Godzilla: Final Wars
Sam Levine
Sam Levine
SRLevine@neuromatch.social

Skipped 10 minutes to get dinner started since I didn't realize this was a 2 h movie. Somehow I don't think I missed much "plot".

(the first pass on typing this toot had "pot" instead and really, that might what I'm missing to understand this...)

#Monsterdon

Joe Watching βš½πŸŽžοΈπŸš΄πŸ“Ί
Joe Watching βš½πŸŽžοΈπŸš΄πŸ“Ί
JoeWynne@mstdn.plus

πŸ¦–#MONSTERDON 🎞️

πŸ‰ 🏒 πŸ’₯ FINAL TRIVIA 🐲

Continuing the 50 year commemoration...The fallen building Mothra and Gigan start fighting by is the unfortunate Tokyo Tower that was crunched in Mothra (1961). Mothra was in her larval form then. She has really blossomed!

Sam Levine
Sam Levine
SRLevine@neuromatch.social

M base in their DNA?

Is this rather than AGCT? But M means A or C in standard encoding when ordering sequences. So maybe she means a variable site? I'm so confused.

#Monsterdon

Laurel Stvan
Laurel Stvan
LingLass@vmst.io

Wow that was a blast! Sometimes ridiculous, but always an energizing blast. Thanks @Taweret for getting us lined up, and to @JoeWynne and @Cherizilla for accessorizing. Looking forward to joining you all next week. #Monsterdon :dancing_lizard:

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Oh wait, I forgot to rate characters for Godzilla: Final Wars.

The best character was Japanese David Bowie, for being a cybergoth villain who was also made entirely of Ham.

The worst character was... um... huh... um... I dunno, they all seemed pretty fun. I'll go with the EDF's interior decorator. Put up a curtain or a painting somewhere, or a potted plant.

SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

Listening to it back, I think that guy was "just" speaking Chinese

It looks like his character's name is Captain Li Xiang

I have no idea if or when this was established, but it stood out to me as something I hadn't seen before in a Godzilla flick

#Monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

Anyway, I think that concludes my Godzilla: Final Wars thread?

This movie had so much going on I'm still confused by it and also I had hardly any time at all to see what everyone else posted? So I guess I'll go try to do that now? Thank you for reading?

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

I give Godzilla: Final War 5 out of 5 floating golf balls of doom, one golf ball for every 100 scenes. I was debating giving it 4.5 floating golf balls of doom, but I'm going to stick to integer ratings, on this account godzilladammit!

I didn't quite like it as much as Godzilla 2000, which was somehow even goofier, but it had similar manic energy. I mildly disliked the more austere tone, but I liked all the lasers and nonsense Kaiju battles.

SnoopJ
SnoopJ
SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

I wish there had been even more of this prog sound in the rest of the soundtrack. I dig it.

Stand-out hero for me is still that Mega Drive-ish bass. So good.

#Monsterdon

Floaty Birb
Floaty Birb
floatybirb

While Ghidorah flogs Godzilla with his laser snot, I would like to spend a brief moment to discuss the aesthetics of this movie.

Most of the human structures we see follow a brutalist and minimalist pattern, and their uniforms seem rather fashy and also using a mostly monochrome palette - going from white to silver to black (except for the antarctica bros). I think in a western context the aesthetics of the EDF would be seen as dystopian, but I don't think that's the intent here?

ano yatsu
ano yatsu
yatsu@retro.pizza

whoever this is playing the villian is getting all the points. all of them. none left for anyone else. the way he turned around like, oh. shit. lolol #monsterdon