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The prophecy was fulfilled.

mildly dreading GxK because I feel like if I like it, it'll be a "bad movie" and if I don't like it, it'll be a "good movie" and so either way my opinion won't matter. but like man. I want to be excited again yk

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GxK was a lot of fun and might be my new favorite MonsterVerse film, definitely my favorite with Godzilla in it.

mildly dreading GxK because I feel like if I like it, it'll be a "bad movie" and if I don't like it, it'll be a "good movie" and so either way my opinion won't matter. but like man. I want to be excited again yk

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sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about how wrong I was about Godzilla: King of the Monsters and how humiliated I still feel about it

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mildly dreading GxK because I feel like if I like it, it'll be a "bad movie" and if I don't like it, it'll be a "good movie" and so either way my opinion won't matter. but like man. I want to be excited again yk

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After years of being gaslit against gkotm this post is driving me absolutely insane. (complimentary sense.)

One of the only things Godzilla's shitty self-hating fanbase agrees on is that the soundtrack for Godzilla: King of the Monsters is fucking DYNAMITE, and it is LOADED with classic themes from the original movies, remixed and reorchestrated sure but used expertly.

I can assure you I have seen fans, and intelligent rational ones at that, express the opinion that the GKOTM soundtrack sucks and that sampling Ifukube was a sign of desperation and needless fanservice rather than genuine dynamite.

The third movie in today's feel good birthday movie marathon is Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), the final movie in the Monsterverse.

...Yep.

Last one.

This is where it ended.

Yes.

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Yo, I loved Minus One.

More details someday?

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Maybe a hot take, but I think Godzilla 2000 is the best of the millenium era films. I love GMK, Final Wars and mechagodIlla, but G2k cinches it man.

Quirky characters, a scientist, his conscientious daughter, a snarky reporter, smug military commander- two Sekizawa weird girls in one film- the plot of discovering a sinister ufo under the sea. The film is serious but not devoid of levity, charavyers have small simple.arcs but their dialogue and performances make big impressions.

It just nails all of it. Some of the VFX shots are a little iffy, but it totally catches the spirit of the Showa era films in a way that no other modern Godzilla has. It just clears man. I want more films that feel like it. Modern, but that same classic, even romantic spirit.

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I just feel like “Maybe because Godzilla is inside each one of us” is a really weird thing to say when you literally just saw what happened to the last guy who tried to have Godzilla inside him.

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I can't figure out if this is a joke at Toho's current state or specifically a Millennium series joke. I can laugh at the latter. But twenty years after GFW it hits a little different?

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Every time someone says they wish they could go to G-FEST, I want to shake them and tell them I've been going for fifteen years and it fucking sucks.

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I personally think it would be really funny if Toho just completely stopped for a while. No movies, no games, no toys, no comics, no licensing, no nothing. Just acted like they had no idea people ever even liked their monster movies. The very opposite of brand awareness.

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It's really weird when you hear the sort of "good monster action can't save a movie with a trash story" rhetoric and "I like this movie because it's fun and the monster action is good" from the same person/people. I don't have a problem with either statement but it's a weird contrast.

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I can understand this feeling. As someone who has my own issues with the film, every time I've tried to poke around what I'm missing out on it usually is pulled back to the "satire of government bureaucracy" element or some general element of the human story, as well as it generally having darker themes. The odd visuals sometimes come in as well.

I know this is a cringe comparison to make in 2023, but when I watch Shin Godzilla I feel like Ben Wyatt watching everyone fawn over Lil Sebastian. Yeah, it's a tiny horse, that's interesting, but why does everyone think it's so amazing? What am I missing? It's just a tiny horse!

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My last set of preorders came in! Baragon, Ebirah, Shin Gommess, and KG91 remake will be the last additions to my mms toy collection for the foreseeable future.

I'm not completely opposed to picking up another toy or two but I am pretty disgusted with the state of kaiju fandom so this is probably it.

I've hid my posts related to the Bandai toy line. I am still deciding on cancelling my preorders or letting them come in and selling them off later. but I don't intend to support any of the 6" toy lines any longer, which probably means I'm done with kaiju collecting.

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I've hid my posts related to the Bandai toy line. I am still deciding on cancelling my preorders or letting them come in and selling them off later. but I don't intend to support any of the 6" toy lines any longer, which probably means I'm done with kaiju collecting.

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Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (GCN)