Why wouldn't you send Mecha-Ghidorah back to a moment BEFORE Godzilla started attacking? #Monsterdon

Anyway I think this #Monsterdon was a cool movie because it was fun and weird and I'm still slightly confused by it.

Is it plagiarism if you copy from your future self? #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I have finished #GodzillaVsKingGhidorah . It was super confusing, probably because it seemed to have several 30 minute movies from separate genres embedded within it and each of them only partly made sense.

I think it had some social commentary embedded in it, but I'm too tired to figure out what it was and if it was good or not.

@KanaMauna The evil time travelers had these things in their timeship as helpers.

Madness. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon Imagine being a JSDF general guy or Japanese politician in a Kaiju movie. On half of the days you're rooting AGAINST Godzilla, but then, on the one day another giant monster appears, then all of a sudden you have to start rooting FOR Godzilla because what else will save you from the even worse giant monster?

#Monsterdon I'm loving the stupid plan of using an illegal corporate nuclear submarine to launch very illegal missiles full of nuclear waste to resurrect Godzilla to fight a three headed dragon so that Japan doesn't get destroyed and can go on to buy South America.

I seem to have picked a great week to join the #monsterdon cult, this movie was a blast.

If we learned anything, it's that Godzilla is inevitable. I think.

Aww look how tiny Godzilla is. He's so cute next to modern buildings even when they buffed his height.
#GodzillavsKingGhidorah #Monsterdon

ty for joining, everyone!!

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If they nuke him again, he'll become the Godzillest. #monsterdon

Nice of the time travelers to wait until Godzilla smashed half the city. They could have showed up a literally ANY TIME. #monsterdon

@Kinetograph @Taweret Also I'm still waiting for the scene where Emi and Miki speak at least two lines of dialogue to one another #monsterdon #bechdeltest

this movie has:

a flying saucer
time travel
an android
muppets
hand-drawn lightning effects
masers
hilarious dubbing

what more can you ask?

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“All I ever wanted was to be left alone, but you had to keep messing around with my life.”
- - Godzilla, probably
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Ghidorah has to do a choke hold with his own neck. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon "In 1944 Godzilla was a regular dinosaur..." is a good sentence.

Someone should name a chicken Godzilla.

Wait, why is the publisher still interested in his Godzilla book? Didn't they wipe Godzilla from history?

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This always happens when you try to make changes to an ecosystem.

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Good thing they brought these observers from the 20th century. Be they were so useful.

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Time travel paradox spotted. #Monsterdon

This plan seems ill-conceived
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Did he say "Time Warp"? #Monsterdon

BACK TO THE FUTURE!!! He said the thing! #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon my wild guess is that maybe the nationalistic business guy was sort of an avatar for Japan and Godzilla was like... reverse America.

In that Godzilla saved the business guy during wartime, but later destroyed him during peacetime. So its like the irony of the US bombing Japan and then helping reconstruct it... only backwards?

But that is a wild guess and is probably 50 kilometers off.

I think what really bugged me about Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah was that the film was *clearly* trying to do a "the glorious future of Japan is built upon the tragedies in its past" thing, but then went, "And that's why we'll need nuclear weapons to fend off those nasty westerners! Imperial Japan forever! Build Godzil- uh, I mean the bomb!"

What the fuck, man. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon gonna guess this Godzilla Grip (TM) traps Godzilla then he gets teleported to the future or past or sometime, because you can teleport him when he's immobile.

#Monsterdon Future Girl Emi returns, at the helm of a terrifying Cyborg Ghidorah, which she is piloting like a giant mecha. It's cool that only the missing head is a cyborg one.

I might have missed any scene establishing where the Cyborg Ghidorah cockpit is; maybe it's in the cyborg head, or possibly in the chest?

#Monsterdon Watching Godzilla destroy Tokyo in this early 90s movie is gradually dragging me into the camp that prefers practical effects over CGI.

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"Ironic, that I have become a Famous Businessman after being Saved by a Dinosaur that I later helped Resurrect By Shooting Nuclear Waste At It."

