Here's a little bit of triva I've been saving til the end. Basically the only bit I know about this Gamera movie. On most kaiju movies the monster suits are used as part of the press tour to promote the movie.
They could not do that with Zedus because they blew him the fuck up and he was set on fire. There is no more Zedus suit.
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That is a perfect kaiju shot.
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Kid come on, I got shit to do #monsterdon
Aww the widdle turdle boy fall down all exhausted. Him has had a very rough day.
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okay that was great, loved the mix of practical effects with minimal cgi, great models and guys in suits, the human element was great, it was goofy but a lot of fun
another big W for #Monsterdon
kids be like "we went through hell to get that power-up to our pet turtl you are NOT messing with Toto" #Monsterdon
ty for joining, everyone!!
AAAAAAAAAAH!
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YAY FIRST ERRAND SUCCESS!! YAAAAY! #monsterdon
This is a movie all about how Japanese kids are free-range as fuck and cannot be contained by any force known to man. #Monsterdon
FINALLY I CAN TACKLE A RANDOM CHILD AND NOT GET IN TROUBLE #monsterdon
look... nurse... the doctor... forgot... to put my heart back in... #monsterdon
However sedated Gamera may be, I still think YOU SHOULDN'T JUST BE PAWING AT THE GIANT KAIJU PLEASE AND THANK YOU
So the kid in the flashback Gamera fight scene is the rice-slinging Dad as a kid? How did I not get that? #monsterdon
Meanwhile at Giant Monster University...
So if the task force was disbanded, who's in charge of naming the kaiju? #monsterdon
Wow, over a dozen people came out to see the fire breathing turtle the size of an elephant.
kid running at like 30mph keeping up with the motorcade #monsterdon
It just wouldn't be a gamera movie without him destroying a kaiju that was rampaging and murdering people and then the military shows up and immediately starts attacking him as if he were the problem #monsterdon
I must be ramblin on now
And things won't ever be the same
Cause I'm as free as a turt' now
And this turtle you can't change
I'm worried that our kids are running with a bad crowd, or perhaps gamera #monsterdon
#Monsterdon this movie feels like pro giant monster council propaganda
Love how the tumbling turtle sounds like a dog squeaky toy.
@funkula i know that, and you know that, but it's so rare for a protagonist to know that
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look dude you cannot abandon your parental responsibilities to toto! #monsterdon
Baby Gamera is magic
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Not gonna lie, if I get a mystical turtle, I'm SO training him to do all my mundane house chores for me.
ah shit ah damn my damn levitating turtle is embarrassing my ass with Hijinks #monsterdon
Oh we're going full-scale ET here :P #Monsterdon
Baby Gamera's gonna be hiding in a closet full of stuffed animals at some point isn't he.
"You can't ever leave this room, okay?"
"I GO WHERE I WANT HUMAN SCUM" #Monsterdon
You just KNOW he's going to put him on a radio-controlled toy car.
trot, buckaroo! trot! #monsterdon
smol gamera is cute as fuck tho
Oh no I love baby turtles so much π #monsterdon
"I'm going to raise him to destroy 55 city blocks in a kaiju spree of destruction."
Lol aw man, I hate how the modern Gamera movies are so into dismemberment and goopy blood, I just like guys half-heartedly punching each other in rubber suits
The kid looks bored #monsterdon
So that's it, movie's over, goodnight everyone! #monsterdon
In a way it's weird that Gyaos has now become GAMERAS ETERNAL ENEMY but Gyaos is a cool monster bird thing so it works.
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im always saying that Gamera's the bomb
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Our headliner enters the movie ALREADY!
And he's throwing down! None of this last reel entry jazz for THIS guy!
oh yeah, that's a bird alright
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Oh man the credits haven't even rolled and already stuff's on fire. #monsterdon
A hilarious thing about these b movies is when they're dubbed, all the actors have wildly different accents.
Some of them have plausible Japanese accents, some of them don't bother and just have American accents, and some have fake accents so bad you keep expecting them to start telling a racist joke.
And now we end another monster movie watch along with a soothing outro song a--
OH SHIT IS THAT A BIONICLE!?
