"Telling people about Godzilla could damage the economy!"

Woof, hittin' a leeeettle too close to reality there. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon It’s gonna take a bit extra to peg that it’s H-bomb radiation. As radiation is radiation. But I tip my hat to the plot and move along… LOL

#monsterdon (165 feet ~= 50.3 meters)

A building story is roughly 4m (14 feet), so by reckoning from the photo in this scene Godzilla should stand about 12.5 stories tall.

People knew how to take headshots back then, even Godzilla manages a pose

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Cool footprints!

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I respect the way this focuses on how the events affect these people.
And also we get to meet Gojira.
It’s perfect!
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Feeling tired just watching these people run up and down that hill

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"Professor, you shouldn't be touching that......oh why do I bother.....people....."

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That raincoat - I want one
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If my island had been struck by a disaster I'd be a bit pissed off a tourist party and some scientists arrived instead of medical people and the like....

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I'd almost forgotten about Coastguard guy and his suffering girlfriend.

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oooo, sinister sunglasses man......watch him...

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#Monsterdon wow, getting definite Tobe Hooper Poltergeist scene vibes from the guy screaming in the mud. Just like when Diane ended up in the pool construction with all the coffins popping to the surface.

#Monsterdon Odo Island. Okay. Uh, another synchronicity that chases me here. Also, #stds9. Ahem. Which we are currently bingeing. Ahem.

LET'S GO!

Nice Industrial/Drone start....

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@lowqualityfacts I literally just watched Godzilla. Can confirm, everyone is equally prone to getting stomped.

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#Monsterdon thanks @Taweret and everyone for joining in. this was one of the very best.

Thanks everybody and to @Taweret for hosting and organising as always.

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"If nuclear testing continues, then somewhere in the world another Godzilla may appear."

For the slower viewers that had trouble grasping the message here....

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wow that was genuinely sad, and also a movie that made sense and was well done in every regard, truly a #monsterdon outlier in that it is both perfectly representative of the genre and nothing like it

Man. It just struck me how *weird* this series gets at times. Like, THIS was how it started and ten years later we've got Godzilla rocket drop-kicking King Kong O_o; #Monsterdon

we gotta stop this whole "watching good movies on #monsterdon " thing you guys, before it gets to be tradition. (^_^)

Man, that was really incredible. Classic for good reason. Thanks all for another enjoyable and enlightening time! #Monsterdon

Thank You #monsterdon for another great evening. See you soon!

"Another Godzilla may appear" Boy the producers sure hope so. #Monsterdon #Gojira

ty for joining, everyone!!!

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Look, I'm telling you, if radical oxygen is going ham in this water, the smell coming off all the denatured proteins is going to be something else. #monsterdon #gojira

Gojira - fuck you all

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since the oxygen destroyer seems to be easily shielded by stuff like scuba suits and aquarium glass, maybe it wasn't such a weapon of mass destruction after all, so serizawa's sacrifice was even more tragic #monsterdon

Damn, thing even LOOKS like an A-bomb core. #Monsterdon

He also looks Muppety here, bout for some reason the image of Godzilla screaming at birds in a cage has always stuck with me. I have no idea why but it's one of the first things I think about when remembering this movie.
#Gojira #Monsterdon

@limebar @bittersweetdb Which video? I'm guessing Kaiju Blues?

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yeah, this is much more serious than the other movies we've watched, but it's less than a decade after hiroshima and nagasaki, so it makes sense...

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My dude, you created something called the Oxygen Destroyer and NOW you’re growing a conscience?

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OG Godzilla is some Oppenheimer-level shit actually #Monsterdon

Ok Mr Eco-Fascist with the OXYGEN DESTROYER

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I was hoping my Oxygen Destroyer would never be used for destructive purposes

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@Zerofactorial @moira Coming up next week on #Monsterdon, Grave of the Fireflies!

"I invented something that could be used to generate huge amounts of energy, but I didn't tell anybody because it was immediately obvious how it could be used as a weapon"

I think dude lost his eye to an unusually blunt metaphor >_> #Monsterdon

"I made something with only bad uses but want to use it for the good of humanity somehow" is an awfully familiar tale now of days #monsterdon

That same stare was also used to fantastic effect in Kurosawa's IKIRU to convey a not-dissimilar emotional state, reconsidering the purpose of one's own life in the face of a terminal diagnosis

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OK this is totally Nagasaki/Hiroshima

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Godzilla takes down the gigantic TV tower - complete with still-reporting journalists. Bloody hell.