#Monsterdon Wait did we just propose making a cyborg Ghidorah to fight the radioactive super Godzilla?

I'm not sure if I like this plan more or less than the illegal corporate submarine full of nuclear waste missiles.

#Monsterdon I like how Godzilla was sited in Sapporo and Tokyo (which is way more south) is immediately evacuating.

To be fair, this is just good civil planning. If a Godzilla is sited anywhere, you should probably immediately start evacuating Tokyo.

#Monsterdon After some weird laser battle in the time ship and some villain gloating and a Star Trek fist fight, I'm still not quite sure how time travel is supposed to work in this movie?

Like if you change the past and go back to the future, do the future people know that you left to go change the past? Or does something more sensible happen? Or something even less sensible?

It's too bad that the #monsterdon movie didn't do more with those terrifying helper flying monkeys.

Their whole contribution to the plot was being left behind on a nuclear test site. We didn't really get to see them doing whatever it is they do.

Wait. So Emi was just talking to herself on the radio. So Terisawa is going to spend the rest of his life thinking abotu that hot girl from the future who is his great great great great grand daughter... ewwww.
#GodzillavsKingGhidorah #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon at 70 minutes into Godzilla Vs King Ghidora, I've kind of given up on figuring out who the good guys are and will settle for watching the giant monsters laser each other.

#Monsterdon I like how the bureaucracy dudes are just like "Oh naturally Godzilla is bigger; he ate more radiation, and eating the modern radiation makes him bigger!"

Yes, this makes perfect sense.

LOOK AT HOW CUTE HE IS IN THE CRANE GAME CLAW!
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The actual fight is a janky beam battle. But lots of good miniature city destruction.
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Between her brain microwave muppets, crazed cyborg kaiju piloting, and the attempted time travel incest, Emi is a freak and I’m here for it. I demand more movies with her and M-11. #monsterdon

Mecha Ghidorah's introduction is maybe the best thing the Heisei movies ever do. It's just so over the top cool looking and a completely new idea.
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So, like, basically every Godzilla movie has multiple scenes where Godzilla emerges from the ocean and wreaks havoc, and these jabronis are like, yay, we dropped Godzilla into the ocean! Problem solved!

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I missed #Monsterdon ?!

@Zerofactorial I think It's Up To Us (tm), where "us" is "people watching this in Japan in the 90s." Lost Decade, ahoy! #monsterdon

So is Japan still effed or are we good now? #monsterdon

i'M JUST SAYIN'

THIS MOVIE WAS WEIRD AND BADLY WRITTEN BEFORE

AND THEN THEY'RE LIKE "OH AND OUR ROMANTIC LEADS ARE RELATED"

WHAT THE FUCK #Monsterdon

I’m late to The Godzilla movie. Why am I watching a claw prize game? #monsterdon

WELL THAT'S AWKWARD #monsterdon

If you're going to be into bondage, you really need a safe word. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Mecha-kaiju bondage.

Mecha-Ghidorah should really be equipped with a seat-belt. Clearly there's no regulations on Mecha-Ghidorahs in the future. Take note, libertarians! #Monsterdon

okay, not sword button, CLAMP button. so next up... cardcaptor sakura? #Monsterdon

If someone tells you to "be careful", they've just cursed you.

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@joewynne too late!

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah: A Cautionary Tale About Economic Interventionism

A somber reflection on the cooling nature of the trade war of the 80s-90s on Japan-US relations, through the specific lens of technology, a natural continuation of the themes inherent to the series.

In this essay I will…

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#monsterdon It's square-square-triangle-square for the finishing combo, silly girl.

it seems to me that a mecha this complex would require at least two pilots operating in perfect synchronisation to operate successfully #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Indeed, mischief was afloat! the weird cat things became a three headed dragon that shoots lightning from its mouth because biologists were not consulted for this movie.

The old soldier's touching moment with Godzilla implied that Godzilla needed to destroy the building he was in for some very important reason, and he was ok with it

But Godzilla just wanted to knock down some buildings I guess?

