Monster of the Day #119

Updated on October 22, 2010 By Ken Begg 21 Comments


Quick!  Get the Flit!

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  • Ericb

    Awesome puppets that tend to get overlooked in a film universe dominated by guys in ribber suits.

  • Ericb

    *rubber* One day I will make a post free of typos.

  • The Rev.

    Hooray for Kimakiras! These guys and Kumonga were such great monsters, partly because of the great puppets used to represent them, and partly because spiders and mantises kick ass. I love them, even though they got spanked by everyone they met. To be fair, though, they met a titanic, web-spewing spider and an enormous mutated dinosaur with radioactive breath, against which their claws and killer instinct could only do so much.

  • The only guys who Ebirah and Anguirus could take out… Love them to pieces, but it’s true.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Wow, those are awesome. No idea of the film, but I assume it’s from the land of the rising sun.

    I would like to see a film where these guys are the soldiers, and the rat-bat-spider is their king.

  • The Rev.

    It’s Son of Godzilla, which Ken and I like, and Sandy dislikes.

  • GalaxyJane

    Count me as another fan of Minya and the big guy. This is the perfect monster movie from the POV of the 8-year-old kid it makes me every time I see it.

  • Rock Baker

    Great stuff! That scene where the one mantis suddenly appears over the complex is dynamite!

  • zombiewhacker

    In purely technical terms, these are arguably early Toho’s most ambitious creations. Ghidrah, after all, was obviously a man in the suit. Yes, the heads and wings were marionette-controlled, but at least there was someone inside partially guiding the Ghidrah costume around.

    Not in this case. These guys were puppets head to “toe”, designed to rumble melee style, with Godzilla. (Ghidrah mostly just shot cartoon laser beams at him.) All things considered, a daunting task if your a Toho FX man. Happily, they pulled it off admirably.

  • Rock Baker

    Yes, I’ll bet even Gerry Anderson watched with an awed mix of admiration and jealousy!

  • Tork_110

    Crow: Blessed O Lord, and these thy gifts…HAHA! GET IT!?

  • “Quick! Get the Flit!”

    Ken, we’re you born in 1920?

  • Marsden

    It’s from all those Bugs Bunny cartoons with the Flit Cans.

  • BeckoningChasm

    I remember National Lampoon had a superhero called Verman, who could change into all kinds of pests. His arch enemy was called The Flit.

  • Yeah, when I was growing up I tended to watch and read a lot of old stuff, and even listen to a lot of old radio programs. So I have a weird taste for anachronistic references. (When Bob Hope sings that Crosby has a voice “so right for selling cheese,” in Road to Utopia, I laugh and think, “Ha, because Crosby was the host of the Kraft Music Hall!”)

    I was actually thinking of writing an article about it for GRIT. I’ve been saving up points for a baseball mitt.

  • Rock Baker

    It would seem the best way to keep older products/jingles/jokes from becoming obscure is to keep using them. Does that date you, or make you timeless?

  • BeckoningChasm

    It makes you dateless.

  • Rock Baker

    On the other hand, you understand more of Bugs Bunny’s jokes, so there’s a trade-off.

  • Marsden

    Well, (think Ben Kenobi getting of the Millineum Falcon on the Death Star) what’s worse, Ken for using Flit or us for knowing what he’s talking about?

  • Rock Baker

    I’m still not seeing a problem with knowing what a Flit joke is all about. I’d rather have that knowledge than be able to tell you who Brittany Spears is abusing this week.

  • The Rev.

    “I’d rather have that knowledge than be able to tell you who Brittany Spears is abusing this week.”

    If she’s singing, the answer’s obviously, “All life on earth that isn’t deaf.”