Month: July 2023

So it was quite a while between the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla cartoon and Netflix' trilogy of anime Godzilla movies in 2017. The wait was NOT worth it. Nobody should like the idea of Godzilla and anime more than me--although 2017 might have been before I really got going with that, and I did rather like…

"...and God-ZOOOOO-keee dadadada" Gack. Also hate that back plate up on his head. Just doesn't look right. The similar cartoon following the TriStar "Godzilla" movie was far better, but, you know, it was "Godzilla", so I'm going to skip it. As just a giant monster cartoon, though, it was pretty good.

Netflix is making a push in animated series revolving around the classic Japanese (and in this case, American) kaiju; Godzilla, King Kong (recently posted) and soon to come, Gamera. These has mostly flown under the radar, possible because the anime Godzilla movies they streamed were TERRIBLE. However, let's take a look at these monster…

  In this case, the movie is at least...OK? Decent? So the poster isn't *that* much better. However, uh.....  I don't know, something just seems a little off. Happy Friday Eve, folks!    

Speaking of posters that are slightly better than the movie..... Happy Wednesday, folks. Saw Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind for the first time last night, in a nice silent respectful theater, and it was amazing. When Japan makes an animated film with environmental themes, they make Nausicaa. When we make one here…

I assume is knock-off Frazetta, but it's pretty decent and obviously nearly as inaccurate to the film as the poster for Sea Serpent. Other than that, the film is best known for a) being directed by Larry Buchanan, b) being none too successfully set in "Scotland", and c) having a lovable Nessie big unwieldy…

Last Friday's Watch Party was the recently added Frogs, a film I saw when I was nine or ten in my hometown Pickwick Theatre. Back in the day's when your Mom would give you a buck and let you walk the mile or so to the cinema to see a film all by yourself.…

So...attempts to modernize the Universal Monsters. We live in a vastly different world now. There are, functionally, no monster kids. In their attempt to force another cinematic universe (which no one has managed save Marvel, which itself has basically been burned to the ground by Disney), they did what DC did, and which Disney…