Old man: it's ok Godzilla. I understand what must be done.

Godzilla: lol, lmao

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three-headed mech dragon

is there anything this movie can't do?

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...Did Godzilla just slow blink at him like a cat? #Monsterdon

@Zerofactorial @Taweret Yep, that's what this film needs. #Monsterdon

@cheribaker what could possibly go wrong? #monsterdon

@OldRustBucket@universeodon.com
Yes. All of their manipulation of time and monsters has worked out well so far, it’s the obvious solution. Clever.
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the heisei godzilla design with the cat ears IS the best godzilla design tho

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You ever notice that time traveler's are always in a hurry? #monsterdon

@Kinetograph @Taweret If only the Mothra fairies could put in a cameo I'd be satisfied #monsterdon

@Taweret Turtles.

Obviously.

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@Taweret The movie needs more vegetables. #Monsterdon

Nobody godzills like Godziller.
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seriously tho, i don't care how much society advances, im not wearing a pastel jumpsuit

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#monsterdon What revive Ghidorah?

masers

damn, this movie has everything

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Godzilla always saves his plasma breath for last. He just likes beating on other monsters. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon Come for the extremely realistic war movie action scene where everyone flies into the air when shot, stay for the very long necked godzilla who knocks trees over and steps on people.

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As a typical android, before I inspect the naval bombardment, I must don my crash test dummy helmet and hover across the jungle.

#Monsterdon OMG the acting from the US Navy guys!

Oof, those old duotronic systems. Updating to LCARS is gonna be a bitch, just scrap it and put in an isolinear system. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon
FX guy: what should we do for the time machine special effect?
Director: can you like... mix up the Star Trek IV blurry warp effect with the time tunnel from the TARDIS?
FX guy: I got ya fam.

Hmmm. Something's missing from the timeline. Shouldn't there be a part where he was just PRINCE Ghidorah? #Monsterdon

So now the nuclear monster Japan made emerges to defeat the nuclear monster made by westerners to deny Japan its rightful future hegemony.

I'd call this heavy-handed but I think it's more like a fifty ton lizard paw. #Monsterdon

Insert Titanic submarine joke... here.
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@moira I hope at the climax there's a crazy dance-off to decide the fate of Japan #monsterdon

very good bonk #monsterdon

He has a CD player in his head? Eat your heart out, Elon Musk! #Monsterdon

#GodzillavsKingGhidorah #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Not Steve Austin

#Monsterdon PROTIP: If you encounter holographic time travelers, after verifying their holographic nature, be sure to walk through them anyway just so you can look like an idiot.

Godzilla's being born again, yeah. I've gotta take some time off to attend his baptism. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon oooh we get to see Type 74 tanks! A very good looking model of tank! And also some other military vehicles I don't know.

Anyway, they're surrounding the UFO because that's what the army is supposed to do in UFO movies.

#monsterdon Godzilla was like a big brother to me.

I feel like they're all being way too casual about this. "Oh by the way, Japan has nukes. No big." #Monsterdon

if you IRRADIATE anything enough it turns into GODZILLA this plot never slows down and never revisits the same idea twice #monsterdon

I'm sure leaving three tiny creepy bat monsters in the past will have absolutely no ill effects on the time stream. NONE AT ALL.
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Missing the classic Ghidorah screech though... 🙁 #Monsterdon

In the year 1993, the hologram Arnold Rimmer in his new android body teleported the first gay dinosaur through time and space.
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So under his skin King Gidorah is three chipmunks with fangs? This I wasn't expecting #monsterdon

Who could have foreseen this obvious sudden and inevitable betrayal! #GodzillavsKingGhidorah #Monsterdon

WHOOPS YOU CAUSED A TIMELINE SHIFT WITH YOUR PSYCHIC GREMLIN BULLSHIT WHO WOULDA THOUGHT #Monsterdon

Ooops!
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we're not really gonna have to wear pastel jumpsuits in the future, are we?

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