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Go Toto! Fly free little baby space monster.
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go to /filters
(so https://mastodon.lilysthings.org/filters
or
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and then add a filter for #monsterdon like this
No more bad touch!
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Ultimate attack vs Ultimate attack. Who will win? #MONSTERDON
PSYCHE! It's Coca Cola time!
Man I am way behind again.
Then again I once took o-- HOLY SHIT THE SPIKE TONGUE!-- took over three hours to watch Godzilla vs Megalon I took soooo many screen caps.
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ZEDUS HAS BEEN KNOCKED OFF THE STEEL CAGE! HE'S BROKEN IN HALF!
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So, was the professor evil? Or did he provide Gamura with much-needed veterinary assistance?
Oh shit he did. He dead.
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"LIVE TOTO!"
Baby Gamera fell off Nakatomi Plaza to his death...
The director knew that there was a risk of making the film too uplifting, hence the one poor guy being turned into a bloody marine upwelling #monsterdon
And as Gamera flies his Sopwith Camel into the limitless blue skies, we say thank you Gamera and return to our duties. And remember, #Monsterdon is open twenty four hours a day for all your dining and dancing needs. <3
BY GAWD HE JUST STABBED THAT BOY IN THE GUT.
He's dead... #MONSTERDON
But dad should have been eaten. #monsterdon
That one was spicy. Thanks again everyone! #monsterdon #gamerathebrave
Some really ambitious camera angles in these kaiju fights. Don't always work, but lots of effort.
Wait... is Zedus roar part TIE fighter?
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No turtles were harmed in the making of this film. #MonsterDon
@msh @Taweret The amount of kawaii was almost too much at times #monsterdon
Play us out Mike https://youtu.be/FGRHqvC7f_o #monsterdon
@Taweret Gotta expect the opposing manager to want to inspect it for signs of being a spitter #monsterdon
@Taweret thank you for hosting again! #monsterdon
Thanks for tonight's #Monsterdon @Taweret that was terrifyingly adorable
And the best part of this is that there's a whooooooooooole lotta funny-as-hell commentators here that I'm gonna wanna follow promptly!
And now we spin off into space for this week! Goodnight #monsterdon!!! π’
#Monsterdon is always fun, thank you!
Gamera has inside him the power to blow himself up. And so do we all.
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Thank YOU for putting this together!
Loved loved loved the hell outta this, the great movie and the even better commentary.
Y'all rule!
literally having the same song playing at four different times with different pannings is very much the correct vibe to end the movie on #monsterdon
He's only got one pitch but it's dynamite #monsterdon
Well that was fantastic, thanks for everything and as always our host @Taweret ! Go go Gamera! #monsterdon
thanks all once again for another great #monsterdon & to @Taweret for organizing!
Honestly I think Gamera should've stayed tiny for the whole film. I wanted to see a three-inch tall turtle vaporize a kaiju. #Monsterdon
No baby turtle animatronics were harmed in the making of this movie #monsterdon
@sean I LOVE "Four bags!" oh, nevermind... #MonsterDon
That whipped ass #monsterdon
Gamera's been called up to pitch for the Braves #monsterdon
And now for the hilarious blooper reel with Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise.
YES BABY TURTLE END CREDITS #monsterdon
...I was joking about the space turtle thing!
Farewell, I must return to my people. #monsterdon
"Okay, all you kids are under arrest now." #Monsterdon
Wow those kids got hella lost. They ended up right under the kaiju cage match.
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All across the board, this music is WILD.
"They're not going to move, just look at all the children."
Yeah, I mean there's like one kid for every hundred soldiers, so there's no way we could move them
LOL! .... the IV bags waving in the wind is too much.
Gamera is still making tribble noises, amazingly #monsterdon
some good βI sleep/I wakeβ #monsterdon meme template potential there
"GA..ME..RA...PHONE HOME..."
that's what i'm taking about kids, link arms, unfold the umbrellas, medics in the back, advance together #monsterdon
Wait what. What? WHAAAAT!?
I have no idea what to call that wrestling move but it was awesome. King lizard wizard planted tiny turtle into the wall.
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