities with the whole psychic link thing -- did the Ancients *intend* Gamera to be powered by love, or was that a happy accident? And what happens when modern militaries inevitably try to reproduce that technology? Do weapons that start to empathize with sentient component parts remain weapons? #Monsterdon

I now realise that #Gamera must have been the inspiration for Bowser. I guess it never occurred to me before. #monsterdon

"You set me on fire? You stupid asshole! I am fire! I am a Fire/Fire type!"
#Monsterdon #GameraGuardian

Fun battle, awesome miniatures, and inept government responses! It was a Toho movie for sure.

Thanks for hosting @Taweret! Goodnight, Monster people.

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that flickering laser death is an example of the kind of visual language that exists in the 90s but not in the old black and white ones, where such a thing is able to become a symbol only after lasers and digital communication. that is not what it looks like to extinguish a candle or for an incandescent bulb or neon to flicker out. the visual metaphor of "data lanes" with pulses of light, especially in relation to synthetic creatures requires a different world than the original godzillas. so while we lose the rubber suits for red alert 2 style missile animations, there is a new visual language that emerges and that is why it is ok to be in the 90s. #monsterdon

okay, i unironically dig this song. #monsterdon

That'll do turtle. That'll do.

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#monsterdon And then it turned into an outer space match.

If you need to pee, use the sea. If number two, Tokyo for you. #monsterdon

Single stage to orbit turtles. #monsterdon #gameraguardianoftheuniverse

#monsterdon Daaaaaaamn this ultimate boxing match.

All right an orbital re-entry pile driver

#Monsterdon #TheLastManOnEarth #Monsterdon #Gamera #GameraGuardianOfTheUniverse

this is where we learn the power of LOVE. also of INCREDIBLE VIOLENCE. #monsterdon

Who needs CGI missiles when you can just throw a refinery at the thing

relatively speaking

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VFX team must have had so much fun with this movie, goddamn. So many great set pieces and they skimped on none of them.

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FIRE TORNADO WARNING. #monsterdon #gameraguardianoftheuniverse

"C'mon dad, Gamera needs an extra power cell. Gimme your hand, feed the turtle." #Monsterdon

Right, fire-eating lore.

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this little...

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The re-entry burn - oldest trick in the book!

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If just one person can keep gamera going with all that, what would happen if you gave a few dozen people those commas to support him?

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He destroyed Tokyo to save us! #monsterdon

Asagi awakes, Gamera is ready for action. I think we're shaping up for a long Gamera/Gyaos showdown scene shortly.

There's going to be some buildings trashed.

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#monsterdon Um well Im really not sure how they failed t that missile attack lmao.

I mean, short GMRA for sure

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This guy is just thinking "Well shit." #monsterdon

if you're a kaiju visiting tokyo, you gotta knock over tokyo tower. its like when you go to LA, you gotta do a selfie in front of the hollywood sign. you just got to

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Oh man, there goes TV reception in central Tokyo.

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we destroyed our own communications trying to kill the monster... oopsie.

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Once you pop you can't stop! #monsterdon #gameraguardianoftheuniverse

Have a snack in the park #monsterdon

a hater of infrastructure is the true sign of a villain in Kaiju films

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Kaiju hate trains, it is known.
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Shout out to those civilisations destroyed by somebody else or Nature, it wasn't your fault

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Sound guys award for gross bird monster eating effect

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"go fuck yourself Gaos"

"I mean, that's how we do it, so thanks, I will"

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#monsterdon Also Gamera sounds like an elephant.

this scene is right out of the world league from Matzinger Z, LOL

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#monsterdon I wanna see monster action not humans and their tanks tho.

Taxi driver with a passed out schoolgirl in the back seat, this does not look good mate

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damn, this music is Jet Jaguar-esque. what a lazy ass movie for Toho

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#monsterdon This shit is so wild lololol.

fuck yeah jet turtle!

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Use of the monsters' official new names is mandatory. Violators will be prosecuted.
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Gamera needs health insurance with a good dental plan. those snaggle teeth need to be pulled or he needs braces.

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