(I had not known how stunningly *bleak* this film was. For all the goofy rubber-suit monster shots, the sight of a city in the midst of a firestorm, and the smaller human vignettes - blimey.) #monsterdon

@sean Here you go https://wikizilla.org/wiki/Godzilla's_roar #monsterdon

Continue to be impressed with the minimalist music. Really captures the feeling of only being able to watch and wait to see what it will do. #Monsterdon

people talk a lot about the atomic bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki irt godzilla, which is obviously important, but tokyo was very much firebombed in that war as well. like these flames over the city... that happened

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One of the things they're showing well here is the fallback after fallback of emergency operations staff, as they try to keep some semblance of organisation and function as the support structures you're relying on for that fall away underneath you.

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...Okay that low-FPS shot of Godzilla is super creepy, good job :D #Monsterdon

#monsterdon TAIL SMASH

nothing like a movie with tanks in the streets and entire cities being bombed into nothingness to work out a little WWII trauma. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon god this movie is beautifully shot

Setting things on fire is also so much scarier in 1954 Japan - everything's made of wood and paper. #Monsterdon

"Oh now, they've killed the Trumpton Fire Brigade!"

*British Reference

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Godzilla cares not for your electro net! Eat radioactive fire!

Classic

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Imagine getting dumped for you dad, poor Emiko
Bold narrative for 1950s Japan, or anywhere

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Kitty lounging under green light watching with us #monsterdon #gojira

The electric 'fence' is an enormous coastal line of massive, closely-packed high-voltage electrical pylons. (I couldn't tell if it was a really good matte or a really good model!) #monsterdon

@strangefour "My 'I don't know any german scientists' shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt." #Monsterdon

[posts this scene to "Tanks Parked in Bike Lanes"]

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Oh they're doing the old "electro net" thing are they?
Which I guess in this case is the NEW electro net thing

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Ah have we not heard this theme somewhere before?

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Trains are like candy bars nom nom nom

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another sexy tail swish for the furries watching

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although I can't imagine how fucking terrifying hearing those sirens in 1954 would have been for Japanese citizens #monsterdon

I mean do they really think machine guns at that range are doing anything?
Low effort lads.
That lady in the train deserves more effort, two atom bombs and a giant lizard

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Serizawa is so tortured, so Byronic (Shelleyan?). He's a bit of a throwback to pre-war Universal monster pictures.

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#Monsterdon I’m sure the fish are ok

He says this to all the girls. #monsterdon

#monsterdon "Father is a zoologist, he does not want to see Godzilla killed." Neither do we. <3

Oh hey a little comedy beat of a lady complaining on a train.
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"play your cards right lady, and in 10 years I might express some affection for you...now do my errands"

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Yamane so good, his knee-jerk reaction to trying to kill Godzilla is 「無理です！」, the thought wouldn't have even occurred to him and he's repulsed by such a crude reaction.

His feelings will, of course, evolve…but right now he's just a scientist faced with a humbling force of nature and awed by it.

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He's such an angry hamburger. He said no flash photography.
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a kaiju? showing up in tokyo bay? don't be silly

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You tell him girl!

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Fantastic diagrams to explain that, well, Godzilla is the "find out" to the "fuck around" of nuclear weapons

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I legit gasped out loud at Godzilla appearing over the ridge.

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Science lesson time

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Ooooo, nice build up to the big reveal with the sound of the stomps

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Most people don't realize that this is an anti-war movie couched as a monster movie. The american version, which was the only one you'd see in north america for decades until *2004* was stripped of all the anti-war allegory and made an American the star. Yes, it's dark. Yes, it's grim. It's telling the story in the only way the american and japanese media censorship would allow. #monsterdon #gojira

A Trilobyte!

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A radioactive Yeti would have been quite a different film. #Monsterdon #Gojira

Local politics was unexpected and thorough

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This is too emotionally intense

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“It must be Godzilla.”
This is a seriously great movie.
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haha human sacrifice, this is new

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Old man has seen some shit in his day... #monsterdon

It's night-day in Japan

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slap masiji, the lazy dog

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It's like the Casablanca of monster films. Sooo so many cliches started here. Fishing boat first to go: check! #Monsterdon #Gojira

THE movie!!! #monsterdon

#Monsterdon honestly I love Godzillas war cry! Yay! This is gonna be great. :)

@moira @h3net @davesdogmaggie If we don’t watch something genuinely good every so often, we can’t appreciate Gorgo as much. #monsterdon

Thanks for taking us back to the beginning of giant monster movies @Taweret
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Dinosaur man is sad that the giant dinosaur and his future son in law are dead.
Okay not really. He's all "Humanity is gonna fuck up again and create worse shit next time."
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And he glows in the dark!
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Godzilla now sleeps with the fishes. Capeesh?
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@moira @blogdiva Well maybe if the US goes down the tubes this Fall our own filmmakers will then be inspired to make moody works asking "how did we get to this dark place, anyway?" That'd be nice #monsterdon

@Lazarou "Oh great, it's that jackass. Sucks all the air _right_ out of the room." xD

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